Isiah Thomas really does not like Michael Jordan.
On Thursday, the former Detroit Pistons guard took to Twitter and responded to an article where Michael Jordan revealed the origins of his beef with Thomas.
The article took a deep dive into the 1985 all-star game where Jordan claimed that he was being frozen out.
“If you go back and look at the film, you can see that Isiah was actually doing that,” Jordan said. “Once it started getting around that he was freezing me out, that’s when the ill feelings started to grow between us.”
MJ went on to tell the story of the first time he met Thomas.
“That was my first All-Star game. I stayed in my room most of the time because I didn’t know what to do,” Jordan said. “None of my teammates were there. I didn’t want to be out in a situation that I wasn’t comfortable with. The one time I did go out, I got on an elevator with Isiah Thomas to go downstairs for a league meeting. 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.”
Thomas read the article and called Jordan out for lying on him.
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“Stop lying this story is not factual or accurate, tell the truth man.
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.”
Pistons and Bulls would meet on the court after that all-star game and Jordan would dominate.
“Normally, I would smile and enjoy myself, but I was serious the whole game. It was a grudge game from my standpoint,” Jordan admitted. “And the next day, the headlines read ‘Jordan Gets His Revenge, Scores 49.’ That’s all Isiah needed to see. It was a competition from that point. I always tried to respect him and be kind, but I always would hear talk that he was saying things about me behind my back.”
Two of the greatest two-way players of all time could never get along and likely will never bury the hatchet.
