Kendrick Perkins thinks there will be NO FACE of the NBA?! | First Take

Kendrick Perkins thinks there will be NO FACE of the NBA?! | First Take

I would say shay uh Ant-Man you know I feel like those are two of the guys you know that um you know that can continue to torch you know after I’m done after step KD you know the guys that have just been setting the standard for so many

Years there’s a lot of guys to pick from uh in this group of the 24 that are here um know you see Luca a shay guys that are like really coming into their their Prime and highly decorated already is you know all stars and all NBA guys when LeBron retires you

Know the face of the league uh that’s tough but you know we win the championship I got something to say about it I know that all right lots of young stars in the NBA but there’ll be super huge shoes to fill for LeBron KD Steph Curry

Shannon with that being said who do you think will replace them as the faces of the NBA once those guys retire so we’re saying once LeBron Steph and KD is out of the way who who’s going to be the new face yeah everybody you know what if you

Listen you a lot of the guys keep bringing ant because he has the game and he has the I believe he not only does he have the game he has the most personality he doesn’t take himself too serious but his game is very serious I

Like JT I like what he had to say he like hey I win a championship I’m going to have something to say about that faith of league and it’s been a long time since we had a face of the league that was a Boston Celtics we got to go

Back to L bird when him and Magic occupied that manle together before Jordan took those Thrones uh man the question is Stephen A and you follow this game very very closely will it ever be a situation where we have a foreign Barn player that

Is the face of the NBA a Luca a Nia yic or must it be now I understand the game is global now it’s not like it was in the 80 when you only had one or two foreign born players in the NBA so if

You put me to the test right now I like JW but I think JW is gonna need to stay out of his own way but I would say it’s going to be between Ant-Man and Jason Tatum because I like Jason Tatum’s game uh I I think he has enough personality he’s not as

Charismatic outwardly as say Ant-Man but if I you make me pick one I’m GNA say Ant-Man followed closely by Jason Tatum go ahead pick perk I don’t believe it’s going to be one to be honest with you I don’t believe that I could just pinpoint and

Say that I could pick one of these guys to be the face of the league after LeBron James then carried the CH torch for so many years when Jordan passed the torch to him I just don’t see that particular young man that I could put Above the Rest and I’m sorry because you

Could say Anthony Edwards and right he has the personality he has the game but he is in a small Market I don’t believe that he’s even top 20 right now in Jersey sales that’s but but that says a lot right you got Jason Tatum who has

The game he has the market you know I believe he’s top five in Jersey sales right now but he Le a little bit more personality he’s still shining away from the C uh camera then you have SGA right and you have SGA down there putting in

Work in OKC but think about it that’s a small Market even when Russell Westbrook was down there winning MVPs putting up triple doubles no one was saying screaming Russ being the face of the league Kevin Durant led the league of scoring with three years down in OKC

With the MVP no one was scream okay no one was screaming that and and it’s just going to be so hard for a foreign player to be the face of the league because I’m W I’m walking up into these a Gams every single Saturday with my sons and no

One’s checking for a yanis no one is checking for a yic you know what I mean they screaming Anthony Edward they screaming Jason Tatum they screaming J Mor so I just don’t see either one of those guys being Above the Rest to put

Me as put to put a face on it to say that they’re going to be the next face of the league I just don’t see it number one I threw out the name SGA because his game is just so pure and he’s unassuming and he does what he does as a as a

Basketball player night in and night out whatever you expect is what he gives you and the one thing we look for is the stardom the star power the stardom in terms of your ability to perform on the court the second thing we look for is consistency

The third part is where he loses because of marketability because he doesn’t say much okay exactly I looked at I looked at Ant-Man uh Anthony Edwards and I’m doing the all access in Minnesota this Friday so I’ll be there all day looking forward to seeing him I came on the air

Weeks ago raving about this brother hold on I again I I I came on I came on the on the air this a few weeks ago raving about Anthony Edwards because his athleticism is off the charts I love how he’s going after it I think that he’s

Got that level of Moxy and what have you and he’s got cat Carl Anthony towns and Rudy gobile looking better than ever because he just is infused that quote unquote dog in them and in that franchise and I love that about him and I loved his personality I loved him in

The movie Hustle with Adam Sandler who by the way one of People’s Choice Awards last night my daughter had me watching that congratulations that my daughter neither had me watching that I was watching People Choice Awards last night flipping back and forth between that and allstar game and I’m looking at all of

This stuff then I said guess what perk Anthony Edwards respectfully boy did you mess up what are you doing stepping on the court last night amongst the stars and playing around shooting left-handed for see there’s something that that there something that you missed it’s not a big deal in terms of

Basketball but it was a big deal in terms of your marketability you going out there and saying you know what all of you stars out there remember when Michael Jordan was doing the last dance and or or Magic Johnson was quoted as saying Michael Jordan rolled up in there and was like

That there’s a new sheriff in town remember that that’s what Anthony Edwards was supposed to do yesterday you was a moment like that where you’re there for the first time and you’re surrounded by these other dudes you’re supposed to be staking the claim that it’s the new breed the new breed has

Arrived and I want it because part of marketability is showing you want to be marketed like you really really want to be that dude night in and Night Out serious you see when Kobe shot air balls you know why people might have insulted him but didn’t condemn him they knew

What he was shooting for he was like that dude Jordan I’m coming for that I’m not him that that Mystique that allore that profile that Marquee I want that and when you’re looking for a guy as the face of the NBA what you need to see is

Somebody that wants that and what we’re not seeing Shannon and perk is who’s the dude that wants that not the ball we know you can gain you can ball I’m talking about all the other stuff Shannon all the other stuff perk that comes with it who really really wants

That they bring up Victor Wana they Vic bring up Luc Luca of course Giannis don’t want to train with the competition he trying to take you out and we love that but what you want to see is a guy that really wants to carry the mantle of

Being the Marquee and Ant-Man to me took a step back yesterday by playing around instead of showing up and saying yo I’m here to send a message Stephen A let me tell you why it’s not not his fault because that’s what the allstar game is turned into Michael Jordan saw the way

Larry he saw the way those other guys serious Toby transition he saw the way Mike and he saw the way those other guys took it serious they don’t take it serious so a man this is why this is why Stephen A I say in the locker room as a

Veteran player those guys are watching that’s why I showed up on time that’s the way I lifted like I lifted I practiced like I practiced because they were watching in one day they were going to be in Shannon sharp shoes and I didn’t want them to think it was okay to

Bull around these guys not in the allstar game you got these young guys coming in thinking it’s okay to Bull Jive around I agree with you 100% Stephen A he should have taken it more serious and you don’t let somebody else dictate how you playing unforunately it

Has but what I’m saying to you perk I’ll let you go in a second but what I’m saying Shannon is you’re right but I can’t put that on somebody else if you know you want to be that dude you you can’t do that it got to be your it it

Got to be your mindset and let me let me say something to you let me credit Russell Westbrook Let Me Tell You Why I bring that up yes when you when you go Molly when you go to the to the allstar game you should want to win the allar

MVP and put that under your resum you know Russell Westbrook one of his Allstar MVPs he wanted he came off the bench he came off the bench but go to tell you his mindset back to back though y dog always Molly the other thing is Shannon appreciate this a All Pro game

Took place where they damn near playing flag football yeah and some kicker or whatever was running with the football Shawn Taylor of the Washington Redskins laid him out let me tell you something it was excessive in a lot of people in in a lot of people’s eyes or whatever

But sea Taylor God Rest his soul is still revered to this day because that’s how he always played he showed up the mindset is you step on a football field this is what you’re supposed to do okay I just got to say one thing so basically what I take from this conversation we

Don’t really have a clear to take over that’s what it sounds like it’s up for grabs and and also we got to see who’s going to win chips to Jason Tatum’s Point as [Applause] well I’m On is

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Kendrick Perkins and Shannon Sharpe join Molly Qerim to break down who will be the face of the NBA after LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant.

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