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Isiah Thomas full name is Isiah <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">Lord</a> <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">Thomas III</a> and he was born in 1961. He is a retired <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">basketball player</a> and was playing professionally in Detroit Pistons for NBA. He played like a point guard and was 12-time NBA All Star. He is among the 50 Greatest Player of NBA History and he was inducted in Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He had also been a collegiate and professional <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">head coach</a>, broadcaster and basketball executive.

He played on collegiate level for Indiana Hoosiers and he led the team to NCAA championship of 1981. This is when he was still a <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">sophomore</a> and he god declared to join NBA draft. He was taken to be the pick number 2 of Piston and he played with the team since 1981 until 1994 and he led them to the NBA championship of 1988-1989 and 1989 -1989-90.

After retiring, he became the executive with the Toronto Raptors; he was an <a href="/biography/isaiah-thomas">executive</a> with Continental Basketball Association and a television commentator. He also worked as head coach of New York Knicks, and then Florida International University Golden Panthers in 3 seasons since 2009 until 2012. In 2015, he got named to be the president of the sister team of Knicks for WNBA called New York Liberty. He then hired his te4am made in Piston called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Laimbeer">Bill Laimbeer</a>.

As recorded in his biography, Isiah Thomas was born in Chicago city in Illinois and he is the youngest in nine sisters and brothers. Every morning he was rising up at 5:00 and for 90 minutes he was commuting to go to the neighborhood West Side North Lawndale where he was playing basketball at the private St Joseph High school of Westchester Illinois under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Pingatore">Coach</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Pingatore">Gene Pingatore</a>. In his junior time, he helped St Joseph to reach to State Finals and he was considered to be one of the top college prospects.

Isiah Thomas attended Indiana University during off seasons of Piston and he got Master’s education for education with University of California in Berkley of 2013. He studied connection that exists between sports and education and how the society in America helps to make inaccessible or accessible education to the black male athletes in college.

Isiah Thomas was involved into many controversies. In the year 1985, he was said that together with other players, they freeze-out Jordan by not giving the ball to him because of too much attention he was getting. He overdosed on Lunesta, a sleep medication and he was taken to White Plains Hospital Center in 2008.

There is no information if Isiah Thomas had been married or not. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Thomas_(basketball)">Isaiah Thomas</a>, whose wife is Kayla Wallace and who plays for Boston Celtics was named after him. His twitter account is @IsiahThomasNews. His net worth is estimated to be 22 million dollars. More information about him like his stats, injury, salary or contract is not available. He has no fangraphs page.

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