Lakers Secure Top Six, West NBA Standings Shake-up

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00:00Here is how the West now looks after those results last night.

00:04The Lakers will be in the top six no matter what.

00:07They need another win to make sure that they're in the three spot.

00:11Denver's now the four.

00:12Clippers now the five.

00:13They're both 48-32.

00:16Memphis is 47-32.

00:19Golden State's 47-33.

00:22Minnesota's 46-33.

00:24So obviously Memphis and Minnesota, they have the extra game to play tonight,

00:28which is actually against each other, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:33So they will then all have two games left.

00:37Everyone plays Friday and Sunday.

00:39How about the Lakers?

00:39What, are they going to play Memphis?

00:41I mean, you talk about easy work.

00:44They'll kill them.

00:45Look, you know, Minnesota beats Memphis tonight,

00:49and suddenly I think Memphis falls to the eight.

00:51You know, I think that there's still so much that can happen

00:56over these last couple of games in terms of the jockeying of position.

01:01Right.

01:02You know, but that's, you know, three's where you want to be.

01:05I told you before.

01:06It sets up the six, Houston, and then no OKC to the West Final.

01:10So that's, I think, the primo spot out of where all these other teams are dealing with.

01:18That's for sure.

01:19All right, the Eastern Conference.

01:21I think the Rockets will actually beat them.

01:23And I think that it'll, I said this yesterday.

01:26I know that the Lakers are LeBron and Luka, super dangerous.

01:32I actually do believe that the Rockets are better than them.

01:36And I think the Rockets and Thunder, in my opinion,

01:40now I think the Hollywood script is Lakers, Thunder for the West.

01:45I think the better series, believe it or not, for my money,

01:49is those two young teams going end to end, up and down, all day, every day.

01:54That will be the best seven-game series ever.

01:57Now, if it's the Lakers, I think they can, you know,

02:02they can obviously beat anybody.

02:04But, you know, they're going to slow it down, in my view,

02:07and make it a half-court game.

02:09And I'd rather watch, frankly, I hate to say it, I think Luka's great,

02:13but I'd rather watch the Rockets and Thunder go up and down

02:16and just go off on each other.

02:18Seriously, is what I want to see in the Western Final.

02:22As far as the East goes, Magic did beat the Celtics,

02:26who sat everybody last night by 20, 96-76.

02:30You sent me this clip from Tatum.

02:32Here he is saying that the Celtics are not defending their title this year.

02:37Nobody can take that title last year away from them.

02:40Are you guys kind of itching to defend that title?

02:45Defend the title?

02:47No, not defend it, you know.

02:49Can't nobody take away what we did last year, winning the champs.

02:52In 2024, this is a new season, new year.

02:55Trying to go win another championship.

03:00What's the difference?

03:01You know, he's...

03:02You are the defending champs, moron.

03:05I mean, that's the bottom line.

03:06You're defending your title.

03:07You're going...

03:08Like, my team just won back-to-back.

03:11Like, that's what it is.

03:12You win back-to-back, you win back-to-back.

03:14You're defending your title when you're the champs.

03:16There's no other way of describing it.

03:17He's trying to give me some kind of Duke philosophy here.

03:20What is happening?

03:21Like, there's no other way around it.

03:23That's pretty much what he was trying to do there.

03:25By the way, his shoes are made too big.

03:27I told you, the 12s are 12 and a half.

03:30I can't take it anymore.

03:33You know, watch my heels slip in his shoes.

03:35This is $220 shoes that are too big.

03:38They say 12.

03:39They should say 12 and a half, bro.

03:40They're too big.

03:41But they stretch him at the factory.

03:44The Magic did clinch the 7 seed.

03:46The Bulls beat the Heat 119-111.

03:48Giddy had a triple-double 28-16 and 11.

03:52He's in good shape.

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