LeBron scores 40, Lakers lose to Warriors, Bucks beat Suns & ATL def. LAC | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

LeBron scores 40, Lakers lose to Warriors, Bucks beat Suns & ATL def. LAC | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Uh welcome back to the Show battle the bad losses no Yiannis and the Bucks downed the Suns 14019 KD had 11 Dame had 31 Meanwhile your clippers brw were playing the Hawks without Trey young uh they were down by 29 Points in the fourth and have lost four of their last

Five games so which was worse well there’s a damning quote by Paul Jorge it was on the it was on the screen there yeah I don’t think have an ID we show it on the screen if we if we can not good he said yeah we don’t have an identity

First of all with all these veterans at this stage of the season with a great head coach how can you not have an identity and so and George look a lot of times George he’s just brutally honest and he’ll make quotes over the years where he really tells you what’s

Going on with the team but yeah right um I I obviously picked the Clippers to get to Conference Finals in lose to Denver yeah then they imediately were befen by the Cur they were struggling a little before that but I’m not giving up on them but it’s been a bad stretch I think

This loss was worse you said that Trey young wasn’t even there I mean Giannis is one thing Trey Trey young you know wasn’t there with them and and they had all of their guys and James Harden all of a sudden he has gotten worse statistically at least by the month and

It’s kind of like as the playoffs approach yes I’ve got a the as well what’s changed in the NBA the last two months they stopped calling all those Jabron fouls the the habber or was it might not it might have been Ethan stra I’m not sure somebody just had a tweet

During the show the average you know over under for an NBA game in January was 233 tonight the average is 218 wow A 15-point Drop in two months because they’ve changed how they’re officiating who’s that going to hurt the most James Harden plus his regular post Allstar

Break wound plus they miss Russ’s energy gam going to be tired right and Russ will help like they they do miss his energy and so listen I am shocked by how much Vegas once again loves the Clippers they have the second best odds to win the west and it’s close with Denver they

Have the third best odds to win the title they were playing great earlier in the year they really were well they the but the Vegas odds are not for them to be great in January I might have bet that too this team is so I think the

Clippers are just going to confirm that anybody that makes the Western Conference playoffs can beat them in a series anybody that I’m going to actually say the Suns loss is worse because I maybe foolishly thought the suns were better than they are like man and I know Durant had a bad game and

Durant has been their best player and Durant’s been unbelievable I was talking with Brew before the show if he could steal Tatum’s first team all NBA spot from and Brew doesn’t think so but I think Durant’s been playing at that level but Durant’s 11 points didn’t why

They lost cuz they still scored 129 right the Suns letting Milwaukee score 140 without Giannis is a flashing red emergency light when you are fighting for seeding and this close to the postseason and so I think it’s a worst loss for the Suns but a part of that is

Because I flatly don’t believe in the Clippers and again I understand I’m biased I’ve also been right about the Clippers every year they’ve had they’ve been a team I don’t believe much in the Suns and I’m going to now this is not a good sign because they are fighting for

Playoff position and their veteran team but I chalked that up as a fatigue loss if they were to play it was the end of an East Coast Road Trip you know they took them lightly clearly no Giannis and then they just get caught out there and get beat um Clippers have had several

Bad losses since Allstar they lost remember LeBron went crazy they blew a 20po lead or you could say that that that was just LeBron being awesome or you can say the Clippers blew it they had a few funky games what would it take for you to see from the Clippers in this

Next few weeks for you to say you know what I’d officially like to apologize and change my oh I’m I’m not changing the pick because I I think they’ll get it together they have a great coach all right and I think with those veterans and Russ’s energy Off the Bench that’s

Big for them they don’t really have a leader among their players in my view all right and I think Russ is as close to that as they have and Russ is somewhat of a leader but they need his energy so yeah I I look if this is a

Round one matchup be I like the Suns a lot stay with Warriors Lakers LeBron had 40 Steph had 31 ad yet left early with an eye injury so the game went to the Warriors last 2 minutes of the game disaster took 20 minutes now what was the number one storyline of this game

Nick I mean this is mortifying for the league Mor listen it the it wasn’t just the very end the that 15 seconds took 19 minutes it was there was so many this is a wildly important game okay like this could be what determines who’s the 91 in the playin we’ve talked about the

Difference between being the eight or the n and in the 910 spot who’s at home you had the Warriors have a possession that was 40 seconds long and none of the refs realize gosh darn it man this seems like a hell of a long shot clock situation like nobody nobody was like

What is happening um they they did something that I know is within the rules but I this it’s not because it happened to LeBron people have heard me complain about this before I hate the multiple plays later retroactively changing the score because that LeBron hit a three you play a certain way

Thinking you’re down four and then to well after the fact after you’ve had an offensive and defensive possession be like actually you’re down seven but you got to get it right don’t you think well I guess well at what point Brew let me ask you this like if somebody takes a a

Two that we think is a three and they get an extra point point I do think you have to take that point off the okay but you but you would agree with me in this regard that if somebody takes a two and they call it a three right or is do it

The other way someone takes a three they call it a two right the other team has the ball thinking they’re up one it does and and then they you know what I mean and then and then you wouldn’t say oh we got to go fix it now the game’s in

Overtime like I just I don’t like that but then they couldn’t figure out the shot clock thing this is right or wrong Steph LeBron is still the biggest draw in the League it gets the biggest numbers all of it so that to me was the biggest story that this it feels like

The NBA keeps stepping on a rake on about a lot of stuff and then the very next day we heard hey National TV game so excited Yiannis out like there’s just a lot of stuff that’s frustrating right well that’s the biggest even this game I

Mean you can’t blame ad got hurt but you know so many of these big National games some star is out and that’s frustrating but I’m going to go to basketball for these two the biggest storyline I think look with Steph now I I do think the

Lakers with ad beat the Warriors in the play in the size is just too much and yesterday or the in the game Saturday night you saw they just took advantage once ad was out they just went to the whole yeah yeah they wouldn’t have done

That with ad but I’ll tell you this kind of like the Mavericks golden state is dangerous like they’re 13-4 in their last 17 games with Steph they’re dangerous you know they can’t win the west but could they ruin somebody’s like a Sacramento or oay see a team that’s

Ahead of him I think you got to watch out for him and the the second thing I got to say this clay Off the Bench that’s been good great it’s it’s kind of brought him back look at these his numbers I know it’s only 10 games but

Still La fewer minutes more points 20 game and look at the yes he’s playing against second unit players and when he’s out there it’s kind of his show cuz a lot of times Steph’s on the bench so it’s his his thing and he can get in his

Rhythm so yeah I mean that’s big for them can I I want to add one basketball piece as well because we’re lucky enough to do the show with one of America’s most notorious and well-known LeBron James critics and Kevin Wilds um I’m not even top 100 well the audience figured

Out Brew you agree with me Brew he he takes his shots when he can uh how much how much do you guys put into what LeBron’s looked like post Allstar break so post Allstar break he’s missed one game and this his numbers are we can show it to you he was playing well

Before the All-Star break post All-Star break he’s played like you know the fifth best player in the league thereabouts and the Lakers you know oddly despite that are still you know just a few games above 500 but if that’s the version of LeBron you get in the

Postseason plus an an extra two or three minutes per game that’s the Lakers hope the Lakers hope is that he’s going to not 47% from three but with ad that you’re going to get that level of LeBron somehow in year it it it looks honestly

Like LeBron can just get to the hole at will and with the floor spread out it’s easier for he’s a great finisher obviously but it’s even easier for him to finish because you don’t have as many and some of that is that he’s been red hot from three so people three point

Shot yeah he one the best 3 sh years thanks for watching subscribe here to get more from the show and to check out clips from other shows on FS1

LeBron James scored 40 points in a 128-121 Los Angeles Lakers loss against the Golden State Warriors. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes discuss the biggest stories from the matchup, and whether the Los Angeles Clippers’ loss to the Atlanta Hawks was worse than the Phoenix Suns losing to the Milwaukee Bucks.

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