NBA Prediction Week: Nuggets hard to knock off in the West | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

NBA Prediction Week: Nuggets hard to knock off in the West | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Brew are you surprised that it is that I don’t want to spoil your pick but the the Broncos the nuggets are 185 and the Clippers are plus 240 I’m just surprised that it’s that close that it’s that that it’s that close that that it doesn’t seem like they think over I’m because I

Couldn’t I walk around and I take the Pulse yeah of sort of sports world no one would take the Clippers no one is going to be fooled by James Harden in the playoffs again Brew let’s start the segment off with you well one I’m going to give you my Western Conference Finals

Matchup yes please and I’m going to the one team that I have in it yes bruise Clippers that’s right I said it and I’m being calm about it but I’m saying it with my chest I mean just I’m being calm about it but that means you’re not saying it

With your clippers in the confence finals seven games in a row here’s the thing now obviously they need to stay healthy as as do all these teams let’s just keep it real but tyou and I think Nick may agree with me he’ll out coach every coach in that conference except

Mike Malone and Steve cerr I think he might out coach every coach in that conference I think he might be the best coach in the conference coaches they’re all it’s not going to be like a decided Advantage but tyou is a great coach and makes you know great adjustments in the

Whole nine and I think so many of these teams are equally matched evenly matched that I think that could the difference and so I I like the Clippers they got great depth you know so I I think this is their year to get to the Conference Finals they’ve been there once before

Under tyo but I got them facing Denver and I got Denver winning this the west Denver beating the Clippers and here’s something because you you kind of alluded to it a little bit and you did too there’s this stuff going around on social media we’re done with the 9s

Obviously shot at Michael Jordan all right but here’s what I gotta say whole era man here what I say the Denver Nuggets who obviously if they win this championship this is a little bit of an error for them be be like a little mini Dynasty they

Are a an example of real like team basketball they got one star they got one allar all right they don’t even it’s not even like they got one Superstar and another allar they got one Allstar and a lot of times people look back at the 90s

Oh it was a t time when teams had one or two stars not three they didn’t have super teams like the 80s and then like the LeBron era you just had Drexler and Portland and Malone and Stockton in in Utah and Kip and pton in Seattle and and

Barkley and Phoenix and so but those are good teams you don’t have to have three Superstars to be a great team team that makesense yes the team to makes sense guys fit together everybody knows their role and enjoys their role and excels in their role and that’s what Denver is now ironically

If I’m right you are going to have a kind of a throwback team with one star versus a super team and I think and by the way I wouldn’t call the Clippers a super team they’re a little older but they you know they if you if you were to

Have all of those guys at their Peak yes that’s a super team Paul George on they came together when they came together yet sure all right so don’t reveal mine yet because Wilds has sway me and the evidence has swayed me in the playoffs last year swayed me about the

Inevitability of Denver but they’ve got to play somebody that’s true so I just going down if I the Clippers I do not believe in them flatly I do not believe that James Harden is going one of the reasons people believe in him is because the Boost James Harden gave I with seven

Times bitten eight times shy for me when it comes to harden I’m out OKC the youth is concerning Phoenix what much like Katie’s time in Brooklyn it’s like wait they’ve played how many games together W with the big three Minnesota is already dealing with an injury my goodness

Gracious we’re running out of teams Golden State you know that I said they can’t do it who am I leaving out Sacramento listen I love the beam and I love the kings sabonis in the playoffs has a little Rudy goar factor which I know there’s wildly different but he is

He is not proven to be a playoff performer now I’m really running out of teams Dallas you know I do not believe Kyrie Irving contributes to winning if he’s not alongside LeBron James even though Kyrie’s been a good citizen and now what’ you say it’s Kyrie’s fault

Defense no I I’m just saying I wasn’t a believer in Dallas the moment they got Kyrie and I have stayed what do they call me Wilds Mr consisten and so that we’ve eliminated all the teams they have to play somebody I guess it’s 2023 all over again nuggets over Lakers in the

Conference Finals who knows I’m just saying nuggets over Lakers in the conference final series looks like what if if the Lakers play Denver say it let’s see I got to see how it goes youing nuggets and six you’ve been saying it in so six six six they should

Put up another Banner they should put up another Banner we won two games from who do you have the Nuggets playing themselves no I haven’t playing the Thunder I I sneak Thunder yeah can’t believe in the I guess they’re going to avoid the Lakers no not Chad but well

Yeah yeah that’s the problem the Lakers own the Thunder but the Thunder own the Nuggets so thunder on the Nuggets they they beat them three then why are you not taking the Thunder because come playoff time they’re too young but still I I give a lot of credence to the

Standings I know we don’t love USA Today here but I like the standings uh question for you no you go further go in on the Nuggets everybody knows that the no one is beating the nuggets the fact that you had the Lakers playing the Nuggets which they’ll get swept again I

Don’t know they’ll get swept it’s hard to be to team n 11 times in a row maybe they win one they probably would give more but you’re in a tricky spot why because if you have this matchup the nuggets are going to dispatch of the Lakers so easily and the

Bucks who do you have bucks heat yeah the Bucks are going to be locked in and the Heat’s going to give them all they can handle Denver is going to be fresh as a Dy give us an opportunity the super rare NBA version Russ versus Russ r versus Russ your favorite conversation

They’re going to just dis favorite combo of the Lakers well we’ll do our finals fix tomorrow maybe you’ve swayed me maybe I’m going to pick nuggets over bucks what do you have I got Celtics nuggets thanks for watching subscribe here to get more from the show and to

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The Western Conference is a tight race, and Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes try their best to predict who will come out of the West. Their predictions include the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, and Oklahoma City Thunder.

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