JJ Redick isn’t planning to apologize for the way his chiding of Chris “Mad Dog” Russo has gone viral. During an appearance on First Take Wednesday, the SiriusXM host said he wished Warriors forward Draymond Green would “just shut up and play” instead of always talking. It was a comment that Redick didn’t like.
“I do think it is a little bit generational, that certain people are uncomfortable with athletes being outspoken,” Redick said on Thursday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show. “But the undertones of that and the connotation of that, that we’re meant strictly for your entertainment purposes, that we are to use our body strictly for your entertainment and we are not allowed to be human and show emotion and talk s–t, I just don’t like that at all.”
JJ Redick had no regrets about how it played out or anything he said. He did say that as soon as he walked off the set, he did wonder how it would be received.
“In the aftermath, I walked back in the green room, and there was a moment where I was like oh shit, this is probably going to go viral.”
McAfee asked Redick if he was too hard on Chris Russo. The former NBA shooting guard didn’t see it that way at all.
“I think I gently – I could’ve went a little harder – pushed back at Mad Dog. We were fine after the segment, it was fine.”
