Winning a title with the Suns WOULD MEAN MORE for Kevin Durant – Tim Legler | Get Up

Winning a title with the Suns WOULD MEAN MORE for Kevin Durant – Tim Legler | Get Up

Ceremonial second half beginning tonight let’s do a fundamental list the top five title contenders according to Tim legler let’s go all right despite the fact that I said the Celtics were the best team earlier I’m going with the Denver Nuggets and here’s why I think their

Best basketball is coming and I think by the time we get to the playoffs they’re going to remind people of how difficult it’s going to be to beat this team uh their core continuity and the fact that they went through it together they’ve been through every pressure situation

Imaginable and there’s just no match up for that player so I’m I’m still going to put Denver until they they prove me wrong I think they’re number one number two is Boston the team I just said everything’s in place this is the best team Jason Tatum has had in the era that

He has been with the Boston Celtics everything should be in place this is the most complete starting lineup in basketball uh I don’t necessarily think they’re the deepest team but they’re so versatile with their starting five that in a lot of ways that gives you a second unit because of the different positions

That those guys can play so I put Bost to two right now Clippers are scary to me in the West I would put them at three um when you look at the fact that Kawhi Leonard’s been healthy and he’s not practicing for the most part load management he looks like the Kawhi

Leonard very similar to the one that led Toronto to a championship and all the help he’s got Paul George James Harden Terrence man a lot of role players but there’s going to be a lot of pressure on Harden and Paul George to deliver when they have to alongside of kawhai right

Now they look like they’re rolling number four Dallas Mavericks we didn’t talk enough about what they did at this trading deadline it seemed like minor moves adding Gafford PJ Washington I think they were significant now with Lively at the center now and gaffard you never have to go any stretch in a game

Where you’re undersized in the Middle where you don’t have an elite athlete that’s a rim protector that’s a lob Runner they’ve got two of those guys now and PJ Washington better fit than Grant Williams and I’d put number five the Phoenix Suns I just think this team can

Get so scary offensively by the time we get to the postseason that they could look like a team that could make a Deep Run and and they’ve already shown glimpses of it but it hasn’t been a sustained stretch I love the amount of shooting that they have around these

Star players the question for them is going to be a little bit defense and a little bit size at times but they could be so good with those three players I don’t know how you have enough scheme or Personnel to be able to defend that all right that’s a very interesting list and

We’ll probably have some people a little bit surprised let’s dive into little bits of it let’s talk about the Suns first of all and Kevin Durant in case you haven’t heard it yet he had some interesting things to say about the way people perceive him specifically his

Leaders ship style here’s what he said I’m not as charismatic as my peers I don’t have a personality that’s like fit for TV like my peers and a lot of those stories of what we talk about don’t get spoken about in the media and that’s

Just really what it is it’s like you got to sell what you’re doing as well and I haven’t sold it enough you know and I feel like I don’t I mean I don’t I don’t feel like I need to I don’t feel like I want people to call me a leader but I

Also don’t want people to say I’m not one either so there’s a million different ways we can dissect those comments let let’s dive into it from this perspective the players he’s talking about are LeBron James and Steph Curry two of the greatest and most beloved superstars in the history of the

Sport along with Durant those are the three players who will Define this era what is at stake for Durant if he could lead this Phoenix team to a championship what would it mean do you think for his legacy well look I’m a big believer not everybody agrees with this I’ve always

Said not every ring carries the same weight and I think winning won in Phoenix even though he’s got a lot of talent and you know that’s what that’s what star players have to have nowadays it would mean more because the franchise has never been there and he is clearly

Taking a group of guys that have never been to that place he went to Golden State they had already been there proven that they could do it yeah he won two rings he pretty much guaranteed two rings when he got there and he won two finals MVPs but he knows and that’s why

He left he never really was feel going to feel like he was given enough credit for doing that because of what was a established before he got there that’s not the case here this is this is a franchise that’s never done this if he’s

Able to do this I think this is like the one thing left for Kevin Durant to do that’s how significant and important it would be the the biggest mistake Kevin Durant made in his career was how he chose not his departure from Oklahoma City if he wanted to do that and go to

Golden State and win some championships God bless him who who who am I to tell him he shouldn’t have the biggest mistake he made when he left there was who he decided to ride with he decided I’m attaching myself to Kyrie and I think that diminished or at least it set

Back his chances of winning that Championship you’re talking about a great deal does he have the right guys particularly in the form of Deon Booker does he have the right guy to do it with now absolutely I believe he does Devon Booker in particular running alongside

Him and if you want to question Kevin Durant’s leadership over the years like I I kind of agree with Durant he does it in an understated way he does it with his approach to the game and the way that he plays and shows up every day day

Now if you want to blame a guy for not keeping the house in order internally okay maybe that was a little bit of the case in Oklahoma City what the way that all ended there and they weren’t able to break through and then he goes to Brooklyn he wasn’t really able to Corral

Kyrie and James Harden in to a certain extent I guess that’s a valid point I I kind of agree with Kevin Durant the way he goes out about his business you can lead the way that he leads guys have done it in an understated fashion I think Kawhi Leonard’s a great example of

A guy that does that I think Steph Curry is a guy that does that so I agree I think he has the right guy next to him and dein Booker dein Booker has dog in him he’s got that look in his eyes he’s hungry he wants it he’s going to show up

When it matters I think Kevin Durant is in place with the right people the question is just going to be is it good enough in what this Western Conference looks like because it is that loaded I’ll tell you how it’s good enough it’s good enough if Durant is the second best

Player in the playoffs if Booker is the best and we’ve seen him have stretches where he’s unstoppable that’s when I think they could make a real run here great list want to try to what I NBA is

Winning a title with the Suns WOULD MEAN MORE for Kevin Durant – Tim Legler | Get Up
Tim Legler names his top five NBA title contenders, then discusses how Kevin Durant’s leadership style impacts his success.
#ESPN #NBA #GetUp

☑️ Subscribe to ESPN+: https://plus.espn.com/
📱Get the ESPN App: http://www.espn.com/espn/apps/espn
🏀 Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2yxs3Og
☑️Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE
☑️Watch ESPN on YouTube TV: http://es.pn/YouTubeTV