Doug Gottlieb: “I’m going to defend James Harden, he’s right here. Giannis DOESN’T have a lot of ‘skill.’”
Listen to Doug Gottlieb join The Herd and explain to Colin Cowherd why he agrees with former NBA MVP James Harden’s recent blasts of the reigning MVP.
In an awkward interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols discussing a humorous ribs Giannis had towards Harden's ball-hogging, Harden took it zero to 100 when taking offense to the sarcastic comments Giannis made during a Live TNT telecast of the NBA All-Star Game draft.
With three picks left in the draft, ‘Team Giannis’ had Kemba Walker, Trae Young, and Harden available to pick. Giannis selected Walker and jokingly muttered with a grin ‘I want someone who is gonna pass the ball.’
When Nichols addressed the aforementioned segment when Harden, Harden wasn’t laughing and quickly got defensive, telling Nichols ‘I averaged more assists than than him [Kemba Walker]… So I don’t get what the joke is.”
Harden then dumped napalm on Giannis, calling out his actual basketball talents aside from his physical gifts saying, ‘I wish I could just run and be 7 feet and just dunk. I actually have to learn how to play basketball and have skill. I’ll take that any day.’
Check out the video above as Doug thinks that Harden was on to something when he buried Giannis.