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C.J. Watson to be inducted into Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame

Former Vol C.J. Watson to be inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.

Former Tennessee men’s basketball player C.J. Watson is set to be inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame.

Watson, who played for the Vols from 2002-06 under head coaches Buzz Peterson and Bruce Pearl, will be inducted on June 14.

While playing for the Vols, he was a member of the SEC All-Freshman Team in 2003. He was a Second-Team All-SEC performer in 2006. He appeared in 119 games, making 118 starts. He scored 1,424 career points at UT and averaged 12.0 points, and 4.9 assists per game

Despite not being selected in the 2006 NBA draft, Watson had a lengthy professional career. He played in Italy and Greece.

He also played for the NBA’s G-League for the Rio Grande Vipers.

Watson began his NBA career with Golden State, playing for the Warriors from 2008-10. He also played for Chicago (2010-12), the Nets (2012-13), Indiana (2013-15) and Orlando (2015-17).

Former NBA veteran C.J. Watson believes Sixers need to break up duo

Former NBA veteran C.J. Watson believes it’s time for the Philadelphia 76ers to break up their star duo.

The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to upgrade their roster this offseason to truly contend for a title in the 2021-22 season. The Sixers do not have much money to play with in free agency, so their options are through the draft and through trades.

The biggest possible trade for the Sixers would involve 24-year-old All-Star Ben Simmons. His shooting 34.2% from the free-throw line in the postseason affected other parts of his game: He had five points on four shots in the Game 7 loss to Atlanta in the second round.

The high-visibility performance poured gasoline on the embers of long-time calls for Simmons to be traded, and the Sixers appear to be taking trade calls for the guard. He still has a lot of trade value considering his age and everything he has accomplished in the league.

Former 10-year NBA veteran C.J. Watson joined Paul Gant on the “Go4it” podcast, and he said he believes it’s time for the Sixers to break up the Simmons and Joel Embiid duo:

I think I have to break them up. I think they need more shooting around a guy like Joel Emibiid. He definitely has to have shooting. They have to take the model like the Phoenix Suns have. If you have a big like that, who can score the ball, you have to put a lot of shooting around him, a lot of guys who don’t need the ball, a lot of defensive guys. I think that’s what they’re missing.

Considering the NBA is something of a copycat league, the Sixers will probably take a look at both the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, who are in the NBA Finals to see how they can reach the top. The Sixers have shooters, but they could upgrade by adding another big threat from the perimeter to help Embiid get the job done in the playoffs.

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Former NBA veteran C.J. Watson believes Sixers need to break up duo

Former NBA veteran C.J. Watson believes it’s time for the Philadelphia 76ers to break up their star duo.

The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to upgrade their roster this offseason to truly contend for a title in the 2021-22 season. The Sixers do not have much money to play with in free agency, so their options are through the draft and through trades.

The biggest possible trade for the Sixers would involve 24-year-old All-Star Ben Simmons. His shooting 34.2% from the free-throw line in the postseason affected other parts of his game: He had five points on four shots in the Game 7 loss to Atlanta in the second round.

The high-visibility performance poured gasoline on the embers of long-time calls for Simmons to be traded, and the Sixers appear to be taking trade calls for the guard. He still has a lot of trade value considering his age and everything he has accomplished in the league.

Former 10-year NBA veteran C.J. Watson joined Paul Gant on the “Go4it” podcast, and he said he believes it’s time for the Sixers to break up the Simmons and Joel Embiid duo:

I think I have to break them up. I think they need more shooting around a guy like Joel Emibiid. He definitely has to have shooting. They have to take the model like the Phoenix Suns have. If you have a big like that, who can score the ball, you have to put a lot of shooting around him, a lot of guys who don’t need the ball, a lot of defensive guys. I think that’s what they’re missing.

Considering the NBA is something of a copycat league, the Sixers will probably take a look at both the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, who are in the NBA Finals to see how they can reach the top. The Sixers have shooters, but they could upgrade by adding another big threat from the perimeter to help Embiid get the job done in the playoffs.

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Ex-Net C.J. Watson ready to watch Kevin Durant suit up for Brooklyn

C.J. Watson wouldn’t change anything about his year with the Nets. Though, he thought Brooklyn’s decision to fire of Avery Johnson was odd.

The 2012-13 season was an odd one for the Nets franchise.

Of course, there was plenty of excitement with the team making the move from New Jersey to Brooklyn. But after the first 28 games of the season, the Nets had already decided to move on from their head coach, Avery Johnson — who was named the Eastern Conference Coach of the Month 24 days before he was fired.

And while former Nets point guard C.J. Watson — who averaged 6.8 points and 2.0 assists per game while averaging 19 minutes a night in the 80 games in which he played for Brooklyn that year — found the franchise’s decision rather odd, he wouldn’t change anything about the way that year went, which he explained to Brand “Scoop B” Robinson on the Scoop B Radio podcast:

I thought we kind of underachieved. We didn’t get as far as we wanted to obviously in the playoffs, but I don’t think I would change anything. I don’t know if I would have fired Avery [Johnson] after he got Coach of the Month or whatever, I thought that was kind of weird. But I think it was blessing in disguise and I guess it was meant to happen but like I said, I wouldn’t change anything. It happened how it happened.

But the franchise is in a much different position now than it was in Watson’s lone year with the team. Although they won’t be able to play in the bubble with the rest of the team, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are set to turn Brooklyn into a contender next season.

And Watson is ready to watch the duo go to work:

They’re two great players. KD, in my eyes, is probably one of the top one or two players in the league. And especially when he’s healthy, he’s unguardable. And you throw another player in like Kyrie in there who can create his own shot, make big-time shots in crunch time when you need them … I don’t think you really need a bunch of plays for those two players. Just put ’em in a pick-and-roll in obvious situations and you know, hopefully, they get the best shot that they can every time down the court. But I don’t think that it’ll be a big adjustment because those two players are like I said the top ten players in their category in the league.