Everyone knows that the best form of hating comes from a lack of first-hand knowledge.
Don’t like that TV show’s premise and never plan to watch it? It’s actually stupid and written poorly. Hate that new ice cream flavor because it just looks gross? Ew, you’d never spend your money on that. And so on and so forth.
Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards took this principle and applied it to the 1990s NBA in a new interview with the Wall Street Journal. One of the questions posed to Edwards centered on his thoughts about older generations in the NBA, particularly the 1990s, at least based on his answer.
While admitting he didn’t watch any of that basketball, Edwards delivered a hilarious criticism, saying only Michael Jordan had any skill back then. Truly, top-notch stuff.
More from the Wall Street Journal:
“I didn’t watch it back in the day so I can’t speak on it,” Edwards said. “They say it was tougher back then than it is now, but I don’t think anybody had skill back then. [Michael Jordan] was the only one that really had skill, you know what I mean? So that’s why when they saw Kobe [Bryant], they were like, ‘Oh, my God.’ But now everybody has skill.”
Honestly, is he wrong? Does one really have to watch the NBA of old to understand that the players are, on average, much more athletic and much more talented in 2024? There might be at least one guy on every NBA team who is a glorified role player now who would’ve been a star on ability alone back in the day.
I’m not even exaggerating. (Note: I also didn’t watch that basketball back in the day.)
And even if you do think Edwards is wrong, you can’t deny his charming bravado to confidently state his opinion despite being so uninformed. You only say that kind of thing out loud when you know you’re right (i.e., you don’t care about other opinions).
Edwards has hating down to a science. He is an artist.
