Isaiah Thomas Had His Mentions Flooded With Angry Tweets After Viewers Of ‘The Last Dance’ Confused Him With The Player He Was Named For

The NBA basically belonged to the Celtics and the Lakers in the 1980s before the Bulls came to own the league for the majority of the following decade after Michael Jordan established himself as the most dominant player to ever grace the hardwood.

Sandwiched between those two dynasty eras was a brief transitional period that saw the Pistons step into the spotlight, as Detroit represented the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals for three consecutive seasons and won back-to-back titles after coming up short against Los Angeles in their initial championship series.

The Pistons began to establish themselves as a force to be reckoned with right around the time Jordan was doing the same and we were subsequently treated to one of the more memorable rivalries the league has ever seen featuring some absolutely vicious battles for NBA supremacy.

Dennis Rodman was one of the “Bad Boys” tasked with enforcing the “Jordan Rules” Chuck Daly instituted to shut the superstar down, and while the iconic defender would eventually find himself on MJ’s good side in Chicago, the same can’t be said for Isiah Thomas, who had his name permanently etched on the legend’s shit list as a result of their heated meetings.

Thomas would’ve been a member of The Dream Team if Jordan hadn’t stepped in to make it clear there was no way in hell that was going to happen, as His Airness refused to get over a feud that arguably culminated when his foe refused to shake his hand after the Pistons were swept by the Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals in 1991.

Jordan addressed that incident in a recent episode of The Last Dance, where he did not mince words when reacting to the explanation Thomas provided while attempting to justify the perceived snub.

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1254609521185394689

It would appear there are plenty of people who share Jordan’s sentiment and many of them were more than happy to let Thomas know how they feel about him in the form of some angry tweets he’ll likely never see because they were addressed to a point guard who was still balling on a  Fisher-Price hoop when the bad blood first started to boil.

Isaiah Thomas has done a pretty damn good job living up to the legacy of the man he was named after, and while he does have plenty of things in common with the man who inspired his moniker, they are, in fact, two different people.

They do, however, have nearly identical Twitter handles, a fact that was apparently lost on a number of people who directed their ire at the wrong recipient after watching The Last Dance on Sunday.

https://twitter.com/BeYourself_TRWF/status/1254618641141829633

https://twitter.com/Indiswish/status/1254602959335370753

 

The younger Thomas was forced to remind the many people who attacked him for disrespecting Jordan that he was still at a point in life where he routinely took a dump in his pants when the man they’d intended to tag first began to spar with MJ.

Thankfully, that tweet cleared up all of the confusion and no one ever made the same mistake again—except for all of the impressively stupid people who replied to it directly with a message intended for the person Thomas made it clear he is not.

https://twitter.com/EdGeX10/status/1254642717298049024

I probably should’ve seen that coming.