April 24, 2025 • 14 mins
I break down my top ten favorite NBA player matchups that showcase the league's most compelling rivalries, from established superstars to rising young talent.
• Stephen Curry vs Kevin Durant vs LeBron James takes the top spot as three of the greatest players in NBA history still delivering elite performances
• Nikola Jokić vs Luka Dončić ranks second, featuring two international superstars who could be considered the top two players in the league
• Jayson Tatum vs Nikola Jokić creates an intriguing battle between Eastern and Western Conference stars
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander vs Anthony Edwards represents a clash between current and future MVP candidates
• Amen Thompson vs Anthony Edwards emerges as a potentially elite future rivalry with Thompson showing defensive skills against Edwards
• Giannis vs Jokić vs a healthy Embiid showcases three different styles of dominant big men
• Celtics vs Lakers matchups featuring Brown vs Luka and Tatum vs LeBron continue the historic rivalry
• Anthony Edwards vs Jokić and Murray displays the battle between killer instinct and playmaking excellence
• Anthony Edwards vs Stephen Curry highlights the passing of the torch from established to rising star
• Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown vs Steph Curry and Jimmy Butler would create an epic superstar showdown
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's up everybody.
It's your favorite show'sfavorite show.
Get a Bucket.
I'm your host, trayn, as usual.
I hope you're all having awonderful, wonderful day.
Today we're going to talk abouthere, my, my top current NBA
matchups.
But before we do that, pleasemake sure you hit that like and
subscribe button.
Please make sure to comment,tell anyone who's anyone about
the show, trying to get theratings up a little bit.
(00:21):
You know, just a little bit.
And y'all might be wonderingwhy do I have on a robe?
Well, because I'm chillingright now.
I'm still, you know, I'm stilldiligent, but you know, I got, I
got all my, I got on my mugthat says I intend, I don't
intend on doing anything today.
Well, that might be a lie,because I intend on watching my
favorite matchups, that's right,my highlights and whatnot.
(00:43):
I'm gonna peep them.
I'm gonna talk watching myfavorite matchups, that's right,
my highlights and whatnot.
I'm going to talk about myfavorite matchups real quick
Because, again, they're myfavorite matchups.
So, again, that's what we'retalking about, ladies and
gentlemen.
So let's go ahead and get itpopping off, shall we?
With my favorite matchups, topten.
That's what we got to talkabout.
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Number ten, ladies and gentlemen, this is a new one.
It's Jason Tatum and JalenBrown versus Steph Curry and
Jimmy Butler.
Now, we've seen Steph go upagainst JT and JB.
We've seen Jimmy go up againstJT and JB.
We've never seen Steph andJimmy go up against JT and JB,
and keep in mind, those twoseparate battles were
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spectacular.
So I'm imagining this would begrandiose if we could see it
happen.
Right, it has to be in thefinals, of course, for the
playoffs to happen During theregular season.
Definitely going to beentertaining, but playoffs
finals got to watch that.
So, again to be entertaining,but playoffs finals gotta watch
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that.
So, again, that's my number 10,personally, personally, but I'm
curious what y'all think aboutthat.
So, definitely comment, let meknow what y'all think about jb
and jt versus steph and jimmy.
But let's go ahead and move onup to uh, number nine, because
it's a similar topic anthonyedwards versus steph curry.
Ladies and gentlemen, we stillgot Steph on the on the
itinerary right now, but keep inmind, he's going up against the
young gun and Anthony Edwards,and when I look at these two, I
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see two great players, orpotentially great players, and
we're talking about AnthonyEdwards, steph Curry, the
greatest shooter we've ever seen.
But then you see someone likeAnthony Edwards making more
threes than Steph Curry, andwhen you look at his archetype,
anthony Edwards meaning heseemed more like an athletic
slasher coming out the gates,right, the scorer type, not the
three-point shooter that he'sdisplayed.
So again, when I see this, Isee and we always put Anthony
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Edwards in the Jordan category,right, oh, he's a young MJ, all
right, cool, we'll see himversus Steph.
It's the new, current,up-and-coming guard versus the
not necessarily older guard, butyeah, kind of older guard too
Steph 36, 37.
We're not going to see Stephafter like five seasons of play,
let's be honest.
So, again, I love to see thesematchups because it's kind of
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like the past versus the presentgoing up against one another.
So, ant versus Steph, I'malways looking to watch.
But enough of that one.
Let's go on and move up to thenext one, shall we?
Which again encompasses Antbattling Jokic and Murray.
Because I actually talked aboutwhich player would I rather
have, at least archetype-wiseWould it be the killer in
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Anthony Edwards or the playmakerin Nikola Jokic?
And I went Anthony Edwards.
That's the player I thinkeverybody wants to have on their
team.
Right, you want both, but ifyou had to choose, you might
lean the killer, notspecifically Anthony Edwards or
Nikola Jokic.
Talking about the killer, right, look how we look at MJ versus
Braun, for example.
So again, that's what I'mtalking about.
And then also how AnthonyEdwards locked up Jamal Murray.
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How Anthony Edwards locked upJamal Murray.
Jamal Murray's a good playertoo, let's not forget like,
let's not act like.
Jamal Murray is trash, butAnthony Edwards did pretty well
against Jamal Murray.
Like it wasn't that good of aseries for Jamal.
So that matchup, personally,it's showcasing again a kind of
current uphill for AnthonyEdwards and then still a test
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for Nikola Jokic, because Ithink those two players are
capable of winning achampionship and leading a team
to a championship.
So that's the reason why I putthose at the top matchup for me.
But again, let's move on up tonumber seven, because I've
talked about number eight longenough, right?
Uh, we got here Jalen Brownversus Luka and JT versus Braun.
We're talking about Celticsversus the Lakers right now,
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which, again, I'm a Laker fan,ladies and gentlemen.
So for me it's an entertainingone, but I'm also a Duke fan too
, so I do support Jason Tatum aswell, keep in mind.
So I'm not torn because of that.
But I would favor my Lakers.
But again, I do support bothteams a little bit.
So again me watching Jalen Browngo up against Luka, which we
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saw in the finals just last year, and then JT versus Braun.
Let's not forget JT's rookieyear dunked on Braun.
We've been trying to put JTversus Braun for years now.
If we could see that in thefinals, that would be wonderful
to watch and that's when itwould happen.
But the matchup overall, nomatter when we're watching a
regular season or finals, Iwould like to see that occur and
I think it would provide a lotof entertainment and the masses
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would definitely rock with this.
But again, it's number sevenfor me.
That's what we got.
Let's move on up to number six,shall we?
Which is Giannis versus Jokic,or a healthy Embiid and I put
healthy as the mean caveat,because if he's not healthy I
don't care about it as much JoelEmbiid has to be healthy for
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him to even be on this list.
So that's again the maindisclaimer.
I don't feel like hearinganybody complain about that.
But Giannis and Jokic anytime Isee them go up against one
another, gotta watch that.
They're two of the eliteplayers the game has had over
the last five years.
You have to watch those twobattle, not to mention their
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styles of play, are talked about.
Which one would you ratherprefer?
Jokic is viewed as a skilledplayer.
Giannis is viewed as that bruteforce, right?
Which style of big would yourather have on your team to
build around?
That's a quality conversationto talk about.
And again, international bigstoo.
We got to love this matchup.
So Jokic versus Giannis.
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And when we mentioned a healthyEmbiid, there's arguably no
more dominant player in the gamethan a healthy Embiid.
But again, health is the mainthing.
So that's my number six.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's goahead and move on up to my
number five, and keep in mind,too, my number six.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's goahead and move on up to my
number five and keep in mind too, for number six, all of those
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were MVPs, by the way.
You got to love that.
But and worthy of it too, don'tslight people.
But number five, and this one'sgoing to be tricky, because I
know some of y'all are going tosay how in the world is this up
here?
Amin Thompson versus AnthonyEdwards.
This might be a hot take.
I truly do view Amin Thompsonas one of the players who could
possibly be a face of the NBA.
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I said a face of the NBA.
And the reason why I love thismatchup is because when I see
Anthony Edwards, there's veryfew players that we see that can
kind of contain Anthony Edwards.
When I think of players, Ithink maybe a Scottie Barnes
could do well, right, aminThompson is in the right
situation because on the Rocketstheir team is pretty good right
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, like they could be successful,and he's good enough to be the
leader on the championship team.
So for me, when I look at thesetwo, I love the matchup.
But also, amin actually does agood job of defending Anthony
Edwards.
So for me, when I'm looking atAnthony Edwards or Amin Thompson
, I'm thinking of a futurerivalry that we could be
watching, whether AnthonyEdwards remains on the Wolves or
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whether Amin Thompson remainson the Rockets.
Those two players could bebattling it out and, honestly,
if we had Anthony Edwards pairedwith someone like Armin
Thompson or Scottie Barnes, theleague may want to watch out
because that would be a qualityduo to build around.
I'm not going to lie to you.
But again, that's my numberfive.
Let's move on up to my numberfour, which again encompasses
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Ant.
Y'all might think Ant's myfavorite player.
I'm just realizing this, butit's Shea versus Anthony Edwards
.
Ladies and gentlemen, when I'mwatching these two dynamic
guards go up against one another, shea's the MVP candidate.
Anthony Edwards has MVPexpectations at some point in
time in the near future, right?
So when they're going upagainst one another, you got to
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watch these matchups.
Anthony Edwards has thepotential to be better than Shea
Gildress Alexander, but SheaGildress Alexander, like I said,
is the MVP candidate.
He's viewed as one of the bestplayers in the league.
And when we're talking aboutdominance, both players are
dominant offensively anddefensively, at minimum
perception-wise.
So, again, when I'm watchingthese two, we're talking about
future stars.
Shea Gildress Alexander is aperson that Anthony Edwards has
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to usurp in order to become oneof the faces, of the true faces,
or at least the face of the NBA, because Shade is a solid
player.
So, again, when I watch thesetwo play they've had a quality
back and forth already in theirhistory.
I think it's going to be arivalry that the NBA is trying
to pair up again.
So I'd love to watch thatmatchup.
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I think y'all should too.
But let's go ahead and move ondown to the number three top
matchup for me, which is JasonTatum versus Nikola Jokic.
And I understand you might havesome gripes about having JT
versus Nikola Jokic, but we gotto remember too, jt's been in
the MVP discussion for quitesome time.
He's been viewed as the bestplayer on the Celtics, even
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though the Celtics have had atop team.
Now keep in mind Jalen Browndid win finals MVP.
Jason Tatum versus Jokic, in alot of folks' eyes is the
premier matchup.
No shade to either Jason Tatumor Jalen Brown.
The perceived matchup would beJason Tatum versus Nicola Jokic.
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And we're talking about ability.
Wise JT does have more abilitythan JB.
So again, if we want to look atCeltics versus Nuggets cool,
just understand, at least forthis season, jt versus Jokic
would be the faces of thatmatchup.
There's a lot of matchups and alot of talk, of talking points
within the Celtics versus N ofthat matchup.
There's a lot of matchups and alot of talking points within
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the Celtics versus Nuggetsmatchup JT versus Jokic because
they at least are viewed as thestars of their team.
But again, that's the mainreason why.
So we don't have to talk aboutnumber three as much.
I think that would be a decentbattle.
A lot of folks might leanJokic's way.
That's why I'm not trying totalk about it as much, but it'd
be a good battle.
So let's move on down to numbertwo, which again encompasses
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Jokic.
I know somebody was going tosay, oh, he's going to talk
about Anthony Edwards again.
No, no, no, no, it's Jokicversus Luka.
I guess Luka versus Jokic.
Based on how it's written Right, those two easily can be
perceived as number one andnumber two in the league point
in time.
Like if someone said that I'mnot going to say they're stupid,
you might not agree.
You can't say they stupid likeat at all whatsoever.
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So for me, when I'm watchingthis, I'm watching two
international players who playat an mvp level get a bucket.
I just cocked.
I had to back, cock my feet upand relax.
When I'm watching them play,I'm going to get a lot of
playmaking.
I'm going to get a lot ofdazzling plays on the court
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Offensively.
We're not talking aboutdefensive, we were talking about
offensively, like we're goingto get some solid rebounds, some
deep threes.
You're going to see some goodbasketball, again focusing
offensively.
It's an entertaining matchupbetween those two.
So Luka versus Jokic.
I got to watch that matchuppersonally.
That's just me Not just becausetwo Lukas on the Lakers, my
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Lakers, it was even when he wason the Mavs.
It was more interesting when hewas on the Mavs.
Honestly, right now I don'tknow they're talking about Luka
and Jokic possibly trying topair up.
I think Jokic I mean Luka, andGiannis might pair up just
because Giannis can leaveearlier.
But that's just me.
That's just me.
Let's go ahead and move on downto my number one, though.
My number one.
I always kick back and relaxwhen I'm watching these guys
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play, and that's Steph versus KDversus Braun.
Reason why Steph and KD are myfavorite players for starters
off top, but Braun also is oneof the greatest players that
we've seen play as well, tooReally, all three of them are
three of the greatest playersthat we've seen play as well,
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too Really, all three of themare one of the greatest, or
three of the greatest playersthat we've seen play in the
history of the game.
Steph and Braun we can talkabout in the NBA's top 10.
And then we talk about KevinDurant.
I personally think Kevin Durantis the better NBA player out of
all of them About career,though, not so much.
So, again, when we're watchingall of these people play, it's
always entertaining because youget the history, the nostalgia
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vibes of it Right, and then youget the oh my play is better
than your player conversationsstill, and they're giving us
elite level play.
There's pressure on all threeevery season, arguably the most
pressure on all three everyseason.
So again, when I watch theseguys play whether it's regular
season or playoffs I got to belocked in and tuned in and keep
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in mind regular season, I canenjoy and appreciate it a little
bit more than I can playoffs,because playoffs that's when the
pressure builds.
So again, ladies and gentlemen,these are all of my top
matchups and I understand someof y'all might have some
different opinions like hey,whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
where is this person and thatperson I could have thrown, who
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I the Grizzlies versus theWarriors maybe Could have, but
does that really appease me?
See, that's my top matchup.
So I'm curious what y'all topmatchups, matchups, I'm sorry.
So definitely comment youranswers.
But, ladies and gentlemen, boysand girls, that is the end of
the episode.
So I definitely appreciate youall for listening.
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Thank you, and well, you knowlike, subscribe, comment, tell
anyone who's anyone about theshow.
My name is Trey.
I'm the host of Get a Bucket.
Hope you all are having a.
What's up everybody.
It's your favorite show'sfavorite show.
Get a Bucket.
I'm your host, trayn, as usual.
I hope you're all having awonderful, wonderful day.
Today we're going to talk abouthere, my, my top current NBA
matchups.
But before we do that, pleasemake sure you hit that like and
subscribe button.
Please make sure to comment,tell anyone who's anyone about
the show, trying to get theratings up a little bit.
(00:21):
You know, just a little bit.
And y'all might be wonderingwhy do I have on a robe?
Well, because I'm chillingright now.
I'm still, you know, I'm stilldiligent, but you know, I got, I
got all my, I got on my mugthat says I intend, I don't
intend on doing anything today.
Well, that might be a lie,because I intend on watching my
favorite matchups, that's right,my highlights and whatnot.
(00:43):
I'm gonna peep them.
I'm gonna talk watching myfavorite matchups, that's right,
my highlights and whatnot.
I'm going to talk about myfavorite matchups real quick
Because, again, they're myfavorite matchups.
So, again, that's what we'retalking about, ladies and
gentlemen.
So let's go ahead and get itpopping off, shall we?
With my favorite matchups, topten.
That's what we got to talkabout.
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Number ten, ladies and gentlemen, this is a new one.
It's Jason Tatum and JalenBrown versus Steph Curry and
Jimmy Butler.
Now, we've seen Steph go upagainst JT and JB.
We've seen Jimmy go up againstJT and JB.
We've never seen Steph andJimmy go up against JT and JB,
and keep in mind, those twoseparate battles were
(01:28):
spectacular.
So I'm imagining this would begrandiose if we could see it
happen.
Right, it has to be in thefinals, of course, for the
playoffs to happen During theregular season.
Definitely going to beentertaining, but playoffs
finals got to watch that.
So, again to be entertaining,but playoffs finals gotta watch
(01:49):
that.
So, again, that's my number 10,personally, personally, but I'm
curious what y'all think aboutthat.
So, definitely comment, let meknow what y'all think about jb
and jt versus steph and jimmy.
But let's go ahead and move onup to uh, number nine, because
it's a similar topic anthonyedwards versus steph curry.
Ladies and gentlemen, we stillgot Steph on the on the
itinerary right now, but keep inmind, he's going up against the
young gun and Anthony Edwards,and when I look at these two, I
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see two great players, orpotentially great players, and
we're talking about AnthonyEdwards, steph Curry, the
greatest shooter we've ever seen.
But then you see someone likeAnthony Edwards making more
threes than Steph Curry, andwhen you look at his archetype,
anthony Edwards meaning heseemed more like an athletic
slasher coming out the gates,right, the scorer type, not the
three-point shooter that he'sdisplayed.
So again, when I see this, Isee and we always put Anthony
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Edwards in the Jordan category,right, oh, he's a young MJ, all
right, cool, we'll see himversus Steph.
It's the new, current,up-and-coming guard versus the
not necessarily older guard, butyeah, kind of older guard too
Steph 36, 37.
We're not going to see Stephafter like five seasons of play,
let's be honest.
So, again, I love to see thesematchups because it's kind of
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like the past versus the presentgoing up against one another.
So, ant versus Steph, I'malways looking to watch.
But enough of that one.
Let's go on and move up to thenext one, shall we?
Which again encompasses Antbattling Jokic and Murray.
Because I actually talked aboutwhich player would I rather
have, at least archetype-wiseWould it be the killer in
(03:20):
Anthony Edwards or the playmakerin Nikola Jokic?
And I went Anthony Edwards.
That's the player I thinkeverybody wants to have on their
team.
Right, you want both, but ifyou had to choose, you might
lean the killer, notspecifically Anthony Edwards or
Nikola Jokic.
Talking about the killer, right, look how we look at MJ versus
Braun, for example.
So again, that's what I'mtalking about.
And then also how AnthonyEdwards locked up Jamal Murray.
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How Anthony Edwards locked upJamal Murray.
Jamal Murray's a good playertoo, let's not forget like,
let's not act like.
Jamal Murray is trash, butAnthony Edwards did pretty well
against Jamal Murray.
Like it wasn't that good of aseries for Jamal.
So that matchup, personally,it's showcasing again a kind of
current uphill for AnthonyEdwards and then still a test
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for Nikola Jokic, because Ithink those two players are
capable of winning achampionship and leading a team
to a championship.
So that's the reason why I putthose at the top matchup for me.
But again, let's move on up tonumber seven, because I've
talked about number eight longenough, right?
Uh, we got here Jalen Brownversus Luka and JT versus Braun.
We're talking about Celticsversus the Lakers right now,
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which, again, I'm a Laker fan,ladies and gentlemen.
So for me it's an entertainingone, but I'm also a Duke fan too
, so I do support Jason Tatum aswell, keep in mind.
So I'm not torn because of that.
But I would favor my Lakers.
But again, I do support bothteams a little bit.
So again me watching Jalen Browngo up against Luka, which we
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saw in the finals just last year, and then JT versus Braun.
Let's not forget JT's rookieyear dunked on Braun.
We've been trying to put JTversus Braun for years now.
If we could see that in thefinals, that would be wonderful
to watch and that's when itwould happen.
But the matchup overall, nomatter when we're watching a
regular season or finals, Iwould like to see that occur and
I think it would provide a lotof entertainment and the masses
(05:09):
would definitely rock with this.
But again, it's number sevenfor me.
That's what we got.
Let's move on up to number six,shall we?
Which is Giannis versus Jokic,or a healthy Embiid and I put
healthy as the mean caveat,because if he's not healthy I
don't care about it as much JoelEmbiid has to be healthy for
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him to even be on this list.
So that's again the maindisclaimer.
I don't feel like hearinganybody complain about that.
But Giannis and Jokic anytime Isee them go up against one
another, gotta watch that.
They're two of the eliteplayers the game has had over
the last five years.
You have to watch those twobattle, not to mention their
(05:51):
styles of play, are talked about.
Which one would you ratherprefer?
Jokic is viewed as a skilledplayer.
Giannis is viewed as that bruteforce, right?
Which style of big would yourather have on your team to
build around?
That's a quality conversationto talk about.
And again, international bigstoo.
We got to love this matchup.
So Jokic versus Giannis.
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And when we mentioned a healthyEmbiid, there's arguably no
more dominant player in the gamethan a healthy Embiid.
But again, health is the mainthing.
So that's my number six.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's goahead and move on up to my
number five, and keep in mind,too, my number six.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's goahead and move on up to my
number five and keep in mind too, for number six, all of those
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were MVPs, by the way.
You got to love that.
But and worthy of it too, don'tslight people.
But number five, and this one'sgoing to be tricky, because I
know some of y'all are going tosay how in the world is this up
here?
Amin Thompson versus AnthonyEdwards.
This might be a hot take.
I truly do view Amin Thompsonas one of the players who could
possibly be a face of the NBA.
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I said a face of the NBA.
And the reason why I love thismatchup is because when I see
Anthony Edwards, there's veryfew players that we see that can
kind of contain Anthony Edwards.
When I think of players, Ithink maybe a Scottie Barnes
could do well, right, aminThompson is in the right
situation because on the Rocketstheir team is pretty good right
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, like they could be successful,and he's good enough to be the
leader on the championship team.
So for me, when I look at thesetwo, I love the matchup.
But also, amin actually does agood job of defending Anthony
Edwards.
So for me, when I'm looking atAnthony Edwards or Amin Thompson
, I'm thinking of a futurerivalry that we could be
watching, whether AnthonyEdwards remains on the Wolves or
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whether Amin Thompson remainson the Rockets.
Those two players could bebattling it out and, honestly,
if we had Anthony Edwards pairedwith someone like Armin
Thompson or Scottie Barnes, theleague may want to watch out
because that would be a qualityduo to build around.
I'm not going to lie to you.
But again, that's my numberfive.
Let's move on up to my numberfour, which again encompasses
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Ant.
Y'all might think Ant's myfavorite player.
I'm just realizing this, butit's Shea versus Anthony Edwards
.
Ladies and gentlemen, when I'mwatching these two dynamic
guards go up against one another, shea's the MVP candidate.
Anthony Edwards has MVPexpectations at some point in
time in the near future, right?
So when they're going upagainst one another, you got to
(08:17):
watch these matchups.
Anthony Edwards has thepotential to be better than Shea
Gildress Alexander, but SheaGildress Alexander, like I said,
is the MVP candidate.
He's viewed as one of the bestplayers in the league.
And when we're talking aboutdominance, both players are
dominant offensively anddefensively, at minimum
perception-wise.
So, again, when I'm watchingthese two, we're talking about
future stars.
Shea Gildress Alexander is aperson that Anthony Edwards has
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to usurp in order to become oneof the faces, of the true faces,
or at least the face of the NBA, because Shade is a solid
player.
So, again, when I watch thesetwo play they've had a quality
back and forth already in theirhistory.
I think it's going to be arivalry that the NBA is trying
to pair up again.
So I'd love to watch thatmatchup.
(09:02):
I think y'all should too.
But let's go ahead and move ondown to the number three top
matchup for me, which is JasonTatum versus Nikola Jokic.
And I understand you might havesome gripes about having JT
versus Nikola Jokic, but we gotto remember too, jt's been in
the MVP discussion for quitesome time.
He's been viewed as the bestplayer on the Celtics, even
(09:22):
though the Celtics have had atop team.
Now keep in mind Jalen Browndid win finals MVP.
Jason Tatum versus Jokic, in alot of folks' eyes is the
premier matchup.
No shade to either Jason Tatumor Jalen Brown.
The perceived matchup would beJason Tatum versus Nicola Jokic.
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And we're talking about ability.
Wise JT does have more abilitythan JB.
So again, if we want to look atCeltics versus Nuggets cool,
just understand, at least forthis season, jt versus Jokic
would be the faces of thatmatchup.
There's a lot of matchups and alot of talk, of talking points
within the Celtics versus N ofthat matchup.
There's a lot of matchups and alot of talking points within
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the Celtics versus Nuggetsmatchup JT versus Jokic because
they at least are viewed as thestars of their team.
But again, that's the mainreason why.
So we don't have to talk aboutnumber three as much.
I think that would be a decentbattle.
A lot of folks might leanJokic's way.
That's why I'm not trying totalk about it as much, but it'd
be a good battle.
So let's move on down to numbertwo, which again encompasses
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Jokic.
I know somebody was going tosay, oh, he's going to talk
about Anthony Edwards again.
No, no, no, no, it's Jokicversus Luka.
I guess Luka versus Jokic.
Based on how it's written Right, those two easily can be
perceived as number one andnumber two in the league point
in time.
Like if someone said that I'mnot going to say they're stupid,
you might not agree.
You can't say they stupid likeat at all whatsoever.
(10:51):
So for me, when I'm watchingthis, I'm watching two
international players who playat an mvp level get a bucket.
I just cocked.
I had to back, cock my feet upand relax.
When I'm watching them play,I'm going to get a lot of
playmaking.
I'm going to get a lot ofdazzling plays on the court
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Offensively.
We're not talking aboutdefensive, we were talking about
offensively, like we're goingto get some solid rebounds, some
deep threes.
You're going to see some goodbasketball, again focusing
offensively.
It's an entertaining matchupbetween those two.
So Luka versus Jokic.
I got to watch that matchuppersonally.
That's just me Not just becausetwo Lukas on the Lakers, my
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Lakers, it was even when he wason the Mavs.
It was more interesting when hewas on the Mavs.
Honestly, right now I don'tknow they're talking about Luka
and Jokic possibly trying topair up.
I think Jokic I mean Luka, andGiannis might pair up just
because Giannis can leaveearlier.
But that's just me.
That's just me.
Let's go ahead and move on downto my number one, though.
My number one.
I always kick back and relaxwhen I'm watching these guys
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play, and that's Steph versus KDversus Braun.
Reason why Steph and KD are myfavorite players for starters
off top, but Braun also is oneof the greatest players that
we've seen play as well, tooReally, all three of them are
three of the greatest playersthat we've seen play as well,
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too Really, all three of themare one of the greatest, or
three of the greatest playersthat we've seen play in the
history of the game.
Steph and Braun we can talkabout in the NBA's top 10.
And then we talk about KevinDurant.
I personally think Kevin Durantis the better NBA player out of
all of them About career,though, not so much.
So, again, when we're watchingall of these people play, it's
always entertaining because youget the history, the nostalgia
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vibes of it Right, and then youget the oh my play is better
than your player conversationsstill, and they're giving us
elite level play.
There's pressure on all threeevery season, arguably the most
pressure on all three everyseason.
So again, when I watch theseguys play whether it's regular
season or playoffs I got to belocked in and tuned in and keep
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in mind regular season, I canenjoy and appreciate it a little
bit more than I can playoffs,because playoffs that's when the
pressure builds.
So again, ladies and gentlemen,these are all of my top
matchups and I understand someof y'all might have some
different opinions like hey,whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
where is this person and thatperson I could have thrown, who
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I the Grizzlies versus theWarriors maybe Could have, but
does that really appease me?
See, that's my top matchup.
So I'm curious what y'all topmatchups, matchups, I'm sorry.
So definitely comment youranswers.
But, ladies and gentlemen, boysand girls, that is the end of
the episode.
So I definitely appreciate youall for listening.
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Thank you, and well, you knowlike, subscribe, comment, tell
anyone who's anyone about theshow.
My name is Trey.
I'm the host of Get a Bucket.
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