If we asked the family who has anyone employed in the NBA, what’s the biggest drawback of that job, they’re probably going to say the moving. Players, coaches, trainers, even ball boys not only travel between home and road games, but their lives could be uprooted by one decision of the front office. Even a franchise player like Isiah Thomas couldn’t escape that fate. While he spent his entire NBA career with the Pistons, his post-playing career was most unstable. He was a new father when he was also expanding the NBA to the Great White North and later coaching while building a business empire. His kids remember Coach Zeke or business mogul Isiah Thomas more than a 2x NBA champion. And not all of that was pleasant.

His son, Joshua Zeke Thomas was born in 1988, during his first title campai

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