Isaiah Thomas has surely heard the knock more times than he can count: He's too short to succeed in the NBA. It's why he wasn't taken until the very end (60th overall) of the 2011 draft.
But the 5-foot-9 waterbug point guard has proven all the doubters wrong. Now in his fifth NBA season, he's playing like an All-Star, leading an ascendant Boston Celtics squad with 21.1 points per game and posting a top-25 PER.
And yet, there are apparently still some people who'll tell you Thomas is too little. Among them: Atlanta Hawks point guard Jeff Teague, who said exactly that after hitting a floater over his diminutive opponent during the Hawks' romp over the Celtics on Tuesday night.
More fuel for the fire, no doubt.