luka is nice but beware of tatum

It's close with sga rn, but I will take luka because of longevity at the highest level. Sga did outplayed him in the last series tho, dont deny it. Jokic, giannas at thier best could also be better than luka.

@@thialhoinj1971 LOL, who is Sga making better? Luka can also play just for himself if he wants and he proved to you all with scoring 73 and Sga can only dream about it even if he never passes the ball. And by the way...giannas is not basketball player...he cannot shot, he cannot dribble, he cannot pass, he cannot hit a free throw...he is just a strong athletic that can run the floor and dunk IF YOU FREE HIM THE LANE, if not...ask the Greek national team

lMAO switch luka and tatum and celtics would have had a dynasty already and mavs would be a playin team if that​@@kalyankonduru5831

Stop it u sound corny

They have no control over that.

Yes everything 😂😂😂😂

It's not gonna work social media standing on business

​@@ClaxtonBay123 oh they absolutely do,be honest would espn rather have "the face of the nba" be the black kid that looks like michael jordan and gets posterizers every other game or the european white kid who can't jump even though he's obviously much more talented

Why can't a player from Europe be the face of the NBA? That is racist. Giannis, Nikola, Luka?

constantly

If Naz Reid's shot rattles in instead of rimming out, we're having a very different conversation right now. The margins are that fine.

@@dentonyoung4314 Too many ifs. If the Mavs stop missing threes it wont matter.

@@dentonyoung4314 yh but it didn’t tho

Exactly!

Thanks for facts. Stephen A Smith should just straight up retire. Joke

i agree 100%. There should be fines put out for takes like this guy has on national TV. Iz is like dosctors doing operations on live patients. He is a voice and is hating on a superstat guy and poisoning minds of people who just watch recaps of games... He is doing his job wrong and should be punished for it. PS: Brunson > Luka for NBA 1st team is in the same sphere as IGUDALA over STEPH XD and look what that take did to MAX

@@anzeozimek Yeah i remember that take, Aliens about to take the world and i get to choose one player to hit a shot "I'm going with IGUDALA" 🤣🤣

Wilt still better than Luka

Thank you for putting in the effort to lay out all the facts, to make SAS bias painfully obvious. He has admitted to having personal beef with Kyrie, they won’t even speak to each other, yet he doesn’t hesitate to give Kyrie his flowers when called upon because “he’s a professional.” So why is it so hard to praise Luka then? I wonder 🤔

Joker is overrated Luka the real deal

@@stanleyterrell717 No, its between Luka and Jokic nobody else is even close.

They are paid messengers. It's the league that is driving the narrative

​@@djkido316 Jokic is the best player in the league and deserves his MVPs but when it comes to the face of the league he doesn't want that attention. He doesn't care about publicity and stardom and his game is predicated on fundamentals and making the right play ( a much better Tim Duncan if you will) , so that discounts him. Luka however has the game, swag, likeability and polarity( loves trolling opposing fans) that definitely qualifies him to be the ' next face of the league' and ESPN and more specifically SAS doesn't want that.

@@stanleyterrell717antman is the real overrated. Cat even see the “defense” they talkin about

Jordan got swept twice

@@DylGonZonot when he was the “clear favourite “ by the media. The only ones that were thinking we could take this was Dallas fans

MJ? Marcus Jordan maybe

@@DylGonZoAnt has a team a very good team MJ was a 23 year old with a squad full of bums playing the future champions

I hope so.

I think losing 1-3 points do much more mental damage than losing 10+ points , because you're gonna keep thinking of possible things that you could do to win that match . . Losing 10+ in match , you could easily accept that . .

​@@romeocortez3419 yeah, but bluds point is that noone remembers the best "almost winning" team

3-0 now lol

That's because the series isn't over. to talk about how Dallas is doing would be pointless as they're already proving what they're doing. Knowing that Minnesota is a great team. for them to lose two of their home games, especially the fact that they were closed is something to talk about.

Margins in a series like this are so fine. If Naz Reid's shot rattles in instead of rimming out, people would be talking about how this one is going 7. What we have here is two very closely matched teams and Dallas has won both the first two coin flips. People don't understand how often in a relatively short series a sweep can happen by chance. If you have two teams that no matter where they play are absolutely evenly matched, so the probabilities of either team winning are exactly 50% in any game no matter where they play or what the circumstances are, the series will end in a 4-0 sweep more than 10% of the time.

Minnesota should be up 2-0

@@edikanakpan3696 Very true but the Mavs haven’t played their best and still took both games from the Wolves. That’s a topic to discuss as well. Just feels one sided from a media reporting perspective

Because Minnesota Timberwolves are that team idc what anybody say

Stop crying smh. he wasn't face of the league until now because he hasn't reached the final or won any mvp in 6 years.

Last 5 years? So since he came into the league he’s been the face? Dumb.

Stupidity comment I ever reed

@@thialhoinj1971you’re the one crying

Yeah SAS doesn’t want a white man to be the face of the NBA

the momentum change, they win two game away, now if wolves win this series its gonna be an upset

@@abolutionmouv4194nope. Mavs is still the underdog. Every Mavs win against Timberwolves is an upset.

"You underrate the Mavs. I think their roster is very strong for their matchup against the Wolves

😂😂😂

@@notachef291You have to be joking

Shai and luka are amazing

ESPN hates Tatum. It was always Shai, Embiid and ANT

WEMBY easy

@@WesJenkins518maybe Brunson next on their agenda then? Stephen already made some weird statements that he should be all nba 1st over Luka, so let’s see where this goes on ESPN.

as of right now its 1. Luka 2. Jokic 3. Giannis 4. Tatum 5. Shai 6. Ant, but Wemby has potential to be 1

but the first two games were close. and the Timberwolves are a great team. given the fact that Minnesota lost their first two games at home. The question rightfully should be "how will Minnesota respond? obviously.

@@edikanakpan3696 "Great" teams dont lose both home games as the favorite with homecourt advantage.

@@jeromec1983 *word if it were Dallas with the better seed and home court and lost them to the wolves, not only would the talking heads be drooling over Ant being the next MJ but they QUESTION the Mavs hard, and put HEAVY doubt on Luka and Kyrie's court relationship. Instead in this reality we get, "Props for Luka" && "AnT JuSt LoOkS TiReD" (NEVER QUESTION WHY EDWARDS IS OUT OF SHAPE IN THE PLAYOFFS)*

@@Falconfest No one brings that up. Ant was gassed in the 1st quarter on Friday.

@@jeromec1983 dude, im telling you. the media hates the Mavs but Luka in particular.

and we all know why.

Except the Texans and Rangers

There you go! FINALLY people are figuring it out. All this bias towards all Texas teams is coming from all mainstream cable TV media which is centralized in NY and LA......wow what a surprise😅

* Southwest teams

No they hate all Dallas teams.

Cause Luka's white.

Skin, Race, Nationality.

Because SAS is xenophobe, racist and a hater all at the same time.

Coz luka not a "brotha" so he cannot say "that brotha is special!"

He has been racist since forever

Americans don’t usually do that. Just look at the way Stephen A was badmouthing Ohtani

SAS literally hates both Luka and Kyrie. This Mavs team is his worst nightmare

right?! 😅

CP3. One of the most over rated in the history of the game.

Ikr?

They also have good role players. They have a team.

Mavs don't even have to wait for game 6.

Stephen A the type of guy to think anyone driving a white car is racist 😂

More like Miny Blunder Timberpuppies

Herro AAU prodigy, like all the other American players, he was built by the system. He grew up in American basketball culture, Luka, and them others outsiders. Only reason Joel gets love is that he got a bit of the culture coming to America. And so what they hating on Luka? Y'all didn't have a problem with them hating on LeBron for 20 years, just because he's better than Jordan?

Negative. Guys "like" Smith always talk about how Herro is overrated when he comes up. They prefer black players. Its that simple. Its ok though and its natural. People have a preference toward their own, regardless of what people want to pretend about race. Just like its no coincidence that White people love Luka and Jokic so much.

​@@Musso88yea but that racist clown Stephanie A has a vote

Isn’t that because Conley got nobody to pass the ball to? Lol

Yes the only other player on that side of the floor was Kyrie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Not yet if they win tonight then may have good chance of winning the series!

@@giffondhall9214 like I said, it’s over. The Mavs reverted back to a normal percentage from 3 and won by double digits. Good chance is not the correct statement. Considering teams up 3-0 are 154-0 I feel very comfortable saying it’s 100% over

@@RightStickRob well they still have to close out the series game 4 let's not get too cocky anything can happen in the nba like i said it ain't over til it's over!

@@giffondhall9214 you think they’re gonna be the one team in the history of the league to win four straight against the team they couldn’t beat once. You have to be a Minnesota fan. There is no way you really believe this. Minnesota might win game five. But they’re not beating Dallas four times in a row. They don’t have the personnel to stop Dallas. Jaden McDaniels is too late to affect Luka Dončić. Luka is only affected by strength. Length has never bothered him in his career. Kyrie is too dynamic of a three level score to be affected by Anthony Edwards. The problem Aunt is facing is that he is expected to be the number one option on offense, and then guard one of the hardest players in the league on defense. That typically never works because you’re exerting too much energy guarding Kyree, who is one of the shiftiest change of pace players in history. Kyrie and Luka don’t have that responsibility on the other end. They can throw very athletic win ant. Luca is the best three level playmaker, especially at the rim in the NBA. If Rudy steps up in the drop Luka is throwing the lob every single time. If he doesn’t, he’s killing them from the mid range. It is a horrible mismatch. There is no adjustment Minnesota can make. By the way, I’m not a fan of either team. I’m just a fan of basketball.

It was nothing the Mavs did. Everyone waiting for Ant to decide, step up

@@ekisola17 it was a team effort bruh

​@@ekisola17lol djj and PJ Washington is on his head can't step up if they won't let you sick of these excuses

@@raymondthomas1574 PJ ain’t even guarding him 🤡. You don’t even have any analysis. Learn what a Box in One is