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00:03 - If you look at the Denver Nuggets,
00:04 like a lot of teams that win the championship,
00:06 you see where the Vegas Golden Knights,
00:07 it catches up to them a bit.
00:09 They've played so much basketball, right?
00:11 And now here we go again.
00:13 If you look at the pace of the Nuggets,
00:15 the Nuggets are a really good team.
00:16 I think they're winning the West,
00:18 but it doesn't mean they're gonna win
00:19 by eight and nine every night.
00:21 I think the Lakers are getting tired
00:23 of losing to the Denver Nuggets all the time.
00:26 And I think it's gonna be a similar,
00:27 look, if you look at the series last year,
00:30 they got swept.
00:31 They were in every game, right?
00:34 And pretty much every game they lost by like,
00:36 you know, six, seven, eight, nine,
00:38 you know, fell apart late.
00:40 The Lakers were in pretty much every game.
00:42 They were in every game.
00:43 They even battled hard in that game three,
00:45 in the game four when they could have rolled over
00:48 and they didn't.
00:49 So I'm expecting a very competitive series.
00:53 The Lakers are another team.
00:54 I think people get so caught up in LeBron
00:57 and the ups and downs, right?
01:00 He's either the best or the Lakers suck or this or that,
01:02 but the Lakers are quietly
01:04 a pretty good basketball team, Carver.
01:06 Like a lot of people on East Coast don't see them,
01:08 but they're not bad.
01:09 I mean, we're talking about a team that's like,
01:10 you know, 14 games over 500 right now, right?
01:13 Like they're not, they didn't stumble in.
01:15 The West is just that good.
01:17 It wasn't like, the Lakers aren't the Bulls and the Hawks.
01:19 They're not like five games under 500.
01:22 Austin Reeves can ball, man, right?
01:24 D'Angelo Russell's on fire.
01:26 It's a contract year for them.
01:28 They've got good chemistry.
01:29 They got a good flow.
01:30 Like the Lakers are a good team.
01:31 It's unfortunate for them that they get,
01:34 they get the Denver Nuggets,
01:36 but I do think they cover, Carver.
01:39 And out of all the games,
01:40 I do like the Lakers plus the seven.
01:42 It was seven and a half.
01:43 It's been bouncing around.
01:44 But if I had to pick one bet, like out of the four games,
01:49 I think the T-Wolves are getting disrespected.
01:52 - Me too.
01:53 - Like people are buying into, oh, Kevin Durant is,
01:55 and Bradley Beal, that.
01:58 I think this is,
01:59 it's not quite Golden State and Sacramento, Carver,
02:02 but I'm not buying it.
02:04 I think the Phoenix Suns are like an aging fighter.
02:06 And Anthony Edwards is like a fighter
02:08 in his prime right now.
02:10 Like they're the best defensive team in the NBA.
02:13 Phoenix are going to have to hit their three-point shots
02:16 for seven games.
02:18 To four out of seven, you got to do it four,
02:20 at least four times out of seven.
02:21 I don't think they can.
02:23 I think, you know, I think Phoenix,
02:24 I don't believe they can.
02:26 I think Minnesota's youth and size
02:28 will bother Phoenix enough,
02:30 not to mention somebody on the Suns could get hurt, right?
02:33 I have no confidence in the Suns.
02:35 I think Minnesota win the series.
02:37 I like Minnesota in game one.
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