Disgraced ex-Knicks drillmaster Isiah Thomas was rushed to a hospital Friday afterwards overdosing on sleeping pills at his chichi Westchester County mansion, sources said.
Thomas downed 10 Lunesta pills and had absent alertness by the time emergency workers accustomed about midnight at his $4 actor home in Purchase, authorities said.
Harrison Police Chief David Hall would not affirm the victim - articular as a 47-year-old man - was Thomas, who is 47. Police sources told media outlets the victim was the above NBA great.
"He was unconscious, but breath on his own," Hall said, acquainted that the balance appeared to be accidental.
"Maybe the guy took a brace of pills, couldn't go to sleep, took a brace more, couldn't go to beddy-bye - who knows?"
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Two cops and an ambulance accustomed at Thomas' abode afterwards a woman there alleged 911 from her corpuscle phone, Hall said.
The victim was taken to White Plains Hospital Center, but Hall didn't apperceive if he was admitted.
"He's fine," Thomas' son, Joshua, 20, told the Daily News.
Joshua Thomas, a apprentice at Indiana University, claimed cops went to his family's home because his sister, Lauren, 18, who suffers from hypoglycemia, wasn't activity well.
"Reports of sleeping pills are false," Joshua Thomas added. "He doesn't yield sleeping pills. He doesn't absolutely yield annihilation that's not organic.
"He looked aside from affirmation over her. They sat him down, let him alcohol some water. He's fine," the son said.
Joshua Thomas said endure night his ancestor and sister were still recuperating in an breadth hospital.
The Knicks appear a account adage Thomas is accomplishing well.
"Isiah Thomas batten with associates of the New York Knicks alignment and is OK," the account read. "He is ambidextrous with a ancestors matter, and we will accept no added comment."
Over the endure 5 years, Thomas' acceptability has gone from admirable to shredded. Named the Knicks aggregation admiral in 2003, Thomas' band never won added than 33 amateur during his four seasons with the disturbing ballclub. In his two seasons as arch coach, the Knicks' almanac was 56-108 and Thomas became an article of derision a part of fans.
His able acceptability sank added in 2006 if Anucha Browne Sanders, a afresh accursed aggregation executive, filed a animal aggravation clothing adjoin Thomas and Madison Square Garden.
A Manhattan board disqualified in October 2007 that Thomas had sexually addled Sanders - and ordered the Garden to pay her $11.6 million.
The Knicks accursed Thomas endure April, but he charcoal a consultant.
Several Knicks admirers branch into the team's preseason bold adjoin the Nets endure night showed little affair over the bloom of the team's bootless above coach.
"It was a publicity stunt," said Gregory James, 45, of the high West Side. "He wants accord so he can accumulate his job."
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