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Iman Shumpert: ‘I think LeBron James is a businessman. I think we all can look at it and say, though it's a luxury to have him, you can't spend that much money on him if you want to make your team good enough to beat who's at the top. People got a pretty calmed-out team top to bottom, but they got youth. You can't sit here and depend on Bron. I think it was more a youth thing, and LeBron actually saying, if I want to give myself a chance to win, I got two years left. I don't need no money. Might as well put the best team together, put the best product together, and I go out with a bang.’
Iman Shumpert: ‘I’m so excited for him to start this journey in Portland. I want him to prove everybody wrong so bad. It make me so angry and it's in retrospect, but it's like, out of anybody that's need to have one, y'all don't think he would like, just the audacity of the state when people are like, what is he ever going for? I'm like, bro, they making $200 million a year. Like, in three years, they going to have $200 million. Like, you don't think he going to have a firearm to defend himself? I'm like, a security guard will rob him. It's all security. Like, what? Like, it's a lot of money, so it's perspective wise, I just, yeah, he did a dumb thing by going on the internet with it. But it's like, I just want him to be able to write the wrong, not even off the court, but on the court, to be healthy and doing the thing that it's like, this is what got him in this situation.’
Iman Shumpert on where LeBron James should go: If this is about a ring, go to Philly. If this is about selling tickets Miami. If this about ended your career the way it should go, go to Cleveland. Just don’t go to Cleveland trying to be happy about a win because you not going to win there. You’re not going to be happy. This is about legacy, the return tour, this is not about winning don’t you dare go over there think it’s rolling with the winners. I don’t know what’s up with them during the playoffs, don’t do it. I’ve been on a team with LeBron when he was frustrated and he felt like he got too much going on. He going to start shipping sh*t out of there, man.
Hosted by LeBron James, the luxury multi-country vacation featured core members of the historic 2015–16 roster, including Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, and Tristan Thompson, with Iman Shumpert and Matthew Dellavedova joining the group later. Despite playing in 13 games during that legendary postseason run, the 39-year-old Russian big was completely omitted from the planning. Speaking with the Russian outlet Sport Express on Friday, Timofey Mozgov revealed that nobody from the title-winning squad text messaged or called him to join the summer trip. “Yes, I saw the video of that party. No one wrote or called me. If I’d been invited, I’d have gladly joined. Of course, I’d have loved to be there too, to drink some wine,” he answered when asked if an invitation had been extended.
Fullcourtpass: Iman Shumpert says LeBron James will throw a turnover on purpose to prove you were out of position "Bron kind of holds you accountable like yeah, I'm going to throw a turnover if you're not in the spot I told you to be" (Via @OutTheMudTL, h/t @0xarslan)
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Iman Shumpert says it’s time for Wemby to work with Tim Duncan to find a go to move: “He wasn’t ready. I know if they haven’t already, this is your year with Tim Duncan. It’s time to sit down with Tim Duncan for the whole summer and understand how to get to something. How to have a plan that nobody can do anything about… He’s gonna have to watch Dirk, you’re gonna have to watch some Kobe. Go watch some Tim Duncan”
SportsCenter: “This league needs to go back to leaning on veterans. … Towards the end you watched the Spurs struggle.” Iman Shumpert on the role the Knicks’ veteran leadership played in the Finals.
Iman Shumpert: Now, what I will say is me being a team an old teammate of De'Aaron Fox, De'Aaron Fox will kick himself for a while for that fourth quarter. I I'm not sure what happened. I don't mind all game for what everything that was going on. A lot of these plays, De'Aaron Fox knows better. The lackadaisical turnovers, especially the live ball turnovers that led to breakaways. The indecision, the step back threes that he never shoots and never settles for, but he just decided to do it yesterday.
Iman Shumpert had postgame commitments after the Knicks’ wild Game 4 win. He decided to make other plans. The former Knicks guard bailed on an ESPN podcast appearance Wednesday night so he could join the celebration outside Madison Square Garden after the Knicks’ dramatic NBA Finals comeback win over the San Antonio Spurs. Shumpert was set to appear on “The Hoop Collective” podcast but said he instead was heading to Seventh Avenue with J.R. Smith to celebrate with the fans outside MSG.
Iman Shumpert: The Knicks are as good as San Antonio. San Antonio and OKC defend at a level on the West Coast that makes it seem damn near like nobody can match it. If the Knicks were on the West Coast, we'd be saying that they are one of those top teams, too, that can defend. They are a team that if you watch every person that catches, you one have to protect your catch. Two, while the person's guarding you, you have two other people on the elbows, and they're not sitting at the elbow flat. They're sitting at the elbow with their leg up, ready to deny that next pass, and also show a jab at you to where there's no driving lanes available.
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Iman Shumpert: . @KingJames shordy ru f*ing kidding me right now? U gone beat Father Time? #playoffs
The NBA world is in the dark about LeBron James' future ... but if the King were to return to Cleveland for a final season, his old teammate tells TMZ Sports it would be "the coolest story." We caught up with Cavs champ Iman Shumpert at LAX this week ... and asked if he wants to see the kid from Akron go home (again) before retiring.
Even though Iman Shumpert and Teyana Taylor are divorced, the former NBA star is still proud of his ex-wife's recent accomplishments, telling TMZ Sports he's happy to see her doing well. We caught up with Shumpert in New York City this week and asked about Taylor's recognition for her role in "One Battle After Another" -- including a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Shumpert -- who has had several acting gigs of his own -- didn't hesitate to praise her success. "She did well," Shumpert said. "She did well, for sure." He also said their co-parenting is going swimmingly ... and their two daughters, Iman "Junie" Tayla, and Rue Rose, are doing great.
Iman Shumpert: I think people forget JJ Redick is a coach, but he's a player. So sometimes JJ Reick's line is different than how it would look for if you did that to a Phil Jackson. Like JJ is like a shooter, plays within a system, understands the game from his point of view. You know what I'm saying? He's going to give you guys a little more leeway to say f*ck you to him just cuz he's so fresh from playing. I don't think he's so far removed like like a George Karl get into it with you. You worry about that. A JJ Redick, it's like JJ Redick is such a basketball player, bro. It's like f*ck you JJ. JJ probably be like f*ck you and walk off like but JJ's not going to remember that sh*t. He's still going to drop the play and be a professional. So I don't read too much into that. (…) I don't think it's trouble in paradise.