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...dining-room table, Isiah, an eight-year-old with a toothy grin, carefully creases paper airplanes, enlisting his mother to staple them together. "Nobody makes them as well as you," she says. Can this be the same foster baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could...
...knock down the basketball straw man first. If someone plays defense like Bill Russell, passes like Isiah Thomas, scores like Julius Erving and rises to the occasion like Larry Bird, it's hard to argue against him. The clincher comes in the context of his team. When Jordan's around, the Bulls win championships. When he's off flailing at minor-league curve balls, they...
...Knicks Win; Raptors Lose Big It was 1994 all over again as the Knicks gave the Hawks their first loss of the season. Meanwhile, Isiah Thomas leaves Toronto...
...Elsewhere, Isiah Thomas' role as GM-as-savior lasted only until it became apparent he would not be allowed to buy the team. His departure to a career as an NBC analyst is less a blow to the NBA as it is to a bright young Toronto Raptors franchise that will now probably see its best players, Damon Stoudamire and Marcus Camby, look for greener courts in the lower...
...about three hours long. But it moves like Isiah, fast and smooth, and it's over in a heartbreak...