Heat enter NBA Finals as HUGE underdogs vs. Nuggets; Jokić favored to win MVP | FIRST THINGS FIRST
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- Nick Wright, Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes preview Game 1 of the NBA Finals featuring the Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets. Nuggets, led by Nikola Jokić enter the NBA Finals as HUGE favorites to take home the championship. Jimmy Butler and the Heat are no strangers to the underdog role having already defeated the two top teams in the Eastern Conference. Finally the cast ranks Jokic amongst the best of all-time.
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Broussard is really taking shots at Giannis who averaged 32 9 9 on an injured back and played in TWO OUT OF 5 GAMES.
True colors man hate 2c it
Nuggets don't have second all star player except D.Jordan ,and herw you are Nick hating on Joker again,that Dallas team had Dirk ,S.Marion ,J.Terry and also Stojakovic,2x 3pt champion(Lakers fans remember that 6/6 from 3 ;DD That Dallas team had couple of all stars
If Jokic wins he MAY pass Chris Paul? Nick is so funny. Unbelievable
CP3 aint done nothin..wtf...having potential you dont live up to isnt a thing
xD Chris Paul like top 150 player
If Jokic wins I would have him top 20 but CP3 is an absolute legend dude. Having CP3 ahead of Joker even with a title isn’t disrespectful to Joker at all
@@joshuahartman2555 Jokic rn is a way better player than Chris Paul ever was
@@joshuahartman2555 CP3 very good player but hella overrated
Nick not go talk about how he had Luka top 20 last year all time and didnt have Joker in the top 50.
I was waiting for it. Luka top 20 but never made a finals and missed the playoffs. Joker swept lebron and Nick said he's top 30 maybe. It's insane.
@@mrblackhouseprez insane. Luka only made it out of the first round once too.
@@mrblackhouseprez Nick rails on Jokic for poor playoff performances the last two years, when the Nuggets second best player was out both years and it was a bunch of scrubs last year, many who aren't in the league this year. And Jokic's performances in those playoffs was outstanding, one player cannot win it all.
Luka hasn't even won a regular season MVP yet Nick slanders Jokic's MVP with no post season accolades. Nick is super biased and inconsistent at best.
You see Nick get emotional when Chris said you are talking pixie dust, and angels in the outfield 😂😂😂
It's very disrespectful
So funny.
Jokic is ahead of Barkley, Garnett, and Dirk to me already. And I’m old enough to remember how great all three were.
I wouldn't put him over Dirk just yet. Dirk has over 30,000 points and beat the heat with james/wade/bosh in the finals.
Oh and that was a prime james
Barkley and Garnett, probably, Dirk? No, unless Jokic wins another MVP
I might have to send you that 2011 Mavs run as a reminder!
And it’s not that close
I like both teams, but it would be amazing to watch Nick after a dominant Nuggets series.
No team is going to have a dominant series it’s going 6 or 7
Both teams are boring
@@Qyu24 Denver in 5, maybe 6.
nick hating Jokic and denver for years!!
That's no fun. Nuggets are the overwhelming favourites so they're the easy pick.
Nick is 10 toes down on hatin on the Nuggets 😭😭😭
Because they swept his boy lebron
@@Niko6767 nah it’s just his inner KC sports fan. He is obligated to hate Denver lol
I think he’s just more all in on miami
Boy that is not how I read this segment.
@@comebackkid5976 exactly he goes out of his way to say Denver is a great team they deserved to make it this far etc it’s just a gut feeling that between experience and the jordan level determination that jimmy is showing that it’s just miamis year that’s all
This moment is 3 years in the making. Nick's Jokic hate is finally coming to center stage, and it's gonna be glorious
in all honesty, the denver " never advancing after being such a high seed" narrative doesnt make sense to me because murray was injured and out of every playoff the past 3 years. This year hes healthy and theyre in the finals.
@@djt8870 Nick gets around that by simply not ever mentioning it lmao
The Heat are the underdogs and Nugs are THE FAVES. Celebrate..
Lmfao!!!!!!
@@djt8870 Nick only cares if the team LeBron is on has an injury, if any other teams have injuries they don't count. Attrition is a part of the sport so I don't think injuries should be used an excuse anyway, but Jokic is still just 28, Murray is 26, and MPJ is 24. All 5 of their starters are 30 and under so Nick's insistence that Jokic should have already won championships was dumb, he and his team have plenty of time, and it looks like they're now all in their prime.
Every time I watch Jokic in amazement that he looks like he can barely run yet he completely dominates the game. Fade away 3 pointers, Magic passes, tough rebounds, floaters…. Are you kidding me!! Huge Heat Fan but this guy is just incredible…
Well it's like watching Jimmy take Boston to the woodshed. The man is just a ferocious competitor and I've always liked him (big Marquette fan I loved him then). This is likely to be a good one.
@@pittland44 the last 4 game were pretty rough for Butler
He runs more than the most athletic bigs (AD, Embiid)
@@user-gm1tg2sw4m Butler is a bit older, he’s a 2 way player, and he is recovering from that ankle injury. Hopefully, the 2 day rest in between games will help. Because the Nuggets are no joke.
Bro this guy nick wrigjt has such hatred in his heart for Jokic. They SWEPT the lakers and if the lakers were playing Miami, he’d be celebrating already saying the lakers have it easily. Come on bruh
That makes no sense
He said whoever comes out the west will win the finals two weeks ago.
Lol Nick has hate in is heart for Jokic but Broussard doesn’t for the Heat? Do you even hear these arguements that Broussard is making?
“Hate for Jokic”
No. He just wanted Jokic to actually do something in the playoffs to justify all these MVPs.
You know, the same standard we held for every great player.
You sound like Boston and Celtics fans. They said the same thing. Nick just has a good eye
As a nuggets fan it’s absolute insane to hear Jokic mentioned with the other NBA greats. Jokic has come so far and improved so much. Absolute wild but I love it
It's not wild. The team has improved and he has remained consistent.
@stephenscurlock8700 it's wild because if you watched this dude from the age of 21 to 25, you wouldn't have ever thought he would be THIS great. At most, even as a die hard nuggets fan, I thought he'd end up as a modern Sabonis. Now he's being compared to the 5 best centers ever. It's utterly wild...
@@LILCHEESE99 Exactly!
I wish Melo could have went to the Finals. 😒
@@majormxwll8317 I don't lol
So let me get this straight the heat only made it this far because of Giannis’s injury, Knicks not being a real team, and tatum tweaking an ankle in game 7? Do people realize how ridiculous they sound? Is it that hard to admit Miami is a good team?
Bro Broussard went from the bucks and Boston hype man to being the guy giving all excuses why Miami beat those teams. 😂
I mean it's 100% true. I get that Miami had a lot of heart and effort, but Bucks got taken by surprise and Giannis was hurt, which for a team centered around Giannis was a big disruption. New York was never the better team against the Heat, except in the minds of NY fans. Boston really beat itself, cause most games the Heat were barely scoring. Every game was like 104, 102, etc. Credit to the heat for taking the W, but let's not act like THEY won those games when clearly the Celtics lost them due to multiple internal reasons. Unless you're also a stan of the Heat, then you would be fair enough to acknowledge those things that did happen.
Bru & Wilds starting to be annoying af with those trash takes they been having.
As a heat fan I would reverse uno these clowns and say that Tyler herro our 2nd best scorer has been out all playoffs and we still got it done. But this heat team doesn't make excuses so I'm not gonna make excuses either.
I wouldn't say Miami ONLY has gotten there because of those reasons but they are definitely aided by those things. Where as Denver has just been a freight train through the west. This is why Nick's argument makes 0 sense, he had the Lakers as easy favorites to win the title, a team just SWEPT them and he's complaining that team is now a heavy favorite.....
Nikola and Jimmy both have such good work ethics. A great role model for sports enthusiasts as well as for everyone out there. I predict this will be one of the most exciting finals ever.
I think it’s funny how pedigree, which is similar to experience, meant nothing to Nick all year but he’s now listing experience as an advantage the Heat would have in this finals 😂😂
Because they are now actually in the Finals.
It's crazy. If Miami makes this a series, i need Brou not to say a single word about them. He has no respect for them as a team.
Broussard literally doesn’t know basketball
You talking about brou? Nick literally doesn’t know anything about basketball, he’s a jokic hater
Brou has doubted Miami in all series up til now, he literally has no more toes to stay 10 toes down on...at some point he need to just put his foot in his mouth for the disrespect 😂
Brou picked Denver in 6. That doesn’t sound like disrespect to me. Sounds like it could be a good series.
@@christiancantu3413 Almost all analysts, not only Brou.
Chris sayin Dirk's career is overrated 😂 , its okay we all have our blind spots Brou
@@enlightenme3673 Is this the first time you have ever seen an emoji? You sound borderline insane.
@@enlightenme3673 man, love your comment, so tired of people using those crying emojis all over the place while in reality they just sit scared of all those things around them their brain not being able to process
@@enlightenme3673 He's blind. & No one is reading all those empty words 😂
As a Mavs fan Brou doesn’t know ball that’s why all his predictions are wrong. Calling Dirk overrated is crazy he really said KG,Barkley> Dirk 🤣🤡 he also said if Joker wins he’s better? Dirk made 2 finals appearances
@@enlightenme3673 Bro you have a sad life im not even debating you in basketball, go to a shrink
The Lakers OBJECTIVELY were a better team than the Miami heat and had size advantage and got SWEPT and Folk believe the Heat will beat Denver??😂
Absolutely My Bro
Lakers never had that dawg
@@langkanai miami needs 10 actual pitbulls on the court nipping at jokic plus the starting five just to have a chance in this series
Butler better than AD and James this playoffs.
Yeah but their best player also isn't a 38+ year old man
How can an underdog be disrespected? That's part of the definition of being an underdog. You have to earn the respect, because as an underdog, the odds are against you. Period.
I think what it means is people are not taking the Heat seriously which could be a mistake if Denver underestimates the Heat, kinda like how the Lakers underestimated the Nuggets and got smacked in the mouth.
Here's a simple example: If Vegas gave the Heat odds reflecting a 0.00001% chance of winning this series, do you think that would be disrespectful?
@@AP-sr2lr yes that's disrespectful but also money in my pocket
@@user-rr3fo6hy9q the Lakers never underestimate them man don’t be fooled by the media Lakers and fans knew it was going to be the biggest challenge to date
They PRETEND to GAF about "underdogs"... yet all we see is LAL/Cowboys segments....
Did Nicks hate for Jokic outweigh his love for Lebron? Did he just call the Heat better than the Lakers? 🤔
Good question 🤔
They are better
@@derekl9881 We don't know that yet.
Well if he did you know he made a mistake because LA is his team
he’s only saying that bc lakers didn’t win nobody believes nick would’ve picked the heat over lakers
Can’t wait for Nuggets to win it and for Jokic to win Finals MVP just to rubbed it in Nick Wright’s face.
Won't be that easy if it happens at all
How would that even work?
“I told you I was the best”
“Uh yeah, I literally have you as an already top 10 GOAT”
Nick actually is open minded. That’s why people can’t stand him. He was brave enough to speak the truth about Jordan and others are not open minded so they just close him out and anybody else who tells the truth
Why would that be meaningful to you lol? How would you even go about “rubbing it in his face”? Do you know Nick personally or are you going to write out a snarky TH-cam comment? Thatll show him.
Too bad Miami winning it .. They keep counting Miami out and they keep beating ESPN’s favorite teams .. this will be another case and Jimmy will be finals MVP
Keep that same energy if they lose
all the players nicks mentioned jokic would be around after winning a ring, he surpasses them easily right away. Brou was on the right track.
If Jimmy wins the finals it will be one of the most impressive title runs ever. Easy first ballad hall of famer
Come on Brou you gotta give Dirk some love he was a bucket!
Yeah no Dirk slander will be tolerated
As a Mavs fan Brou doesn’t know ball that’s why all his predictions are wrong. Calling Dirk overrated is crazy he really said KG,Barkley> Dirk 🤣🤡 he also said if Joker wins he’s better? Dirk made 2 finals appearances straight hater
Most impressive championship run of all time. Not respecting it is just hating
Like thanos said: jimmy and Bam have experience in the finals if you consider failure experience
When nuggets win it’s going to feel so good.
Jokic is about to really eat the heat alive especially these first 2 games with the Heat coming off that grueling series
There's no need to fear! The Underdog is here! Let's Go Heat! 🏀🔥
they might be very rusty actually miami sharper atm
Zzzzzz…..
@@enlightenme3673 keep sleeping on the heat. Bam ain't no scrub on defense. He been ok with offense but we shall see. The whole miami team have been balling
u dont know ball 🤡
Chris just said Dirk was overrated 😂😂
This trio is nice, love the show boys!
I definitely think the Heat like being the "underdogs". I mean, what do they have to lose?
But why should they be favoured over the best team in the league?😂
@@ItsYuhBoyyyynobody says they should be favored but not disrespected.
Nick got way too much respect for CP3
Lmao fr😂
CP3 can't be ahead of Jokic if he wins the chip. That's just a dumb take by Mr. "Not so" Wright
Naw, you're a casual. You don't know
@@HoopsTalk123I don’t know how he can be ahead of him now.
@@SackVegasAnime mvps triple doubles and finals appearance... that's how (in like half the time that cp3's career was)
Nick downplaying Jokic not having an all star team mate because Lebron cant win a chip without a hall of fame teammate
He's downplaying it because of how well Jamal Murray has actually played.
Because anyone with a brain realizes Jokic has one of the best supporting casts in the league. Y’all Jokic fans literally hate Jamal Murray and act like he’s garbage when the dude is averaging 27 for a finals run. You know Bron didn’t have another all star on his team in the 2016 chip right? Stop rewriting the narrative
@@joshuahartman2555 is that supposed to be a joke? Kyrie and KLove were all stars
@@xcwilliams7980that's not the reason he gave though.
@@shouryasangam7956 cap. Neither made the all star team in 2016
Wildes thinking Hakeem is overrated when he’s undoubtedly underrated by most when he’s undoubtedly 1 of the 4-7 GOAT two way players is embarrassing. Same with the way Broussard talked about Garnett & Dirk.
Why does everyone seem to forget in these debates that the heat havent been whole the entire playoffs? They don't even have their second best scorer and they're in the finals.. how does no one think about that when they're making excuses for other teams getting hurt.
And they are mentioning Giannis injury. But it is 1-1 in the two games he didn't play, As a matter of fact the only win of the Bucks came when he was not in the game
I think Herro and Oladipo injuries actually positively impacted the team, because they got angry, felt the urgency to grind opponents with their heart and energy and started playing true team basketball because there was simply no other way they could win with such roster. If Herro was there he could've messed with team chemistry and I doubt they would pull this off with him not getting injured. This is nothing new, we saw many times in professional sports that sometimes injuries make teams play better and more cohesive. Even 76rs played better without Embid and won all 3 playoff games without him.
Nick doesn't like Jokic because it kills his theory that today's athletes are better than yesterday's. Jokic is a 1950s athlete that's dominating today's era
Oh man. Spot on. 😅
How does one person doin that make it fact ? thats just an outlier 😂
What 1950's athlete averages triple doubles and can hit 3's and play center? Jokic is the definition of a modern athlete. Still Nick is stupid.
lmao Wildes' deadpan "Denver in 5" right after nick tried to give the most impassioned monologue ab how the heat are somehow going to win the title was too perfect 10:02
thought i was the only one who noticed 🤣
If the heat win this title it'll be the greatest run in NBA history and should solidify Spolestra as one of the GOAT coaches.
Don't discount the altitude in Denver. It's a great home court. The Nuggets are not as discombobulated as the Celtics, they have the best player in the NBA, and they are far better coached have their 2nd best player in Jamal Murray hasn't floundered as often as Jaylen Brown or Jayson Tatum has in these playoffs.
I love how Broussard can see that Murray benefits from having Jokic as his teammate. But can't see that same dynamic on the Suns with KD and Booker.
I disagree. That team as a whole benefits from Joker because he always find the open man period ✌🏿
@@vincente4570 lol, are you 12?
@@xcwilliams7980 He's right, why you salty?
Booker and Durant is not even in the same galaxy as far as playmaking with Jokic. His point is valid.
Booker and Durant do benefit from each other's gravity but that's like one tenth of Jokers game.
I'm pretty sure Booker was a superstar and MVP candidate who also has reached NBA Finals before Durant came to the Suns, making Durant's impact not comparable at all to what Jokic does for Murray and other teammates every season all season long.
Nice watching you guys and topic is so incredible interesting.
Hard to pick in a match-up between two teams in which one team has won ALL the six encounters in the last three years and got now even better and healthier.
but its the heat’s year dude
@@babs4009 how? Jokic dragged his team to the playoffs last year by himself, now he finally has a healthy squad. Heat live and die by Bam and he dies more than he lives. I guess Caleb Martin is the answer because Jimmy hasn't had a 50 piece since the trash Bucks who apparently needed MIDDLETON to save them LOLOL. I know Jimmy will bring it, but thats like 30 points tops against a real contender.
@@PWCDN im being sarcastic. thats literally nick’s main argument verbatim 😭 im a nuggets fan
As a LeBron fan, this has been the best playoffs since 2016. The #1 team in the West playing the #8 team in the East for the finals is something you'd only see in NBA 2K
to put into perspective, Miami was one game away from not making the playoffs entirely. Even though their regular season record puts them firmly 7th seed. its crazy if you think about it. Now they're all the way in the finals.
I never really thought about where Jokic would be all time if he wins 🤔, but definitely top 25.
Nick is 10 toes down on Miami I love it
Why is Nick giving Miami’s defense so much credit. A big part of their defense is the zone and Jokic is the perfect player to dismantle it.
On top of that they’re very undersized and match up worse defensively than they did with the Lakers
no its not casual, they don’t run zone THAT often. look up the numbers 🤡
Anything to not look wrong about having always said Embiid> Joker
@@R3Y1023 Nick does the same thing with Josh Allen over the years. He's a very biased analyst.
It's official Nick Wrong just convinced me this won't be over in 5 it'll be over in 4.. Nuggets are sweeping miami..
I’m still going gentlemen’s sweep for Denver. Miami is a overachieving team and that won’t be enough to beat jokic Murray and their supporting cast. Miami has no answer for jokic and bam offensively can be a liability, I don’t understand why he isn’t talked about as the most overrated big in the entire NBA
Wildes thinking Hakeem is overrated is Insane 😂😂😂
Chris has some absolutely nuts basketball takes sometimes
Suns will be the nuggets toughest challenge this postseason
Chris is sleeping on Dirk. That 2011 run was the most impressive championship run of all time and just because LeBron had a meltdown in the finals Chris won't give Dirk the proper respect for it..
The fact Nick thinks Jokers gonna crumble under the bright lights is laughable when he has NEVER even looked jittery at any point in his career. Dudes as unflappable as it gets.
Its like Nick has never watched a Nuggets game.
In reference to Kevin’s mid segment take bout everyone being injured no one even brought up how they done have Victor Oladipo, and Tyler Herro due to injury
There’s no way he said Jimmy Butler was better in the playoffs over the last 4 years lmaoo
Yeah, that was crazy LOOOOL
He is right. Just look what he did against celtics last year in game 6 and 7. And against LeBron in the finals.
@@someshnarayan7368 and when bryn forbes outscored him in a playoff series
At least the conference finals three out of the last four postseasons. With, outside of Bam, a bunch of guys nobody actually thinks are good.
jimmy has been better the last 4 years in the playoffs, with 2 finals appearances. however Jokic will cook Bam so I have Denver taking it
Nick was on the Suns, and Lakers sack so ofcourse he's riding Miami 's. Jokic is going to pick that team apart.
He literally picked Denver to beat Phoenix. Is every Nuggets fan this delusional? Y’all all sound the same 😂😂😂😂
7:21 - "It's Angels in the outfield."
🤣
Did Nick say "those are facts without context"...that never stopped him when he's talking about the early part of Jordan's career
Yoooo could hear Nick screaming from another room about Malone, sounds like both really took this personally for good reason. Will enjoy watching this shtick implode over the series. It’ll be just like Milwaukee’s, undermined throughout the run and immediately after
Everyone thinks this is going to be a sweep but I feel like the heat bout to clamp up 😭😭
The Lakers had the best defense in the playoffs before the Western Conference Finals, and Denver averaged 118 on them. Denver is too big, athletic, and young for Miami. Miami is 1-9 against Denver over the past 5 years
@@javiersilva1577 lmao so, u really bringing up a 1-9 regular season record?🤡😂😂😂😂
@@lisaaaaa777 The only difference between reg season and post is the name
Winning games is winning games
@@XDmonster1000 shut up lmao
It's not gonna be a sweep, they'll win one game
To me Jokic is the most dangerous big man shooter, guard, forward, and center in today's game period.
One more day and we can really see who is for real. Good luck Miami.
Nick keep proving his points and they come up with something new lmao
Nick’s been EMBARRASSING/DELUSIONAL/AmateurHOUR on how much he’s underrated (hated on) Jokic for 4 years straight.
He literally said “He was the worst MVP in his life” (35 years). He said he was closer to 5th-7th best player in NBA then 1st THIS YEAR!
It has been a clown take the last 3 years and ignored all context (Murray hurt 2 straight playoffs + MPjr last year but jokic’s career playoff stats before this year were an elite 26 12 6 2stocks 51/41/83 in 49 games). As elite as Murray has been in playoff career so far Jokic has still technically never played with another All Star, All NBA, All NBA defensive, great bench/coach (+ team very unhealthy last 2 years + that fact yet ppl are surprised a recent 28 year old Jokic hasn’t made a finals until this year?!?! It’s a TEAM game ppl! MJ LeBron Big O Jerry West Wilt Duncan Kobe Shaq Dr J Hakeem Bird Magic Dirk Durant Curry and many other all time greats many years never made finals bc their TEAM wasn’t great enough. MJ LeBron Hakeem Curry Durant Dirk Dr J West Big O Wilt Shaq are 11 of the illest EVER and didn’t win titles until year 6-13! That doesn’t meant they weren’t all time greats before that!
Jokic is an all timer and I’ve been going to many games yearly in great seats since 1987!
Nick not having him a Top10 center is incredibly embarrassing when he’s clearly in the 6-7 range TODAY!
63 PLAYOFF games Jokic is AVERAGING an unprecedented God tier
27
12
7
2stocks
53/41/83!
He’s 1 of Top5 GOAT in Playoff PER, BPM, WS/48, TS%/eFG%
Jokic’s already (Just turned 28 in February!) Top6-12 in Playoff games with
20/25/30+ points
5-10+ assists
5-10+ rebounds
50+ FG%
The only centers TODAY clearly > Jokic all time are
Kareem
Hakeem
Wilt
Russell
Shaq
Jokic has an argument for 6th with Moses Malone David Robinson. He’s much better shooter/passer then them, they’re better defender’s especially Robinson.
Jokic had a great argument for being 4th player EVER to win 3straight MVPs after Russell/Wilt/Bird (MJ & Bron should of also) and is one of the illest playoff players EVER on a per game basis!
He’s a no doubter top8 center at worst and I would personally have him 6th right now.
Nick not having him Top10 continues his embarrassingly wrong Joker takes.
I love Luka too and he’s historically great for his size also but that goofball had Luka 20th all time in his 50 greatest players of last 50 years (Not having Reggie Miller was also embarrassing when you consider he’s 16th all time in NBA win shares regular season + playoffs and never played with another prime time HOF or even legit multi x all star yet was best player on 5 ECF and finals team who is top10 clutch player ever, top5 shooter ever, outplayed Kobe 2000 Finals and Games 2-6 averaged nearly 30 on 50/43/98 splits. Pacers gave 3peat lakers by far their toughest finals losing in 6, lost game4 in OT & 6 by 5 and Pacers outscored Lakers point differential wise), but didn’t have Jokic even top50 on his top50 of the last 50 years!
It’s one embarrassing take after the next for Nick in regards to Jokic!
Nick just lies and gets stuff wrong all the time and ppl who know their ish know this, casuals don’t.
“Butler has been > Joker last 4 playoffs”
No he hasn’t you clown!
Last 4 Playoffs
Jokic 49 games
28
12
7
2 stocks
53/42/82
+ much iller analytics
Butler
24
7
5
2.5 stocks
48/33/85
Brew was spittin
They need to have this show with just Chris and Wilde
I cant wait for Nick to have to swallow his words and have to admit Jokic is the best player in the world. 😂😂😂
Actually.... now that I think about it, hes never had a problem being a hypocrite so I don't know why he'd change. 😂 Gonna be fun watching him squirm even though I know he'll just change the subject.
I don't know how Nick can say with a straight face that he believes in Miami Heat in this series. I know he knows basketball and what Nikola Jokic is doing is absolutely amazing because all my life I can say that I've never seen a center control his teams offense the way he does.
He's prolly thinking the same. How you believe in Denver in this series. To each his own. He could be wrong when the end result come. Or you could be wrong. We do not know.
If they all agree, it's going to be a boring show so somebody's got to bite the bullet and play Devil's Advocate. It happens in every single sports show
He has money on Miami 😂😂
@@ESL-O.G. In this case, 2 Advocates. Because Nick Wright is Right.
This was a great debate
Really enjoy Nick's understanding of how odds work at around 6:40.
The way Broussard disrespects Jimmy Butler and the Heat at every turn is weird. Nuggets are clear favourites but Brou talks about the Heat like scrubs
Have you not heard nick at all about Denver and jokic ?
They might as well look like scrubs vs Denver :(
They kind of are. 8 undrafted players
Nick back sliding at the moment
His points are eating them selves
how? he literally said Jokic would not be anywhere in the all time list if he can't win and Jokic has shown that he's been unable to win it all. If he wins it all this year then yeah he will insert himself in the all time list ahead of guys like Chuck, KG, etc..
@@khoado123 bruh how can you say “he’s shown he can’t win it all (Jokic)” ? He’s never even been to the finals until now. Dude has 2 mvps and now he’s finally in the finals. Nuggets got this. They have the best player by far
@@khoado123 win it all ? with what ppl tend to forget the Denver nuggets time line getting the regular season mvp doesn’t not guarantee you a spot in the finals…. Only 14 players have ever done it so holding Jokic to that standard while his team was battling injuries is insane
@@khoado123 yet somehow Jokic NEEDS a championship to catapult himself to the stratosphere of players such as:
*Checks notes*
CP3/Harden/Barkley.
Ironically, players that HAVEN'T won a championship either and TOGETHER have the same number of MVP's Jokic does
Interesting how that works.
@@bourgoziejones6108 because one has been playing way longer Jokic and one played longer and retired? The fk ? Is it that hard to understand
I take issue with Nick rating LeBron too high but at least he gives Hakeem and Dirk the respect they deserve unlike the other two
Wildes was expecting the mac jones graphic 😂
There's no consecutive 2- 3 sentence from Nick that is ever agreeable. The guy will bring up stats that no one will ever think of to make a points. Insane!
Nuggets in 5
yep, will make quick work of them
Milwaukee had lots of rest, too, before facing us.
13:02 To answer your question Nick.. He had Ilguaskas AND Moe Williams
I don’t even like Jokic that much but a Nuggets sweep would be great punishment for Nick being so arrogant and correct about the Chiefs all football season
Did Broussard *really* just say that Finals MVP isn’t that important for a player’s legacy, it’s just winning the finals?!?
It’s already ridiculous how much a team accomplishment gets brought up in INDIVIDUAL greatness debates but now he’s cutting his own legs out. If it’s just rings and not FMVPs, then by Brou’s logic Horry > Jordan
I agree. MVP is harder to win than FMVP.
Probably the dumbest comment ever. Horry was a role player. Jordan is literally the greatest player of all time. What he saying is Steph only has 1 finals mvp but his legacy is already cemented top 12 all time etc
Nah, no person on the world thinks that lol. Jordan was individually extremely superior to Horry.
@@brentt8940 Well Kareem > Jordan undeniably then lol. Of course FMVP matters a lot
@@brentt8940 of course it’s dumb. It’s not my argument. I’m highlighting how stupid that is for Brou to say. *Clearly* no one thinks “just winning the championship” is more important than FMVP for individual legacy or else we would treat Sam Jones as a Mount Rushmore guy.
The off season after bubble was like 2 wks for Lakers& Heat! Both teams lost in the 1st round.
Respect to Broussard keeping it real.
Suns fan here. I’m predicting the Nuggets sweep the Heat
fmvp is very important for a legacy, if you win a ring and you are not the best player that makes a huge difference to winning a chip while being the dude that carried them. The flaw is that it's a FINALS mvp and not a playoffs mvp which would make a lot more sense
Winning the MVP for a singular series does not mean that player carried the team to a title. That logic is completely absurd.
@@HopefulNihilist yeah never heared of that until I saw american sports
Nick has been right about Miami all playoffs.
Nick and Skip are the only two I’ve heard pick the Heat and disregard the Nuggets. Coincidentally they’re also 2 that have continued to say Embiid is better Jokic and get salty when people take Jokic
Nuggets in 5. Heat are truly no match for this team😂😂
That's what they said about every other team the heat have played this postseason
F..k the nuggets heat in 7 🤞🏾😅
Lol i will return to this comment. Stand on it.
Bro you prob thought the same for the bucks and Celtics but once again disrespecting the heat 🤦🏾♂️😂
Bro you prob thought the same for the bucks and Celtics but once again disrespecting the heat 🤦🏾♂️😂
Miami not beating a team that just swept bron and ad Denver in 5
If Miami wins, Broussard and Wilds better owe Nick an apology
Nick: Miami is a great defensive team!
Stats: Lakers had 113.9 and the Heat had a 113.3 defensive rating. AD is considered better than Bam defensively and they had to switch him off of Jokic.
Nuggets in 5
The heat could beat them 4-0 with a blowout in every game and broussard and kevin wildes would say it was a fluke and would say "nuggets just didnt hit their shots" lets be real, so as a heat fan we really dont care what they can, an i can gurantee not a single person on the heat roster is phased by being underdogs
They play better as underdogs I love it
BROSSARD IS A TRUE HEAT HATER
Brou’s lack of logic and consistency in debating is actually insane.
Giannis being injured was a major plus for Miami. Even tho he returned he wasn't at his best
Nick is so bias it actually clouds his judgement. He just got some theories carved in his brain and he can't get rid of them.
Like everybody
He's Skip Bayless in his 30's.
Nick the ultimate hater
Should anyone be surprised he is a bais Lebron fan boy
@@chrisrenshaw6291 of course no one is surprised but it’s hilarious to still see him shitting on the nuggets when they’re undefeated at home in these playoffs lmao
He is literally doing no hating in the video...
@@xcwilliams7980 he is definitely hating man. He is having such a hard time admitting that the nuggets should be heavy favorites and that the nuggets have been the best team in the playoffs
@Drew C why should they be heavy favorites? And why have they been way better than the Heat this playoffs? When the heat beat the Cs and bucks, who were both favorites over the Nuggets?
Broussard underestimating the power of all those big screen tvs screaming in the bubble 😂
How can you keep disrespecting Nuggets defense after their performance this playoffs? AG looks like a straight up lockdown DPOY out there against the leagues BEST scorers.
Their clutch defense stats are the best in the league and thats why the regular season stats are so misleading. They lock in on defense when they need to but basically if you put 130 on the scoreboard are you really gonna care the other team puts up 115? Of course not. Wins are all that matter not stats.
We just going to forget about Jason Terry and Tyson Chandler? Lol
Not gonna lie man Jimmy Butler has been another superstar consistent of reaching a finals or conference finals hes going to win this year we need to start talking about him top 5 in the league as a player very much slept on
This is going to be a great finals series 🍿 😂
Chris Broussard has never been a fan of Dirk. But no, Jokic would not move ahead of Dirk’s 21 year career by just winning this championship
I’m remember when the t wolves fans chant “wolves in 7” at that moment I truly understood that u can’t believe everything you hear 🤦🏾♂️
Tbh the Denver nuggets are very similar to the Boston Celtics without a Robin Williams which is a athletic shot blocker