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Kenny SmithThe regular season is where you make your name, but the playoffs are where you get famous
The regular season is when you make your name, the playoffs you get famous. That's fame. People know me for hitting the three to tie it up in the NBA Finals. They don't say anything about when I hit a game winner against the Clippers in the regular season.
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Big CatIf 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 Jayson Tatum said it after the game, humbly, 'I'm one of the best players 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 [Tatum] did.
MaxNBA 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.
PFT CommenterThe 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.
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View profileKenny SmithThe 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.
Kenny SmithHakeem Olajuwon invoked as much fear in opponents as Michael Jordan did
Hakeem easily [is the best player I played with]. Not even close. He was Michael [Jordan] in those two year runs. He invoked fear into the opponent when you weren't the position he was guarding. That's fear... Do you think Patrick Ewing, when he caught the ball on the right block was like, 'Where the hell's Michael?' But for Hakeem, you had to know where he was on both ends.
Kenny SmithThe 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.