{"id":2997,"date":"2007-12-13T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/isiah_thomas_on_the_difference_between_figurative_and_literal.html"},"modified":"2007-12-13T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:00:48","slug":"isiah_thomas_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/isiah_thomas_on.html","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Thomas On The Difference Between Figurative And Literal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a hold of yourself, man, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/12\/sports\/basketball\/12knicks.html?ex=1355202000&#038;en=4dc38f626b025291&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">it&#8217;s just a dumb game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>His back to the wall, his personal space consumed by cameras and microphones, Isiah Thomas breathed deep and dutifully navigated a dozen questions over 11 minutes Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to win our fans back,&#8221; Thomas said, vowing that the Knicks were up to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, it&#8217;s win or die,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I literally mean death. I don&#8217;t mean walk away. I mean death. That&#8217;s how I approach it. And we got a job to do here, we&#8217;re going to get it done. I&#8217;m confident we got the right players, I&#8217;m confident we got the right people, and we&#8217;ll dig our way out of this.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a hold of yourself, man, it&#8217;s just a dumb game: His back to the wall, his personal space consumed by cameras and microphones, Isiah Thomas breathed deep and dutifully navigated a dozen questions over 11 minutes Tuesday afternoon. . . . &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to win our fans back,&#8221; Thomas said, vowing that the Knicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}