Knicks legend Charles Oakley doesn’t assume Giannis Antetokounmpo is way of a freak.
Oakley got here out firing on a latest SLAM Journal podcast, saying that Antetokounmpo would have come off the bench if he performed in Oakley’s period of the late Eighties and all through the ’90s.
“He wouldn’t have been a drive again within the day,” Oakley stated. “… He would have struggled, they might make him shoot soar photographs. He wouldn’t be doing a Euro step to the basket, any person’s gonna knock his head off. He’d come off the bench again within the day.”
Antetokounmpo has gained two MVP awards and led the Bucks to their first championship since 1971 final season.
That's, evidently, not ok for Oakley.
Satirically, although, that is Oakley’s opinion after, he admits, Antetokounmpo proved his skepticism unsuitable.
“He’s doing his factor. I used to be skeptical as a result of he couldn’t make a soar shot [or] free throw,” Oakley stated. “After what he did final yr, he accomplished gained me over.”
We’ll must assume that Oakley doesn’t consider nearly any participant within the fashionable period may grasp within the ’90s. He’s definitely not the primary former participant to carry that opinion, although Oakley’s personal inside sport suggests he would possibly battle in at this time’s sport.
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