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Date: 30 April 1961
Amer Press Inst seminar set, Columbia U; list
Isiah Lord Thomas III ( eye-ZAY-ə; born April 30, 1961), also known as "Zeke", is an American former professional basketball player who is a current analyst for NBA TV and Fox Sports. He played his entire professional career for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, Thomas was a two-time NBA champion, an NBA Finals MVP recipient, a five-time All-NBA Team member, a 12-time NBA All-Star with two All-Star Game MVP awards and the 1985 NBA assist leader. He was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams, and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000. From 2000 to 2012 he coached the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks, and FIU.
Thomas played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers, leading them to the 1981 NCAA championship as a sophomore and declaring for the NBA draft. He was taken as the second overall pick by the Pistons in the 1981 NBA draft, and played for them his entire career, while leading the "Bad Boys" to the 1988–89 and 1989–90 NBA championships.
Following his playing career, Thomas was an executive with the Toronto Raptors, a television commentator, the owner of the Continental Basketball Association, the head coach of the Indiana Pacers, and an executive and head coach for the New York Knicks. He later served as men's basketball coach for the Florida International University (FIU) Golden Panthers for three seasons from 2009 to 2012. Thomas was a president and part owner of the Knicks' WNBA sister team, the New York Liberty, from 2015 to 2019.
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Date: 30 April 1961
Amer Press Inst seminar set, Columbia U; list
Date: 30 April 1961
Special to The New York Times
Ground broken for new plant
Date: 30 April 1961
Assn with London Sunday Times and Toronto Globe and Mail reptd
Date: 30 April 1961
LESTER D. LONGMAN
Prof Longman on doubt voiced by some artists, museum personnel, art critics, profs and teachers about views they formerly held supporting abstract expressionism, action painting and neo-dadaism
Date: 30 April 1961
excerpts from editorials
Date: 01 May 1961
Columbia Journalism Alumni Awards to J Crist (NY Herald Tribune), R Frank (NBC) and O Gramling (AP)
Date: 01 May 1961
Special to The New York Times
Ousted from Haiti as 'inherently antagonistic' to Pres Duvalier
Date: 01 May 1961
Special to The New York Times
AP and NY Times offices still occupied by militia
Date: 30 April 1961
By LEWIS FUNKE
Lewis FUNKE