'RAW TALENT!' - Kendrick Perkins compares Anthony Edwards to Michael Jordan 👀 | The Pat McAfee Show 

Being from Minnesota and watching Anthony Edwards and almost every game he’s played in since his rookie year. I saw this coming all along. That’s why I have over 150 Anthony Edwards rookie cards.

No one is actually saying he's mj. Its seeing flashes of him and wanting to see him dominate like MJ did.

Edwards is MJ '84

so we just gonna keep saying the same thing everyday 😂?

The poster dunk over John Collins has officially made Anthony Edwards my favorite current player to watch in the NBA. I still have Kawhi Leonard at No. 1 because he plays for my Clippers. And Paul George is at No. 2. But Anthony Edwards is at No 3 and my favorite non-Clipper player right now. I think some Jordan/Kobe/DWade fans are misinterpreting what we’re saying about Ant. We’re not saying Ant is as great as them or will ever be as great as them. We’re saying he reminds us of them. He’s a combination of MJ, Kobe, DWade,and Vinsanity. MJ fans were mad 26 years ago when people were comparing Kobe to MJ. Anthony Edwards really fits that mold of exciting SGs who happens to be a highflyer while still having offensive skills without it being only dunks. The 70s through 90s were really about dunks. That was the ultimate middle finger to your defender if you can put him in a poster. Then deep, deep threes became a thing and dunks became boring. I’m glad Anthony Edwards who is a capable scorer from outside the paint is bringing that old school Air Jordan/Air Canada poster dunks back into this game considering Steph and Dame can shoot the three very deep but aren’t highflyers like Elgin, Dr. J, Skywalker, Nique, MJ, and Vinsanity were. He fits their mold. Incredible young player. He almost did the same thing to Anthony Davis last week. I say Ant, Luka, and Wemby run the league after Jokic stops winning more rings in 5 years. Jimmy Butler and Anthony Edwards are the long lost sons of Michael Jordan. Favorite Current NBA Players 1. Kawhi Leonard 2. Paul George 3. Anthony Edwards 4. Damian Lillard 5. Victor Wembanyama Another exciting player to watch if his head is right is Kyrie Irving. I know he’s a Kobe disciple but Kyrie might just be the most skilled player ever. He’s more efficient than Kobe going 50-40-90 and he probably has the sickest handles. Watch him cross Kobe and pretty much anyone in the 2012 USA practices. Steph Curry, Damian Lillard, Kyrie Irving, and Anthony Edwards are all more exciting players to watch than LeBalco Shames. I think JJ Redick overstates Kobe being the face of the NBA. During the first 10 years, Iverson was more popular than Kobe. Many Jordan fans like myself hated that Kobe was compared to MJ. It was like a spit to the face of my generation’s hero, our G.O.A.T. From 2000-2004, Shaq was the more valuable player on the Lakers. Tim Duncan won MVPs in 2002 & 2003. Then LeBron entered the NBA and he was on par to Kobe by 2006 going 31-7-7. DWade was very exciting to watch from 2003-2006 the way Vince Carter was more exciting to watch than Kobe from 1998-2001. If Kobe was the face of the league, it wasn’t very long like for an entire decade the way Magic and MJ were. And Kobe didn’t open up to people until around 2008 when he turned 30. Kobe was more of an aloof during his early years. A lone wolf in the locker room for being the youngest. Shaq was the life of the party among his teammates during that Lakers threepeat. Kobe won 1 MVP because he was never a media darling. Him as the face of the NBA is more revisionist history the way people now praise the Star Wars Prequels or the Nintendo GameCube since Kobe became more likable after he dropped 60 in his final game and after he passed away. When hatred during those times turns into nostalgia which then turns into revisionist history.

There’s this sick poster dunk Michael Jordan had over Patrick Ewing. It’s not the famous one in 1991 when Mike spins baseline. Or when he barks at Ewing after he did it. I think it happened in the 80s. It was sick. People should try to find it on RU-vid. MJ moved with speed and force when he dunked it on Pat. Westbrook when he was still on the Lakers did a ferocious dunk on Gobert a couple years back. The Ant dunk isn’t technically a dunk. Think Blake Griffin at what he did to Mosgov and Kendrick Perkins over here. Then again, Dwight won a dunk contest wearing a Superman cape when he didn’t really slam it home with his hands touching the rim. It was more of a throw down than a dunk. What’s scary is I believe Ant will have many more dunks like this in the future. He’s only getting started. He might put so much fear against rim protectors that the paint will clear out for him because those defenders don’t want to be part of a poster/meme. Again, Ant almost did this to AD last week. Ant might catch him the next time they meet. Ant is going to have more poster dunks for AD, Giannis, Wemby, Embiid, and Jokić. He’s young Jordan in the 80s, Air Canada from 1998-2001, and young DWade from 2003-2006. I wish Ant would participate in the dunk contest but he said last year he doesn’t want to.

That dunk from Edwards last night was something huge 😳😳😳

It’s so many other players you can compare these guys to except the greatest of all freakin time smh

" Hes like '88 MJ" Thats different than hes prime michael jordan winning championships. Go watch '88 MJ and see the talent and the explosiveness. Thats what is being said.

He’s the best player in the NBA and this coming from a dude who brother is in the NBA

It was a great poster but “1988 Jordan”? GTFOH

Ant is the most exciting player in the nba. If you miss 90s basketball, you should try watch a Timberwolves game

They got my city fucked up, calling us a small market? We are in the top half of the country in economy size and we have one of the highest standards of living and schooling and healthcare in the country. My state is LEGIT one of the best places to live. Even the AIR is better here than most places!

"this dude's awesome to watch" 🏀

More like Vince Carter

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Face of the nba to me is Anthony edwards

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Anthony Edwards is not the next Michael jordan period.

Ant Edwards is not the next Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was the first Ant Edwards.

1:50 did I just hear thjat

I believe this is Jordan's son. Look at the young pictures of Michael when he was younger with hair

Everyone gonna miss the fact that it was more a offensive foul ? Literally could be a flagrant 1. But I guess now NBA players can extend hands smacking faces...

I think Jaylen Brown should be the face of the league. He is a genuine guy, the leader of the best team in the league, and is young with a ton of potential.

If we’re saying Edwards is Jordan than Shai must be the best basketball player to step foot on Earth then Lmao. Stop this nonsense, the kid is great with a ton of potential but he’s not Jordan. He’s not even Kobe yet.

nah this dunk was def dunk of the year imo, but let’s not act like Ja wasn’t doing this like every 2 weeks last season🤫

Y’all gotta stop saying stuff like this. Go back and see what MJ was doing year three in the NBA. It’s not a flash of MJ. It’s a filthy dunk. Great athletic ability. Perk said 88 MJ. Bro that’s the year MJ averaged 37 and won DPOY. Stop it

Harold Minor is Who Edwards looks like

Folks gotta stop with the MJ comparisons. Sounds crazy but I think MJ underrated

Mj or Vince Carter ? Because that dunk was Vince Carterish!!!!!

As crazy as that dunk was the one n the bubble was way better

He may look like him kinda but the real Jordan would DESTROY Anthony. Let’s just be real. He’s bigger with bigger hands and a higher vertical. I would even say quicker too and definitely more fundamentally sound.

Dude a hating and a bata male . Perk is right

Ready or not… here he comes 🐺

How do you not know that Ja’s been out? It’s been almost 3 months💀

Ant-man traveled.....but the play was tremendously athletic....

Plays like his daddy

Here comes ant hate lol once they compare u to mike you start getting hate

Won’t be the face until he wins mvp or gets to a finals

Ant has to stop landing on his feet standing. Learn how to fall gently. Its something chauncey billups learned how to do in detroit after all his injuries. Landing standing on your feet with undoubtedly shorten your career.

ant man ant man

There is NO ONE past or present can be compared or likened unto Michael Jordan. Stat wise or talent. He is in a league all by himself. By the way, I am a die hard Laker fan who knows GREATNESS when he sees it.

Perkins is a fool.

Perk reaching as always smh

How is this guy covering basketball and not know Ja is out? Stupid espn

Not one of the greatest dunks in basketball history 😂

He’s mid. Obviously

travel

Wasn't a dunk!

Being a Wolves fan for over 20 years paid off 🥹