‘This is what basketball is ALL ABOUT!’ 🗣️ Stephen A. PRAISES Wemby & Giannis | First Take

‘This is what basketball is ALL ABOUT!’ 🗣️ Stephen A. PRAISES Wemby & Giannis | First Take

Let’s keep in mind Wy is averaging 19 what is it what is it 1910 and 10 with over three blocks per game only three rookies in NBA history have done it David Robinson Alonzo Morning and the one and only diesel himself Shaquille O’Neal so we got to give love what love

Is due with wmy okay basically piggybacking off of everything that you just articulated here’s what I want to tell you that I peel away from it the last part that you’re talking about in terms of how much they wanted you talked about embiid we saw him going for the

MVP last year we see yic right we’re not surprised at his greatness we understand how phenomenal and great he is and we don’t want to disrespect the Denver nuggas because that’s what we don’t need to do they’re the reigning defending NBA champions and they’re actually the

Favorites to come out of the West with all the noise being made about everybody else but when you think about what you saw from joic not surprising when you think about what you saw from Steph Curry who had a damn good game last night that’s not surprising I know you

Were talking about the bigs but I got to throw a small brother up in there who’s the greatest shooter that God ever created we can’t forget about him we saw the greatness of wmy we saw Brook Lopez make the top 10 for two for bad reasons

He was number five and four on the damn list okay with what happened to him last night courtesy of Wan and for sou but here’s or John Rather but here’s the deal for me what I walked away with loving outside of the obvious future greatness of Victor wiana I walked away

With even more appreciation for y Hest that’s what I walked away from ladies and gentlemen this is what basketball is all about see this is where and I say this a lot of times Molly when I’m talking about the game football there’s so many different components that come into it baseball

You could have eight players show up but the pitcher got a bad night and ruins everything all of this other stuff can happen but in a game of basketball if you’ve got a superstar or two you literally could sit up there and change things by saying here’s the ball take me

There and if if you’re a guy committed to doing that things can happen it is one thing for wiana to do what he does it is another thing entirely for Giannis who’s going to be Giannis but to be in complete Attack Mode against this guy dunked on him once with the left tried

To get him again but when bana blocked him was in complete attack mode and when you see that that’s what you love and appreciate with the game of basketball one of the things that I religiously detested is when you got guys talking and then all of a sudden they encounter

One another but they’re defending somebody else they’re going up against somebody else they’re not embracing Wendy and accepting the challenge at least verbally and sometimes on the basketball court as well I didn’t see that from yanis last night and Giannis reminded us what it’s supposed to be

About yeah I’m here I’m a former League MVP and I’m an NBA champion but this young buck is coming in here trying to show me what he’s got let me remind him who who the hell I am and when Beyond and said wait a minute guess who I am

And that is what you look for from the game of basketball it is what it’s capable of giving what the sport is capable of giving it to you on a night in Night Out basis and the see guys like that and you brought up embid inid why

Do I love embid so much because he talks he doesn’t talk trash about or two people he doesn’t have to go against he talks about people he knows he’s going to go directly up against and he’s like I’m coming I’mma bust your living you know what and there’s nothing you going

To do about it and then sure enough the competition comes Giannis don’t talk like that but he plays like that and that’s what I love that’s what we saw last night and the fact that when bana showed up the way that he did shows us what kind of attitude he has and I’m

Glad you brought up Chad Homen too because Chad hren got attitude y’all and Oklahoma City’s winning and that brother’s contri contributing to it watch him too because despite what we’re seeing from wiana Chad HRI in some people’s eyes is still a leading candidate for Rookie of the Year honors and he’s another

Seven-footer Wendy give you the final word here and Giannis did it on the second night of a back toback in an era where you know not everybody’s bringing it all the time they had a huge highly contested game in Indiana they flew down to San Antonio and Giannis gave that

Game on the second night of a back-to-back in January because he wanted it it was the symbolism of everything that is great about the NBA and here we are in the biggest moments of the football season where we got the national championship coming up and we

Got the the the ultimate weekend here of NFL and those guys stole the show and that’s what makes the NBA great what we saw last night because you can see that on a regular Thursday night in January you’re usually seeing Giannis Tower over people last night there was somebody

Towering over him and Giannis was attack haing like he was small he was trying to treat him like he was small you love it absolutely quick take on his 20th birthday W shined but Giannis got the best of him in a great showing for both bigs uh Stephen what message did wemi

Send to the league last night uh that he is a future star in this league that he will be there and he’ll be somebody that you will have to contend with for years to come whether that the same applies to the San Antonio Spurs team remains to be

Seen but wimy will have something to say about a lot of things going on in the NBA yeah I think this whole season has been about I am who they said I was and the hype was real usually in basketball cuz my son plays you get a lot of hype

About these young players and then you go to the gym and you don’t see it you see it with wom I have to point out this important Big Time stat on jannis Cent TMO averaging 39.4 points per game this season on 64% shooting with 13 rebounds

On the second night of a backto back set and he’s playing an average of 37 minutes with no day rest MH that is a superstar yeah unbelievable uh we had the fans at home V last night who they thought had the most impressive night was it joic Giannis or Wy the results

Are in and uh Stephen A unlike your a list it’s a pretty even Steven here see that’s a problem for me why is that cuz I think I think Giannis K is overshadowed by the story as opposed to watching the game that’s right like

That’s and I get it cuz we all like we in that culture now where we looking for the new thing to take over a man just put let’s not forget what wmy did was phenomenal Banis put 44 points and 14 rebounds like what are we talking about

And was in attack mode in a and was in attack mode come on going right remember it’s fans they might have everybody’s kind of got their guy right TR what I [Applause] [Applause] look

Brian Windhorst joins Stephen A. Smith on First Take to praise San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama and Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo for their competitive performances in the Bucks’ narrow victory 125-121 over the Spurs.

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