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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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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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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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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I'm trying to go out and get the players he wants me to go out and get. This is a player he wanted.
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I'll continue to try and get the players he wants. This is a player he wanted.
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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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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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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.