New point guard acquisition Isaiah Thomas was blindsided by the trade that brought him from the Boston Celtics to the Cleveland Cavaliers, which was finalized last week — but as much as he understands the nature of the business, he doesn’t necessarily think his former team made the right move.
In a piece for The Players’ Tribune, Thomas detailed his feelings after finding out he was traded and the aftermath of the trade, noting how the Celtics might not have gotten better after netting Kyrie Irving on the deal.
“It’s not that I don’t understand it. Of course I get it: This is a business,” Thomas wrote. “Danny is a businessman, and he made a business move. I don’t agree with it, just personally, and I don’t think the Boston Celtics got better by making this trade. But that’s not my job. That’s Danny’s. And it’s a tough job, and he’s been really good at it. But at the end of the day, these deals just come down to one thing: business.”
The 5-foot-9 dynamo will have to wait a while to prove his point, as he deals with a hip injury that might complicate more than first advertised; making the teams’ standing at the end of the season the real telltale of who ended up as the immediate winner of this blockbuster transaction.
“So it’s no hard feelings on that end,” Thomas added. “I’m a grown man, and I know what I got into when I joined this league — and so far it’s been more blessings than curses. I’m not sitting here, writing this, because I feel I was wronged. I wasn’t wronged. It was Boston’s right to trade me.”