
New York police officials are accusing former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas of a "cover-up" after he was reportedly treated for an overdose on Friday but then blamed the incident on a medical issue involving his daughter. Thomas is claiming that his 17-year old daughter Lauren was the reason police and paramedics were called to his home.
Speaking to the New York Post by cell phone on Friday, Thomas insisted he had not been treated for a sleeping pill overdose. It “wasn’t an overdose,” he told the newspaper. “My daughter is very down right now. None of us are OK.”
But Harrison Police Chief David Hall isn't buying it. “It wasn’t his daughter,” he told The Associated Press. “And why they’re throwing her under the bus is beyond my ability to understand.”
“I understand that [Thomas] claims it was his daughter; he is lying. It was definitely not his daughter, it was a male. We know the difference between a 47-year-old black male and a young black female.”
On Friday an ambulance and police officers responded to a 911 call that came in from Thomas' Westchester County home shortly after midnight. Several media outlets at the time reported that police confirmed it was Thomas who was taken to the hospital.