FIRST TAKE | “Bucks are the biggest title threat behind Celtics and Nuggets” – Stephen A. claims

FIRST TAKE | “Bucks are the biggest title threat behind Celtics and Nuggets” – Stephen A. claims

How about those Celtics stack another dub in the wind column after beating the Suns with their big three in the lineup Jaylen Brown went off 37 Tatum Al Horford added 26 and 24 respectively the Celtics became the first team to click the playoff for the season they’re the

Favorites to win the NBA Finals that’s per ESPN bet and the defending Champion nuggets closely follow them so over the last 25 years only four teams to be the first to clinch a playoff spot went on to win the NBA title with the last being that 2016 17 Warriors team big perk back

Here with us uh perk thanks for coming back which team is the biggest title threat after Boston in Denver it’s the Clippers it’s the Clippers and is and they’re right there knocking at the door and it’s solely because look when I look at their roster they have zero flaws when you look at

Their depth right they have great depth at the big position and zubac Daniel Ty and uh plumbley and when you look at The Supporting Cast Norman P coming off the bench a candidate for Sixth Man of the Year you know what Paul George is going to bring to the table being the number

Two to kawh Leonard James Harden embracing that point guard road that facilitating rooll on that team but it’s two guys that I trust with the All of Me and the one is tou walking up and down that sideline we know what he’s capable of doing as a head coach but the other

One is kawhai l the Jordan and I’ve seen it right we’ve seen it in the past when you he when he when he matches up with the best of them whether it’s LeBron James and D Wade and Chris Bosch he’s came out Victorious whether he he did

Son yanis an tupo tucked them in night night you know when he was in the uh Eastern Conference and broke up that home and so when I think about Kawai and I think about what he’s capable of doing on both ends of the floor Molly he could

Be the best player in any Series against any player at any given moment when healthy big perk I completely agree with you with kawh Leonard but I disagree with your take on the Clippers cuz you just said you know what you goingon to get from Paul George did you see Paul

George in the playoffs last year against the Suns did you see him did you see him cuz I didn’t see him I didn’t see him he was acting I he wasur I that’s my point but that’s my point he was hurt that’s the biggest issue when it comes to the

Clippers I don’t know that they top two players go to stay healthy I ain’t got no questions about their depth I ain’t got no questions about tyoo I do got questions about who’s going to be able to stay in the lineup for two months in

Order to make a run and get through the Western Conference to the NBA finals the team that I’m rolling with as the biggest Challenger to the nuggets out of the Western Conference and I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’m going with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the

Reason why I’m going with the Minnesota Timberwolves is because they just young enough to not know that they ain’t supposed to be there they’re young enough to know and sometimes ignorance can be Goods especially in the postseason they got the adage defense wins championships well this is the

Highest rated defensive team in all of basketball now they already stacked one win against the Denver Nuggets but that was in the first half of the Season they’re going to play them three times over the next three weeks so we’ll get a better idea a better gauge for where

They’re at but they got a star in Anthony Edwards and for people that ain’t paying attention to the NBA this dude is coming Superstar up one second but cat not healthy and Rudy Gober is not healthy yeah not healthy we’ll see what ends up happening Rudy goar we know

He’s coming back relatively soon but goar is a guy that is in the conversation I think he’s the front runner to win Defensive Player of the Year again and it all starts and ends with him on that end of the court so when you start to look at the elements

That the Timberwolves have when you look at the overall depth this is a team that goes eight deep in their rotation this is a team that’s got six guys that average in double figures I believe that they have what it takes to go on a deep playoff run and On Any Given game

That guy Anthony Edwards can be the best two-way player on the floor what gives me confidence about what they can do once they get into a deep playoff series to be fair the Clippers aren’t actually healthy either Harry so per I’ll start with the Clippers I think the health

Thing really scares me when it comes to them and also something I noticed about their basketball team when they’re playing a very athletic guard that can get to the rim and scor the basketball at will Shay gilis Alexander um the young man that we have in sacr right now

Dear Fox they struggle big time they struggle big time with people like that now when it comes to Minnesota I think the thing that makes me nervous about Minnesota is being able to have enough scoring especially when you have Carl Anthony towns out right now and I don’t

Know what his condition is going to be like when he comes back because it is a miniscus right he’s having surgery on his knee you’re not going to be able to do everything that you want to do before you’re properly able to come back but who I think that can contend after we

Talk about the Boston Celtics said the div nuggets I’m not looking at anybody those are the two teams that I expect to be in the NBA Finals those are the two teams I expect the NBA Finals because because what I love about joic when it comes to half

Court basketball they don’t have to live behind the three-point line they run everything through nicolea yic and that recent game that they just had versus the Boston Celtics every time the Boston Celtics tried to come back and they made a run they go down the court we’re going

To get that ball at the elbow right to Nicole yogic he’s going to make the right play and when I’m looking at Austin in the East I don’t see nobody they’re they’re Their Own Worst Enemy in my yeah yeah but Harry it’s almost disrespectful to put the Boston Celtics

In the same class as the Denver Nuggets it’s the Denver Nuggets and then there’s a gap besides of the Grand Canyon before you get to whoever is number two out there in the NBA whether we’re talking EAS confer or west conf after Boston no I I understand that but I don’t even

Think it’s respectful to the Nuggets to put Boston in that class well I have I have the Nuggets right here Chris I I that didn’t come out of my mouth I had the Nuggets up here not AR I’m not arguing the point what you’re saying I’m

Saying just to keep it in it proper perspective you think the nuggets are that much better the nuggets are they got a player in the yeah they got a player in niic yeah nicoa yic controls the game better than any player in the NBA we’re used to assigning that to LeBron James

But in terms of that attribute LeBron has passed it towards to nicoa yic like you point out the the what you’ve seen from the Denver Nuggets you go back to that Miami Heat game that they played on Wednesday night nicolea yic dominated in the fourth quarter it was a one-point

Game going into the fourth quarter nicolea yic dominated but it wasn’t with his scoring it was with him passing facilitating I mean you could see the pick and roll between him and Reggie Jackson on a loop it was deadly they had no aners for it because he always makes

The best basketball play and we’re not used to assigning that to a center quite quite literally I don’t know that we’ve never seen a center have the passing ability that nicoa yic has and when you see him actually that when it matters the most that’s to me what separates

Denver from everybody else per why are they so much better than Boston break it down for me what I’m about to tell you because because Boston is popular right they’re popular right now the best record in the league they’re running through everybody in the Eastern Conference they have a

Dominant home record they’re smoking people by double figures when you walk into the garden but when you look at the Denver Nuggets they are powerful they are powerful in their play when you talk about yic being the best player in the league when you look at Jamal Murray

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FIRST TAKE | “Bucks are the biggest title threat behind Celtics and Nuggets” – Stephen A. claims