Isiah.

This man is by no means my hero, and he isn't even close to someone I do want to succeed, but I also think that over the past 25 years there are few people whose story is more compelling than Isiah Thomas'.

I am not skilled enough without research to really see what the story is, but I do know off the top of my head that he won at least 1 Illinois State Championship while growing up in Chicago in High School. Then he goes on to Indiana to lead a Hoosier team to a National Championship under Bobby Knight in 1981.

After all that success, he moves on to the Pistons where he is an All-Star, captain, and leader of one of the most iconic NBA teams in history, the Bad Boys who managed to win 2 Championships until they were ousted by the World's Greatest Basketball Player of all time, Mike Jordan.

From there, it gets completely screwed up...a guy who won all the time, and always managed to take all the things that didn't make sense (2 hour commute in HS, undersized, poor, fish out of water in Indiana, no real amazing jumpshot, etc...)

He moves to the Raptors and actually drafted Stoudemire, Camby and McGrady, who, if they all stayed, may have made a formidable team...but he was disliked and the team struggled.
Then, as we all know, he Ruined, Destroyed, and COMPLETELY dismantled the CBA, which SHOULD have worked as the NBA's minor league...

From there, he completely ruined a Pacer team that was stacked and on the way to a great stretch of years, and that was hilarious to watch... I remember the c's beat them in '03, and it was clear isiah was really on the middle of his downfall. The Knicks stuff is stuff we all know, horrible contracts, players, teams, and sexual abuse and assult...

Now he is at FIU. There is a part of me that really believes he is going to make it work. How can you be such a winner for the first 35 years of your life, then unravel all that in the next 20? Its completely amazing to me - I can't wait to see what the next chapter in the Isiah story really is...