Clyde Drexler and Michael Jordan . Photo Credit: ESPN Photos

Last month, TNT Inside The NBA analyst and former NBA player Kenny Smith told Scoop B Radio that his 1994 Houston Rockets would have beaten the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals even if Michael Jordan hadn’t retired.

“Oh we would’ve beat them,” Smith said. “And actually everyone forgets he was playing the second year, he was wearing No. 45 and the team they lost to, the Orlando Magic, we swept them,” Smith said. “We were that much better than them that year, [and] they lost to them.”

Well, Smith isn’t the only person that feels that way.

Insert Smith’s former Rockets teammate Clyde Drexler. After a successful career that included one NBA Finals appearance with the Portland Trail Blazers, Drexler went on to team with Hakeem Olajuwon, Robert Horry, Sam Cassell and Rudy Tomjanovich and won a championship with the Houston Rockets in 1995.

“We would’ve beat them like they stole something,” Clyde Drexler told me on Scoop B Radio.

“The thing is, think about it, the team that beat them with Michael, was the Orlando Magic, and we swept the Magic. But I love Michael, tell him I love him, tell him I said hello.”

After Houston’s two-peat in the 90s, Chicago would win three straight titles from 1996 to 1998.

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Above The Rim Podcast’s Justlin Lee welcomes Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson to the taping of his show in Brooklyn, New York. Photo Credit: Fred Ennette Scoop Vision Media

If you want scholarly hoops talks mixed with pop culture and conversation about hoops from the past and present, Justin Lee is your guy! The Above The Rim Podcast, recorded in the great borough of Brooklyn is the scene of the crime, and Lee, better known to the hoops world as Jus Blaze holds court on his weekly podcast which analyzes the NBA landscape while also featuring guests giving their opinions.

I appeared on episode 11 of Above The Rim Podcast and discussed round 1 of the 2017 NBA Playoffs, Clyde Drexler, Larry Johnson and the Charlotte Hornets and the New York Knicks and Phil Jackson’s growing Carmelo Anthony saga. We also discussed Lance Stephenson’s return to the Indiana Pacers and the notion that Paul George may be the second best player in the NBA’s Eastern Conference behind LeBron James. Is a New Jersey Nets’ Jason Kidd in his prime better than the Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook? Can the Toronto Raptors and the Boston Celtics ever rise out of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ shadow? Are the Atlanta Hawks with the combo of Paul Millsap and Dwight Howard competitive enough? Will the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul and Blake Griffin finally get over the Western Conference Playoffs doldrums?

Oh yeah there’s also Joe Johnson talk!! 

You’ll love the conversation! Above The Rim Podcast is surely an NBA Podcast for the everyday fan!

Check It Out Below! 

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