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Isiah Thomas faced serious backlash for his comments about Larry Bird in 1987: "I was accused of being a racist, and I'm a bad guy now"
Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons were embroiled in a controversy in 1987. It all stemmed from Zeke's comments on Bird, in which he said that if the Celtics star was black ...
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Isiah Thomas on why they didn't help Laimbeer up after getting mauled by Parish during 1987 ECF: "It's not like we didn't like Laimbeer, it's that we were afraid of Chief"
The NBA playoffs during the 1980s featured lots of physicality and bad blood, especially when the games involved bitter rivals like the Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons. In Game 5 of the 1987 ...