Isiah Thomas rejoins the Knicks…

…as a ‘consultant.’ Um, ok. Per Marc Berman: Knicks are about to announce Isiah Thomas will be named a part-time consultant to club but keeps his job at FIU. Weird. This isn’t all that surprising after the Knicks enlisted Thomas in a last-ditch pitch to LeBron a few weeks ago. I don’t know why you would trot out (arguably, thanks to Kevin McHale) the worst GM of the aughts to try to convince one of the league’s best players that your team is headed in the right direction. If anything, wouldn’t you want to convince him that he has nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the franchise? For all of his faults, Thomas did draft pretty well while GM of the Knicks. Here’s a look: 2004: Trevor Ariza (#43 overall) 2005: Channing Frye (#8), David Lee (#30) 2006: Renaldo Balkman (#20), Mardy Collins (#29) 2007: Wilson Chandler (#23) That’s not a bad run considering he only had one pick in the #8. It’s not easy to find rotatio...