Former NBA player JJ Redick made some bold comments when talking about different eras of basketball. According to him, the modern era players are much better than those who played in the 80s.
These comments did not sit well with five-time NBA champion Michael Cooper who slammed Redick, whom he called a ‘poor man’s Danny Ainge.’
“JJ Redick, this kid here who’s a journeyman, played for six different teams, all his accolades came in college, played 15 years in the NBA, was being shifted around from team to team because all he could do was shoot and wasn’t that great of a shooter, he was the poor man’s Danny Ainge,” Cooper said.
“In today’s NBA, I don’t know what games he’s looking at, you can’t touch the guy. Any time you touch his body, a three-point shooter come close to them when they’re landing, it’s a foul.
“JJ Redick needs to be quiet and stop trying to compare. I think he’s gotten out of this what he wants to is that his name being thrown around and the attention and all that. But it’s the attention that he doesn’t want because a lot of former players, myself being one along with Dominique [Wilkins] talk about this guy who is poor man’s Jeff Hornacek…
“That guy has no clue of how basketball was played in the 80s and I guarantee you this JJ Redick. If you had played in the 80s, this is Michael Cooper talking, I would’ve locked your ass up. You wouldn’t have got a shot off, you wouldn’t have got nothing, you would have spent more time on the bench than on the floor,. When I was on the floor, you couldn’t play.”
