Isiah Thomas

The two-time NBA champ, who went on to coach the New York Knicks and now coaches the Florida International University Panthers, talks NCAA versus pro hoops. “The preparation of the game is the same. The difference is that, in the NBA I coached against great athletes every night. Here in college, you may coach against one every 15 games,” he tells the Bottom Line Sports Show’s Gerald Brown. That’s how difficult it is to become an NBA player. And that’s how hard it is to win a basketball game in the NBA. People have no idea what really goes into trying to win that one basketball game.”