Michael Wilbon clarifies his statement on Isiah Thomas, Dream Team

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A big storyline in the Michael Jordan documentary "The Last Dance" was the belief that MJ played a central role in keeping Isiah Thomas off of the Dream Team. The Detroit Pistons' Hall of Fame guard was still a highly productive player—averaging 18.5 points per game in the 1991-92 NBA season— when the Dream Team was being put together in 1992.

In "The Last Dance", Jordan maintained that he never explicitly told Chuck Daly and the rest of the Team USA selection committee to keep Thomas off the team, but multiple accounts from different sources stated that Thomas had his various issues and run-ins with different members of the Dream Team leading up to '92 and due to that, there were likely more "anti-Thomas" voices in the room than just Scottie Pippen and MJ. Michael Wilbon was one of those sources, stating that up to nine members of the Dream Team opposed the Pistons legend being added to the roster. This week Wilbon took some time out to clarify.

On Monday night, Wilbon reported that multiple sources told him his account of "nine players" being opposed to Thomas being on the Dream Team was wrong and that "nowhere near that number objected. Former Bull and five-time NBA champion Ron Harper, for one, did not care much for the clarification.

Harper seems to have strong feelings about the past being the past in terms of the Isiah Thomas-Dream Team discussion but nonetheless, Wilbon made sure to get his apology put there, adding some clarity to one of the more interesting controversies in league history.

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