Knicks coach doesn't fear losing job after being found guilty in harassment trial

New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas says he is focused on his team and not worried about losing his job after being found guilty in a civil trial of sexually harassing a former Knicks executive.

"Honestly, my head never left basketball. This is what I've done. This is what I do and this is what I think about the majority of the time," Thomas told the Associated Press after the three-week trial.

A New York jury ordered Madison Square Garden (MSG), the owners of the Knicks, to pay $11.6 million to Anucha Browne Sanders, a former vice president for marketing who was subjected to crude insults and unwanted advances from coach Thomas.

However, the jury decided only MSG and chairman James Dolan should pay for harassing and firing Browne Sanders from her $260,000-a-year job out of spite. The Garden owes $6 million for condoning a hostile work environment and $2.6 million for retaliation. Dolan owes $3 million.

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Outside court, Browne Sanders insisted her victory was more about sending a message than the money. "What I did here, I did for every working woman in America," Browne Sanders told reporters. "And that includes everyone who gets up and goes to work in the morning, everyone working in a corporate environment."

Thomas, the Knicks' president of basketball operations, and MSG have denied any wrongdoing, and the coach said he would appeal.

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