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Bomani Jones has a talent for arguing with people online.
He’s one of the best there is. It comes with the territory for most who’ve fired off a quarter million tweets.
But the media personality found himself facing a little extra blowback recently when he said Stephen Curry wasn’t on his list of players in the NBA who can consistently get a shot at the end of a game, listing Damian Lillard and Kyrie Irving as examples of players who can.
JJ Redick, he of 1,860 career 3-pointers at a 41.9 percent clip, hosted Jones on his Ringer podcast after the fact, where Jones admitted he got salty with Warriors fans who took offense to his Curry comments.
In retrospect, might have been the wrong move.
“The amount of disrespect that Steph Curry gets- it blows my mind!” Redick said. “He creates off the dribble all the time!”
Jones pointed to Curry missing the shot against Kevin Love in the Game 7 as an example. Redick still wasn’t having it.
“What if that shot against Kevin Love went in? We’ve seen him make that shot… hundreds of times. You’re talking about one possession, one shot, as your evidence that he can’t get his own shot. That’s crazy to me.”
No love appeared to be lost between the two, who laughed through the exchange. The conversation then turned to Curry’s defense, as it does, but Redick wasn’t done defending his fellow sharpshooter.
“I think it’s the way that he gets his numbers that people have a problem. Because… okay, defensively, he led the league in steals. He averages for his career around five or six rebounds a game. He’s getting you six, seven assists a game. His MVP year, those were Jordan numbers. Thirty, six, and five. Not playing in the fourth quarter sometimes.”
Shooters supporting shooters.
Redick’s Pelicans “host” the Jazz for first official game in the bubble on 3:30 p.m. PST on Thursday night.
Who knows… The Pelicans might have a new fan supporting them from the San Francisco peninsula.
If you want to listen to the full exchange between the two, you can do so in the embedded link at the bottom of this page. To skip to the spicy parts, start listening around 49:30: