Narratives and predictions for the NBA finals | ALL NBA Podcast

[@bringmemyflail1321]

I see Legler, I click like button.

[@skatedurr]

facts

[@Boutbucks]

😂😂‼️

[@smoothslide]

easy choice

[@codyhorne77]

Fun fact , right after that 2006 Finals that Legs mentioned DWade shooting an astounding 97 FT's in 6 games after Dallas going up 2-0 is when Donaghy and the boys went under investigation...

[@S350-uvx]

Legler the best at talkin ball. Guy just has a great understanding of the micro in x’s and o’s as well as the macro in the storylines/ landscape of the league. Gotta listen when I see him pop up 🔥

[@robertbaker782]

Yes and so they should not spend so much time talking about roof work

[@Veritas-Vincit]

Legler is the BEST

[@mikesview2]

Thnx to Tim for existing😊

[@Youdontknowme8888]

Legler said mavs. Congratulations to Dallas Mavericks on their championship!

[@Sillycally123]

Legler picked wolves over mavs lol

[@martinblake2278]

@@Sillycally123 LOL! He actually picked Dallas against Timberwolves in 6.

[@lokilucario]

​@@Sillycally123no he didn't stop lying LMAO he's been riding with Dallas since the trade

[@BassYakCam]

@@Sillycally123Uhh no he didn’t. ESPN asked him who SHOULD be the favorite. He said it SHOULD be the Wolves…..and then he picked the Mavs.

[@itsbunch]

@@Sillycally123why you lying for no reason 💀

[@KS-kt1qi]

Completly agree with Leglers comment on fans excessively identifying themselves with the teams. If your team loses, that's nothing about you, and even if your team wins, that doesn't prove anything about you. Just celebrate and show repect to the teams.

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

THIS! our lives change NONE win or lose.....unless we are related to a player who gets new contract bc performance!

[@dariusz_darson_8968]

Well, that's what normal people do. And usually grown ups Whoever gets too upset about a team they support losing, means they are either a manchild or people with some brain issues. Or both

[@InternetMechanic]

Tim is the only thing that made this week off of basketball manageable. Simply the best

[@superdopehiphop]

Love the show guys. Appreciate listening to fellow hoop heads who actually know their stuff! *Rozier had a terrible shooting game in that 2018 Game 7 loss vs Cavs (not Jason Terry Legs). Rozier was 2-14 including 0-10 from 3. LeBron dragged that Cavs team to finals though and they were still underdogs in that season. Averaged 34, 9, 8, & 2.2 stocks on 52% FG% and 41% 3P% in 2018 ECF and 2nd best player Love averaged 13 10 2 0.7stocks on 38/27 splits! Celtics that series outside of Lebron had the 5 highest PPG guys after Lebron. Rondo won title as PG with 2 teams but he didn’t start for Lakers. He was important that playoff run though in 2020. PS Shaq 2000 was even greater vs my Pacers in Finals though we didn’t have Mutumbo. He averaged like 38, 16, 3, 3 on 60% shooting. They hit so many 3s that series too even though Kobe was 20% from 3. PSS LeBron 2016 Finals def top5 Finals as it was only series in any playoff series EVER to lead BOTH teams in PPG APG RBG SPG BPG. Was vs 73-9 favored Warriors then down 3-1 with games 5/7 at GSW (hadn’t lost 3 games in a row in 3 yrs!) and in Games 5-7 AVERAGED 36 10 10 3spg 3bpg on 51/42/73 and +43! B2B 40+ point games in finals in wins had never happened before!

[@ryanzz1357]

Forget D Wade, that was a gift from the NBA

[@camhoman657]

Legs, for the record if the Celtics lose, I have already told my employer to expect to not see me for a few days as I enter into a moment of existential dread for the exact reason u said. I have also notified them in the case of a victory to not expect to see me on parade day. That’s where Boston fans are by and large I believe

[@mikecantin7760]

As a Celtics fan, that is accurate

[@camhoman657]

@@mikecantin7760 these are tumultuous times for us all. Godspeed my friend

[@bdgabuilt]

After trading for Gafford and PJ, I considered Dallas a dark horse to make the conference finals. My money is on the Mavs. The chip on Luka's shoulder, the poise and leadership Kyrie has played with this year, I won't bet against them. (They also happen to be two of the greatest shot makers we've ever seen) Been listening to you guys all season. Can't wait to see the platform grow. Great, great commentary all year. THANK YOU Adam and Legs for the incredible work 🙏

[@GenXcollector]

DWade in 2006 hit a bunch of free throws, that's not the same as the other u25 guys.

[@santhakumarthangavel9003]

Mavs in 6

[@vernvartdal6479]

Dirk 2011 was a great run.

[@BasketballJones48021]

Dennis Johnson was more of a SG at first though (Gus Williams was running point for Seattle), then he developed into a combo guard and peaked with the Suns, and afterwards became a - very good - PG with the Celtics.

[@paulfiore7083]

I'm not seeing this series like the Celts have a big advantage in any regard. I really think that the Mavs will take this in 6. Luka virtually never has a bad game. The big white refrigerator gets whatever he wants

[@steviechampagne]

they will win a game or 2 by 3pt shooting, but boston CANNOT stop our dunks. Gafford/Lively will eat their lunch

[@michaelahurt]

Game 1 OKC - 6/19 1/8 5 TO Game 4 OKC - 6/20 2/9 7 TO Game 4 MIN - 7/21 4/11 That's 3 out of the last 10 and I'm not even counting game 3 vs OKC (22 on 7/17) or any of the Clippers series which included a 7/25 and 9/26

[@michaelahurt]

​@@steviechampagneBoston is absolutely going to stop your dunks. 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️ They're gonna put Tatum on Lively/Gafford and just switch. No lobs.

[@avemathews0806]

bro this is a W podcast, just becuz of Legler!

[@lamuertte]

NBA refs gave D Wade and the Heat that 06' title

[@BassYakCam]

💯

[@charlesmoore4851]

Yep

No sir. Mavs not being able to stop D.Wade "gave" the Heat that title. That is all. Good day.

[@MarlonFuentes.]

Tim is the best! Mavs in 6

[@mariogcgb]

Love the list at the end by Legs. Fantastic

[@jonathanlupplace2241]

Die hard fans listen to local broadcasters all season and national in the post season. When it comes to the post fans never wrap their head around that the broadcast are now trying to cover both teams not just the their with some information on the opposing team. Tim is the man! I got Mavs in 6. Let’s go Mavs!!!

[@jeffreymartin3841]

Luka's stats are playoff elite . he's 1st in every stat. When he beats the Celtics their is no conversation of best player . Luka's run to the championship was on the road and he was the underdog in every series and the Celtics team is stacked. so no more comparing Luka to Ant ,Shai or Tatum he is the best player in the NBA along w/ Jokic and Embid if healthy.

[@steviechampagne]

better than jokic. jokic has never beat a 50 win team and he CHOKED A 20 PT LEAD IN A GAME 7. Imagine if Luka choked a 20pt lead in the playoffs

[@thebekgo1624]

Sneaking in Embiid is crazy 😂

[@jeffreymartin3841]

@@thebekgo1624 Embiid if healthy is a bad man. he just sucks in the playoffs.

[@michaelahurt]

Regardless of whether he wins or not he's been better than those guys. But he is in that top tier. Shai is pretty close. But he's definitely better than Tatum and Ant.

[@ryanzz1357]

Embiid is a joke

[@grggrs]

Love the basketball conversation and love Ole Tim spitting game….. but Wade’s 97 free throws is far from a remarkable performance. Those free throws won that championship and everyone knows it, including Wade. Take the time and go back and watch the games. So many of those fouls were either questionable or flat out ghost fouls. Tim Donaghy was involved in those games and there’s no question that Finals was tampered with.

[@jeffreywilliams6386]

I can dig what Legler's putting down around 40:00-40:45 but that i think the Celts will get Dallas' bigs in foul trouble some

[@ultra4167]

Picking D wades free throw parade is wild but still love you legs GO MAVS

[@ketsfan]

Drives me crazy as a Rockets fan how forgotten our 65-win team already is. Hamstring away. This whole convo is so relavant to that team and Harden's legacy as a guy who didn't win a title.

[@michaelahurt]

I think you guys lose anyway because Harden was still gonna be James Harden in a game 7 but one of the things I like about Zach Lowe is he constantly brings up how good you guys and the 17 Cavs were

[@QuintonWhite-tq5hd]

Legler has stood 10 toes down about them Mavs!

[@snowmontana2547]

No he hasn't 😂

[@jeffreymartin3841]

for those of you who say Luka and Kyrie can't play defense #1 you have no basketball IQ #2 Luka leads the playoffs in steals (guess he's lucky) #3 Dallas has beat every team they faced by beating them as a visiting team. #4 have you ever seen Tatum and Brown end in a game 7 minutes into the 2nd quarter? did you see what Luka and Kyrie did to minnesota on the Wolves homecourt? yeah took no defense there.!!

[@rsoissong]

You literally didn't talk about defense there except for a single stat.

[@92KM1]

Disappointed in Adam for starting an inaccurate narrative when the Bucks were hurt. And Jrue was underwhelming the past few postseason even tho I’m glad he’s thriving in a lesser role.

[@DunningKrugerJnr]

22:00 Legs, the main reason is because people are sick of media’s Lakers and Lebron’s bias…there’s so much distrust

[@Zamdfw]

The reason the MAV’s have been able to handle the top defenses in the west is because they have two players that require double teaming to defend successfully. Boston has had this great defense because they are able to defend most teams 1:1 but they will not be able to do that with Luka and Kai. They will draw additional attention which opens up lobs and wide open 3’s. On the other side MAV’s stay close in the first half then really ratchet up their defense closing the 3rd and play shutdown defense in the fourth.

[@rsoissong]

So let's ask this, are the Celtics comfortable switching multiple players onto Luka or Kyrie? Do the Mavs have a better option for Porzingis than Lively/Gafford? It's a game of matchups and hunting those matchups. How does that play out?

[@theSUBVERSIVE]

I'm surprised more people don't mention the Pacers series. Unless Boston was really sky above the Pacers and they were just "playing with food", I don't understand why that doesn't account for what to expect from the Celtics. If the Pacers executed a little bit better late in the game, it could have been a very different series, which shouldn't be the case. I really want to watch G1 to feel the temperature, it's a hard series to predict.

[@chrisconnor8086]

right now kyrie is watching kobe bryant spin cycle compilation on youtube, getting ready to go mamba in the garden

[@renato.v3667]

I can't believe the pressure Boston is under to win the final from the media and fans. This can be a big advantage for Dallas to get to the final victory with ease.

[@BertTirona]

Ron Harper was also a starter who won championships with 2 teams

[@DunningKrugerJnr]

Sidekick? Why be so pejorative? What about you Adam? Are you a show host or Tim’s sidekick? 😂

[@mrRambleGamble]

Calling Kyrie a sidekick in 2016 downplaying what he did. 1A , 1B like the justice league, not Batman and Robin

[@edgarcastillo1340]

Thank you!!! Kyrie is much more than a "sidekick" lol he does so much for this team on and off the court and is one of the leaders of the team

[@LoganPau-fq1kx]

Aye legs would I be wrong if I said I never seen anyone play basketball better than Dirk in 2011 playoffs?

[@completeGamer007]

Guess you didn’t watch Lebron in 2017-2018

[@johnmcm7690]

Yes you would be wrong

[@Jerrden]

I love Dirk but MJ, Lebron, Shaq had better performances. Dirk is high up there though due to him being the only all star on that team.

[@BassYakCam]

I’d say you’d be right specifically in the 2011 WCF vs OKC. All the other series he played well, but not best all time.

[@UraStr]

Funny, the more I think about it, this series is about adjustments...both team need to stick to their guns, DAL hope that Luka score easy enough in the iso, and do what they do best protect the rim and hope BOS misses 3s. BOS needs to single cover Luka with help in the paint, give him jumpers and hope that they can force him to shoot mediocre quality shots and lock down the role players. Whoever makes adjustment 1st, for DAL it is contesting the perimeter hard, for BOS it's throwing doubles at Luka, will lose. Luka will find open people for dunks and 3s, and BOS will find easy passes inside. Whoever makes the first move, looses...

[@aceloco817]

We'll see how Mazulla makes adjustments like u said. Crazy thing is we haven't seen what he'll go to the whole playoffs! Obviously other then KP & Horford. I understand that they really didn't have to. The only 2 losses they had were the opposing teams having anomalies of games. I feel like Kidd & company have the advantage..

[@rsoissong]

So yeah, this series is about who needs to make the bigger adjustment. I disagree with Legs pick, because I think the Celtics *base* defense is actually a good plan, while the Mavs probably need to switch up from their *base* defense

[@JapseyeSpecs]

One thing that I think will be a factor is the officials. I pray for unbiased, even officiating. 🙏

[@florycatam586]

the reason mavs would win because luka and kyrie make their role players score, you can't say that to tatum and jb, and that is the difference.

[@natashakuzmanoska9656]

But Boston role players can create on their own. But it will be cool if Mavs win.

[@KevsJan]

Boston's top 6 are jack of all trades. Mavs are mostly, specialists. So it may somehow be a battle between specialists and versatiles.

[@jaredwilkes2324]

Tatum has grown a ton at making players better. He's def better than Kyrie at that. It's going to be a fun finals

[@michaelahurt]

Did anyone else feel like the Indiana series was close because Boston didn’t take them seriously? Indiana is hard to guard because of all the space I’ll give them that but I didn’t feel like we ever got a game where Boston really wanted to put their foot on Indiana’s neck (like they did to Miami) They just knew they could outscore the Pacers and didn’t need to work very hard on defense and only did it when they needed to It was almost like oh cool now we can practice late game execution against live competition. It just never felt like the Pacers were a real threat. Like when LeBron let Toronto win two games in 2016. (Pretty sure he just didn’t want 10 days off)

[@ISeePineapples]

They had a chapter called "What would a Championship mean for the Celtics?" and they spent half the time talk about if Dallas won.

[@veseliniliev3361]

It's Luke time!!! Love the podcast.

[@davidstorrs1147]

O.k. folk's, first & FOREMOST I would like to just say that I love this discussion on the nba. Finals between the 2 teams. With that said I think this series is going to be better than most oddsmakers think it's going to be. The reason I say this is that is because of the slim margins of what this series presents. With out going to much into details ' cause of respect of both teams , I think if Dallas keeps game 1 close going into the last 6 minutes of the 4th quarter I think that they have a better chance of winning this game down the stretch & if & I will admit that's a big IF, Dallas does win game 1 in BOSTON than the ODDS of DALLAS winning the series in my opinion is better, but if BOSTON wins by more than double digits it's going to be tougher for DALLAS to win in BOSTON. In closing, I don't think this series is going 7 games either way it goes.

[@brandoncheese1]

I appreciate the kawhi shout out

[@theSUBVERSIVE]

I wish the Mavs had a decent team around Luka in 2022, this could have even been a Celtics x Mavs rivalry.

[@noahlongoria9735]

Common Legler W

[@LhotseMS]

The coloseum connection is real. In ancient Rome they gave people games so they don't revolt XD

[@KevsJan]

If Luka wins it at 25 this year, there's a lot of younguns in the mavs too, DLive at 20, JGreen at 24, JHardy at 22. Not to mention others at 26.

[@reannesalinas5695]

The questioning stems from hearing nonsensical opinions! Some comments seem to exist just to argue the opposite side! This makes much of national TV unbearable to watch! Think of Chris Broussard and the guy with long hair on Fox Sports! You guys are not bad altho I prefer the X&Os over narrative and feelings! Keep up the good work!

[@vareseources]

Boston has lots of pressure

[@benjousan8470]

Legler eats free in Dallas

[@melodymaker135]

Rajon Rondo? Or did he not start for the Lakers?

[@MikeWazowskisBurner]

I think he started some games but usually came off the bench

[@michaelahurt]

We need to get Tim of ESPN before they ruin him. I felt like I was watching First Take the first 10 minutes

[@jobo7909]

LEGGGGSSSSSS

[@UraStr]

Lot of people are for a rude awakening, there's certainly a path for DAL to win. BOS gonna start with switching everything and guarding straight up, if Luka score efficiently and BOS is bit cold from 3, DAL can hang on and win it in the clutch, where BOS will go full panic. And then I expect BOS to panic some more, make adjustments, that instead of stopping DAL, open the whole floor for them. And suddenly it's 1-3 and DAL manages to close at some point. But most likely scenario, is that Luka scores, but it's tough for him and BOS shuts down the role players and hit their open 3s, which they will get. At some point DAL over commits to the perimeter and BOS finds easy points inside.

[@CTEagleCeltic]

What legs is missing, is that most media members aren’t going to give Boston credit if they win, they’re gonna point to the road. He might not, but most will do anything before eating crow.

[@GurtonBuster07]

Jrue holiday is not the Celtics point guard it’s Derrick white didn’t Tim legler say he watches the Celtics all the time? Idk how you get that wrong if that’s the case lmao

[@elias4577]

They both play point but Holiday has been playing at 1 with White as the off guard. So maybe you don’t watch? Lol

[@mrRambleGamble]

Jrue averages the third highest assists on his team behind White and Tatum. He's really not that much of a point guard. I'd say Kyrie is more of a PG than Jrue. He's definitely the fourth quarter PG.

[@Grandzdagreat]

@@mrRambleGambleassist averages don’t mean your not setting up the offense Celtics get a lot of hockey assist.. watch the game not the stats

[@tyleraxam344]

PG 2 rings on different teams Rajon Rondo 💫🏀💫

[@Grandzdagreat]

He said starting rondo didn’t start for La

[@tyleraxam344]

@@Grandzdagreat Facts🫡

[@bugzmccarthy8416]

jru would be comparable to a modern day dennis johnson

[@bahriboy]

Kyrie is seriously disrespected & underrated. He is not a 'side kick' & is in many ways leading this team.

[@walterrussell6584]

I cant buy into the Celtics. The East was a weak conference this year. They were only a 500 team vs Western teams and the had the easiest ever playoff run. They may very well be better than Dallas but I wont believe they are until they win the series.

[@mikecantin7760]

23-7 vs the west this year . Check statmuse

[@fire10167]

A 500 team against western conference teams above 500

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

SPOT ON Legs about EVERY fan base whining their team is being "hated on!" SO weird sickening and misguided. Human psychology of fans is BONKERS! soft thin skinned society smh then run and hide from commentary when your team actually DOES lose 🤦🏿‍♂blaming refs and conspiracies

[@donnikrasniqi5873]

Legler, I don't appreciate you mentioning Dwayne Wade as one of the all time greatest NBA finals performance, but thanks for including the enormous amount of free throws rewarded to him. During the the 2006 Playoffs, Dwyane Wade was averaging 9.3 FTA through his first 19 games but that went to ALMOST DOUBLE in his last 4 Finals Games where he'd average 18.3 FTA and win 4 in a row vs. Dallas Mavericks. Definitely a rigged finals, even NBA Ref Tim Donaghy admitted it was. Good God! 18.3 free-throws per in final 4 games??

[@leonardo_mrll]

players are being called freethrow merchants when they averadge around 10.5 fta per game.... d wade was the goddamit mafia boff El pachino of freethrow merchants, dealers, buyers TF you want to add you get It 💀

Stop him from driving without fouling. They couldn't/didn't do it.

[@donnikrasniqi5873]

they were not fouling him, ghost fouls! hello?? 18 freethrows a game dude, 4 games in a row! Fixed 100 percent.

[@michaelahurt]

Exactly. Wade was getting to the rim at will. People act like he was just foul baiting When you combine perimeter defenders who couldn't stay in front with high foul bigs in Dampier and Diop and Wade deciding to go to the rim seemingly every play it's not that surprising It's like the Lakers thing. People are always so shocked that if you drive the basketball into the paint you get more foul calls. They'd probably be shocked rain is wet too

[@92KM1]

There is a lot of talk about clutch offense but other than making a shot at the last second I probably trust Jrue Tatum JB and White more to make a PLAY ( block, steal, deflection or O board) down the stretch. Jrue probably one of the most clutch defender. He always finds a way to make something happen

[@DebasedAnon]

Luka literally has 2 clutch highlight defensive plays in the playoffs so far, blocking SGA and intercepting a lob to Gobert both of which iced the game. For whatever you think of Luka and Kyries defense they both, but more so Luka, step it up massively in clutch time.

[@williamroper5422]

​@@DebasedAnonHe had another huge steal in the clutch against OKC as well.

[@coltranecobain9883]

@ 92km You’re dumb

[@DebasedAnon]

@@williamroper5422 Yup, and that's just the highlights, the amount of times I've seen him just flick a switch and go from the already good defender he's been all playoffs to straight up lockdown defender is ridiculous. People seem to forget that the "killer instinct" we talk about for offense also applies to defense, its part of the reason why MJ is arguably the best defensive guard ever cause he had a psychotic drive to win.

[@92KM1]

@@DebasedAnon TO there is clear difference between being a lockup defender and getting a spot. I get he made some effort and S/O to him for that but don’t compare him to MJ on that side of the floor. Btw, he WILL get picked on this series. Dallas ain’t going to be able to sit someone in the paint behind him like they did with Giddey or with Minnesota atrocious spacing

[@frankmaitland1254]

Donaghy fixed the playoffs for Wade.

[@douglaskennedy6695]

If you’re picking the ‘06 Heat-Mavs MVP it would be the refs’ touch fouls in Dwyane’s favor. 🙄

[@DH-vy8hw]

Luv legs!

[@tribealive7494]

Rondo!!!!

[@patrickmcmahon1443]

Jaylon Brown will be MVP

[@dylandude27]

20:20 probably because your 5 minutes into a “Celtics” topic and all you’ve talked about Luka. That’s about how it goes with every “Celtics” topic.

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

Im in hog heaven! Im Beantown for LIFE, God Kyrie Andrew Irving for LOVE! I picked this finals matchup way back around Turkey Day. I'm going to be a MESS this series..so Y'all pray for your boy!! 🙏🏿☘💪🏿

[@therealgordonramsay9458]

🎉🎉🎉

[@pal8h]

Legler completely ignoring the impact that KP has for the Celtics. If he didn't think he'll be a factor because of injury, that's fine but acknowledge that they have a borderline all star coming back

[@Odhran2017]

lets go legs

[@jessebuck90]

Rajon Rondo PG won with the Celtics and again with the Lakers.

[@krisinhere1691]

Mavs in 6 they are too locked in.

[@Patriciawhalen]

Luka is Larry Bird on steroids and Kyrie is going to show Boston why rejecting him as a leader was thier biggest mistake!!!

[@deanchase7904]

He's not bird go back to your Crack pipe

[@tobylau33]

Kyrie was embraced as the leader and threw it away himself

[@xMaGuSx888]

Kyrie isn't a leader. He hasn't been at ANY point in his career, and he isn't one on the MAVS. Also, Larry Bird and Luka are 2 very different players. Bird has 3 All Defensive awards, Luka has ZERO. People just be out here saying absolutely anything for attention.

[@mariussolerbach]

Celtics fan, uh? Luka is the best player of the world. Kyrie changed, now is a leader. You shoot the 3 well, let's see what happen

[@josephrafferty6763]

Larry Bird on steroids is a wild overstatement. Bird came in to the league as a rookie and was arguably the best player in the league immediately... he improved the team's record by nearly 100% in his rookie year (31 wins in '78-'79 all the way up to 61 in '79-'80). Doncic's team improved by 9 games.

[@daevonanthony7962]

Mavs in 4 according to everyone in the media

[@stebrabakone]

I like Tim but how do you have no LeBron finals

[@MikeWazowskisBurner]

Yeah 2016 would have been an obvious addition to his list. Maybe he just wanted to highlight some less talked-about runs

[@nwatt23]

Cheating Refs gave Wade the 06 finals win .. phantom calls to win games at the line.

[@brianandela6998]

C’s in 5

[@patconlon7835]

Adam mentions Rome 2000 years ago---Give em bread and a circus Adam---At least he's half ass aware of it--On the other hand ,Legler is beyond clueless--a total court jester

[@Fibanacci9]

27ppg a season on 50/40/90 splits every season is considered disaster?? Clown ass media tryna run narratives

[@quiggs111]

celtics in 5 .. brad stevens got us one.

[@rogerswanigan6378]

The Boston Celtics will win the NBA championship this year. 2024 Tatum and Brown will both how at least 140 point game. Derek white will put up 230 point games Celtics will win in. 6 games or less. All this and Luca and Carrie are pretty good players. But man yellow overridden, these dudes have no. D dirt Jones at PJ Washington. Can I stop Tatum and brown? They have no chance

[@ChuckConti]

I'm only 11 minutes in, and these guys already have Luka winning the Chip and MVP next year! (Is he going to play defense next year?) And all year long I've heard how Tatum being on a 64 win team means nothing towards MVP. But Mavs will get "upper 50s" in wins and that cements his MVP. I like Luka, but I want to see the Celtics DESTROY the Mavs and Luka just to shut up all the hypocrites.

[@johnhollander3576]

Absolutely agree!! So beyond tired of all the Celtic hate and disrespect they get 😖

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

@@johnhollander3576 choke yearly but deserve respect after 6/7 years?

[@rogerswanigan6378]

Oh, by the way, the self to swept the mavericks.Both games were blowouts in the regular season and they did have these guys on the team originally

[@justin_sample]

I still think Denver is the best team in the west by far

[@Zipperace]

Thank you Adam for defending the common fan hahaha, but I completely get why Legs wouldn’t understand why fans get upset about media hating teams

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

As Adam said, NOT LOGICAL! SCREW what media and talking heads say! JUST WIN BABY! Beantown v EVERYBODY! i really HATE fanboy podcasters and channels....objective NO FRIILLS takes rock!

[@SamDavisson]

All 8 Celtics players that will play can all shoot& all play defense. Luka& Ky can avg. a combined 60-65pts and the Celtics JT& JB can avg. Combined 50-55! The difference will B Celtics 3-8 players will out play/score Mavs3-8players. Celtics in6🔥

[@walterrussell6584]

We'll find out but steel sharpens steel and Dallas has elevayes their game through those battles. I dont believe Boston is that dialed in. I think Boston will quickly realize Dallas is on a different level from what Boston has seen.

[@johngoodman21]

Kobe shoulda won 1 before 25

[@futurefox635]

Legler is picking the Mavs, but I dont believe him. He doesnt even sound like he believes him.

[@AdrianCuison]

he has been 3-0 with the mavs, 4-0 coming up

[@futurefox635]

@@AdrianCuison I know he has. But he also knows in his hear that the Celtics are a better team, he just keeps picking Celtics very year and they keep losing so this time hes going againstthe Celtics but its bad timing, the Mavs arent nearly as good.

[@AdrianCuison]

@@futurefox635 dnt fool yourself.

[@gamechangerswithfabianlyon7882]

Luka and Kyrie bring an alpha energy greater than Brown and Tatum. That Boston switches so often instead of blitzing the pick and roll or staying home, will play into Dallas’ hands. Dallas in 7. Luka mvp.

[@jackofalltrades123]

I kind of feel like the finals is a matchuo between a modern bball team in the celtics and mavs being more older school. Hybrid version but got 2 trad bigs. Hybrid in that the best player is the point gaurd.

[@nateschmidt8881]

Hilarious that you shame fans for defending their teams, when you (and the sports media as a whole) should be the only ones who define the narratives and taking points. Cringe take here, from someone I generally respect.

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

nah, it be misguided cry babies not keeping the game/MERE ENTERTAINMENT in perspective! fan = fanatic for SOME! offended when someone doesnt pick their team lolololol asinine!

[@No1Armadillo]

totally disagree Legs.... a player's value is like owning a stock.... That stock is worth exactly what it's *perceived* to be worth and has no actual attachment to the real value... So, just talking value, if i was a billionaire and wanted to buy the best possible player in the world..... who would i buy today???? LUKA !!! There's not another player in the league who is even close .... after that, you can take all your stats and go have a wiener roast....

[@JackB.Nimble999]

I've been listening to Legler rant about a hypothetical title win by Luka and I'm ready to puke. I used to like the guy but he's just riding Luka's balls so hard I'm ready to move on.

[@PRODIGY-AND-HAVOC]

cry and bye!

[@krisinhere1691]

06 Finals was rigged. D Wade has more FTs than the whole Mavs team in game 3.