Reading that whole article Thomas just doesn't get it and he can't stop putting his foot in his mouth.
It seemed like he gets it now, what was so bad in the article? He probably missed his only opportunity in his career to get that crazy pay check. From 100+ million guaranteed to 2, wouldn't you be upset?
"You can always play the what-if game, but man, I've been F'd over so many times. But, of course, I think about it. I'm human,"
So he is blaming everyone else and says he has been F'd over so many times. that doesn't sound like someone that gets it. That doesn't sound like someone that has learned or grown from his past. That sounds like someone that is incredibly bitter about what has happened to him.
Same thing with this whole sequence
"If I didn't play in the playoffs, I'd be OK," Thomas says. "I'd be getting paid. I'd be who I am -- who I was. But you couldn't tell me in that moment in time -- with everything I was going through -- that, OK, I should just sit out. I don't think Boston went about it the right way as well. But at the same time, it was hard for me to sit out. I just lost my sister, one of the closest people in my life. Basketball was the only thing that was going to help me out. I played until I literally couldn't play anymore. And that was not a good business decision if I was looking in the long term, but I was looking in the 'right now.' That's just what it was. They probably would've traded me anyway. But I would've been in position to show my worth, and last year I was never in position to show my worth."
He just sounds bitter and apparently hasn't learned that his mouth is his biggest problem.
Here he seems to be in a fantasy land not based in reality.
"I understand it, but I don't accept it," Thomas says. "So many other people get injured and get chance after chance again. They get the big break. They get the big money -- no matter if they're injured. There's a lot of people out there who've gotten serious injuries and gotten paid still. In my circumstance, it was bad timing. You've never seen a little guy like me get paid big dollars. Never seen it in the NBA. People know that I've earned and deserved the max contract, and that's the only reason why I didn't get paid what I deserved. Because I got injured. I get that. The biggest thing for me was to get to the best opportunity for me this summer and show that I'm healthy."