Had Murray not blown out his knee just before the 2021 playoffs, you would be talking about the Nuggets going for a fifth straight WCF appearance/3rd or 4th title. The dynasty was there, it was just derailed by a major injury to someone who is finally being recognized as a superstar.
Jokic just won a championship with zero all stars and had maybe the greatest statistical postseaon of all time That is the definition of putting a team on their back
Did this guy not watch the playoffs? Nuggets dominated like few title teams have. They have the best player(a proven put me on your back type of guy) and 4 stud starters in there prime under contract... a nuggets dynasty is at hand...
Wouldn’t say that. In any situation where the bucks are healthy even in the past seasons since they won they have a high chance of winning no matter which team they matched with in the finals
Nuggets are a formidable force, but a healthy Bucks now with Dame and Boston finally looking to be in their ‘final form’ to truly go for a title run are not an automatic write off
@@bonjouritsready true Boston and Milwaukee will compete, but both are older and neither have two elite three level passers and scorers. And I would put jokic as the most clutch and Murray the second most clutch from all three teams. Those two stay healthy chips a plenty coming to Denver.
@@eliwise5330 what wouldn't you say... do you not like facts? Everything I said is either fact or a consensus opinion. Other than the prediction, but it logically follows all my points. So what wouldn't you say?
2000's era wasn't really balance tbh... Lakers and spurs won most of them. Lakers with 5 if you include 2010, and spurs got 3....the only other winners were detroit, miami, and boston Unlike 2019 onwards, 5 different winners: raptors, lakers, bucks, warriors, and nuggets
Agreed my friend! Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. God bless! Jesus is the way and saves! Psalms 62✝🤍💪
The argument that an increase In parity, overall quality of teams, and number of amazing teams/contenders makes a championship less valuable makes no sense at all.
Not the ones that appreciate greatness but Ik what you mean. For me personally though Jokic Bron Kobe Duncan they’ve all been amazing to watch in my life time even Brady on the football side of things
@@damiandenysiuk8984 no. It's not a rush. That would imply a short window. Nuggets are here to stay for the next 5-8 years. If the Warriors wanted their era to be "The Golden Era", then they should have named it that. The Nuggets and Nuggets fans all collectively call what we are currently in as The Golden Era. Ask any nuggets fans and they will tell you. We make t-shirts and shit and everything.
I still think it's a bit early to rave about parity. Let's see if these last few years were an aberration or not. Still, Boston, Miami, and the Lakers seem to be right there every year while the majority of the bad teams are still small markets.
My hope is that if the West were to get both expansion teams, that one of three teams moves to the East. The Seattle SuperSonics should come back without a doubt. I know Las Vegas is probably the favorite outside of that if expansion happens. I look at this year at 9 teams that could possibly make the conference finals, depending of course on injuries and or trades that could happen. West - Denver, Golden State, Sacramento, Phoenix, LA Lakers East - Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Miami. I think there is nobody right now that is trying to be bad. Some teams will be bad just because of how stacked the top 9 teams are. Just the nature of the beast. But I am not seeing any team right now that should be trying to tank. Yes, San Antonio and Detroit and DC and Portland and Houston and Orlando and Utah probably aren't going to be very good. But none of them look like teams trying to tank. They all have intriguing teams that should be able to play very well at times. Youth and talent depth will probably get in the way for these teams. But the ability to compete won't.
@@jsports2665 I am not sleeping on Orlando. I know they are a talented young team. I just think that they are a year or two away from really making a lot of noise in the east. Will they be an up and coming beast? Yes. I just don't see them being a 45 win team or better yet. I do think they could be a 30-35 win team. I just see Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Atlanta, Indiana, Miami and Toronto as being better than them this year. Could they sneak into the play in tournament as the 10th seed? Yes. Will they? I don't know.
This is a bit of du.mb take. You really think the top teams of the east these days cant compete with lebrons teams?. Remember a rookie tatum and a young celtics squad almost eliminated lebron cavs team. Not a hater of lebron but the teams in the east during lebron run was just too weak.
Stop the cap lebron & steph had stacked allstars the whole 2010s to make the finals. Stop making it seem like it was just so hard to overcome them when they had allstar teams damn near.
Its because basketball is too easy. They need to make the ball bigger and the rim smaller. Instead of making the ball go through the hoop to score you have to get the ball to sit on top of the rim like a carnival game.
Tap the brakes. As great as he is, Steph never had the ability to carry a team to the finals on his back like LeBron did. Look at 2007 and 2018. The 2007 Cavs with Steph instead of LeBron is .500.
That’s why the 2022 championship meant so much for Steph, he was the best player on that team. No KD, just the core of Draymond and klay plus a couple solid pieces like Poole and Wiggins
The west is crazy, you could see pretty much all the playoff teams with a real shot at the title, all the playin teams are in the "if that last piece falls in line" kind of thing could also take it and even the first team to miss out on the playin is going to probably be as good as the 5-8 teams in the East. Whereas the East, probably the top 4 teams seem loaded enough to win it all, the 5-8 are good and could challenge if everything goes right, but you wouldn't expect the playin teams to be a realistic threat.
Most people have been sleeping on the Nuggets so they don't realize how close they could've been to already being a dynasty. Brief history: '16-17' Miss the playoffs by a single game '17-'18 Barely miss the playoffs by losing the final game in OT, but still had better record than 3 Eastern playoff teams '18-'19 Were no.1 seed most of the year(finished no.2 behind Warriors who still had K.D). This was the cores first trip to the playoffs and they end up falling just short of the WCF, losing the semis in a 7 game series that included a 4OT game '19-'20(bubble year) Made the conference finals, but given only 1 days rest after playing two series that went to 7 games. Also had to face an experienced team that didn't have the wear and tear of the regular season like they would during a normal year. '21 / '21-'22 Murray gets hurt and misses the playoffs for 2 seasons. MPJ also hurt '22-'23 MPJ and Murray return. Championship If the West wasn't so loaded, Nuggets could've made the playoffs sooner and gained experienced sooner. Then if covid doesn't happen and Murray doesn't get hurt, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think Denver could've had at least 2 additional rings by now.
Exactly, had to create superteams just to compete with the powerhouses from the loaded West. And since changing conferences, there is only one year where Lebron's team wasn't in the play-in or missed the playoffs completely. Kawhi spent a single year in the East and was able to conquer it.
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The Raptors winning the 2019 championship started this. Made every team believe they can win a chip.
and it's true, no repeat champs since
Well yea, any team is going to believe they have a chance if 2 of the opposing team's star players somehow end up getting hurt.
jokic got that climb on my back and il take you to the finals vibe he is up there with prime steph and bron
That list of talented foreign born big men who carried their teams to a championship is now 3 deep: Olajuwon, Nowitzki and Jokic.
@@Raphmatic5000Giannis too if he counts as a big
@@dominic64tblightning24 Oh yeah Giannis too, but I think he had more help than the other 3 did.
Getting there I guess
@@Raphmatic5000 giannis had more help than prime steph?? I definitely agree with everything else
Had Murray not blown out his knee just before the 2021 playoffs, you would be talking about the Nuggets going for a fifth straight WCF appearance/3rd or 4th title. The dynasty was there, it was just derailed by a major injury to someone who is finally being recognized as a superstar.
Don't dwell on what ifs... cause a lot of teams got fckd up too who went deep to the bubble come 2021... lakers, denver, heat, celtics...
They need to move Memphis and OKC to the East and add the two new expansion teams to the West
I’d think you’d move either New Orleans or Minnesota before OKC wouldn’t you?
@@beanie3427okc will actually be a contender
Pacers, Grizzlies and Pelicans are the furthest east. Had to check the map 😅
@@rileymcphee9429pacers is east. I’d move Memphis/NOLA or Memphis/Minnesota to the east
Leave OKC in the West for when Seattle returns, that's the rivalry match
Jokic just won a championship with zero all stars and had maybe the greatest statistical postseaon of all time
That is the definition of putting a team on their back
Did this guy not watch the playoffs? Nuggets dominated like few title teams have. They have the best player(a proven put me on your back type of guy) and 4 stud starters in there prime under contract... a nuggets dynasty is at hand...
Wouldn’t say that. In any situation where the bucks are healthy even in the past seasons since they won they have a high chance of winning no matter which team they matched with in the finals
Nuggets are a formidable force, but a healthy Bucks now with Dame and Boston finally looking to be in their ‘final form’ to truly go for a title run are not an automatic write off
@@bonjouritsready true Boston and Milwaukee will compete, but both are older and neither have two elite three level passers and scorers. And I would put jokic as the most clutch and Murray the second most clutch from all three teams.
Those two stay healthy chips a plenty coming to Denver.
@@eliwise5330 what wouldn't you say... do you not like facts? Everything I said is either fact or a consensus opinion. Other than the prediction, but it logically follows all my points. So what wouldn't you say?
@@cjp1599 I wouldn’t say a dynasty is at hands. I don’t doubt the facts I just disagree that a dynasty is what logically follows.
Feels a bit like the 2000s era with the parity, but with a different style to it.
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2000's era wasn't really balance tbh... Lakers and spurs won most of them. Lakers with 5 if you include 2010, and spurs got 3....the only other winners were detroit, miami, and boston
Unlike 2019 onwards, 5 different winners: raptors, lakers, bucks, warriors, and nuggets
Philadelphia is trying to figure something out of changing something else and adding more athleticism and scoring off the bench
Agreed my friend! Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. God bless! Jesus is the way and saves! Psalms 62✝🤍💪
@@Kyle22oifer good use of the Bible my man. prayers is what Philadelphia need
@@Kyle22oifer Yes Sir!
@@carlosmartinezcaballer8203 exactly!
Eric Gordon in Denver?? I’m lost
Kelly Oubre carrying the 76ers!! Minimum contract!!!
The argument that an increase In parity, overall quality of teams, and number of amazing teams/contenders makes a championship less valuable makes no sense at all.
Sports dynasties suck for fans… unless it’s YOUR team!!
Not the ones that appreciate greatness but Ik what you mean. For me personally though Jokic Bron Kobe Duncan they’ve all been amazing to watch in my life time even Brady on the football side of things
WRONG. Nuggets Dynasty inbound. Welcome to The Golden Era
Golden (state) Era , isn't Gold Rush (Nugets) souds beter ?😅😉
@@damiandenysiuk8984 no. It's not a rush. That would imply a short window. Nuggets are here to stay for the next 5-8 years. If the Warriors wanted their era to be "The Golden Era", then they should have named it that. The Nuggets and Nuggets fans all collectively call what we are currently in as The Golden Era. Ask any nuggets fans and they will tell you. We make t-shirts and shit and everything.
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I still think it's a bit early to rave about parity. Let's see if these last few years were an aberration or not. Still, Boston, Miami, and the Lakers seem to be right there every year while the majority of the bad teams are still small markets.
Denver will repeat. Mark my words.
Jokic will get injured this season & Nuggets will fall out of contention. Mark my words.
@@kevintorres9012wtf
2:44 he says aaron gordon but the video shows eric gordon, prolly using AI to create his backdrops
My hope is that if the West were to get both expansion teams, that one of three teams moves to the East.
The Seattle SuperSonics should come back without a doubt.
I know Las Vegas is probably the favorite outside of that if expansion happens.
I look at this year at 9 teams that could possibly make the conference finals, depending of course on injuries and or trades that could happen.
West - Denver, Golden State, Sacramento, Phoenix, LA Lakers
East - Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Miami.
I think there is nobody right now that is trying to be bad. Some teams will be bad just because of how stacked the top 9 teams are. Just the nature of the beast.
But I am not seeing any team right now that should be trying to tank.
Yes, San Antonio and Detroit and DC and Portland and Houston and Orlando and Utah probably aren't going to be very good. But none of them look like teams trying to tank. They all have intriguing teams that should be able to play very well at times. Youth and talent depth will probably get in the way for these teams. But the ability to compete won't.
I agree with all those teams except Orlando don't sleep on them young ballers Paolo and Wagner are ballers
@@jsports2665 I am not sleeping on Orlando. I know they are a talented young team. I just think that they are a year or two away from really making a lot of noise in the east. Will they be an up and coming beast? Yes. I just don't see them being a 45 win team or better yet.
I do think they could be a 30-35 win team. I just see Boston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Atlanta, Indiana, Miami and Toronto as being better than them this year.
Could they sneak into the play in tournament as the 10th seed? Yes. Will they? I don't know.
That's Eric Gordon at 2:43
I wonder if he uses an AI program to pull NBA images and it thought he said Eric Gordon instead of Aaron Gordon.
Or an editor… I doubt he mixed that up.
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This is a bit of du.mb take. You really think the top teams of the east these days cant compete with lebrons teams?.
Remember a rookie tatum and a young celtics squad almost eliminated lebron cavs team. Not a hater of lebron but the teams in the east during lebron run was just too weak.
Stop the cap lebron & steph had stacked allstars the whole 2010s to make the finals. Stop making it seem like it was just so hard to overcome them when they had allstar teams damn near.
why does JRE keeps popping up in every video lol
Its because basketball is too easy. They need to make the ball bigger and the rim smaller. Instead of making the ball go through the hoop to score you have to get the ball to sit on top of the rim like a carnival game.
And then you're a bulls fan and everything is pretty much the same, if not worst
Tap the brakes. As great as he is, Steph never had the ability to carry a team to the finals on his back like LeBron did. Look at 2007 and 2018. The 2007 Cavs with Steph instead of LeBron is .500.
That’s why the 2022 championship meant so much for Steph, he was the best player on that team. No KD, just the core of Draymond and klay plus a couple solid pieces like Poole and Wiggins
Please update your background photos jesus
The west is crazy, you could see pretty much all the playoff teams with a real shot at the title, all the playin teams are in the "if that last piece falls in line" kind of thing could also take it and even the first team to miss out on the playin is going to probably be as good as the 5-8 teams in the East. Whereas the East, probably the top 4 teams seem loaded enough to win it all, the 5-8 are good and could challenge if everything goes right, but you wouldn't expect the playin teams to be a realistic threat.
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Man, you look much better with the beard. Just saying.
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whether we want to believe it or not. Not once you talked about joker. but I believe he will be the LeBron of the 2020 - 2030 era.
We need to add Seattle and Vegas into the West, too many skilled players in the league, and not enough teams to share the talent
Most people have been sleeping on the Nuggets so they don't realize how close they could've been to already being a dynasty.
Brief history:
'16-17' Miss the playoffs by a single game
'17-'18 Barely miss the playoffs by losing the final game in OT, but still had better record than 3 Eastern playoff teams
'18-'19 Were no.1 seed most of the year(finished no.2 behind Warriors who still had K.D). This was the cores first trip to the playoffs and they end up falling just short of the WCF, losing the semis in a 7 game series that included a 4OT game
'19-'20(bubble year) Made the conference finals, but given only 1 days rest after playing two series that went to 7 games. Also had to face an experienced team that didn't have the wear and tear of the regular season like they would during a normal year.
'21 / '21-'22 Murray gets hurt and misses the playoffs for 2 seasons. MPJ also hurt
'22-'23 MPJ and Murray return. Championship
If the West wasn't so loaded, Nuggets could've made the playoffs sooner and gained experienced sooner. Then if covid doesn't happen and Murray doesn't get hurt, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think Denver could've had at least 2 additional rings by now.
2010 LeBron great player one of best of all time.. but very weak eastern conference. This he was often in the final to get beat by the western team
Exactly, had to create superteams just to compete with the powerhouses from the loaded West. And since changing conferences, there is only one year where Lebron's team wasn't in the play-in or missed the playoffs completely. Kawhi spent a single year in the East and was able to conquer it.
As a nba fan who tends too always pull for an underdog the Steph and Lebron trading titles AT THE TIME did get boring… history never the less
Jokic will dominate this era people just don’t want to admit it
Are you still going to do season predictions?
I don’t see jaylen brown making the all star this year after his game one performance
My brother in Christ it was one game. Almost every all star ever had at least one mediocre game before the all star break.
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Memphis or Minnesota and New Orleans to East.
Only 5 teams are really contending if not 4
The green teams of East
And suns and nuggets
Done
Lakers is already a stretch
Don't sleep on Detroit