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Isiah Thomas won both of his NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons, in 1989 and 1990. The Pistons swept the Los Angeles Lakers in four games in 1989 and defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in 1990, with Thomas earning Finals MVP honors in the latter series.
Thomas was passed over for the 1992 Dream Team reportedly due to his strained relationship with Michael Jordan. Magic Johnson later wrote in When the Game Was Ours that he, Jordan, and other players had worked to keep Thomas off the roster.
Isiah Thomas scored 25 points in the third quarter of Game 6 of the 1988 NBA Finals, an NBA Finals record for a single quarter. He accomplished this while playing on a severely sprained ankle.
Thomas was born on the 30th of April 1961 and grew up on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. He attended Our Lady of Sorrows School and St. Joseph High School in Westchester, which required a ninety-minute commute each way from his home.
Thomas was selected for the 1980 U.S. Olympic basketball team but never competed in Moscow because the United States boycotted the Games. He instead participated in a "Gold Medal Series" against NBA and international teams, leading the U.S. squad in assists with 37. In 2007, he received one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created for the athletes denied their chance to compete.
Former Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders filed a harassment lawsuit against The Madison Square Garden Company in January 2006, alleging Thomas had sexually harassed her and that she was fired in retaliation for complaining. The case settled for $11.5 million.