ESPN's Jay Williams wants to stop using 'Mount Rushmore' term: 'That’s our metric for success?'

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Jay Williams, an NBA analyst for ESPN who starred for Duke in college, took issue with the sports world using the term "Mount Rushmore" to describe the best of the best.

Williams pushed back on Stephen A. Smith’s claim that if Stephen Curry defeated LeBron James in their playoff series this year, then the Golden State Warriors star could knock James off the NBA’s Mount Rushmore. However, he was unhappy with the Mount Rushmore verbiage mostly.

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Jay Williams looks on during the 2020 NBA Draft on Nov. 18, 2020 in Bristol, Connecticut at ESPN Headquarters. (Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)

"Can we first off just stop with the Mount Rushmore talk," he said, via Awful Announcing. "They’re not even the four best presidents this country has ever had. Everyone in this room was not even able to vote. I just want to say that off the top. That’s our metric for success? That’s our king?"

Williams’ colleague Jalen Rose gave a similar take in August.

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Rose went as far to say that using "Mount Rushmore" is "offensive." He said he wanted to cancel the term because the monument was built "on top of dead bodies" of Native Americans whose land was taken from them.

ESPN Analyst, Jay Williams smiles before the game between the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks during Game Three of the 2021 NBA Finals on July 11, 2021 at the Fiserv Forum Center in Milwaukee. (Kena Krutsinger/NBAE via Getty Images)

"Can we retire using Mount Rushmore? That should be offensive to all of us, especially Native