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00:03 - Call me crazy.
00:04 I mean, I know the West is loaded,
00:05 but you're not beating Kawhi Leonard
00:07 and healthy Kawhi Leonard, Paul George Harden.
00:11 You're not beating them at a seven game series here.
00:13 It feels like it's, and no disrespect to Denver,
00:16 but that's a lot of basketball they've played
00:18 over the last couple of years.
00:20 They don't have the depth they had a year ago.
00:22 Is it Boston and the Clippers in your mind here
00:26 on a collision course?
00:28 - I still feel like everything runs
00:30 through the Denver Nuggets, honestly.
00:31 I mean, just the way that Nikola Jokic
00:33 has been able to turn it on and off
00:34 whenever he'd like this season.
00:37 I think that we're really going to see him
00:38 tap into the level that we saw during the playoffs
00:40 in the second half of the season.
00:41 I think he's really going to kind of flip a switch
00:44 and elevate Denver.
00:45 But I agree with you in the sense that the Clippers
00:48 are a team that you have to be aware of.
00:49 I mean, they struggled when they first got James Harden.
00:52 They really started to figure it out
00:53 right before the all-star break.
00:54 And as long as Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
00:56 can stay healthy, and stop me if you've heard
00:58 that before, I mean, we've been saying it
00:59 ever since they went to LA four years ago.
01:02 We're finally seeing how dominant they can be
01:05 when they are both on the court at the same time
01:07 and they can stay healthy.
01:08 I think they would really, really give Nikola Jokic
01:11 in the Denver Nuggets trouble if that team can stay healthy
01:14 and they match up in the Western Conference Finals.
01:16 I think it is kind of shaping up
01:18 to be a crash course that way.
01:19 And then in the East, it does feel like it's Boston's
01:21 to lose.
01:22 I mean, the Knicks are making a charge.
01:23 The Bucks are struggling.
01:24 The Cavaliers have been one of the hottest teams
01:26 in the NBA since the new year.
01:27 But it feels like Boston has been able to run
01:29 through whoever they'd like whenever they turn it on.
01:31 So it feels like it's going to be them, to me,
01:33 versus either Denver or the LA Clippers.
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