As I sit here right now, I can't say how many games we'll win or what position we'll end up in. [Last season] was a very unpleasant taste in my mouth and the players' mouths. They're committed to getting better, but we'll see. We just want to be better than we were last year.
"As player:"
* 2× List of NBA champions/NBA champion (–)
* Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award/NBA Finals MVP (1990)
* 12× List of NBA All-Stars/NBA All-Star (–)
* 2× NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award/NBA All-Star Game MVP (, )
* 3× All-NBA Team/All-NBA First Team (–)
* 2× All-NBA Second Team (, )
* NBA All-Rookie Team/NBA All-Rookie First Team ()
* J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (1987)
* NBA assist champion/NBA assists leader (1985)
* List of National Basketball Association franchise career scoring leaders/Detroit Pistons all-time leading scorer
* No. 11 Detroit Pistons#Retired numbers/retired by Detroit Pistons
* 50 Greatest Players in NBA History/NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
* List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball champions/NCAA champion (1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/1981)
* NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player/NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1981)
* Consensus first-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/All-American (1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/1981)
* Template:USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year/USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (1980)
"As coach:"
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous athletes! More Isiah Thomas on Wikipedia.My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
John is doing the best job that he possibly can do with the situation that he was dealt with. I have great respect for him and I wish him and the Bulls' organization nothing but success.
Our goal is to win a championship. That's the only goal.
We should be extremely careful not to give him something that he doesn't have and not to keep putting him in a light of a patient or someone who is sick, because doctors have cleared him and checked him out and said that he doesn't have a condition. We need to be extremely sensitive to him and not keep saying that he has this because clearly he doesn't.
He checked out fine. They found it was more or less him being tired and him not eating.
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