Stephen A: The West poses an EASIER PATH to the NBA Finals 🗣 ‘Celtics are a ROADBLOCK!’ | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Kendrick Perkins and Monica McNutt join Molly Qerim to discuss whether the Western Conference or the Eastern Conference will offer an easier postseason path to the NBA Finals.
0:00 Perk (inadvertently) argues the East’s difficulty
3:03 Stephen A. can’t trust Kawhi Leonard
4:18 Celtics are a “concrete roadblock” in the East
5:48 OKC not the same challenge in the West?
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26 Comments
man molly was actually hella funny this segment
The 11 seed in the west has a better record than the east’s 7 seed 😂😂😂
Get Monica out of here lol. She probably thought Brittany Griner could beat Boogie Cousins 1v1
Whoever said the WEST was easier than the EAST LIED! You made that up!
Molly so fine but can be obnoxious sometimes but it’s ok she fine shyt
Guys, lets be seriou, no team is beating the celtics 4/7 games, no way, let's just wrap it up, the celtics are a dynasty team, if they have the starting line up for 5 more years, the celtics will win at least 3 chips in 5 years
Stay off the weeeeed SA
She said "SGA scored 37 after being out 7 games with a hip injury and Jalen Williams scored 20".
So the host doesn't know who the MVP of the league is. Cool.
I mean in the east only the Cavs could push the Celtics passed a game 5
Did she say Speed up Kent?
Stephen As answer makes no sense. Boston has the easiest path to the finals in the east. That would mean the east has the easiest path to the finals. The west has multiple teams that can make it. OKC just has the best chance. The west has the hardest path cause they gotta go through plenty of good teams. Boston is the only real team they gotta go through in the east. Cavs could win but they might not be ready
They go home soon 👍🏽👍🏽
This is a horrible take. The West has proven playoff contenders, whereas most of the East are injury plagued or just too plain inexperienced to make any noise in the playoffs. This is just to take another shot at Lebron and his Lakers.
Said the same thing last season…yet teams in the West were sweeping left and right
To put into perspective the number 2 seed in the West is 5 losses away from the Play-in and will still be a top 500 team in the league
It's not even close. The West has by far the more competitive playoff teams.
So Boston didn’t have a cake walk last year??🤣🤣🤣
You know SAS… you just got a fan in me FOREVER for comparing my squad to the white walkers
Celtics just make the east look easy. The so called best of the West last year that went through a gauntlet got slap around by the Celtics. With that being said I got Mavs in 8.
The reason they are saying east is harder is because the Celtics cannot be beaten by any other eastern team and even against western teams Celtics can sweep anybody
Ever since Skip got off air Stephen A has been consistently making so many bad takes and it’s getting harder to listen to😂
Lebron the goat
Stephen A was 100% right about khawi leonard
Monica sucks yo lol
ESPN statement: We are officially replacing all other ethnicities with different lighter shades of the one ethnicity.
God this is bad. Molly remains terrible