On this episode of Road Trippin’ ATL, Kent Bazemore & Mike Muscala are joined by Detroit Pistons legendary guard Isiah Thomas.
Thomas shared a number of highlights from his playing days, including the fact that his team scored the most points in a regulation game: 186 points.
Thomas said that the Bad Boys’ defensive exploits were rooted in what he did in his earlier playing days. “I just went back to my old days, when I played for Coach Knight at Indiana,” he said. “Offenses today get all the glamour he said. “When we had to stop the pretty teams — L.A. was beautiful, Boston was beautiful and Chicago was beautiful — we are ugly,” he said.
Thomas said that with Detroit being a smaller media market, they didnt’ have the “boom mike” to create a narrative to rule the day. “We were the first San Antonio, when you look at small market teams. We really were the first model.”
Thomas also said he believes that the “Bad Boy” Pistons were really mislabeled. He said that he learned in school not to talk about certain things, but nobody told him that it applied to pro sports as well.
“I didn’t know that when you come to the NBA, the thing that you can’t talk about is race, class and gender.”
The podcast also gets into Kevin Love & DeMar DeRozan’s recent remarks of mental health, and Baze’s injury.
EPISODE 18: Bad Boy Isiah Thomas
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