{"id":245200,"date":"2022-05-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/magic-ex-j-j-redick-in-war-of-words-with-nba-legend-he-was-being-guarded-by-plumbers-and-firemen"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:00:00","slug":"magic-ex-j-j-redick-in-war-of-words-with-nba-legend-he-was-being-guarded-by-plumbers-and-firemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/magic-ex-j-j-redick-in-war-of-words-with-nba-legend-he-was-being-guarded-by-plumbers-and-firemen","title":{"rendered":"Magic Ex J.J. Redick In War of Words With NBA Legend: &#8216;He Was Being Guarded By Plumbers and Firemen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Redick takes shots at Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy. Since joining ESPN, J.J. Redick has become one of the rising stars in the sports media world. He&#8217;s qualified to talk about basketball, intelligent, and hardly minces his words when he makes an appearance. And once upon a time, he was a rising star for the Orlando Magic . J.J. Redick TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images John Hammond Mike McGinnis\/Getty Images Jamahl Mosley In a segment shown on ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;First Take&#8221; last month, Redick, 37, was debating with New York sports media personality Chris &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Russo, 62, about the greatest point guard in NBA history. Russo stated that Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul, Redick&#8217;s former teammate with the Los Angeles Clippers, was not a transcendent player after losing Game 2 of his opening round series against the New Orleans Pelicans. &#8220;He&#8217;s not Bob Cousy,&#8221; said Russo. When Cousy entered the conversation, Redick began to discuss how the difficulty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Redick takes shots at Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}