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NEW YORK - Knicks president and basketball legend Isiah Thomas was at the center of a lawsuit on Tuesday night after a senior female employee alleged she had been the target of harassment.
Anucha Browne Sanders, the team's high-profile senior vice president of marketing, filed papers against the hoops great in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday - claiming Thomas called her a "b----`' and asked her to have sex with him.
She said when she refused his advances, the 44-year-old married father replied: "What? I can't get any love today?"
Thomas' legal team immediately branded Browne Sanders an opportunist - charging her complaints followed a failed attempt to extort $6 million.
And they charged she was using Hall of Famer Thomas' superstar standing to aid her case.
"This lawsuit is a blatant attempt by Anucha Browne Sanders to get a large sum of money from Madison Square Garden by taking advantage of the celebrity status of our client," said Thomas' attorneys Peter Parcher and Sue Ellen Eisenberg.
"While still employed, she demanded from the Garden, as a condition of her departure, a payment of $6 million, which is more than 20 years of her salary."
But Browne Sanders says Thomas' alleged shabby treatment of her was so public that team members - including star player Stephon Marbury - joined in the abuse.
"The Knicks' star player felt free to refer to Browne Sanders as a `black b----,' " the lawsuit states.
In another accusation sure to draw major attention, Browne Sanders claims Thomas worked with concierges at hotels frequented by visiting teams to encourage out-of-town players to go to certain bars and strip clubs and get drunk the night before a day game.
Thomas launched his alleged campaign against Browne Sanders - a former college basketball standout who became a rising executive - in March 2004, following a loss by the struggling Knicks, the suit claims.
He blamed their poor performance on a late-night public relations event the night before.
"Thomas grabbed Browne Sanders' arm and pulled her into a small room to the side of the team's locker room," the papers claim. "He yelled that the team was not going to do `any more f
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