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Isiah Lord Thomas III is the son of Isiah Thomas II and Mary Thomas. [1] The youngest of 9 children, Thomas was born on April 30, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the city's West Side. He started playing basketball at age three and would dribble and shoot baskets as the halftime entertainment at Catholic Youth Organization games. [2]
Isaiah Thomas (born December 3, 1998) is an American professional football defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He has previously played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions .
He was traded to the Detroit Pistons in November 1981, [2] in exchange for forward Greg Kelser. [3] During the 1982-83 NBA season , Johnson scored a career high 15.8 points a game while starting in 51 of the 82 games he played in. [ 4 ] For the rest of his career, he would mostly play as an important role player coming off the bench.
Sitting pretty in his northwest Detroit home, wearing an Isiah Thomas Detroit Pistons jersey, the artist known as Leaf Erikson is in his Detroit element, as he holds three Detroit Music Awards ...
Thomas played for the Detroit Pistons from 1981-1994 and then coached the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks and Florida International University. He won two NBA titles, was a 12-time All-Star and a ...
"I'm dead wrong to say nine members of the Dream Team objected to Isiah being on the '92 Olympic team."
Isaiah Thomas was born on February 7, 1989 [2] to James Thomas and Tina Baldtrip. A lifelong Los Angeles Lakers fan, James Thomas made a bet with a friend that if his beloved team did not defeat the Detroit Pistons in the 1989 NBA Finals, he would name his son after Pistons star and decorated Lakers nemesis Isiah Thomas.
Bird stepped down as coach and pushed for Carlisle to be selected as his replacement, but Pacers' team president Donnie Walsh gave the job to Isiah Thomas. [ 9 ] Detroit Pistons (2001–2003)