The Suns are going to be that team, the one that gives Isaiah Thomas the opportunity to play with something more than temporary contracts in this repeated attempt to return to the top of the NBA. The point guard finally not only has a place in a squad but can be a contender for the title in the decisive phase of the tournament.
Journalist Shams Charania He noted that he remains on the Phoenix squad until the end of the course. For this reason, he will take an amount close to $300,000 gross, this being what matters the least for his career at this moment.
The Suns give room to a player who has resisted testing other waters, such as Europe, being confident that this option would end up being presented to him in the NBA. Since the weeks before the coronavirus pandemic he got into a spiral of injuries and you hope that now he is going to try to patch it up.
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Thomas will be able to help, to the extent that Frank Vogel and his assistants consider it, Durant and the two outsiders who complete these Suns with so much talent and also severe doubts, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. Not only his quality as a player but his experience with so many stars has been valued.
Those 53 points at the Garden were his highest peak as a player and came in an Eastern Conference playoff. And on the birthday of his sister, who died shortly before, with the supposed sentimental component.
Isaiah will join two Lees, Saben and Damion, those mentioned above, and two more players in the shooting guard position, Grayson Allen and Eric Gordon, in a team that lost direction with the departures of Paul or Payne, game directors who helped in the last serious attempt to win the title to date.
A path of thorns without roses for Isaiah Thomas
A 1.75 meter point guard always has a weakness when playing basketball. For this guy from Tacoma, not so much. He had already stood out in Kings and Suns, precisely the team that welcomes him now, as a substitute. The typical one who knows how to revolutionize games with speed and points. Would he succeed at the next level? Well of course. In Boston he fell in love with the faithful, who are difficult to demand in a franchise that he has won so much, both for his continuous history of improvement and for the great games he gave them. But he injured his hip for the first time, then more came, and that’s where the ordeal began. The Celtics traded him for Kyrie Irving and in the Cavaliers, next to a LeBron who would soon go to the Lakers for other duties, he was no longer the same. He also tried there a year later and nothing. In the Nuggets and nothing. At the Wizards and nothing. And the pandemic arrived and his name was lost. His hip injury had worsened and he had joined others of lower rank. He entered the spiral of development league and NBA calls only for short contracts – he played in Grand Rapids Gold in two stages – and there he stayed. He ignored the siren songs from the Euroleague (CSKA, for example): only NBA, only NBA, only NBA. This year, already 35 years old, the Jazz affiliate in the G-League called him and he came out: 32.5 points and 5.3 assists, with 44% in triples, in four games that opened the door for him to something else. And now it’s his turn to jump into the ring in Phoenix to see if that Isaiah from 2017 is still among us.
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2024-04-13 11:32:43
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