Isiah Thomas Calls Out Michael Jordan: ‘Stop Lying’

Michael Jordan continues to dominate his old foe.

Michael Jordan clearly still lives in his head, and Zeke is not doing a very good job of blocking out the NBA legend. Thomas responded to a post on Twitter from The Inquisitr supposedly detailing the origins of Jordan’s rivalry with the Detroit Pistons legend:

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. https://t.co/B000xZ2VGO

— Isiah Thomas (@IsiahThomas) July 7, 2022

The story contained in the article doesn’t use any new quotes or information from Jordan. The story is centered around Jordan’s 1992 comments to Playboy magazine in which he claimed Thomas froze him out of the 1985 All-Star Game.

“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.”

The rivalry between Thomas and Jordan came back into the spotlight when Jordan’s doc The Last Dance aired during the beginning of the pandemic. Thomas said during one episode that Bill Laimbeer directed the Pistons not to shake the Bulls’ hands after Chicago swept them during the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals.

“As we’re coming out of the game, Laimbeer said: ‘We’re not shaking their hands.’ … Knowing what we know now, in the aftermath of what took place, I think all of us would’ve stopped and said congratulations like they do now. But in that period of time, that’s just not how it was passed. When you lost you left the floor. That was it,” Thomas said via CBS Sports.

Jordan, who watched Thomas’ comments on an iPad, responded by calling Thomas’ comments “bulls–t.”

“Whatever [Isiah] says now, you know it wasn’t his true actions then,” Jordan said. “[He’s had] time enough to think about it, or the reaction of the public that’s changed his perspective. … You can show me anything you want. There’s no way you can convince me he wasn’t an a–hole.”

Jordan got the last laugh.  He made sure Isiah wasn’t on the dream team.

Karma is very much like a boomerang.

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