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Asked about the fit between Williamson and Queen, Dumars more or less laughed off the concerns without addressing the specific strengths and weaknesses of the two players. "Just in general, the question in general, I always kind of chuckle when I hear people say, 'Well, can they play together?'" Dumars said, citing how "people questioned (Jayson) Tatum and (Jaylen) Brown" and then made a reference to his own playing career. "I was laughing this morning, like, I didn't know if I could fit with Isiah (Thomas) or not, but I knew we both had great IQs and we'd figure it out," Dumars said. "And sometimes you gotta let players figure it out. It can't just be, 'Well, they can't play together.'"

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Run It Back: "If they took MJ out... Would KD have won 6 championships? Absolutely." 🏆 Isiah Thomas says the Bulls would still have 6 NBA Championships if Kevin Durant replaced Michael Jordan 😱

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Run It Back: Isiah Thomas HATES whining like Luka Doncic's 👎 "I'm gonna call y'all generation the 'whiners.' Y'all whine a lot." IT cites the Pistons' mature reaction to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 'Phantom Foul' as proof 👀

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Run It Back: Isiah Thomas on the MVP Race: "It's a 2-man race... in terms of who's been the most valuable to their team, that's Jaylen Brown and Wemby." 👀🏆

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Coty M. Davis: #Pistons legend Isiah Thomas speaks at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral service in Chicago.

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Also coming back from the past: the studio team. Hannah Storm, Isiah Thomas and P.J. Carlesimo will handle a throwback version of “NBA Showtime” starting at 7 p.m. Eastern, an hour before the game broadcast.

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Their one potential downfall is that the core led by Cade Cunningham lacks playoff experience. In fact, Cunningham has just one playoff series under his belt, a seven-game playoff series loss to the New York Knicks last season. That doesn’t faze Thomas at all.

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“That’s not a concern at all,” said Thomas in a one-on-one interview with R.org. “They have know how and what I mean by know how, they know how to win. Cade Cunningham is possibly MVP of the league. They got (Jalen) Duren, who’s an All Star. They got (Isaiah) Stewart, who could be the defensive player of the year also. They’re covered in every area they got. They got great coaching.” “I just don’t think that lack of playoff experience will be a problem,” Thomas continued. “I think that the playoff experience that they got last year playing against the Knicks, they’re ready, and they’re primed to do big things.”

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Thomas is very high on Cunningham, referring to him as an “old-school” player. That’s the ultimate compliment from a guy that Michael Jordan once referred to as the second-best point guard of all time behind Magic Johnson. “Cade is an old school player,” said Thomas. “He’s a guy that can eat, he can eat his food without eating yours. Most players today want to eat their food and eat yours too. Not Cade. Cade eats what’s on his plate, and then he has the ability to share sometimes also.”

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Mark Aguirre, Isiah Thomas moved to tears before jersey retirement ceremony

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Earvin Magic Johnson: I want to congratulate Mark Aguirre on his #24 jersey retirement with the Dallas Mavericks. I met Mark and Isiah Thomas 45 years ago after they were drafted to the NBA - we formed a friendship and started training in my hometown Lansing, MI and their hometown Chicago, IL that summer. Mark was a triple threat on the basketball court and virtually unstoppable. Look at how good God is, all three of us now have our jerseys retired by the teams we played for - myself with the Lakers, Isiah with the Pistons, and now Mark with the Mavericks!

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Brad Townsend: Mavs say scheduled attendees for Mark Aguirre’s Thursday night jersey retirement include fellow jersey retirees Dirk Nowitzki, Ro Blackman and Derek Harper, along with Pistons great and lifelong Aguirre friend Isiah Thomas.

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Isiah Thomas: In no sports category, when we talk about track, we talk about tennis, we talk about football, baseball — the arguably best players or athletes in those sports, they hold the world records. You know, I know we talk about Jordan, but he leads in no statistical basketball category — but yet we say there's an argument about him being the best. But then when you look at Kareem, and you look at LeBron — those guys lead in several statistical categories — but yet we say somebody else is better. And, you know, I'm just giving you the evidence, right? Here's the evidence. And what — you know, 15 years from now, when the next generation comes along, and they talk about how great LeBron James was, and how great Kevin Durant was, and Steph Curry was — it won’t even be a conversation or a debate. Your generation right now is the only one... Y’all say we hating on y’all — y’all hating on yourselves! Every time we ask you who your top 10 is, you list 10 guys from the '80s. You don't list none of your guys.

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Run It Back: Isiah Thomas doesn't understand why Michael Jordan is still in GOAT convos with LeBron 🤯 "Y'all treat LeBron like he ain't noting...when y'all talk about the greatest, y'all talk about the guy that gave you some shoes."

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