Open Court on Shawn Kemp

[Applause] so that's that's the name of uh that we didn't mention in the first segment that we mentioned here uh in the what if category and you look at the career of Sean Kent original lab City yeah Gary Payton and Sean I may let them say they was Originators of that some of the greatest in-game dunks it wasn't what it's not really of what if he really was a he had it and we saw it and you but do you think you saw all that you could have seen of that career I don't think we've seen anyone dunk with that type of force animosity you know just like you know it was it was just like we you had it was personal against the room and Steve say you know today the way he dunks it would be a five game suspension just just the way he don't you know yeah yeah when we bring these guys up it's not always because of an injury or something catastrophic that happens that cuts it short circling back to Kemp it was like he had all of this going on and then suddenly got twice the man he used to he got hungry uh and he's and not in a point in his career where it was over it was he still had had years left what was your take on where his where he went from this to this and the numbers then begin to dwindle well we saw them in the 96 finals and watching Rodman and Kemp go at it was incredible but I think that was when Sean was at the height of his powers and then I played with Sean a few years later in Portland about 2001 and I think it was just the lockout you know a lot of guys need the game and need the structure of practicing and workouts and the lockout happened and he came back probably 50 pounds overweight and I don't think he was ever able to recover from it but he doesn't seem like if you look at guys bodies you go well he's a guy I've never have to worry about working out yeah he's a god oh I gotta watch him but Sean Kemp and the way he was built and the way he looked you would say that would never be an issue for him waiting and that was so surprising that you know weight was an issue for him and uh you know unfortunately we realized probably I think some of those other demons off the court affected him right to gain the weight right but um it just showed even that when he was Heavy 50 found 50 pounds overweight he was like I'm still a great jump shooter you know that's the difference when people say you know Blake Griffin I said well you've never really seen Sean Kemp because the one thing you could not do against him is back off him yeah because his 15-foot jump shot was just as good as

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Length: 2min 43sec (163 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2023