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Thomas was born on April 30, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. Thomas commuted from Chicago's West Side North Lawndale neighborhood to play high school basketball at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois for Gene Pingatore.
Personal Life. Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, the son of Katharine Kathy, a beautiful giddily outspoken southern belle and Harry a Texas oil man. He was raised in his Italian American mother's plantation on the banks of the Atchafalaya river in south Louisiana.