John Salley: Magic, Not Jordan, was the Reason Isiah Thomas Didn't Make the Dream Team (Part 4)

I remember everyone was talking about Isaiah and Michael. Isaiah was just mad at Michael, he said, "Try to ice him. I'm not going to give him the ball. Not in Israel. Well, there was a problem between Isaiah and Michael. Do you want to know what the problem was?" the problem is fine right now exclusive on speed Isaiah is going home and his nephew was away in a Bulls jersey Michael Jordan posters it's fine, he said hey, what are you doing in Chicago? This is my

team

. This is his nephew. He doesn't really understand that he is the great Isaiah Thomas. place from Detroit we don't use that we use this but I'm from Chicago I agree with the bull move Isiah was mad about it not with Michael personally in his brain every time I play against this guy I'm Try to get it, I'll try to get out so my nephew can see that this is the jersey, see we're never on Michael, well what's up with the whole

dream

team

situation?

That was the craziest thing because when you hear the story in MAGIX words. Magic says in his document that he was the

reason

Isiah

didn

't

make

the team well because a story now circulating is that Jordan said he wouldn't play on his

dream

team if Isiah Thomas was on that team, that's not true, no, he loved. playing loved Isiah for real still loves him all that is just a myth loved Isaac loved everything about us in Detroit was on the night of the fight this is my this is my mouth my house my first television show the John Salley show Michael come on, I'm going to choose I'll bring him from the hotel in 1988 and I'd bring him back to my set to film it, I'd get him some food and I'd bring him back to the hotel.

I would trade my tickets with Scottie and Horace because they have people in Detroit and they never give me two tickets. when I went to Chicago like outside, now it's LeBron and him, you see, we had the same things, the people you were cool with, dial Walker was always my man Ron Harper when I go to Cleveland, I go to Ron's house, he takes me back so I can get on a bus and then he killed me tonight we were playing, but these, you know, we have relationships off the court, but

magic

and the

magic

documentary says magic because he got upset when Isaiah said because there was no way Stockton was the Best thing is, I'm glad you put it in Chris Molly.

I'm from Brooklyn. Well, he has to tell me that he chooses a team. I'm pretty much Chris Mullin first anyway. Christian Laettner goes instead of shooting that I was political or in that

part

, but. magic said he blocked it Michael doesn't have a Michael Michael doesn't even talk, look that's another thing, the things that are different now is that Michael

didn

't have conversations about it, what time do we play, you know, he plays well, you play for the bad boys and you had to back to back, yeah, championships, yeah, and you guys are really shutting down Michael Jordan until Pippen got exactly right until you decided that Pippen was going to be more, he was going to play more and be more involved because we're back.

The Bulls aren't even a conversation and then my sophomore year they brought in two young guys to emulate Dennis and I wrote, but they're both better shooters. Horace is more structured than me and he plays longer than me. I am, but then Scotty wasn't an anomaly, this was what we don't know what to do with this, like Joe was our best defender before you brought MJ here so Joe has to play that or if you put Dennis on them , who will put it? Dennis had to play to remember that we had to go through our ad transition because my coach was going to have to try God, and that's a DS that will give you numbers, check the stats, it's that we had a better team that they want to have. a much better team when Scotty was given more responsibility and changed when Phil took over.

The second year in charge was when he realized that the propaganda was saying things in the paper about us being bullies and not playing basketball the right way, same with Johnny. Moses said, but then when you talk to James Worthy, the real bad boys, what Celtics, because they can do whatever they want, okay, I mean, because people couldn't, you know, they felt that you guys played dirty, yeah, they felt which, um, that's how it was. It's so funny because Phil Jackson said that, but if you look at it, this is the funniest thing when you see the toughest fouls, the toughest players and everything they put Rick Mahorn in there, of all of us they put Dennis Rodman to play, but you see everyone else.

You'll see how tough all these other teams Shaq Itzel Unseld Bob Lanier they go back to those days when you come to paint this is where the men are that mentality, you come in here high flying man will put you on your back it's one foul, that was a mentality, they stopped something called breakaway file after Scottie Pippen, but it was a rule that guys were going to

make

a layup, what did you do, what a stand to say, make it get to the foul line, it's a hockey. Hit him if you're going to come in here, don't just foul him, foul him to block the shot, don't ruin his run, undermine his legs, but everyone up here has to take that hit.