That proves something about the intestinal fortitude and stuff like that, the greatness inside when you're not the favorites.

The overwhelming favorites, as K D was in Golden State when you have an obstacle over.

But he still went to the finals and he still averaged 35 on 50 plus percent shooting when he said to LeBron, Okay, I got a crew now, now it's me and you know what next?

You know.

But this is what I'm saying.

Next year he's on the clock.

He's not on the clock because he was injured, and now he's coming back.

He's on the clock because of who the champion is.

Now that dude is somebody that you have quietly declared.

You are better than and so that dude is going to be waiting.

Even in this 18th season, he's going to be waiting and k d.

What's gonna dio what's gonna dio code?

That's what we'll be looking for next.

This is a debate show, but we were on the same page about that one just the way it is sometimes.

Unfortunately for TV, we're on the same page, but check this out LeBron James deserves all the credit in the world.

I give it to him.

The fact of the matter is a D might be the second best player in the world, right?

Anthony Davis.

And when the two best players in the world or to the top five vessels get together, they almost always win the championship period.

That's what LeBron has.

That's not what KD has.

Kyra is not one of the top five players in the world that have one of the top five skill sets.

Top five talent.

He hasn't put it together to call him one of the top five in the world, and he is a champion.

But he's not top five.

You wouldn't put him in your 50 J.

K d is coming off a catastrophic, career altering injury for most people who ever had that.

If you're trying to come back to prematurely this Kovar 19 this help giving them additional.

Okay, I'm saying, just like K D.

Didn't what he didn't prove in Golden State, he has the chance to prove now differently, but there is also pressure on Kyle about LeBron has got to step up.

If LeBron was not the champion.

K d wouldn't be on the clock, but it's because LeBron is standing there waiting and saying, I'm still the king.

If you're that dude k d you respond to that challenge?

The underdog there who's the underdog is definitely K D and carry, no doubt.

Question.

That's the point.

They're the underdog.

They have Brooklyn's got a good do something special.

Jean Marc has done a hell of a job.

Brooklyn's got a good team.

They could beat anybody of Katie.

And this is the other thing.

Last point because Brooklyn is so good.

When you look at the parts around them, you're literally looking at KD and Curry and saying, All you guys gotta be is who we've known you to be and y'all could beat anybody so literally if they don't win with Warriors, Lakers break.

If you look at Brooklyn, the talent that they have with Paris with without the Lakers without Kyrie and K d.

If Kyrie and K D comes and they are who we know them to be, Brooklyn should win it all.

They have done it all.

Okay, let's say don't win it all.

We're gonna be looking at K D and Kyra.

Your expectations were not as high as no.

They're not as high.

Let's say K D is who he's always been, and the odds are way against that.

Let's say he overcomes them and he is who he's always been.

They coast to the finals, coast defined once they get there, once they get their pressure.

Also on Kyrie, who who has to elevate, who has to bring a team together instead of tearing it apart, who has to elevate be a massive five players to get that somewhat unfair.

Because, let me tell you why.

Because when he left Cleveland and went toe Boston, he was supposed to be that dude.

When he showed up in Brooklyn without K d.

He was supposed to be that dude.

LeBron was that dude with Kyrie and Kyrie clearly didn't get in the way.

Then K D is that dude in Brooklyn, So why would we assume that K D is going to get a Kyrie is going to get in the way of K D.

When he didn't get in the way of LeBron.

It's not.

It's not about getting in the way i e.

I understand what you're saying there's reason for optimism there, right?

Absolutely agree.

There is some reason for optimism there.

I'm just going by the track record.

Kyrie joined a team that had a lot of talent performed better without him than with him.

It can't be that, say, the man.

That's the point.

The same can't be development.

But when you're number two, when you have not only the skills and that no one who has Kyra's talent also has this because, like Kobe Bryant, a few guys in the history of the game have that level talent, plus that level skill.

And Stephen A.

We've seen him be a killer in the clutch.

There is no excuse for him making teams like, which is when Boston.

You can say that, but all that does is validate.

You can't make him the man, the franchise.

That's not what they're asking of him in Brooklyn, your point would be exponentially more valid if there were no K d.

And he was in Brooklyn by himself.

He is not K D is the man.

Make no mistake about it, and because of that carry is your secondary option and as a secondary option, he is a champion that, by the way, in his two MBA Finals appearances with LeBron when he was healthy, because there was a third when he got injured.

But the two that he was healthy, he averaged 27 29 was a killer when they kill him when they needed it like he is healthy.

A lot of issues.

If K D is healthy, then we agree Brooklyn has a chance to win the whole thing.

If Kyrie can be that dude again you got with K D.

It's Uncle Ben said, with great power comes great.

You got stability.

A lot of Greek freak in Milwaukee model.

You've got Miami That was just in the finals.

You've got Doc Rivers in Philadelphia now.

You still got Tatum and Jalen Brown and those boys in Boston, and I'm telling you right here, right now, Okay, Mr.

Jalen Rose called it right on the money.

The Brooklyn Nets will coast to the finals.

If K D is k d.

You can book it.

It they know when they get now, when they get when they when they get the Warriors, they're gonna be in the conference finals because you ain't stopping Clay and and step, but I'm taking the greatest back past known to mankind Your Russian past.

The S K D is K d.

It's very unlikely.

What version off himself will he be?

Is the whole shoot, man.

Remember, I'm the one that's on the record saying even if he's not K d will average 27 in his K D is 80% of themselves.

They don't coast.

They might get there.

They're losing the final, but they don't listen.

Listen, you gotta be a coast to the finals in the East If they say you get Since we don't play with numbers, give me 85% k d.

They will walk 85 defense.

They will Coast Nambaryn offensive.

You know, they fill coast walk.

Whatever I got hurt did when they got it won't be a problem if K D is 85%.

Katie took in that 85 finals.

Get toe win the Cipto, win the chip.

They'll need to He'll need to be more than that.

I wasn't 90.

We'll need to be more 7.5% will need to be more than that.

I think we're excited about the NBA season, even though I wanted to start January 2021 but might come earlier.

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