NBA TODAY | Nikola Jokic is passing Durant on all-time greats as Nuggets win this title – Big Perk

NBA TODAY | Nikola Jokic is passing Durant on all-time greats as Nuggets win this title – Big Perk

So we have a battle of former MVPs Kevin Durant and Nicola yic tonight in Denver it’s their second meeting of the Season yic took the first back in December now Devon Booker is out with an ankle sprain so the scoring load will once again be on KD’s

Shoulders now what I love about this matchup is that we have two seven-footers who are the best at what they do in completely different ways I mean Katie is the master of the mid-range in yic he’s the professor who has a PHD in passing and I’ll show you L

On the court KD versus yic he gets to his spot elevates after a switch and going under the screen and he knocks it down he has the most mid-range points per game in the NBA now on the other side we’re talking about the profess professor in passing right here that’s

An ice scen usually people shoot instead he attracts the entire defense no one in the NBA has more assists that’s a forward or a center than Nicola joic so it’s very very impressive those two seven-footers doing it differently now the Suns will be without Devin Booker

Tonight and our 8 and 1 Half Point under underdogs against the defending champs so odds makers really believe that Phoenix is heading towards their third straight loss now Zack what is so important to you about the Phoenix Suns especially in their game tonight this has to be a statement

One every game is urgent for the Suns this team went all in invested everything they had and falling into the playin would risk a disaster scenario for the playoffs it’s a huge huge game every game’s a huge game if you beat the Nuggets it’s almost like a double win

It’s an unexpected win so the pressure is on Phoenix in every single game down the stretch of the Season yeah we all know that Phoenix has truly fallen short a little bit of expectation so far this season but an interesting debate that came up in our Newsroom before the show

Was like the legacies of joic and ktie especially as we see in this matchup and here’s actually a look at their current resumés for these two Hall of Famers joic has the 2-1 Edge in MVPs and could be adding another to his case after this season now Katie though has two- one

Titles advantage and is ninth on the alltime scoring list so Scott if the nuggets are able to do what no team has done since KD’s Warriors and win backto back titles would joic surpass Durant in your estimation for career I know that’s a tough question

But like when you stack it up head to head it’s it’s interesting it’s very interesting but I’m a little partial to KD look I was part of the front office he drafted this young man 17 years ago in Seattle he’s been one of the most lethal scores that we’ve seen in this

Game like you say he’s two-time uh NBA champion he is 10 time all NBA I mean he has just done it for so long Now yic is creeping up on him and I have to give him that and so but right now today I still got to get the slight Edge and it

May be a little biased but to my man KD because 17 years and doing this so consistently uh I I marveled at that and um I’m with you there and and some of it is just age I mean yes Kevin de’s 35 joic just turned 29 he’s got six years

On there but but I think it’s also keev both of these guys are one of one there’s I can’t think of a comp for either of them and and they’ve CH and both of them have changed the game in the way that they’ve played it in the

Way that people had to react to them when Kevin Durant joined the Warriors the whole league had to change to try to match up with them I think the whole league has had to change to try to match up with the Denver Nuggets especially if they get it going again this year get

Back to the finals maybe win again we’ve have we ever seen a big man who could pass like this ever seen a big man who could the way that y there’s a few maybe sabonis sabonis Aus arus sabonis was the closest one but we saw the injured

Version once he got the one thing I will say about both of them though and I I think that’s they’re both just basketball junkies they just love love you can talk about y sports racing whatever no they are basketball tremendous Point uh Ramona and Kevin

Durant I mean I think he’s going to be playing basketball if he’s not in the NBA at 50 years old he’ll be playing in somebody’s League he’ll be playing basketball somewhere that is true and you know for me I see Kevin Durant as one of the greatest scorers all time I

Know a lot of you know not too long ago people were saying put me in the greatest of all time conversation I know that by the time yic is done we we’ll have that same mandate put me in the greatest of all time conversation but still I maybe because I’m a millennial

But I love what KD has done with this game I think the narrative has affected how people perceive him to some degree yes but these two guys are winning in completely different ways you got to love it you got to love so Malika Andrew she will be back in studio tomorrow I’m

Really excited to see her interview with yeah day Guild Alexander that would be coming I want to see what he wears more important correct what was Big Sean song I was raised by the Wolves they hosted the Blazers last night in Minnesota now Anthony Edwards though was running out

To the court late to tip off and he would actually have to sub in Ramona I mean Richard Jefferson does that every time on the show but I think he does it on purpose to most of us yeah this was like somebody just tap him earlier be

Like hey game on but it didn’t slow him down okay the t- Wolves 5548 going into halftime now let’s go to the third quarter where Rudy goar whoa throws down the dunk in1 son t-wolves up after the free throw and then the final seconds of the third t-wolves up again just

Beautiful basketball Scott oh it’s great basketball you love to see it break when they’re sharing the basketball that way and finishing correct under 6 minutes left Trailblazers down 10590 Anthony Simons oh my goodness stifles the tower one of the thought better of it that might be post of the Year oh it’s a

Nominee it’s definitely a nominee Edwards right there drives and makes the layup Edwards finish with 13 points and the t- wolves go on to win 119 114 now the t-wolves have had at least a share of the best record in the West for 94 days this season as they seek just their

Second number one seed in franchise history so I would like to run through the Wild Wild West and starting at the top here let’s fire up the official playoff predictor the top three seeds are only separated by a half game so Zach what stands out to you in the race to the

Top how the three teams at the top have kind of separated themselves from the Clippers now and the Clippers are in danger kind of nestling in to that four seed but that race for number one is very very even Minnesota still plays Denver three more times and we’re going

To learn about who really wants homec court advantage remember how critical it was for Denver last year on their way to the title this is one of the more interesting subplots CU that top seed is there for the taking but of course in the era of the playin it’s hard to know

Who the matchup are going to be and who you’re going to play you may end up facing a team down there that you maybe don’t want to face so much Scott who do you think will take the number one at the end of the regular season I I think

The Denver Nuggets are going to do it they’re starting to play the kind of basketball that led them to the championship last year uh and they’ve got the best playing basketball right now so I’m leaning towards uh them they’re playing the best at The Right

Time of the Season that is true and if you did see our predictor they actually have the second easiest remaining strength of schedule so the Denver Nuggets are favorites and you know they know how to get there but Ramona who do you think will finish number one overall

After the allstar break and Tavis coell Pope recently told everybody that nicoa yic sent a text message to the whole group and said guys it’s time to go now he didn’t say exactly what was in the text message because it’s always a mystery that it fired everybody else

When have you seen yic send a group text like we never hear about stuff like that I think he’s decided it’s it’s go time we for a long time we wondered if they cared where they finished in the stand it looks like they care and I think get

They do care but you guys my prediction early on was the Clippers and I actually have a little validation here because if I slide over first let’s look at the Clippers the Clippers have the 11th easiest remaining yes they did just come off of a loss but as I slide over to the

Projections y’all look at what we project winning the title 10.1% for the Los Angeles Clippers overall in our playoff predictor I know that’s going to shock a lot of people except Malika and I who was like we we’re staying in P like we feel like the

Clippers are finally going to make it to the Western Conference Final the Nuggets would like a word they would definitely like a word but don’t I’m saying I’m saying it’s Nuggets Clippers in the western final I understand you’re going after the Clippers so they supremely talented okay we talked about the top of

The top how about we go why don’t we go to the bottom of the standings 5 through 10 are all separated by only three and a half games so Scott who do you think finishes fifth and sixth and completely avoids the plan entirely well I struggle

With this one but right now I’m going to go with the Sacramento Kings and the Dallas Mavericks mainly because of the Guard play’s it looks like the Kings moving up to five maybe yeah I am partial to guard play and I think late in the season when you got guards that

Can play downhill like Sacramento has dearon Fox and then you know Luca Don is having an MVP caliber season along with Kyrie Irving there I just like gar play being dominant down the stretch so that’s why I went with those two I mean the Phoenix Suns are a very talented

Team if you’d have told us the beginning of the year they’d be in the play in tournament none of us would have believed you but Devin Booker with that injury right now even whether it’s a week 10 days whatever it is they cannot afford to lose him for any length of

Time because they have one of the toughest schedules I mean not one of the playoff predictors literally telling us right here they have the toughest remaining schedule in the NBA that is quite Wild Zach what do you think about the bottom well look the Phoenix let’s not

Mince words if the suns are in the playin this is a potential disaster scenario for Phoenix who went all in to build this team and just hasn’t seen it together when they’ve been together they’ve been really good but once you’re in the playin you are super vulnerable

To not even making the playoffs or getting a matchup where it’s just too hard to win two and three rounds we haven’t talked about the Pelicans and I want to bring up those odds again cuz I think I saw the Pelicans with like a 94% chance of making the playoffs very

Quietly they have a manageable schedule they’re nicely in fifth right now and those playoff odds really like them snag a top six seed the Pelicans if they are if they manage to do that and most systems think they have a really good chance to do it what a major victory

Would be for them despite injuries here and there to their big three we haven’t seen them that much together that would be a nice accomplishment for them and they’re in a good position to do it and by the way a very tricky team to match up with for anybody because of how

Unusual Zion is yeah Zion being able to be point forward but also be able to play back to the basket and then their length on the perimeter they are one of my dark coures in the west now we talked about the numbers how about the plays because sticking in the west here let’s

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