Isiah Thomas has responded to Charles Oakley after he called him out over comments made about the Michael Jordan docu-series The Last Dance.
Last month, Thomas asked for an apology from Jordan for some of the unflattering things he said in The Last Dance, which debuted on Netflix in 2020. “Mike do not wanna be your friend,” said Oakley in a clip of an interview with Showtime Basketball. “Now you’re trying to say everybody better than Mike. It’s okay, you not better than Mike. He came to your city and took your city. That’s why you’re really mad. He took over Chicago, I know.”
Thomas was less than impressed with what Oakley had to say and decided to offer up a response via Twitter. "I remember us kicking your ass a lot, someone please check my record vs any team he played on!" the former Detroit Pistons star wrote alongside a retweet of the clip. "Sit down be Humble."
I remember us kicking your ass a lot, some one please check my record vs any team he played on! Sit down be Humble
He shared a follow-up tweet where he reiterated his credentials as a Chicago native. "I grew up on the westside sometimes with no house to call my own, I never had the ego to call a city mine," said Thomas, who was part of the Pistons line-up that eliminated Oakley and Jordan with the Bulls from the 1988 playoffs. "You are not from Chicago that’s why you think that way."
I grew up on the westside sometimes with no house to call my own, I never had the ego to call a city mine. You are not from Chicago that’s why you think that way.
In an interview last month, Thomas made it clear he was no fan of Jordan. "You get on national television, and you call me an asshole. And then you said you hated me. You said that on national television," Thomas said in a Showtime Basketball interview. "Now, if you didn't mean it, get on national television and apologize for it. Now, if you meant it, let it ride as it is."
The two have been at odds for decades at this point, and the real issues appeared to have kicked off after Thomas and the Pistons refused to shake hands with the Bulls after they were knocked out of the 1991 NBA playoffs. "Whatever [Thomas] says now, you know it wasn't his true feelings then," Jordan said in The Last Dance. “You can show me anything you want. There's no way you can convince me that he wasn't an asshole."
