The Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns have done a tremendous job thus far in gifting the entire basketball world with what has become a truly epic NBA Finals matchup. It wasn't too long ago, however, that we all presumed that it was going to be the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets who were going to battle it out for this year's title.
The folks over on the mean streets of Twitter could not help but continue wondering how a Lakers-Nets Finals would have turned out if only the stars had aligned — and obviously if injuries did not get in the way. Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie decided to jump in on the debate and he had a pretty savage assessment for the Lakers chances if they actually went on to face off against Brooklyn in the NBA Finals:
Nets in 4 https://t.co/hmP8eRk0Fr
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) July 15, 2021
There's absolutely no chill from Dinwiddie here, who just destroyed the Lakers' title hopes against the Nets. He clearly believes that LeBron and Co. would have stood no chance against Brooklyn's Big 3 of Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving — again, in an ideal scenario wherein both teams were fully healthy. This dream sequence would have also featured a healthy Dinwiddie, who himself suffered a season-ending injury earlier in the campaign.
The good news for us NBA fans is that this dream matchup could actually still come to fruition next season. For his part, however, Dinwiddie has already been linked to a move away from Brooklyn in the summer, so if the Lakers and the Nets actually battle it out in the 2022 NBA Finals, then he could very well be watching that mouth-watering matchup from the comfort of his own home.
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