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Avenging Jordan
After the “Freeze Out All-Star Game”
Jordan Going off on Isiah and the Pistons
6:22
People forget just how quick a 6’6 MJ was early in his career. This is his rookie year. He looks like John Wall in rocket boots with bigger hands.
NBA CROSSOVER STORY:
Isiah Thomas stopped by Flushing Meadows today to cheer on James Blake in his third-round U.S. Open match.
Given the reverse-rabbit’s-foot effect of the Isiah Thomas endorsement, it is no surprise that Blake lost.
In 1991 Isiah Thomas was left off of the original Dream Team, some say at the behest of Michael Jordan (those two didn’t like each other).
Subsequently, Thomas blamed John Stockton for stealing his Dream Team spot, and in their first regular season encounter the Pistons ran repeated iso’s so that Isiah could drop 40 points on Stockton’s head.
In their next encounter Karl Malone dropped something else on Isiah’s head.
Three-days-from-the-Hall-of-Famer Karl Malone gave Isiah Thomas plastic surgery and 40 stitches in 1991, courtesy of this elbow.
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An Imaginary Conversation With Bill Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas
Bill: Look at us, Zeke. We’re bad dudes doing bad things. Hanging out in this bad ass log cabin.
Isiah: Wearing this bad ass fur coat.
Bill: Me and my extra blue bad boy jeans. The color is actually “bad ass blue”. Check the inseam.
Isiah: No thanks. Either way I can’t even tell cause I got my bad boy shades on.
Bill: Yep, we’re some bad boys.
Isiah: Bad bros 4 life!
Bill: Totally bad!
Isiah: The complete opposite of how bad we are would be like if you coached a WOMEN’S basketball league 10 years from now and then became an assistant to Kurt Rambis on a mediocre team!
Bill: Ha! Yeah it’d be like you 10 years from now, taking the place of Larry Bird as coach of a team he led to the finals…and then you not even making it past the first round the three seasons you’re there!
Isiah: Haha, yeah!
Bill: It’d be like you going to another equally coveted NBA franchise, except for a much longer period of time, then spending way too much money on all the wrong players…
Isiah: OK I get it Bill…
Bill: It’d be like you getting a sexual harassment lawsuit, then tieing that team’s franchise worst record EVER…
Isiah: Whoa, hey that’s a little specifi—
Bill: …and then getting fired that same season leaving you pretty much blackisted from the NBA!
Isiah: Heh. Wait…you don’t think that’ll really happen to either of us…do you?
Bill: Nah man, we’re bad boys! You’re Mike Lowerrrrry!
Isiah: Wait this is the 80’s, who’s Mike Lowery?
via thegrandarchives
via Coach_D_Antoni <—fake but often hilarious twitter
![Great read over at CNNSI.com about the blowup between Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson over Magic’s upcoming book “When the Game Was Ours.” In it, Magic accuses Isiah of questioning his sexuality. There’s also this gem:
“Isiah killed his own chances when it came to the Olympics. Nobody on that team wanted to play with him. … Michael didn’t want to play with him. Scottie [Pippen] wanted no part of him. Bird wasn’t pushing for him. Karl Malone didn’t want him. Who was saying, ‘We need this guy?’ Nobody.”](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/nbaoffseason/220256131/1/tumblr_krxnmpnSJW1qzb7vj)
Great read over at CNNSI.com about the blowup between Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson over Magic’s upcoming book “When the Game Was Ours.” In it, Magic accuses Isiah of questioning his sexuality. There’s also this gem:
“Isiah killed his own chances when it came to the Olympics. Nobody on that team wanted to play with him. … Michael didn’t want to play with him. Scottie [Pippen] wanted no part of him. Bird wasn’t pushing for him. Karl Malone didn’t want him. Who was saying, ‘We need this guy?’ Nobody.”
