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These NBA Bold Predictions Are INSANE · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Let's talk bold predictions, everybody. The 26-27 season is right
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Speaker 1: around the corner. So I'm going to ask you, what
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Speaker 1: is your boldest prediction for this season? I've personally been
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Speaker 1: working on a video that I'm going to release in
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Speaker 1: a little bit of like some of my bold predictions.
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Speaker 1: But this was also a question that was asked over
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Speaker 1: on Reddit. And I want everybody to get their ticket
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Speaker 1: in now. So you can come back to this video
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Speaker 1: or you can go back to the Reddit thread and say, hey,
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Speaker 1: I predicted that to be true. So I'm going to
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Speaker 1: read some of the most upvoted predictions on this Reddit
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Speaker 1: thing and tell you if I agree or disagree. I
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Speaker 1: know Reddit is a It can be a weird spot,
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Speaker 1: but it does house a ton of NBA fans. So
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Speaker 1: I'm just curious to see what NBA fans are thinking.
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Speaker 1: Clever that says, Anthony Davis will play 67 games, at
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Speaker 1: least 67 games, at least 67 games, and the Wizards
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Speaker 1: are a 50-win team. My goodness. Now, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how to interpret upvotes on something like this. Are people
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Speaker 1: upvoting because they agree with this bold prediction? Are they
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Speaker 1: upvoting for the boldness of the prediction? Because I would
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Speaker 1: say this is a very bold prediction. Starting off with
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Speaker 1: the Anthony Davis part. Anthony Davis is about to be, what,
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Speaker 1: 34 years old? He's about to be 34 years old.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to AD. And he's played 67 or more
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Speaker 1: games once in the last nine seasons. Nine seasons, y'all. So,
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Speaker 1: while I want Anthony Davis to play 82 games for
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Speaker 1: a decade straight, I'm trying to be somewhat realistic with
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Speaker 1: the history of everything and saying that him playing 67
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Speaker 1: games right now feels unrealistic. And, again, I'm praying for it.
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Speaker 1: I would love for it. But I just don't. I wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's what makes it bold, huh? It's bold
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Speaker 1: to think that AD is going to have his healthiest
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Speaker 1: season in decades. But I just can't get there. And
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Speaker 1: the Wizards are a team that just won 17 games
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Speaker 1: last season. I think we're all super excited to watch
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Speaker 1: them play. Because Trey Young and Anthony Davis are now
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Speaker 1: on the team and finally get to play together. Because A.J.
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Speaker 1: DeBont is on the team. And because they already, before
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Speaker 1: this offseason, before they traded for Trey and Anthony Davis,
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Speaker 1: they already had a pretty interesting young nucleus from Bilal
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Speaker 1: to Trey Johnson to Alex Saar, who seems to look
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Speaker 1: better every single season. We were already really excited for it.
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Speaker 1: And I know that this team is going to be
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Speaker 1: significantly better than last season. But it's hard for me
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Speaker 1: to get to the 50 number. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: gave this a bold prediction. Because I'm even thinking about
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Speaker 1: like Atlanta last season. Atlanta last year was great in
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Speaker 1: the second half of the season. They felt like they
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Speaker 1: were unbeatable at times, right? But they still just ended
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Speaker 1: up with 46 wins. Now, part of that is because
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Speaker 1: early in the season, maybe they weren't as great. And
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Speaker 1: in order to win 50, you kind of have to
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Speaker 1: start off pretty good. But our eventual NBA champion, New
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Speaker 1: York Knicks team, only won 53. So it's hard for
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Speaker 1: me to see them be, let's just say, three wins
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Speaker 1: worse in the regular season than the Knicks just were.
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Speaker 1: And there are no more free wins in the NBA, y'all.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Wizards were a free win team for
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Speaker 1: like three seasons at least. But there are no more
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Speaker 1: free wins. Yeah, they're going to be bad teams. It's
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Speaker 1: impossible for all 30 teams to be good. But there's
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Speaker 1: not going to be mid-March you have a slate of
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Speaker 1: your schedule that say, we got three games this week
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Speaker 1: and this team is without three starters because they're trying
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Speaker 1: to lose. This team is without their two-star players because
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Speaker 1: they're trying to lose. That's probably not going to happen
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Speaker 1: this season because you try to look at those odds.
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Speaker 1: I know it always boils down to the 3-2-1 method
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Speaker 1: and these advanced odds or changed odds. But it's hard
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Speaker 1: not to think about that all the time for me.
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Speaker 1: So while like last season, you would see the Indiana
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Speaker 1: Pacers on your schedule in March and be like, okay,
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Speaker 1: we can lock that in. Oh, and let me say,
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Speaker 1: I think February, mid-February to mid-March, the Pacers lost like
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Speaker 1: 15 straight games. So you see them on your schedule
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Speaker 1: and say, whew, we can just chill. We're going to
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Speaker 1: win this game. That's not the case anymore. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with the Brooklyn Nets who bought in on Julius Randle
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Speaker 1: and other things. Again, the Wizards are the team we're
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Speaker 1: talking about. They're not a free win. I mean, they're
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Speaker 1: going to be bad teams. Do not get me wrong.
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Speaker 1: But those bad teams are going to be putting together
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Speaker 1: or trying to put together their best possible lineup every
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Speaker 1: single night because they don't want to be the team
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Speaker 1: that instead of having an 8% chance to pick number one,
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Speaker 1: they have a 5% chance. You feel me? So I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. And I don't think this is a
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Speaker 1: bold prediction, but I wouldn't be surprised if the middle
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Speaker 1: of the standings is so jam-packed where we have seeds
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Speaker 1: three through seven are divided by two games. You feel me?
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Speaker 1: Just because there is no real easy games anymore. I mean,
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Speaker 1: not many. I mean, there are some teams. I ain't
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Speaker 1: going to name names. There's some teams you'd be like, okay,
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Speaker 1: we can see what's out there as a win. But
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Speaker 1: it's going to be rough out there. The Jazz are
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Speaker 1: trying to win. The Kings, you feel me? The Grizzlies
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Speaker 1: have at least interesting young roster. The Dallas Mavericks, the
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Speaker 1: Pelicans are buying in, and they had a pretty interesting
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Speaker 1: second half of the season. So you go on and
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Speaker 1: on and on. So I say all this to say
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Speaker 1: I appreciate the boldness of this, and I would love
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Speaker 1: for this to be true, but it's hard for me
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Speaker 1: to say that This is something that I think is
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Speaker 1: really going to happen. Okay, direct departure says Hornets win
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Speaker 1: under 35 games. He says the Kings trade Sabonis. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how bold that is. I think they
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Speaker 1: would be interested in trading Sabonis. The Lakers are a
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Speaker 1: bottom five defense. The Celtics are worse than last year.
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Speaker 1: The Magic 50 wins. Neither the Thunder or the Spurs
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Speaker 1: represent the Western Finals. So of all, of all of
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Speaker 1: their bold predictions, this last one is the one that
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Speaker 1: is the boldest. Because like, I... Let me see. How
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Speaker 1: many wins did the Hornets win last season? 44. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Without LaMelo, are they dropping off that many wins? It's
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Speaker 1: still a solid roster. They just don't have LaMelo. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's some big shoes to fill over there. I guess
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Speaker 1: that is a truly bold prediction. Even if you don't
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Speaker 1: like that LaMelo ball trade, you can look at that
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Speaker 1: roster and say Khan, Brandon Miller. I mean, Nas Reed
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Speaker 1: is kind of perfect. What they want to do, Moussa Diabate.
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Speaker 1: That's still a competent enough team to, let's say, win 40.
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Speaker 1: 35 would be a surprise. King straight is a bonus.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's bold. I would bet money on
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Speaker 1: them trying to. I don't know if I would bet
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Speaker 1: money on somebody biting. The Lakers being a bottom five
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Speaker 1: defense doesn't feel bold. You know, you look at that, Ross.
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Speaker 1: I feel like they're also going to try to, they're
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Speaker 1: going to find a way to not be one of
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Speaker 1: the bottom five defenses, right? Like if I had to
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Speaker 1: guess where the Lakers defense is going to be at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season, I would guess 15 through
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Speaker 1: 22 defensively. And then the offense is probably one through five.
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Speaker 1: And it's like that balances out to 48 wins or 51.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the number is going to be.
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Speaker 1: The Celtics are worse than last season. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's a bold prediction because while I do believe in
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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum and the roster they put together, you know,
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Speaker 1: especially if you look past the Jalen Brown trade, there
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Speaker 1: is a huge, huge bet on Jason Tatum's health playing
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Speaker 1: as many games as what Jalen Brown did last season.
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Speaker 1: But I know a lot of people that are looking
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Speaker 1: at the Celtics and be like, oh, no, they're back
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Speaker 1: to contention. I don't know if I can be there
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Speaker 1: just yet. The Magic winning 50 games is one of
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Speaker 1: my things. I don't think that's a bold prediction. I do.
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Speaker 1: I truly do believe in this Magic team. I think
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Speaker 1: I said at the end of last season, if y'all
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Speaker 1: are selling your Orlando Magic stock Tap me in. They
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Speaker 1: won 45 last year, and that was a bad year
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Speaker 1: for them. We hated the season they had. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the season, I'm like, bro, I'm so tired
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Speaker 1: of watching the Orlando Magic, and they still ended up
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Speaker 1: winning 45. So you're trying to tell me with a
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Speaker 1: new coach, another year with Dezen Bain in that lineup,
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Speaker 1: they can't win five more games? I would bet on that.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying that that's not bold, but I agree with that.
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Speaker 1: But neither the Thunder or the Spurs represent the West
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Speaker 1: in the finals is truly, truly a bold prediction. Because
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Speaker 1: while the East is a bloodbath where I can see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
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Speaker 1: six and a half different teams maybe representing the East.
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Speaker 1: Out West, though, I do like some of these other teams.
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Speaker 1: It's between OKC and the Spurs, right? Who is even
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Speaker 1: three on that list in y'all mind? Is it Denver?
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Speaker 1: Hard for me to think of that. Is it L.A.?
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Speaker 1: I just told you I think their defense is going
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Speaker 1: to be 15-22. Is 15-22 defensively good enough to win
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Speaker 1: three playoff series to be in the NBA Finals? Probably not.
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Speaker 1: Is it going to be the Houston Rockets now that
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Speaker 1: Fred VanVleet is back and they got some steady point
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Speaker 1: guard play? I don't know if I like. The Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves did a lot this offseason. Are they going to
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Speaker 1: be able to put it all together in one regular season? So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a bold, bold prediction. OKC is not getting any worse,
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Speaker 1: and the Spurs is getting better. So those are the
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Speaker 1: two teams. They're going to see each other in the
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Speaker 1: conference finals because I think they're a one and two
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Speaker 1: seed every single season at this point. They're going to
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Speaker 1: see each other in the conference finals. Whoever wins that
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Speaker 1: seven is going on to represent the West. I wish
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Speaker 1: somebody did follow up asking like, okay, then who would
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Speaker 1: you bet to be that team? It might be Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes I be thinking to myself, am I, am I,
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Speaker 1: now I'm about to have an internal dialogue. Am I,
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Speaker 1: am I turning to two eye testy? You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean? Eye test vibes wise. I love this Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves team, y'all. But some of the analytics guys are like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Kaminga is Kaminga, you know. But I'm like, Kaminga is Kaminga.
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Speaker 1: But if he is truly about his action and his worth,
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Speaker 1: then that's a really good player to have right there, right?
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Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball only had one healthy season in the last four. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but he is coming off the healthy season. And maybe
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Speaker 1: he's having a Steph Curry arc where them ankles are
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Speaker 1: cool for the rest of his career. Like I talk,
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Speaker 1: I mean, talk myself into these type of things. And
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Speaker 1: then like the MLS guy be like, nah, he a
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Speaker 1: bad fit next to this guy. He a bad fit
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Speaker 1: next to this guy. And a lot of times they
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Speaker 1: end up being right. A lot of times they end
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Speaker 1: up being right. But I'm like looking at Minnesota, like
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Speaker 1: maybe it is Minnesota there. Maybe it is. Yeah, fuck it.
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Speaker 1: It's Minnesota. If it ain't those two, it's Minnesota. That's
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Speaker 1: my number three thing. I appreciate these people that will
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Speaker 1: give you seven bold takes. Let's look at this one.
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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum will be one of the front runners for
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Speaker 1: mvp this season following a 55 plus win win season
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Speaker 1: for the celtics in a career high approximately 28 8
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Speaker 1: and 7 okay he'll ultimately lose to wimby or luca
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Speaker 1: it does feel like a if healthy wouldn't be mvp
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Speaker 1: season no disrespect to shade luca or Jokic or Giannis,
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Speaker 1: all these guys are normally in conversation. But it just
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Speaker 1: feels like this is when we still lose this season.
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Speaker 1: But what do I know? I think that would be
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Speaker 1: pretty bold. Again, Tatum eventually looked pretty solid towards the
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Speaker 1: end before he had to sit out for the last
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Speaker 1: playoff game or so. He looked pretty solid towards the
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Speaker 1: end of coming back and now full offseason underway. I
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Speaker 1: know y'all going to look at those clips when he's
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Speaker 1: overseas and missing all these layups and all these free
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Speaker 1: throws and stuff like that and be like, no, this
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Speaker 1: ain't a season. But I truly believe that Tatum could
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Speaker 1: do this. Like I said earlier, it is a huge
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Speaker 1: bet on his health. And with you having a franchise
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Speaker 1: player like Tatum, who is still, what, 19 years old?
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. Let me double check that. Jason Tatum, yeah,
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Speaker 1: with him being still 19 years old, you kind of
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Speaker 1: want to slow grind, in my mind. But against Tatum,
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Speaker 1: he came back and he averaged, what, 30 minutes a game.
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Speaker 1: So maybe you don't slow grind. But in my mind,
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Speaker 1: if there's any flare-ups, if there's any soreness, I just
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Speaker 1: want to be cautious, you know, and say, Tatum, you
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Speaker 1: sit this one out. You sit this one out. And
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Speaker 1: maybe because of these sitting outs that maybe he doesn't
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Speaker 1: end up 65 games. I think it's Tatum like minimum,
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Speaker 1: but like, I don't know. Because Tatum does have the
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Speaker 1: benefit of obviously being one of the best players in
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Speaker 1: the world. Don't get me wrong. But he's always had
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Speaker 1: the benefit, unlike his former teammate in Jalen Brown, where
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Speaker 1: the advanced analytics absolutely love him as well. So if
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Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me I'm Jason Tatum, my number
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Speaker 1: two guy is no longer an all NBA player like
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown, and I'm still winning 55 games. And let's
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Speaker 1: say he has a normal Tatum season, which a normal
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Speaker 1: Tatum season at this point is 26-6-9. That's what Tatum
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Speaker 1: averaged last year. The year before that, he averaged 30
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Speaker 1: the year before that. So just an average Tatum season.
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Speaker 1: He just gets back to himself. And he don't have
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Speaker 1: like the narrative of being like, man, his number two guy,
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Speaker 1: basically a number one on 90 other teams. I could
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Speaker 1: see him being in the conversations. Again, I would rather
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Speaker 1: slow grind Tatum's return. He averaged 33 minutes per game
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Speaker 1: in 16 games last season. Just straight off of ACL.
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Speaker 1: His very first game. Hold on. How many minutes he played? 27.
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Speaker 1: First game back. Off an Achilles, 27. He basically played
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Speaker 1: three 40-minute games in the playoffs. So yeah, don't slow
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Speaker 1: grind anything. It's Jason Tatum. He made out of vibranium.
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Speaker 1: The next one that this person said is 76 has
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Speaker 1: started off so-so. I think this is pretty true. Just
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Speaker 1: based on the history of these teams that are super talented,
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Speaker 1: but maybe having some talent overlap, I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to take some time for them to look like the
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Speaker 1: team that we think they can be. So I think
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Speaker 1: this is probably pretty true. But they said they bounce
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Speaker 1: back late in the year and go to the finals.
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Speaker 1: where they're likely to fall to a historic Spurs team. Okay. Wimby, Shea, Tatum, Luka,
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Speaker 1: and Halliburton are the first team. So Jokic falls out
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Speaker 1: of all NBA first team? That would be tough because
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Speaker 1: even in the years where like, let me make sure
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Speaker 1: I'm speaking correctly here. Even in the years where Jokic
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Speaker 1: and company didn't end up having, you know, a top
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Speaker 1: three seed, he's found ways to be on first team because,
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Speaker 1: you know, He's who he is. Right, so the year
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Speaker 1: that they won 47 games and they lost in the second,
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Speaker 1: they got swept in the second round to Phoenix. He
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Speaker 1: was on first team too. So, like, the Denver Nuggets
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Speaker 1: don't need to win 50 games for Tatum, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: for Jokic to be All-NBA first team. Hell, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he won MVP that season, right? Yeah, yeah, that's his
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Speaker 1: first MVP year. They were tied for a three seed
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Speaker 1: at that time. Well, not tied, record-wise tied for a
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Speaker 1: three seed, but it would have been a three seed
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Speaker 1: that season. And then the year after that, his second MVP,
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Speaker 1: they were a six seed, and he won MVP. So,
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really hard for a
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Speaker 1: guy like Halliburton to jump into All-NBA first team. Him
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Speaker 1: also coming off an injury. We don't know how long
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Speaker 1: it's going to take him to jail. So that is
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Speaker 1: truly a bold prediction. If I had to, let's go
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Speaker 1: back and look at last year's All-NBA first team. Let
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Speaker 1: me just refresh my memory real quick. Last year's first
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Speaker 1: team is Shea, Jokic, Wimby, Luka, Cade. That's the five.
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Speaker 1: And if you're trying to tell me that you believe
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Speaker 1: Halliburton's going to jump in, I don't feel like Jokic
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Speaker 1: is the one that falls out. If anything, maybe it's
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Speaker 1: just Cade because it's his first time there. Or like Luka,
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Speaker 1: as long as Luka's playing 65, as long as those
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Speaker 1: other four are playing 65, they're like locks to be
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Speaker 1: first team. And Tatum damn near was a lock to
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Speaker 1: be first team as long as he was playing 65 too.
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Speaker 1: So I just feel like jumping into first team is
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Speaker 1: going to be extremely hard. Shout out to Cade for
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Speaker 1: getting it done last season. But it would be hard
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Speaker 1: for somebody to take that. And the last one they
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Speaker 1: said is, I also think a Saraputa would be better
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Speaker 1: than Ahmed this season. but the Pistons will still be
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Speaker 1: a fifth seed or lower in the first round exit.
14:22
Speaker 1: I also forgot about Giannis. Shout out to the comment.
14:25
Speaker 1: I forgot about Giannis. If Giannis plays 65, that's the
14:27
Speaker 1: fifth spot too. Like, ah, bro, this season is going
14:29
Speaker 1: to be crazy because everybody's playing at least 65. Nobody's
14:31
Speaker 1: going to get injured this season, right? I think Asar
14:35
Speaker 1: proved to be better than Amin Thompson. That's going to
14:38
Speaker 1: be tough. I just don't think Asar at this point
14:40
Speaker 1: in his career has the offensive juice that Amin Thompson
14:43
Speaker 1: has been able to provide. I think that Asar is
14:45
Speaker 1: the better of the two defensively. Um, But I think
14:48
Speaker 1: he would have to take a significant jump offensively in
14:50
Speaker 1: his confidence and his creation to make that realistic. And
14:54
Speaker 1: Lord knows Pistons fans would welcome that type of jump.
14:59
Speaker 1: But I just, I can't see that. But that's what
15:00
Speaker 1: makes it a bold prediction. The next one is a
15:02
Speaker 1: Super Bowl prediction. The Knicks are out of the first round.
15:05
Speaker 1: Timberwolves over Philly in game six of the finals. Okay,
15:07
Speaker 1: I'm here for all of these. Timberwolves have a better
15:09
Speaker 1: record than the Rockets. I don't think that's, I don't
15:11
Speaker 1: think that's bold take at all. It's bold at all.
15:14
Speaker 1: Especially when you consider that last year, um, It wasn't
15:18
Speaker 1: that crazy, you know? It was a three-game difference between
15:22
Speaker 1: the two, so that's not a bold prediction at all.
15:24
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm talking about. I've been trying to figure
15:26
Speaker 1: out who my sleeper teams are, and do the Magic
15:28
Speaker 1: count as a sleeper? This is just a huge bet
15:31
Speaker 1: on coaching. This is a huge bet on just another year. Again,
15:34
Speaker 1: Paolo has ended last season with saying the absolute right things,
15:37
Speaker 1: and he went out to the playoffs in a 45-point game.
15:39
Speaker 1: Of course, they blew the 3-1 lead and all. But
15:42
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is that a bold prediction to feel
15:45
Speaker 1: like a team that has– Like, they won 50, what,
15:48
Speaker 1: two years ago? 47 two years ago. Okay, so nearly
15:50
Speaker 1: 52 years ago. Is it a bold prediction to say
15:52
Speaker 1: that I think that that team is going to win
15:53
Speaker 1: three more games than last year? Like, I don't know
15:55
Speaker 1: how bold that is. Yeah, let's just rile them off.
15:58
Speaker 1: Paul George, we're most improved player. Is that possible? That's
16:02
Speaker 1: most improved podcast. That's why I don't be opening up
16:04
Speaker 1: the comments, because the comments just take it way too far.
16:07
Speaker 1: Is it possible for a guy to win MIP twice?
16:09
Speaker 1: Can you win MIP after a season where you got suspended? Like,
16:13
Speaker 1: I always think about that, not just suspension, but like
16:15
Speaker 1: a year where you're heavily injured. Can you win most
16:17
Speaker 1: improved player if you played 40 games the previous season?
16:20
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I know they have comeback
16:21
Speaker 1: player of the year as an award that nobody cares about,
16:24
Speaker 1: but can you win most improved player after missing 25
16:27
Speaker 1: games because of suspension? Probably not. Actually, there was just
16:30
Speaker 1: a thing that people were, and I think it was
16:32
Speaker 1: ESPN's panelists, they were talking about who they believe is
16:35
Speaker 1: going to win most improved player, and they had like
16:38
Speaker 1: Our guy, Stephon Castle. Look, Steph Castle is one of
16:41
Speaker 1: my favorite players in the NBA. That's my dog. Shout
16:43
Speaker 1: out to bro. I just kind of hate the idea
16:46
Speaker 1: of a former rookie of the year winning most improved player.
16:51
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? A guy that averaged 17
16:53
Speaker 1: last season. He's on year two. He's going to win
16:55
Speaker 1: most approved player in year three. I just, I love when,
16:58
Speaker 1: and sometimes this doesn't happen, right? But I love when
17:00
Speaker 1: you have an out of nowhere type of guy. Who
17:03
Speaker 1: was on my ballot last year for most proof? I
17:04
Speaker 1: don't remember. But, oh, yeah, it was 100% Nikhil. Nikhil
17:07
Speaker 1: is the perfect most improved player type of guy. Those
17:10
Speaker 1: are the guys I love to see. He went from
17:12
Speaker 1: nine points per game to 20, to 20. Like, those
17:14
Speaker 1: are the guys, not the guys that was already projected. Like,
17:17
Speaker 1: Stephon Castle is projected to be an all-defensive player this season,
17:20
Speaker 1: just straight up based on everything. So I don't like that.
17:24
Speaker 1: But let's get back to the surprise guys. Like, even
17:26
Speaker 1: a Colin Gillespie last season, I'm like, yeah, that's a
17:29
Speaker 1: guy that should get some love for most improved player.
17:32
Speaker 1: Not the Ja Moretz of the world. Shout out to Ja, though.
17:35
Speaker 1: Cat will make All-NBA first team. Super Bowl prediction. I
17:38
Speaker 1: respect it. Absolutely not. I'm going to get clipped. Minnesota
17:41
Speaker 1: be the exciting to watch, make a run, beating OKC
17:46
Speaker 1: of the Spurs, then get trounced. Oh, I haven't seen
17:49
Speaker 1: that word, I don't know, ever, by the other. Yeah,
17:52
Speaker 1: that's the tough part about being not one of these teams.
17:55
Speaker 1: Somebody said that one of these teams is not going
17:58
Speaker 1: to represent the West. You probably have to go through
17:59
Speaker 1: both of them to get out of the Western Conference.
18:01
Speaker 1: And then, and then, play against whoever's out east. That's
18:04
Speaker 1: so impossible in my mind. Halliburton will make the Pacers
18:07
Speaker 1: the top three in the east along with the Knicks
18:09
Speaker 1: and Cavs. I'm a true believer in the Cavs regular season,
18:11
Speaker 1: by the way, and maybe in the postseason too. I
18:13
Speaker 1: don't know. I know James Harden got the history and stuff,
18:15
Speaker 1: but the Cavs should be another 55-win team this season.
18:18
Speaker 1: It will be a bad season for Boston, and Robinson
18:21
Speaker 1: would struggle talking about Mitchell Robson. It took me a second. Like, what,
18:23
Speaker 1: Robson's in Boston? Yeah, no, not Duncan, but Mitchell. Portland
18:26
Speaker 1: will suck. What do they mean? What do they mean, though?
18:28
Speaker 1: You're talking 26 wins suck, or you're talking... you know,
18:31
Speaker 1: slight step back from being a 70s suck. I don't know.
18:35
Speaker 1: Christian Brown said, surprise people for the Nuggets. I hope so. Oh,
18:37
Speaker 1: Murray would be traded. Oh, my God. Scottie Barnes might
18:40
Speaker 1: go on the second team. Okay, those are a ton of, like,
18:42
Speaker 1: he looked at the Robbie eyeballs, looked at the prompt
18:45
Speaker 1: that said bold prediction, and basically gave us nothing but
18:47
Speaker 1: bold predictions. I applaud you. I applaud you. Nothing but the, uh,
18:51
Speaker 1: the least bold of these all are probably, man, Scottie
18:54
Speaker 1: Barnes is one of them ones. I don't think it's
18:55
Speaker 1: that bold to think he could be on the second team.
18:57
Speaker 1: Speaking of Scottie Barnes, Scottie Barnes, the DPO, I finally,
18:59
Speaker 1: is making, First team and All-NBA second team. Okay. So, yeah,
19:02
Speaker 1: I think that we talked about this on the pod
19:04
Speaker 1: the other day. And sometimes the voters feel like they
19:07
Speaker 1: could be a little bit late on the defensive tip, right?
19:09
Speaker 1: I thought it was a no-brainer that Scottie Barnes should
19:11
Speaker 1: have been All-Defensive first team. He obviously was not. And
19:14
Speaker 1: I think that because of how he finished the season
19:16
Speaker 1: as far as the postseason, how he– I want to
19:18
Speaker 1: call him a one-man army because a lot of people
19:20
Speaker 1: contributed to that. Jacoby Walter had two 20-point games. And,
19:23
Speaker 1: you know, the rookie was out there. Kyle Murray Boyd
19:26
Speaker 1: was out there doing great stuff and so on and
19:27
Speaker 1: so forth. I don't want to say he single-handedly took
19:30
Speaker 1: the team to seven, but damn it, he was really
19:32
Speaker 1: great to taking the team to seven. So I think
19:34
Speaker 1: the voters are going to catch up and be like,
19:37
Speaker 1: my fault for putting you on the second team defensively.
19:39
Speaker 1: We're going to put you on the first team this year,
19:41
Speaker 1: even if he was worse defensively this year than last year.
19:43
Speaker 1: You feel me? And uh whoa they say shea's gonna
19:47
Speaker 1: win his third mp somehow becoming even more efficient and
19:49
Speaker 1: clutch i just don't know how realistic it is for
19:51
Speaker 1: shea to be even more efficient and clutch and it
19:54
Speaker 1: sounds like glaze and maybe it is but the guy
19:55
Speaker 1: is the the pillar of efficiency from the guard position
19:58
Speaker 1: i don't know how he could get more especially the
20:00
Speaker 1: regulars i don't know how he can get more efficient
20:02
Speaker 1: than what he just did like is that even like
20:04
Speaker 1: truly is that even possible he's coming off one of
20:06
Speaker 1: the most efficient guard seasons in the history of this
20:08
Speaker 1: sport If he could get even more efficient, yeah, give
20:11
Speaker 1: him the award. But I just know voter fatigue is real.
20:14
Speaker 1: Voter fatigue is real. OKC wins his second chip. Halle
20:18
Speaker 1: comes back better than ever in second team All-NBA, yet
20:20
Speaker 1: the Pacers are first on exit. The Raptors make the
20:22
Speaker 1: conference final. Some tell me. You ain't got no flair here,
20:26
Speaker 1: but some tell me you might be a Raptors fan.
20:27
Speaker 1: A couple of Raptors predictions in here? OK. Wolves make
20:30
Speaker 1: it to the Western Conference Finals. DeMello is what Ant
20:32
Speaker 1: needed to break into the upper tier. He's an All-NBA
20:36
Speaker 1: first team in MVP talks. Interesting. Pacers win 60? Okay. 60? Yeah,
20:41
Speaker 1: that's a bold prediction now. Let me see that profile picture. Okay,
20:44
Speaker 1: I don't see TJ McConnell profile picture. 60 wins is
20:47
Speaker 1: a lot. Last year, what did we just have? Three
20:50
Speaker 1: 60-win teams? 60 on the dot for the Pistons, yeah,
20:53
Speaker 1: and then OKC and the Spurs. 60 is not easy
20:55
Speaker 1: to do whatsoever. So that is a bold prediction. Rudy
21:00
Speaker 1: Gobert knocks down not one but two three-pointers. Let Rudy shoot,
21:05
Speaker 1: let Rudy shoot, let Rudy shoot. He's gonna see LaMelo
21:07
Speaker 1: throw some crazy one-legged... I don't... Okay, do I have to...
21:12
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Google this. Let's hope it's not bad words.
21:15
Speaker 1: Why I cannot, why not I? I don't know. English
21:18
Speaker 1: is my only language, even though I took four years
21:22
Speaker 1: of Spanish back in the day. I know like six words.
21:25
Speaker 1: Nobody got any Bulls predictions? Come on, bro. Man, not
21:30
Speaker 1: a single Bulls prediction in this thread. Oh my God.
21:32
Speaker 1: And then the one I see says this. The Bulls
21:35
Speaker 1: contend with Kings for worst record in the league. All right,
21:38
Speaker 1: I'm going to wrap this video up.