Young ball players can learn a lot from Zeeke especially when it comes to his ball handling ability. One of the purest ball handlers you'll ever see.

Lowkey had one of the best shooting forms in nba history

Love IT. He's slept on. Undersized guard who had crazy handles for his time and insane playmaking ability. He could give you buckets too. Easily one of the 5 best point guards of all-time. You should do his 84-85' season where he averaged 21 and 13.

Zeke crossed the shit out of MJ 🤣 8:45

The most impressive thing to me about Isiah was his play style. He would play a quiet game if it meant they were winning. But when he felt like offense was needed, he just took over. He had a different mindset every quarter. And they won a lot of games because of it.

Isiah Thomas was in the top 10 NBA players ever to lace up a pair of sneakers. EVER! If you watched him in Detroit you know he was superb on another level...and at 6'1".

As a Michigan native, thank you

My All Time Favorite Player! Controls The Court Like A Chess Board.

As a laker fan i hate the pistons but Isaiah Thomas highlights are filthy. Looking forward to this

Isiah Thomas was NOT ahead of his time; Isiah Thomas was 'The TIME'... the Pistons were 'THE TIME' and they have an era, time, culture, and framework that is the resource for championship formula for ages -- that's what Isiah Lord Thomas III established in professional basketball. All of those Pistons: Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, John Salley, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Mark Aguirre, James Edwards, and Rick Mahorn all have their own standard, culture, and legacy because that team and those players and coaches were trend-setters whom EVERYONE hated that was not a Pistons fan. The league HATED the Detroit Pistons and this is why they NEVER show those guys and that team destroying Jordan. The Detroit Pistons from 1989 and 1990 and even before, mentally broke the NBA.

Man as a true hooper/lover I love it

As a basketball super fan from Detroit you’re a legend for this 🔥🙏🏽

Would be dope if you could get his 1985 season when he averaged 21ppg 13.9 assist

Man i used to say as a kid Isiah was one off the best and till this day he was my top 5 point guards till this day facts.

About time i see a isiah thomas highlight reel from the bigger named KZfaq channel...Long overdue and glad that someone decided to put respect in that man name

He was doing that during the era where defense is more physical, 7 footers camping the paint in defense, ball carry are strictly called, 3 steps also strictly called and illegal screens are strictly called as well. Top-5 PG of all time, no argument.

@5:17 the way he deftly threw that elbow and disguised it as defensive protection was smooth af

GOAT SZN Zeke he’s a damn legend

Damn imagine if he played in this era of space and drop coverage he’d be like 25,11 a night💀💯

2nd best point guard of all time. Elite offense, passing, and a good defender.

ZEKE IS THE 2ND BEST POINT GUARD EVER IN THE MODERN NBA . IT IS THE BEST LITTLE MAN EVER .>🎤

My favorite player of all time. He's in the conversation with the most skilled players ever. If he wuz 6'6 he could've been the 🐐

Never realized how similar offensively him and Kyrie were

*Led a team that beaten Michael Jordan's Bulls, Larry Bird's Celtics, and Magic Johnson's Lakers ALL in one year.*

People don't understand that Zeke once went through Bird, Jordan, and Magic in their primes to win a championship. Again, he defeated Jordan, Bird, and Magic to win a championship. I'm 41 so I know the most vicious killers I've ever witnessed in the NBA are Mamba, Jordan, Bird, Iverson, and Zeke. Zeke has this cherubic smile but beneath that facade is the most vicious killer to ever come out of the bloody and merciless streets of the Westside of Chicago. I remember from 88 to 91, it was basically he and Jordan battling for NBA supremacy. Side note: Zeke is one of the few players to have a winning record against Jordan which is one of the reasons they don't fuck with each other, MJ hated the fact he couldn't beat Zeke how he wanted to and Zeke HATED the fact MJ was getting Chicago love in his hometown! LOL #IsiahLordThomas #BadBoys #DetroitBasketball #WestChi #Gangsta

I will tell ANYONE, show me where Magic Johnson off the dribble took folks 94 feet consistently to score from the three point line, jumpers in the paint, driving layups or slick passes against players as quick as him or even taller. Magic Johnson didn't have the one on one skills that Isiah Thomas possessed . Magic had incredible talent on all his teams and never had to do the things Isiah had to do to make his franchise great.

ITS...ABOUT...DAMN...TIME! Another goat szn. Finally!!!

The greatest little man to ever play! And it ain't even close.

thanks for the upload! isiah thomas one of the point GODS

I love how everyone was “ahead of their time” 😂ppl didn’t just start hoopin

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO

Been waiting for this 🔥

What is hardly ever mentioned is how Isiah used to abused taller guards and forwards off the dribble and in the paint. I never once saw 6-9 Magic Johnson block a shot by 6-1 Isiah Thomas. In fact, I never saw 6-7 DPOY winner Michael Cooper do it either.

POR FIN GRACIAS BRO ❤️ ERES EL MEJOR ME ENCANTAN TUS VÍDEOS 👍🏼👌🏼🔥

Love the greats getting their shine! Keep up the videos

We needed this bro

This gonna be 🔥

I have Isiah as #1 point guard all time. Those handles 😮

I can still hear George Blaha...with a scoop and a score!

Zeke is kinda cursed for being the archenemy of black Jesus, but you can't deny the talent, the fight, the greatness. One of the absolute best.

Can’t wait for this

Thank you for this important video. Lots of folks trying to erase Zeke from NBA history.

Greatest clip channel of all time!!!!

Amazing!

My fav player of all time and i grew upnin chicago during Jordan rivalry

Awesome!

Most say that AI is the best small guard ever but its either Thomas or Stockton. I give the edge to Thomas. Two rings. Should've been 3. Definitely deserved to get 1 season MVP.

Can't believe he used to punish the great Magic and Bird an a young Mike Zeke was unstoppable

He was so good at PG. Greatest skills to play for the Pistons.

You had to see Isiah to believe it. He would control entire playoff games, at 6'1" 180lbs. The other team would surge, Isiah would score 9 straight points and disrupt them. He would grab a loose ball, he would trap a player late in the clock and force a desperate shot. He would take a rebound away from a power forward. He was all over the court and an absolute nuisance on defense. His teams beat Magic, Bird, Jordan, Dominiqe, Ewing...all in the same years. Nasty? He simply greatly outplayed his coverage and won. Some people didn't like that e.g. fans in L.A., Boston, Chicago and New York. So Isiah was "nasty" because he won against their favorite teams and players. He also simply punished and humiliated Stockton and Jordan when they had to cover him. People should go back and look at the tapes and the stats. There is an old saying in Detroit. "Ball don't lie." Isiah was simply extraordinary on another level, even on another level of HOF caliber players.

I'm a Magic Johnson/James Worthy/Kareem fan from the old school Lakers, but when they played the Pistons and Isiah, deep inside I always rooted for Isiah. What he did to get to the NBA earned him a mini movie. I remake needs to be made.

Michael Jordan was so mystical that Isaiah Thomas never beat Michael Jordan.

Been saying Isiah was a better player than Ai for years

His running one handed shots are so smooth.

Stacey Augmon, Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, Latrell Spreewell, Stephon Marbury... 😃

Yayyyyyyy finally

He's a top 5 PG ever. Arguably even better

Wow the amount of spacing they gave him. Stephen curry would be accused of witchcraft if he had this spacing in this era.

Love to see my man Zeke finally getting some appreciation! Best point of all time

Isiah was the third-best player of the '80s, behind Magic and Bird. A legend.

The very best, for sure. Everything a Point Guard is supposed to be

How is this possible at 5'9? Hes was supernaturally overpowering bigger guys as a skinny pg. So underrated

Love you

Hope this includes some Indiana highlights, Zeke lead teams to championships at every level.

Isiah is VASTLY underrated today as one of the GREATEST players ever to play the game. Partly 1) because of the media bias against him over his disputes with the worshipped Jordan (Thomas having stopped him even more than Bird and Magic in the 80's), partly 2) because of the Stephan A. machoistic small-minded mindset in sports media today on the number of rings as a qualifier of great players which thinks that two (had a third stolen from him by a bad NBA referee's call) championships are "not enough" (as if basketball is still not a team sport with people winning who would never have on other franchises and even then, when giants of the game with some of the best players and resources of their time at their disposal and with multiple chances at winning championships like Wilt and Jerry West only won ONE ring each and even then ONLY when they were together!), and partly 3) due to the unconscious assumption that as a small point guard, there is no way he could have dominated any of the other "Goat" candidates, other all-time great teams or even the era he played in, but they're wrong because that's exactly what he and his possibly-greatest-defensive-team-of-all-time Pistons did (see Michael Jordan 1987-1990)! Lastly, as an older fan with a love of basketball handling skills and knowing how great Magic and Bird were with the ball, the mantle of ball wizardry on the court that I SAW passed before my own eyes was from Pistol Pete Maravich to Isiah before going on to J Will and Steph and Kyrie today, just as Chris Broussard says here, hence helping to change the way the game is played forever, too, something media talking heads are too dense to appreciate today as a value of "greatness" in contribution to the game (and why Julius Erving should be included in all this nonsense about who was "the best ever!" if this conversation should be had at all, especailly since most of us agree it was MJ after all's said and done, thereby highlighting Isiah's achievements against him and his Bulls even more so). In short, a unique, original and extraordinary talent and yes, LEADER who deserves to be remembered as a mythical icon of this game, too, "up there" alongside the other all-time Greats. facebook.com/foxsports/videos/the-top-5-nba-handles-of-all-time/10156923944874552/

PEAK ISAIAH THOMAS#11(STATISTICALLY) IS 1984-1985 ISAIAH THOMAS#11 ..

Isiah Thomas would be a 3x Champion if the Lakers didn't cheat in Game 7 of 1988 Finals

I don't think that most average fans realize just how talented Zeke was. I don't think I did, and I watched this team in my youth. What could he have accomplished in today's era of basketball that plays very weak defense.His toughness, ability to go to the rack at will. Would be something to behold.

I see a lot of Tony Parker watching these highlights.... Another slept on guard that was a flat out winner!

I idolized his skills when I was a kid... Loved watching him play and The Bad Boys were a force to wreck with... Great childhood I had...

simply the BEST

He was like a combo of Stockton and iverson

You can't be dismissive of those 88-90 Pistons. They kept Jordan at bay three years in a row.

Isiah was superb.

No wonder why Jordan and others hate zeeke to this day

Isaiah Was so tuff

so cool seeing Sal, too...love that guy! 🫡

A legend.

Joe Dumars gotta to be next for this one

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

My 2 favorite players of all time are Isiah Thomas and Shawn Kemp. They share that spot equally for me.

One of the "Plumbers" that MJ played against lol.

I could watch Zeke all day.

BACK TO BACK, AND YA GOTTA LIKE THAT!!!!! BAAAAAD BOYS!!!! YEAH!!!

I believe Isiah Thomas would even outduel Dwayne Wade offensively and defensively! 💯😎😁👏🏿🙌🏿

Isiah told Sleepy Floyd, night night 🌃

Isiah Thomas was legendary from the time he was on the greatest McDonald's All American team ever to his championship Detroit days, he was the standard many teams tried to duplicate Example, the only NCAA champion to win all their tournament games by double figures was the 1981 Indiana Hoosiers. One of the greatest defensive teams of all time were the champion Bad Boys. The MOP and MVP of those title teams was none other than Isiah Thomas.

Legend

Jordan, David Stern, David Faulk (Jordan’s agent), and countless advertisers kept Isiah off of the Dream Team because they wanted Jordan to headline the NBA’s introduction to the world without any interferences from a globetrotter like dribbler and passer who’d amaze the crowd and steal the spotlight from Jordan.

He changed his game as far as shooting less, sacrificed points/ highlights for getting others involved which helped their development, Joe D, Salley, Rodman all benefited from his sacrifices and playmaking. Sacrificed his popularity helping turn the pistons into the bad boys from 88-91 with two chips, it was no coincidence that his last all nba team was 87 before they made the finals and were at the height of their powers. Stockton stared making the all nba 1st or 2 me team when Isiah was that for 5 straight years but he turned a lot of people in the off and I think that’s one reason he was snubbed from the all nba teams in his finals and championship years from 88-90. His numbers were better than Stockton, KJ and other guards outside of MJ and Magic except assist and steals and his teams were winning the East or championships. He was easily a top 6 guard during those years for an all nba team imo. He was a winner high School, NCAA and the nba.

Finally

When he lost that automatic jumper in 1991 it was really over for him and Detroit still lived watching him play in 92 and part of 93 though

NO YOU DID NOT!!!!! NO YOU DIDNT !!!!!! Been waiting a couple years for this omfgg

LaMelo's a taller Isiah with bounce in his hops. Isiah has changed the Pistons culture in how basketball's presented.

Imagine if the Bulls drafted him. MJ at 2. Scottie at 3. Yeesh. Rodman later at 4. Zeek and MJ would have had 10 rings

💪🏾

Great work again. Hated the Pistons..... but Zeke was the truth!!!

Dude so slept on its crazy

1979 McDonald's All American Game, winning team led by Isiah Thomas. 1979 gold medal game in Pan AM Games, MVP, Isiah Thomas. 1981 Midwest Regionals MOP, Isiah Thomas. 1981 Final Four MOP, Isiah Thomas 1984 NBA All Star Game MVP, Isiah Thomas. 1986 NBA All Star Game MVP, Isiah Thomas. 1990 NBA Finals MVP, Isiah Thomas. He was the MVP of the 1979 Gold Medal game as a graduated high school player He won multiple MOP Awards as a college player He won multiple MVP Awards as a NBA player . GREATNESS!

It wouldn't've been a AI,Kyrie,Tim Hardaway,D Rose and many others if it wasn't from Isiah Thomas he raised the bar for 6 foot guards with crazy handles,shooting and driving to the basket