FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his NBA player rankings – Who’s Kings of the NBA right now?

FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his NBA player rankings – Who’s Kings of the NBA right now?

New York it’s the show that is still work in progress we’re trying some new things it’s a second hour of first things first today prediction week rolls on the Western Conference even though no team is beating Denver in a seven game series meanwhile how will DK Henry fundamentally change the Ravens offense

Well we’ll see but right now it’s Tuesday March 12th which means it’s time for the NBA segment that is a rich tapestry of history potential and performance now some people call it momes Mountain NBA Edition when you had the snow that’s not what we’re calling we are calling it and it’s named after

LeBron James yeah it’s why we have the crown here yeah and it’s like and a hill hill we have a hill NBA King of the Hill you know the other reason wild King of the Hill you know this you’re a big basketball player Bruno that’s a game

People play and pick up basketball King of the Hill King of the mountain Ty you know like a it’s called King of the Court king of yeah exactly you play it on a hill though no you don’t but again we’re trying to make it work so all right rules same as Mahomes Mountain

Maximum 28 players seven row mountain or Hill as it is but people fall off oh it is not a slippery Mountain it is more of a de covered Hill and you can slip a bit so we have our first people off the hill listen tyres Maxi and Trey young they

They’ve been out they’ve been hurt they haven’t played and the hill can you know be fickle when it comes to who is punished for injuries and who isn’t but Maxi and Tre fall up Bam’s played just hasn’t played well Miami’s not only lost three straight they lost once to

Washington which counts as three losses so he’s off all right seventh row Donovan again he falls due to his absence PG Paulo and Kyrie stay where they are and welcome to the hill let’s go Zion sabonis and Wild’s guy shenon shout out shenon now it might be a short

Liv stay on the hill because he is dealing with an injury he got a gold medal last week he had the best game of his career he was able to avoid major injury he makes the mountain PS have W4 straight and sabon has been playing great row six jayen Brown moving up

Jaylen Brunson moving down again not brunson’s fault but he has missed some time due to injury Murray Fox Booker and halberton stay exactly where they are and it’s nice to see halberton turn it on a bit into some spots he had a rough stretch fifth row Steph drops due to injury Jimmy drops

For the same re what what Bru looks no that that was my suggestion last week okay yeah good job and oh he was his suggestion was Jimmy Jimmy drops they’ve lost three in a row like I said the same thing with uh bam you lose to the Wizards Miami I understand that you

Really turn around coming the playoffs you got like 20 games left you don’t want to be the nine seed I win some games Dame time Dame 31 and 8 50 46 96 splits since our last version of the hill so he moves up kawhai and AD stay

Where they are fourth row Tatum had a rough week LeBron had a great week but there’s not move there’s not room for him to move up Anthony Edwards didn’t really have a great week but he had such a great moment within the week the block the 44-point game trying to keep them

Afloat without Carl Downs he moves up Shay and LeBron stay where they are all right third row now let me say this about Joel embiid cuz we’ve moved a lot of people down cuz they’ve missed a week or two and be’s you know Miss quite a bit of time however he’s the defending

MVP he’s averaged 35 a game this year and if I’m going to have him anywhere on the the hill it has got to be up there so it’s a weird thing I understand it’s not totally consistent Luka it’s a thank you wild Luca just you know 37 11 and 12

Seemingly every night and then there’s Kevin Durant who was already having a monster year who if he was just shooting better from the free throw line he would be a 53 43 90 gu said he’s 53 4385 but in the last week he’s averaging 38 points 7 rebounds 5 assists on 5447

Splits and just seems to be damn near as good as ever at 35 years old now this part of the Hill last week was controversial we do Brew have some movement oh last week if you remember Giannis was at the top Giannis moves down that’s fair so Giannis moves down

Now luckily Brew he overcame right in pain from the ailles and and didn’t we thought going into the game going into the hill last week Yannis could be out weeks wild Wilds mint winsing said writhing um and he has his numbers have been great but since the last edition of

The Hill they did lose by 35 points uh and they lost by thir points to the Lakers who is a team nikic has not lost to I think since the bubble or thereabouts it’s been quite some time so that means the very top of the hill is

Vacant wow and that doesn’t mean it’s going what were you big surprised you thought there was someone we had forgotten I know but now it’s off um so I am not saying we have and again we have predictions we continuing in the next segment but you guys know I already

Picked Milwaukee to make the Eastern finals they have a two-time MVP a one-time Champion a onetime Finals MVP Denver has a two-time MVP a onetime champion a onetime finals MVP I wonder if those two people could meet in the finals potentially fight for the euphemistic crown always sits at top

LeBron james’ head but maybe for the you know the king of the NBA Hill but right now that top spot is vacant so are you saying it’s going to remain vacant I’m not I’m not no no no I’m not certainly not saying that again the hill is like

You know a rich tapestry is wild to said but right now it is I couldn’t pick between yic and jannis last week we put jannis a top this week well you know my source W tells me it’s left to right again it’s not again the committee is Wednesdays this is just me alone

Watching poker on TV and reading you know and not a bad Mountain Nick thank you joic I think should be on top but I’m going to focus on SGA okay I would switch you’re right Kevin Durant’s having a great year but guess who’s having an even better year wow SGA Shay

Gild’s Alexander switch SGA and kg K KD also and KD I’m sorry and uh so here here’s here’s why I say it first of all he’s averaging more points than Kevin Durant and Kevin Durant Durant’s claiming the fame obviously is scoring but SJ is even scoring more averaging 31

Points a game second most in the league and assist K uh SJ averages one more K rebounds KD averages one more sure SJ even a little bit more efficient from two overall but not from three but Nick SJ also leads the league in steals he’s

The only player in the NBA with two or more steals a game and that’s on the team that’s a top five defensive team good defense he he defends he is a good Defender one thing I like about these two young guards him and Anthony Edwards

Both of them defend so I love that but the that’s the first reason I think individually he’s been a little bit more impressive the second thing is this Nick they are the top seed in the west we know Phoenix is the six seed now he’s the top seed with his second leading

Scorer Jaylen Williams a secondy year player and then his third leading scorer Chad hogen a rookie and then Lou Dort is like the the most senior starter with five years in the league giddy’s like in his fourth year I think so they are a young team he’s got them as the top seed

In the west which we know is a great conference and Durant now get it they’ve had some injuries but you got a perennial you got a superstar in Devin Booker with you you’ve got Bradley Bill I know he’s been banged up but he’s an Allstar nerkish is averaging a double

Double and there’s nobody on OKC who’s near a double double and so I think with that veteran Laten talented cast KD isn’t lifting them even close as high so that’s interesting because you’re totally right that Booker’s got more name recognition accolades is a better player than anyone else on the Thunder I

Think the Thunder are a better takes SGA and KD off their teams I like the Thunder way more than I like the sucks so I don’t look at it like SGA is Raising yeah listen you if you switch KD and SJ I don’t think OKC’s is good oh

Really really yep oh see and I think that and I think the opposite I think that OKC is just as good and I think Phoenix is in I don’t want to say trouble Phoenix would be fine Phoenix is probably in a similar spot so and again

I want to be clear here I think SGA is a legitimate MVP candidate I think he’s been great I just think the rest of the Thunder because they’re young and because they don’t have the accolades I my opinion you’re discounting them I don’t want to say discount they’re

They’re good players I’m just saying the youth that’s unusual for a guy to take so many young players he’s young himself but taking so many young players and being the number one seat I’ll meet you in the middle bro why don’t you leave KD where he is on the hill move Luca down

Switch SGA with LCA just call me oldfashioned everybody and I know he won player of the week and they’ve won three games in a row since the All-Star break the Dallas Mavericks are five and five and you might say well Wilds let’s look at their numbers well Joker Giannis and

Lucas ideally the top three guys on the hill points Luca rolling rebounds still pretty good for Luca 11 assists is excellent too win loss nine- one for Joker 6-2 for Giannis he missed the game but they still won and five and five for Luca donic in the mass you might say hey

How’s their defensive rating since the All-Star break good question Brew dead last dead last now is that like a scheme thing is that just bad luck I’m not saying we’re going to grind the all 10 later on but this is simple stuff Second Chance points they’re 23rd fast break

Points they 19 You Think Can defensive rating is 121 you’re blaming Luka for their second chance points they’ve given up that’s on Luka this is nothing’s on Luka is not on L some of the def hold on I I have a question for you brew I usually get to ask Wild’s this on

Wednesdays during NFL season this is King of the Hill what is this not the USA Today power r or the standings you are are we looking for complete players or not he’s one spot above Giannis who gives 100% on both sides of the floor he’s above SBA who gives 100% on both

Ends of the floor Luca scores points the Mavs lose and it’s like what’s going on with the MS the other guys that he’s passing the ball sh 8% some defense two points one is and again I’m not disparaging SGA but are we sure sga’s Ste are real steers are like

Jordan in the 80s home cooking oh shots at Jordan we’re done with the 9s dude listen your buddy Pablo Tor did a great expose on that with Tom habber draw I look forward to more on it um Wilds yeah since the last edition of King of the

Hill yeah three and0 have the Mavs lost no they’re three is Luke averaging a 38 Point triple double uh yeah 37.7 103 and uh 11 assist okay and you want me to move him down based on this week they’re undefeated by your metric of team win

Well so I I think the Pelicans have four wins I don’t see Zion flying Zion did make the M he made it he got up there I didn’t see him he was at the bottom play some defense

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FIRST THINGS FIRST | Nick Wright reveals his NBA player rankings – Who’s Kings of the NBA right now?