After coaching Isaiah Thomas in both Sacramento and Denver, Nuggets coach Michael Malone offered some perspective on Thomas’s G-League comeback before his team took on the Celtics at TD Garden on Sunday.
The two-time All-Star, who has played in just 31 NBA games since the 2021 season, hasn’t given up his hoop dreams. That’s just who he is, Malone said.
“He’ll be playing in a gym somewhere when he is 60 years old,” Malone said. “I’ve been around the game a long time, been around a lot of players, and there’s not many players I can think of that love the game of basketball more than I.