@@nekaeljones3086 yea John Stockton was great in his own way and phenomenal in his day but in his day and until now when the two played the game Isiah Thomas was cream of the crop, Stockton a level below him. Isiah from 84 to 87 was making Jordan like movement in the playoffs and shaking up hierarchy. 84 vs King & New York, 85 vs New Jersey and Boston, 86 vs Atlanta, 87 vs Washington vs Atlanta vs Boston. Isiah from his 3rd season to 6th season was a playoff team second round twice and ECFinalist by 6th season, from there he was an NBA finals finalist 88-90 for his 7th 8th 9th seasons. Stockton meanwhile was a bench player from 85 to 87 and 88 his best example of shaking up hierarchy ended in Game 7 of the 88 WCSF. From there, Stockton was out the first round years 5 and 6 with 91 in year 7 when MJ was dethroning a King 👑 Isiah and King 👑 Magic ✨ Stockton was losing to Drexler who was short of Magic Jordan and Isiah still ... Year 8 when Jordan was becoming a 2x champion to match Isiah Stockton was making his first WCF thanks largely to a Magic absence. And Stockton had Malone. A league MVP candidate at the time like one of the main 5 players in the league by 92, with Jordan, Drexler, Barkley, Olajuwon, Malone, Ewing & Robinson an interchangeable headlining top 7 of that brief era post Magic and Bird and Isiah's reign. Isiah was a quick fall off post 91 and started losing steam 🚂 as one of the top top freshest most capable franchise guys in the league as Bad Boys were nosediving from there and he became a Chauncey Billups like guy on teams not even winning much more after 91. But Stockton never cracked the top 7 or top 8, Isiah was probably top 5-7 from 84 to 90. More or less. Stockton flirts in 88 but never surpasses Drexler, Malone his teammate, he almost was the higher ceiling guy in 88 but that quickly stabilized and never followed again tremendously in the postseason his wonderful regular seasons. He never surpassed Ewing, Barkley, Olajuwon, and Robinson. And Pippen had em by 92 as better more crucial sidekick in the NBA with growing contention out of Seattle in Gary Payton before the coronation could make sense for Stockton. Then Shaq was drafted 93. Stockton never got the level of undisputed greatness as Isiah. Isiah was beating the best at their best at his best. Stockton was flirting with the best with the best at his best and they would most likely win.
Isiah was responsible for the re-emergence of the little man back into the NBA.Guys like John Stockton,Avery Johnson, Allen Iverson, Lindsey Hunter,Kevin Johnson, Tim Hardaway,Stephon Marbury,Jason Williams,Damon Stoudamire owe their careers to him.
@@dwightlove3704 i mean didn't the NBA always have dominant little guys? Archibald , the Pearl Monroe. Archibald was playing significant minutes until 83-84 in same division as Isiah Thomas... He was a member of the Celtics to 82-83 and won a title and lost 2 ECFs with Bird and Co. From 79-80 to 82-83... The little man was always present.
@@dwightlove3704 johnny Moore and Maurice cheeks were 6'1" in 81-82 rookie season for Isiah Thomas... They didn't score alot but Tiny sure did. I'll find more and I'm only looking at the apg leaders of 81-82. I guarantee I'll find leading scorers and leading passers that are 6'2" and shorter that were prominent from 70-71 to 81-82... Even 69-70. 58-59. Pretty much always.
I love Zeak to much for words... 6"0 175 lbs ... Beefing with... MJ Pip Bird Magic Malone ... Bad Boys for life F the Dewwb team... they ain't shit with out Zeak...
Think about these historic feats. Member of the greatest high school All American team. 1979 Gold Medal winner and MVP of the Pan Am title game and he was just out of high school. 1980 Olympian as a freshman. 1st freshman in Big 10 history to be 1st Team All Big 10. 2 time Big 10 champion. All American 1st Team consensus. NCAA champion. MOP of both the Regionals and Final Four (something Magic didn't do). 1990 NBA Finals MVP. 1 of the legendary players to be named Final Four MOP and NBA Finals MVP. 2 time All Star Game MVP. One of the legends to win consecutive titles. Only player to average 21 points and 13 assists in a season. 4 seasons averaging 20 points and 10 assists, second to the 5 by Oscar Robertson. NBA finals records for steals in a game and series. Most steals in a single playoffs. Most points in a NBA Finals quarter. I could go on and on.
@@123slasher.16 Please do by the way the amount was 25 4th quarter points which is still a NBA FINALS RECORD and he did it on ONE GOOD LEG LIMPING AROUND!!!!!!!
Now ask yourself this question, how many Top 10 players played for a high school state title, won a NCAA title and back to back NBA titles? Larry Bird never played for a state title in high school, never won a NCAA title and never won consecutive NBA titles. Jerry West nor Oscar Robertson won titles in college. Dr.J, Baylor or Wilt won college titles either. Isiah did all 3.
@@dwightlove3704 yes he did. The point I am making is Isiah Thomas has done so many historical things that the more popular players hasn't come close to. Example, Isiah has won more titles in the state of Indiana than Bird did. Bird never won a state title in Indiana, didn't win a national title in Indiana and while with the Pacers never won a NBA title.
I think isiah was a decent bloke who was maligned because he wanted to win so much .He just wanted to find a way to break the Laker Celtic monopoly and the threat of Michael Jordan. Bird was a tough player but seem to get away with it he was clever !
LoL 😂 I found myself thinking about the distance between all these cities around Chicago and who had basketball 🏀 teams LOL 🤣 Yeah Milwaukee is literally right up Lake Michigan not on the other side around the bend across the state of Michigan by Lake Erie like Detroit. Detroit and Cleveland are closer than Chicago and Detroit. The Pacers are 3 hrs away. Milwaukee bout an hour. Detroit is like 3-4 right? But yeah I think draft order was his line of thinking. We know Isiah ain't ignorant nah... He always speaks with intent within context and cumulative... So more than likely it's our mistakes in comprehension here than his train of thought 💭 🤔 derailing.
Thomas es el mejor juhador de los pistones y derroto a jordan magic larry y a todos los del dream team los q sabemos como corrwe el agua sabemos q es un monsrruo del balocesto arriba mos pistones y arriba chihuahua mexico
@@petervandermey7896 Duhhh, it's actually perfect sense. Comprehend!! The title date is at 1996 Isiah would have been 34/35-actually 36 when Iverson gotten in the league had he continued.
@@dennisking3638 His mother said in a interview that IT called home and said that Knight was always screaming at him for any reason but I remember what he said about his childhood home it looked as if it was hit by a atomic bomb over the holidays that is when he made his decision to go to the NBA as a 19 yr old and he had his heart set on playing with the Chicago Bulls but Detroit snatched him up with the SECOND OVERALL PICK in the '80-'81 draft.
With the rules of the 80s,Isiah would have eaten the Warriors alive. Best true point guard,making dimes from a set stand and on the RUN,beat u off the dribble with his tight handles anytime,shooting clutch shots when needed.Warriors would not exist in the hand check grab and pull and no 3 second Defensive rule in the paint of the 80s.They are not even as good as the TMC warriors.Just enjoy today's Warriors for what they are,the best in today's basketball style,which I enjoy also but let's no get carry away!
Ugh Quadroons like Steph Curry didn't even exist in the NBA yet .. white ladies in United States of America weren't positioning their vaginas around rich NBA BBC until the 2000's. Even MJ didn't have mocha babies and he married a Cubana where they mixed chocolate con crema for a longer time than the United States have. Even Scottie Pippen has black kids. It took the Mychal Thompson's and Dell Currys to produce these extra mixed babies that didn't even exist as plentifully in the NBA until this modern era.. hence the creation of handy dribblers shooting 3's cuz we've mixed the genetics of the Isiah Thomas African Americans with the Steve Kerr Blanco Americanos stand and shoot 3's game and created a hybrid Mulatto of breakdown off dribble to create space for SELF and shoot 3's. Scottie Pippen was like the lightest brother in the 80's and 90's NBA. Reggie Miller, Dell Curry. Thompson, Abdelnaby, Tito Horford, Charles Barkley these were the mulattos in the 80's and 90's. We didn't get Blake Griffin and Klay and Steph till this new age left of Ronald Reagan politics and 50 Cent playing at your Catholic school dance circa 2003 impregnating Raelle Pruente Italian Chicagoan girls with afro Catholic Puerto Rican nigglette sperm cells of the West African origin... We have become the Caribbean and it's wonderful... Cuz now every color woman has ass and titties now!!!!!
Nevermind Jason Kidd, Henry Bibby, Mike Bibby, I'm sure I can find more low keys mulattos in the 70s and 80s. Sorry mulattos sometimes go unnoticed thru-out history
![Magic Johnson & Isiah Thomas | 1-on-1 Interview (Players Only)[FULL]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QW92p29EehA/mqdefault.jpg)
Isiah Thomas, my favorite basketball player of all time! One of the greatest!
Ditto! None other!!!
Mine, too. For a man 6'1" to dominate the game against Bird, Magic and Jordan all at the same time is just stunning. But that is what he did.
This is outstanding. I’ve looked for this for quite awhile. Thanks so much for posting.
Isiah's NBA debut back in 1981, 31 points, 11 assists and 5 steals is still the highest scoring debut in the last 40 plus years.
That is awesome! I did not know that.
My favorite basketball player of ALL TIME!
The greatest PG in NBA history, Isiah Lord Thomas III, Facts 💯
loved it. thanks!
one of my favorite players.
Ball handeling , Beliving he could beat Boston and LA lakers when no one thought it could happen
25 points a NBA FINALS RECORD FOR THE 4TH QUARTER
It was the 3rd quarter. It's a record for ANY Finals quarter.
@@edmerc92 Okay thanks yes it was
3rd quarter
@@petervandermey7896 Okay 3rd qtr thanks
@@petervandermey7896 One year he average 13.9 assists only John Stockton had a higher assists average in a season.
A true player, warrior, leader, and champion. Bad Boys 4 Life!! Too often left out of the basketball "assassin" dialogue.
Great point ☝️
Because He never was.. Not a top 10 point guard..
He's one of the greatest assassins ever.
@@alecsanderhamilton9224 yep but not to the John Stockton lovers smh
@@nekaeljones3086 yea John Stockton was great in his own way and phenomenal in his day but in his day and until now when the two played the game Isiah Thomas was cream of the crop, Stockton a level below him. Isiah from 84 to 87 was making Jordan like movement in the playoffs and shaking up hierarchy. 84 vs King & New York, 85 vs New Jersey and Boston, 86 vs Atlanta, 87 vs Washington vs Atlanta vs Boston.
Isiah from his 3rd season to 6th season was a playoff team second round twice and ECFinalist by 6th season, from there he was an NBA finals finalist 88-90 for his 7th 8th 9th seasons. Stockton meanwhile was a bench player from 85 to 87 and 88 his best example of shaking up hierarchy ended in Game 7 of the 88 WCSF. From there, Stockton was out the first round years 5 and 6 with 91 in year 7 when MJ was dethroning a King 👑 Isiah and King 👑 Magic ✨ Stockton was losing to Drexler who was short of Magic Jordan and Isiah still ... Year 8 when Jordan was becoming a 2x champion to match Isiah Stockton was making his first WCF thanks largely to a Magic absence. And Stockton had Malone. A league MVP candidate at the time like one of the main 5 players in the league by 92, with Jordan, Drexler, Barkley, Olajuwon, Malone, Ewing & Robinson an interchangeable headlining top 7 of that brief era post Magic and Bird and Isiah's reign. Isiah was a quick fall off post 91 and started losing steam 🚂 as one of the top top freshest most capable franchise guys in the league as Bad Boys were nosediving from there and he became a Chauncey Billups like guy on teams not even winning much more after 91. But Stockton never cracked the top 7 or top 8, Isiah was probably top 5-7 from 84 to 90. More or less. Stockton flirts in 88 but never surpasses Drexler, Malone his teammate, he almost was the higher ceiling guy in 88 but that quickly stabilized and never followed again tremendously in the postseason his wonderful regular seasons. He never surpassed Ewing, Barkley, Olajuwon, and Robinson. And Pippen had em by 92 as better more crucial sidekick in the NBA with growing contention out of Seattle in Gary Payton before the coronation could make sense for Stockton.
Then Shaq was drafted 93. Stockton never got the level of undisputed greatness as Isiah. Isiah was beating the best at their best at his best. Stockton was flirting with the best with the best at his best and they would most likely win.
Isiah was responsible for the re-emergence of the little man back into the NBA.Guys like John Stockton,Avery Johnson, Allen Iverson, Lindsey Hunter,Kevin Johnson, Tim Hardaway,Stephon Marbury,Jason Williams,Damon Stoudamire owe their careers to him.
Tiny Archibald dislikes you.
@@alecsanderhamilton9224 Archibald was gone before those guys came along but I get your point.
@@dwightlove3704 i mean didn't the NBA always have dominant little guys? Archibald , the Pearl Monroe. Archibald was playing significant minutes until 83-84 in same division as Isiah Thomas... He was a member of the Celtics to 82-83 and won a title and lost 2 ECFs with Bird and Co. From 79-80 to 82-83... The little man was always present.
@@dwightlove3704 johnny Moore and Maurice cheeks were 6'1" in 81-82 rookie season for Isiah Thomas... They didn't score alot but Tiny sure did. I'll find more and I'm only looking at the apg leaders of 81-82. I guarantee I'll find leading scorers and leading passers that are 6'2" and shorter that were prominent from 70-71 to 81-82... Even 69-70. 58-59. Pretty much always.
@@dwightlove3704 norm Nixon was 17 and 9 from 78-85... That bridges a nice gap with solid construction 🏗️🚧... Good welding 🥽
I love Zeak to much for words... 6"0 175 lbs ...
Beefing with...
MJ
Pip
Bird
Magic
Malone ...
Bad Boys for life F the Dewwb team... they ain't shit with out Zeak...
Isiah has never been mentioned among the top 10 of the great players in NBA HISTORY.
Think about these historic feats.
Member of the greatest high school All American team.
1979 Gold Medal winner and MVP of the Pan Am title game and he was just out of high school.
1980 Olympian as a freshman.
1st freshman in Big 10 history to be 1st Team All Big 10.
2 time Big 10 champion.
All American 1st Team consensus.
NCAA champion.
MOP of both the Regionals and Final Four (something Magic didn't do).
1990 NBA Finals MVP.
1 of the legendary players to be named Final Four MOP and NBA Finals MVP.
2 time All Star Game MVP.
One of the legends to win consecutive titles.
Only player to average 21 points and 13 assists in a season.
4 seasons averaging 20 points and 10 assists, second to the 5 by Oscar Robertson.
NBA finals records for steals in a game and series.
Most steals in a single playoffs.
Most points in a NBA Finals quarter.
I could go on and on.
@@123slasher.16 Please do by the way the amount was 25 4th quarter points which is still a NBA FINALS RECORD and he did it on ONE GOOD LEG LIMPING AROUND!!!!!!!
Now ask yourself this question, how many Top 10 players played for a high school state title, won a NCAA title and back to back NBA titles?
Larry Bird never played for a state title in high school, never won a NCAA title and never won consecutive NBA titles.
Jerry West nor Oscar Robertson won titles in college.
Dr.J, Baylor or Wilt won college titles either.
Isiah did all 3.
@@123slasher.16 Magic Johnson did it
@@dwightlove3704 yes he did.
The point I am making is Isiah Thomas has done so many historical things that the more popular players hasn't come close to.
Example, Isiah has won more titles in the state of Indiana than Bird did.
Bird never won a state title in Indiana, didn't win a national title in Indiana and while with the Pacers never won a NBA title.
yo i miss your uploads
Isaiah is a legend. Top baller with clutch. He represents what it takes to succeed. Fight and hard work.
I think isiah was a decent bloke who was maligned because he wanted to win so much .He just wanted to find a way to break the Laker Celtic monopoly and the threat of Michael Jordan. Bird was a tough player but seem to get away with it he was clever !
Wobbler Isiah was determined to get a NBA TITLE before MJ.
The closest N.B.A. City to Chicago was Milwaukee.
Also indiana was closer
I believe was speaking on terms who had the drsft picks to acrually select him.
LoL 😂 I found myself thinking about the distance between all these cities around Chicago and who had basketball 🏀 teams LOL 🤣
Yeah Milwaukee is literally right up Lake Michigan not on the other side around the bend across the state of Michigan by Lake Erie like Detroit. Detroit and Cleveland are closer than Chicago and Detroit. The Pacers are 3 hrs away. Milwaukee bout an hour. Detroit is like 3-4 right?
But yeah I think draft order was his line of thinking. We know Isiah ain't ignorant nah... He always speaks with intent within context and cumulative... So more than likely it's our mistakes in comprehension here than his train of thought 💭 🤔 derailing.
Thomas es el mejor juhador de los pistones y derroto a jordan magic larry y a todos los del dream team los q sabemos como corrwe el agua sabemos q es un monsrruo del balocesto arriba mos pistones y arriba chihuahua mexico
Shucks!..the volume isn't very high huh?..might be on my end I'll check but yea great vid He's my favorite player for sure!!
14:17
He should of retired that yr.. I couldn't of seen him trying to D up A yound Iverson then
or vice versa ...
Don't get it twisted!
You sound stupid
@@petervandermey7896 A 34-35 yr old Isiah and a 20-21 yr old Iverson??? Yeah ok.
@@thatguyfrom313 at least make some sense ... what the hell are you trying to say?...
Nobody could hold Iveson, much less a 35 year old veteran...
@@petervandermey7896 Duhhh, it's actually perfect sense. Comprehend!! The title date is at 1996 Isiah would have been 34/35-actually 36 when Iverson gotten in the league had he continued.
Bob Knight was the reason why he left Indiana.He felt that Knight was too restrictive upon him as a player.
No he said he came home from college and the lights was out so he knew what to do $$$
@@dennisking3638 His mother said in a interview that IT called home and said that Knight was always screaming at him for any reason but I remember what he said about his childhood home it looked as if it was hit by a atomic bomb over the holidays that is when he made his decision to go to the NBA as a 19 yr old and he had his heart set on playing with the Chicago Bulls but Detroit snatched him up with the SECOND OVERALL PICK in the '80-'81 draft.
@@dwightlove3704 and your rite about that
@@dennisking3638 He also had no gas as well in his home.
@@dennisking3638 I'm shocked that he did not attend DE PAUL and be coached by Ray Meyer he could have played with his childhood friend Mark Aguirre.
Yo soy el piston de hueso colorado
Isiah Thomas is over rated.
Not even close to Steph Curry. There are a lot of great point guard now. I think he is never top 10 point Guard..
With the rules of the 80s,Isiah would have eaten the Warriors alive. Best true point guard,making dimes from a set stand and on the RUN,beat u off the dribble with his tight handles anytime,shooting clutch shots when needed.Warriors would not exist in the hand check grab and pull and no 3 second Defensive rule in the paint of the 80s.They are not even as good as the TMC warriors.Just enjoy today's Warriors for what they are,the best in today's basketball style,which I enjoy also but let's no get carry away!
@@jesuscarbonell3566 no. PUT Steph on the 80s and he will dominate all the point guard. Not even close
Steph is a great shooter ,one of the best ;he is more of a shooting guard than a real point guard.
Ugh Quadroons like Steph Curry didn't even exist in the NBA yet .. white ladies in United States of America weren't positioning their vaginas around rich NBA BBC until the 2000's. Even MJ didn't have mocha babies and he married a Cubana where they mixed chocolate con crema for a longer time than the United States have.
Even Scottie Pippen has black kids. It took the Mychal Thompson's and Dell Currys to produce these extra mixed babies that didn't even exist as plentifully in the NBA until this modern era.. hence the creation of handy dribblers shooting 3's cuz we've mixed the genetics of the Isiah Thomas African Americans with the Steve Kerr Blanco Americanos stand and shoot 3's game and created a hybrid Mulatto of breakdown off dribble to create space for SELF and shoot 3's.
Scottie Pippen was like the lightest brother in the 80's and 90's NBA. Reggie Miller, Dell Curry. Thompson, Abdelnaby, Tito Horford, Charles Barkley these were the mulattos in the 80's and 90's. We didn't get Blake Griffin and Klay and Steph till this new age left of Ronald Reagan politics and 50 Cent playing at your Catholic school dance circa 2003 impregnating Raelle Pruente Italian Chicagoan girls with afro Catholic Puerto Rican nigglette sperm cells of the West African origin...
We have become the Caribbean and it's wonderful... Cuz now every color woman has ass and titties now!!!!!
Nevermind Jason Kidd, Henry Bibby, Mike Bibby, I'm sure I can find more low keys mulattos in the 70s and 80s.
Sorry mulattos sometimes go unnoticed thru-out history
Is that him singing in the beginning?
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