Isaiah Thomas was one of the NBA’s best players in the 2016-17 season, only a couple of years ago. He scored 28.9 points per game for the Celtics, leading the team to one of their best seasons this decade.
That season seems like a long time ago, however, after two unproductive and injury-plagued seasons have limited Thomas’s production and have brightened one of the NBA’s biggest stars.
However, Thomas isn’t ready to give up yet, and he’s joining the Washington Wizards on a one-year deal to try to reclaim his place as one of the league’s top point guards.
Thomas joins a Wizards team that was looking for a point guard after John Wall suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon earlier this season. In steps the 30-year-old Washington alum, who completed a long and grueling rehab process in February after a hip injury.
The point guard expects his newly-healed hip to allow him to prepare for this season normally, a step that Thomas considers to be very important. He explained that “Now I can go back to being a gym rat this summer, work on my game again and build my body back up — my muscle mass, my leg strength — all like I had going into the 2017 season.”
Thomas only played sparingly for the Nuggets last season, as he was unable to break into the rotation for one of the league’s top teams after being sidelined for most of the year.
Now, he’ll have a fantastic opportunity to re-establish his worth and become the perfect option for the Wizards for the duration of Wall’s absence.
