The entire existence of ESPN’s First Take is predicated on TV personalities saying dumb sports things in the spirit of mock arguments. It’s hot-take theater.
But Max Kellerman is still a high-profile sports media personality who gets paid to talk about sports on TV. When he says something like Larry Fitzgerald *might* be a Hall of Famer or that Kawhi Leonard surpassed Kobe Bryant, he deserves to feel the wrath of NBA Twitter.
That happened again on Thursday.
Kellerman was offering his take on the impending release of the All-NBA teams, and he said — without irony — that James Harden doesn’t deserve a spot on the All-NBA first team.
The argument in itself made no sense. Kellerman stated that the postseason should be weighed more heavily than the regular season and then went on to name a top 5 that included LeBron James. LeBron, of course, missed the postseason, played just 55 games and had his least efficient season in over a decade. Harden, on the other hand, was the NBA scoring champion.
The take was so bad that Kyle Kuzma had to jump in and call Kellerman out. Plenty of basketball fans joined in.
Kellerman was clearly alone with this horrendous take as Harden was unanimously voted into the All-NBA first team on Thursday. LeBron was on the third team.
