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
believe examining people
Believe me, if there is something there, the people we have examining him -- they will find it.
came contracts draft level nobody people players reasonable stand talent trade
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.
loved meant people wonderful
He was like the Pope. He was just a beautiful, beautiful, wonderful man. ... We just loved 'Coach.' He's meant so much to all of us, even the people who didn't play for him.
food lived looked meant people walked warm
He's meant so much to all of us, even the people who didn't play for him. But the people who lived in Chicago, who walked the communities, looked for food or looked for a warm place to say, he was always there for you.
nba player
The only thing I could say to myself is 'wow. I don't think there's another NBA player who would have done that.
added injured move players regain
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.
expect though
Even though we're rebuilding, we did expect to be a little better.
high hold hope rick standards
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.
careful checked cleared clearly doctors extremely light patient putting saying sensitive
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.
american-athlete believe player problems rid understand
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.
knew nervous pull
We where nervous in the first quarter. But I knew they were going to pull it out.
loyal singular team winning
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.
chaos good job sure
My job is to make sure in all the chaos you can still see the flowers, you can still see the good things happening.
everybody happiness happy record
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.