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It's been well-established that ESPN's Skip Bayless is a workout fiend. He spends endless hours on the treadmill, and looks to be in fantastic shape for his age. It's also been well-established that Bayless is a fame-hungry sellout that will say anything on air (and formerly, before he realized it wasn't making him famous enough, in print) just to draw a reaction, and more eyes, and more ratings. Recently, Bayless criticized Oklahoma City point guard Russell Westbrook without the slightest bit of basketball smarts, or hint of nuance, much less research. OKC All-Star Kevin Durant rightfully took his obsessive brand of ignorance to task, and Bayless responded by pumping up his own credits as a high school point guard who finally learned that PGs should think "pass" 12 times before they fire away, on Twitter.

Bayless' ESPN co-host Jalen Rose, after a bit of research of his own, took on Skip after Bayless claimed that he started as a shot-happy point guard for a high school team that made the state finals in Oklahoma. Bayless didn't start for his high school squad, it turns out, and didn't even play for the varsity until his senior season, when he averaged 1.4 points per game. Here's the video of Rose calling a clearly uncomfortable Bayless out:

Jalen didn't exactly do the digging himself. No, that was left to the fine folks at The Last Ogle, who found out that Bayless played only 15 of his teams 22 games during his senior year, and that no player on his squad scored fewer points than Bayless. Doesn't exactly sound like a shot-happy point guard that learned his lesson the hard way, as Bayless claimed. Even in trying to make himself look like a cautionary tale, he still lied to his half a million Twitter followers just to make a silly point to feed the daily gasbag that is his needless talk show.

what were some of the predictions he made last night?

i remeber one of them was brandon weedon at #4 overall if he were the browns GM

ya i dont blame the players.  it was basically give the ball to lebron/wade, dribble out the clock and then make something happen with 2 seconds or left.  lebron was tripled teamed and made a bad pass, wade had an open shot n just missed. 

bosh is coming back so hopefully that helps limit garrnet whos been killing the heat and can add some scoring.  cant wait for game 5!

need that tshirt asap

hahaha omg.  do redskins not realize they traded all their draft picks until 2020 to the rams in order to aquire rg3?

well that point alone he is correct.  but when u factor in the fact that he is the league mvp, the finals mvp, and now the best player in the olympics i think those factors all add up to make him pretty special.

seriously wtf else does lebron need to do to get skip to admit anything positive?

hahah JETSPN thats funny.  i actually read a deadspin article on how much time sportscenter devotes to each league, team, player etc and the jets were at like 10% which is pretty high for a team who is doing nothing but practing haha

http://deadspin.com/5932956/bristolmetrics-what-does-sportscenter-do-when-they-dont-have-olympic-tv-rights-tebow-tebow-tebow#13445411505393&{"type":"iframeUpdated","height":997}

how has it not?  seriously, for 1 year only, what else could lebron have done.  skip is a jjjjjjooooooookkkkkkkeeeeeeeee

never said he was better.  u cant compare the greatest player of all time's career to a 27 year old.  but for 1 year and 1 year only, its a bigger arugment than u think.  they guy won the mvp, finals mvp, league champion and was the best player in the world for a gold medal team.  what else can he possibly do in a 1 year period?

u guys see skip tweet durant like 5 more times talking about training with lebron and his final one was asking him to come on his show n debate with him.  all he tries to do is get ratings

"Skip whenever you refer to me, whenever you speak to me, whenever you address you me address me as all pro Stanford graduate. Cause those are some accomplishments you will never see, you can aspire to. You have never accomplished anything. I am all pro. I am top 22 at my profession. You arent top 22 anything. I am better at life than you"

-Richard Sherman to Skip Bayless

love them both.