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Doubt never has to run in both directions. Someone who spends their energy doubting another person is missing something inside — a hole in the heart they try to fill by dragging others down onto their own beat-up block, using every hateful word they can find to keep them stuck on that street.
Self-belief gets a say here. It can turn that two-way street into a dead end, then stack an Olympic-sized ramp on a gymnast-level trampoline at the end of it and send the doubted rocketing off into the stars.
Isaiah Thomas did exactly that with the Boston Celtics. He launched himself over the doubters, the haters and the skeptics and landed somewhere his game will be remembered forever.
He wouldn't let the “Mr. Irrelevant” nickname stick — a label he earned only because he went 60th and last in the 2011 draft. The 5-9 point guard believed in himself enough to average nearly 30 points a game in the NBA.
Read that again.
At 5-9, Isaiah Thomas averaged nearly 30 points a game across an entire NBA season.
Anything is possible.
SLAM 208 landed right after the King in the Fourth had sucker punched the whole League with off-the-bounce jumpers, photon-quick drives to the rim and unbelievable clutch performances. That season he was the Celtics' entire offense, and everything was built to let this spiritual giant flourish as much as possible.
And how about this line 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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