Isiah Thomas
Isiah Thomas
Isiah Lord Thomas IIIis an American retired basketball player who played professionally for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association. The 12-time NBA All-Star was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Thomas has also been a professional and collegiate head coach, a basketball executive, and a broadcaster...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1961
CityChicago, IL
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She did not even work for me. I will not allow her or anybody, man or woman, to use me as a pawn for their financial gain.
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My job is to make sure in all the chaos you can still see the flowers, you can still see the good things happening.
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No one is happy with our record but I can tell you we're going to get better. That's what everybody is working toward. That's what we all want.
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One word is passion. They are passionate about their team. We win we're great, lose and we're the worst. But you can't overreact to the fans.
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The only thing I could say to myself is 'wow. I don't think there's another NBA player who would have done that.
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When you have players that have been injured for some time, you have to find a way to move on and make the roster better. If Allan was to come back and regain his form, then it's an added bonus.
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There is not a player on this roster now, who doesn't understand or believe that if he is not performing, I don't have problems getting rid of them.
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We where nervous in the first quarter. But I knew they were going to pull it out.
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But now that they've done things this way, I hope they hold Rick Carlisle up to the same high standards they had for me.
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It's huge if he's able to go from Day One.
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I've heard from everybody but him. That surprises us, and it hurts a little, too. When he was in trouble, I was always there for them. I called him to encourage him. I gave interviews defending him and supporting him. I'm very disappointed in him. Maybe I ought to call him and cuss him out. I thought for sure he'd be there for me like I've always been there for him.
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No team has really had to rebuild from this altitude in terms of where we started. So it's a very unconventional way of getting young players and draft picks in a very short period of time. This will actually help us tremendously.
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Its something that I have been blessed with in terms of playing the game and being able to understand the game. Not being able to exercise that gift while I was out of the game, I really found a void in myself and a hole in my soul. I said the biggest problem that I have had in that time was that I woke up and I didnt go to the gym. I have been successful in a lot of other areas but not having the ability to exercise the greatest gift that I have, which is basketball, you know I have missed it.