{"id":22911,"date":"2022-07-23T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jerry-west-rips-jj-redick-over-plumbers-and-firemen-remark\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:22:41","slug":"jerry-west-rips-jj-redick-over-plumbers-and-firemen-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jerry-west-rips-jj-redick-over-plumbers-and-firemen-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry West rips JJ Redick over &#8216;plumbers and firemen&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jerry West heard JJ Redick&#8217;s \u201cplumbers and firemen\u201d remark about Bob Cousy, and fired shots about Redick&#8217;s own accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>The 84-year-old basketball legend appeared on SiriusXM NBA with Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson and was asked about the comments that Redick made on \u201cFirst Take\u201d in a debate with Chris Russo that downplayed Cousy&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the game is completely different.  The athletes are completely different.  I know JJ a little bit, a very smart kid and everything \u2014 but tell me what his career looked like, \u201dWest answered.  \u201cWhat did he do that determined games?  He averaged, what, 12 points a game in the league?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhere along the line, numbers count.  At that point in time, the players aren&#8217;t what they used to be.  JJ certainly wasn&#8217;t gonna guard the elite players.  And so you can nitpick anyone.  The only reason I&#8217;m talking about him is he was not an elite player.  He was a very good player.  But he had a place on a team because of his ability to shoot the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Jerry West ripped JJ Redick for his &#8216;plumbers and firemen&#8217; remark about Bob Cousy.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1240632279.jpg?resize=681%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JJ Redick downplayed Bob Cousy's career on ESPN's &quot;First Take&quot; in April.\" class=\"wp-image-23166521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1240632279.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 681w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1240632279.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>JJ Redick downplayed Bob Cousy&#8217;s career on ESPN&#8217;s \u201cFirst Take\u201d in April.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>West spoke about his own career how he was ahead of the curve athletically, and ultra-competitive, before returning to Redick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJJ should be very thankful that he&#8217;s made as much as he made, and Bob Cousy, who I played against for a couple years [laid the way] \u2026 I just think it&#8217;s very disrespectful, myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This conversation has been getting traction for three months now.  The original genesis was that Russo and Redick were debating Cousy vs.  Chris Paul, with Russo of the opinion that the old-time Celtics great was the superior point guard.  Redick vigorously disagreed and derisively painted \u201cplumbers and firemen\u201d as Cousy&#8217;s opposition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry West heard JJ Redick&#8217;s \u201cplumbers and firemen\u201d remark about Bob Cousy, and fired shots about Redick&#8217;s own accomplishments. The 84-year-old basketball legend appeared on SiriusXM NBA with Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson and was asked about the comments that Redick made on \u201cFirst Take\u201d in a debate with Chris Russo that downplayed Cousy&#8217;s competition. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jerry-west-rips-jj-redick-over-plumbers-and-firemen-remark\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry West rips JJ Redick over &#8216;plumbers and firemen&#8217; remark<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[10219,10221,10220,68,307,3686,3736],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23398,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jerry-west-calls-jj-redicks-plumbers-and-firemen-comment-disrespectful-to-bob-cousy\/","url_meta":{"origin":22911,"position":0},"title":"Jerry West calls JJ Redick&#8217;s &#8216;plumbers and firemen&#8217; comment &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; to Bob Cousy","date":"July 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Jerry West isn't happy with JJ Redick.The Hall of Famer took offense to Redick's comments in April when Redick downplayed Bob Cousy's accolades by claiming Cousy \"was being guarded by plumbers and firemen\" when discussing the Boston Celtics guard's legacy versus that of Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul on ESPN.West\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23595,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-legend-jerry-west-thinks-jj-redicks-comments-on-bob-cousy-were-very-distressing\/","url_meta":{"origin":22911,"position":1},"title":"NBA legend Jerry West thinks JJ Redick&#8217;s comments on Bob Cousy were &#8216;very distressing&#8221;","date":"July 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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