”You’re saying Jalen Brunson winning made you realize we took Isiah Thomas for granted,” former NBA player Brendan Haywood posed to a co-host on Gil’s Arena. “Isiah Thomas feels like that. I work with Isiah, and he feels overlooked to a certain degree because ‘hey listen, I know Magic was playing, I know Jordan was out there. Dog, I won two chips when those guys were out there. And if you really go back through the history, should’ve been three.’ They had the Lakers on the brink. There was a phantom foul against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he would have had a game that would have went down as the greatest of all time in the Finals. That was the ankle game. He came back in, the numbers were crazy, the assists, the steals and there was a bogus foul call that they would have won the championship. So to your point, Isiah Thomas definitely feels overlooked because we talk about the Lakers and the Celtics, we skip over the Bad Boys era and we go straight to the Jordan era.”
