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Disgraced former Knicks coach and executive Isiah Thomas resurfaces as the new head coach at Florida International University.
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" This is a very exciting day. From myself. My family. My new family my FIU -- Recognized a couple players sitting in the back. Obama you went to class this morning. And afterwards I hope you. In the weight. We want to win and we understand that winning is a process. We understand that takes work. It takes a lot of commitment. Going to be allowed. Going to be a lot of depth. To be more -- than that. But we understand the work that's ahead of us and we also understand the commitment that we must hat to win me. To take this program to the next. It's quite talents. All of us all we need you know community. -- OF IU fans to be involved and stared. As we climb up the wrote. In as -- one day hopefully. Take this program to where. The more established programs. Spent a lot of time talking coat tonight. Coach K. About how do I guess. Indiana again started. And the first thing. -- it to me who has. You remember his first three years -- do and I believe he was almost fired sport here. And he he recruited -- Downey thoughts. In everything changed from. And I think we have a couple of Johnny Dawkins right now sitting here. That needs to work a little harder. It's get in the weight room need to go to class. Who we can build a program here. We can be at a very exciting basketball programs here -- rolling up -- How like taken something from the bottom and trying to be -- it to the top. There's a lot of risk and that he has a lot of reward and but that's how I grew. And grew up on the west side of Chicago. And I came from nothing. We were below the poverty line so I understand what it's like to work car and what it feels like not to -- So would that be instead. I want to take after I used to the next level I know it's going to take a lot of hard work. But I'm willing to pay the price to do that now all of students. I wanted to take this right witness."
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