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Here’s my official NBA Finals pick! Fired up for what’s going to be an incredible series. Can’t wait to see how it plays out. Should be a ton of fun.
Tim Bontemps
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- The Pelicans will get the following picks from the Lakers, league sources tell ESPN: No. 4 pick in 2019 Top-8 protected in 2021, becomes unprotected in ‘22 Unprotected swap in ‘23 Unprotected first in ‘24 Unprotected swap in ‘25 Tremendous haul for David Griffin & the Pelicans.
- Kyrie Irving said he and Donovan Mitchell were playing Call of Duty this afternoon and that he knew Mitchell was “locked in.” Said he’s happy Mitchell broke his Cavs record, and that records are meant to be broken.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo: “I hope I can give people around the world … hope it can be done. My mom was selling stuff in the street, and now I’m sitting here at the top of the top. … if I never sit at this table again, I’ll be fine with it.”
- What the Knicks did tonight: NYK trades 11th pick to OKC OKC trades 3 firsts (23 DEN, DET, WASH) to NYK NYK then trades 23 DEN, 4 seconds to CHA for 13th pick NYK then trade 13th pick & Kemba Walker to DET for MKE's 25 first NYK trades 11, Kemba, 4 2nds & gets 3 future 1sts
- Kemba Walker on @notthefakeSVP "I gave that organization every single thing I could give them. Now it's about competing at the highest level & we all know Boston is doing that year in & year out. I want to be part of something special in terms of competing at the highest level"
- Nick Nurse said in the locker room after Game 2, he told the team they just had to get one of the two games in Oakland. Nurse said Kawhi Leonard responded, “(expletive) that. Let’s get them both.”
- Giannis Antetokounmpo on Kevin Durant: "He's the best player in the world right now."
- It remains utterly incomprehensible that Luka Doncic was traded.
- The NBA announces Devin Booker will replace Anthony Davis in the All-Star Game next month.
- If the Lakers are playing the Warriors in the play-in tournament, I suspect whoever came up with it will get a raise instead.LeBron James on the play-in tournament: "Whoever came up with that s--- needs to be fired"
- The NBA is so much better this year than last simply by having Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry healthy and doing what they do again.
- Sad news on this Christmas: Celtics legend KC Jones has died. Jones, a college teammate of Bill Russell at the University of San Francisco, where they won two NCAA titles, won 12 NBA championships — 11 with Boston: eight as a player, one as an assistant and two as a head coach.
- Doc Rivers, on the crowd support from fans at Wells Fargo Center today: "I can't believe that was 10,000, 11,000 [people]. There's no way. I think we're counting like the Republicans, because it felt like 30,000 people in the stands. They were amazing."
