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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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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When I came here, the first thing that was told to me was that we had players nobody wanted, couldn't trade any of the contracts. As we stand here today. . . . we have draft picks, we have players people want and the contracts that we have in place are pretty reasonable contracts for the talent level we have.
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I've spoken with Jerome and he understands our position; he is being extremely professional about it. We've also had some conversation about Jerome staying on in the organization, doing some scouting for us, working in the community alongside John Starks and also possibly doing some work for MSG.
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Right now we have a lack of scoring or a void at the small forward position. Coach (Larry Brown) has stressed to me this is a person he's had that he's coached before and he can help us right now. We can secure our present and secure our future as well.
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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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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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Where we sit now, I don't think we have the luxury of the 20 teams before us. I think we are going after the best players we can get on the board.
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We're all kind of at a loss where the breakdown came. I know we have a great coach. I know we have good players. It's just a matter of those things meshing.
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We needed Larry Brown. Me more so than anyone. I wanted Larry to do a great job for us and I thought he would and I thought he could.
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We never had the perfect game but we had some perfect moments.
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We never got a chance to do that.
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He's a great player and yes that is a concern, but I think anyone who trades for him or gets somebody... they understand exactly what they're getting.
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I can't say that I've met a more classy individual in the N.B.A.,