Count Kenny Smith among the Rockets players – and fans – who aren’t here for your slander of those 1990s Clutch City teams or your “What If” Michael Jordan scenarios. On an episode of All The Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson released Thursday, the two-time NBA champion shot down those people who say his titles aren’t real because Jordan had left to play baseball during 1 ½ of those seasons.
“We would have beat their ass,” Smith told Barnes and Jackson before going into his role as TNT’s Inside the NBA analyst and breaking down his reasoning.