NBA Eastern Conference Showdown: Celtics, Cavs & Knicks

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00:00How about the Eastern Conference for you, still the Celtics plus 105, the Cavs have

00:07gotten a little closer, they're 3-1 now, and then the Knicks at 6-1, everyone else 11-1

00:13or longer there on the big board.

00:15Look, I gotta be honest with you, I'm gonna say it right now, at this point, Cleveland

00:21would beat the Knicks in a series.

00:24Now I know that the Knicks beat the Cavs in the playoffs, and I loved it, I enjoyed

00:32every minute of it, but that was a different team than this team.

00:36They had Randle, they had DiVincenzo, they were deeper, they had a better bench, they

00:41had Hardenstein, don't get me started on what that loss of that player did to this team.

00:48Now they have Jericho Simms now backing up Cat Towns, who is, you know, day-to-day every

00:54day.

00:55It's like, is he gonna play?

00:56Is he not gonna play?

00:57I won't deny that Cat Towns is a really good player, but when you have no bench, to me,

01:04Cleveland is hands-down better than the Knicks now.

01:07I think that if they play tomorrow in a series, the Cavs would win, and that's why they're

01:12ahead of the Knicks, flat out.

01:15They're deeper, they're better, they're younger, they're everything better than the Knicks.

01:20They really are.

01:21And I am not disagreeing with this at all.

01:23The Celtics are still head and shoulders in the East, the best team.

01:27When they want to play, they will destroy anyone.

01:30And it's, to me, Boston and Cleveland, and everything else is up in the air.

01:36Like, I don't buy the Bucs, I know how dangerous Giannis and Dame are, but they don't get it

01:43done, do they?

01:44Magic, I know how good Ben Carroll and Franz Wagner is, but is anyone really betting on

01:51them to go deep?

01:52No.

01:53Philly sucks, they're not going deep, even though everyone thinks they are.

01:57Christ, the team that plays better than all those teams on that list right there is the Pacers.