Remembering the night Isaiah Thomas took over
We reflect on Isaiah Thomas’ legendary performance in Game 2 and dive into other big playoff stories.
Isaiah Thomas captured the imagination of everyone with his 53-point performance in Game 2 of the Celtics’ win over Washington.
In less than a week, Thomas delivered a series closeout against Chicago, a eulogy at his sister’s funeral, and underwent six hours of oral surgery while scoring 86 points in two playoff wins over the Wizards, the latter of which came on what would have been his sister’s birthday.
It’s staggering.
Paul Flannery gives us more on the scene from an emotional night in Boston. John Gonzalez is in Oakland for the Warriors’ series with Utah and he has more from Game 1.
Mighty I.T.
Flannery: The moments that sustain I.T.
Cato: Isaiah becomes a legend
Medworth: I.T. paints another masterpiece
Celtics Blog: An inspiration
Also on the pod (apologies for the audio blips.)
- The basketball stuff in the Celtics-Wizards series is also compelling. The C’s can’t get their starting lineup right and the Wizards can’t sustain huge leads. Something has to give in Washington.
- Gonz thinks it’ll go back to Boston all square. Flanns isn’t so certain.
- Game 2 was the best game of Terry Rozier’s career. There. I said it.
- Moving on, Game 1 in Oakland was ... not as compelling. The Dubs ran Utah off the floor and it was about what you’d expect. (We’re declaring this a Clipper-free zone, by the way.)
- Poor Rudy Gobert.
- Shouts to the Warriors for already being petty about Utah’s social scene and the Jazz for the inspired Nightlife t-shirts.
- We also dove into Gordon Hayward’s future.
