New York's Isiah Thomas admitted to the New York Daily News on Monday that Los Angeles' Head Coach Mike Dunleavy contacted him a few weeks ago to apologize for making a negative comment about the Knicks.

"He called me and apologized, and I accepted it," Thomas told the Daily News. "I took it for what it was worth."

Dunleavy's statements were as follows, "I would only make deals to help our future - anything else is suicide. Anything else and you become the New York Knicks. Now if you want to do that and take on big contracts and long-term deals to potentially hit a home run or get some kind of turnaround, that's not the direction I would go as a businessman or if I owned the team."