For whatever reason, people never really took to Isaiah Thomas. And by people we mean fans and his NBA contemporaries.
Thomas was legitimately great, possibly the best little man in the history of the game. And when you think about how many players that takes in - Nate Archibald, Alan Iverson, Calvin Murphy, John Stockton for starters - that’s saying a lot.
He was that good though, and still deeply disliked.
Michael Jordan and Reggie Miller couldn't stand him. The Boston Celtics couldn't stand him. The Dream Team made sure he wasn’t on that team. He was good friends with Magic Johnson until Johnson believed that Thomas was spreading rumors about how he contracted HIV (Johnson believed that Thomas was telling people that he was bisexual).