ISIAH THOMAS HOSPITALIZED FOR OVERDOSING ON SLEEPING PILLS!

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had to get his stomach pumped!

I just saw the report on MSNBC. ESPN website, however, reports that it wasn't Thomas though the Knicks spokesperson could neither confirm nor deny theidentity of the person who was taken from Isaiah Thomas' home.
 
LOL @ nobody giving a rats %+*

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at this being funny
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but still dude must be depressed or some **@%. Serves him right
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They said on ESPN Radio it's being reported that he downed about 10 Lunesta pills...
 
If he ain't in charge of the Knicks anymore, why would he want to kill hiself?

D"antoni is the one I'd be worried about.
 
I guess working with Jerome James, Boseph, Curry Goat, and Marbury will do that to ya....all jokes aside, I hope he gets thru this....*+!$ the knicks, I'llALWAYS remember him for what he did as a Piston.
 
I've never been a big fan of Isiah, whether as a player, coach or exec, but this is sad. I hope he gets through it.
 
on the local news, it was said that it was his daughter taken to the hospital...who knows????
 
[h1]Person from Isiah Thomas' home rushed to hospital after drug overdose[/h1]
ESPN.com news services

Updated: October 24, 2008, 5:12 PM ET

NEW YORK -- Authorities say an ambulance was called to the suburban New York home of former New York Knicks basketball coach Isiah Thomas, and someone from the home was taken to a hospital for an issue involving Lunesta, a prescription sleeping pill.

Harrison police chief David Hall told ESPN.com's Henry Abbott that an ambulance responded to a 911 call early Friday, though he declined to name the person involved.

"I can not confirm or deny the identity of the person, but someone was transported to White Plains hospital, and I do not know what happened after that," Hall said.

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Reports of sleeping pills are false. He doesn't take sleeping pills. He's doesn't really take anything that's not organic.
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-- Isiah Thomas' son Joshua, to the New York Daily News
Barry Watkins, vice president of communications for Madison Square Garden, told The Journal News newspaper, "Isiah is fine."
"I can tell you that the prescription pills involved were Lunesta," Hall said. "There were two other people in the house, one of whom had called 911. I don't know if it was a housekeeper or who it was, but it was not Isiah Thomas' wife. When we got there, the person was unconscious, but breathing.

"We administered oxygen, and then when the ambulance arrived, they transported the person to White Plains Hospital."

Hall told the New York Daily News the victim had taken 10 pills.

The Daily News also reported the victim was 46 years old. Thomas is 47.

The Daily News reported Thomas' 20-year-old son, Joshsua, said the the issue surrounded his sister, Lauren, an 18-year-old who suffers from hypoglycema and was feeling ill.

"He's fine," Joshua Thomas said of his father, according to the Daily News.

"Reports of sleeping pills are false," Joshua added. "He doesn't take sleeping pills. He's doesn't really take anything that's not organic."

Joshua Thomas told the Daily News his father and sister were resting at a Greenwich, Conn., hospital.

"He looked faint from stressing over her," Joshua said, according to the newspaper. "They sat him down, let him drink some water. He's fine."

The Knicks had no comment. A message left with Thomas' public relations agency wasn't immediately returned.

Harris Emergency Medical Service declined to confirm what happened, citing medical privacy laws.

Late Friday afternoon, a small SUV escorted by a police car pulled into a private road leading to the luxury development in Westchester County where Thomas lives, about 30 miles from midtown Manhattan.

Thomas purchased the house on Azalea Circle in Purchase for more than $4 million in 2004, according to the Journal News.

Thomas was fired from the Knicks on April 18 after presiding over perhaps the most dismal era in the history of the franchise.

In the past season alone, Thomas was found to have sexually harassed a former team employee, feuded with point guard Stephon Marbury and benched center Eddy Curry -- the players Thomas acquired in the two biggest of a number of moves that never panned out.

He was serenaded nightly with Garden chants of "Fire Isiah!" When he was dismissed, his record in New York was 56-108. Overall, he is 187-223 as an NBA coach, leading the Indiana Pacers to the playoffs in three straight years from 2000-03.

Thomas was hired as the Knicks' team president on Dec. 22, 2003. The Knicks made the playoffs that season, getting swept by New Jersey, but haven't gone back despite their high-paid lineup.

Still, Garden chairman James Dolan remained confident in Thomas, making him coach in June 2006 after firing Larry Brown following one season.

As a player, Thomas was one of the NBA's great point guards, winning NBA titles with the Detroit in 1989 and 1990. In college, he led Indiana to a national championship in 1981.
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When I saw this story not to long ago, I was thinking there would be a couple of good jokes that this could be a setup for, but then I declined to make them onhere until he was healthy again. Leave it to NT to get em.
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It probably was one of those Marilyn Monroe type OD conspiracies.
 
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