Reacting To JxmyHighroller's NBA Hot Takes 

16:29 mike conley catching strays with that make a wish all star comment 😂

What people don't realize about the term "superteam" is that its literally a term created to put pressure on a top level player to win. We call the Celtics and Lakers teams of old "superteams" but in hindsight. Jordan Pippen Rodman Bulls is not considered a superteam (superstar / all star / all star caliber role player) but LeBron / Kyrie / Love is which is inconsistent. We use Kevin Love's pre Cleveland accomplishments to try and mark him as a all star player, however, Jrue holiday who was an all star pre milwaukee doesn't make Giannis Middleton Holiday a superteam. Thunder with Russ Melo and PG is apparently not a superteam with 3 former all stars within 1-2 years of being on the team but Brooklyn Nets is a Superteam? Point I'm tryna make is superteam label really just used as a weapon to deter top players from leaving their team (hence why it is attached to KD and LeBron) but when we speak on Giannis or even Curry its absent or in Curry's case there's always a clarification that it was "his team"

Anybody else notice how they had kyrie listed as a SUPERSTAR But harden an all star?

Dear NBA community, saying someone had it easy cause their opponents were old is a weak argument. If age was what made the team weak, how did they get to the finals?

One thing I'll say about the superstar point (dunno if clique said it, I paused it before he comments on it) is that saying 2016 Kyrie is an all-star, 2016 Lebron is a superstar and then ranking 2022 Kyrie as a superstar, Devin Booker a superstar, Donovan Mitchell a superstar gives the impression that the 2022 Ky, Donovan and Book are closer to Lebron than 2016 Ky is close to them, I'd argue 2016 Ky is just as good if not better than them. Plus he says it as if the Nets weren't a superteam. Like, yeah they were, they failed, and there are such things as failed superteams, but they were, at the time James went there he was considered top 5, so was KD and Ky wasn't far behind.

The thing is, Love was All-NBA in 2014 the year before he joined the Cavs, and Kyrie was in 2015. Those are not Fringe all-stars. Those are great players who took back seats to LeBron and when not on his team could be top 15 players in the league. This is why just using All-star as a ranking is pointless, otherwise the 2015 Hawks would be one of the greatest teams of all time with 4 all stars.

Oh damn I didn't know Peja is 6'10" GD! I thought he was like 6'7" 6'6"

Put some more respect on K-Love man, he was one of the great PFs of this era. He just had the misfortune of being wasted by the Wolves for so many years

Man I love your thumbnails. 🥴🥴🥴

My hottest take is Dorian Finney-Smith is a less athletic less defensively talented Michael Kidd-Gilchrist with a good jump-shot

Fun fact half the best players in the nba today were born in 88

I've always defined superteams as a team where at least 3 big name stars join a team together like the 10 heat and the 08 celtics because in music a supergroup is a band comprised of multiple independently successful artists

I always heard "superteam" as coming from the classic rock term "supergroup", which didn't so much mean great as it meant putting a collection of already established musicians put together with the intention of being great

clique is a casual

Make this is nostalgic, I can't believe Weird Al is commenting on basketball videos!

a reminder that k love averaged 8.5pts in the finals on 36% from the field as a center. he was a role player with lebron.

I like how he said Donovan Mitchell as superstar as if he’s on lebron level….

16:30 Make a wish all star had me almost die

Theres no way in hell luka has a 38in vert tf outta here😂😂

Super teams: - 60's celtics (10 rings) - 80's lakers (5 rings) - 80's celtics (3 rings) - 90's bulls (3 rings) with rodman they were, without him it was just a duo - 00's lakers (3 rings) maybe not idk - 00's spurs (4 rings) kinda organic tho, so idk if it counts as a superteam - 00's celtics (1 ring) - 10's heat (2 rings) - 10's cavs (1 ring) - 10's warriors (3 rings) the first one was organic in 2015. two durant teams are obviously superteams, and then so is this year's, cause they flipped Durant for Russell, and flipped Russell for Wiggins, they have 4 all stars in the starting 5, and they're paying millions in luxury tax - 20's Nets (first super team to not win a ring)

the Barry take wasn't talking about all timenbut how good they were in that season, so it doesn't matter how good they are all time

That part on Karl-Anthony Towns was silly. Taking points away because his share of shots from midrange to 3 and beyond isn’t as high as Matt Bonner and Davis Bertans? Bruh this is just silly.

A super team is a team with two mvp caliber players with one all-star

3:31 got to be the funniest shit ever

Hot take: what if we considered a superteam having 2 top 15 players and an all-star? I think that's more realistic and actually league breaking.

brooo when you gone post nba 2k23 mycareer content

Bro said mike Conley was a make a wish all star 💀

Imagine trading 8 players for gobert just to beat ja morant 🤣🤣

Alright Alright Alright Alright

I think a better point about Lebrons cavs not being a super team is that Kevin live was literally a traffic cone in the nba finals. 2016 Kevin love can not be one of the big three on a super team. He was a great shooter, but he was not as effective as his 2011 self. He was worse than the third player on any of those big threes that Jimmy mentioned

"If this is the criterion for a team to be called a Superteam". He said that directly after saying LeBron, Kyrie and Kevin Love were a Superstar, All-star and Fringe All-star, respectively. So, the only arguments that actually matter are whether Kyrie and Kevin Love were Superstars and not just All-Stars.

13:49 I’m guessing the list was Basely of greatness not skill during that season

hello ClipProductions

I feel like jimmy’s videos are mostly him explaining something that is common sense

Bruh shouldn't have got a haircut 😂🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

2022 > every other era. Sure you can compare the top 10, but compare the top 100 players in todays league vs the 1980s.. Not even close. And by result, generally a worse league makes the top crops stand out more. Harder to stand out in todays game

Lebron Second stint with the cavs was dangerous they jus had to deal with the league changing with Curry

16:46 I'm not with you on this one. You go to any team's reddit, they will likely say "our big 3." A big three is the 3 best players on their team. Sure. If you aren't a fan of that team, you know that there's only one big on that team, but Ibig 3 is subjective, now. Many people wouldn't consider Draymond to be a big 3, but he is the third of that core. To clear up my point, if you put any big (not a big man, but big of any big 2/3/4 etc.) on any team, it changes that teams trajectory from tanking to playoffs, or playoffs to contender.

😳😳😳👀👀👀, Jimmy lost me with that super team take 💀😅😂

Hot take: Tyler herro top5 guard in the next 5 seasons

You said "Coherent" I think you meant to say "Cohesive Group"

The 2022 Warriors are only a superteam because they have Wilt Chamberlain the III (Otto Porter Jr)

I only agree with like, one thing Jimmy said himself in this video, and that was that the only super team Bron had was the Heat. I agree bc in my opinion, a superteam has at least two guys who were the best guy on a contending team. Kyrie and KLove didnt touch the Playoffs until Lebron came back to the Cavs. Good stats on a bad team, which is not their fault, but superstars can make bad teams reach the playoffs bc of how good they are. Everything else felt like a bad argument or a casual take

me personally I think if you're gonna list the best players going into the 1988 season and 2023 season you need to view it with respect to their career up to that point to give the upcoming season best players a fair shake. And doing that lowers how high of regard we hold players like Chuck and Karl Malone. Moses Malone was declining for sure coming into the 1988-89 season as was Kareem which was expected but he was clearly declining. Everyone else at that point was either amazing out the gate Like Mj and Hakeem or already an established force like Magic, Larry, and Thomas. Don't get me wrong they were all great players with amazing careers, but in terms of how well they were to perform in the 1988-89 season there were some that weren't viewed as great or as really good as Guys like Luka, Jokic, and Embiid as they're all currently some of the best with one being a multi time top two MVP runner up and one being a two time MVP. Luka just being first team all NBA 3 times in 4 seasons. Edit: If he's just talking greatest career and not loaded as in their ability to be impactful in that coming season then What I said stands minus Moses and Kareem. And In order to be fair the scratch out portion isn't really fair when comparing people now who's careers haven't finished to greats of the past while using their whole career instead of what's happened up until that season. 1. Lebron up to this point in his career or young MJ should easily go to Lebron 2. Larry over KD with arguably his best statistical season up to that point with an insane 30 9 and 6 on 50/40/90 splits for a team that went to the conference finals the season prior to 88-89 3. Magic uncontested 4. Joel over Kareem in terms of effectiveness ( Kareem wins in greatness ) 5. Giannis over young Hakeem 6. Jokic over Moses in terms of effectiveness ( Moses wins in greatness ) 7. Steph over Isiah is pretty fair 8. Kawhi at this point has accomplished more than Karl Malone did at that point in his career with only one all star selection and no rings meanwhile Kawhi at this point has 2 rings and 2 FMVPs and multiple All star selections Charles Barkley at that point in his career if matched up even against Luka would probably be losing to Luka given Luka's insane ascension with 3 first team all NBA compared to Chuck's 1 1st team all NBA and 2 second team all NBA. Not to mention its probably the most fair one as they played the same number of season going into the 88-89 season and 22-23 season with 4. So even against the weakest link in the 22-23 season best players he's not better or greater up until that point. 9. Therefore Luka over Chuck That's just my opinion though as the fairest way to Compare them and it would come out to 4 for 88-89 team in terms of greatness if you match Luka up to Charles instead of Magic Johnson as Magic damn near clears all of them and 5 for 22-23 But in terms of effectiveness its more lopsided in favor of 22-23 team with a 7 -2 as Moses was declining based on his play and Kareem was a shell of himself with Larry clearing KD and Magic defaulting in a more fair matchup spread. To again clarify that just seems like the more fair way to compare them but that's me and that concludes my argumentative essay for the algorithm Edit II: You definitely could argue it would be more fair to compare them based on the number of season they played with the current day player they're gonna be compared against as well but I like comparing it with the year splayed before the seasons that are most Stacked.

2022 warriors (as a fan myself) were not a super team its was steph curry ( u could argue klay or jp) and I bunch of players who could do there roles well -mabey a slight possibility of a big 3 but I dont even believe that-

13:28 1988 v 2022 MJ (25) = Luka (23) (The New soon to be face of the league and proven to be a force) Bird (32) < KD (33) ( Talent wise KD over Bird, but they both had stacked teams for their chips) Magic (29) > Curry (34) ( Same 4 tittles at this point, but Magic had a finals MVP already. We should respect Magic more if he did everything he did and averaged 7 points more he'd probably be the GOAT, this was back when Point Guards had to be Point Guards. And bro caught AIDS ) Kareem (41) < LeBron (38) (The subject GOAT and more Finals MVPs at this point.) Hakeem (25) > Embid (28) ( The two best Centers of their respective Era's, but Embid has had one memorable playoff run at This point) Moses (33) > Jokic (27) (Had his tittle at 28 & already 3 MVPs so unless Jokic winning the chip next year yea.) Isaiah (27) = Kawhi (31) ( Had to fight for their 2 tittles in an Era dominated by two guys. Could say Kawhi had more/higher competition but Kawhi did end up with a "undeserved" Finals MVP & a bus rider championship K.Malone (25) < Giannis (27) (Giannis two time MVP, DPOY, Finals MVP, and champion. Achieved this all at 26. No Giannis Disrespect will be tolerated) Apart from Kareem & Moses the guys in 1988 were younger so if your saying the league was more exciting sure. But if not for COVID and injuries it would have been that way in 2019-2020 As far as 2022 we are leaving off Top 20 talent Hall of Fame guys like : AD, Kyrie, Harden, CP3 and the guys who could go on to create Hall Of Fame legacies like: Tatum, JA , Zion, Booker, Trae, KAT.

I think you meant cohesive..... not coherent

2017 warriors were a super team. They had 4 all star out of which 1 was a future top 10 of all time. 2 MVP level players. A draymond whi was realllly good. And klay thompson who is one of the best 3pt shooter.

He forgot shaq for 1996!!!!

Hot take : the Cleveland cavaliers 2023 is a super team

The Nets with Harden were definitely a super team. Just a failed one. The same way that the 2012-13 Lakers were a “failed” super team

Olajuwon definitely isn't a "concensus" top 10 player of all time even if people would put him there. Plenty wouldn't. He's still super good tho tbf

Why he no like 2k23?

Nothing nothing added via this reaction video

The '04 Lakers were a superteam and lost lol

but the 2022 lakers were a superteam they just didn't play as good as they should

it was the 2000s and hes above 6'9 5:10

Thinking wiggins shouldn’t have been an all star at all is ridiculous also he was the second best player out of both teams in the finals

0:24 this guy who commented this should be restrained from using the internet. (Stop it. Get some help.)

Nah that last one I don’t agree with at all depending on what ur definition of super team but Cleveland was a superteam, obviously heat were, the nets was supposed to be a superteam

Cavs was definitely the better team tbh if it wasnt for injury they could’ve gotten more rings than bron in miami

That last take by him was stupid obviously ya make someone like Kevin love a 3rd option he's gonna have a decrease in numbers but Kevin love was a 20 20 beast before joining that team that was a super team alot of players in those 2nd and 3rd best player slots wouldn't have been as good as kyrie and love were when they were the main players on their teams

Clique W for the KAT respect

Dre green whould not have four finals MVPs but he will have one in 2016 but curry folded like a cheap tint

Peja is kind of a big man, towns is only an inch higher

Thank you 2k 23 is so bad

The hottest take is peja as a big man

Y’all stay trying to change the meaning of a super team. Don’t try to rewrite history. Don’t try to change definitions

id take JT over kawhi or durant going into 2023 personally

Peja is 6”10

is clips a lebron hater?

I guess 88 is great by the names but Kareem was extremely washed in 88.

Wait, he's hating on 2k23 now?

Rather have Kris Middleton then kryire

Bro really said fuck ray allen and shaq lmao

The bucks definitely not a super team they’re a team with great depth on top of leadership from their Demi god leader giannis

I’m taking Simmons over Book ngl

Scottie pippen was a top five player by 1996 better than Gary Payton Charles Barkley and hakkem was second best player in the 90s not David Robinson

I’m sorry but the top 8 in 1988 is such bull. Moses Malone and Kareem were ball of gamers up to that point but they were washed by 1988. I still agree with Barry that this year is the most loaded top 8

13:50 Bird ain’t over KD imma keep that a stack rn, KD would have the clan outside his hotel in Boston for what he would do to Bird.

Jimmy > clique

Karl Malone over Kawhi is insane

hot take overall Luka doncic is better than steph CHILL, STEPH IS BETTER THAN LUKA, ITS LIKE THE KYRIE STEPH THING

That Cavs team was a super team. Everyone talks about Kevin Love but the year before he joined he averaged 26 & 12 then he joins the Cavs and drops to 17ppg.

That best era top8 take has gotta be one of the worst takes I've ever seen. 60's Bill, Wilt, Kareem, Cousy, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Petit, Debusscere 70's Big O, Elvin Hayes, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld, Bill Walton, Pistol Pete, Earl the Pearl 80's Dr.J, Bird, Magic, McHale, Isiah, Moses Malone, Bernard King, Alex English 90's Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Nique, Pat Ewing, Hakeem, David Robinson, Barkley, Stockton and Malone 00's Kobe, Shaq, T-Mac, Nash, Timmy Duncan, Allen Iverson, KG, Paul Pierce Only thinking by head, not interwining eras, and missing a lot of players. I DO agree this era is the most hyped one given social media

Jesus Christ is Love ❤️

Jimmy really just contradicts himself by stacking already proven, retired, full resume players against active, young players who aren’t close to retiring. Context, Jimmy remember? And legitimately if you put the 8 from 2022 against the 8 from 1988 in an actual game environment, 2022 is kicking their ass. The game is always evolving and getting more skilled, 20 to 30 years from now we’ll say the same thing. Stop with this shit

KD da best in da league

Moses aint better jokic jimmy you are hiiigh

Oof. Sorry jimbo, not your best work

That Cavs team was notttt a superteam But ain’t no way in hell you’re arguing MIAMI wasn’t Miami was defffff not just a big 3 It was a SUPERTEAM

Luka> John Stockton and gp and if you don’t agree you tell who you’d rather rather start your franchise with 🤷🏾‍♂️

2k22 was terrible 23 is 22 times better

7:59 if you takin Booker over Ben your HIGH off drugs… terrible example lol.. dude bugged out