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Now a player he thought compared to other unconventional all-time greats he had drafted -- Steve Nash and Tim Hardaway -- had somehow fallen to his team at No. 33. "All I know is he had the same things that Hardaway and Nash had -- heart, brains and balls," Nelson told ESPN. "Those are things that generally don't fit into an analytics model."

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Heat Central: Tim Hardaway Is taking prime Dwyane Wade over Prime LeBron James 👀 “LeBron has longevity. I’m taking Prime Flash over Prime LeBron… I know basketball. I’m a hall of famer… Look at the facts. Just look at it. Calm down” (Via Crossover Podcast)

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Run It Back: “If Grant Hill was 100% healthy, he would've never left Detroit." Tim Hardaway Sr. says Grant Hill would've been "up there" if injuries didn't derail his career

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Run It Back: Tim Hardaway Sr. does NOT have LeBron in his top-5 of all-time "MJ, Kobe, Magic, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then you go from there. You got Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O'Neal."

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Run It Back: “Magic, Michael, Kareem, Kobe had killer instincts. ... I love LeBron, but at times he doesn't bring it the way we want him to bring it, like James Harden." - Tim Hardaway Sr.

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Run It Back: “If Penny didn't get hurt, him and Michael Jordan would have been 1-2 MVPs in the league." Tim Hardaway Sr. thinks prime Penny Hardaway is just as good as LeBron

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He sensed this was the beginning of the end. He wondered if he was destined for the leagues in Europe. He said he called his agent daily, as well as his Hall of Famer father, point guard Tim Hardaway Sr., fretting about his future. “It was my lowest point; I didn’t know if I was going to be sticking around,” Hardaway said.

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Draymond Green: Tim Hardaway senior told the Heat to draft me in 2012, but was told I was too out of shape and they passed. That's interesting, but it all worked out for the better. If I’m quite honest with you, I don't think a place like Miami is the place for me. I've heard how they do things down there and I respect how they do things and I respect the way they go about things. I personally don't just think that's a situation or a place where I would have fit in well at. And to play with the big three would have been cool except I only would have played with them for a year and a half, two years, and that would have ended. And then what? So, thank God it happened the way it did and I didn't end up in Miami. Also, not sure how I would have handled living in Miami as a rookie and I'm for damn not sure how I would have handled Pat Riley trying to test my body fat during that time. So, it all worked out for the better and I appreciate you OG, Tim Hardaway, and they should hire you as a scout because you knew what you was talking about. But, thank God they didn't draft me.

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Ex-Knicks coach David Fizdale says team brass told him to tank during the 2018-19 season to try to get Zion Williamson or Ja Morant, while assuring him that Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving were coming to the Knicks the following summer. The Knicks went 17-65 that season with a roster that featured Tim Hardaway Jr. and Enes Kanter. “The plan that we came up with, I was all in on that, and I was like this is the deal and this is the way to go about it. It just didn’t come to fruition,” Fizdale said in an interview with @RunItBackFDTV. “...Losing all them damn games, donating my record to get Zion Williamson or Ja.”

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Hardaway entered the league in 1989 and hit his peak during much of the 1990s. Considering he was right there to witness Michael Jordan, for many, the greatest player to ever touch a basketball and the absolute ruler of that decade, “Tim Bug” sure knows a thing or two about His Airness. But when discussing a hypothetical one-on-one tournament, Hardaway claimed Jordan would get absolutely obliterated, or, in today’s lingo, cooked, if he participated. And Hardaway, well, he had his arguments. “Would Michael Jordan want (to participate)… And I love Mike, I love Kobe, I love everybody. And it’s not a knock on nobody, but how did Michael Jordan win MVP? Was it alone, or was it with a team?” the Hall of Famer argued in his recent appearance on the “Crossover Podcast.” “I’m talking about one-on-one, if it was one-on-one, he would get cooked. Cuz ain’t nobody there. Scottie Pippen ain’t coming there to block your shot. Luc Longley… he not coming over there and put his big body on you, and he would hurt you, too…Dennis Rodman, he ain’t coming there to take the charge,” Hardaway added.

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Lindsey Hunter on LeBron James likely ending his stint with Lakers: I think people got tired of like the Bronny thing and every time something happened, LeBron has something to say. It's a lot that comes with LeBron because he's a powerful person. Tim Hardaway Sr.: It's a lot of drama every day. Hunter: You know better than us you were down in Miami. Hardaway: Yeah. Everyday it's a lot of drama with LeBron James. Every f*cking day. What Rich Paul said as an agent, you don't talk about trading somebody during the season. You don't talk about nobody else's client. Austin Reaves is not your client. Don't talk about somebody else's client, what the Lakers should do and how they should do it. That's not your concern. That is in today's game. You know what? The old commissioner David Stern would have fined him. Dillon Brooks said these guys shouldn't have podcasts. I've been saying that for the last 10 years!

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Tim Hardaway Sr: I'm not a Jason Kidd coaching fan. I'm just not a fan of his. It goes all the way back to what he did at Brooklyn. As a coach, you got to know your timeouts. And if you don't know your timeouts, you can't be having a drink of water and tell one of your guys like ‘hit me so I could drop this water’. The guy, he did that on the court. He got fined for that and he got a technical for that. I mean that as a coach, you got to know that. He laughing it off and, no, man! Then you go to Milwaukee. Of course, you discovered Giannis. You built Giannis to where he is today. But as a coach as with the team, you didn't build a team, and that's why he was looking crazy when Luka got traded. He was like, ‘Damn, now I got a coach because Luka bailed me out hundreds of times. I didn't have to call a call.’ Which Luka is that type of person. You don't have to call a call and you just let them bail you out. Now you got to have an offense.

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DNVR Nuggets: 𝑼𝑷𝑫𝑨𝑻𝑬: Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon, Christian Braun and Tim Hardaway have all been upgraded to PROBABLE for tonight

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Grant Afseth: Final: Mavericks 131, Nuggets 130 Cooper Flagg: 33 PTS, 9 REB, 9 AST Anthony Davis: 31 PTS, 9 REB, 4 AST Naji Marshall: 15 PTS, 4 REB, 3 AST Jamal Murray: 31 PTS, 7 REB, 14 AST Nikola Jokić: 29 PTS, 7 REB, 14 AST Tim Hardaway Jr.: 23 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST Dallas (21-7) faces the Warriors on the road on Thursday as part of the NBA's Christmas Day slate.

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