On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, JJ Redick and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo discuss Bradley Beal joining the Phoenix Suns to form a new Big 3.
0:00 Introductions
1:00 “Hate” drives Kevin Durant
3:30 Kevin Durant’s “chasing championships”
4:30 JJ’s got a better question to ask…
7:00 Nuggets are still favorites next year?
9:30 No excuses for Bradley Beal?#ESPN #FirstTake
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33 Comments
The suns won’t even be better than the grizzlies 😂
Might as well trade ayton for another piece
Mad dog hoed isiah Thomas 😂😂
When they were winning in the regular season, not one of these mfs ever brought up the amount of hands they had played. It was all “He’s the most plug and play superstar in history” now that they failed to meet expectations “we can’t expect them to go far”?
The suns are not Good enough…I dont even think they are better than a healthy Clippers because The clippers have players to match up each one of the Suns three…
Those three will get bullied by Gordon Denver, They are not big they are not the best defensive team, and above all nobody is stopping Jokic….
Matt Ishbia is going to get a huge wake up call….
U put AG on KD, KCP on book and Murray on Beal…
The suns to mee are just not good enough..
So who is going to be the leader on the court to make it flow .
JJ get up here just to spew bs narratives that most of the time he’s grabbing from Twitter
Almost every show Stephen A says something slick about wht NBA coaches or players. This time it was Vogel is a ok coach. Stockton didnt deserve to be on the dream team, the NBA all time leader in assists and steals lmao…
Shut Molly up
MOLLY GONNA MAKE SURE SHE INTERRUPT AND HAVE HER VOICE FELT
D Book isn’t better than KD. KD was just hurt
08:56 what greatness? He’s good, all star good. But great? Nah, that’s cap.
Steven A always have to premiss with a neck job before he criticize … beta male
Book and KD are injury prone, Beal can score but watch how they his suns team gets dominated in the paint. They will have 0 depth, let’s see how this goes
Sorry Suns fans… you might get a fun highlight reel out of this trio. But it doesn’t mean they’ll have the chemistry to win a championship. And KD will likely get injured again… not to mention Denver is still better.
Molly interruptions are annoying. Just let the people who know about sports talk.
The suns are going to be worse than last year
Mad dog is right about Thomas. Forgot to mention Thomas's involvement with Raptors.
I think the sun's what they gotta do is trade or sign Seth curry, royce. And resign TJ Warren, Josh okagie, jock landale and Craig. Then trade Ayton for 1 of these packages
1. Ayton for Tim Hardaway, the 10th pick & ether maxi kiaber, Dwight Powell or Mcgee.
2. Ayton for Malcom brogan and ethier grant Williams or Robert Williams.
3. Ayton for Wendell Carter, Garry Harris and 1st
4. Ayton for Clint capela and ethier Bogdan or hunter
5. Ayton for Bojan, Ethier Isiah Stewart or Wiseman and a 1st.
6. Ayton for Mitchell Robinson, Quickly and a 1st
Mad Max Sr. sounds like Max jr kellermen 😂 but they keep it real. Kevin Durant is a good player that was on a contendening team that couldn't get it done without joining a 73-9 team best in NBA history lol
Second round exit
BIG3 super teams don’t work anymore. Most of the recent NBA champions have been built organically largely thru draft 💯
7:38 I don’t agree with Stephen a smith that just having two superstars means we can say they’re contenders.
Jj Redick is correct. It’s ok to wait. We saw what happens with the lakers for example. Having 2 great players in AD and bron was not enough because of the pieces around them. Once they got the right pieces around them after the trade, the lakers took off.
The same can be said for the suns. It’s ok to see what pieces will be placed around Booker and kd.
Phoenix please go pick up D.Brooks and Howard
IT has shown he is terrible in the front office.
See Kevin Durant couldn't win without the Golden State Warriors as you can see.🙄
The Suns owner is starting off on a bad foot in my opinion. Dude doesn’t know how to use proper etiquette with players. I think we will have another classic Nets scenario in play
How does Stephen A remain composed with Mad Dog smiling at him like a crazy person?
Back here after Shannon left fs1
12:33 hold up you just gonna disrespect Pat Riley’s name like that JJ??😮
Suns will need other teams to suffer injuries in order to Win…. Not gonna happen especially considering how they crumble at home late in the playoffs
I wish espn didn’t devolve into these people yelling at each other all the time.
JJs cool though
@13:35 JJ there’s one team that won the championship when they made an in-season trade…the Toronto Raptors traded for Marc Gasol in 2019….