LeBron’s HEATED rivalry with Boston Celtics + Draymond Green suspension update | NBA Countdown

LeBron’s HEATED rivalry with Boston Celtics + Draymond Green suspension update | NBA Countdown

You’ve been on both sides of this you’ve been LeBron james’ teammate you won a championship with the Boston Celtics what is it about these two franchises and LeBron James versus the Celtics specifically we talking about the greatest rivalry in sports in sports period the Boston I mean the Lakers and

The Celtics but the word hate the word hate the Boston fans the city of Boston they hate Brun and Brun hate them but it started way before kg Paul and Ray and myself you know what I mean it started way before that it started back in like

2004 in Columbus Ohio in a preseason game with Paul Pierce spit lug at LeBron James and it was about to be a brw foot all in the back that that’s when it actually started and then you know you you think about all the petty stuff that

Went on in between yeah he went to South Beach and then all of a sudden lowkey recruited Ray Allen over there and then the attention so look LeBron James far as dealing with Boston he don’t even go he don’t go out to dinner he don’t leave

Outside his room he hates it there he hates everything about the city and it’s so organization you know what it sounds like what sitting in these same seats with Magic Johnson for years when they hat before he and Larry Bird became close friends and all this deep respect

They hated each other the franchises hated each other but LeBron is not representing one franchise it’s not the Lakers it’s LeBron versus the Celtics so that’s a different part of this then say magic and F but it’s it’s the same thing you need that that’s what real rivalries have they have hatred

In 10 years they won’t describe it that way they’ll talk about a deep respect and a like for each other and they’ll go to each other’s reunions and they’ll do all that today he hates Him me personally I don’t care and let me tell you why I don’t care because of the Lakers see Boston gonna be there I believe Boston’s gonna be there so in other words no matter what happens today Tatum Brown and the crew they going to show up I think when the finals roll

Around and June they going to be there where you going to be at Lakers see I’m coming over there to see you today I’ll be there today all right game matters right because we got to enjoy the Lakers and Celtics while we watching you during the regular season CU we damn sure Ain

Think about seeing you during the finals the Los Angeles Lakers team that we’re looking at is led by a or soon to be this Saturday 39y old man forget his greatness as a basketball player he’s in better shape than all of them how is that possible how is it possible that

You can have a a guy in his 21st season who’s one of the top two or three players in the history of basketball okay who’s a four-time champion four time League MVP been the 10 NBA finals and is waiting for his son to get to the NBA but still averaging over 25 busting

Everybody’s butt and oh by the way is in better shape than all of his teammates all of them where’s the pride where’s the dignity I mean it is there’s something in inside of you that that enables you to say yo at the very least I could at least equal his conditioning

Why would they can’t even do that why would you think they would be able to do that if he’s one of the two or three best and he is players of all time why would you think they should be in as as they should be they you trying to tell

Me it’s an impossible thing to ask for dudes a decade younger than him to at least level of conditioning conditioning ad is in great shape he’s the league leaders in minutes and plays both sides of the floor I didn’t say Ad this particular time around I said it before

This season not this season he’s defensive player of the year right now in my eyes I’m I’m talking about the rest of them this seems you know what we’re watching the Celtics they are right now at the top of the Eastern standings why do you think that this

Year could be different for Jason Tatum in the Seas well it has nothing to do with anything strategic it has to do with heartbreak and they’ve had enough of it and young teams don’t do anything in this league but they’re no longer young because four times take Tatum and

Brown together have been to at least the Conference Finals and they’ve had heartbreak each of those times once in the finals I think they crash through that now particularly with the help they’ve got uh with Drew holiday somebody who can walk in that locker room and say look look at this fellas

Follow me I think the Celtics have got all the ingredient and had enough toing meanwhile the Lakers they won the n Season tournament but then they went two and five since then so perk what do you see as the identity of this team which one are they oh W you haven’t you

Haven’t broken the new the news yet what is that per the Lakers filed a police report their identity been stolen this ain’t the same L this ain’t the same Lakers team we saw last postseason and here’s why let me let me let me tell you why when I look

At the Lakers do not get fool that was Fool’s Gold when it came down to the n Season tournament okay they had the easiest pool and then they beat the Pelicans and the Pacers if you go back the only signature win that they had this season was their last game against

Oklahoma City okay so in that game against Oklahoma City the lake they made some adjustments right to their starting lineup W is this a precursor to maybe them being a little bit more active on the trade market yeah the Lakers are going to be active in this trade

Deadline in February it’s shaping up like last year’s a lot more buyers than Sellers and teams who would want to trade the Lakers an All-Star level player they’re going to want Austin Reeves in return 25 years old and the first year of a four a new four-year

Deal a player that they brought in they developed they don’t need easily part with players like that Rob Pena has shown restraint and so I think when it comes down to at the tread dead line for the Lakers uh without giving up Austin Reeves I think they’re going to be

Limited in the kind of player that they could bring in maybe not a legitimate third star to LeBron and Anthony Davis here’s the deal you can’t give up Austin Reeves you already made that mistake by giving up Alex Caruso years ago and that that hurt you you don’t want to make the

Same mistake twice that’s number one number two I think that Rob pinka has earned the benefit of the doubt based off of what transpired last year you make deals before the trading de haimura Vander Bill D’Angelo Russell what have you what do you do you advance to the

Conference Finals and you end up running into joic and obviously the Denver Nuggets and so I look at the Los Angeles Lakers there’s a tweak here there that you may need obviously they need shooting we get all of that the flip side to it is that Anthony Davis is

Playing like a defensive player of the year you got Lebron James playing like a league MVP candidate when you have the cornerstones of your franchise showing up and you know that you have every reason to believe and be confident that they’ll answer the call when the big moments arrive your supplementary parts

Of what you’re looking for I expect Austin Rivers to play better as the season goes along I think somebody like Gabe Vincent will show up and show a contribution the hot chores of the world the Austin Reeds guys like that I think they’ll show up D’Angelo Russell is

Somebody that I’m iffy about but in the end I’m not going to sit up there and just poo poo the Los Angeles Lakers and think that this season is what we’re seeing right now I’ve got faith in Rober Lincoln this is a team that does need speed and they need

Athleticism okay there a guy in Chicago that can offer both those things and I can tell you they want to trade him at least the city does even if the organization doesn’t want to say that and that’s Zack LaVine what a third piece he would be withe now what do you

Have to give up if I’m Chicago I’m you know I’m not just going to give him to you but LeBron need say Stephen A you got an awful lot of faith more faith than I do in the Lakers as a roster we know LeBron’s greatness is we not even

Set that aside Anthony Davis is what Anthony Davis is more than 10 years into his career is that enough for the Lakers are we seeing a Laker team that could go through multiple teams and beat say Minnesota and Denver in the playoffs in the series no we’re not I don’t see them

One coming out of the west but I think some of those young teams you put LeBron James and Anthony Davis in a playoff series I guess get some of those young team I think against those young teams they experience super teams everything else they won’t win the championship but

Can I think they’ll knock off these Young Bucks yes I do she’s averaging at least 2011 and seven per game for the fifth time in the last 6 years now no one else has hit those marks that often in their entire career and on the warrior side of things Draymond Green

He’s already the six games since being suspended indefinitely for striking Yousef nerkach the Warriors have won five of them behind a top five offense in that span that’s thanks in part of course to the Resurgence of Klay Thompson who has scored at least 20 in all six games without grain that is tied

For the longest such stretch since before his two years off due to injury Clay is averaging just over 25 points a game during this stretch so w what exactly is the status of Draymond Green and his path to return here yeah this remains a really unique suspension open-ended indefinite but besides

Draymond Green’s individual counseling that he’s going to uh he is periodically getting on zooms with Warrior officials League office officials Players Association officials to fill them in on what he’s learning how he’s progressing ultimately the league is going to decide on his return I’m told you know barring

Any setbacks the 11-13 game range and then maybe next week he starts to come back to the facility uh and starts to ramp back up with the team he’s not been back with them yet uh but he’s allowed to be so that would be about the halfway

Point then if it’s 11 to 13 games Stephen A is this still a championship caliber team once green comes back you know what I’m not going to rule it out because I see Klay Thompson shoot 46% from three-point range the last five games I see Steph Curry still the

Superstar that he is and I’m going to say it to you again and by the way Kendrick Perkin while you’re shriveling up your face and stuff like that knowing you you gonna kick your feet up here’s the deal you just finished acknowledging a little while ago how Steve cerr has

Been coaching his but off cuz he playing those young Bloods so I’m saying to you if the Splash Brothers are shooting like the Splash Brothers they got a chance against anybody well first of all the Splash Brothers are not better than the nuggets the Lakers the Clippers or the

Sacramento Kings now we can go to they play everybody Play [Applause] [Applause] Everybody

Stephen A. Smith, Michael Wilbon, Kendrick Perkins and Adrian Wojnarowski join Malika Andrews NBA Countdown to speak on the Boston Celtics’ “hatred” towards LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in their decades-long rivalry before speaking on what’s to come for Draymond Green and the Golden State Warriors.

0:00 LeBron James vs. Celtics
4:24 Lakers’ true identity
5:01 Lakers’ trade deadline
8:04 GSW’s outlook

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