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Why did MJ dislike Isiah Thomas?

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Guest Frank_Nabbit

Just read this line:

 

 

MJ refusing to play on the original Dream Team unless they left off Isiah.

 

What's the story?

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Guest Smues

I don't know the full story, but I think it had something to do with the Pistons leaving the court early at the end of game 4 of the 1990 Eastern Conference Finals. (I have a terrible memory so I could be way off)

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Guest Mindless_Aggression

The hell is with people disliking Isiah Thomas? Bird seems to share similar feelings regarding him.

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Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20

From what I hear, Isiah Thomas has a little "HHH" in him.

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I'm pretty sure in MJ's first All-Star game which was his rookie year I'm 95% sure, the veterans all froze him out so he couldn't get the ball during the game. Thus, it being generally accepted Jordan told the Olympic Committie to take him or Isaish. Which leads to the moral of the story....don't fuck with Michael Jordan. :-)

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Guest Staravenger

I think it was probably because the veterans were jealous that he was getting all the attention and was only a rookie. Also Jordan had problems with several Pistons players back in the day, for rough plays and fighting.

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Guest cpac

It mostly has to do with this. During the last game of the 1991 NBA eastern conference finals, the Pistons literally handed the torch over to the Chicago Bulls. I believe the Pistons were getting killed in the last game and players included Thomas walked off the court and headed to the dressing room in the final minute before the game ended and didn't bother to stay to the end and congratulate the Bulls and Jordan. I remember hearing Thomas in an interview after being hired by the Knicks regretting his actions during this.

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Pistons never had the torch. They were in between the Lakers/Celtics years and the rise of Jordan's Bulls when the NBA didn't have a dominant team. There never was a dominance in them at all, as Jordan's teams showed.

 

The Pistons then had a major fucking attitude, they were beaten by the Bulls and they essentially stomped off. Jordan had a major problem with it, and when the Dream Team came about, Jordan didn't want Isiah on the team because he's a whiner.

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Regardless of why it happened, Isiah should've been on that fucking team. If you wanted the basically the best of the 80's and early 90's, Stockton didn't hold a torch to Isiah at the point. Not saying that Stockton wasn't good, he was very good, but Zeke was the man.

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Guest Smues

I'm glad it was Stockton and not Isiah. Although if it had been him instead then at least I wouldn't have gotten like a dozen damn John Stockton McDonald's cups when I was trying to collect the whole team. And it wouldn't be stockton sitting at the edge of my collection all these years, it'd be Isiah. I'd rather see Stockton's face, although I couldn't tell you why.

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