"I wish I could just be 7-feet and run and just dunk. That takes no skill at all" Harden on Giannis

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Like I said, you can't be "unskilled" playing in the best basketball league in the world and win MVP twice :yeshrug:

Harden said what he said out of anger and y'all run with it cause you want Giannis to play how you want him to play:yeshrug:

Basically. Giannis was sayin petty shyt about him for weeks/months publicly, so Harden who is typically reserved finally snapped back.

Giannis was animated that year, the shots at Harden and declaring he was “taking the crown” from LeBron...

He got humbled in the bubble, so he stfu and came back this year with less smack talk and more focus/maturity.

That’s really what it was about.
 

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@Primetime what shots was he taking ? I don’t remember him saying anything that made any headlines.
It's in the first post of the threadstarter, my brother. Literally what Harden was responding to, as it made national news and he was asked in a sitdown about it.

There were other comments Giannis made to the press about targeting Harden in the all star game (it backfired bc they kept failing to post him up in the game) but it had ppl wondering why the constant jabs and specific name drops all of a sudden. Hell, this is what i said about it last year in this same thread:

I got no problem with this. Giannis fired several shots unprovoked (unless there's some past history I've overlooked)

Harden clapping back. They play one more time late march. Should be lit

KD said the same shyt about Shaq several years ago, in defense of his teammate that Shaq stayed shytting on, unprovoked.

"Shaq wants to make a joke about it, but if it was him in (McGee's) position he'd feel the same way ... Shaq was a shytty free-throw shooter, he missed dunks, he airballed free throws, he couldn't shoot outside the paint. He was bigger than everyone, didn't have no skill, bigger and stronger than everyone. Still a great player, but you had your flaws as a player and you played on five or six teams, too."

- Kevin Durant, 2017

In both cases, in a vacuum you can take the retaliation as an unprovoked jab if people only give you half of the quote without context for why it was brought up to begin with.
 

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Giannis is honest to the game.

The only star on the nets that is honest to game is KD. This is not necessarily in insult btw.
 

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Can’t wait for healthy BK to sweep next year and up this thread. Harden didn’t even say what he said unprovoked
 
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