Word: isiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple to call Detroit Basketball Star Isiah Thomas the flip side of Campanis, though he squirmed similarly after endorsing a rookie teammate's view that the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird is a three-time MVP essentially because he is white. Later, Thomas claimed he was only joking when he said, "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy." But if by "just another good guy" he meant Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and himself, the statement is not so unreasonable, and his amplification about stereotyping ought not to have been lost in the apology. "When Bird makes...
Johnson and Adrian Dantley led the Pistons with 24 points each, while Isiah Thomas added 21. Larry Bird had 35 points for Boston, while Kevin McHale...
...Isiah Thomas had put Detroit ahead, 107-106, with a jumper from the foul line with 17 seconds remaining. Bird then missed a shot with four seconds to go, and the ball went out of bounds off Boston's Jerry Sichting...
Boston's Larry Bird made only seven of 22 field-goal attempts and Detroit's Isiah Thomas hit just...
...Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven-footers, but the most valuable player happened to be 6-ft. 1-in. Sprite Isiah Thomas of Detroit. Plainly pro basketball has turned itself upside down...