The Pelicans Dunked On Skip Bayless For Calling Anthony Davis The NBA’s Most Overrated Player


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Just a few short seasons ago, the basketball world was unanimously hailing Anthony Davis as the NBA’s newest superstar in the making. His length and his athleticism, combined with a hyper-versatile skill-set, made him the prototype of what we now consider the modern unicorn, and his eye-popping statistical feats seemed to predict dominance for years to come.

But injuries, losses, and organizational mismanagement have tempered those — perhaps premature — expectations, and thus the hype surrounding him has subsided significantly. But Davis, who is in the midst of one of his best seasons as a pro, remains very much an elite NBA player.

Well, he has that reputation in at least in some people’s eyes. World-class naysayer Skip Bayless has other ideas about Davis, which he voiced on Wednesday’s episode of “Undisputed,” insisting that Davis’ numbers are inflated and that they ultimately amount to empty calories.

The Pelicans, however, weren’t about to take this one lying down, so they fired back in gloriously petty fashion with a tweet about Skip’s, shall we say, underwhelming basketball career.

On the one hand, it’s satisfying any time Bayless gets his comeuppance. On the other, it’s sort of low-hanging fruit, and it also ascribes to the notion that people who didn’t play or weren’t any good at the sport they write or talk about don’t have any right to criticize it.

But I’m probably overthinking it. This was a good use of social media by the Pelicans.

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