Isiah Thomas - Part 2 | Ep 177 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball

All The Smoke

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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We are BACK with part 2 of Matt and Stak's 4-hour-long, deep dive with 2x NBA champ and Hall-of-Famer Isiah Thomas. On this episode, Thomas discusses his infamous Dream Team snub, the 'Jordan Rules', Scottie Pippen, and Kevin Garnett. Plus, he shares his top-5 point guards, talks Mark Jackson, and discusses the Last Dance.

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0:00.0	The 90s, arguably the greatest team ever
0:28.2	assembled in 1992. Your coach is the coach and even at 12 years old I knew the
0:35.1	world knew you were missing from that team. Yeah. Talk to us about that. Well you
0:40.6	know last dance told you that somebody who said they didn't want me on the team.
0:44.2	Do you really believe it was a secret meeting? Well a lot of people are saying there
0:48.8	was no secret meeting. Right. So it just sound like it's just one guy. I'm just
0:54.6	I'm just saying that's the way that's the way it's my mind. That's the way it's
1:01.5	sounding like you know and if that's how you felt on it. Right. Don't don't you
1:06.9	know. Own it. That's how you felt. You know on it. If you didn't feel that way
1:11.6	then clean it up. So I didn't make the team. That was the first time that I
1:16.4	didn't make a team in my life. I never felt the sting of getting cut. Right. So
1:21.8	when we all tried for a team you go and they put the they put the names on the
1:26.9	wall and you look and see if you made it. Well I was always on the team. This is
1:31.1	the first time I didn't make a team and did that sting? Did that hurt? Absolutely.
1:36.6	Did I want to be on the team? 100% right. But I didn't make it. Now was I mad?
1:45.2	That was upset. Probably went through all of those ranges of emotion. But then
1:51.6	you know again I'm from the west side of Chicago. So it's like and you then make
1:58.8	it what you're going to do. What's next? You can you can cry about it or you can you
2:04.4	know move on with your life. So I just kept moving on. I watched every game. I
2:10.5	rooted for the USA to win. I have won the gold medal in 79. I made the Olympic
2:16.5	team in 80. That was boycott it and was hoping that I would make this one. I didn't
2:21.6	make it. I didn't know why I didn't make it. But do I do I feel like I should have
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