The Rundown Take
Kenny Holmes, Warren Sapp & a No-Deficiency Starting Five: U Talk Runs the D-Line and the Association
Cane Friday rolled on with the defensive side of memory lane — favorite defensive ends and defensive tackles — before Devin pivoted to a new bonus format: an all-time NBA starting five, any era, position by position. A former Miami basketball player, Eric Brown, phoned in to settle the LeBron-Kobe argument once and for all.
Key Takeaways
- Favorite Miami defensive ends: Kenny Holmes, an underrated Jamal Green, and Calais Campbell, with honorable mentions to Greg Mark, Daniel Stubbs and an unheralded LeVar Scott.
- Favorite defensive tackles: Cortez Kennedy, Vince Wilfork and Warren Sapp, with Russell Maryland, Rusty Medearis, Jerald Willis and Kevin Fagan as honorable mentions.
- Devin's all-time NBA starting five: Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — built, in his words, with "no deficiencies whatsoever."
- Former Miami basketball player Eric Brown calls in and sides with Devin: Jordan, Kobe, then LeBron, in that order.
- The night wraps with Devin swapping Netflix recommendations — Ozark and Tiger King — with the family while nobody knows whether there's a football season coming.
The Trenches: Ends and Tackles
Devin opened on the edge with Kenny Holmes, a two-time first-team All-Big East pick who ranks third in Miami sack history, then made the case for an underrated Jamal Green from the 2001 title run before landing on Calais Campbell, calling the 6-foot-8, 300-pound end "a beast." Inside, Cortez Kennedy, Vince Wilfork and Warren Sapp — "the best defensive tackle of all time" — rounded out the list, with Devin giving extra love to Jerald Willis as a player he thinks could have started on Miami's championship-era lines.
A Starting Five With No Deficiencies
The bonus topic asked for an all-time starting five from any era, and Devin built his around two-way dominance: Magic Johnson at the point, Michael Jordan at the two, Kobe Bryant at the three, Tim Duncan at the four and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at center. Callers pushed back with alternatives — Chris Webber over Duncan, Hakeem Olajuwon and Dennis Rodman in the mix — but nobody could shake the frame Devin kept repeating.
"My starting five has no deficiencies whatsoever. All of them clutch, all of them champions, all of them take the big shot at the end of the game and won't shy away from it."
Eric Brown, a former Miami basketball player, called in to back Devin's larger point that LeBron, despite playing with six potential Hall of Famers, still slots behind Jordan and Kobe on the all-time list. With the debate settled to Devin's satisfaction, the show closed the way it often does lately — trading Netflix picks and reminders to stay inside, with a promise of a bigger topic teased for next week.