Isaiah Thomas on Facing Kobe, All-Star Game and UW Memories
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this special episode, Isaiah Thomas joins C.J. Toledano to answer questions from you, the fans; covering the following topics: his welcome to the NBA moment against Kobe Bryant, important tactics for playing in the league as a smaller player, his toughest cover in the league, pre-and-post game meals, his favorite student-athlete memories from the University of Washington, his most notable All-Star Game memories and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to another episode of Point Game with C. |
| 0:19.0 | Touladano and Isaiah Thomas., we wanted to hear from you. |
| 0:23.2 | So we posted on social media. We said, drop your questions in the comments below. And you guys showed out. |
| 0:29.8 | We're going to get to Isaiah and he's going to answer everything you guys are asking us. |
| 0:33.3 | So first question, this is asked on all these podcasts. I don't think we got to it, but Carter Folkers on TikTok asked, what was your welcome |
| 0:43.6 | to the NBA moment? |
| 0:46.7 | I had said this on something I was on, but my welcome to the NBA moment was my first game |
| 0:52.9 | in Sacramento. My first game of the season was against the |
| 0:56.9 | Lakers against my favorite player, Kobe Bryant. So welcome to the NBA. I get subbed in the second |
| 1:03.1 | quarter. Coach Paul Westfall is rest in peace. Coach Paul Westfall subs me in. He's telling |
| 1:10.4 | everybody who they have. He's like Tyreek Evans, you got him, DeMar Westfall subs me in. He's telling everybody who they have. |
| 1:11.9 | He's like, Tyreek Evans, you got him, DeMarcus, you got him. |
| 1:16.1 | And nobody said, he don't say who has Kobe, right? |
| 1:19.9 | So throughout training camp, there was a rule. |
| 1:22.8 | When guys back me down, guys can't back me down anymore |
| 1:25.7 | because they either take a bad shot or they turn the ball over. |
| 1:30.2 | So that was a rule in training camp. |
| 1:32.5 | First game of the season, when he subbed me in, he's telling everybody who they have. |
| 1:36.7 | He's like, I'm like, coach, who I got? |
| 1:38.8 | He's like, IT, you got Kobe. |
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