Lakers aren’t good enough to win without LeBron James – Max Kellerman l First Take
ax Kellerman and Ryan Hollins debate if the Los Angeles Lakers can continue winning without LeBron James, who is sidelined because of strained groin that happened during the Lakers’ win over the Golden State Warriors on Christmas Day.
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Yo where Sas at👈😂😂😂😂 kd gon drop 40!!!!
He said that shit and dipped😂😂😂
TYGA WILLIAMS ENTERTAINMENT y’all act like people’s predictions can’t be wrong. Like it’s the end of the world just because Stephen A. said the Kevin Durant will drop 40. You act like that’s out of the realm of possibility like KD is a scrub and not one of the best scorers in the league and of all time. It’s not that serious.
Lakers dropped #40 Zubac
He 40yrs younger now jk
these media guys are a joke and could just say wtv they want with no repercussions. and hes constantly saying stupid shit like this.
The Lakers finally do something good, yet the narrative is still negative!?!
Factz
+anthony cheesman we did n it more wins to come without him
Tell Max STFU
+anthony cheesman we wouldn’t probably be 4 but i bet we wouldn’t 10 th tho but yall keep saying we cant win without lb we a diff team from last year n last year we won games more than 30 win at the end of the day we better with lb but we still good without him we proved that last night …nd for the next 2 weeks we play nobody’s so we gonna win nd prob move up a seed n the west
Remember this 😂😂😂 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFsutaf9LA
Some dude on Twitter said, Steph thinks he could beat the Kobe and Shaq Lakers but he can’t even beat the rondo and Zubac Lakers
+Zenigundam Who’s guarding Shaq? Who’s driving inside on Shaq? And you’re shot if you think Klay could guard Afro Kobe 1 on 1. He was doubled every game and sometimes triple teamed… still found a way to score. This Warriors team probably is the greatest of all time, but it would be a lot closer than 4-1.
+Zenigundam bruh i think you have it backwards. Lakers can 3 peat unlike the GS Weiners. If steph curry even thought about going to the paint, Shaq would break every bone in his body
+Zenigundam bruh the early 2000s blazers and kings where ACTUALLY good so stop acting like they were as bad as the modern day pheonix suns. Stop disrespecting shaq and kobe’s lakers cause the warriors would be like the new jersey nets getting swept and losing the finals twice if they played in the early 2000s
The Zubac Lakers are better
Ummmm they just won without him tf you’re talking about they even pulled away in the 4th
+Michael Juritsch No they were up by 14. They then blew their lead and then somehow destroyed Golden State afterwards
Plus you look back at last year after the all star break they really started to pick it and that was with less of a rotation than they have now
Y’all act like the Warriors didn’t get blown out by the Lakers the year before as well as the year before that but I’m sure everybody forgot about that
+kefkapalazzo1 GSW go back up to 2 points and then rondo got on the court with kuz and it was cleaned up, they can survive without lbj
+Brando Williams that momentum came back when they did a 12-0 run, LAL were up only 2 on a hot curry and zubac and kuz just shut it down again pulling away
WHY AINT STEPHEN A SMITH THERE, HE WAS WRONG 40 POINTS BY KD 😂😂😂 smh
Lil Vulx ✞ didn’t want to show his face
Lil Vulx ✞ out of sight out of mind
Stephen A has the option to pick and choose what segments he wants to show for.
He’s got fired 😂😂
Max kellerman be like:
Lebron sent telepathic messages to his teammates from the lockeroom. To give them that extra push they needed to close this game out. We’ve never seen such greatness such leadership in the modern nba before
Teezy LMAO dead
Teezy i swear to god
Hahaahahahhahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PveagEsPBGM . media gets paid by the corporations anyways. Bron don’t have enough offensive moves to score 45 or 58 and his defence isn’t nowhere near kawhi..kawhis the top piece in the league or tied with curry Lakers still have a very nice team though and might do something in the playoffs but brons gotta step up and score more.
MALCOLM 2X MUHAMMAD All them bricks Lonzo shoot and you call LBJ Lebrick?…boy STFU
Stephen A look a lil different today
+GruntMasher117 he feel dumb
I think it’s him and Kyle kuzmas son
He grew an actual hairline
FACEASS😄😄😄😄😄
I killed a noob even tho i am a noob https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFsutaf9LA
Maybe Max didn’t watch us last year but we won 35 games with Lonzo and BI missing half the season, we also were competitive with with the elites all year watch more basketball max
Exactly! And now lakers have rondo, lance, chandler, mcgee. Zubac.
ya but BI missed more than half the season up to this point and Rondo was out and McGee and Chandler are out and theyre still one of the best teams in the league
Lanzas Rondo is the reason they won last night. Rondo is in LA because he wanted to play with Lebron. Shout out to Rondo. Kuzma was choking the game away.
+Lanzas That is one game! Yall act like the Lakers consistently will win without him..Wtf? The Lakers have not been consistent with him on the floor, so they will Magically do it without LBJ?? 🤣😂 yea ok.. Warriors have lost to bad teams too.. When Boogie is back it’s going to over and im not even a GS fan.
+D.M. 49ers funny cause the Lakers play better with him on the bench that just and you saying how the Lakers aren’t consistent with lebron on the floor is saying something
Why tf does this conversation or any convo about the lakers go into a 3pt shooting contest there is more to the game than shooting 3s lakers kill teams in the paint and transition and showed last night they don’t need a ton of 3s to win stfu max
MAX JUST WORSHIP LEBRON THATS ALL HE FULL A SHIT MAN HE BEEN EXPOSED FOR HIS RIDICULOUS BIAS
+Gyro Yes, defense is key but you still gotta outscore the Warriors if somebody gets hot like KD last year in Game 3 in the Finals and this is why Bron got swept twice cause he came up short, didn’t put up 40pts while the splash bros disappear for most of the game and KD let loose, putting another dagger on Bron back. Defense is good until a Warrior gets hot from the field and to have to weather the storm that why I say you have keep the game as close as possible and still outscore the Warriors.
I got my first win on fortnite support me by viewing my win please 😊 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFsutaf9LA
+D.M. 49ers In a 7 game series nothing will change. A team does not get any better in a 7 game series unless they changes players. The Warriors play small ball and the Lakers play big.
+trajan hercules Yep Boogie will add a changed player 🤣😂 fool please, nothing will change? so a team that beats you in Reg season will do it a 7 game series?? What dude? What NBA have you been watching?
They won 35 games last season without lebron TF is he talking about ?
37 games last year
+Elijah Williams dude we would of gotten better. we won 35 with rookies and second year players. who was just getting there feet wet, we would of won at least 46 this year close to 50
+Elijah Williams if bron sit out 15 games we winning at least 10 of them watch, we getting together. kuz and Ingram can go for 30 points each a night.
Lot of yall missing the point. Yea they only won 35, But the most of what they lost last year was very close games that they couldn’t shut out. Half the games they lost last year they were leading going into the 4th. This Lakers team is better than last years, even without Lebron. So even if he wasn’t on the team they would be a 40-45 win team this year. With Lebron they going to the conference finals. And if they improve even more, they may have a shot at the finals.
+Schmoovey That’s the best you got, petty name calling? You acting like LeBron is ringless like in 2010. Only cats that pull the bronsexual card is them no substance, low IQ people that only respond to talk trash. How about the Lakers get themselves to the playoffs then first before you talking about finals records
Shoot out to Stephen A. Smith for taking the day off he’s the real mvp!! Sources say he’s already working on Lebron James groin injury.
Daniel Sanchez And how exactly is Stephen A working on his groin injury ????
That made me laugh lol. Shanon is probably working on it too.
AMD D lol 😂 definitely Shannon hes a Lebron d rider
Since KD didn’t drop 40 SAS decided to go do it himself
They can win several games without LeBron but definitely need him back
Kd Is GoInG tO dRoP fOuRtY
– Stephen A Smith
Forty
That’s y he didn’t show up today 😂 😂
KD ready to bounce to the east with a team that’s gonna have 60 plus wins this season.. Boston Raptors or Bucks..
So Max is gonna act like La wasn’t pouring 3s at the end of the game
What! They just beat GSW at their arena . Smh. They had the lead when Lbj was on the bench and rondo took the game over when Lbj left for good . Lbj missing a few games will help them and him in long run . They move the ball and step up when he’s not in the game . These boys can play and rondo will bring the best out of them
I dont see how the rest of these delusional NBA fans arent worried about what happened last night. LeBron has taken multiple garbage fire teams to the finals and the Lakers are tremendously more talented than those teams.They werent supposed to be good yet having added 6 new players to the roster when most teams stayed the same. Yall haters dont get how hungry these Laker players are and they are only going to get better as the season goes on. AD is not needed in LA. Dont trade for him wait to see what you can add in FA to the current setup.
Mark Sturm exactly. They do not need to trade Hart, BI, Lonzo, Rondo, or kuzma! Those are exactly the type of players that you need for the playoffs
Mark Sturm lebron always did it in the east tho the west is different
BIG FAX BRO!!!! Like fr this team has been together since Kobe left , the young core at least , well most of them and they’re hungry for the playoffs , they’re gonna do whatever it takes and last night was a showing of that , maybe lebron being out for a few games is a good thing, gives the young players sometime to get more minutes and gel more and when lebron comes back the team will be super solid if they continue to play how they played against the warriors last night , shit even earlier in the season cousins said that the lakers would be a real threat and they might beat us, that’s what DeMarcus said look it up
I agree with everything u said except the AD comments.. If u can get superstar get him asap.. That’s ASAP!!
Mark Sturm lebron teams were the heavy favorites in east past 8 years so he not taking trash teams to finals when they are favored to get there!!he winning as the favorite not like he on the knicks or other really trash teams doing this
They can stop prime shaq in paint, but they couldn’t even stop a role player name zubac
Zubac is really talented and very young still
+Wham Bam Bigelow but he’s not shaq bro
Stephen A deserves some rest guys, let the man spend Christmas with the fam. He’s ESPN’s MVP he’s done enough throughout the years to take a few days off.
LOL he took it off cause he said the warriors were going to blow out the lakers on Xmas and it was the other way around, ESPN sucks.
+G-man He’s becoming predictable because he works every day lol. He doesn’t have time to come up with new material.
spencer davis Ge also, he said the warriors were gonna smoke the lakers by at least 20🤣🤣🤣
Watch me pop this dude at the end of the video when i got that win https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFsutaf9LA
*weeks
The Lakers were a win 35 team last season with almost exclusively rookies and sophomores players with thier best player in Lonzo Ball being out for 20 games in the West. And now they’ve added Championship experienced teammates and All Star level talents like McGee and the young future All Stars. They are very capable of being a 500% team without King James, that’s a reason he picked them over say the Knicks.
Their chemistry is starting to improve too zubac rondo whew
never seen a comment be so poorly inaccurate but accurate at the same time
That’s because the Knicks aren’t shit, this is just a common sense type of topic.
I don’t think Zuba Rondo will work that well b/c Rondo has to get close to be effective whereas Zuba Lebron, defenders can’t sag off of either.