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10-22-2009, 08:39 PM #1
Magic Johnson/Isiah Thomas feud?
All fans of 1980’s NBA basketball will forever love what Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, plus Isiah Thomas and other stars from the decade brought to the world of hoops. But rumors in those days didn’t quite spread the way they do now in the age of InsideHoops.com and the internet.
Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas are old friends, right? Not so fast.
Ian Thompson of Sports Illustrated reports:
When he heard the criticisms from his former friend Magic Johnson in a soon-to-be-released book, Isiah Thomas said he’d had enough. And so he began to fight back.
“I’m really hurt, and I really feel taken advantage of for all these years,” said Thomas, the Hall of Fame point guard and former NBA coach and executive, most recently with the Knicks. “I’m totally blindsided by this. Every time that I’ve seen Magic, he has been friendly with me. Whenever he came to a Knick game, he was standing in the tunnel [to the locker room] with me. He and [Knicks assistant coach] Herb [Williams] and I, we would go out to dinner in New York. I didn’t know he felt this way.”
Get ready. This gets heated. More from SI:
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Man...this is very unfortunate to hear...I'm interested in reading the book though, to see what else is said...
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10-22-2009, 08:45 PM #2
Wow! It might be all for book sales, but they just convinced me to buy a copy.
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10-22-2009, 08:58 PM #3
Wow! It might be all for book sales, but they just convinced me to buy a copy.
I was thinking that too, but those are mighty strong accusations just to sell books...something makes me think that there is alot of truth to this...
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10-22-2009, 09:05 PM #4
i know. that's why i'm going to pick it up. larry and magic battled HARD in the 80s. actually, larry battled everybody hard in the 80s from Magic to Isiah and Dr. J. It should be a good read.
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10-23-2009, 01:07 AM #5
I hope this is just a ploy to sell the book... it would be sad to see two old friends, who were two of the fiercest competitors of their time turn on each other. Can't we all just get along?
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10-23-2009, 01:38 AM #6
I really don't know who to believe, I mean, Isiah has been caught lying before. But regardless, I think that it's a little bit shameful of Magic to say all these things about Isiah in a book before confronting him in person about it first.
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10-23-2009, 10:05 AM #7
Magic: has almost a billion dollars.
Isiah: has almost that many sexual harassment suits.
One guess as to the real motivation here.
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10-23-2009, 11:30 AM #8
Hate to see two old friends turn into bitter foles. But it wouldn't surprise me if there were probably alot more to the story than what is written coming from both players.
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