Placing blame for the Mavericks’ struggles & picking California’s best NBA team 🏀 | First Take
Tim Legler joins First Take to discuss the future of the Dallas Mavericks and the best NBA team in California.
0:00 Props to Jalen Brunson
6:30 Who is the best NBA team in California?
8:29 The Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Warriors in the NBA playoffs
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The Kings are the best team in Cali cause they have PROVEN IT all season. Warriors can't win on the road, Lakers and Clippers can't stay healthy. The Kings have the best record of em all, best offense of em all, and all stars to carry them to a West Finals
I TOLD EVERYONE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE A GOOD SEASON AGAIN IF THEY TRADE AWAY KRISTAPS, WHO THEY TRADED EXACTLY 12 MONTHS AGO. IT'S BEEN A YEAR AND HINDSIGHT SHOWS I'M RIGHT AGAIN AS ALWAYS!!!!!!!
The problem was they lost him for nothing
It’s not scarier or if everyone is healthy/ready to go best team is the KANGS
Why is dinwiddie being called a good defender all of sudden. He was a god awful defender in dallas. Kyrie is much better defensively
The Kings have been much better than those other Californian teams the entire season. If the Clippers were 100% healthy (and that's a big "if") they might be better. Warriors are a disaster on defense. Lakers are a 500 team. It's the Kings, unless Kawhi and PG13 are 100% healthy.
Real talk…. the Warriors road record is because they aren't trying hard. That and Wiggins has been absent. Wiggins physicality gives the Warriors a little cushion, to where they could have won more road games had Mitchell Wiggins not gotten ill.
Why they talking bout the Mavs missing Brunson when they got Kyrie 🤔
I am not picking the Warriors, but it's obvious. Their road record was trash cause they had a different lineup every other road game.
Spencer Dinwiddie is not a defender
Oh yeah let’s listen to the kyrie hater about kyrie pfft
He said lakers lol they ain’t even the best team in LA😂😂
Hello they just beat the Kings an K. Erving is still one of the best at his position.
The whole Mavericks team to be blame front office, GM, Owner, Coaching staff, and even the players too. The Warriors are the best team in California best NBA team!
"Coward"
Mark Cuban has just destroyed his own team the Dallas Mavericks.
Definitely not Rick Brunson 😇, he is protecting son Jalen Brunson from being "Low Ball" by Mark Cuban 💀. That's why Jalen Brunson had gone to the Knicks.
Legs is right on, terrible management decisions. Kyrie is going to leave in the off season too and theyll be stuck with no one
Mark Cuban, it was a stupid trade at a stupid time.
ESPN has such great analysts and they’ve been giving us an overdose of Perk 😮 trash
Luka has got to develop his off-ball game to a higher standard. Yet, he's got time on his side.
This is not first take🥱👎🏾🍅🍅
Surprisingly I would say the Kings are right now.
idiots!
Luca is the problem because he's selfish and isn't willing to share the spotlight. So far he hasn't looked like a player that other's want to play with. He holds the ball entirely too long and he's not willing to hustle on both sides of the ball. You can give Luka everything he wants and it still won't be enough for him. I can't recall any player saying that they want to play with him. These people love to give these one way players the " best player " title when they only play offense. The best player is the best overall player and not these billboard favorites that the media loves to push forward
And no one can blame Kyrie here, this is a front office/Cuban problem. Sick of Cuban blaming Brunsons family he left, this was Cuban not wanting to pay Brunson and was willing to let him go if he didn't take what Dallas offered and taking Brunson for granted. This was a huge reason Dallas was behind the 8 ball, then when Cuban realized he fumbled Brunson only then he went thinking trying to get a 2nd superstar and when he saw the only way he could get Kyrie, was get rid of talent to get talent. So he did that.
All three of those players Dallas lost all gel around Luka and Cuban destroyed that chemistry by 1st losing Brunson then trading off the remaining defense and most of the capital he had left for Kyrie.
I'm going to keep saying this is on Cuban, no way Luka is at fault and most definitely not Kyrie either. And what's possibly going to happen if Cuban can't get back what he had in 2022 is lose both Kyrie and Luka.
Kyrie is the best player on the team. Nobody shoots as good as him.
How tf the Lakers a scary team lmaoo…the kings is scarier cause one they a good team and a young fast pace team, Clippers comes second cause of their depth, Kawhi is playing great so far they get PG back soon, Westbrook is surprisingly playing well for them, Bones is up coming, norman Powell is out there dropping 20 points, Eric Gordon is still decent…king or Clippers are my pick
Keep sleeping on Sac.
This clown is gonna factor in road record for warriors but not the fact that AD probably isn’t even gonna make it thru the first round 🤡🤣🤣 his whole take was based on a huge IF lmao
Molly querm shouldn't be host anymore
Mavs were 4th brute Kyrie trade. What place were the Knicks? This argument by legler is pointless because we were in a better shape at that point. If it doesn't happen we may not even be having this conversation
I think we all know who's to blame! Lol he's a cancer wherever he goes😅
Kyrie trade…easy answer. The flat earth guy and franchise killer was a horrible trade. I can’t believe NBA front offices still think they can win with Mr. Flat Earth.
ReSigning Kyrie will cost them Luka.