{"id":86734,"date":"2014-08-20T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=86734"},"modified":"2023-12-27T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T19:54:31","slug":"they-said-what-feat-kobe-the-goat-james-harden-magic-kyrie-melo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/they-said-what-feat-kobe-the-goat-james-harden-magic-kyrie-melo\/","title":{"rendered":"They Said What!?! feat \"Kobe the Goat,\" James Harden (best player today) + Magic, Kyrie, Melo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gt-if5CZyR4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You gotta love confidence and you gotta respect opinions. Remember the saying that \"opinions are like a$$holes, e<span style=\"color: #545454;\">verybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.\" \u00a0With that said let's review some of the week's best \"they said what!?!\" quotes and let's not be an a$$hole about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>JAMES HARDEN<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"I'm the best all-around basketball player in the NBA,\" - James Harden at the NBA 2k15 Uncensored Event<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>MAGIC JOHNSON<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"Every NBA player better beware of of Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh! I think they will have their best year ever! No team in the East will want to play the Miami Heat in the playoffs\" -\u00a0Magic Johnson via Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>BRANDON JENNINGS<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"Michael Jordan had more \"help\" winning his rings then Kobe. MJ never won without Pippen. Kobe won 2 rings without another great on his team. Kobe is the GOAT.\" - Brandon Jennings on Twitter<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>KOBE BRYANT<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"So when I hear pundits and people talk, saying, \u2018Well, he won\u2019t be what he was.\u2019 Know what? You\u2019re right. I won\u2019t be. But just because something evolves, it doesn\u2019t make it any less better than it was before\" -\u00a0Kobe Bryant in Sports Illustrated<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>KYRIE IRVING<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"Everybody asks me if this is my year to be a leader \u2026 I haven\u2019t been so far though, not at all\" - Kyrie Irving via <a href=\"http:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/article\/234656\/Kyrie-Irving%E2%80%99s-Transformation-Starts-With-Admission-He-Needs-LeBron-Cavs%E2%80%99-New-Vets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RealGM interview<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>CARMELO ANTHONY<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"Yeah, I think so for sure...Absolutely\" -\u00a0Carmelo Anthony when asked if the Knicks will make the playoffs<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta love confidence and you gotta respect opinions. Remember the saying that \"opinions are like a$$holes, everybody's&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,23],"tags":[],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-86734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>They Said What!?! feat &quot;Kobe the Goat,&quot; James Harden (best player today) + Magic, Kyrie, Melo - Ballislife.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/they-said-what-feat-kobe-the-goat-james-harden-magic-kyrie-melo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They Said What!?! feat &quot;Kobe the Goat,&quot; James Harden (best player today) + Magic, Kyrie, Melo - Ballislife.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You gotta love confidence and you gotta respect opinions. 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