FULL NBA TODAY | “The Knicks have enough talent to make it to the NBA Finals” – Kendrick Perkins

FULL NBA TODAY | “The Knicks have enough talent to make it to the NBA Finals” – Kendrick Perkins

ESPN bet she is our wonderful senior NBA writer Ramona shelburn he is NBA champion Kendrick Perkins he is the Hall of famor Michael W my I’m in such was my past life I’m Mal I was there for all those games don’t make it sound like it’s that long ago well I was

Going to ask how you feeling but it seems like everybody’s feeling good ready to start the show I hope everybody’s feeling a little bit better than unfortunately the MVP was last night Joel embiid he will undergo an MRI on his left knee after injuring it in the fourth quarter of Tuesday night’s

119 107 loss to the Golden State Warriors and beid you can see here he grabbed that knee in pain he ultimately got up he did Limp to the locker room he did not return to this game after this Collision Ramona what’s the latest that you’re hearing on joelle’s injury you

Know he’s going to get an MRI today and then I think there’s a lot because of his knee injury history like each each knee has its own book okay of stuff that he’s had in the past and so there’s a lot of analysis that has to go in on

Okay what does this mean for the for from his previous injuries and from what I understand this is a new injury this isn’t the this is the same knee that kept him out of the Denver game that’s been swelling up on him that’s causing him a lot of pain but that injury that

He suffered last night when kaminga fell on him this has now created a new injury that’s going to have to be evaluated here obviously you can see I watch this game and the and the I couldn’t even watch like I was like what what is he

Doing out there like I he he he just looked like he was in pain all night dragging his dragging his leg on the court and it now he’s added yet another injury on that yeah he looked visibly uncomfortable the 76ers have now slipped to fifth in the Eastern Conference and

You’ve talked about this perk how Joel embiid he doesn’t necessarily have the runway that other superstars do because of his injury history to sustain this greatness for a certain level of time yeah right I mean and look he’s 29 years old and we don’t know how many years he

Have left at playing at this level it’s not going to be like a Giannis or even you could put say Anthony Davis and we know Anthony Davis history so it raised a level of concern not just for as Joel and be in his career but how teams in

The Philadelphia 76ers view him right we talked about we had this conversation about what do the 76ers need to do to make sure that Joel and be is happy so that he don’t think about leaving right at the start of the season when when James Harden left

Now like how are teams viewing him how phly view Joel right now like do they think they actually could win a championship with Joel embiid as their number one option because of his history of not being able to get through a 82 Game season and be able to get in the

Postseason and play at a high level right because of his health perk you know how all of you know how in in basketball particularly you think of like players like situations similar context mhm and I I was wincing when I saw this Rona like you I just I didn’t

Want to see it it reminds me of Amari STM and I’m not saying the injuries are the same but perk when you talk about what a player can be over what period of time remember how great Amari was at his Peak and he couldn’t stay there Ramona when you said

There’s a book on each knee that’s where I thought oh my goodness this reminds me of that and then so how do you what do you do what do you do if you’re the team how do you approach big Personnel decisions what do you do if you’re the

Player and you start to have to manage it differently so just it’s it’s a just a a downer all the way around for the Sixers and Joel em be I mean look I said on this show on Monday Malika this is an injury this is a situation with his knee

That he’s going to have to manage all season long all season long and that’s before he suffered a new injury when kaminga fell in him yeah I mean it’s hard not to have this conversation though and not talk about the 65 game minimum that is now in place for the

First time this year for postseason awards for the MVP uh and earlier today I caught up within the last hour with Executive Vice President head of basketball operations Joe Dumars about just that and I asked him how the league feels about this new policy anytime you put something in

Malika there are going to be some unintended consequences and we knew that going in and that’s why we we put the Threshold at like you can miss up to 20% of the season and still be eligible and but we always knew that look there could be a situation where one of the

Players went past 20% of the Season who’s having a good year but you can’t like not put the rule in because of that one or two guys that it may affect are there any discussions about changing this for next season there’s been no discussions about that no one has called

And said uh we should you know renegotiate this or anything like that there’s been no calls like that so you can catch the full uh version of our conversation with Joe Dumars on YouTube but I pushed back on that when he said one or two players it’s not just one or

Two players there would have been five players on all NBA last year that would not have been eligible including Giannis s tentac comoo who was the lead vote getter because of that rule he only played in 63 games how much did this factor into Joel playing I I think it it

Look he’s not playing because of the 65 games but it’s always front and center in that disc sear right you can’t separate he’s playing because the Sixers need him I mean they they need him out there to win and they had Lo they had been losing on this trip here Maxi’s

Obviously got an injury Tobias has had an illness that he’s that he’s been dealing with and so he’s playing because they need the win like they just flat out need him on the court but 65 games is in your head because this is a guy who didn’t get Rookie of the Year when

He probably he certainly was the best rookie that year but he barely played in enough games he’s already lost one MVP where he probably didn’t play in enough games and I think that affected his votes and now I think with this situation he’s going to probably not be

Eligible for all NBA and that you know what what playing game should not be seen as some great luxury Joe Dumars who was something of an Iron Man understands that probably as well better than most and Malika yes it is more uh players than he than he may have indicated there

It doesn’t mean you don’t go to the rule the league has a real tough Balancing Act here this was put in as much for fans and sponsors you’re trying to appease you’re putting a product out there that is put up for thumbs up and thumbs down every year do you consider games

That’s what I’m say there is no voter who already doesn’t consider there are very few most of the voters I know consider that when they’re doing it and so look at Tyrese halberton and how he is playing this year the man will lose out on 41 million dollars this year if he

Doesn’t make all NBA not because of how he’s playing he only has one year to do it but because of the legitimate injuries that have kept him out there has to be a balance here but but we’re talking about Awards and so first of all those things should not be tied okay

Let’s get that out that should not be tied in no way should our votes help determine to any degree what a player’s compensation is none that’s just dumb and it’s wrong now separately there were players last year I I no I didn’t vote for on first or second team

I’m not going to say I didn’t vote for him at all I might have put them on third team my third team was loaded with people who play but I my mine was not 65 might have been 60 yeah so but it’s a difficult thing I thought I think Joe’s

POS it’s a tough position to take and have but again if you didn’t have load management and four out of five players on starting lineups missing games and visiting Arenas the league would never have had to visit this in the first place and it goes to my question how did

We get here yep how did we get here and the same people that’s complaining about it the players the coaches the front offices right they’re the reason that we’re in this position now they’re the reason that they have rules in place right accountability means everything I’m going back and I’m looking Barkley

Career average 72 games played Malone a career average 81 games played y magic a career average 76 games played bird a career average 77 career uh 77 games played Jordan a career average 80 games played so so at the end of the day it’s like it’s like we’re sitting up here and

We we’re saying oh it’s fair but to be honest no one is screaming Greg papovich in the San Antonio Spurs because the number one factor was was because of load management so at the end of the day we’re talking about something that they have made this bed and they have to lay

In it right rules are going be twe though is there a tweak where just like a disabled player exception where guys or what about this Bobby Mark floated tears so for for MVP maybe it’s 65 games but for all NBA maybe it’s 58 which by the way is the same threshold you have

To meet in order to lead the league in scoring why wouldn’t it be 58 games look I do want to underscore something Joe Dumar said he said they’re always unintended consequences that come with a rule that very it did come from a place of well y’all made your bed you got to

Lie in it I’m not taking anything away Fair observation Joe Dumar has made first of all the phrase consider the source when you got Joe Dumar sitting up there that means something it means something to me that Joe Dumar is the person who’s pouring over this studying it

One and guess what and guess what those players that I Nam Barkley Malone magic bird and Jordan he played against all them so he watched those guys suit up night in and night out like this is what you signed up for this is what you

Signed up for I I it’s it’s a it’s a difficult discussion that is going to be Revisited I know it’s not Revisited yet that was a great interview with Joe thank it is going to come up now because and particularly as it relates to embiid who you see in an unfortunate situation

That was not of his own doing but but as Joe said you know are you going to revisit the even s single digits Malika and you rais a good point if it’s five players if it’s six players are you going to raise it and by the way one

Quick thing I’ve had players pull me aside in past years before the rule and they knew I had a vote and they said to me that guy missed 23 games you going to vote for him over me uhhuh and it’s it and it was a it’s a jarring question

It’s sobering because you know the people who are out there 80 games like that all the time what they don’t deserve a special consideration or nod yes they do look the decision is probably going to be made for him now I mean he was thinking about this every

Single game y can I go out there is this a game that you want to take off do I want to put myself through this it re it makes that decision in Denver look very different now right but I the decision now with this latest injury I think is

Probably going to make the decision the only place that I don’t think anyone of us wants to get to is voting amongst the best of the rest where the best have been taken out just by nature of not playing 65 games maybe because they played 60 you know four or three or two

And that we looking at it saying okay well I guess these are our options but that’s not what the game that we love has to offer is best uh coming up here on possessions at TD Garden they also shoot 4% better for percentage points better from three so the Celtics they’ve

Been playing really well in Boston but there is not a hotter team right now than the New York Knicks they won their eighth straight game beyond the monster knights from the Nova Knicks I’m talking about jayen Brunson having 29- n Josh Hart having his first career triple double and Dante dienzo hitting a

Career-high nine three-pointers it was the Nick’s 10th win by at least 15 points in January tied for the second most by any team in a month in NBA history so the Knicks they’ve outscored opponents by 246 points in the month of January I know after being outs scored by 44 in

December that 290 Point swing in net points differential is the largest from one month to the next in NBA history the Knicks have skyrocketed from eth all the way up to third in the Eastern Conference standings watch out they’re just a game and a half behind the bucks

Per second and perk I hear you spy something I’m Kendrick Perkins better known as Big perk and nothing gets past me free just when you thought it did get past me there I am I Spy problem I spy it all carry the hell On hello world did you miss me look we’re talking about the two PS right popular and Powerful popular get the votes for the allar we going to talk about being powerful moving a needle put this up here this is what jayen Bronson is he is power power F just yesterday he

Was tied 23rd right for odds ranks to win the MVP with less than 24 hours right now he’s at number six that’s what powerful people do we don’t care about the Allstar voting we care about the MVP conversation and look right here I’mma rock you to sleep and I’mma dot your eye

When you talk about a game changer and the game manager look you’re not going to speed him up the patience look how craft is this is Claxton a SF footer no matter give me the float game in the paint it’s not all cute and pretty but

He get it done check this out right here big boy work I’m going give you a little shoulder uh turn around textbook basketball it don’t have to be cute it don’t have to be Flash and keep it simple best in the game right now at the guard position over turnarounds over

Both shoulders be powerful forget the popular powerful is in the MVP comers J I mean Mr wil making a point there for the MVP conversation what about the Knicks making it making their first Finals run since 99 is there there yeah yeah I mean the case is look if they can

Get to first of all being in third is huge being in second is even better because of course you’d have home court advantage over the Bucks in such a series look there’s nothing that the Knicks can’t do I don’t the Julius Randle thing you know just sort of hangs

Over the team but when they play with the spirit they couple of games without Rand so if they can bridge that time that he’s out and you look I asked um I asked Jaylen Brunson last week we had a conversation and I asked him about the Villanova connection and whether that conveys and

I thought he sort of understated it clearly he loves it and loves playing with those guys but don’t tell me that their familiarity and confidence playing with one another didn’t affect the way all three of them played collectively and individually last and I think their identity is established now and the guys

They’re adding to this team beyond the Villanova connection but adding aoua who is outstanding defensively adding ad anobi who has been better offensively than they could even dream about I think the Knicks have an identity and when you have that and everybody knows their roles then you start adding pieces like

That may you know we we talk about all their trade assets we talk about all the things they could do are they waiting for another Superstar do they even need one is is Jaylen Brunson is this team do they even need to sit on that war chest

Of draft picks and assets and and you know what look let me say this we talk about the heat culture and a lot of great cultes around the League this team right here this organization give me family Vibes see when you have a guy that you could plug in like Josh hard in

The starting lineup and he go out and get you a triple double that means to tell me it’s a different type of love outside the lines and when you go outside the lines and now you’re having team dinners you at each other houses for the holidays you going to go that

Extra mile when you get between them lines with each other the Nick are for real and Uncle Taj Gibson comes back in right and like hibs at the end of the game Subs four guys in and then waits for the crowd and say we want Taj and

Then puts him in so he can get his own stand it was the very end of the game that that t summon in some of the still as our friend Stephen A would say well I’m just looking at the number of minutes potentially that are racking up

Here even when the game was already decided some of the starters are still2 minutes for Josh if they have their bigs healthy though if they can have their bigs healthy April 1 the Knicks can go a little ways in East I don’t know if the same thing can

Be said for the dynasty the the glamour team that’s the word I’m looking for in the Western Conference coming up here on NBA today it’s worth a thousand words but I think you can sum up these photos of Lebron James with just one frustration and I can understand why

After watching the Lakers visiting the Hawks last night we’re going to Pi up blame Dylan Brooks for this one well you can’t blame LeBron either cuts to the basket Austin Reeves finds him a nice little alleyoop Jam there what a connection from Reeves to James a ton of

Space for LeBron to elevate on that one and then though on the other side here Deonte Murray finds Trey young for the three the Hawks up by nine at this point going ahead to the thir third quarter here perk the Hawks up 15 they’re 15 and look look no communication look at that

Contest by Austin re like that wasn’t a contest where I’m a I I’m going to make you miss that was a contest where I hope you miss transition defense no communication whatsoever this is Trey young Trey young the Hawks were up by 15 headed into the fourth year this is

Early fourth quarter the Lakers down 10 LeBron James look at this he runs down down block bong bovich but where’s the help that’s draining no Lakers getting back there you can see it all over LeBron’s face he puts in the effort and there’s no one to help him there and at

This point the Hawks just adding in insult to injury Murray was feeling it a little bit in this one Murray who of course has been linked publicly at least to he was auditioner he was audition last night Lakers they tried to change up their defense a little bit here it

Just it Murray dribbles to the free throw line essentially kicks it back out the Hawks they take down the Lakers 138 122 here’s a frustrated Lebron after the game you could On Any Given Night Beat any team in the NBA and and then On Any Given night we

Get our ass kicked by any team in the NBA I don’t have any message for my teammates just go out and do your job I mean I’m not yeah appreciate it way to cut me off cuz I was about to go so LeBron’s press conference may have

Been cut short by Lakers PR but they couldn’t stop him from posting a cryptic hourglass emoji on social media last night it also wasn’t the only tweet that was sent out that’s the only one that matters from lers Christian Wood too so uh I guess you go

We putting this up here go what was really on LeBron James’s mind time’s running out yeah and we’re not good enough look there’s something you’re not old enough to understand this phrase not even perk remote not old enough either I’m the only one that’s old enough to understand this sentence it’s a sentence

That’s not spoken anymore about sports because everybody has analytics and they have all these numbers and they want to talk about rotations and sometimes in sports we speak to the competitive level of both the people playing it in the spirit they have or don’t and you come away with the following simple

Conclusion these dudes ain’t good enough they’re not good enough the Lakers this Lakers team it’s not last year’s Lakers team relative to the Western Conference all the other teams are better including Houston which knocked them around the previous game these Lakers are not good enough getting dejonte Murray’s not

Going to turn him into a conference finalist are we watching the Western Conference no LeBron knows that frustration time is running out because this is they they’re not going to get any better let me give Bob Myers credit for this phrase he talked about this

With Rob Pinko we said oh is there a moov and he said Rob can’t thread that needle again they threaded that needle last year it was great move they get to the Conference Finals we all came back thinking oh they got to the Conference Finals they got the same guys they

Resigned every they’re not good enough they’re not and was a message to the front office on LeBron social media like do not take him for granted and do not get comfortable here’s the big thing the big thing is they really need to stop the bleeding but they can’t they

Really need to pull they can’t they really need to pull a Milwaukee Bucks move because dingham has lost the locker room when you watch the body language of LeBron James and you watch the body language of Anthony Davis it tells it all and so it’s a ripple effect and this

Is one this has been one of my pet peeves with LeBron since he has entered the league and you know took over the league and been the face of the league his body language when things are going bad affects his teammates so bad he don’t understand and then all of a

Sudden you see Christian Wood right go out on his social media which I don’t know LOL on social media at the same time that the starting lineups were now he said that it had nothing to do with that that it after getting your after getting behind kicked by the rockets and

Then getting spanked and stomped out by the hulks like you’re a team that’s fighting for your lives right now and actually fighting for your livelihood right like cuz I think LeBron has past that stage of conversation with them like when they get to that point like

You got to be worried okay I’m going to be the the other side I’m sorry Mike I know you were definitive and saying they’re done they they are not a regular season team they’re just not well are they going to get are they going to get to the postseason to show something all

They have to do is get there we saw that last year right this is not a team that is built for the regular season for 82 games night in and night out to rack up wins this is a team that is built to get in to maybe the playin to this if

They’re lucky up to a six seed and then you can avoid the playin but when they get in the playoffs let’s let’s go down the the west standings in a seven game series who do you like like I’ll of Denver I think they could beat anybody be Clippers they’re not beating the

Clippers beat them twice this year already they’re not be that’s before no no no they’re not beating the Clippers they not coming close to beting the Clippers or disb thepp them when LeBron was out the other day Ramona I you make a great point about what they’re built

For and by the way psychologically what they’re built for what they want to have and take AB a great but but this is not the same Western Conference as last year that’s what we everything’s fluid right it’s not just that the Lakers aren’t good enough you’ve had these other teams take

This jump I hear what you’re saying and the old person in me who doesn’t believe young teams do anything in the NBA playoffs I want to say to you they would beat Minnesota they would beat Oklahoma City I want to say that you know what I’m I’m every night when I watch them

Lose games like Houston and Atlanta Houston and Atlanta here’s what was concerning their defense the last few games has been abysmal like when you and that they have good defensive players they went back to more of an offensive minded team in that starting lineup with Austin Reeds and d’el you puzzle again

Yeah Vander is on the bench he’s been playing better but their but their defense is what got them to the Western Conference finals and they’re not playing a defensive minded group out there right now and they’re getting their butt kicked like I mean Malika that highlight that you showed of LeBron

With the chase down block yeah that was bad and no one is around that’s effort that speaks to what you’re talking about perk in terms of the effort and connecting with on this team but we also could pull up some clips where LeBron wasn’t getting back in transition as

Well and so the old soul in me now we all was old enough to hear this line or came up under this line you play with fire you going to get burnt right you boy don’t touch that stove it’s going to burn you all a said you got to touch it

That’s what the Lakers are playing with right now when you say they’re not built for the regular season like it happened last season but like that’s not going to do it again like these young boys are coming and part of the concern is it in the immediate right just look at the the

Lakers schedule right now it doesn’t really their next games their next three of their next four they’re against teams in the top three of their conference look at this in Boston Boston’s 22 and two at home the hottest team in the league is the Knicks okay then you visit

The Hornets that’s a game that you really need to take seriously and then you come back home the day of the trade deadline you face the defending Champion Denver Nuggets and then a day later backto back against the New Orleans pel that’s brutal I don’t know how any how

You put it anywhere else so where do the Lakers go from here looking at this schedule per nowhere nowhere I mean honestly like it’s no move out there that they can make that’s going to put them back in the thick of things Zack LaVine not Zack LaVine is not going to

Help Bruce Brown is not going to help like this roster is not good enough in a stack rest the confence so give up the season The Season’s done how does that you got you got LeBron and you got you got this keep selling tickets so you do

And you you keep trying it you keep you keep at it you really think LeBron’s just like okay let’s that’s not no at it yeah because that grinding nature is part of how you become one of the greatest players of all time yes LeBron can do that can he drag everybody else

With him yeah that’s what I’m saying uh I know we reached the sub tweet stage of the per gave a great representation of that about what happens with the rest of the team so is LeBron up for that at this stage at 39 years old and that’s the question I have no doubt

That LeBron James I have no doubt that his entire NBA career up until now and tonight he will return to Moda Center for the first time as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks and he told me that he’s actually going to have to remind himself

Not to make a beine straight to the home locker room it’ll be strange but he won’t be a stranger to the city he still calls home it’s time how difficult was that decision for you to leave Portland it was extremely difficult it wasn’t a a broken situation

I was having success the longer that you in this league you would to have opportunity to win it all I just felt like it the time had come for me to make it about myself because I don’t have forever to do it I was just hoping like something big

Would come up we would have opportunity we got these picks you know we didn’t put ourselves in position to get a high pick I think after the draft you know I just realized like it wasn’t going to it wasn’t going to happen loyalty was a moniker that you were very proudly I’m

Wondering what you had to go through personally grappling with in your own mind setting that aside and putting yourself first you know a lot of people try to clown me like oh loyalty you know he’s being loyal when they losing and you know things like that I understand

This is business and you know the Loyalty can’t be to an organization my loyalty is to who I am you know my loyalty hasn’t changed you got to know what’s best for yourself you got to know you know when the time comes what you need to do and I just think that’s what

Happened so I don’t think it was a matter of loyalty it just was time you look back what’s the one word that you would use to describe your career and your time there pricess deep you couldn’t have scripted it any better coming out of college my best

Friends out of high school went to school in Portland it’s close to home how everything happened it was like it was meant to be how are you you feeling about going back I’m excited for me it’s more about just going back home more than it is

About the game itself my family is still there just being able to go and be home for a couple days and seeing everybody in such a familiar place what do you like most about being with Milwaukee they weren’t there in the beginning but they showed me the appreciation and the

Love and the respect which shows me that they acknowledge my body of work and what I done and who I’ve been not just as a player but as a person doc said in his introductory press conference I wouldn’t necessarily wish this on anybody yeah I understood what exactly

What he meant and he was right what do you mean takes the right type of person to step into a situation with these type expectations what have you expected that comes with the pressures of this is a team that is built to win know I thought the transition would be a little bit

More smooth why how I play compliments the team really well especially playing alongside Yannis like how he plays I know it it compliments him well but I think it’s just been an adjustment he’s used to playing a certain way I’m used to playing a certain way when you

Consider all of those things it’s just a little bit more difficult than you would expect your career you have been known as an offensive player what do you need to do to add to the Bucs improvements defensively being somebody that’s been in the league for as long as I have I

Understand that I don’t have to be Drew holiday as a Defender I don’t have to be that defensively to be better you know and to be a part of a good defensive team do you take those matchups with Drew holiday personally I don’t you know

I was traded here I think the only thing personal is that you know we both in an Eastern Conference and both teams can’t make it how close or how far do you feel that this team is from winning a championship we’re a championship team there’s no denying it nobody has ever

Won a championship in January February or March but as long as we stay focused on you know addressing those things that we don’t do well and knowing that it’s not about us being perfect or our best right now but we got to eventually get to that I think we’ll be all

Right Dame has a serious case for the best player in Trailblazers franchise history the most points and three-pointers in team history and the second most assists you can catch his return tonight on our NBA Wednesday slate as the Bucks they’re in Portland to take on the Trailblazers that’s at 10

Eastern while Kevin Durant is back in Brooklyn the Nets they host the Suns on ABC at 8:30 eastern NBA Countdown tips it all off at 7:30 Eastern on ESPN that was a great interview well thank you I appreciate that here’s the thing about Kevin Durant though there

Was some discourse right on social media about whether or not he should get a tribute video back in barklay center and Durant he chimed in as he does saying please don’t without that he maybe just like a panel like a you know like a welcome back with a still photo type thing the

Moment well look at this though the Suns big three they’ve already played as many games this season as the Nets big three did including the playoffs the Nets big three they won three more games they averaged three more points in those 16 games but you know the host of the

Wildly successful low poost podcast you remember what he called this team the the greatest theoretical team in NBA history and spoiler alert theoretical it doesn’t always translate but it feels like the big three in in Phoenix they they might do you think that they have a better chance than the big three in

Brooklyn not right now I don’t feel comfortable with saying that because it’s only been a big two it’s only been a Duo like when are they going when are when is the Phoenix Sons going to embrace Bradley Bill I looked over his last five games and I

Mean he only scored 21 time one time like you you can’t have that they didn’t bring him here to be a role player a guy that stands in the corner and the guy that’s going to have to sacrifice the most is Devin Booker like he’s going to

Have to buy in taking Les shot attempts and stop worrying about his stats so much and go in in in some kind of way they got to find a way to get Bradley Bill going if they’re trying to ultimately reach go win you know they did the last game it’s like they were

Listening to you but perk that that’s the kind of thing of course and you know this better than the rest of us will that takes 30 35 40 games to get all of that ironed out and they haven’t had that cuz we just looked up there in

There 13 games and so I I think there’s some other things they need some some some characteristics grit is one of them that means making a move I don’t know what they can do I don’t know how you know they don’t have much in the way of

Assets but they need a tweak I’m not saying they need to do anything to their three they need Tucker they need the spirit the attitude the grit of a PJ Tucker that’s what they need attitude they do they need attitude and so where can they find that can they I’m sure

They’re looking for it right sitting on the bench and I I mean look that’s a good call right there I also think as you say this is going to take some time and Bradley Beal has been out for a lot of the Season he’s the one who’s been

Injured and I think that you know a couple games when they played the Lakers Kevin Durant went Deon Booker and said stop trying to be the point guard stop trying to get everybody else don’t you remember that conversation that happened with the big three in Brooklyn you’ll be

The shooting guard or I’ll be the point guard I’ll be the co that I’m going give you I’m going give you a big problem and a big difference don’t tell me that chemistry didn’t matter and don’t tell me that Kyrie in any mix is not a potential issue and then Kyrie and James

Versus you don’t you don’t have that kind of drama out of the three personalities I know those guys fairly well you know what Beal has never been about that we know KD and Booker are not about that kind of drama and and and overly sensitive garbage they’re not

Into that so that is the reason to me perk I agree with you not yet not ready to Proclaim it but I think they can if they can stay on the court for the next 25 games or so or 25 of the next 30 I

Think we can see that but but do they fit right you look at KD Steph and Clay they fit in that system right guys being able to you know move without the ball not be ball dominant you look at Braun dwade and Bot you look at kg Paul and

Ray you look at Kyrie James and and KD because James transition to the point guard spot with that big three was huge right like if they would have just stuck it out and and actually did right and and stood on business and stood on their word they could have won the NBA

Championship together because of James and his ability to tr that I mean the way he transitioned over from being a score to actually be in a point guard Steph clay and Durant worked because Draymond made it work like Draymond became the the facilitator for everything he took less shots to his own

Detriment the Suns don’t have somebody like that they don’t have somebody who could run that offense from that position so they need a point guard speaking of Draymond Green next here on NBA Today Brock some bur blood your tower has destroyed an ally has been defeated an enemy has been defeated an ally

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