Isiah Thomas loved to play road games, and the ones he could have been part of in 1980 might have been unlike any other in his career.
Much still gets made of how Thomas was famously left off the U.S. Olympic team — the first Dream Team — that won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with ease. But he could have been an Olympian 12 years earlier had the Americans not boycotted the 1980 Moscow Games.
Thomas, then a 19-year-old, would have been on that team. When the decision was made to boycott, he remembers crying.