{"id":402793,"date":"2023-02-07T20:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402793"},"modified":"2023-02-07T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:53:50","slug":"isiah-thomas-to-join-phoenix-suns-in-front-office-role","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/isiah-thomas-to-join-phoenix-suns-in-front-office-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Thomas to join Phoenix Suns in front-office role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA TV sports analyst and hall-of-fame point guard Isiah Thomas is joining the Phoenix Suns in a front-office role with the team according to Chris Haynes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Phoenix Suns new owner Mat Ishbia intends to bring on Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas to have a prominent role in the front office, league sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBAonTNT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BleacherReport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1623124044932386816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old Thomas is most notably known for his hall-of-fame career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was a two-times NBA champion, NBA Finals MVP, 12x NBA All-Star, 5x All-NBA, NBA Rookie First Team, and an NBA Assist Leader.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas doesn\u2019t have any front-office experience but the last time he was part of an organization was when he was the head coach for the New York Knicks between 2006-2008.<\/p>\n<p>He was 56-98 as head coach of the Knicks and before that he coached the Indiana Pacers and had better success where he was 131-115.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA TV sports analyst and hall-of-fame point guard Isiah Thomas is joining the Phoenix Suns in a front-office role with the team according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402795,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727,17172],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Thomas doesn\u2019t have any front-office experience","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402793"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402793"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}