2021 NBA All-Star Draft - Team LeBron vs Team Durant - Inside The NBA

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game in atlanta airs at 5:30 or 5:00 we have plenty before the game including taco bell skills challenge three point contest got the dunk at halftime The game is on at eight o'clock and you will see it on TNT. There are many memories to be made each

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year. Yes, indeed, let's join your first All-Star good man party. Here's your first All-Star Game. You get 108. It seems like just the blink of an eye, right? It was in 2010 in Dallas with about a million people in the stands, uh, yeah, I mean, I was nervous about talking to Brian in that little sequence right there, but it was fun, for sure, and I know I had you fooled.

I'll never forget that day you were the MVP I was I was uh it could have been for Brian it could have been uh soft but I have a chance to get it so you know you guys have been an all-star game, chuck you. I want to, you want to try to take some kind of trophy one time, so I was able to do it, yeah, I was lucky to win the MVP one year, I think it was in Charlotte and it's always an honor, yeah, I was. lucky to play in 11 all star games and every time it's special you think it was, you don't remember the moment you got the MVP, stop it, I don't know what city, I actually don't think it would come.

It was like 20, that was 27 years ago, I don't remember what I was doing 27 years ago, yeah, hey, let's go over the rules, shall we? The

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rules are so basic that even Charles understands them. Lebron as a leader. whoever gets votes overall will be selected first, he and Kevin will alternate picking first among the starters, the only twist is that with kd out, Jayson Tatum replaced him as the starter, so there are nine starters to choose from instead of eight, so what after Lebron's fourth pick, the last. two players left will go to the

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and kevin will have the first choice of the reserves, everyone is in order with the rules, everyone is ready to start, okay, I see a knowing nod from both captains,

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selects giannis and the greek monster went charles and kenny were also on board with that k.d the first pick was made who did you get with the second pick in

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stars i'm going to draft kyrie irving, brooklyn's teammate goes kevin

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, this is developing the way I thought it might unfold, lebron, especially if you take the guy I'm thinking you're going to take right now.

I come out with my second choice. Team Lebron selects Chef Curry from the Golden State Warriors. Why did you know it was going to be like this? How did you know he wasn't? I'm sure I really thought he was going to accept. luca oh man if i had the chance to pick giannis and steph oh no with my first two picks i think i would go in that direction yeah how are you going to do it how are you going to go wrong when you pick in this field? No so go ahead kevin for me well my second pick I'm going to go to Joe Ellenbee yeah that's it yeah that's right he's got to balance it out since he's not playing he's got to give Kyrie to someone he likes, he can throw that ball in too, okay, I like it. that's cool lebron with my forehead with my third pick um I'm going to go with luca magic from the dallas mavericks you still have them bro I have them for team lebron but you have them for team lebron okay I know inside jokes ain't allowed here you have four you have four names four names up there among the starters uh kevin durant what are you thinking well my third pick I'm going to go with the 2020 All-Star Game MVP kawhi leonard yeah, he won it In Chicago a year ago, Lebron, you can choose between those three and then the next two will automatically go to Kevin and with my last pick to round out my starting five, I'll choose the card you can't use on Blu-ray or gut nine triple doubles for the wild card is that he's the choice lebron joker finale among the headlines which means that's the big joke which means kevin durant gets the league's leading scorer in bradley beal who has 21 games of 30 or more and jason tatum who did it due to his ranking in the voting and the voting was moved to the starting field, so the starting lineups are set for the 2021 All-Star Game.

Initial thoughts there, I just want to know for Lebron since he can pick first every year, do you already have a move like playing chess? He's okay, he's going to pick this guy, so I'm going to pick that guy. Do you already have a plan? Yeah, I mean, sometimes it gets a little derailed, but I have some kind of system of, you know, knowing who I'd like to go with, you know, with my first pick and then going from there, you know, previously, obviously, I took K.D with my first pick one year like Well, so I try to get, you know, the best ones available that I think could fit my skill set, you know, with my first pick and then understand who I'm going against, who I'm going against. they can go with the following choice and type. to have my second pick after that, but after that I don't know because there are a lot of great players, hey Kevin, you know, we've compared this in the past to the schoolyard where everyone knows they're going to play a game and everything on the dmv selection sides, uh, were you always the first choice, yeah, first or second choice, yeah, yeah, if you were second, who was first, yeah, that guy, that's the guy at that you need the phone like you're 12 years older than like, where is it okay?

Let's jump to the reserves here, whoever moves forward was the first guy caught before K.D. We needed whoever was the first guy captured before KD. Back then, K.D needed to take him to his Hall of Fame speech last time. time kd was the number two pick he had three uh so uh kevin you got the first pick among the backup man so I got it I mean this is a pretty obvious pick um yeah it's a safe place in Brooklyn yeah , exactly, of course, yes, certainly. Okay, my bad, yeah, okay, Lebron with my first pick, uh, in the second round, I'm going to go with, it's time to go to the Portland Trail.

A lot of people thought he should have been a starter in the first place, he's a reserve and he. he's a member of team lebron, he only thought that before because he should have been a starter cam, i thought he was about to go with chris paul, friendly, friendly, right there, he's going for the money, I like it, I like it, you like that one six man who You have who you have, second pick of the second round. I'm going to go with Devin Devin Booker replacing Anthony Davis uh and that's a good one obviously it shouldn't have gone that far as we see you know you two have.

I looked at this and said, "Hey, that's a good pick, that's a good pick. You know, a couple years ago, Lebron, a deal was made in the commercial break before our final segment, so keep that in mind anyway." , exchanges are allowed only three minutes after the end." shows yeah, okay, okay, you're up, Lebron with my second pick in the second round. I'm going to go with Ben Simmons sir, he plays hard every possession for the Philadelphia 76ers. A knowing nod from Casey. Adjectives also from Lebron. He's fine, he looks impressed. like he was here so what you have there the players left what you have kevin wanted this on this I want to duck well my third pick in the second round I'm going to be zion williamson oh first time All-Star oh I like that paint oh hi , I wanted that pick oh that's a good pick kd tray 5.

Yeah what's your answer is it kt seven now or I like swap five it sounds better but I also like this kd7 I like it um wow , with my third choice. um, in the second round I will go with the general point of the court, god chris paul of the phoenix suns, since charles likes to say the best leader in the nba and then he needs to be in the mvp conversation also chris paul, what I will go up. oh, okay, it will be a conversation about MVP. He's playing great basketball. I assure. Great basketball with my fourth pick.

I'm really excited about this one in the second round. I'm going with Zach Levine for the first time. star zach lavina the chicago bulls sniper team duran yes duran putting together he's got some versatility there the kid's got the game that kid got it let's get it there's nothing wrong there's no way he's getting it you guys act like these guys They were picking like real players out of the hood, these guys, all these guys can play, there are no bad picks here and Lebron has the next man up with my fourth pick in the second round.

I'm going with Jalen, the underappreciated brown Boston Celtics, also for the first time. All-Star in 2021, so Jaylen Brown goes to Lebron one, two, three, four, five, six names left, k.d, I'll take those six. I like that fifth pick in the second round. This guy is going crazy this year. First time All-Star, Julius Randle. You just got a tri-state area of ​​New York. I am very happy for Julius Ramsey. It's pretty fantastic this year and the New York Knicks, yeah, and you should be happy for the next one. You should be happy because the Tibs have done it.

Tibs West have done a great job placing 500 so far this year, you sure have five nations, yeah, in the second round, my fifth pick in the second round. This is the only time I will support this guy. or this team because we are enemies no, I'm just making fun but I'm going with paul george pg-13 of the los angeles clippers four names left two of those play for the team with the best record in the nba the utah jazz let's see where kevin durant the sixth second round pick for the durant team this guy has been playing in orlando for the last two years i'm going to go with vuchevich kendrick perkins i can't say his name right but i got it right second time around all-star nikola vujovic and he's on team Durant.

Okay, you have three left up there. Yes, I have to get a small size. You know, I'm missing a size small with my second group, so with my sixth pick. I'm going to go with big indiana sabonis demon sabonis I tell you what man was not voted into the reserve but because of the injury, well, first of all, he should have been a reserve back, but this is this, I'm not going for this. I'm not going for this Utah jazz smear right now I this is a smear america oh no shaq no shaq it's not in your ear it's him come on what's going on here we go uh kd you're in the 7th pick, last pick for me, I need a basket I'm going to give myself a bucket okay let me get donovan mitchell uh 27 and eight utah jazz as we speak uh represented by those two players donovan mitchell goes to team durant and rudy gobert goes to team lebron before we get there just me I just want to say something because there's no slander, there's no slander for Utah Jazz, but you guys have to understand, you guys have to understand, like in video games, growing up, we never played Utah, not even as good as Carl Malone and John Stockton.

I've never picked those guys in video games never leave me this is the video wait we have to leave it there we have to take it out now can you say something I have to say lebron says I really need some size and he has seven five four bears on the right and he goes with six two seven no one plays video games, I just knew he was going to back off a little bit.