“Somebody pretending to be point guard” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

lol it's funny looking back at this

Coming from a longtime Lakers fan, Skip was actually right about this one 😂

OKC never returned to the finals and the Lakers met the Heat in the finals 7 years later

Skip's reaction beginning at 1:11....priceless

Stephen A has never had respect for the Spurs, and he has the nerve to call Skip disrespectful.

Lakers didnt have a team in 2012... plz.. they had a new coach.. and no bench players.. and the fact we made it round to is all props

Oh was skip on the dot Not 'disrespectful' skip was honest

Skips facial expressions hahaha 😂

Everything that Skip said turned out to be true. Nash injured his back, roster didn't fit together and Spurs were better and went to finals and lost in game 7 to Heat.

Kobe #2 in scoring , Nash #2 in assist, Bynum #3 In rebounding, Gasol # 7 in rebounding and World Peace can play defense. To me this is pretty tough to beat. They just need good Backup that's it.

I think it's actually part of the show for them to constantly disagree. That's the purpose of debates sometimes: where even though both people agree, one takes the opposite side and comes up with legitimate points to back up his side.

No matter how horrible your defense is, if you have the league's greatest centre and a defensive-minded coach, you're probably going to be top 5 in the league in defense. Mike Brown has a proven track record as a defensive coach. It's their offense that will earn them their championship and Steve Nash is going to be making many people on that team a very happy player.

He is/was a difference maker. He scored 5 more points, grabbed 3 more rebounds, and shot 10% better for a stat line of 9/5/1 shooting 61% they needed that so they didn't have to burn Duncan.

Skip hit this one on the head. The Lakers were a disaster and ended at the 7 seed, getting swept in the first round by San Antonio. OKC was the best team in the west and won 60 games and the 1 seed but got bounced out of the second round due to Westbrook’s injury. San Antonio went to the Finals and lost in a very close 7 games to Miami including of course the Ray Allen shot.

3:02 "Tiiiagggo Splitter"

I think Kobe's ppg will actually go up next season along with his FG% because of the mere fact that he has Nash to make it easier for him vs. him taking tough jumpers all the time.

Wanna see them talking about Lakers as a team now, (Included Dwight Howard)

skip bayless is pretty smart

Once the playoffs come around (if they make it) I feel like Nash will play his heart out, since this might be his last season. Kobe will try free balling it when games are close though

Skip was trying to distract Stephen a smith when he was talking!

I love Stephen A

man i was excited to watch Kobe and Nash on the same team, wish Nash could of stayed healthy...

Steve and Kobe bring a clash of different styles of play, someone will be forced to take a backseat. It will be exciting to see what happens on The Lakers next year.

This Lakers squad could've been so good

Doesn't matter much... after all, they're not telling facts, they're just giving their opinion. And it's so funny to watch them being so eccentric :D

Steve Nash's D wont make the Lakers defense bad but if the Lakers can create a better offence and Kobe works with Nash

he really pissed him off when he brought up splitter ahahah

I think the main argument is if nash will mesh well and i dont think they will. they have offense they need a defensive stopper at pg

hahaha i remember that shit haha i mean sometimes hes so off or just avoids questions or bringing up TIAGO SPLITTAA even tho hes aight

Kobe and Nash will click because Kobe's goal is not to score more points and break some records, he already has it and last season he has given it to Durant. His goal is to win a sixth ring, it doesn't matter if he was the leading scorer or not. He is a leader and thats enough.....

haha its rare i just dont think people like to admit it, i like skip i think he brings up good points sometimes and backs it up, other times tho i do feel like hes just picking the other side of the argument cus its a show but most cases im a supporter

Whether or not Skip is right, he is very entertaining, and that is why he has a job in espn.

6 people disliked the video, not because of the pheonix to lakers nash trade, but because of the brawl we just had here.

i agree, i think its interesting how he said kobe has nothing left to prove. maybe that will help them coexist

next time you see this show , youll hear the door getting kicked in and me shootin skip:)

skip actually made sense in this segment

lol skip was right

Stephen A. Is right about Nash making them better on defense without playin defense

On paper this was a legit super team. People like SAS were saying they could knock of MIA, but wanna retract that statement when Lakers 2013 super team failed 🤷🏾‍♂️

look at what happened skip got it all right

CTFU at Skip Bayless' facial expressions at 1:12.

they just did. Jodie Meeks. Chris Duhon. Antawn Jamieson, Jordan Hill, Earl Clark. bench is ready and loaded

I love stephen smith he funny ass hell

let's see here, the lakers won 5 rings with fisher playing mediocre defense (even at his prime; 2 in a very advance age) and nash just adds playmaking, passing, orchestrating, shooting and leadership to this team, i doubt that the defense will suffer since they just got howard which will erase the lakers' mistakes at the top.

I don't know why Skip is even on the show and I agree with Stephen A smith on Skip being uneducated in basketball. There are so many types of basketball offensive strategies and defense. Other than that, Stephen A Smith on OKC being better than Lakers but Lakers being contenders against Heats, yes, that is how the NBA is, different basketball styles work against different teams. Obviously there are favourites in match ups, but you cannot write off a team, even the Bobcats.

Can you imagine Skip's face @ 80 years old? I mean, look at that face

The question is still valid. Even more so now.

oh definitely. But that style of debate for me personally is just bothersome to watch. Arguing just to argue, cause I guess people find that interesting. I like both these guys somewhat but I don't wan't to watch an argument all the time. I totally agree with you, they probably act completely differently toward eachother when the cameras are off. wouldn't suprise me if they are good friends.

As soon as you see Skip shaking his head, you know he disagrees with you.

I wonder what Skip thinks now the Howard's in LA

SKip Bayless is spot on

definitely.

Guys here from the future it didn’t work

skips face expression lmfaoooo

This was when skip was actually had good takes and was somewhat objective. Now he has to double down on everything regardless on what happens

skip won this argument , he was right about Spurs and skip predicted the future of lakers getting crushed.

I love how they always end the videos where Skip is proved completely wrong and then just cut him off before he can answer back.

He's saying if Nash is NOT the center of the offense he's NOT going to be as productive as he was in Phoenix and LA would basically wasting his talents. Nash can't do anything if every time Kobe brings the ball up court he just pops a 3/long jumper or doesn't run offense.

Dwight is probably the best pick and roll center in the NBA

Stephen A is the only one I can ever agree with. It seems that Skip argues with everyone on this show. He's always negative on impacts or players and can never admit shit.

Heat - Okc and Heat in 7

Skip was right lol

3:21 ahh, wow

@senihcme what he means by the lakers would give Miami a better series is that the Miami bigs cant match up with the laker bigs. I wanna see Lebron try to penetrate down the lane with 2 skilled 7 footers.

skip is the man

The only reason Skip Bayless even mentioned a stat at ALL in this video is because he was so badly owned by Mark Cuban lol

stephen A said this isnt kobe from 05 whos on a mission to prove somethin. to me when i see kobe try to prove somethin he shoots a high volume of shots, im tryin to say that stephen A saying this is not Kobe frim 05 who was classified as a shot jacker(when hes on a mission), all my point im saying is he shot more last year then he did in 05 so in stephen A smiths words hes still tyrin to prove a point based on stats

also you saw nash playing in phoenix ? his teammates are not even CLOSE to those in LA .. and think about it pau gasol and nash in pick and roll play? vicious i tell you this team might have problems with OKC if i should guess i would say game 5 - 6 but the will kick the western conference in the ass .. its not a long term team because of the old age but next season .. im looking foward to

Steven A. do has a point

they are getting howard :D

Jamison Gets buckets, thats what the lakers need off the bench so yes i think hes going to help. its better than Barnes, Eyenga, McRoberts, and Troy Murphy...

Stephen A is smart, Lakers will be dangerous

Lakers are the favorite now

what exactly are you pointing out here?

Steve Nash should’ve been traded to the Lakers three years earlier that would’ve been one of the best duo’s in nba history Nash and Kobe oh my lol

Skip was right Stephen A only looks at what's good in paper

Did we watch the same video? I thought I not only heard Stephen A. Smith defend a white Canadian basketball player, but say that he would make his team better than one of the other powerhouse teams in their Conference. From what I know about Smith, he is certainly not a racist.

Miami basically has no pg and no center. Dwight alone and even big baby used to dominate against miami when back in orlando

i agree number 8 kobe would have problems trying to coexist with howard and nash but this is veteran kobe he has nothing else to prove to anyone hes not gonna have to take over a game unless his teammates arent coming through and making shots

That all sounds good on paper, remember how good the miami big three sounded on paper? It matters about chemistry . Hopefully , kobe is fine standing in the corner some plays while steve nash does his thing.

D12 brings the defence. Nash brings the offence. and kobe does everything. simple as that

funny cuz who led the league in most shot attempts?

wat about da bench

This team without Dwight could've been deadly.

i love skip LMAO

i love both stephen a and skip, but I think skip probably agrees with stephen a. skip know he a lakers fan. i can kinda tell the espn producers made him be against stephen a. better tv.

if Ty Lawson and Tony Parker were wrecking the Lakers last year... they're going to have fun against Nash. It's not like the Lakers didn't win because their offense wasn't good enough... they couldn't stop quick guards.

we dont need dwight , we need bench power !! and we are good

yep Skip is a genius

I think the Lakers will use Nash like he was in Dallas, not in Phoenix

he looks like clint eastwood

miami is not better as lakers stephen really had a good point there now with howard in lakers miami is begging for okc to win in the western ^^ this team has kobe bryant a very good defender and perfect offensive player .. you have nash one of the best point guards no matter how hold he is ... you have pau gasol the best post player in the nba probably on of the best pf in the league right now ... you have metta with the best perimeter defense in the leage imo ... plus the bench is better ...

VERY GOOD

Kobe himself said he don't care about stats.....not anymore....all he cares about is another Ring!!!!!!

They now need Depth of the bench it's what killed them for two years in a row..

tiago splitter is the difference maker ahahaha rofl.

again.. Kobe is not the same selfish player when he was young.. he wants to win rings while he can.. if Kobe and Nash click.. it is going to be a force... Nash sets up plays for paul and bynum.. Kobe can do anything he wants .. it is a win win situation

Nash was about 5 years to late to join kobe. Nash was old and slow and at the very end of Hes career when he joined the black mamba unfortunately. Can you imagine prime nash and prime kobe? Would be a nasty duo💯💯💯

o hahaha whoops i meant to put 20 fg attempts per game in 2005