With Isiah Thomas’s sexual harassment case heating up the papers, reporters are looking everywhere for a unique angle. That’s how you end up with the NY Daily News talking to Isiah’s illegitimate son Marc Dones of Detroit. Dones has never actually met his father, but says the Knicks GM has at least held up his end of things from a financial standpoint.
“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.”
What’s amazing is that despite never meeting his father, the two share a significant number of traits. For example, in 1991, a 5-year old Marc shrewdly traded 14 then red-hot Jose Canseco rookie cards (in mint condition) to his friend Billy for an old frisbee. Marc then pasted 100 dollar bills all over the frisbee and threw it into a lake.
Marc has had poems published on a website called thedetroiter.com, one of which can be found here. (It’s titled “Smoke Rings” & is about smoking or something.) We’re looking for his rumored masterpiece, “Zeke the Mean Monster Who Wrecks Things”, but haven’t been able to find it yet.
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