Isiah Quotes

You watch some of those videos with Magic, Larry (Bird), Isiah and even John Stockton in 2003, and those shorts were short. I don't know if it's ever going to revert back to that again, but you never say never. - Mark Madsen

You have no idea how it hurt. It finally was coming together. That night (against All Saints) -- it was amazing. They heard everything I said. - Isiah Thomas

You don't have players on the team that can't play a style that's comfortable for the coach. Isiah and I understand that. He knows the guys I like in the league. It's not easy to make trades. My job is to find out what these guys can do and if they can do the things we think will help us be a good team for the long run. - Larry Brown

When you have players that have been injured for some time, you have to find a way to move on and make the roster better. If Allan was to come back and regain his form, then it's an added bonus. - Isiah Thomas

When I was announced as the Olympics coach, I thought that was the single greatest honor I could ever have, but I think standing here in Madison Square Garden with Isiah [Thomas] and my family here, this tops it all. - Larry Brown

When I came here, the first thing that was told to me was that we had players nobody wanted, couldn't trade any of the contracts. As we stand here today. . . . we have draft picks, we have players people want and the contracts that we have in place are pretty reasonable contracts for the talent level we have. - Isiah Thomas

When I came here, the first thing that was told to me was that we had players nobody wanted, and we couldn't trade any of the contracts, and our average age was 30-plus. It was deemed as an impossible situation. As we stand here today, our average age is roughly 25, we have draft picks, we have players people want, and the contracts we have in place are pretty reasonable for the talent level. - Isiah Thomas

We're all kind of at a loss where the breakdown came. I know we have a great coach. I know we have good players. It's just a matter of those things meshing. - Isiah Thomas