What channel should Isaiah Thomas be tuned to?
Two-time NBA champion with the Pistons Recently appeared on “The Draymond Green Show” And the Bulls legend has revealed what it takes to bury his feud with Michael Jordan after tearing him apart from the rival in the docuseries The Last Dance.
“This guy went on international television and called me a bastard, someone who was very good to him,” Thomas told Green. “And there’s no conversation until he apologizes on international television. You can’t apologize or have a private dinner when he’s humiliated me in public. I mean it. If you haven’t, please say it publicly. If you mean it, I’ll understand. I’m fine with that.”
In the 2020 series, which centered around Jordan’s memories of the Bulls’ dynasty in the ’90s, he discussed rumors that Jordan was responsible for keeping Thomas off the 1992 Olympic team.
Jordan denied it, but did not suppress his feelings for Thomas.
“The public reaction changed his perspective a little bit,” Jordan said. The Bulls played against the Bad Boy Pistons, led by Thomas, multiple times in the playoffs.
“Show me whatever you want to see. There’s no way you can convince me he wasn’t a goddamn human being.”
There’s no evidence that Jordan didn’t mean it. Because if he believed his thoughts about Thomas were somehow taken out of context, he had over three years to set the record straight.
Even though their personal dislike is part of NBA lore, Thomas said he had no idea Jordan felt that way until the documentary series was released.
“I didn’t realize he felt the same way about me until I saw ‘The Last Dance.'” Thomas said on the podcast The Club Shay in 2020.
“I never said a bad word to him or anything. We played. His team won, my team won. We went home, they went home. I went back to.”
