Earlier this week, former NBA Champion Isiah Thomas hung up on ESPN Radio’s Keyshawn, JWill, & Max after the show’s television simulcast showed a picture he didn’t appreciate. 97.1 The Ticket’s Mike Stone said it might have been a slight overreaction.
“I’m looking at my picture and, come on, Keyshawn! Y’all doing that to me?…This the picture y’all gonna put up of me? What y’all doing at ESPN to me? Come on, man. That ain’t right,” Thomas joked. “What’s wrong with y’all? Why you doing this to me? Y’all should just take that down. Pictures say a lot. And the way y’all got me cast in this picture. That ain’t me. How ’bout this? I’m gonna hang up and call back in two minutes and thirty seconds, and y’all put a different picture of me up.”
During Stoney & Jansen on 97.1 The Ticket, the Detroit host argued that the former Detroit Piston wasn’t done dirty by the photo.
“I didn’t think it was that bad of a picture,” Mike Stone said. “I understand that in certain situations there are certain connotations of African-Americans when they put their picture up and if they look a different way than they think they should be portrayed, and people think it’s racist or whatever. This was not. This was just a picture of Isiah, and he just didn’t have the smiley Isiah face we’re used to.”
Co-host Jon Jansen then asked if there was a photo used for Stone on an appearance on Bally Sports Detroit that could elicit the same reaction from Stone. The longtime host admitted there was one photo of him that he would prefer not to be used, but did not elaborate further.
