WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?! 🗣️ – Stephen A. questions Joel Embiid’s Bucks remark | First Take

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?! 🗣️ – Stephen A. questions Joel Embiid’s Bucks remark | First Take

one win away from raising their 18th Championship Banner at TD Garden and they’re doing it in dominating Fashion After winning 4- one against both the Heat and the Cavs Boston swept the Pacers and they’re on their way to sweeping the maps if the Celtics win the title they may want to send a thank you card to the Bucks who traded away Drew holiday in the Damen Lillard trade last offseason holiday is the first player to average 15 points while committing zero turnovers over a three game Span in the final since 1990 joah beid inquired on social media last tonight asking simply did the Bucks give them the championship Brian wior back here with us uh Wendy I’ll ask you this is embiid right no the the the Celtics had a lot going for them but I will say it’s it’s a bit of a journey to evaluate the Dame Lillard trade that I’ve been on and others have been as well at the outside of the trade you looked at it and said man the the Bucks just raised their ceiling and increased their chances because of the offense that they added but as soon as Drew holiday ended up with the Celtics which was just a few days I thought that their net positive was really narrowed they were ahead but I really thought that they contributed to helping their primary opponent get better but then a couple of weeks later jannis signed a contract extension and you can’t disregard that when you evaluate that trade he signed that contract extension because he was so excited about teaming up with Dame Lillard and so I have to calculate that in but now now I look at how great the Celtics look and I see that they’ve extended Drew holiday and I would expect them to extend Derek white and I do think they’ll be able to bring almost this exact team back next year and see that this team will be definitely the favorites to repeat is my is my guess I have to even go back another step and re-evaluate it again St a so that series of transactions which was not just the D milder trade but the one that brought Dre holiday to Boston ends up being one of the most consequential we’ve had in years in the NBA it’s consequential and you’re right about everything you’re saying the flip side to that however though Wendy is that you know the impetus for this question was Joel embiid’s comments and so just simply dissecting where he’s coming from well you could say he’s wrong or you can challenge Joel embiid in this regard what the hell are you Cho liver you’re the reigning League MVP coming into this season right if you were healthy with the elevation of Tyrese Maxi what are you saying you could not have beaten Boston is that what you’re telling the basketball world because Boston and their moves and Milwaukee and their moves had nothing to do with Philly Joel and be you still there if you healthy what you trying to say if you’re healthy with Tyrese Maxi what you trying to say what are you trying to say about Tobias Harris what are you trying to say about Nick nurse and Daryl mury what are you trying to say about the Ros that you have in Philadelphia so one could ask that question to Joel embid secondly when you look at Milwaukee okay are you saying they did it intentionally I don’t think they did I’m not sure you knew they were G Boston was going to get Drew holiday but even if you did you certainly felt higher about Damen Lillard um Janis anthon Tumo was the one that supported Adrien Griffin being the head coach he obviously had supported him being gone and Doc Rivers is there now so what are you trying to say about the Milwaukee Bucks in terms of what their intent was and last but not least when we look at Boston even though we had them as the prohibitive favorites obviously them being stacked and loaded in the same breath Denver wasn’t supposed to have what happened to them happened to them we didn’t see Minnesota coming okay and obviously we didn’t see the Dallas Mavericks coming so they’re in an abundance of ERS to this with W with Joel embiid’s remarks to dissect but the only thing we can really really point to or really really ask ourselves invasively what are you trying to say Joel and B that Milwaukee did something intentionally in the end what are you saying about yourself because if Joel embiid is healthy with a healthy Tyrese Maxi we can’t sarily dismiss what Philadelphia would bring to the table and whether or not Philly could have given Boston a run for their money because we know there’s no answer for a healthy Joel embiid he’s Unstoppable I will say this mly I will say this last year the Celtics were close but not good enough to winning the championship they went out and made two major Acquisitions with porzingis and Drew holiday Philadelphia has two Allstars in embiid and Tyrese Maxi a whole bunch of salary cap space and tradable first round picks this is the summer that the 76ers could make a couple of Acquisitions that could change the Paradigm in the Eastern Conference absolutely don’t forget I mean Miami didn’t have Jimmy Butler and a bunch of guys either they could have knocked somebody else off or put in some work as well [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith and Brian Windhorst react to Joel Embiid’s X post asking if “The Bucks gave the {Celtics} the championship.”

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