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Supposed to listen to these people when they all picked the Mavs?!?

everyone on this panel was wrong. goofies.

Without tatum’s versatility they do not win this series bro. All these dudes are clowns bro

came for the humble pie

Sports media fell off so hard 😂😂😂

Now they riding the Celtic when they picked the mavs?!?!?!😂😂

I just hear a bunch of but-hurt people who picked the wrong team

James Jones is the only one who can speak today with chest out 10 toes down. Although he didn't pick the Celtics he knew after game one it was over.

Came to see where the confidence meter was at ? But joy isn’t here and will never admit to being wrong

where’s joy at is she salty and mad like the heat fans are😂😂😂😂

They will find anything to hate on JT. Before he couldn’t win now that he won it’s brown who carried him when bro literally lead the team in points rebounds and assist all postseason 🤦🏾

Tatum was the main target of the Dallas defense. He saw 2 -3 bodies every time he touched the ball, & still averaged more points rebounds & assists. Not mad Brown won but it’s time to stop acting like Tatum not like that. Also Shady acting like Brown guarded Luka by himself all series 😂

I knew Tatum and the celtics would trash these so-called experts once the finals were over. Picking the mavs over a 64-win team. It's so embarrassing.

Shady has no idea what he's talking. Nothing he's criticizing is constructive. He's just making hot takes

y’all caught w your pants down actin like we don’t remember y’all’s takes from a week ago 💀

4-1. Where is joy?

I really hate how the media ie tryna make a special moment about the Celtics more of a whos better between JT and JB when they clearly need each other they are both special!!

Nah yall looking crazy 😂

Tell me your wrong without saying your wrong

Who cares about FMVP talk about how you all picked mavs easily and disrespected an all time great team “who did they beat tho”

what a bunch of fools, I see Joy didn't show up

Only two Celtics to have 30 P, 10A and 5 R in a close out game in the finals: Tatum and Bird. Stop counting. Stop it y'all!

every one of these idiots picked a 5th seed over the team that led the league in wins and margin of victory.

I’m convinced Shady McCoy gets all his takes from watching 2K gameplay. Never seen someone be wrong everyday consistently

Somebody tell shady that rebounds and assists matters. The game is bigger than shooting percentage.

Why does Acho always say only this show can answer this question because of certain ppl lol. As if other shows don’t have ppl with higher qualifications or credentials lol.

617 is national SMD day 😂

Rich is a hater 😂😂😂

They defending Brown different than Tatum. Brown was getting single covered where Tatum was getting all 5 players attention. Celtics needed Tatum to be a playmaker and rebounder more than the scoring which could've been higher if he didn't miss shots and got the calls he should've.

None of these dudes are familiar with JT’s game bro. It’s like they just started watching ball this year. 😭

Last week Ocho was say Luka and Kyrie was the most talented backcourt ever. Ocho is the wrongest

Three football players and one Bball analyst. They couldn't get ONE former NBA guy on for these segments? Skip got Paul Pierce, Speak can't get ANYONE!?

ALL OF THEM CLOWNS HERE!

How do those crows taste? The greatest backcourt in nba history got owned by their daddies Tatum and Brown!

JT definitely had an argument for cfmvp and fmvp you can’t say he didn’t show up

What Ric said from 11:17 to about 12:04 is what I’ve been watching television to hear all day. Jayson Tatum being able to guard the Mavs Center is what allowed Brown and the team to play such good defense on Luka. The Lob was a huge part of the Mavs game coming into the finals. Tatum shut that down as much as Brown locked up Luka if you ask me. Mavs had more lobs than all other play off teams combined. I’m not saying he can guard Centers because if it were Denver, they were not gonna put Tatum on Jokic which makes what he did in this series even more special to me. Tatum guard Lively/Gafford meant that someone else was screening for Luka which allowed Al/KP and to a lesser degree Tillman to help defend the rim and paint and double team Luka which also helped to cut off the lobs. Tatum guarding the 5s in this series really was a huge boost for the Celtics defensively.

Much different takes than last week, or last year,”Break up the Js”…he said😂😂😂

For some reason the Media doesnt want to hype up Tatum the same way they hype up Ant Edwards

No Tatum wasnt the closer, but he made dame sure he got his assists to the ones who hit the shots. His stat line was 31-11-8-2 last night. His average for the playoffs was 25-9-6. He's the Celts best player.

Tatum may not have closed this series but Bucher is tweaking because Tatum has closed games before over the years. Go watch his 7 against Philly last year and game 6 vs the Bucks 2 years ago and tell me he’s not a go 2 guy. Folks love being prisoners of the moment 😒

Came to see joy eat her words and she aint even here🤦‍♂️

I really hate when they esp shady talks about basketball... IT just sounds wrong... I'd rather listen to skip... There's only one person on here who can give a good consistently unbiased basketball opinion.

Joy was like "F that, i aint coming to work today!" Lol

Shady doesn't know basketball rebounding wins games. Second chance shots for offense and defensive denies opponents extra shots

How does Rick still have a job

He dropped 51 in a playoff game and forced a game 7 in a 0-3 deficit

Hearing this from the actual voter is a problem... tatum impacted the game in so many ways its dumb to even analize it.. yeah he didnt hit a winning shot, but he carried the team throught all season.

Bro practiced that “KYYY!” bit all night in the mirror like B Rabbit. Absolute cornball.

Mavs in 8 😂

Point everyone is missing. Teams in this playoff game plan for Jason Tatum. If teams start game planning for Jalen brown, Browns numbers would be different.

It's funny how as long as you're talking about lebron or luka, assists and rebounds matter but when you're not talking about those 2, the only thing that matters is scoring

Jason Tatum’s best player, shows that they even watch CELTICS. Hater is hater naturally

I love JB but we had one post season of him taking some big shots and all of a sudden it supersedes JT doing it since he got to Boston? Cut it out! Close out game who had the ball in their hands? Tatum & he should have won finals MVP.

WTF with Ocho. Intentionally left Curry out from the list just to make a dishonest claim. And Ric Bucher? Why are these people still have jobs? One of the people who made a case to separate the Jays. Reason nobody is watching them. Out in 1.30 mark just to comment here.

The Ultimate Goal is Winning. The City of Dallas is TIRED of perrenial playoff exits. We are not minessota or Charlotte that our finals participation is the Championship. The DFW is a Huge Global brand that Needs Rings, Needs Trophies to show that all the work put in wasn't for nothing. You know why The Cowboys have such a loyal fanbase and is the number 1 team in Dallas? The winning culture and 5 superbowls, 5 parades that they brought to the city of Dallas and Chanpionships are Forever. The Stars, Mavs and Rangers all only have 1 in all their history as a franchise and feel like they go to the finals every 20 years. Thats not gonna cut it. To erase years of Poverty, Heartige of lossing, DNA of Dissapointment the Mavs, Stars and Rangers need to star winning RINGS. One every full eclipse is not enough we need to star Winning Championships we need an era of having a dynasty winning 3 -5 Trophies and it needs to happen soon before the local and international Dallas fans lose intrest in Badketball and the Mavericks Brand for being synonymous with lossing and poverty.

5:25 Michael Jordan silenced his critics by the first championship because the majority of the basketball world were already calling Michael Jordan “The GOAT”, and only a small minority were criticizing him for not winning a one championship. Once Michael Jordan won only one world championship, Michael Jordan cemented himself as The GOAT!!! So when he won Championship Number 2 and Championship Number 3 for the first THREE-PEAT, Michael Jordan cemented himself as the GOAT of basketball in this life and in the next 3 lifetimes…..and THEN….Jordan won World Championship Number 4 with the 72-10 greatest basketball team in life history, Championship Number 5, and Championship Number 6 to complete his 2nd Three-Peat….Michael Jordan singlehandedly destroyed and buried a GOAT debate in the sport of basketball, leaving the MLB, NFL, NHL, Olympics, and all other organized sports and professional industries looking for “the Michael Jordan of…..” their particular sports or “the Michael Jordan of…….” their particular industry or profession!!!!!

Does anyone take the opposing defensive strategy?? JB literally had the better match-up, so his degree of difficulty is reduced… if the numbers are the similar, I go for DoD.

Tatum did the same thing that MJ did in those Bull years. MJ told Phil Jackson that he didn't want to have to go out and score 50-60 points a night. MJ realized just as Tatum did, that team basketball was going to win the day.

We can finally move on to the future GOAT Debates of: Michael Jordan vs Victor Wembanyama, Michael Jordan vs Anthony Edwards, Michael Jordan vs Luka Doncic, Michael Jordan vs Nikola Jokic, Michael Jordan vs Jalen Brunson, Michael Jordan vs Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Michael Jordan vs Ja Morant, Michael Jordan vs Donovan Mitchell, Michael Jordan vs Jason Tatum, et cetera, et cetera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what finals, what year or what players these guys watched because every take these guys talked about was way off and opinions on what the players did in game.

Now Tatum is Certified, This puts him number 2 on the all time list, behind Michael Jordan!!! Congrats Celtics!!!

Another thing that is never mentioned is rebounds. Tatum is the teams leading rebounder in the regular season and in the playoffs. And he was the leader in PPG in the regular season and the playoffs. All the playoffs. Including the finals. Tatum scored 31 points in 2 of the 5 games. He had over 11 assists in 2 of the 5 games. And one game Holiday led in all these things. Brown didn’t lead in any statistical catagory. I’m sorry but he didn’t. You can say he is more clutch if you want to but Boston didn’t need to be couch to beat Dallas. They didn’t.

Shaq was way better than Kobe during their time with the Lakers.

Remember when they were saying just a week ago or so that Kyrie was the most talented blah blah blah ever. Now he ain't s**t according to these same media types. Lol. Drive-by media sucks.

0:14 Everybody on this list has lost at least ONE NBA Finals series. Nobody on this particular list is UNDEFEATED in the NBA FINALS Championship Round.

Lol Ric getting torched bruh..gotta pull out the McCants phrase from Gil's Arena..."get in the body bag, come put your fkn legs in here" lmao

McCoy is wrong. Kobe got 15 rebounds in that game 7 of his 5th ring. He knew Perkins was out and he took advantage, and performed where he needed to perform‼️‼️

Maybe you guys will just be quiet now. Look what they try starting the show off with. So happy for Tatum and Brown. Like brown shot 7-22 last night and the game before last night, he struggled. Like i was fine with either one of them winning MVP. But this show starting off like this instead of just being happy they are champions. This is wack

the medias job is to keep us arguing ijs

“Tatum’s impact wasn’t as substantial.” If you actually watched & understood the game, you would see that Tatum draws attention from the entire defense every possession. This is why he had so many assists. Brown was awesome, but he gets to play 1 on 1 because Tatum is on the floor.

People don't understand basketball enough to realize that Tatum probably had this series' more difficult defensive assignment. Going up against Luka and the Mavs' style of pick and roll it definitely helps to have a strong perimeter defender. But what's more important is having a very versatile post-defender who can hold his own against centers, and consistently, effectively, switch onto Luka without getting abused. You're either trapping, hedging, or switching. Switching is the safest route, but ONLY if you have the personnel to do it. Tatum was that personnel. His defensive versatility made all the difference in the world. That last game, when Porzingis came in, still hurt. The Celtics gave up an open three on almost every single possession because KP couldn't switch effectively. This has been the story of the Mavs for years. When they play the Warriors they struggle because Draymond can switch. Gobert is just as good at defense, but he can't switch as well, so against the Jazz and the Wolves, that offense exploited him specifically. At the same time, Tatum was the most effective offensive player. He basically was playing PG from the PF spot. And while he didn't shoot as well as he probably should have, he was able to get to the basket at will which constantly broke down the Mavs' defense. They were in rotation and giving up open threes constantly. Celtics have a lot of players who can't really create their own shots but were getting a ton of clean looks this series (Houser, Pritchard, Horford, etc). He really was out there playing like LeBron, and it's crazy that he was robbed of this award.

The realest show ever, Kyrie truly sucks. He got called out and I’m glad y’all did🔥🔥🔥

Man Kyrie couldn’t even play at the garden when he was on Boston lol

I’m sorry but did anyone watch game 5? Tatum played an incredible all around game, and has scored more than JB in several games. This is a media driven narrative. They’re worried there is no click worthy narrative around JB and JT.

Networks really need to stop putting these football guys in these basketball conversations.

I didn't think a teaam could do to Kyrie defensively what i saw the Celtics do. Basically Jrue and Derrick White put cuffs on him in all but 1 game.

who draws the best defender? JT does lol.. hes the better player

jaylen brown took a large leap forward from age 26-27 seasons. let's hope that Jayson Tatum can do the same, because last year everyone said Jaylen Brown couldn't be that dude either. Both players are still only 26 and 27

The more I see Shady, the more I realize he really only knows one sport enough to analyze and commentate on it😂😂

The apology tour continues ☘️

Love watching Kyrie lose

I’m sorry but being upset that Kyrie tweeted that “it’s bigger than us” is just an unnecessary take. It is literally just a game!! Players should be able to go home after a loss and be able to tweet 20 mins later and say I loss the battle but I won the war. I’m sorry but maybe it’s just the Christian in me but no one should be taking anything so seriously to the point where you’re letting a defeat consume you. Kyrie’s response to the loss is beautiful. It shows that he doesn’t place his worth in a sport! Keep being unbothered Kyrie! And also, both Tatum and Brown are great players and both are needed. This idea that one is better than the other is just a way to divide the two. They are really trying their hardest to turn these two men against each other but the brotherhood between them is beautiful.

Rick Buchner is twisting himself into a pretzel (along with the rest of them) not to give the Celtics their due respect.

Michael Jordan rarely guarded the other team's star player. That was Scottie Pippen's job. 😮

Get Acho off the television please

So we really forgetting that tatum forced a game 7 vs the bucks, won a game by himself (50 points) against the durant, kyrie, and harden nets, and then close out game last year against Philly putting up 51 points. Really come on.

The MVP award OBVIOUSLY needs to be named the "WWRM (What We Remembered Most) Award"😵‍💫😂

So all these other years that Jaylen came up short.. Tatum was leading and taking all the shots and the heat.. y’all said Jaylen needed to be traded or step up.. he even said he had to work on his game.. turnovers at the wrong time and just disappeared. One great season and now he’s the best in the world? Stop it’s Tatum man

Embid was a pity mvp … because of Kendrick Perkins , embid got that mvp . Joker should have won 4 in a row .

Kobe Bryant in his first two finals (11 games) 77/196 (39%) 5/19 3pt (26%) 201 pts (18.2) 57 Rebs (5.1) 28 ast (2.5) Lebron James in his first two finals (10 games) 75/180 (41%) 13/48 3pt (27%) 195 pts (19.5) 71 Rebs (7.1) 68 asts (6.8) Tatum in his first two finals (11 games) 82/218 (38%) 30/82 3pt (36%) 240 pts (21.8) 80 Rebs (7.2) 78 ast (7) Kobe 18/5/2 Lebron 20/7/7 Tatum 22/7/7

Jayson Tatum played like hes happy to be there. Jaylon Brown played like he would rather die than lose again in the finals

All 4 yall was wrong!

It's funny how in season tournament don't count but conference finals MVP count it's both new.

Listening to Shady talk basketball is the funniest thing on TV😂😂😂

james jones is the only one that makes sense in this group....

Thanks Rick!! 2025 motivation…. Loading.

Gotta love James' delivery. It's just like Nas' " One Mic". Starts loud and chaotic, then suddenly ends calmly. Yo Ocho, JB and JT need to split up right??? 😂

Every time Ric Bucher talks, I hit the fast forward.

By this logic khris middleton is better than Gianni’s. Km was running the O and taking the “big” shots when they went on their run