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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Larry and I talk every day. We both knew that this would be a hard job but we're both working to make it better.
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This is a trade that we all feel makes us a better basketball team for both now and in the future. In Steve, we add an All-Star caliber player to our team without giving up core assets that are key to our future.
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Any of you who have covered me know the answer to both of those questions is absolutely no.
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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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Even though we're rebuilding, we did expect to be a little better.
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Believe me, if there is something there, the people we have examining him -- they will find it.
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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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We should be extremely careful not to give him something that he doesn't have and not to keep putting him in a light of a patient or someone who is sick, because doctors have cleared him and checked him out and said that he doesn't have a condition. We need to be extremely sensitive to him and not keep saying that he has this because clearly he doesn't.
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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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I am loyal to winning and I am not loyal to any singular individual. I'm going to do what I need to do to make our team better.
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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.