Nope http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3662310 PURCHASE, N.Y. -- Authorities say an ambulance was called to the suburban New York home of former New York Knicks basketball coach Isiah Thomas, and someone from the home was taken to a hospital for an issue involving Lunesta, a prescription sleeping pill. Harrison police chief David Hall told ESPN.com's Henry Abbott that an ambulance responded to a 911 call early Friday, though he declined to name the person involved. "I can not confirm or deny the identity of the person, but someone was transported to White Plains hospital, and I do not know what happened after that," Hall said. Barry Watkins, vice president of communications for Madison Square Garden, told The Journal News newspaper, "Isiah is fine." "I can tell you that the prescription pills involved were Lunesta," Hall said. "There were two other people in the house, one of whom had called 911. I don't know if it was a housekeeper or who it was, but it was not Isiah Thomas' wife. When we got there, the person was unconscious, but breathing. "We administered oxygen, and then when the ambulance arrived, they transported the person to White Plains Hospital." Hall told the New York Daily News the victim had taken 10 pills. The Daily News also reported the victim was 46 years old. Thomas is 47.
Just curious and off topic but are prescription pills part of the "War on Drugs"? Everyone talks about illegal substances like weed but legal drugs can do just as much harm as the harder illegal drugs.
I wonder if he is trying to sleep off his bad contracts he gave to folks. Curry and Jerome James are living good.
Damn, 10 tablets. Sounds like a suicide attempt, can't see Zeke doing that but thats a lot of pills just to get a good nights sleep.
The guy pretty much destroyed his career in NY, and now is out of basketball. Gotta be tough to swallow!
I wonder what made him lose sleep. He got his $$$ while destroying a NBA franchise. Sounds like he was living the dream
The government is run by corporate elites, who don't profit off drugs like weed. However, pharmaceuticals are privatized even though prescription drugs harm or kill infinitely more people than weed does.
Isiah throws his daughter under the bus. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_isiah_thomas NEW YORK – A suburban police chief likened the conflicting accounts of an accidental overdose at Isiah Thomas' home to a "cover-up" and rebuked the former New York Knicks coach Saturday for saying it was his teenage daughter who required treatment. "It wasn't his daughter," Harrison Police Chief David Hall told The Associated Press. "And why they're throwing her under the bus is beyond my ability to understand." Authorities were called early Friday to Thomas' Westchester County home, where police said a 47-year-old man was taken to the hospital and treated for an overdose of sleeping pills. Several media outlets reported that police confirmed it was Thomas who went to the hospital. But reached on his cell phone Friday, the 47-year-old NBA great told the New York Post he had not been treated for a sleeping pill overdose, and that it was 17-year-old daughter Lauren who had a medical issue. It "wasn't an overdose," he told the newspaper. "My daughter is very down right now. None of us are OK." Hall forcefully refuted Thomas' statement. "My cops ... know the difference between a 47-year-old black male and a young black female," Hall said.
I don't know what the true story is here, but maybe the media should ease up on him. Who knows what might happen.
espn reporting it was zeke WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Officers who responded to Isiah Thomas' home after a 911 call reporting an overdose on sleeping pills found a man passed out on the floor and gave him oxygen until an ambulance arrived. Authorities have not publicly identified Thomas as the victim, but a person familiar with the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official police report has not been released, has confirmed it was the former NBA star and Knicks coach. Reports of an ambulance taking a person from Isiah Thomas' home to the hospital after an overdose of sleeping pills still differ widely as to what happened, writes Henry Abbott. Hopefully we'll get some clarity soon. Blog On Tuesday, Harrison Police Chief David Hall provided new details about last week's emergency in which officers were handed a bottle of prescription pills at Thomas' Westchester County home. Hall said the bottle had a name on it, but he would not disclose the precise medication. He said police called the overdose accidental because there was no suicide note and no indication the victim suffered from depression. ESPN.com's Henry Abbott reported that the medication was the prescription drug Lunesta. Hall continued to criticize Thomas for not acknowledging he was treated for the overdose and for saying it was teenage daughter, Lauren, who had a medical issue. "As parents, you try to protect your kids; you don't say they did something when it was you who did it," Hall said. "We know the difference between a 47-year-old man and a teenager." Thomas' spokesman, Jesse Derris, said, "This continues to be a private family matter and the family respectfully asks for privacy." A call to Knicks spokesman Jonathan Supranowitz was not immediately returned. Thomas, fired as coach last April, still works for the team. Some of the latest details about the Thomas case were first reported by Newsday. Hall said the 911 call made late Thursday from Thomas' multimillion-dollar home in the Purchase section of Harrison went first to state police, then to Harrison. Harrison police on patrol nearby got to the scene first, saw a 47-year-old man on the floor and went into "standard operating procedure," Hall said. They administered oxygen until an ambulance crew arrived and took over, eventually lifting the man onto a gurney and taking him to White Plains Hospital. He said it was his department's first call to Thomas' house. An emergency services log, with the names of the caller and the patient blacked out, indicates the ambulance arrived at the house minutes before midnight. Hall said someone at the house gave his officers a prescription bottle, and the officers gave it to the ambulance crew so the hospital doctors would know about it. They then searched the house for other medications that might have been involved but found none, he said. As a player, Thomas won NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990 and an NCAA championship with Indiana in 1981. He joined the Knicks as the team president in 2003 and became coach in June 2006 after Larry Brown was fired. He was fired as the Knicks' coach April 18 after a season of dreadful basketball, a tawdry sexual harassment lawsuit and unending chants from fans demanding his dismissal. Still, he was retained by the organization as an adviser and consultant. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
