Eastern Conference Champion Prediction
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00:00 The NBA season is on the horizon and games start on October 24.
00:07 Who is your pick for the Eastern Conference winner?
00:10 I'm still scratching my head on this.
00:11 The Celtics are the betting favorite.
00:13 Yeah.
00:14 And to me, they got rid of the heart and soul of the Celtics.
00:18 And that's the crazy guy with a defensive pit bull
00:21 with a green hair, Marcus Smart.
00:22 Yeah, that's true.
00:23 He's the DNA of what got the Celtics to where they are.
00:26 Oh, sure.
00:28 Imagine the polar opposite of Marcus Smart,
00:30 and that's Christoph Porzingis.
00:31 I know.
00:32 I mean, 7 foot 12, and will shoot three pointers,
00:37 and hadn't dove on the floor for a ball yet.
00:39 Everybody's waiting to see the unicorn emerge.
00:42 We're still waiting.
00:44 I mean, they're just so--
00:46 I'm not saying Porzingis is not more gifted and more talented
00:50 offensively.
00:51 And Smart was probably in decline in the playoffs.
00:53 He showed it a little bit.
00:54 But you're giving away your guts for a guy
00:57 who will have a hangnail and be out for two weeks.
01:00 That's the Mavericks.
01:01 They got tired of that.
01:02 So I just don't see the Celtics.
01:04 What I do see is a recommitted, reinvigorated Giannis
01:08 up in Milwaukee with a bust.
01:10 And they've got all their guys back.
01:11 They got Bobby Portis back.
01:12 They got their Drew Holliday.
01:14 They got their Nucleus back.
01:15 Probably motivated as well.
01:17 Motivated, because we all remember
01:18 how it ended last year, losing to Miami in the first round,
01:21 an 8 against a 1.
01:23 And the way Giannis was criticized
01:25 for not being mad enough.
01:26 Remember that?
01:27 I mean, I was guilty of it too.
01:28 Like, that's a weird response for an NBA champion MVP
01:32 to bow out and say, well, too bad.
01:34 I think he's going to ingest that.
01:36 And that's going to be the fuel for his fire.
01:37 I think Giannis is as amazing as he's been.
01:39 I think he takes it up a notch this year.
01:41 And I think the Bucs are going to beat Porzingis and the Celtics.
01:44 There we go.
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