I am an enormous Isiah Thomas fan.  Yes, the player, not the human being.  Its been tough to defend him all these years.  He’s brought much of it on himself.

But he’s become the whipping boy for everything that goes wrong in basketball.  The CBA which had already disappeared into relative obscurity before Isiah got there became his fault.  He was a good coach in Indiana but was ousted before players had time to develop.  Oh yea, by the way, he left there with an above .500 record.

And the Knicks, oh the Knicks.  A franchise that was doomed years before Isiah even stepped foot in Madison Square Garden.  Contracts galore from the likes of the venerable Allan Houston.  Yea, Isiah didn’t make it better but I’m not sure anybody could.

Which brings us to Magic Johnson.  Former friend of Thomas and current ahole extraordinaire.  Why?

Simple

Magic is selling out whatever friendship he had with Isiah for a few bucks.  Because trust me, nobody would even care to read that stupid book him and Larry Bird wrote if there was no controversy in it.

So why not throw Zeke under the bus?  Yea, he called him gay and spread rumors about him.  And he  was so angry about it that he befriended him for years, was cordial with him and even hugged him on national tv months before selling him out of the dream team.

Just watch this excerpt from the 92 All-Star Game…They seem like pretty good friends in this clip

Or maybe Magic is just that good of a faker.  A smile in one direction and a middle finger in the other.

Yes, Isiah may have his faults but Magic looks like the big fool here.