Windy: No one wants to face the Celtics! 😤 + Addressing Stewart-Eubanks altercation | NBA Today

Windy: No one wants to face the Celtics! 😤 + Addressing Stewart-Eubanks altercation | NBA Today

We should all feel like we got to do a little bit more cuz we didn’t win I want to get over that hump I want to get back to the finals been so close these last two years that want to do whatever it Takes good there we go throws it up throws it down and kiss off to the crowd you know we’re the best team in the league so winning takes care of everything the NBA action last night it was fantastic it always is so let’s do a little coasta coast and since we just

Saw the Celtics let’s start with them because they gave the Nets a hot and spicy how do you say hot and spicy 50 piece oh yeah night Boston is now the third team in NBA history with multiple 50-point wins this season Chan I mean Championship robust for the Celtics oh

Absolutely Championship robust because this is a champion team the only thing that they’re missing right now is quote unquote signature wins but I think that’s by Design I think they’re pacing themselves you heard Jason Tatum earlier they want to get to the finals if they get their healthy they can make some

Real noise let’s move South here to Orlando where Paulo benero dropped an easy 36 and the magic beat how do you say it big big body Brunson big body big body Brunson and the injury riddled knck by 18 as the senator of the Knick perk are you concerned about this season

Worst losing streak hell no I I believe they were missing last night four of their key guys rotational players look it’s just time for them to go into the allar Allstar break they’ll come back refresh and rejuvenize all right let’s head up the I5 then to Philadelphia

Where the Sixers had no answer for B bio and his 23 points 14 rebounds in the Heat win Miami’s won six of their last eight games while Philly has lost nine of their last 12 so Wendy whose stock are you buying whose stock are you selling well look Philly’s you know

Licking their wounds until embiid gets back but you know Miami with winds in Milwaukee and Philly on backto back nights without Jimmy Butler terrific little stretch there right before the All-Star break and Cleveland this is for you Donovan Mitchell he scored 30 points the Cavs rallied from

Down 17 to beat the Bulls Cleveland is now 18-2 in their last 20 games so perk are we sleeping on the Cavs playoffs Outlook no the simple fact that we’ve seen this movie before with a Donovan Mitchell lead team we we watch Donovan Mitchell and Utah have great regular

Seasons and all of a sudden they drop the ball in the postseason so we got to see this in the postseason with well Donovan Mitchell would agree with you so let’s take a look at the standings right heading Allstar break the Eastern Conference it looks like this plenty of

Teams sort of bunched up after the Celtics at top the standings the Cavs they’ve made a furious push ahead of the Bucks the Knicks the 76ers and we know the Celtics are all the way at the head of the pack right now you have a couple

Of teams that are sort of lurking the Knicks we talked about their injuries a little bit but as you look at the second half of the Season Brian your biggest question is what yeah obviously there’s a fight for the two seed because that pack of teams is pretty close together

Talent-wise and you want to get the home court you want to get the playin team in the first round and then I think it’s going to be a fight for the three seed because if you’re the four seed that means you got to face Boston probably in

That second round you want to avoid the Celtics who are playing brilliant basketball right now I mean they over the right now they’re they’re averaging plus 10 in net rating that means every 100 possessions they outscore their opponents by 10 points we haven’t seen a team that dominant since the 1617

Warriors which was the Durant team after they already had won 73 games that’s the kind of play the Celtics are on right now you don’t want to see them at all but if you if if you have to see them make sure it’s a Conference Finals mine

Is the Milwaukee Bucks cuz it’s so much uncertainty there right like we know that they’ve been inconsistent but what’s up with Chris midon since he’s since the start of the Season he he hasn’t looked healthy he looks old now he’s sideline again and I understand right do coming in the new system is

Going to take time we saw saw the flashes against the Denver Nuggets but none of us on this panel trust the Milwaukee Bucks I don’t like I could go on Lim right now and say obviously I trust the Celtics more than them I trust the Nicks healthy more than them I

Actually trust the the Cavaliers right now more than the Milwaukee and the sisters when they’re Health right right so what what what’s going to happen with them are they going to pick up some guys in the the market of you know on the bio market like things to that nature so if

They don’t have a healthy Chris milon they could canel Christmas yeah oh well there you go you know I am I am right there with you perk because coming into the season the biggest acquisition was Dame Lillard and we knew that that would change the nature of this team losing

Drew holiday losing your best perim perimeter Defender now you have Dame who’s going to help them late close games but what we’ve seen is just you know those tiny tweaks actually have had a huge impact and now I’m thinking about the future if this season does not work

Out for the milwa bucks we’ve known that jannis an Deo he gives his all when he’s out there and especially now more because Doc Rivers is holding him accountable defensively but I I can see like if this doesn’t work he applied pressure could we be seeing a situation

Where a year or two he isn’t a buck because this is not what he really wants in winning he his standard is winning championships yeah I don’t think you should get ahead of yourself on that I would just say that for all the problems that the Bucks have and we’ve listed

Them here we can list them here now they have tremendous topend Talent so if you’re if you’re a bucks fan and you’re trying to figure out what you think’s going to happen yeah you’re betting on that I got two Hall of Famers in my starting lineup and that by April or

Even by the end of April by the end of the first round they will have found a way I can’t present you a great case for why they will but that’s what you’re betting on and I would probably ride with believing in Yan is figuring out

Ways to make a run than I would bet against them you have to think the Buck’s best basketball is still in front of them but part of the reason you have to think that is because if you’re looking at the body of work that has been behind them that’s just not a

Championship team particularly when you have to go through a team like the Celtics particularly when you’re looking at a team like the Denver Nuggets I do think getting back to the finals would be enough I think we’re you know we don’t necessarily have to have the what

Happens next with Giannis after that but it’s being in that conversation and in contention that they still feel a step away from and like Brian said I don’t necessarily expect them to get major help in the buyout market so they’re in a little bit of a a pickle should we say

We were talking about the Warriors as getting their groove back so I don’t want to overreact to one game but it’s the fact that we’re seeing the same Trends over and over in the games that they’re losing they can’t afford to not beat the Clippers on their home floor

Without kawh Leonard in a game that they were up by double digits and when the when Paul George was struggling in the first half and he fouled out but let me give us some props to Russell Westbrook I thought yesterday with when PG went out I thought he did an exceptional job

Of actually being an underrated Floy General right dishing out the pill making time passes on time on target but again we go back to the Golden State Warriors I mean they’re going to get into the postseason I strongly believe that and then they’re going to get

Bounced out in the first round then we just look forward to Nick well it did it did take seven games against the Sacramento Kings last year and just an absolutely heroic effort by Steph Curry to make it into the second round so we’ll see what this year holds it was an

Eventful night across the league last night including in Phoenix Arizona and it’s not just what the suns were doing on the court and getting a win Detroit Piston Center Isaiah Stewart punched Phoenix son Center Drew Eubank at the arena this was hours before the teams played and then was subsequently

Arrested for assault Eubanks was able to play in the game and Phoenix police said Stewart was issued a citation and release so take a listen to how both teams reacted to the incident for me to come here you know make a statement that that’d be a bit

Irresponsible I know the Suns put out a statement and and said it was unprovoked um I think that is irresponsible I got her surely around when it happened and um you know there’s no place for anything like that in our game there’s no place for it it’s unfortunate what happened before the

Game um this supposed to be a Brotherhood um but also understand dudes get into stuff and stuff may happen but you know we try to avoid that in this league we not going to this surprised me don’t get me wrong no one should be hitting anybody ever you don’t put your

Hands on people but the fact that this reached the point of police involvement that that was a little bit surprising to me perk uh not with me I mean and look my my good friend my brother Troy Weaver right who’s the general manager of the Detroit Pistons you got to get this

Young man under control we talk about a pattern of behavior when we criticize Draymond Green but we have seen a p in with Isaiah Stewart don’t act like we didn’t see him chasing LeBron James all inside on the court all around Arena around the block like you got to get

This young man out of control and again I who was that that said we have no place for this in our game was that Frank voger and he’s damn right you cannot do that I have been around the league all my life and I’ve never heard of an incident like this pregame right

That’s the thing so it happened before they’re on the court they’re not in the same conference I don’t know of any beef that they’ve had although his nickname is beef stew but I don’t know of any beef that they had they don’t they weren’t I checked they hadn’t played against each other in

College I’m not sure other thing is as you guys know when teams arrive visiting teams arrive they arrive in a group they arrive on a bus so he would had teammates with him it there’s obviously more to this story and I’m here to hear what it was because this is such an

Unusual event and then the game starts and Deon Booker gets ejected for two technicals 5 minutes into the game it was just everybody needed the All-Star break what’s what’s what’s that you always say about what we need to do in our chairs we need cool booty yeah I

Felt like just everybody just needs to keep a little bit of a little bit of a a cool booty but it was a peculiar that’s the word that I would use to describe just that entire night in Phoenix it was just a little bit of a peculiar Situation

Brian Windhorst, Chiney Ogwumike and Kendrick Perkins join Malika Andrews on NBA Today to discuss their biggest questions in the Eastern Conference standings before speaking on the Golden State Warriors’ postseason path and Detroit Pistons C Isaiah Stewart’s arrest for punching Phoenix Suns Drew Eubanks in pregame.

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