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Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn and Dennis Rodman handed out the bruising. Isiah Thomas ran the whole operation. He gave away inches and muscle to those three, and it rarely mattered.
Point guard was the job title. Handing out assists and hitting the late shot? He did both. He also smiled wide, dribbled past people who should have stopped him, and kept his voice low whenever a microphone appeared. Before tip-off he would trade a kiss with Magic Johnson. A friendly floor general, then?
Don't buy it.
On the court Thomas was merciless, foot on the gas every night, pushing his teammates toward the next hard foul and picking at weaknesses until they cracked. Scoring wasn't the real assignment. Getting inside heads was.
Detroit wrote its own rules and ignored everyone else's, the NBA included. Led by the meanest of the Bad Boys, the Pistons took back-to-back titles at their peak.
SLAM's 75 Before '94 project ran alongside the NBA's 75th anniversary celebration. Our magazine started in 1994, so decades of brilliance went uncovered, and the series was our nod to the stars who never landed a SLAM cover.
Thomas has one now, printed on a new SLAM Hardwood Classics cover tee cut for youth.
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