Oooh Isiah… you’re sooo grounded. The parents of Isiah Thomas will likely be quite unhappy after seeing their son’s subpar report card as GM of the New York Knicks.

In a recent two-part story for ESPN.com, Chad Ford broke down each move Isiah has made during as tenure as Knicks GM, assigning each move a grade after seeing how it [didn't, overwhelmingly more often than not] pan out.

Here is the grading breakdown for all 28 moves covered in the article:

1 A-
1 B
3 B-
1 C+
7 C
5 C-
1 D+
3 D
5 F
1 F- [wow]

Calculating this out, little Isiah came home with a 1.57 GPA [and that's being generous and not giving him negative points for waiving Jalen Rose for that epic F-].

How about we institute some GM rules like we have in our good old school system? Must maintain a 2.0 GPA in order to qualify for a GM position. If a GM falls below the minimum, he must run a D-League team until the powers that be on the NBA level that pretty much call the D-League shots [at least for teams like the Lakers who have their own official D-league affiliate] make enough good moves for you that your GPA rises. Basically, prove for a period of time that you are capable of following orders and heeding advice. No ridiculous strategies of trading away young talent for bloated veteran contracts.

Chad Ford offers a follow-up article with steps to salvage the Knicks franchise, urging Isiah and owner James Dolan to heed someone’s advice for a change. It’s really a lot more simple than any amount of steps for Isiah, though. Just stop being that guy.

You, Isiah Thomas, are officially banned from making moves. Accumulate your draft picks, let your untradeable contracts expire [or hell, buy them out]. You have been put under mandatory GM probation.

Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III. Aka Chris Webber.From Sacto Queen to noseless Lego figurine to… Los Angeles Laker?

Seeing as how Bynum is on the shelf for 8 weeks, the Lakers are suddenly in need of another big. Chris Mihm is still out and asking Kwame/Ronny Turiaf to hold down the middle for the top team in the West is a bit much.

Bynum had quickly become the 2nd scoring option. Most importantly, he was a big with the kind of back-to-the-basket presence necessary for success against teams like the Suns [as evidenced last night].

As many knocks as the guy has on him, he could probably muster something up to fill the void until Bynum gets back. After that, he can feel free to come up hurt and whiny all he pleases. Hell, he can even bust out his “I just caught a big whiff of shit” face/frown he made famous in the playoffs against the Lakers.

Whatever it takes. Only 8 weeks. 8 weeks = 56 days. Sign the guy to 5 consecutive 10-day contracts, then dump him and welcome back #17. Webber wanted to be on a contender, right? Well, he didn’t specify for how long. Ugh fine… worst case scenario he is signed to an actual contract and we deal him at the deadline to the East. Everybody plays, everybody wins. Fair?

Startling news of Andrew Bynum’s knee injury has gotten my ass into gear to blog for a minute. I woke up frighteningly early (in Paris) to catch the end of the Lakers-Sonics webcast, only to not be able to find Bynum in the webcast boxscores. This was fine, as previous reports said he would be out a bit but could potentially play against Seattle. However, I then navigated to ESPN’s main page to see the devastating news. Eight weeks. Balls.

Going back to the boxscore and seeing that the game was winding down in overtime, I wasn’t in the least bit surprised to see Kobe carrying the team with 46 points. His game winner subsequently gave him 48. Just like old times. Great. It instantly dawned on me that, solid bench aside, we had digressed into the 05-06 and 06-07 versions of ourselves. Everyone stand around while Kobe throws up 40+ shots per night. The emergence of Bynum is what ignited Kobe’s trust in his teammates.

We’re now back at square one with Odom as the supposed Number 2 option. History has proved that this will not work. Hell, the present continues to prove it as he hoists up ridiculous jumper after ridiculous jumper [whose release I still can't figure out in NBA2K7]. As of now, Odom is essentially Kwame Brown with handles. At least he can crash the boards - but not without getting in the way and sidelining our breakout center.

Lamar Odom might as well be classified below Kwame standards. He is officially in the Craig Johnson club. Johnson, an underachieving winger for the L.A. Kings in the late 90’s-early 00’s was always falling out of favor with the fans. Ultimately, he is now remembered as the guy who ended Adam Deadmarsh’s potentially amazing career with a concussive knee to the head.

The Kings looked equally promising when Deadmarsh went out, finally looking poised to upend the Colorado Avalanche in the playoffs and take the next big step. However, the botch known as Craig Johnson had to get in the way.

Lamar Odom - pray to the sports gods you didn’t mess up equally bad and send the Lakers into a downward spiral for the next 5 years.