Isaiah Thomas

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We got a Seattle legend on the show this week as Isaiah Thomas joins Q and D on Knuckleheads. The scrappy guard looks back on dominating hoops despite his height, who he looked up to in Seattle, and what it was like putting on a show at the University of Washington. IT discusses his NBA journey from last pick in the 2011 draft to superstar on the Celtics. He also talks about his injury, the long recovery process, and working to get back in the league. Tune in!

Balling out at Washington (15:34)
Buzzer beater in the Pac-10 championship (18:46)
Draft night, being the last pick in the NBA draft (24:42)
Getting traded to the Celtics, not being happy about it (38:40)
2016-17 season, averaging almost 30 and leading the Celtics to the 1 seed (46:40)
His iconic 53-point playoff performance (52:52)
IT’s injury, recovery journey (59:00)

About Our Hosts:

NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.

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0:00.0	First of all man we appreciate you coming on the show with us man your story from
0:05.8	watching from start to finish man is inspiring like man you proved everybody wrong
0:11.9	every time so we can't do nothing but root for you man
0:14.9	every time you get your opportunity man but we really appreciate you being on the show
0:18.5	with it bro so thank you rocking with it man I appreciate it this is you know legendary to be around you too
0:24.2	especially two guys that you know I looked up to while I was growing up so I
0:28.0	appreciate it. When you first got to the league who was the first person to bus your
0:32.1	uh... to the first person to bust your ass.
0:35.0	Damn when I first got to the league.
0:40.0	The first person, ah, dang, that's the, it was Curry for show.
0:48.8	Curry was, because the end they had that Bay Area little rivalry.
0:54.0	And they, and when I first got to lead Curry,
0:56.4	the warriors wasn't really good.
0:58.0	Like, that was kind of on the fence of being good.
1:00.3	So like, that was one, that was a tough one. But we had a tough one but we had our battles like we had
1:04.6	our battles but yeah yeah he got me he got me a few times until I tried to slowly
1:09.3	start figuring it out then my opportunity came more.
1:12.8	So that was the thing like he was getting me and I couldn't get back at him because I was...
1:17.0	Like he didn't get me a few and then I'm getting subbed out type thing.
1:20.0	They don't understand that a person gets 20 shots you get five.
1:24.0	It's over.
1:25.0	So once my opportunity to start coming, I started to get my get back.
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