Add this to the growing list of NBA players of the previous generation that criticizes modern stars.
The legend of the Pistons Isiah Thomas criticized LeBron James for heating without a shirt before the clash of the Lakers against the Rockets on Friday night at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
“I simply oppose this to this,” Thomas said in the NBA TV transmission. “If I were the GM, the coach would never go to one of my players who go on the floor like this. I mean we are [the] NBA Professional League. We are not summer leagues. Us in the YMCA. “
The images in the transmission showed James heating on the court with gray -free squid pants.
Thomas, who spent his entire 13 -year career with the Pistons, whom he took two NBA championships in the middle of a race in the Hall of Fame, believes that it is indicative or a lack of standards throughout the League.
“I think the professionalism in our NBA League has decreased a lot,” said Thomas. “Look, I like LeBron, I am a fan of his, so, and so on. But go to the floor before a game without a shirt and shoot, I mean a man. Where are we? What are we? Where are we?
Eighteen years ago, Thomas, along with Madison Square Garden, were at the Center for Care at the workplace when the two found sexual harassment against former Knicks employee, Anucha Browne Sanders, while Thomas was the team.
Thomas denied the accusations.
The demand was resolved and cost MSG $ 11.6 million.
James, playing in his 22nd season in the league, was preparing for his 12th game since he lost seven games with an injury to groin.