It’s not a secret, Boston Celtics all-star guard Isaiah Thomas still has some less than pleasant feelings about the Phoenix Suns organization. Thomas spent the first half of the 2014-15 season with Phoenix as the Suns hoped to bring a three-headed point guard monster to the NBA. Thomas, Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic were supposed to split lead guard minutes and do some serious damage. Long story short, it didn’t work. Fast forward two years and Isaiah Thomas is striving with the Celtics, and he’s been named an NBA All-Star two years in a row.
The Suns faced off with the Celtics in Boston on Friday night and Phoenix guard Devin Booker exploded for a historic 70 point performance. As Booker was inching closer and closer to every record in his way, Phoenix started to commit fouls and call timeouts, despite being down double digits. It was an apparent effort to get Booker as close as he could to some scoring marks. It was a strategy that Thomas did not enjoy.
Check out what IT had to say after the game, according to Mass Live’s Jay King.
“We won the game. We’re worried about the playoffs, and they’re worried about the lottery,” Thomas said. “You’ve gotta tip your hat off to Devin Booker. I mean, 70 points in Pro-Am in some cities is a lot of points. Seventy points in any league is a hell of a game. It’s just how they did it at the end, and you can’t even be mad at the players. It was different.”
Unfortunately for Thomas, Suns head coach Earl Watson does not care for his complaints, according to Chris Forsberg of ESPN.
"It’s about letting our kids be great. You got a problem with that? Do something. Simple as that.” pic.twitter.com/j344RQVftz
— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) March 25, 2017
