Are the KNICKS the Biggest Threat to the Celtics? 👀 JJ & Shannon agree on the Bucks | First Take

Are the KNICKS the Biggest Threat to the Celtics? 👀 JJ & Shannon agree on the Bucks | First Take

Keep it rolling here more NBA to dive into let’s head to the Bay guys Bronson and the Knicks picked up a win over Stephen the war 119 112 Stephen a squad won without o anobi who was out due to his elbow flaring up miles McBride started in place and dropped a

Career-high 29 Points in 46 minutes so Stephen A here’s what I need to know yeah if the Knicks get healthy with OG and Julius Randall are they the biggest threats to the Celtics I believe so I believe so JJ I believe so listen man looko Shannon stop stop stop it it’s the

Truth Shannon let me tell you something right now okay if the New York Nicks get healthy I believe they are the number one threat to the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference I think they going to the Conference Finals now obviously that’s a lot to ask Julius Rand

Separated show I don’t know if he’s ever goingon to be healthy man I was so depressed when he got hurt cuz I said damn listen they 14 games over 500 right now they’d be at least 20 games over 500 that juv trans had never got hurt okay

They went on no damn slump don’t get me started with ogan noi and how efficient they have been defensively JJ you know all of this stuff you’ve got the numbers Mitchell Robinson if you had that big body a rebound and a shot blocker the defense is already Elite without him

Imagine what they would have been with them so I’m looking at it from that standpoint I love the pickups of Burks a Chua and obviously bonovich I’m looking at the New York Knicks right now and let me tell y’all something right now orange and blue skies baby orange and blue

Skies if the New York nigs get healthy they going to the Conference Finals that means Milwaukee gets bounced out that means I I want Miami again I want a second shot at Miami this ain’t last year it’s a different New York Nicks team you’re lucky they got hurt you’re

Lucky they got hurt because they would be destined for the Conference Finals that’s what I’m saying but obviously they’re not healthy and that’s my malady right now it’s it’s not good it’s like a black cat running around but it’s okay it’s okay you just did all of that better if they

Get healthy let me tell you what’s going to happen I want a rematch with the Miami Heat you just did all that and talk about they not healthy so it’s not going to happen not heal man they’re not healthy man I Can Dream they say they might come back Shannon they saying they

Might come back I’m like I’m holding that ho I’m before the guys jump in so who’s the biggest threat then if it’s not them it’s the Knicks I’m sticking with the Knicks okay I just thought you said I’m going to Milwaukee Bucks I saw what mil I saw what Milwaukee did without

Giannis to the uh to the Phoenix Suns on Sunday and I just think Dame is starting to find his way they just need to understand that hey late in the ball game hey we going to put Giannis at the five we’re going to put poris at the

Four but guess what Dame Lillard is going to have the ball in his hands exclusively and I’m going to trust him either make a hey either shoot it or you find Yiannis in the pick and roll whatever you choose Dame I’m going live with that I still believe the Milwaukee

Books are the biggest threat to the uh the Boston Celtics because they have two guys that can take the game over and go give me 50 I’m going with the Milwaukee Bucks I Stephen I just want to I just want to point out to you real quick that

As it currently stands today the Knicks have the four seed and they’re two games back in the last column of the three seed I’m looking at St I’m aware okay which means they would play likely Boston in the first round or the second round I’m sorry in the second round I

Understand I know the second round I was hoping that they would move up third or second and I also want to point out so they could so they could you know not avoid Bost in the teleconference finals JJ why do you have to let the facts get

In the way of a good story I also want to point out sorry he left messing with me man they trying to r on My Parade that’s what they trying to do I also want to point out something real quick and that is they’re currently slated to

Play the Orlando Magic who are no slouch Jamal Mosley should be in the run for coach of the year they’ve got two of the best young Wings in the NBA jayen Suggs has figured his three ball out he’s got a chance to make an all defensive team

Don’t sleep on the Orlando Magic as a very tough playoff match match up for any team in the East for any team in the East I respect Orlando Magic Mosley is a candidate for coach of the year I’m not sleeping I’m snoring the Knicks will

Take them out but I want to say one thing I want to say one thing to your to to answer the question go ahead to answer the question I look I I I I like I like saying I I do this all the time I like saying if they’re healthy if

They’re healthy so far we haven’t seen them healthy as a as a full unit right my concern is that we’re running out of time here to build a rhythm that’s my concern uh it’s the same thing look I it’s the same thing with Joel embiid

Coming back if Jo embiid is back for the 76ers and he’s in a rhythm and he’s healthy they’re a contender all right they’re 26 and8 when he plays this year right now for me the biggest threat to the Celtics is the Milwaukee Bucks and truthfully if everybody’s healthy across

The board in East they’re probably still the biggest threat to me they have two of the best players in the NBA Giannis is having an MVP level season historic 3010 and5 over 60% from the field one guy in NBA history’s done that all right Damen Lillard Shannon said this

Since the All-Star break shooting over 40% from three he’s figured that out they’ve figured out the dynamic of Giannis and in the two-man game they are spamming that pick and roll over and over again if you look at that partnership and that duo they have run more Giannis Dame picking rolls per game

Since the All-Star break Doc Rivers has figured that out everybody’s embraced that across the board they’re shooting better the Milwaukee Bucks are the biggest threat to the Boston Celtics in the East okay and if they if if Cleveland now if Donovan Mitchell Donovan Mitchell and garlet and those

Two bigs if they could do if they could they I think they can cause some problems because we know Donovan Donovan can go off and go get you 50 Garland can give you 30 and those two bigs can cause you problem but I’m still going with because I’ve seen Giannis in the

Playoffs I’ve seen him take games over we know Dame can take the game over we seen Dame go get 50 in backto back games and he’s shooting the three ball as well as anybody and as you said JJ the pick and roll is as good as anybody doing the

Pick and roll probably outside of Denver with yoke and mid and and the dribble hand off in the pick and roll but I like the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston better be on their best behavior Jason Tatum needs to rise and shine every single game because if they don’t you mess around to

Let Milwaukee steal one of these games oh now you got something on your hands you get to say if donov MIT you you get to say if but I can’t do that I can’t do that though you know you to you two I see this is what the season’s gonna be

Because I can understand I can see it for right now both of y’all JJ going to be messing with me all year long going to be dropping in the SN marks when he can’t try to needle needle away at me I can see it right now Daris Burke and

Breed teasing me too because of the Knicks but the Knicks will answer the call the only two Gams back in Cleveland only two games back Cleveland only three games back Milwaukee I understand that probably ain’t gonna get a top two seed but I’m not giving up on that top three

Seed so you can avoid Boston until the Conference Finals and I believe if the New York Knicks are healthy that defense will answer the call and what you’re seeing from those dudes ain’t going to necessarily resonate come playoff time okay because this answer the call I remember I remember Boston played with

Ie he said we going to play well what about avoiding the what about avoiding the Nets he said we believe what who we think we are we don’t give a deal about about the Nets and what did they do stepen they in the first round yeah swep

Them you thought it was a Mad Dog so if you if you are what you believe you are I ain’t ducking nobody why you ducking till I wait till the Conference Final I want to see them I’m not ducking anybody just saying I think that’s the only team

In the Eastern Conference that would beat the Knicks that would beat a healthy Knicks team I think a healthy Knicks team takes out anyone else in the East that is what I believe that’s what I believe stop it okay all right all right y’all going to regret this y’all

Going to regret this I’m tell right now and we let me be they going to be healthy though we want miam that’s the question we want Mi that’s the question I get it by the way I I agree to the extent if they’re full yeah whole healthy

In they have a chance to get to the Conference Finals 100% say it I need I you you make sure you say that next time cuz you didn’t say that until I just said it I need I need to make St it JJ I need to make sure

You I’ve been saying this since they made the OG and an Obi trade I’ve been saying it since the trade they are that good if but there’s so many if Health yeah I’m saying okay okay hey JJ how about this here if they’re 100% healthy

Are you you taking them to be would you take them over the Bucks to be to deal with the self question no no I I I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear on that when I earlier right now I would take the Bucks over the Knicks if

Both teams are healthy I I was tried to make that clear earlier but you feel no the tail in you got extra two minutes of talk time in saying some gibber jabber oh if they this I said this and I said that no your original statement was the

Milwaukee Bucks so all that other stuff withstanding no we good okay throw the break throw it to you Molly tonight Nicola yic and the Nuggets head to Minnesota to take on the t-wolves going to be a good one these teams meet for the second time the season with the t-wolves winning the

Last meeting 11089 however this time Minnesota will be without key pieces Carl Anthony towns and Rudy goar so Stephen A here’s the question what’s going to be the headline following the Nuggets T wolves match up well we go it’s going to be it’s going to involve Anthony Edwards it’s going to

Whether or not he’s somebody that can lead them or he’s somebody that desperately needs Carl Anthony towns to compete with the Denver Nuggets it’s going to be one or two things but he’s definitely going to have this on his shoulders tonight Minnesota’s trying to get the top seed Denver obviously is

Vying for it they want the road to the finals to have to come through the city of Denver they know it’s going to have to come through them as the reigning defending Champions but they want to come through the city of Denver they got to win tonight the winning tonight helps

Actually AB absolutely Stephen A if if Ant-Man can lead this Minnesota team to beat Denver without cat without gudy Gober man they’re G to be they’re going to be riders that that have MVP votes that’s gonna Zoom him up the board if he does that without Gober and without cat

And you mean to tell me they got Yol they got Murray they got Porter they got Gordon they got all their pieces Denver has all their pieces because that mean Ant-Man is going to have to have one of these 40 point 50o games he might have

To have a career high 50 point 50 plus point game in order to get that done I don’t believe it’s going to happen though I think Denver that taste that they have in their mouth after what happened on Sunday Sunday I think they take care of business I think your dream

Finals match up this year well first of all there is well you know my dream matchup is always La Miami always it’s just your personal life because of basketball but from a basketball standpoint I would tell you it would it would this season I would like to see

From a purely basketball standpoint not taking low consideration nugget Celtics because see it that’s what it should have been last year we didn’t think that Boston was gonna wet the bed with the first three games being a three-oh hole they come back and tie it up and then

The first minute of the game Jason Tatum gets hurt in game seven yeah and he’s not the same so we know that Boston’s a better matchup for the sizable Denver Nuggets than Miami was and I think that’s the match that we should had last year you think the same Shannon I do I

Do yeah no I no no no that you that from a from a a static standpoint no I think Milwaukee I’m gonna give Milwaukee I give Milwaukee a 45% chance of upsetting the Celtics but if you make me put my money I’m taking the Celtics he

Stephen A. Smith, JJ Redick and Shannon Sharpe join Molly Qerim on First Take to argue who they believe is the biggest threat to the Boston Celtics between the New York Knicks and the Milwaukee Bucks.

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