Zeke: "I Never Cursed at that B____"

In what appears to be the final day of testimony, Isiah Thomas took the opportunity to clear up every charge of professional indiscretion alleged by Anucha Browne Sanders. He says he never cursed at her, that it's never OK to call a woman a b*tch or a ho, that it's offensive for a man of any color (who are these "purple" people folks talk about?) to call a woman a name like that, and that he never talked about the white New York Knicks season ticketholders because they are the "backbone of how we all make a living." He says that he treated her like a co-worker, and that he only made the comment "What? No love today?" after she recoiled in a way that made him feel uncomfortable when he went to greet her.

That's it. Just Zeke trying to lay on the charm. Nothing too groundbreaking.

Tomorrow are the closing arguments.

Again, I can't be certain what the jury thinks or what it has seen, because tone counts for a lot, but the truth is usually somewhere between their versions of what happened. However, because Browne Sanders has the burden of proof, the testimony I've seen so far comes nowhere close to providing her with a verdict in her favor. Given that the (employed) jurors have an opportunity to start making more than $1 a day, the stipend for fulfilling their public duties, my guess is that we'll have a decision by Friday.