Kenny "The Jet" Smith, Sixers/Celtics Game 7 Has Arrived, NFL Schedule Release And Fyre Fest Of The Week

If you are a top five player, you have to be able to pull your team out of the depths of hell

If you're a top five guy, and actually [Tatum] said it after the game, humbly, I'm one of the best players in in the world. If you're that guy, you have to be able to take your team out of the depths of hell in those moments. And that's exactly what he did.

NBA Game 7s are a completely different animal where momentum means nothing

Momentum doesn't matter. That's one thing that I've learned is momentum means nothing. Because going into this series, going into this game, all the, all the momentum was going towards the Sixers after the Celtics won two, it looked like the Sixers were dead. Momentum means nothing. Game seven is one game. Throw out everything else.

The pairing of James Harden and Doc Rivers in a Game 7 does not look good on paper

If you have James Harden and Doc Rivers with their powers combined in a game seven, that doesn't look very good for the 76ers on paper.

Kevin Durant's legacy is almost completely destroyed and taking an irreparable hit

Kevin Durant's legacy's taken a hit the last few years. Maybe an irreparable hit because you would think if he's the best player in the nba... you think he'd be able to get it done with a team with Devin Booker and some nice role players on the side. And Kevin Durant... your legacy right now, I'd say it's almost completely destroyed.

I would rather break my hip than have the hiccups for an entire year

I would absolutely say if you said, Hey, you can break your hip or you can have hiccups for a year. I'd take the broken hip all day, every day. Cause at least you know, like, this is how I can rehab and I know that there's an end in sight.

The Lions losing a close game on opening night is better for them than winning

I think the lions losing in a close game opening night is better than winning... Because if they do beat the chiefs week one Thursday night in front of the whole country, the lion's hype will be out of this world. It will be uncontrollable at that point.

The NFL schedule release will eventually become a massive corporate primetime event with a bracket

At some point Roger Goodell is gonna do to the schedule release what he's done with the draft and just market the shit out of it and like take it on the road each year and turn it into like an hour long, two hour long primetime event where he just announces like one week's worth at a time... it's gonna be a massive fucking corporatized sensation.

The Patriots will knock Aaron Rodgers and the Jets out of the playoffs in Week 18

I will go with the Jets verse The Patriots Week 18, probably taking Rodgers out of the playoffs. And you know what's gonna be a long and frustrating season of disappointment for Jets fans.

The 1990s Rockets would have beaten the Bulls even with Michael Jordan on the court

They would not have won eight in a row. They would have been a small team trying to defend Dream [Hakeem Olajuwon] and us. We would have beat them. Now if you ask me the same question and go, can you beat that first three-peat team or the second? I don't know... But those teams, that how they were constructed and just add Mike to it, we would've beat them for sure.

The Denver Nuggets are currently the best overall team in basketball

The best overall team in basketball is the Denver Nuggets... They have an MVP candidate. They have a great point guard Murray. They have young players, Gordon and Porter... they have no holes.

It is harder to get to the NBA Finals than it is to win them

There is a different, when you're, it's harder to get to the finals than win it. It is, I actually agree with that... there's a threshold in the playoffs that you gotta break through... you can only learn it by experiencing it.

Having a soul patch makes zero difference to my appearance because my facial hair is already shitty

I have realized that me having a soul patch makes absolutely zero difference because people will just be like, PFT's got shitty facial hair. More news at 11. I've known that I've been face-bald for years.