<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Isiah Thomas' teenage love child said yesterday he's long ached to meet his famous father - but the embattled Knick boss has denied him a shot. Speaking out for the first time, Marc Dones, 19, an aspiring writer whose mom had a brief affair with a then-engaged Thomas two decades ago, said he still pines for an opportunity to get to know the father he's only seen on TV. "People should be parents. That's it," Dones said. "By the time I turn 20, I should get to say two words to my father: 'Hello. Goodbye.' If that's it, then I should get those two." Dones said he's called Thomas twice, but never got a response. "I'd like to speak to him. I'd like to know him," said the dreadlocked young poet. "But that's not the situation I'm in." Dones broke his silence just days after Thomas, a married father of two, was accused in a federal lawsuit of sexually harassing Anucha Browne Sanders, a Knicks executive. Thomas, 44, has denied the allegations. "I don't know anything about any of this. It has nothing to do with me," Dones said. "I don't have an opinion about what kind of person he is. I don't know him." But the well-spoken teenager, who wore jeans and a T-shirt and held a cigarette as he stood outside his family's townhouse in suburban Detroit, had plenty else to say - and revealed planning to write a memoir about his unique family life. Dones is 5-foot-10 and has an athletic build, but said he's not interested in being a star athlete like his Hall of Fame dad. "It's just chasing a ball," he said of basketball, the sport that made his father rich and famous. "I don't know why you'd do that." A talented poet and writer, Marc Dones went to the Roeper School, an elite private academy outside Detroit. He plans to attend the New School University in New York this fall. His mother, Jenni Dones, got pregnant during a 1985 affair with Thomas, just two months before the then-NBA superstar player married his current wife, Lynn. Jenni Dones has claimed she had a three- or four-month relationship with the Detroit Pistons All-Star, but her lawyer agreed with Thomas' version that it was a one-night stand. After Marc Dones was born in 1986, Thomas admitted being the father and agreed to pay $52,000, plus $2,764.78 per month until Marc turned 18 - and then a lump sum of $100,000 to the youth. Jenni Dones later sued for more support, claiming that her lawyer had failed to get a good enough deal from Thomas. Again, the NBA star agreed to fork over more dough to support his child. "He acted honorably, as far as I'm concerned," said Elbert Hatchett, the lawyer who represented Jenni Dones and was later sued by her. Jenni Dones, who was at a family funeral yesterday, was not reachable for comment. Kevin Mintzer, a spokesman for Sanders, declined to comment yesterday as did Raynor Grossman, a spokeswoman for Thomas.</div> New York Daily News Very interesting article. So, we now know Isiah Thomas had an affair with another woman, and has a child by her. Also, he's never in his child's life. I know what's most important is what he does in the front office, but I want people apart of the Knicks organization to be good people, too.
This man lives in a soap opera, man. Way too much drama for one person. What I don't understand is how this kid thinks telling his story to the media is going to improve his chances of meeting his father. Isiah's only gonna catch more heat for this. Also, the timing is awfully strange: just days after the Brown allegations come out. As well as him talking about a book he's going to write (publicity?). Honestly, everyone in this whole affair should be deemed guilty and convicted of not being allowed in the media spotlight again. I'm tired of these stories.
