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A doubter's two-way street doesn't have to stay open. Whoever is doing the doubting is lacking somewhere — there's a hole in their heart, and they try to fill it by pulling someone else down to their own decrepit block, begging them through hateful words to get trapped on that miserable street.
Self-belief can weigh in. It turns the doubter's two-way street into a dead end, plants an Olympic-sized ramp on a gymnast-level trampoline in that dead end, and the doubted rocket off into the stars.
That's what Isaiah Thomas did with the Boston Celtics. He launched himself high over the doubters, haters and skeptics, landing in a place where his game will be remembered forever.
The “Mr. Irrelevant” nickname — handed to him for being the 60th and final pick in the 2011 draft — never stuck. A 5-9 point guard who believed in himself enough to average nearly 30 points a game in the NBA.
Read it again.
At 5-9, Isaiah Thomas averaged nearly 30 points a game over the course of an entire NBA season.
Anything is possible.
SLAM 208 dropped just after the King in the Fourth sucker punched the whole League with a barrage of off-the-bounce jumpers, photon-quick drives to the rim and unbelievable clutch performances. He was the Celtics' entire offense that season, and everything was geared to let this spiritual giant flourish as much as possible.
And how about this quote from I.T.'s cover story?
“My job is to make people eat their words,” Thomas told SLAM.
All those doubters are certainly feeling plenty full.
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