NBA Reacts – Trade Deadline reactions and Finals predictions

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Followers had been polled concerning the commerce deadline and its impacts on the NBA Finals and so they had plenty of opinions.

Arduous to argue with that evaluation. We’re all collectively nonetheless baffled by the chain of occasions.

Once more, not terribly shocking, although not very appetizing from a Celtics fan perspective. Until after all Luka leaves in free company and wins a title elsewhere.

I’ve been saying this for some time. The Celtics higher win their titles now as a result of Wemby is coming and he’s almost definitely going to have a stable (or higher) supporting forged. I believe the potential is there for a number of titles (assuming affordable damage luck).

The disrespect! The defending/attacking champion Celtics are solely getting 19% of the vote to the Thunder’s 37%. Whereas Boston has been a bit up and down this 12 months, I believe I like our probabilities within the Finals higher than that.

(Word that the Celtics are +580 to beat the OKC Thunder within the Finals on FanDuel Sportsbook.)

That is in all probability the suitable alternative since Luka takes the Lakers from a probable early spherical knockout workforce to a legit contender to come back out of the West. Jimmy Butler provides the Warriors a brand new star so as to add to their roster with out giving up an excessive amount of of their future property, however I’d give the Lakers an edge over them within the playoffs nonetheless. We’ll see although.

What had been your deadline takeaways? Any reactions to the above ballot outcomes?