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https://www.vintagedetroit.com/aguirre-final-piece-bad-boys/ by DAN D'ADDONA on FEBRUARY 26, 2018 Mark Aguirre and Isiah Thomas were selected #1 and #2 in the 1981 NBA Draft. The Bad Boys had finally broken through and won an NBA championship. In 1988-89, the Detroit Pistons finally were the best team in the world, no more Celtics, no more Lakers. Detroit fans remember the Bad Boys winning again the very next year. After all, going back-to-back was something the Celtics of that era didn’t accomplish. Just as when the Pistons won with a trade for Rasheed Wallace that gave the Pistons a spark fifteen years later, the original Bad Boys had a similar situation. In the middle of the 1988-89 season, after making it to the NBA Finals the previous year, the Pistons were in a bit of a chemistry battle as internal rifts were starting to show. Two-time NBA scoring champion Adrian Dantley was in the middle of it, wanting to be the go-to player on a team full of great players, most notably Isi

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-13-sp-1842-story.html BY GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI  TIMES STAFF WRITER CHICAGO — MARCH 13, 1988 12 AM PT The dream had such humble beginnings. Ziggy--that was Mark Aguirre’s nickname back on the West Side--would borrow his grandfather’s pickup truck. Then he’d find Skip Dillard, his without-a-doubt, positively best friend of all time. Then they’d dig up the Dolph, short for Bernard Randolph, another teammate from Westinghouse High School. Then they’d cruise, looking for the purest game of basketball the streets could offer. They were something, those three. Discriminating, too. Sometimes they’d drive for hours and not find a game worth their trouble. Everything had to be just right: The competition (the taller the better), the pace (frantic), the attitude (cooool--no use getting your brains blown out because you fouled a guy). They looked for telltale court signs. If someone called charging, they got out of there quick. No game worth its weight

New York Knicks coach and former Toronto Raptors' GM Isiah Thomas speaks  to the media outside Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.  (AP / John Marshall Mantel) https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/nov/28/ussport His team can't win and he cost the franchise $11m in a sexual harassment suit - but still Isiah Thomas remains the coach in New York, writes Mark Woods Mark Woods  - The Guardian Wed 28 Nov 2007 - 19.58 CET Jose Mourinho - sacked for not being special enough (winning the Premier League, twice, obviously doesn't count for much). Billy Davies - ditched for complaining about a lack of transfer action despite taking Derby County into the Premier League on a dodgier budget than the Labour Party. Steve McClaren - axed for, well, being rubbish (who else could have Middlesbrough fans still remaining grateful for Gareth Southgate?). As for Isiah Thomas, head coach and president of the New York Knicks? Well, to start, just a few snippets from his current resum

La formation néerlandaise, affaiblie par les blessures et les maladies, n’a pas connu le même début de campagne flandrienne que l’an passé. 27 Mar 2024 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS WAREGEM (BEL) – Les organisateurs d’À Travers la Flandre ont dressé, un peu partout dans le coin, des calicots avec les vainqueurs de l’édition passée. Si Demi Vollering s’alignera bien chez les femmes, Christophe Laporte, malade, a de nouveau décliné, comme depuis le début de la «quinzaine sainte». Apparemment, il ne fallait pas trop miser sur les coureurs de Visma - Lease a bike. Hier matin, Dylan Van Baarle, souffrant lui aussi, a déclaré forfait et le reste des troupes ne se porte pas mieux. «En ce moment, on a que des merdes, tout arrive en même temps, préfère en sourire Arthur Van Dongen. Dimanche dernier, Jan Tratnik a chuté assez lourdement. À l’E3 Saxo Classic, Per Strand Hagenes, après un bon camp à Tenerife, est également tombé et s’est cassé le nez.»Dylan Van Baarle (à gauche) et Christophe Lap