Isiah Thomas - the wolves are circling
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Al Sharpton is demanding Isiah issue an apology for this comment he made in court.
In a videotaped deposition introduced at his sexual harassment trial, Thomas said: “A white man calling a black female ‘bitch,’ that is wrong with me. I am not accepting that. That’s a problem for me.”
But, asked whether he would be as angry if the same words came from a black man, Thomas said, “Not as much.” source
“I’m sorry to say. I do make a distinction,” Thomas said.
Al said he was going to lead protests at Madison Square Garden where the New York Knicks play.
Isiah as usual tried to weasel out of it.
Sharpton said that during their conversation Saturday, Thomas complained that his videotaped deposition had been edited in a way that took his comments out of context.
“I said, ‘Why have you not made that clear?’ He said, ‘Well, I’ve not been able to make it clear,’” Sharpton said, recounting the conversation.
At a news conference at the Knicks’ training camp in Charleston, S.C., Thomas said he hoped Sharpton would judge him based on “the facts” and not “the edited, spliced video that was leaked.”
Right. Believing that one. Oh, yes.
All of this came out in the recent Isiah court case that somehow Isiah weaseled out of getting in trouble.
A federal jury has decided that Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders over her harassment lawsuit.
Isiah continued with the weaseling.
When asked to elaborate, Thomas declined, suggesting he frequently had his comments misinterpreted by the media — including an infamous case in which he was quoted as saying that Larry Bird would be considered “just another good guy” rather than a mega-star, if he were black.
“You can’t say that. You can say what you didn’t say because if you say what you didn’t say, than y’all print what is said. That’s how you got me on the Bird stuff,” Thomas said. “Whenever you say something, it just twists it.”
Now we know as a basketball player how he got into the paint so easily.
He just weaseled his way in.
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