I Build My Perfect Modern Team Around Michael Jordan Using Today's NBA Players
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2024
- In this clip, JJ Redick builds his perfect NBA team around Michael Jordan in today's NBA. Some players include Derrick White (Boston Celtics) and Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) but who else is on the squad? Tune in to find out!
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Make this a series with a bunch of NBA greats from the past as the centerpiece and modern players as their cast and I’m in
100% facts
JJ picked Pippen over MJ a week ago, when he built a super-team of one player per decade. This segment is because of the backlash JJ received. So, it's a one-time segment.
I agree bro
agreed!!!!
Every team gonna have Derrick White😂
JJ building a team around Shaq:
PG: Derrick White
SG: Derrick White
SF: Derrick White
PF: Derrick White
C: Shaq
82-0
Honestly yeah why not 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i think you forgot White, Derrick
And that would be a helluva team
He gonna put Derrick White on every single one of these teams
Yep. As he should.
Derrick White is basically the upgraded Derek Fisher and D Fish was great on LA and in OKC
I mean, if you go with the salary cap DW is basically a steal that fits in almost any lineup, it would be fun to add "can't draft any player twice in videos too, or him and Jokic could go in any team
Bruh. We all did / do similar when we build our own video game teams. There’s usually 1-2 players with outsized value. 🫡
@@newagain9964 Iman Shumpert was a 3 & D monster on 2K for a while. Always had him on my team
I LOVE how JJ uses the salary cap consideration to make it realistic and more interesting, keep it up
Absolutely. Of the great players on cheap deals he could have also picked Wemby, Scottie Barnes, Herb Jones, Franz Wagner, Jonathan Kuminga, Jalen Johnson, Chet Holmgren, Alperen Sengun. I would pick all of these guys over Royce O'neall
Yeah these comments putting their own teams aren’t realistic
@@liekegerritsen1620 I think those guys would mostly be unrealistic if he picks joker and he has mj they are not getting top draft picks lol
@@liekegerritsen1620 Imo maybe this team can get some draft picks through trades but at the same time they would be lucky to get lottery picks
Yeh my first thought when he salary cap was, generally teams that win are way over. But he made adjustments for that.cool segment.
Nah JJ got it, I find myself watching him more than ESPN and undisputed
Nobody really watches undisputed anymore. Not since Shannon left.
@@BenSmith56789🤣🤣🤣 the sheep can’t stop speaking that narrative. Who tf in 2024 is watching first take? No one. The ONLY reason anyone watches Shannon now, is for gossip. Katt Williams made Shannon after Skip made him. Literally Shannon means nothing on first take🤣🤣 you gotta be a boot licking dunce to act like first take anything better than undisputed. Mfs been waiting for skips ratings to be down meanwhile skip is damn near 90 years old🤣🤣 Shannon is Wendy Williams idk why y’all hyping him up like he Michael Jackson
Nightcap got it, jj is great though
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that got tired of the same takes recycled across sports media
JJ does not deserve to utter the name of Michael Jordan. JJ can keep sucking leBron's d!ck for the rest of his life.
Died when JJ said DW. If I didn't know any better, JJ would've drafted White before MJ 🤣
Yes, when he described I thought of Jrew Holliday
Derek white is remarkably underrated. I've been a massive fan of him for years, people just look at the numbers but his basketball IQ and all the stuff he does that doesn't appear on the stat sheet make him fly under the radar. Love jrue holiday but I'd take d white on my team over him any day of the week. They're both great players, don't get me wrong I'm not slighting holiday in any way, but d white is a special player.
tell us you don't know basketball without telling us. ew.
I hope he does this 10 more times and adds DW first every time
JJ is factoring cap space.
I have a feeling that every "build around" segment is gonna have derrick white on the roster 🤣 love JJ man
I mean, his skill set fits incredibly well around literally any player. Good shooter, great defender, solid secondary playmaker, and can create his own shots.
He is not including players already used in other build around rosters.
PG - T. Halliburton - $5.8 M
SG - Jordan - $51 M
SF - M. Bridges - $21.7 M
PF - Giannis - $45.6 M
C - A. Sengun - $3.5 M
J. Kuminga - $6 M
S. Adams - $12.6 M
Grayson Allen - $8.9 M
A. Reeves - $12 M
J. Jaquez - $3.5 M
Salary Cap - $170.6 M
Really nice 🔥
That starting 5 is scary good.
Won’t work after Hali gets his extension. lol
@@matthall5781one year rental lol works with our salary 😂
@@matthall5781Kuminga gonna be up for an extension right after too lol.
Jokic and mj 2 man game would be the greatest thing ever created
Yeah! In my mind, it's like if you combine Aaron Gordon and Murray... you'd have MJ. Elite at shooting, driving, and slashing.
@@jordankelley8894 That is a good combo comparison. I was thinking of Ja’s explosiveness and penetration abilities with Edward’s body, athleticism, and shooting. MJ would average 40 easy. 😂
And best part, you wouldn't have No Bulls1t tour after they retire 🤣
I don’t know man, Jokic-Curry or Lebron-Curry or Shaq-Curry would be insane too, Curry and Jokic can play with any players and make them better, even a Lebron-Jokic would be insane, imagine Jokic-Gordon but on steroids, Lebron is also a great off ball player, elite cutter, can catch lobs and make alley oop and also shot close to 40% from 3, and he is the best driver, finisher and transition player ever, and he could provide elite rim protection as a 3 or 4, you could even go big and play him at the 1 if we are talking about prime/young Lebron because he could guard any position …
Man if Jamal looks this good MJ is going to be extra scarey
I knew Derick White was gonna be first pick lol
Yup
Derrick White just fits in anywhere
@@moonpieism yes but we all know that is jj reddicks NBA crush
same
It’s funny but he would be such a perfect one gaurd next to him lol. Allow mj to do his facilitating and scoring by getting the ball out his hands so Quick and always making the right read
Getting Naz Reid in at that last pick was really good 💯💯
Gotta put shooting around Mike since he would be below average 3pt shooter
@@nahmanimgood.3194 I think you're underestimating MJ and that era. You would get benched for taking a three sometimes. They would practice them more and up their percentages. MJ did hit 7 threes in the first half of a playoff game against Portland once. The magic number is 33% and he shot at .327 for his career, and that's including his first 4 years at roughly 18% at less than one attempt per game. Career wise he only attempted 1.7 threes per game. Strangely his best % was for the 17 games he returned after the first retirement where he shot 50%. And most notably the seasons where he attempted the most threes (3 per game) were his best 4 years, ranging from 37-43%.
@themetalpig7613 STRANGELY, those highest 3pt% seasons was the one's when NBA moved the 3pt line closer.. Hmmm, is there any connection in this I'm thinking.. 🤔🤔🤔 Very "STRANGE"... 🤔 But I guess you need to know more about the basketball and the history of the game, when just Googling plain stats from Basketball Reference, lol...
It took Lebron 20 years to get to below average from 3. Safe to say that Jordan would adapt to the times fairly easily
@@prizmo1984 but he didn’t
MJ + Jokic with a bunch of solid role players is automatically championship favourite.
No doubt 💯
2 man game that would never be stopped.
Hakeem next JJ 🙏
Yessss
@@JJRedick Kareem too
Hakeem is so underrated. I don’t enjoy hypotheticals, but if he just had a better roster around him like the other greats had…we might have been looking at the GOAT
To me, Dream is the best big man of all time in terms of skills. Obviously team success hurts him in terms of legacy. But there is no big man with as good of a two-way game. Fadeaway, post moves, rolling to the rim, lockdown Rim protector and lateral mobility
@@JJRedickor any big that don’t shoot. How to build a team to compete with shooting bigs?
JJ really did something with this new segment ‘Build Around’…can’t wait to see who he does next
Me
I like that he considers salary. It's too easy to make a dream team lineup.
Limitations foster creativity. Sometimes, the best five players don't win because their skills aren't complementary or they aren't willing to sacrifice.
The best players as long as they aren't all the same position like 5 centers pfs pgs or sgs can work...gotta have many swing guys in todays nba...but even so a team of durant lebron brown tatum and derozan for example may not fit perfect but the talent would be too much to overcome even with a bad pg pf and center around them and minimum third string level guys...sure they would be small at c and have no true pg but lbj can playmake and kd can stretch the floor.....it would work
MJ and Joker on the same team would be deadly.
Batman + Joker on the Same team
He luc longley on Lebron HGH LOL
look at what nikolas jokic is doing with an injury prone Jamal murray . Imagine what he could do with MJ
None of nuggets postseason success came without Murray and it’s not just those 2. It’s a full team.
@@brendanbloom3366 Nuggets never missed only Murray in playoffs, so we don't know. Whenever Murray was missing there were always also 1 or 2 more starters missing plus 2 or 3 key bench players missing at the same time. Jokic proved he could win a playoffs series (against historically great Lillard at that time) with just one starter (Porter Jr) who was also not fully healthy and a bunch of undrafted and third string bench players, so it's very possible Jokic could make NBA Finals without Murray. Jokic also proved he could win a game against NBA champions GSW who had one of the best starting 5 ever (Curry, Thompson, Green, Poole and Wigging) with 14ppg Aaron Gordon who came to Nuggets at half season and undersized bench player Monte Morris, which no other player in NBA could do with such 2nd and 3rd best option. And also, it's not just about Murray, it's the fact that Jokic was missing his 2nd best player on a team built with just role players only. Give Jokic any of the 2nd best players on other contender teams and he wins the title, because most other teams have a better 2nd option than Murray (Brown, Kyrie, Thompson (before injury), Lillard (on the Bucks), Davis, Maxey, Sabonis or Fox (pick which is 2nd option on Kings), George, Booker, etc)!
@@joemilo2710 the 6 seed blazers? It’s not like those blazers were star studded either and they had a trash defense. Winning that series don’t mean they can make the finals without Murray. They got swept the next rd by Phoenix. They would have lost to a healthy clippers and lakers team as well. You can’t just act like it’s all about one player and that 1 player isn’t even a 2 way player.
@@brendanbloom3366 You must be joking!? Blazers 6th seed has nothing to do with how great Lillard was in those playoffs. He was dropping 50+ and 40+ points on Nuggets multiple times and I remember everybody was bragging how special and historic he is playing in that playoff series and he still had McCollum and you are gonna downplay what Jokic did with a 20 year old who played with injured back called Porter Jr as his 2nd best player and a bunch of bench and 3rd string players as starters??? LOOOOL It's ridiculous mentioning Suns swept Nuggets without even knowing Nuggets played at guard position with Austin Rivers who they signed on a 10-day contract before playoffs because of all the injuries and played undrafted 3rd string guard 5'7 tall Campazzo against two MVP candidates that season Booked and Chris Paul! LOOOOL Porter Jr didn't even make it through the Suns series, he got injured too and was averaging single digit points that series because of injury and back pain. I'm sure Lakers and Clippers didn't have anything close to such injures, they had their star players healthy and playing against the Nuggets!
How is that duo even defensible? They could goof off during the regular season and probably still lead their team to the best record.
I need more of this jj PLEASE
But it does make so much sense! 😅
MJ would live having White and would probably somehow drive him to give even more intensity.
I want to see Barkley. I don’t think he gets enough credit for how unique a player he was. He was actually the first small ball big.
I mean Barkley always played with a traditional big so idk how he was a small ball big. And Wes Unseld was either 6’6” or shorter and played in the 60s as the actual center so if anyone was the first small ball big it would be him.
@@christophergooding9820 under the traditional lineup context, a 4 is also a big.
@@christophergooding9820was unseld going coast to coast? Being the primary ball handler?...
@@DJJE928 then sure
@@reimixo tbh I don’t know although I doubt he did. But I don’t think you need to do that to be a small ball big. If that’s what you mean by small ball big then he wasn’t that sure
Great segment, I love this kind of stuff. Theorizing, but adding in realistic scenarios.
Pretty cool you got the GOAT bulls player in Caruso along with MJ
I love that JJ love DWhite. The guy just makes so many plays. Flies around, timely offensive rebounds, moves the ball quickly, has turned into a reliable shooter. Every game he just does all these great little things that don't show up on a stat sheet too. What a player!
I want to see this series with Shaq, Bird, Chuck, and Kareem.
Kareem next! We need more of this as a series for sure
Haliburton, shai kareem, that's 90M or so, gimme wemby off the bench, 102M, j.will, 106.5M derrick white off the bench, 125+- Tatum at the 4 brown at the 3, that's like 64M so
Tyrese shai brown Tatum kareem with white jalen Williams and wemby off the bench, 189+-... since I got the money, gimme Franz Wagner!
I'm really surprised you didn't go with 4 derrick whites
JJ auditioning for that front office job
Continue doing this series forever please this is so excellent.
“Imagine a 2 man game with Michael Jordan and Nikola Jokic.” I chuckled when I heard that. Because that would be flat out amazing and absolutely unbeatable. My God🤯🤯🤯
Probably the most unstoppable team ever damn.
you serious?
gtfo You serious? This isnt even best team around Jordan with modern players let alone ever.
@@mrfatuchi This isn't fantasy all time team with 40-50 Mil each player. This is realistic with actual salaries. JJ did create the perfect team
This team gets folded.
No the most unstoppable team ever is:
Curry
Jordan
Lebron
Timmy
Shaq or Jokic for passing/spacing
Brilliant segment, loved it, more pls chief
Jordan & Jokic yea thats tough
this is an awesome segment. I can't wait to see more of this
OMG 😱Jokić& Jordan would be scary
That p&r would be absolutely wild.
The only bad thing that could rise from this is Either Jordan would start betting with jokic horse or he would ride it himself on race.
@@josephrafferty6763Jordan was iso/post up. He’s not a pick and roll player.
@@beanteam2217he could easily be one. He wasn’t one b/c his centers weren’t that good lol
@@beanteam2217 You know when MJ runs the pick and roll and the big drops, that’s a mid range layup for him everytime right ? lol
More of this JJ!!!
Thanks!
A 2-man attack of MJ & Joker would be absolutely unstoppable
JJ…this is your best segment yet. I love it. You wanna know how much I love it? I commented on your video…for the first time…I left a comment. This team is on point and the segment is amazing! Thank you and keep it up!
For a second with the extra $$$ I thought he was gonna hire Doc as his coach! 😂😂
Gotta do Larry Legend too 🙏🏾
Mikal Bridges at PF is insane.
Yeah but you know that today’s NBA is positionless (basically), so it isn’t that big of an issue. Hypothetically speaking, that starting unit does create a lot of space in the court, everybody can literally shoot from anywhere from 1-5, almost every player can defend pretty good (Jokic is the only drawback), but he makes up on the offensive end. Jokic can read/determine plays before occurring, always looking up ahead, his a dangerous player on P&R’s, he can post up, draws defenders towards him, most of the times makes the right plays and can rebound for somebody who is not athletic.
Very lol
J Dub plays the 4 all the time. He has a 7ft+ wingspan and is built like a tank.
Switchable with J dub 🤷🏻♂️
What’s wrong with a forward combination of Mikal and J-Dub? Especially when you have a big backcourt and a big physical center who can rebound well in Jokic
Great series idea. Keep em coming
This is genius!! Gunna love watching more of these segments 🙌🏽 p.s magic Johnson next ✨
This is the ‘98 Bulls but instead of Jordan pulling Rodman from Vegas he’s pulling Jokic back from the Horse races
That entire Vegas thing was a lie..MJ went to Rodman Chicago apartment after he was back from Vegas..Carmen even says it.
Jokic passes and Jordans big hands a perfect setup
This build around a past player content is 🔥 this is great JJ
We need one of these daily 🤣🤣🤣 I was very intrigued by this.
This is a perfect roster lol even ignoring MJ himself and substituting him with another max-level combo guard ie Booker. Williams (PG in college until his massive growth spurt), White, and Bridges especially would all be able to operate in both PnR and DHOs with a big and be trusted to initiate the offense. Caruso & Royce as well, albeit less effectively than the other 3. That being said, all 5 would be very active off ball and understand maintaining spacing while also being opportunistic with basketcuts for layups and be able to be knock down spot up guys that will be in the right place at the right time. The backcourt and wings on this team has great positional size and 2way versatility, which all pairs perfectly with Jokic.
But then the true beauty of this team is that Jokic's backups have comparable enough skillsets to run the exact same actions. Hart in LAC and his chemistry with Mann is a great example, and Naz is just a hyper-dynamic basketball player. You could run the same base offense regardless of personnel which is huge for continuity between starters and the bench since they'd have a shared identity. I'd even go so far as to say, I'd want to see Jokic on the court with Naz especially but also see about the twin towers approach with Hart.
People forget that Malone played Jokic at PF next to Plumlee for ~8min per game from 2018-2020 and the Nuggets were +7.7 NET RTG in those minutes.
Well said. Jokic was drafted as a power forward initially to play alongside Nurkic. When Nurkic was traded, Jokic became a full time center.
When asked about which NBA players he liked, a young Jokic mentioned (Duncan, Nowitski and Lamarcus Aldridge) which all happen to be power forwards. He didn't mention centers like Shaq.
I agree, an ideal line up with Jokic is to have him play the 4.
My all time lineup is this
PG Lebron
Sf: Jordan
Sf: Bird
PF: Jokic
C: olajuwon
In today's NBA it would be
PG : Jrue Holiday
Sg: Klay Thompson
Sf: Kris Middleton
PF: Jokic
C: Naz Reid
C - AD - 40.5m
PF - Kawhi - 45.6m
SF - Franz - 5.5m
SG - MJ - 51m
PG - White - 18.3m
PG/SG - Suggs - 7.2m
SF/PF- Jalen W - 4.5m
C - Wemby - 12.1m
184.7m
That’s over the cap and you only have 8 players
@@117Awesome JJ himself says 8-man rotation with a cap of 195 million. Watch the video next time moron.
Great video need more of this.
Love to see this segment with guys who were unique and difficult to build around or had bad teams that held them back - Barkley, prime Dirk, Wolves KG, etc etc. doesn’t have to be all pf’s 😂
How would you build around the plumbers from the 60s?
lol
2:13
I think Jalen Brunson w/ Michael Jordan would be a great backcourt.
This was a cool segment. Keep it going...
This is a captivating series! Looking forward to more. A Jordan & Jokic combo is among the scariest duos I can think of in a flowing and functional offense as opposed to just taking two all-time greats and slapping them on the same team and wondering what might happen.
MJ GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 💯🔥 (BULLS)
Love this segment, JJ. Can't wait for more of those. 😁😁
At first I thought it was going to be another boring super team, but putting the salary restrictions in made this a really fun thought experiment. Great team, cant wait for more of these! 💪
I enjoyed the idea of the video with the salary caps, a couple of tricks but it was so interesting
Love JJ’s analytics. Keep it up man.
PG - Jrue (Snubbed DPOY)
SG - Jordan (DPOY)
SF - Brandon Miller
PF - Jaren Jackson Jr (DPOY)
C - Wemby (Future DPOY)
Porzingis, Draymond (DPOY), Drummond (Board getter, play him like Rodman)
i like it. Jordan; Wemby; 2 3andD; and a shooter (curry in vet minimum in a few years 😅)
Absolute delight to watch this, such a brain massage to contemplate around this idea, brilliant delivery of his approach. You are a true intellectual JJ.
as soon as you said "point of atta-" i knew it was derrick lmaooooooo
This is an awesome segment 👌🏽
This battles with the Hoops tank for my favorite segment! Awesome
Love this new episode concept! Players you could also make a modern team around for future episodes: 2006 Kobe, 1994 Olajuwon, 1987 Magic Johnson, 1972 Kareem, 2001 Iverson
More of this please!
I need more of these!!!
Great Video idea👍, please do a series
Great idea for the video! This must become a series
Great segment but we need the occasional Leglers Lab too
Starting Lineup: Alex Caruso (PG, 9.5 mil), Jaylen Williams (SG, 5 mil), Michael Jordan (SF, 51 mil), Victor Wembanyama (PF, 12 mil), Nikola Jokić (C, 47 mil). Bench: Jalen Brunson (G, 26 mil), Derrick White (G, 17.5 mil), Draymond Green (F/C, 26 mil), Javonte Green (G/F, vet min). Total salary is 195 mil. For offense, put Brunson in for Caruso. For defense, swap in Draymond for Jokic, swap Derrick White in for Jaylen Williams. There is lots of good ways to answer this question. I like this team because it has a lot of versatility in how to attack other teams, and lots of players that make winning plays and play with energy. Caruso's main responsbility is to harass the other team's guards. Jaylen Williams is all-around player that provides scoring and good defense. Wemby provides shot blocking as a help defender and is a great lob threat and can space the floor. Jokic can facility some offense through him and is also a great rebounder. Brunson provides scoring off the bench, Derrick White provides great defense and more offensive versatility than Caruso, Draymond Green provides elite defense, leadership, and passing abilities, Javonte Green gives a lot of energy and can be a lob threat as well provide strong defense. Offense can run through 5-out isolations for Jordan, inverted PNRs with Jokic and Jordan, PNRs with Wemby and Jordan, off-ball action with Draymond handling, Jalen Brunson drive and kicks. Lots of ways to attack with this team and lots of different offensive schemes that can be run based on the personnel, which makes it very difficult to defend this team. Not to mention a defense that is practically impossible to score on.
2k CZcamsr out there. One of you should put this team together and see how well they do lol
U got my subscription!! Smart picks 💯that’s a tough out in a 7 game series 😅
I really like this! Maybe this should be its own series where you make teams for legends of the game
Need more of these
I like the salary cap here. It makes this soooooo much better. Plus Jordan yelling at Bridges would be golden
This is an incredible segment! Please make this reoccurring segment!
SG: MJ
PF: Duncan
C: Wemby
SF: Peja
PG: Hedo
this is a great segment
We need more of those 😍
more of these!
Really thought JJ was describing Jrue Holiday with that first pick.
Very interested in this becoming a series but I assume a lot of these teams will want the same players. The big 2-3 for each team will differ but aside from that, what player wouldn't shine alongside 3 & D players at each position who can switch on defense.
Edit: Very happy to learn that in the Build around Shaq video, he clarifies that previous picks are banned from being picked again.
This was great stuff
Easy... Starter: Haliburton - Jordan - OG - Markkanen - Jokic
Bench: White - Bridges - Turner
Yeah JJ we need one of these every week!!
Very fun new segment! Would love to see one on Duncan or Shaq
Love the segment. The ise of salary really puts it in perspective
Love videos like this!
Absolutely love this idea!
This would be good for when you get guests on you can use past players for current players too and they can make suggestions as well
JJ out here compiling the ultimate DAWG squad
Loved this segment JJ!
Great segment
Love this series JJ, you got it
I'm digging this segment
The defense on the perimeter is actually wild.
pretty good. i’d substitue one of them to a rebound guard or forward.
that way mj and bridges have the green light to shoot
🔥🔥🔥🔥 JJ! This is some good high quality CONTENT(WATERBOY VOICE)😂😂
Great idea ... Should start a series from this
I'd love to see you do Tim Duncan, Larry Bird, and Allen Iverson
This is fire 🔥🔥🔥
“Imagine Jordan and Derrick White together…. Okay I have a video idea”