Isaiah Thomas gets hate from 'The Last Dance' viewers who think he's Isiah Thomas

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the more memorable moments from Episode 4 of "The Last Dance" is when former Pistons star Isiah Thomas explains why he didn't shake hands with the Bulls following their Eastern Conference Finals loss in 1991.

After struggling to get past Detroit in the playoffs, the Bulls made easy work of the Pistons, winning in a 4-0 sweep. But after the fourth game, Pistons players simply walked off the court rather than shaking hands with their opponents in an act of sportsmanship.

"As we're coming out of the game, (Bill( Laimbeer said, 'We're not shaking their hands. This is how we're leaving,'" Thomas said. "Knowing what we know now, in the aftermath of what took place, I think all of us would have stopped and said, 'Congratulations' like they do now. ... I mean we would have did it, of course we would have done it. But during that period of time, that's just not how it was passed. When you lost, you left the floor."

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The latest episodes of "The Last Dance" opened the floodgates for people to mistakenly target Isaiah Thomas.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. The Isiah They're Looking For...

...is the guy who bankrupted the CBA, and started the Knicks on the road to irrelevance while getting them sued for sexual harassment & a hostile workplace!
That Isiah!
Not the nice guy from Tacoma!

[a kennedy]

3. We loved our CBA basketball team......Catbirds......and it was so disheartening....

all I did was scream at the TV when he was on, he killed our CBA team.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Geez, He Killed An Entire League

He's a petulant jerk. 28 years later, he's still whining about the Dream Team.
I would have taken Stockton by far. His skills extended to NOT having to score (although he clearly could) and he was a better defensive player. He also wasn't a dick.
I knew a guy who worked for the Rockford CBA team. I think he was in marketing, but not sure.
He gave me tickets for when they hit the city where I grew up. They played a few home games a season in cities around the size of Rockford.
I went. It was a very high level of basketball. Better than college basketball at the time, except for the schools that had the "can't miss" NBA talent. Think Illinois, Iowa, Northwestern instead of Duke, Carolina, Kansas...
They were much better than most of the big 10 or next tier SEC or ACC teams.

[kelly97]

2. Haha

Surprising that the two haven't been confused before this!