Last Dance feud renewed as NBA great Isiah Thomas unloads on ‘a**hole’ Michael Jordan

The decades-old beef between Isiah Thomas and Michael Jordan lives on.

The Pistons legend made it clear that he isn’t backing down from his long-standing feud with the Bulls icon with out an apology whereas discussing Jordan’s ESPN docuseries, “The Last Dance.”

On Tuesday, Thomas took to Twitter to share feedback he made to the Greek NBA rights holder COSMOTE TV through the Abu Dhabi NBA video games final month, when he was requested about how his relationship with Jordan was portrayed within the documentary.

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“When I was watching ‘The Last Dance,’ I’m sitting there and I’m watching it with my family and I’m thinking everything is good,” he stated, per Euro Hoops. “And then this guy comes on television and he says that he hates me and then he calls me an a–hole.

“And then I proceed to watch a whole documentary about him being an a–hole. I’m like wait a minute, time out. Until I get a public apology, this beef is gonna go on for a long, long time, ’cause I’m from the west side of Chicago.”

In “The Last Dance,” which premiered in April 2020, one of many storylines depicts the rivalry between Thomas’ Pistons and Jordan’s Bulls within the late Eighties and early ’90s. Thomas additionally seems within the sequence.

Jordan, within the documentary, known as Thomas an “a–hole” whereas reflecting on the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals when the Bulls swept the Pistons — and within the closing recreation of that sequence, Pistons gamers, together with Thomas, infamously walked off the courtroom with out shaking fingers whereas there was nonetheless time on the clock.

Jordan stated Thomas’ rationalization for strolling off earlier than the buzzer seemed like “bulls–t” through the documentary.

“Whatever he says now, you know it wasn’t his true actions then,” he stated. “He has time enough to think about it, or the reaction of the public has kind of changed his perspective of it. You can show me anything you want, there is no way you can convince me that he wasn’t an a–hole.”

It was lengthy believed that Jordan then saved Thomas from taking part in on the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, giving Rod Thorn — the GM of the workforce — a him-or-me ultimatum. Jordan denied that was the case within the documentary.

This isn’t the primary time Thomas has mentioned his feud with Jordan.

In July, Thomas took to Twitter to name out a narrative by The Inquisitr explaining the origins of his rivalry with Jordan — and the longstanding idea that the Pistons legend froze him out of his first NBA All-Star recreation in 1985.