NBA legend Isiah Thomas and who many regard as the GOAT, Michael Jordan, have some longstanding animosity toward one another that dates back to the 1980s.
In a recent story, Jordan reportedly spoke about the alleged "freeze out" from the 1985 All-Star Game where MJ was supposedly conspired against by his ASG teammates to not get him the ball. Back in 1992, Jordan said of the alleged freeze out, “If you go back and look at the film, you can see that Thomas was actually doing that. Once it started getting around that he was freezing me out, that’s when the ill feelings started to grow between us.”
In the new article published by The Inquister, Jordan recounts his first interaction with Thomas:
“I got on an elevator with Isiah Thomas to go downstairs for a league meeting,” he explained. “That was the first time I met him. And I said, ‘Hello, how ya doin’?’ That’s all I said. I was really intimidated because I didn’t know him and I didn’t want to get on his nerves. I didn’t want to seem like a rookie. You know, to just be so stupid. So I was quiet. I stayed in the corner. When I went down in the room for the meeting, I still didn’t say anything. After the weekend was over, it got back to me that I was arrogant and cocky and I wouldn’t even speak to Isiah on the elevator, that I gave him the cold shoulder. And I’m saying Isiah Thomas initiated it all.”
In response to the article, Isiah Thomas fired back via Twitter on Thursday.
“Stop lying this story is not factual or accurate, tell the truth man,” Isiah wrote. “Dr.J, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Sidney Moncrief and I did not freeze you out. If memory serves me correct I was injured most of the second half and Bird had a broken nose. Magic and Sampson dominated the game.”
Source: Complex.com
