That's why Anthony Davis is the key to another championship if he can stay healthy throughout this series and win it because they know how to beat the Denver if they ever met at the Western Conference finals because they beat them once already in the past without a problem. I'm sure the GSW will gonna fix their game and will try hard to make a comeback because this round is so much important for them. they are facing the Lakers and LBJ which we know have been rivals for years now and also the fans already making huge noise after that 1 win by the Lakers.

The problem with him is that his stats have dropped a lot this season. Being a trash talker is not new to him, but the team wants someone who can do the job inside the court.

According to https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/brookdi01.htm

His PPG average this season is only 14.3

While the last  3 series are higher.

2019-20 16.2 pts
2020-21 17.2 pts
2021-22 18.4 pts

You can see that there's a huge decline.

It's okay that you won't join the hype and bandwagon as this is normal whenever rivals are playing and this isn't the finals game. We've got all our favorite teams and we expect more for our supporting team to come back which is the GSW. That shot of Poole has made rounds and it's funny that everyone is certainly feeling bad about that shot. If everyone's feeling bad on it, how much more Poole and the entirety of Golden State Warriors.

Bookies are insisting that Knicks are the better team in this series vs Heat and I see totally different than them. I see Heat as a finals contenders right now and last night it was Heat to played poorly rather than Knicks played good but I can see this series going down until game 7 with Heat moving further.

Lakers review the last game of GSW against the kings, as they really countered the known advantages of GSW. If you review how they made those counter attacks and how they limit the potential breakaway of the Warriors.

It's a team effort which is led by LeBron and Davis. Both are aggressive, not just with the offense, but also with the defense and rebounding.

But like what you said, it's just 1 game and the conclusion of the series will be decided once a team already won 4 games.

The final games of both Jokic and Embiid has been the deciding factor IMO.
In the final games, Jokic sit out, and didn't play because of injury while Embiid is out there carrying his team. I guess that's the reason why Embiid has picked the winner. I mean in most of the regular season, we don't know who will be the MVP because both of them are playing very well. It's just that Jokic got injured, sit out in the final games of the regular season, and Embiid is still playing. Anyway, I won my bet on this one big time. Congratulations to Embiid as well. Still Larry Bird is still the last player to win MVP 3x in a row back in the '80's I think.

Looks like the front office of the Grizzlies have enough of him already. His destroying the reputation of the team with his trash talks, and I guess we will all agree if I will say that he's the one who trash talks the most in the whole Grizzlies roster, but isn't converting it into stats, and still performing very awfully all throughout the season, and in this last playoffs against the Lakers.

Nevertheless, now that we know that the Grizzlies will not get him again, I wonder which team will try to get him? I hope that the Warriors will get him.   I mean Westbrook and Beverley became teammates in the Lakers at the start of the season, and we know the beef between the two of them back a few years ago. Don't take what I said very seriously because I don't think that the Warriors will get him anyway. Overall, I'm excited on which team will try and get him after what happened.

I heard about this and I can't really believe that the Grizzlies will do something like this for Brooks. I mean, I know he's not that kind of player that contributes within a decent average per game but sometime, his antics are somehow helpful for the team because he gets into the other team's heads. It's just that he crossed some lines doing such thing towards LeBron James and I'm even under the impression where the Grizzlies will praise him if his antics will be proven successful and that LeBron will ruin his own gameplay because of Brooks but because the opposite happened, Brooks was thrown under the bus so that the franchise will not be connected to the hate.

Ja may not be the best person you want on your team, but at least he is a great player, whereas Brooks talks so much and yet can't back that up, that's the difference. Morant may do some wild stuff and definitely would rather have Tim Duncanesque type of player who is a calm leader and not some wild youth who acts out, but at least Ja can drop 40 on a game, he has done that and can do that for a long time, dude can jump higher than Lebron, he was good.

Brooks on the other hand talked like he was some big deal, and then he ended up getting served, I am sorry but if you can't back up your talk then you are only hurting the team. Poke the bear if you going to beat the bear, but also keep the bear under 20 points or inefficient game if you can, if you can't then it makes no sense.