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Added Barkley: "I didn't care who was on the team...I know that Michael and Scottie didn't want him on the team, but I like Isiah Thomas. I've never had a problem with him. CSN Chicago

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Lang Greene: Charles Barkley just told Jim Rome he had no part in the Isiah Thomas Dream Team freeze out. Twitter

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Dion Cocoros, one of the executive producers of “The Dream Team,” the excellent new documentary that premieres tonight on NBA TV, helped dig up that footage. In an interview with Keeping Score, Cocoros talks about how he got all 12 Dream Team members to sit down for interviews, why Isiah Thomas, the most prominent player left off the team, didn’t want to talk, and how the NBA would be different without the Dream Team. How did this project start? We knew the 20th anniversary of the team was approaching, and we also knew that we had this great archival footage because we had followed the team back in 1992. It was a project that we knew eventually we were going to undertake. It was just a matter of getting all the players together. Time

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Granik pointed to an incident at the end of the Bulls/Pistons playoff series that year where Thomas led his teammates off the court before the final buzzer even sounded. That kind of sportsmanship and image was not what the NBA wanted to project to the world. NBCSports.com

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Former Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas is pilloried in a new documentary that celebrates the 20th anniversary of the 1992 “Dream Team’’ in which he was purposely left off. The 90-minute production - produced by Right Guard - airs Wednesday night on NBATV. In a sneak preview shown at The NBA Finals for media Monday night, Michael Jordan reveals one of the “stipulations’’ for him joining the Dream Team was having his Pistons rival not included but claimed the sentiment also came from the top. New York Post

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Jordan’s Bulls teammate, Scottie Pippen, also said he didn’t want Thomas on the club. “I despised how he played the game,’’ Pippen said of Thomas. Pippen charged that Thomas spearheaded Detroit’s “Bad Boys’’ and incited the rough play. “Isiah was the general,’’ Pippen said. “He was the guy who would yap at his teammates and say 'Kick them on their ass. Do whatever you have to do.' No, I didn’t want him on the Dream Team.’’ New York Post

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The film also details the Bulls' stars dislike for Isiah Thomas, who was left off the team, and Jordan's bonding with the late coach Chuck Daly on Monte Carlo golf courses during training camp. Chicago Tribune

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Isiah Thomas said Friday he isn't through with basketball and would like to be a college coach or in the NBA again. Thomas was fired as Florida International's coach in April after compiling a 26-65 record in three seasons. He previously coached in the NBA with the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers and served as the general manager for the Knicks and Toronto Raptors. "I definitely want to be in basketball again whether it be coaching or as a general manager," Thomas said by phone. "My gift is basketball. I would love working with the kids. If it's the right college program, I would consider it. If it's the right GM job or coaching job in the NBA, I would consider it. I love the game. I just want to be in the game." ESPN.com

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Thomas would not comment on whether he's had conversations with the Knicks about a potential position with the team. "I have great friends in the organization," said Thomas, a two-time NBA champion and 12-time All-Star with the Detroit Pistons. "A lot of them I gave them their first job opportunities in the NBA. The owner and I have a very good relationship. It's an organization I will always root for and will always want them to do well because they're all personal friends of mine." ESPN.com

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Hall of Fame point guard and Chicago native Isiah Thomas said Friday he plans to reach out soon to Derrick Rose as the Chicago Bulls star recovers from knee surgery. “The best thing I can say to him is all of us Chicagoans, we have a never-say-die attitude,” Thomas said by phone. “We come on hard times, and injuries don’t stop us.” ESPN.com

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The only Woodson linkage causing concern to Knicks fans is Woodson’s ties with former Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas, his former teammate at Indiana. Woodson had dinner with Thomas last month in Westchester. But The Post has learned Woodson has no plans of including the unemployed Thomas as part of the coaching staff or in an advisory role. New York Post

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Jared Zwerling: Isiah Thomas is very friendly and cool. He was about to board his flight but stepped away to talk longer. Crazy how much hate surrounds him. Twitter

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After that, it gets ugly. For as bad as Jordan's teams have performed (their total winning percentage is .369), he's actually only third from the bottom of our list. Elgin Baylor was the suit in charge of the Los Angeles Clippers for 22 years, a period in which he compiled a .349 win percentage. During his tenure, the Clippers won just one playoff series. As for the absolute worst: that honor belongs to Isiah Thomas, who worked in the front offices of the Raptors and the Knicks. He left the Raptors after clashing with management, then flamed out as an executive (and eventually head coach) of the Knicks. His struggles recently followed him to the college ranks, where Florida International fired him as its head basketball coach earlier this month after three seasons. Wall Street Journal

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That external silence, however, is in direct contrast to the loud protests from his players and others close to the program because of another record: 11-2. That's Thomas' success rate for graduating players over the past three years. It is as impressive compared to the average graduation rate among Division I men's basketball players as a winning percentage of .285 on the floor is woeful. "He could've brought in a lot of people to talk to us about basketball," said senior guard DeJuan Wright, who is on track to raise that record to 12-2 this spring. "But he was bringing in professors and counselors to talk to us about life and how to be successful off the court. He did so much for us off the court. We grew as men." ESPN.com

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"He didn't promise we'd win anything," said sophomore starting forward Dominique Ferguson, whose request to transfer after Thomas' firing was denied by the school. "He just promised that I'd graduate. He made us wear suits to every game, even to home games, when we'd just be wearing them from the dorm to the gym. When I asked why, he said, 'Always be professional because you never know when someone's looking.' He stressed stuff like that more than the on-the-court things." Wright, who is expected to graduate this spring with a liberal arts degree, wrote the letter of protest that his teammates co-signed and sent to school president Mark Rosenberg. Both Wright and Ferguson had read and heard about Thomas' travails before he became their head coach. "I've never seen the guy they talk about and I've read about," Ferguson said. "He's been nothing like that here. We'll be more mad about it than coach will be when something comes up. But that he can be above all that has taught us something else: Every opinion doesn't matter." ESPN.com

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Stunned by their school's decision cut loose Isiah Thomas last Friday afternoon, members of the Florida International basketball team found a clever way to support the fired coach. As a speaker introduced a highlight video from FIU's season at Monday night's end-of-the-year banquet in the team's honor, the Golden Panthers got up from their table, walked in a single-file line in front of the podium and exited the building en masse. Yahoo! Sports

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Thomas told ESPN.com senior writer Andy Katz he was stunned by the firing. "This is the most surprising thing that has happened to me in basketball," Thomas said. "I never been fired before for basketball reasons. This is the first time. "When I was in Toronto, I was trying to buy a team and I left. When I was in Indiana, Larry Bird told me that he liked what I was doing but he was closer to Rick Carlisle. The whole thing in New York was crazy. This is the first time someone told me that I was being fired for basketball reasons." ESPN.com

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FIU announced the decision earlier Friday in a simple three-line statement. "We want to thank Isiah Thomas for his three years here at FIU," Garcia said. "However, we have decided to take the program in a different direction." Thomas' former players, though, are not pleased. "Everyone really, really took it hard," DeJuan Wright, FIU's leading scorer this past season, said Saturday. "It hasn't settled in. Besides basketball, everyone from top to bottom on our team looked up to coach Thomas. He has really helped us as men. I know that's cliche to say, but it's really, really true. He's really helped all of us as men, in the classroom and making sure we're doing the right things." ESPN.com

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Woodson said he has not had a chance to speak with Isiah Thomas since the former Knicks executive/coach was fired by Florida International on Friday. Woodson and Thomas were college teammates at Indiana. New York Post

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Dolan, according to sources, feels badly that Thomas became the face of the Garden’s highly publicized sexual harassment case after a jury ruled in favor of a former female executive and determined that MSG was a hostile working environment. New York Daily News

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