CJ McCollum full postgame interview on the court, after the Hawks stunned the Knicks in MSG, in game 2.
“I’m not a villain, I’m here to compete.”
Tyrese haliburton doing the choke sign at the crib rn
lmao this ones pretty funny
Trae Young rolling the dice
ITS QUIET AS FUCK IN HERE
TALK YOUR SHIT
AND IM GOING TO GAME 3 IM HYPE
OH SHIT! THATS GONNA BE SICK, HELL YEAH
Oh hell yeah
my first playoff game im fckn hypeeeee
I hope you have a great time!
Knicks have been owned by Trae Young, Tyrese Haliburton, and now CJ 😂
Hell yeah!
Congratulations. You guys deserve it. Hope it goes 7. Have a good night.
lol it’s silent ny fans don’t even stick around
Knicks in 6
Why is the media so weird
they trying to make trae young v2 in ny
They want to make more villains in NYC sports so we fans of the damn teams in this town can continue to suffer. CJ just had an excellent game though and isn’t bravado like Trae or Hali is
CJ shut that down immediately. Not participating in that bullshit. Love it.
They’re for real trying to force shit it’s crazy
I mostly agree but the fans certainly played a part tonight
Noah eagle randomly saying CJ is on his villain arc to finish that game was something lol. Reminded me of when he was pot shotting phrases/nicknames in the Olympics
The commentators were garbage for this game, they tried saying Mitchell Robinson was locked in cuz of his beard lmao
Might as well just hire pro wrestling announcers, it’s basically the same thing but they’re better at it.
I don’t know what we did to Jamal Crawford but he definitely hates us and he is not good enough an announcer to hide it
Noah Eagle is one of the most insufferable announcers right now. He tries to make everything a catch phrase and it’s super cringey
They need to create narratives to hype the feeling in order to sell the game. Now he’s a heel in the eyes of Knick fans.
It’s literally pro wrestling.
It’s not that serious
They didn’t prep for this line of questioning lol
Are we pretending like he wasn’t getting constantly booed by the crowd in the 4th?
There was a game last year where Knicks + Pacers were dapping each other up and talking after the game - specifically Brunson + Hali and Hart + McConnell and you can hear Reggie Miller go “These teams DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER”.
They just want to start shit for engagement and a lot of fans eat it up.
“Did I do thattttt”
Basketball Urkel strikes again
Thspinahl
Did this dude just did this?
“I gotta make my free throws, I’ll get in the gym”
holy shit I love this guy
Man is a legend in Portland. Sucks that they could never get a squad around him and Dame to make up for the defensive deficiencies.
Even if I always defended that having two small guards as your stars is a bad fit, they had Nurkic as a third option and a bunch of average/below average players in the roster (Harkless, Turner, Kanter). You cannot win anything with players like that.
That’s the wrong iteration of the team, though. They had a chance to be great when it was Dame, Wes Mathews, Aldridge, and Lopez. They were top 5 in both ORTG and DRTG.
CJ had his breakout when everyone got hurt (including Wes with the Achilles tear). If they stayed even healthy-ish and LMA stayed, that team was a contender.
Their timelines never matched up. That’s been a problem for Portland since, hell, maybe 2000? First you have the JailBlazers, that doesn’t work out and Z-Bo leaves, few years later they draft Roy, Oden, and LMA. Sadly enough LMA might have been the least talented of those 3 and he was the only one who could stay moderately healthy. Not at all knocking LMA, but Oden and especially Roy could have been so special. Then you have a few years and in comes Dame, he’s young and just walked off the Rockets, but almost everyone else is due for an extension. You figure LMA is as good as gone, but Batum and Wes leave too. Either one of them staying gives them a far better team, I swear I have never seen a good team lack Forward depth like I did those Blazers teams. To compensate, they give out massive (at the time) contracts to Aminu, Allen Crabbe, and Evan Turner. And that brings us to Dame, CJ and eventually Nurkic somehow winning a couple of playoff series and going to a conference finals. Dame was just a little bit too young to really be that guy for a team with Wes, LMA and Rolo, and god that makes me sad. But it just never matched up for them.
That was such a fun team to watch though. That series against the Nuggets when they brought Rodney Hood in like the 3rd or 4th OT, because he was the only guy with fresh legs, was amazing.
You also need good bigs to go along with good guard play. Coincidentally the team now with Deni, Clingan, Time Lord would have helped out that undersized backcourt immensely
CJ is a great guy without question there is a reason why Dame and him had such a strong bond in Portland.
What a turnaround. A good chunk of your fanbase hated that trade when it happened. Good for CJ
Missed 2 FT to give Knicks false hope 🧠
He gave brunson that real work in the 4th tho
brunson burned out
Does someone have to be a villain if they play well against the Knicks? I don’t get it. New York in the playoffs (at least since Brunson has been there) looks a lot more like what people accuse OKC of doing. Every rotation player on New York (outside of Robinson) flops and flails. I’m not just talking about Brunson’s signature run/jump into defender move - Alvarado, Hart, and Shamet fall down on screens; KAT and Anunoby flail through the lane. Then they set tons of illegal screens and box out by shoulder/hip-checking. They’re a dreadful team to watch in the playoffs.
This is what people are talking about when they say “ball knowledge”
They’re a tough watch for sure.
As a hawks fan, the screens are making me go crazy. Also I swear after OO blocked the shit out of Brunson, Brunson tried to kick OO.
Media tryna create some storylines out there
Can’t wait for the media to ask Mamdani about Union President CJ McCollum
Quite villanous how he hunted brunson for every possession down the line
Brunson is just like Luka if you take all of the worst parts of Luka’s defense, make him 7’’ shorter, and make him an all around worse offensive player
Whats Brunson’s BMI tho
This is so accurate in terms of how he plays. Except Brunson’s a better 3pt shooter and free throw shooter.
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peak McCollum legacy game
You are forever a villain now to them dude lol.
That’s a badge of honor
His real villainy was agreeing to the current CBA as the then-President of the NBPA.
He also said an uncensored f bomb that offends me
You just got offended? Two FTs for SGA
That free throws’ name? Albert Einstein
He doesn’t want to be in a villain arc he just wants to go back to the hotel, take his statin, put on his CPAP and have a good 5.5 hours of sleep.
Don’t we all
I don’t watch any hawks games so that might be the reason but wow I completely forgot about cj. I remember he was a killer on the blazers.
That’s because the hawks have had about 1-8 televised games a year for a decade now.
He was good on the pels tool ;_;
He had great games with us honestly it’s just nobody watched our games (obviously)
Absolute disaster class by the Knicks
I agree. He is no longer the president of the players’ association therefore he is no longer the villian.
CJ works in media he wouldn’t bite.
Killer instincts. He’s still got it.
any player who beats NY in the playoffs is a hero
He’s right, the villain is Brunson. Iced out his all star, bricks shot after shot
What’s with everyone saying the media is creating this story? He was jawing with fans and getting booed. Saw it live.
Idc max him jus for this game here
Mike brown is more of a villain than he is
Media circlejerking to create narratives
Inb4 the Fuck CJ McCollum chants start
Crazy trade deadline pickup for the Hawks
He’s trying jennifer
Hopefully they stunned the knicks into not playing like fools
That’s what a villain would say
What a journey back to the playoffs for CJ. Great hawks pick-up.
He talks like he’s Tim Meadow’s son.
Now to see if we get classic McCollum where he has a great game and follows it up with a 5 pt game on 3⁄22 shooting
He’s no villain and the Knicks are no main characters
One of my favorites. He deserves the recognition finally. Total class
CJ is so damn likable
Have the media considered that maybe its the MSG crowd thats the villian?
CJ not a villain. That’s the narrative after an accidental kick in the balls to JB. Gotham has it’s villains…Trae, Indy, Boston and Detroit
Dog you’re the biggest villain in the NBA stop it😭