After all signs pointed to Isaiah Thomas as the organizer of Boston’s all-black affair on Friday, the Celtics’ All-Star said he and his teammates didn’t intentionally wear black on black for Game 6 against the Wizards.
Isaiah Thomas insists Celtics wearing all black to Game 6 was coincidence
Nice try, IT. Not getting away with this one.
“Second thoughts, no. I wear black all the time,” Thomas said, as a cheek-to-cheek smirk emerged. “I was the first one in the gym, too, so I didn’t see anyone else wearing black.”
Asked if it was a coincidence, Thomas replied: “I guess so. Call it what you want.”
That doesn’t look like a man telling the whole truth, but Thomas’ teammate, Avery Bradley, agreed — it just so happened that everyone was wearing black.
“It was kind of something that just happened,” Bradley said, according to the Washington Times’ Nora Princiotti. “I had on black. [Terry Rozier] looked at me and said, ‘Man, he had on black.’ And we looked around the locker room and everyone had on black. We didn’t plan it, it just happened.”
Planned or not, the matching colors didn’t help Boston get a victory.
Thomas and each of his teammates showed up to Game 6 in Washington wearing all-black. It was a not-so subtle retaliation at the Wizards, who appeared in all-black for a Jan. 24 game later dubbed “The Funeral Game,” one Washington won handily.
Unfortunately for the Celtics, they couldn’t bury the Wizards. Instead it was John Wall, who drilled a go-ahead three-pointer with 3.5 seconds remaining to lift Washington to a 92-91 win to force Game 7 in Boston.
“I ain’t going home,” Wall said during his immediate post-game comments. “Don’t come to my city, wearing all black, talking about it’s a funeral.”
This series has one game left, and it’ll be the end of the road for whichever team comes out on the short end of the stick. Let’s just put the all-black attire to rest for this season.
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