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Optimism for the Celtics? 🤔 Heat winning Game 2️⃣? 🏀 First Take going skydiving?! 🪂



Optimism for the Celtics? 🤔 Heat winning Game 2️⃣? 🏀 First Take going skydiving?! 🪂

Stephen A. Smith, JJ Redick and Kendrick Perkins discuss the Boston Celtics’ future and react to Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets.

0:00 Should Celtics fans be optimistic?
6:39 First Take going skydiving?!
9:22 How can the Heat win Game 2?

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33 Comments

  1. Yes trade jaylen Brown because Jayson Tatum played decent in three straight games after three straight losses.

  2. We in the finals and y’all still got the Celtics on y’all mind😭

  3. IF PERK CAN SAY THAT ON NATIONAL TV WHY CANT JA CARDY A GUN HE SAID HE HE KEEPS HIS HAND ON THE BANANA 🍌 PILL 💊

  4. If there's no big name that we could trade for, I wouldn't risk trading JB but he has to work on his handles and I think JT has a double threat more either scoring or assisting.

  5. I agree with Perk that it would do this team some good to have some former players on the staff who have played here before. Part of the reason why there isn't is because it was Udoka who put this current group together and it was mostly made up of his guys,former teammates & coaches that he had been around at previous destinations.

    Joe was never meant to be this team's head coach and only got the interim tag a day before training camp started after Ime was suspended so there was never really an opportunity for him to bring in coaches that he might be familiar with let alone former Celtics players.

    I think part of the reason why Boston hasn't retained more former players onto their coaching staff is 1) guys like Bird,Parish,McHale & Ainge from that 80's era are all up there in age at this point and 2) not everyone wants to go into coaching especially on an assisted coaches salary. With how much money that we see just the average NBA players make over the past 20-25years, if you're frugal and don't blow it all,you really won't have to work again after your NBA career is over.
    Perk says all of this but we see him,Eddie House & Brian Scalabrine, three members of that KG/Pierce/Allen championship team, around this C's team all of the time yet none want to make that jump into coaching.

  6. Perk doesn't know what he is talking about. The problem wasn't Brown doing too much. The problem was Brown not doing enough the heat series

  7. If JB and JT want to play together you keep them together… dont break up a duo unless one is not happy..if Brown wants out he has earned that right

  8. 3:06 no MVP… not the number one option on his own team..never led the league in any category I wish we could tag people on YouTube comments because I’m tagging JJ reddick 😭

  9. After seeing the Denver Nuggets as a team, their syle of play and their head coach leadership, if the Boston Celtics run it back with ni major changes, their is no need bringing them up.

  10. Why didn’t JJ take the assistant coach job with the Celtics last year? What will it take to get him this year?

  11. JJ acting superior to SAS and Perk is
    not interesting to watch, and his takes are too even keel and safe. very informative guy but he should taker bolder and more predictive takes

  12. Crazy but Perk is right. We don’t know if JB is capable of elevating his game cause he’s not a number 1 option consistently. It’s semi similar to Russ and Harden back on OkC

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