Updated with better video.
Why is anyone surprised that he ordered a hard foul against the Nuggets that sparked the brawl in Madison Square Garden Saturday night? Doesn't anybody remember when he ordered the freeze-out of Michael Jordan in the All-Star game when Mike was a rookie in 1985? Or how he orchestrated the walk-off when the Bulls beat his Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals in 1991? No hand shake, no sportsmanship at all. And now you act surprised when he tries to blame George Karl and the Nuggets for something he started? Here's what George said about all that.
Once a punk, always a punk. Here's further proof found on wikipedia:
In 1992, Thomas was passed over by the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team (popularly known as the Dream Team). Some believe that Thomas was left off because he was aging and his skills were declining. Others felt Thomas was snubbed by the team because Michael Jordan did not want him on the same team due to their bitter rivalry in several playoff battles, which included the much-discussed freeze-out in the 1985 All-Star Game and the Jordan Rules for defending Jordan, as well as the behavior of Isiah and his teammates after Jordan led the Bulls past Detroit in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals, and bad feelings over a 1989 fight between Thomas had with Bulls center Bill Cartwright during a nationally televised game. In addition, after the first 10 players selected for the Dream Team were announced, Jordan's Bulls and Olympic teammate Scottie Pippen labeled Thomas a cheap-shot artist and said he wouldn't play on the Olympic team if Thomas was one of the two players added to fill out the squad.
