LeBron & Luka STILL HAVEN’T WON OVER Stephen A. 😳 ‘They’re not the Spurs or OKC!’ | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins join Courtney Cronin on First Take to discuss all the biggest storylines around the NBA.
0:00 Los Angeles Lakers vs. Houston Rockets
2:17 What’s the Lakers’ ceiling?
6:34 Concerned about Kevin Durant & the Rockets?
8:39 LeBron James still posterizing
9:58 San Antonio Spurs vs. LA Clippers
10:48 Are Victor Wembanyama & the Spurs title favorites?
12:42 Taking it a step further
15:04 Compared to the Oklahoma City Thunder…
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12:57 there goes Big Puke again with his rubbish take again😂
Their waking up just be a let luka austin takez the lead
Spurs ain't winning nothing! You fools act like Wemby is going to stay healthy through the rest of this season, and the Playoffs! If he still around 20 games from now I'll be Super surprised! Dummys
Lakers continue to prove their mid coming from a diehard Laker fan. The issue I have with the media is the flip-flopping. When we lose, we suck on our first round exit. When we win, they start to say we’re championship team. When are we gonna realize we are mid and win some games and lose some games? It’s so simple to understand.
Bron🐐
Lakers could be even better if these young kids commit to winning and not selfishness. They have three allstar level playmakers and shot makers with two in the top 10 in the league and one with the ability to be the best. People have to be hungry for the team and they can go really far. Okc and the spurs have hungry young men but bron and luka have higher basketball iq so it's a level playing field if everyone is at there best. The Lakers have everything needed, just gotta go get it. Last night showed the difference between Bron and everybody else including kd, he can't read the court, make the passes and play through the physicality that Bron can, neither can luka or Austin for 48 minutes or a series but they have Bron, so skies the limit if their serious about winning.
The 2026 ended up being the race swap versions of the 2011-2014 Heat and 2015-2017 Cavaliers. LeBron has become Bosh/Love!
2011-2014 Heat
LeBron (black Luka)
DWade (black Austin)
Bosh (current LeBron)
2015-2017 Cavaliers
LeBron (black Luka)
Kyrie (black Austin)
K Love (current LeBron)
2026 Lakers
Luka (white LeBron)
Austin (white DWade/Kyrie)
LeBron (Chris “Posh”/black K Love)
So when the Lakers loses in the playoffs and they will, will LeBron blame himself because he’s finally become the third wheel on the team? At least he will finally know how his third wheel scapegoats felt.
Goon didn’t play so game is invalid. Thats like lakers playing with out their secondary option Reeves.
Every day it’s the same goddam topic
Don’t care if yall are expert analysts, lakers in 5, this there year
I see them beating San Antonio but not yet okc
youre right, we are better
Perk says Spurs winning it all 🤔
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Wembanyama might win DPOY unanimously. Barring him not reaching 65 of course 😅
Idk why they’re calling LeBron and Luka a duo, LeBron is basically taking up space lol
Bro that game was garbage.. lakers weren’t clicking. Rockets just horrible on offense and can’t score without KD or sengun. They handed the lakers that game but that second half was barely watchable. Lakers just getting wins like they always do, refs giving them calls all game.
Should be luka and reeves. Come on..
ESPN just can't get over LBJ in every clip, every highlight,never everything.
Guys do you not watch the entire games?
This is Lukas team. Deal with it.
No he's similar to lebron they have choke more than you would want in their career 😂😂😂 and think their extremely elite, all they rely on is numbers, but the are something called context
Putting Marcus Smart in the lineup change the Dynamics and I don't understand why Houston didn't reach out to Chris Paul or even Lonzo ball 2 pass first high IQ point guards
Lakers can definitely win against spurs just maybe not OKC
Imagine if the lakers made another trade like a wiggins, they would be a contender
Dont like this whole model of having women just on show to ask questions…and then in this case stupid question at that…of course Spurs are already contenders…and then the follow up about them being favourites, he literally answered already, showing she is just mindlessly reading off a script
The Spurs are the true definition of EST
People need to stop listening to Charles Barkley
Thats what they said in 2020 lmao
Do they get paid to talk about the Lakers?
Lakers have to play Rui more.
Haven't won me over either this is the first they beat 2 teams who are real contenders all season
"Luka STILL HAVEN'T WON OVER Stephen A." — Why TF would he do that 😂😂😂
Your boy Edwards got swept this season and you all bozos don't even want to talk about that. 😂😂
Last yr it was "Lakers in 5" the jokes were everywhere and they ended up losing in 5 in the 1st round to the 6th seeded Timberwolves. The lakers have struggled all yr, don't let this little win streak fool yall into forgetting about that defense. When the playoffs get here, dont look all confused talking about "what's wrong with the lakers"
Lakers are going to get swept in the playoffs. Lakers fans are so delusional.
I don't know man. I dont trust the Spurs in the playoff yet. I would pick Houston, Nuggets, Lakers, or even the Suns vs Spurs in a best of 7 series.
Provided healthy, as long as the Lakers didnt face OKC or Denver, they can make it to the NBA Finals.
Stephen A still not buying the Lakers… but if LeBron and Luka keep rolling like this, that take is going to age very badly.
I can't wait to hear from Perk again after the Lakers beat them again tomorrow lmao
The leveling field all across the nba is fair. In the past you couldn’t say that Charolette can beat Boston , or that the pistons can compete with anyone. The lakers are unique and whoever doesn’t see that is probably a person that only thinks with one side of the brain.