ESPN First Take - Is Kevin Durant A TOP3 Player?

ESPN First Take - Is Kevin Durant A TOP3 Player?
Skip Balyess Stephen A. Smith

[@lakersnation4034]

4 years later skip doesn't like james harden and Paul George aka George paul😂😂😂 and believes KD is the best player on the planet lmao

[@Gvvenk]

Add number 2 in that too

[@loveneo5643]

He does not believe that

[@mohammedrakim5201]

Its wilddddd cos all KD did was join an already 73-9 team to get some rings and all of a sudden Skips mind changed. After seeing this vid im done with taking skip seriously

[@reyrey7401]

Fuck yeah lol

[@SunnyDarkoShow]

Lakers Nation Yikes

[@scootover7]

I miss Stephen A and Skip together, watching Stephen A get mad like this is hilarious

[@Tobyee]

*Lol he still mad with Max everyday now*

[@marcellshepard6333]

😂🤣🤣

[@e9sports393]

Toby Creation not like this bro. He looks like he’s faking a little now cause max isn’t crazy like skip

[@PierceTheThird]

E9Sports facts these expressions he had back then were fucking gold

[@adamsamuel8593]

Max is a fucking joke. He literally loves Lebron and acts like he cannot lose yet he has 6 finals losses when it should only be 2.

[@bulij7107]

Skip was smoking that good shit back then!

[@leonardoaguado8221]

Still is

[@aajr2366]

He still is

[@aravbhatt2875]

@@leonardoaguado8221 skip is ok unless he talks about lebron

[@MegaMiamiboi305]

Lol

[@Tobyee]

*I KNOW RIGHT?*

[@trapgodtank]

Skip Bayless doesn’t even like Harden or Paul George anymore lol.

[@delontewest6353]

@Trill Savagelife George Paul!

[@lakersnation4034]

Delonte West point lowkey was gunna write that comment lol

[@Tobyee]

*You spell George Paul wrong lol*

[@rea2667]

He was trolling and SAS fell for the bait... you can see it in his face... he wanted SAS to go off to make a point, he's lowkey always loved KD more the LBJ and he set SAS up here

[@edwardcui7535]

he turned on kawhi too bro, I'm dead

[@miles1659]

Lol and now skip calls PG George Paul😂

[@Shawn.Mathew]

Miles Khoury that leg injury definatly robbed him of his peak

[@bigty390]

@@Shawn.Mathew nah he better

[@ankletaker2729]

M K he’s a hypocrite. The only reason he calls PG George Paul is because he wants to downplay how good he was because LeBron and the heat kept facing the pacers and defeating them. So when his fans look back they’ll say oh LeBron faced George Paul

[@doc8013]

@@Shawn.Mathew that leg injury hasn't had any effect on his prime man what the hell you talking bout?

[@Shawn.Mathew]

Doc before this season pg was a shell of himself this past season is what he would have played like if it weren’t for that leg injury

[@dgodm7541]

Back when Harden, Lillard,PG13,KD, wade when he was still elite were all up and comers now all in there 30s it's crazy how fast time goes.

[@mvpmvp2980]

skip bayless casually got away with ranking 2014 tim duncan over kevin durany

[@lilverson1333]

all time hes right but at that moment he bugging

[@StopCapN]

5 rings better than his 2 superteam bs

[@curiosityl.6261]

@@lilverson1333 Agree with that

[@ajk1312]

Destined Star he’s the best pf of all time but he was like 38 in 2014

[@NK-mr3rh]

Swish Dipper dude is the greatest pf of all time and most would agree the one of the greatest team leaders in bball history next to magic. Watch ur mouth

[@matheusluque4121]

"I don't wanna hear anything about 2 minutes from my producer" HAHAHAHAHA Stephen A. is amazing!!!

[@Braselton21]

Shannon needs to bring these videos up

[@13ggoldsmith]

From 2:10-3:27 showing Stephen a smith’s face the entire time had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ericdupree8603]

2:12 - 3:25. I know SAS wanted to slap Skip so bad 😂

[@bryanfane24]

😂😂😂

[@mg19cal]

Here we are, June 19, 2019, and Skip Bayless wakes up stroking it to KD everyday simply because he has 2 titles that he got with a "front of the line" pass

[@nedswrld]

facts

[@razkable]

as a nba fan how cool would it have been to see kd go 2003 duncan 1994 hakeem 2011 dirk or 2019 kawhi and will okc to a title ..we would respect him more for that then 2 with the warriors...sorry...wade in 06 as well...mj in 98 imo willed that team to a title

[@jalengreen1301]

I’m here over a year later 😂

[@YaboiTL]

Never forget jordan never faced a prime duo in the finals, duncan got 3 easy rings, Bill russel needed 9 hof to beat wilt

[@benjaminan1183]

@@YaboiTL KJ & Chuck

[@usmanioa]

These old ESPN FIrst Take segments are legendary man... Love em.. SKip and Cari have both gone their separate ways and they're doing great, and Stephen A is still doing his thing..

[@OKCthunderfansincechamps]

tf is a cleaner

[@theguy9150]

Them janitors

[@blastinkaps8826]

OKC thunder fan since 9/23/17 2018 champs listen bitch

[@ieatyou8479]

OKC thunder fan since 9/23/17 2018 champs damn you must be on suicide watch rn

[@christianguerrero1083]

I Eat You 😂😂

[@mtor9452]

He literally defined it in the video

[@xuanbaizhu8950]

Image telling them that KD is gonna join a 72 wins gsw team with Curry.

[@bullettomy7thheart]

They would both have a heart attack lmao

[@gray_gogy]

73 wins

[@tyresecrockett7651]

Oliver that would lose they mind

[@carlosangeles2215]

73***

[@seraphoftheendyt1432]

Carlos Angeles and lost in the finals don’t forget .lol

[@khalidfallatah106]

Im watching these classics. Skip is forever wroooooong. Stephen A is the maaaaaaan hhaahaha

[@marcellshepard6333]

Khalid Fallatah I’m dead 😂😂

[@provenknowledge]

😂😂😂

[@Noisy_Cricket]

To be fair, Skip was kinda right here. Durant still hasn't himself carried a team to a chip. He's always gotta be part of a duo.

[@Max_Chainz]

no skip was wrong lmao

[@thepostfk]

Your comment continues to age well

[@Noisy_Cricket]

@@thepostfk if he had got a chip at OKC it would have been a different story.

[@thepostfk]

@@Noisy_Cricket Yep, I still look at him like he has 0 rings.

[@newrecruit100]

You have to remember the context behind Skips opinion. This was not too long after KD called out Skip for his criticism of Russ and said he dont know basketball

[@DonkeyKong5479]

4 years later he now calls KD the best player in the world Lmfaoo these clowns in the media change their narratives every day 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@JoyboySGLS]

Maybe players just prove themselves lmao journalists aren’t fucking psychics they go off of what they see.

[@TheKingofKings2272]

Andrew Blackop you realize you said 4 years later he saying he’s the best in the world...then in the next sentence said that the media changes their opinions everyday. That makes no sense

[@bhekumuzimokoena6647]

@@JoyboySGLS yes

[@jonathanmarable4258]

Lmao. I know dont u love to go back amd see these idiots switch up. He was mad cuz kd dissed him. Mind u i hate KD but skip amd sas are jokes.

[@jonathanmarable4258]

He Now calls Paul Goerge George Paul. Wow.

[@henockambroise8560]

Don’t do that Skiup Bayless 😂😂

[@julioevela]

After skip said Paul George Me: 😂😂😂😂😂

[@immanuel3694]

Skip has switched his view on damn near everyone in this video lmao 😂😂😂

[@carlosangeles2215]

Simply hilarious watching that segment in july 2019 🤣

[@razkable]

kd outplayed kobe in 2012 he outplayed wade too he outplayed lebron scoring wise in the 2012 finals...these takes even then were insane...kd since the playoffs of 2012 has been a top 2 player on earth with lebron at worst third when he broke his foot and curry came up hard and now that he got hurt again and kawhi and giannis have come up...its insanity to think otherwise...its blasphemous

[@mcfowlerman]

Ahh... No Molly, what a great show! Good flow, amazing!

[@nelsonrodriguez484]

He only said this about kd bc he called out skip saying he don’t know basketball 😂

[@billybailey316]

This is even more hilarious watching this now

[@patricija4179]

Shannon is too grateful for Skip giving him that platform...SAS handled Skip with brute force😂

[@hdbuckets8154]

Skip recruited SAS for First Take. He’s the one that started 2 hour sports debate shows.

[@patricija4179]

@@hdbuckets8154 Skip's show was ass without Stephen A

[@JakeDantoni]

It zooms out to both of them and you just see Stephen A’s face🤣🤣

[@theprfesssor]

Hasn't really changed now Max Kellerman disrespects KD constantly down playing his greatness

[@rs6304]

Max Kellerman would never interrupt Stephen A like Skip is in this video

[@sheltondmello8031]

@@keenanboyd5972 it's called being respectful but u lil kids don't know what that means

[@keenanboyd5972]

@@sheltondmello8031 lil kids lol stfu goofy

[@MegaBruno233]

Maan I miss this first take with Cari and skip old. But gold😂😂😂

[@ucookin]

skip was right about kd, hate to say it, kd was never that dude, had to join GSW for those BS rings and now with brooklyn

[@yule41]

In 2021 this shit is hilarious 😂

[@Braselton21]

I wish Shannon would bring these videos up😂 Skip is a clown

[@damienkeller487]

And now all of a sudden he's the best player on the planet after only winning two rings with that stacked ass warriors team

[@seanieranz1287]

And now he calls KD the best player in the league ahead of all those guys when he basically puts up the same numbers he was putting up in OKC lol Skip is a walking contradiction smh

[@ktownes7559]

How skip go from is kd not a top 3 player to now that he joined a 73-9 team with 2 time mvp Steph curry and kklay Thompson and draymond now he the best player in the world 4 years later 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@mg19cal]

Here we are, June 19, 2019, and Skip Bayless wakes up stroking it to KD everyday simply because he has 2 titles that he got with a "front of the line" pass

[@billybones6463]

lebron not even in his top 10 right?

[@xxtooshiestyxx8756]

He just needed LeBron ammo bcus he ran out after that 3-1 collapse

[@rachelkessinger2295]

2014 Dame was not even a top 25 player yet. Skip is just hilarious!!

[@Mektek19]

At the end of the season Skip takes back all these words. KD was so damn clutch this season

[@ApoAK8]

Its very funny how things change ... Today Skip Bayless says Paul George is not a superstar and is afraid of LeBron and James harden disappears from games like nobody else . Also they didn't believe in Steph Curry because he is too small (even if skip always says he would have draft him #1in the draft) .

[@vitobrnic3139]

AK8 I agree, Paul George is now George Paul, James Harden had the biggest superstar meltdown since Lebron in 2011...

[@crixfal4282]

AK8 4

[@Shawn.Mathew]

Well Paul George did get injured and hasn’t been the same player since but yeah the disrespect kd got was ridiculous no way you can even put 2 players above kd back then, wade was past his prime even in his prime kd was better but that’s debatable, Duncan was old, Paul George pre injury isn’t better than kd, James harden is not better than kd, lilard isn’t above kd

[@dummy4794]

@@Shawn.Mathew LeBron has been way better than kd for his whole career.

[@tedgrover3883]

My my my how times have changed 😂😂

[@nicklovesdata9546]

I wish I could see these guys go at it again.

[@scootover7]

I pulled a Stephen A. on Stephen A I ran out the clock on him lol this is hilarious

[@timantoine3839]

Now Skip says KD is best in the world! 🤣

[@kennethstone4590]

Lmao this is great and Hilarious!!! Idk when this was! But years later, now Skip thinks Kevin Durant is the best player in the world! LMFAO

[@chaunceydeal4618]

the disrespect

[@emanuelad9683]

fr man...

[@Superalex727]

.

[@frankjones469]

The good old days on first take

[@ralphjenkins6315]

Skip showing George Paul love 😂😂

[@speedtechbmx]

hahaha like 2 days after kd drops 54

[@thinkdifferent4314]

SAS sitting there like, "i'm about to beat the white outta you"..that look. LOOL

[@za5528]

I swear on god I've heard Skip make this cleaner closer cooler thing in a conversation to call James Harden or someone not a superstar

[@raymondsims1541]

now skip says he hates paul george n harden lmao skip is a walkin contradiction

[@doubleup1863]

Skip was just mad because KD called him out!

[@scottparizz]

These was dem days where I couldn’t tell if Skip was a crackhead or not

[@jamoe4802]

I wish they were still together such good tv

[@MIDNightPT4]

Paul George LMAOOOO

[@rfkdemirerdem5983]

2:13 one of the greatest faces of all time

[@Acefull-pl1iu]

now skip calls kd the best player on earth

[@TheThemacman8]

People don’t understand skips method behind this, this was one take that skip let his emotion get in the way. This is a little after KD said skip “doesn’t know basketball” after skip was defending KD forever. It upset him a lot and he didn’t want to give him any credit at that point

[@fakephoenixprince]

Yeah I remember😂😂skip was in his feelings.

[@arianbegolli74]

2012 finals skip blatantly said on air that Kevin Durant is the best player in world over lebron. Watch that clip

[@yoshilee7101]

The way SAS said Damian Lillard was disrespectful.

[@MelRivers]

Lol the Funny thing is, Durant never got better in the 4th or gathered those intangibles... he just joined a 73-9 team and the whole story changed

[@KartelBeatz]

Man I miss these days😪

[@rells_dope]

Watching this in 2020 is wiiiilllldd 😂😂😂

[@MistahJay7]

and now skip called him George Paul and makes fun of him all the time and calls KD the best on the planet lmfao

[@kingak510]

I miss this first take

[@JokerSlaysthegame]

I like undisputed more but this show was undeniably fun and entertaining. Watching these old clips takes me back to middle school riding in the car with my dad listening to Mike n mike and watching first take at home

[@jonathanjames-patterson5403]

Even though he was wrong Paul George was so damn cold at this time

[@hisAndwele]

That lady's hand @ 6:22 😂😂😂.

[@daquanbeamon2635]

What exactly does Kevin Durant individually do now that he didn’t do back in OKC? He has always been in my top 3 players in the league, even back in 2014 but people kill me with the whole “he is the best player in the world now”. He really hasn’t gotten much better then he was back in okc. People claim he plays better defense, but does he? The warriors play a defense that shrinks the floor and depends on each-other. When you have two all nba defensive players on your team, yeah your defense will look great. So again, what has KD really done to be the best player in the league now instead of then???

[@haywood0457]

Bruuuh. I literally made the EXACT same points a couple months back. Smh. All he did was join a team that wouldve been the championship favorites without him. Fast forward 3 years later to now and even though the Ws lost this finals, it was TUFFFFF for the RAPs. What team could lose their "best" player and still be that good? I cant stand the Ws, but with a healthy Klay, I believe they woulda took it.

[@henryix9229]

daquan beamon “when you have two all nba defensive players on your team your defense will look great” your Dumb asf then why doesn’t Steph Curry’s defense look that good??

[@daquanbeamon2635]

King James individually yes curry doesn’t play lockdown/crazy defense. But he does disrupt a lot of plays, wonder why just a few years ago he led the league in steals. Same goes for KD. He plays great HELP defense, he is 7’0 tall so yeah he will average some blocks. But how many times have we heard/seen KD completely lock someone down?

[@theblazikenbro]

Its not about kd getting better but more so about lebron declining

[@josesrodriguez336]

I truly believe that if KD leaves GS....they would be OK without him.....but on the other side let see what KD can accomplish without the warriors...

[@jeanmoleus3590]

And now Skip got KD as the best player in the NBA.

[@xrated_xavy7989]

Someone should show skip this today

[@Nozirev]

Whose here 2020

[@JRSt5wart]

Good times lmao

[@Mari-gn8su]

Skip was lowkey right about KD

[@4MAJIC1]

This so funny to watch 4 years later lmao

[@hemantnair869]

Steph is too little but Dame Lillard is starting to threaten that category????? What the hell is Ship talking about?

[@dts_8247]

What a difference 6 years makes now Skip wouldn’t be caught dead sayin something positive about Paul George or George Paul as he calls him 😂😂

[@thatguy-ij4in]

Crazy skip loved KD in his early years then started hating him around here and then started loving him again in GSW

[@tomnguyen3305]

durant, lebron....greatness is first define as #never bail on your team

[@xx1j]

@2:14 ohhhh man 🤣 He became George Paul, then became Pandemic P

[@thatboylije7892]

Houston is east of San Antonio not south lol

[@TraeHall]

Looking at Stephen A

[@Lil7672]

lets be honest SAS and skip were the goat duo of sports television ,espn should've given skip whatever he wanted mans the lebron james of sports media lololol

[@William971]

Why I love skip..he's provocative..and its all fun and sports but he always stirs the pot gotta love it

[@edwardrichardson9543]

That damn Stephen A. face never gets old

[@hisAndwele]

4:33 😂😂😂

[@kingd_sm9760]

I think Skip wanted Stephen A dead back then he stressed him out any chance he could get 😭😭😭

[@brianchua4240]

Well, after what Durant did tonight, Skip is right haha

[@disappointedknicksfan5042]

Skip is right again!

[@airbene98]

Brian Chua how was he right ?

[@trapgodtank]

Litty Titty back when he choked a 3-1 lead to the warriors than joined them

[@kichki777]

Yeah but he is a top 3 player in the world now so Stephen was right

[@oakinw8361]

L

[@hristijandimitrovski8664]

Interesting, now Kevin Durant is his favourite player 🤣🤣🤣

[@dosalmasjd5886]

The two Goats🐐🐐

[@joshuareynolds7330]

Sas dog for the 1st 3mins😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kiggunduhakim5199]

Woow my man skip was really blasphemous n ridiculous yrs ago. 😂😂

[@jayjames4629]

Crazy what going to GS can do for you lol..same dude,jus better weapons

[@SSS-sf7xy]

Skip was right here.

[@ShreyasSranga]

And now skip bayless's favourite and best player in the world is KD

[@RIQ2Turnt]

Skip was just trolling

[@billybones6463]

he is. he's so old yet has mastered being a meme troll

[@lemonpepperjones7093]

Skipandstevenasmith Man it's magical

[@nothingspecial8114]

0:29 - 0:34 But he decides to praise him for winning two titles after jumping on the bandwagon of the Warriors?? LMFAOOOOO