And he and my dad became like father and son. Isiah was that much older than me and came here and really, in that first year, kind of really moved in with us and was having dinner at our house every night. Then years later we drafted Isiah Thomas. You know, I was an 8-year-old kid, 9 years old, whatever. And I remember sitting at the Stage Deli with my father, Oscar Feldman, John Long and Terry Tyler when they signed their first NBA contract. ![]() ![]() Obviously, the team was really built around Isiah, but John Long was the first guy we drafted from U of D (Detroit) - he and Terry Tyler. But, you know, what I can tell you is this: The first guy we sort of got, that became part of that championship family - and this will give you an idea really the family that it was and how different the NBA was in those days - was John Long. Those guys had a different thing on the court, obviously.
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