Shannon Sharpe: OKC is the WEAKEST No. 1 seed + Team USA needs SIZE! 🇺🇸 | First Take
Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Brian Windhorst join First Take to debate how the Los Angeles Lakers should manage their seeding in the NBA Play-In Tournament before touching on Team USA’s roster construction.
0:00 Los Angeles Lakers
3:21 Shannon Sharpe’s OKC take
6:52 Team USA’s challenge
12:14 Windy wants Chet Holmgren on Team USA
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50 Comments
They should boot embid from the team. I don’t want to hear people saying “yall needed embid”.
OKC are going home if they face the Lakers, they're winning if they face the Warriors, and I have no clue if they're facing the Suns cause I got no idea what to expect from Phoenix.
The Nuggets about to go home in the first round. Lakers in 5.
I mean Shannon is right. If OKC gets the Lakers or GS in the first round OKC are done. Experience with champion mentality beats the young inexperience. SAS is wrong SGA isn’t the MVP it’s Luka
2016 hawks is the weakest
Unc sound like old hater
Wow, whoa whoa “bite the line?????”that ain’t yo line.. we both know where you got that phrase from SAS.. 🤨
Beat all them teams guy
The man is a clown, dresses like one too.
We’re seeing a shift in the NBA it always happens it’s these young cats time Bron n Steph are solidified they’ve done all their gonna do it’s the beginning of a new era 💪🏾
Fake 1 seed lmao
How embarrassing. These guys make it more clear by the day that they have no idea what they’re talking about. Shannon thinks the Thunder suck, SAS still thinks that Quentin Grimes is a knick, and Keyshawn Johnson on Undisputed was surprised to learn that the Thunder have 2 guys named Jalen Williams🤡these guys are braindead
I’m not worried at all about the defense on the perimeter for Team USA. Holiday, Tatum, Edwards, KD, Bron? Man they good on that front. And in terms of the lack of size, man got get KAT! That’s an American big that fits what this team needs! They need another shooter according to SAS, they need more size according to Windy. KAT fits both those!
Give them young boys a chance Unc
Basically what Unc said is if you never won a chip before, you aint never winning it so I'm never picking you.
What about germany? 😉
“If I’m Milwaukee, Giannis if you not playing in the playoffs, you not playing in this tournament” 💀💀💀
Chet Holmgren is FR
okc gonna prove shannon wrong 😭😭
Not weak just unproven
"They get injured going to the bathroom" 😂😅
The need to go get Dwight as a big. Im serious…or Boogie.
Shannon the biggest bronsexual of all time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if USA didn’t win Gold this Olympics, they play more 90s/2000s style ball internationally. Our bigs got embarrassed last summer and Embiid is the only legit center on the roster AD and Bam are pf’s. Turner, Holmgren, Jarrett Allen, Gafford, Lopez, or Duren should get the last spot
Unc which one is Kareem, Bird or Magic Stephen A alright I got you 😂
That 60 win hawks team from years ago is def the weakest 1 seed .
Stephen A wasting a vote on SGA smh
WNBA got better storylines
So who is the weakest number 1 seed?
Nuggets are going to lose to T-wolves
They can’t be serious about the thunder like really
Shannon smoking rocks
"Thats A Good Looking Brotha Right There" 😂😂😂😂 self love is important… love to see it😂
Shannon is terrible at nba segments
So the nuggets played their starters, got up 20, then decided to let the Spurs back in it, put the starters back in to fake trying to win and let Devonte Graham hit a game winner.
Kudos for Windy calling out Shannon for that non sense, bro getting too comfortable now and just throwing ish out to the wind.
OKC is litertally the grizzles from last year, all bark no fight, they can lose on the first round
The answer is definitely Zion for multiple reasons
The disrespect smh
Yeah but what happens if both the Lakers and the Pelicans try to tank the game to duck the Nuggets 😂
Final Score: 1-0 triple Overtime
Luka is not battle tested
Might as well try to take the Nuggets while they are as fresh as possible.
Shannon is just yappin
"How great are you if you are the 10th seed?" 😂😂😂
Dear Canada,
Please canadianize deAron fox and put him on the team. Other than lbj, curry, kd, AD, embid, I don't care about Tatum, booker and others . Fox too fast, just dribble and pass to shooter.
Shannon is such a clown for suggesting the nuggets lost on purpose. Dude contradicted himself by saying athletes play to win, now you’re insinuating they wanted to avoid the clips? Bro shut your mouth
SAS is amazingly obnoxious
I AGREE WITH SHANNON 😂😂😂…..
Good looking!!! Lol, no sir
Only chance the Thunder win a 1st round series is Daigneault. He might be the next Spoelstra. Otherwise not a chance. They are a young team that enjoyed PERFECT health during the regular season. Literally no injuries. Give them the injuries of these other teams and you can chalk off 10-15 wins, which is a much more realistic representation of their developmental stage and level. Also SGA´s game feels a bit Harden/Embiid-ish and we have seen what happens, when the FTs dry up in the play-offs.
Windy sounds like a little kid. Dudes about to cry.