Kendrick Perkins & Austin Rivers ONCE AGAIN go at it over the East 🍿 | NBA Today

Kendrick Perkins & Austin Rivers ONCE AGAIN go at it over the East 🍿 | NBA Today

We’ve got to start in New York with the Knicks and what they were able to do especially with the injuries they have right now is bridge that Gap with Julius Randall and OJ anobi who’s been out you know for a little over a week and and

Other players who you know have uh been out of the lineup you bring in bogdanovich Alec Burks these are starting level players to bridge that window and then when you get your whole group back these are highlevel bench players with postseason success experience you know to add you know to

This really deep Nicks roster right now and they were able to do that without giving up a first round pick certainly Quinton Grimes a good young player uh and a player that the Pistons valued but there were no shortage of teams in a league who wanted to be involved with

Either of those players bonovich uh and Burks and the Nick started to see as their talks picked up that they could get both of them and do it without compromis ing the ability to go do some other really big things in the summer and so I think for the Knicks uh just a

Huge win today as they fortify themselves for not just the rest of this regular season but obviously what they hope is a long playoff run absolutely we were talking about the Knicks is certainly a winner of the trade deadline today WJ thank you so very much he will

Get some sleep eventually guys he just has a little bit more work that he needs to do first Jana let’s dive into the Knicks a little bit more now that they have made these moves they’re sealing and per is listening very carefully to your answer here is what when healthy

Assuming Randall and Brunson you know come back healthy they I would not be surprised given the state of the Eastern Conference that they can make it to the NBA finals now I know that is a little bit of a stretch because we know that the Celtics are in a class of their own

The Bucks haven’t shown us consistency as in the ways that a defense can look the Sixers are missing Joel and beid there’s a real opportunity for them to get to the Eastern Conference Finals and if they plug in all these pieces I wouldn’t be surprised if they win and so

My true expectation is Eastern Conference Finals I would not be surprised if they make a run similar to the Miami Heat that we watched exactly one year ago go from the playin and just play the right way at the right time they’ve had perk I don’t know if he’s

Smiling or not let her cook let her cook I mean she’s cooking I mean look do I have the Knicks pick to win the uh the East I’m not going to jump off the porch and say that I’m still going to give the edge to the Boston Celtics cuz I need to

See the Pieces come together but they’re there okay with the leadership of jayen Bronson big body Bronson are they better than the Sixers they are better than the Sixers better than the Cavs they’re better than the Cals better than the Milwaukee Bucks hell yeah they better

Than what do you mean no they’re not better than the Bucks they are better they are better than the bcks with the moves that they just made not longterm huh I don’t think long term I don’t think so I really don’t why you could be

It could be right no I’m just saying but why if you go say if you go tell I think the top of their top is just much better than well they still yanis when you was the best player on the FL I think the Daman I think the Damien

Aspect will come into fold it hasn’t worked so far but they’ve also had a lot of turmoil and change and to add to his point and to add to his point the Bucks would have the top two players in that Series in my opinion they beat them I’m

Telling you I think so I don’t I don’t think so matter of fact I’m GNA go out on them and say I know so the thing about the Bucks is is that one thing about it I could watch Jaylen Bronson and tell his mindset and his mentality

Is to play play both ends of the floor I can’t say the same about D what excuse me he’s a he’s been doing a hell he’s doing a way better job than Damen lill and he actually takes it personal so if we turn on the film and watch the effort

That Jaylen Bronson is giv to get over screens it is night and day from Damen Lillard the one thing I see about the one thing I see about the New York Knicks is that they have a culture and they have an identity they have more dogs on their team team than the

Milwaukee Bucks do if you want to go across the if you want to go down the line I can’t name one guy on their team that’s not a pit bull not one on the New York Knicks every single guy on that Knicks is going to bring it night in and

Night out and so the thing is is that Talent right we always look at talent and say yeah man they more talented than this team and all this but then order to win a championship you got to have a team full of some dogs the teams that LeBron James one Championship what and

The question was right man you’re right I he what you’re saying when I when two people disagree the next word should be bet so if you guys want to make a little man I ain’t doing all that just I hear what you’re saying because you have to

Have dogs to to make those runs you need that type of competitive play but I’m saying Talent is what win Austin what’s her ceiling though the ceilings for the Knicks yeah I think they can get to the Conference Finals I I think I’m agreed I

Like to to to go to the NBA final no no but hear me up but I don’t think but I don’t think they I I mean that’s the ceiling you what theing all of us are agreeing right now that we have the Knicks as the winners at least of today

Before perk I don’t even know what’s going on over [Applause] [Applause] la

On NBA Today, Adrian Wojnarowski, Chiney Ogwumike Kendrick Perkins, Austin Rivers and Richard Jefferson join Malika Andrews to talk through how the East has changed at the trade deadline, expectations for the New York Knicks and what the Milwaukee Bucks’ outlook is for the remainder of the season.#ESPN #NBAToday

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