Isaiah Thomas: 'NBA is a game of opportunity'

Isaiah Thomas, selected by the Kings with the 60th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, is one of the three best scorers of Sacramento with more than 20ppg.

Thomas spoke with SheridanHoops’ Mike Scotto.

“I always tell people the NBA, I think, is a game of opportunity. Once your opportunity comes, you’ve got to take it and run with it. My opportunity is here and I’m trying to do the best I can to not look back. We’ve got enough talent to compete with anybody in the NBA and other teams know that,” Thomas told SheridanHoops. “But we’ve just got to be a consistent basketball team end to end and bring our hard hat every day, work hard, play together and, at the end of the day, have fun. We’re so up and down, that’s the thing that kills us. One game we might play very good and then the next day we don’t, we’re a totally different team. I think once we get more consistent, that’s going to help us out a lot.“The culture has changed since the new ownership and new coaching staff has come in this past year,” Thomas told SheridanHoops. “It’s only going to change for the better. Like I said, the ownership and coaching staff is doing everything they possibly can to change the culture in the locker room, to change dudes’ mindsets of bringing back the winning ways that Sacramento used to have. I think we’re headed in the right direction.”

Thomas spoke also about his future: “You’ve just got to look at all the pros and cons in each situation,” Thomas told SheridanHoops. “Being around Sacramento, that’s a pro for me just because I know what it’s been like and I know the direction it’s going. I’ve just got to make the best decision for myself and my family and go from there.”