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NBA Legend Blasts JJ Redick For Controversial Steph Curry Take

This Steph Curry vs. Larry Bird debate has people heated
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NBA Legend Blasts JJ Redick For Controversial Steph Curry Take
NBA Legend Blasts JJ Redick For Controversial Steph Curry Take

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Former NBA player and current analyst JJ Redick recently had a very controversial take about the difference between Steph Curry and some of the game's great shooters that came before him. According to Redick, the physicality that Curry faces on a nightly basis is greater than what players like Larry Bird faced.

"When I watch, let’s say Steph Curry, for example," Redick said during an ESPN segment. "When I watch Steph Curry off the ball in a playoff game getting grabbed and held by Marcus Smart, they’re attached to him at all times. But then when I watch Larry Bird come off a pin-down and no one's within five feet of him and they’re shooting the gap, you’re telling me one is more physical than the other? You’re telling me that’s more physical than Steph Curry being grabbed and held for 48 minutes?”

NBA legend Dominque Wilkins fired back at this take from Redick, saying, "Redick doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. What basketball was you watching? To say something as idiotic as that is ridiculous. When you can put your hand on a guy's hip and make him go a certain way... how many guys can deal with that kind of pressure? And for JJ Redick, who has played this game, I'm very disappointed that he said something so stupid."

NBA debates about different eras will always exist, and this latest one has people on both sides of the argument heated with one another.

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Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA and WNBA for On SI. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined On SI to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts and in the classroom earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time, primarily serving as a Clippers beat writer.

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