Fox Sports has accumulated a gaggle of sports personalities over the last year and a half. In an effort to try and impede on ESPN’s stranglehold of the television market, a lot of these personalities come up with strong, and often over the top sports takes.
Yesterday on Speak For Yourself, a new program with Colin Cowherd, Jason Whitlock and Jason McIntyre, No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons was nitpicked. Because he’s more of a passer and a defender than a scorer, the trio believed Simmons would be a massive disappointment if he turned out similar to Draymond Green.
“Draymond Green, four years in, is a side dish,” Cowherd said. “He’s Ringo Starr. If Ringo Starr’s not on the Beatles, he couldn’t sell out this studio. You wouldn’t know who Draymond Green was on the Pelicans. Four years into the league, he’s averaging 8 and 6 — and that’s with people paying attention to his great teammates. Part of Draymond Green’s love affair is that he was a second round pick. He’s overachieving.”
“I’m not going to go Ringo Starr,” Whitlock said. “I’m going to bring it home a little to soul. He’s Jermaine Jackson, of the Jackson Five. I’m not going to call him Tito. I’m going to call him Jermaine Jackson. Jermaine put out a few good songs, but he’s not Michael, he’s not Janet, he’s not the crazy light-skinned LaToya.”
“If he played for the Milwaukee Bucks,” Cowherd said, “he’d be an irrelevant player. He wouldn’t be as good as the Greek Freak.”
We can add Colin Cowherd to the Player Hater’s Ball, a growing list of people who have come out of the woods to dampen what the Warriors have accomplished the last two seasons.
Here’s the rest of the interview.