Is this the best Finals matchup in a decade?

Is this the best Finals matchup in a decade?

let me move on to a bigger subject that I’m very very passionate about right now because I’m going to reiterate and and and just repeat myself I cannot wait when I saw Luca performing the way that he performed last night all I could think about was Luca donic and Kyrie Irving versus Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown getting to the NBA finals it’s featuring a match up of four perennial All Stars I gave their names already ladies and gentlemen it doesn’t get any better than this the Celtics have home court advantage and open as the betting favorites to win at all no surprise there it’s also their second appearance in the finals in the last three years but they’re going up against who some would say is a better offensive Duo than Tatum and brown and Luca and Kyrie donic averaged 355 and 12 in the two meetings against the Celtics this season but Boston won both games some would say fairly easily here’s where I’m going with this and I need everybody to pay attention everybody to listen when it comes to the game of basketball as is the case with any team sport it’s team team team PJ Washington is going to be pivotal derck Jones is gonna be pivotal Gafford and Lively for Dallas is definitely going to be pivotal porzingis being back I don’t think Boston wins a championship without porzingis porzingis is going to be incredibly pivotal and by the way when you think about Kyrie you know Kyrie doesn’t have to just have Jaylen Brown to worry about as a Defender he has Drew holiday to worry about Drew holiday is one of the elite Defenders this game of seen but I don’t think he has anything for Kyrie Irving I don’t give a damn what anybody says and then there’s Derek white who’s a utility dude that does a lot of things that are very very good for the Boston Celtics now their depth and on their bench may not be great and I get that part and that might spell their Doom for all we know but in the end ladies and gentlemen we could talk all of this stuff we could talk about everybody we talk about the cities we can talk about the history of Kyrie we can talk about the history of porzingis and his friction supposed friction with Luca donic we can talk about all of this ladies and gentlemen we talking ball we talking basketball and in the sport of basketball on most occasions it comes down to the stars and separating the great ones from the really really good ones the Bonafide ones from the wnab bees now last time I checked luuka ain’t been in this situation before but boy does he look ready Kyrie’s a champion Kyrie’s been to three NBA Finals he’s 1-1 he’s been here before this ain’t new news to him Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown have both been on NBA Finals before two years ago they both been the numerous Conference Final series they still don’t have a championship they still don’t have a championship and you got to get it done so I’m here to tell you something right now ladies and gentlemen I can’t wait for this this is what basketball is all about and if you Jason Tatum and you Jaylen Brown what you gonna do I already talked about Jaylen Brown let me reiterate what I’m saying when I talked about somebody texting me and saying he’s not liked and knows it I wasn’t blaming him for that I wasn’t calling him a bad guy the brother is a serious dude he doesn’t tolerate fools he’s an elite player he’s a spectacular player as far as I’m concerned and when he got over $300 million with his new contract last summer let me tell you something right now nobody can sneeze at that Jaylen Brown can ball and we all know it he was the better ball player for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals two years ago against the Golden State Warriors but he wasn’t the player he needed to be in game seven of last year’s Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat once Jason Tatum injured himself in the first minute of the game and when you look at a Jaylen brown right now let’s ladies and gentlemen I had him voted on on third Team all NBA and he clearly had a lot of attitude for others not picking him for that I I had him third Team all NBA but let me also be clear about something when Isaiah Thomas went out and tweeted and talked about he’s very marketable that’s not true he should be but he’s not you know how many people out there got sneaker deals ad and LeBron got A Sneak a deal Luca and Kyrie got a sneaker deal Giannis and Dame got a sneaker deal everywhere you turn the sneaker deals Jason Tatum got sneaker deals got you see all the damn commercials Jason Tatum has where’s Jaylen Brown’s commercials where’s his endorsement deals where’s his signature sneaker where his sneaker deal at why wouldn’t he have it Boston’s the best team in basketball they had the best record all season and on top of it all he was the leading reason as to why that was the case along with Tatum why wouldn’t he have all of that does that sound like somebody that’s liked to you by Madison Avenue by Corporate America by the people who Dole out those kind of opportunities and those kind of those kind of dollars evidently not that’s the situation with Jaylen Brown you know what alleviates all of that if you go into the finals against Luca and Kyrie and you destroy them that’s what you Jason Tatum you know they call Steph Curry the Babyface assassin Jason Tatum ain’t far off he’s just a about 6 in taller you see his boy Deuce that beautiful little son of his that’s always on the court before the games you know how much he loves his baby boy he is incredibly marketable and scoring 27 a game and First Team all NBA with endorsement deals out the Wazoo that’s Jason Tatum as somebody called me about him the other day talk about come on man when when’s he gonna get enough credit when’s he gonna get enough credit why are people being so critical of him I said stop they ain’t being critical of him they’re pointing out the obvious he hasn’t closed want to hear about numbers you don’t want to hear about oh you got teammates and it’s a collective effort who the hell don’t know that it takes everybody we understand that but in the sport of basketball as Luca displayed last night against Minnesota ultimately it comes down to you what you going to do where you going to stand what’s that going to be like in a game of basketball unlike any unlike most sports at some point in time schematics go out the window schemes and plots and plans it goes right out the window and it’s about the superstars here you go what you going to do take us there and I don’t have a problem with it because if you willing to go to the negotiating table and say that your worth more than 99% of the people in the league and damn near 100% of the people you play on a team with then you should be that dude who closes you should be that dude that has that responsibility thrusted upon their shoulders we’ve seen Jaylen Brown hit three from the left corner to tie the game centered in the overtime and win a game against Indiana we’ve seen this brother step up and close the deal in game four against Indiana we saw him win the most outstanding player for the Eastern Conference Finals Jason Tatum it’s your turn that’s Luke over there wait for you that’s Kyrie over there wait for you and you saw what Kyrie said when Ernie Johnson for TNT asked him about Boston his former team wait for them right Kyrie said yo they standing in our way they stand in the way trying to prevent us of what we we want we here for it he elaborated extensively further during a a different interview with ESPN Monica mcnut when he was talking about yo I learned a lot and I had some rough times and stuff like that but now I’m better equipped to handle it so I’m ready to go that’s what he said he’s ready Luca is ready they coming for the chip and it’s against one of the top two most storyed basketball franchise and ball basketball annal with 17 Championship banners hanging from its Rafters with Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown holding down to Fort I mean it don’t get much better than this we usually see a superstar on each team you got two on each team oh yeah we gonna find out who’s legit and who’s a wnab be oh we going to find this out and I can’t wait oh this is beautiful

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