Who’s the BEST player from both teams in the Finals ?

I think it’s clearly Doncic. 

1. Luka

2. Tatum

3. Brown 

4. Kyrie 

3 and 4 can be flipped any given game. 

This series will come down to who wins their battles >>

Holiday, White, Horford, Pritchard 

PJ Washington, Gafford, Lively, Derrick Jones Jr.

Dallas is deeper.

Porzingiz obviously the X factor but I don’t know if he’ll play or how effective he’ll be. Also, dude is soft.

Leaning Dallas.

I think Dallas is Going to End Up Winning It.. In 6 Games At Dallas is My Read On it

The two best players are both on Dallas

Luka is a classless piece of crap, he runs his mouth too much.  Go get another tattoo Luka you piece of garbage.

I disagree

I think Kyrie is the real MVP

his leadership. His role modeling skills. 
They all look up to him. He’s the real GLUE for this team. Luca is just the shiny object everyone sees above the surface. 

Luka averages 8 more points, 4 more rebounds, and 4 more assists, while having the exact same eFG% as Kyrie. I'm a big Irving fan, but this is Luka's team.

@Viennaarsenal84

 I think you are trying to say he's the leader, not the MVP. The MVP isn't debatable...

@Duderonomy

 Agree. I have the top 4 as:

1. Luka

2. Kyrie

3. Tatum

4. Brown

Beyond that though I think the Celtics have the edge as Porzingis, Holiday, and White are better than anyone else the Mavs have.

Exactly correct!

Also agree the rest of the Celtics roster is better than Dallas, but not by as much as people think. Lively, Gafford and Washington are all underrated.

@ActionMagnet

 Luka feeds off negative crowd energy ! And boston got that so we’ll see who cooks ! But im leaning choke factors and i dont see both dallas stars choking vs i can see boston choking ! But also im just happy cuz i hammered dallas to win the west this year so im sittin pretty and prob wint come down from the high anytime soon so im. Backing dallas all the way ! 

every single thing you just said right here will get proven wrong 

Tatum is better than Luka and will find a way to win this series.

Boston is definitely the deeper team.

Dallas wasn’t a top 5 team in the west 6 months ago - nobody played. Kyrie and Luka are nice but they can combo for 60 a night and still lose this series. Boston has been the best team all season long.

The 6th best team in the West was better than the 2nd best team in the East. Being the "best team in the league" is not very hard when you are playing in the B league, and right now, the difference between the East and West is ENORMOUS!  Saying "Kyrie and Luka are nice" exposes your lack of basketball knowledge!  The Celtics might win this series because they are a very deep team... but the two best players both play for Dallas!

The Celtics just have too much fire power and depth Boston in 6 or less

@Duderonomy

Kyrie is a generational talent. He switches speeds better than anyone ever has. Luka is great on offense but a huge liability on defense. Boston will win this series in 5 or 6 games. Those two can average 60 combined and still lose this series. The match up issues exist for Dallas and not Boston. Boston can switch everything on D and get severe mismatches on O by hunting weak defenders w high screens. All Boston has to worry about Dallas doing is putting horford on an Island and blitzing>rotating those situations. The Celtics are going to be shooting wide open three pointers all series because the mavs don’t have the man power in any way shape or form to compete with them. The only team that can beat the Celtics is the Celtics, and the Mavs will melt and fall apart by halftime of game 3. The more I think about it, it’s just Celts in 5. This is an easy one.

oh and Duderonomy, I’ve followed the shit you post for years and years as a source of entertainment. I’ve forgotten more about basketball than you’ll ever know, and now everyone in here gets to see that.

celtics and panthers to win it all, both easily. Good luck.

Some Series Thoughts:

I will piggyback off "THE DUDE" here about the Mavs and add:

Better coach

Best player on the court (Luka) and best closer (Kyrie)

Best defensive/hottest team coming into the playoffs

Most battle tested/MUCH better conference/playoff competition

Luka's been banged up and now gets a week off (he's not even playing at previous MVP level yet)

Boston was the most efficient offense during regular season in NBA history, BUT guess what?  They've looked like complete dogshit the whole playoffs. Medicore 7-7 ATS and watching Tatum in the 4th/clutch situations has been a hard watch. It's like last year with losing games at home when you shouldn't, not making adjustments 2H, and no ball movement when setting up rotations drives me nuts. Now Porzingus has been out for a whole month. will be rusty, and possibly injury prone. Setting all sorts of screens for Luka is a thing of damn science now. Boston defense has been stellar, but the Wolves were the #1 defense all season and Luka lit up McDaniels who was All-Defense. Boston lives and dies by the three, and if they stop that GGs.

I still have a futures ticket on Boston though and I think they can win but I can't see how this won't be a close series. Boston is definitely a deeper team and should be able to spread out the Mavs around the perimeter for more success. They have more defensive players to throw at the Mavs guards too.  I could go on about Boston being great, but I just like how the Mavs are playing RIGHT NOW compared to what we've seen from the Celtics. The Mavs pass the eye test. With all this said, the Celtics are nicely favored for a reason, so we will see what happens...

Also, Derrick White could silently be the X factor

A whole week away...smh

You obviously haven't followed the very select number of bets that I've made.  To be fair, I haven't followed anything you've ever said on this site about any sport... I do believe you have forgotten a lot about basketball, though.

The fact that your analysis only takes into account two players on the Mavs tells me you haven't been following these playoffs very closely.

@kevmode

everyone knows you hate luka bro. lol. stop hatin before he pops another 3 in yo mouf

@BigPell

 boston has been the best team the past 2-3 years. and just cuz they been to the finals the past 2-3 years, doesnt mean they will win this year. 

CELTIC LOOKED AVERAGE SO FAR IN THE PLAYOFFS. THEY CAN BE BETTER. JOE MAZULLA IS NOT HIM. IF BOSTON LOSES, MAZULLA IS GONE YA HURD ME

Key for Dallas is always Doncic and Irving.

I believe the key for Boston is Porzingis. He's suppose to be ready for game 1. If he's healthy Boston can win, if not it's Dallas all the way.

the key to this series is who has the best coaching.