Following an eventful — and emotional — 2017, the rollercoaster ride for Isaiah Thomas continued into the New Year. Playing just 15 games with the Cavaliers, the 5-foot-9 point guard was suddenly traded to the Los Angeles Lakers at the NBA trade deadline in February, landing him in his third city in just over six months.
Thomas was visibly distraught after he learned Boston had traded him to Cleveland in August — and, at one point, went as far to say he might not ever talk to the team’s president of basketball operations Danny Ainge — but the 29-year-old seemed to take the news of the second trade a little better.