Watching Nets forward Joe Johnson play these days creates a battle between my head and my heart.
My brain processes the 34-year-old’s obvious rapid aging. Only LeBron James has played more NBA minutes than Johnson over the last 12 years, and it shows.
Never known as a skywalker to begin with, Johnson now barely gets any lift on his jump shots. His patented floaters in the paint are no longer money in the bank.
It has led to a precipitous decline in Johnson’s field goal percentage. Prior to Tuesday’s home game versus Atlanta, Johnson was shooting just 32.