JJ Redick is an expert in a few areas: he's one of the great shooters in college basketball history and was excellent in the NBA as well. He’s also - well was also - one of the world’s great trash talkers, and not just with the other teams but opposing fans as well. He is now one of the premier sports podcasters in all the land and is building an ESPN career on that.
And he knows, as well as anyone, what it is to be portrayed as a villain.
Redick says it’s just part of being at Duke.