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https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/tsn-archives-isiah-thomas-has-had-bumpy-rookie-year-feb-20-1982/tci3a0kwldz5qipoegzhqqsg This cover story, by Jay Mariotti, first appeared in Feb. 20, 1982, issue of The Sporting News, under the headline " ISIAH: Pistons' Sparkplug Has Had a Bumpy Rookie Year ," just past the midpoint of the Detroit icon's first NBA season. At only 20, Thomas did, in fact, have a lot to learn — and learn he did. Two seasons later, the Pistons were in the playoffs. Six years later they were in the NBA Finals and in 1989, with Thomas at the helm, Detroit so-called "Bad Boys" won the first of back-to-back NBA titles. TSN Archives   Jay Mariotti - The Sporting News 06-30-2022  - 13 min read DETROIT — The date was July 31, 1981. Isiah Thomas, a 20-year-old guard from Indiana University, had just signed a four-year, $1.6 million contract to play basketball for the Detroit Pistons . It should have been a moment of great joy and accomplishmen...

https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Thomas_Isiah.html By Mike Puma Special to ESPN.com "He'd cut your heart out to win. And he would put it right there on the floor in front of you, and he'd step on it. That's Isiah," says Pat Riley on ESPN Classic's Sports Century series. He defied the odds just by escaping Chicago's West Side, but Isiah Thomas didn't stop there. Through two seasons at Indiana University and 13 with the Detroit Pistons , Thomas became synonymous with winning. He could shoot, pass and defend, but his ability to lead, as much as his talent, earned the 6-foot-1 point guard a place in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Isiah Thomas led the Detroit Pistons to NBA titles in 1989 and 1990. After winning an NCAA title as a sophomore at Indiana in 1981, Thomas turned pro, and the Pistons made him the second pick of the draft. He led Detroit to consecuti ve championships in 1989 and 1990, and was named the Finals MVP in the latter year. Thomas...

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/endrick-palmeiras-brazil-football?fbclid=IwAR2I5b2m3qqX98aZN_CC5t6LFctaqIG8XAvlJKL7bD4-OY8DQHAMKq7d968 Para ler em Português, clique aqui. Para leer en Español, haz click aquí. Endrick Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras | Brazil The Player's Tribune - Mar 25, 2024 Dear Noah, I love you. This is the first thing, above everything else. Since day one, I feel that we’ve had a special connection. I have never told you this, but when you were about to be born, you actually waited for me to score a goal. It’s true, brother. I was playing an important match at the time, just 13 years old, but you did not want to enter this world yet. The clock ticked and ticked, and Mom and Dad were wondering what you were waiting for. Then all of a sudden Dad got a call from his friend who was at the game. He said, “Douglas!! Douglas!! Endrick just scored!!” And then at that exact moment, all you heard in the hospital room was Wwwwwwaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! You finall...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/12/03/mary-thomas-story-is-a-tale-of-a-mothers-will/ By CHICAGO TRIBUNE PUBLISHED: December 3, 1989 at 1:00 a.m. |  UPDATED: August 8, 2021 at 5:29 p.m. In Mary Thomas` Clarendon Hills ranch house, the painters have taken down photos of her nine children, 31 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren and piled them in boxes . But over a couch in the den still hangs a giant oil painting of her youngest child, dressed in a Detroit Pistons uniform. She calls him ” Junior ,” but he`s known to the rest of the world as basketball superstar Isiah Thomas. Isiah likely arrived at his exalted position as much from his mother`s determination to teach her seven sons and two daughters to do the right thing as from talent. Indeed, Mary Thomas` struggle to rear a family in Chicago`s inner city proved so compelling that it was turned into a two-part movie that airs this Sunday and next on ”The Magical World of Disney” (6 p.m., WMAQ-Ch. 5). "A Mother`s Courage: Th...