Thunder vs. Cavs LIVED UP TO THE HYPE! 👏 + Our All-Star Selection Outlook ⭐️ | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to recap the historic Thunder vs. Cavs matchup that lived up to all the hype including how both teams came away winners, what this means for the game and who should be the title favorite. Plus, who is currently deserving of being selected to the All-Star team in each conference.
0:00 Intro
2:15 Thunder-Cavs lived up to the hype
27:21 How many All-Stars will the Cavs have?
31:45 All-Star selection discussion
33:12 Eastern Conference All-Star breakdown
42:12 Western Conference All-Star breakdown
53:42 Overall All-Star Weekend thoughts
55:45 Final All-Star selection thoughts
59:31 Our prayers to everyone impacted in LA
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34 Comments
Windy using Ozempic?
I can't stand the use of the word product when talking about professional sports.
Bontemps does call it how he sees it, which is nice. Windy, however, is on the Suns payroll.
they really said devin booker for all star also why tf do the lakers get 2
ALPEREN SENGUN well deserve to be an ALL STAR!
I'm in Cleveland and can barely catch Cavs games. I wish at least 20-30 games were locally broadcast. NBA we hate fandual as a network
crazy how the nuggets were the first seed and didnt get 2 all stars but all of sudden now the 1st seeds need more than 1
What impressed me even more is the defense the Cavs played in the final 5 mins of the game…
They absolutely could beat the Celtics in 7 and reach the finals…. It wouldn't surprise me at all ..
Its hilarious how everyone is complaining about threes and yet the Wolves last year and Cavs this year are proving you can play a two big traditional lineup and still succeed
Yall are gunna be shocked when wemby the only one trying 🤣
“Windy, grab the wheel?”
Cade deserves to be an All-Star!
Genuinely surprised Bontemps didnt try to talk them out of Wemby making it. I was sure he was going to bring up that the spurs arent good. Dude is the biggest Wemby hater
Are we considering the format change? Aren't there 4 teams this year?
If it took a couple YEARS for the Cavs to figure out how to play JA & Mobley on the floor at the same time, will the Thunder really be able to instantly make I Hart & Chet work immediately mid-season?
OKC having both bigs will be good for the league and the playoffs, but I don’t think you can assume they will get to the place Allen & Mobley are without some extended time on the floor together.
After all, everyone said the Cavs can’t play with two bigs for the past two years, and time together is what eventually changed that perception.
Oh, plus having Kenny Atkinson…
Not booker
The Cavs looked good. Shai was out there trying to be AI or something. One of the deepest squads in NBA out here playing Harden ball. Pass the rock mvp
Lamelo leads the league with turnovers and never a winner. Come on people
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Just because a team is playing well, you put 4 players into all stars ? They are not stars, just a team jelling…you guys idiots
No Luka is nasty work
I really thank you, guys, for your journalism and friendly commitment to the game. You are a very good and entertaining company.
Though I appreciate all of you, I won't be remissive to publicly give it up for Bontemps's accuracy in filtering data and always giving insightfull analysis.
"Adéu, amics", wich is the catalan translation for MacMahon's usual goodbye. From Jordi Fernandez's birthland, Catalunya.
Here we go with ridiculous criteria that only fit when they serve their point. I think I remeber why I stopped listening to them. ESPN's coverage and analysis has really fallen off
Go Cavs…..
mobley and alen the best big duo since bynun and gasol
What does USWB stand for? thanks
The hawks weren't the last team to have 4 all stars. The kd warriors were
This is Mobley's third season.
Just three white guys who have continuously hated on lamelo for no reason
Luka and Kyrie lock
Try to leave Kyrie out is a tragedy y’all are funny lol
Update: Isaiah Joe took that comment personally.
Bontemps is making this tough to listen, this isn't a shot at his analysis or anything, he's just so unlikeable, it's unbearable
Tim Bontemps is an Interruption Specialist which, after a while, made this program unwatchable
J dub better be an all star. One of the best two way players in the association.