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Isiah Thomas is one of the richest Basketball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Isiah Thomas's net worth $100 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He would commute 90 minutes to leave his rough neighborhood to go attend St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois.
Under the guidance of coach Bob Knight at Indiana University, he helped lead the school to an NCAA Championship in 1981, where he was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
The youngest of nine children, Thomas was born on April 30, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the city’s West Side. He started playing basketball at age three and would dribble and shoot baskets as the halftime entertainment at Catholic Youth Organization games.
The next year, the 1980–81 season, Knight made Thomas captain and told him to run the show on the floor. Thomas responded so well that, as the season unfolded, Knight and Thomas grew as friends. When a Purdue player took a cheap shot at Thomas during a game at Bloomington, Knight called a press conference to defend his star. And 19 days later, when Thomas hit an Iowa player and was ejected from a game, Knight refused to criticize him.
Thomas quickly proved his skills as a player and became a favorite with both Knight and Indiana fans. His superior abilities eventually caused Knight to adjust his coaching style. Fans displayed bedsheets with quotations from the Book of Isaiah (“And a little child shall lead them”) and nicknamed him “Mr. Wonderful.” Because of Thomas’s relatively short stature for college basketball at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), coach Knight would call him “Pee Wee”. Thomas and Mike Woodson led the Hoosiers to the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen.
