FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his latest NBA Tiers – Chris Broussard harsh reactions

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his latest NBA Tiers – Chris Broussard harsh reactions

About him a break a little bit nervous he’s worried M out of there Celtics led by 22 and the fourth lost to the Cavs why one player actually said the loss was good for the Celtics it was porzingis meanwhile Zion says he’ll join the dunk contest if he’s an Allstar that

Makes sense but right now well it’s time for the best segment in all sports last night next to an underground poker tournament in Phoenix while watching shingon score 45 points on wemi an elite group of basketball exper experts afficianados and Dean Wade wow fought and toiled and burned the Midnight Oil

To deliver the best basketball segment in all of sports media it’s an honor and a privilege to introduce the season debut of NBA tiers it is the season debut of NBA tiers and there is one announcement before we get to oh good the committee yesterday asked me if we

Could invite Bruce sard given his longstanding history covering the league Mak sense to be a member of the committee and I told them Unfortunately The Odd Couple schedule will not allow it but maybe sometime down the road I but just not to mhm 7 or10 Eastern Fox

Sports Radio and you guys burn them in that but we start early we start yeah if you’re not there at the beginning so I’m kind of there a lot cuz my source okay you know what all right first here we go listen we’re deep into the season so

These teams already all the tiers there’s the relegation tier the sub relegation tier and the contraction tier which is I know the NBA is talking about adding teams maybe don’t add teams maybe just get rid of those two and put them in Vegas and Seattle but that leaves 18

Teams still on the tiers let’s get right to it bottom of the tiar get out of the playin just making the actual playoffs would be a great accomplishment the actual eight team playoffs for any of these teams I know people like hey Orlando’s fifth in the standings they

Are but they’re a half game out of being in the play in for any of these teams just making the real tournament would be a good accomplishment none of them are going to win a round come the actual tournament all right tough out clear ceiling these are four tough teams that

All should be proud of how they’ve played this season and all at various times maybe EV the Cavs had I think a 17-2 stretch the Knicks B the injuries hit them were looking really good the Pelicans after kind of being under the radar start the year they found

Themselves you know right in the round the four five line throughout most of the season and the King sneaky right around where they were last year but we know what their ceiling is all these teams have a round two seal all these teams can win a round but I don’t think

Any of them can make the Conference Finals so that is where they’re at who’s getting tricked sexy teams with big names they all have a big three and somebody maybe somebody on this show is going to pick one of these teams to make the NBA Finals I know they’re going to

Be at least so there will be a lot of people who decide you know what it’s not going to be Denver who’s it going to be well the data says the Timberwolves are legit as long as the data does include every playoff series Rudy goar has ever

Played in you look at all the talent you have in Los Angeles or in Phoenix people are going to be tricked by these teams they’re fun teams they’re interesting teams they can’t make the NBA Finals terrifying for a series or two LeBron Luca ad KY

Both of these teams for a week for two weeks for a month even can look awesome and you can feel like man you have the best player on the court they might have the best duel on the court can either of these teams win three straight series let alone four straight series the

Lakers with their rotations and the lack of Defense at times and the coaching the Mavs was just the outright you know allergy to defense lately the answer is probably not but you don’t want to see them across from you in the bracket at any point next lurking with questions

For Philly they’re lurking because of how good they looked when embiid was there how great embiid was playing but the questions are embiid’s health and embiid’s playoff history for OKC it is just so much Youth and by the way I’ve been saying that the Thunder that sga’s never made the playoffs that’s obviously

Not true they made the players when they had Chris pole since they have been this the young Thunder core they haven’t played in the postseason but with Chad and jayen Williams and SGA they they they on paper look really good the questions are lack of experience

Oddly for the Sixers the question is all the experience being bad wildly undervalued Milwaukee and Miami for obvious reasons Milwaukee did what everybody asked them to do keep Giannis being awesome add a closer they’ve done that and maybe maybe they upgraded it coach I don’t know the doc stuff is

Confusing but there were real questions Boon hter in Miami is just Miami which around this time every year starts turning it around and there is terrifying in the playoffs and right now nobody believes neither one of them so this is wildly undervalued Wilds Juggernaut Denver I think they’re really

Good Wilds thinks they’re inevitable I think Joker’s one of the two best players in the league wilds and many others think he is Head and Shoulders the best player in the league they are right now the clear-cut favorite to win the West for a lot of people they’re the

Favorite to win the championship and then wild expectations and that is the Boston Celtics they are right now A minus money favorite Brew against the field in the Eastern Conference they are a huge favorite just two to one to win the entire thing they have the fourth best point differential in the history

Of the NBA and they are the first team ever to win three games by 50 plus points they’re at the top of the first edition of the 2024 NBA tiers group yeah that was very good I love the names the names are good and even if I disagree

With where some of the teams are ranked Nam are good the one person that’s on both committees is Harold our English major cuz you don’t have to know the sports to be able to good with them be a Wordsmith so you know he’s on both but

Go ahead and I got a secret for you I came up with the tough out okay okay I was on the phone last night at the Midnight Oil out go all right but anyway uh I’m going go with OKC and you said a lot of it I love everything about them

Everything except the youth and oh you want to move them down I thought you going say move them up I think they’re a little too high look I said yesterday and you agree with me I believe I would take the Lakers over them in the playoff series I probably Phoenix if they’re

Healthy and certainly book and KD and the Clippers I think I would take all of them over all the old teams yeah yeah I mean the experience I think is going to be a big deal you mention SJ SJ and Lou Dort are really their only players with any playoff experience and that’s

Minimal uh and then I mean h Gren who’s going to be a star if not a superstar he’s a rookie uh obviously Josh giddy hadn’t been there yet and and and William so they I just think they’re too young um to love and and all the teams

If you you look at it everybody with them is a veteran Laden team that’s got some I mean up the the Sixers obviously got in be and Championship coach so I would just move them down a little bit but so we did see you know a very young

Thunder team a decade ago go on a deep playoff run even the distinction of there of course is as great as SG G is he’s not Kevin correct those are three guys who now and listen the Thunder might have two guys that win an MVP eventually SGA

Could win it this year I know Wilds chat has high expectations for chat so I understand that I do for and this is where I’m going to be I don’t want to say hypocritical but I I’m going to do something I’ve accuse other people of doing I have I am more

Comfortable holding the the Timberwolves playoff failures and goar’s playoff failures against them than the Thunder who’s just kind of a blank slate like you know their lack of experience against them and so but I understand your point Wilds so you’re giving Jordan credit for not losing any playoff games when he retired from

Baseball yeah exactly uh wolves I wholeheartedly kind of Believe In The Wolves just because I like the standings I know it’s not USA Today that’s the power rankings but the they are the best team and I think we have to give them some credit for being the best team brw what is this

Not it’s not the power ranking it’s not going down to the hotel lobby and getting USA it’s not the stand and then what is wholeheartedly kind of wholeheartedly kind of all right go ahead sorry wild I didn’t well you remember during football season I came up with a lot of things

One of the things I came up with that came true was defense wins championships that’s also applicable to the NBA uh defense Rudy they you know we have moved past the Rudy gold bear trade is the worst trade in NBA history that seems to be in the rearview mirror like wow

Actually working you guys are in first place works how about winning winning on the road good in Minnesota everybody’s good at home they also have the best road record so that’s working the offense is good on better on the road oddly so that works too how about

Chemistry we talk about hey maybe the suns are haven’t played enough together the big three only played 26 games last year they’re way more this year and they’re playing better now the caveat here to to use one of bruise phrases silly team okay the most recent silly like is this championship

Basketball not showing up for tip probably not this is on the heels of course the earlier silly incident where uh they kind of were more interested in cat scoring 70 plus then winning the game and then the coach ripped everybody after a loss last year in the final

Regular season game of the year when one of their guys punched a wall and broke his hand yeah the or shortly after that when Carl Anthony towns what did he say Wilds that what they did was more impressive than what Denver did yeah that wasn’t great he and that he’s the greatest shooting

Big man of all time and then the veteran who’s you know been in the playoff Wars Rudy Gober who famously you know preed the pandemic and then also well no he did and he coughed on people’s microphones he’s a kind of a silly fella and uh silly team a silly team don’t get

Me wrong silly they’re going to have their opponent sill over League leaders in silliness the silliest they one of the S maybe they lock in yeah I I mean I you know what a real talk one of their problems is offense too they don’t they score third 14th in

Offense I think yeah I mean and again I’ll believe it when it happens but the can you can you believe it Rudy goar’s team’s got the number one seed in the best defens in basketball what could go wrong and the answer is the playoff so so

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FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his latest NBA Tiers – Chris Broussard harsh reactions