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Brooklyn Nets: Lakers’ Dennis Schröder throws NSFW shade at BK’s chances

By Adam Weinrib

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: Dennis Schroder #17 of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kyrie Irving #11 of the Brooklyn Nets have words after Irving was called for a foul against Schroder in the third quarter at Barclays Center on April 10, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Both Irving and Schroder were issued double technical fouls and ejected from the game.NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 10: Dennis Schroder #17 of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kyrie Irving #11 of the Brooklyn Nets have words after Irving was called for a foul against Schroder in the third quarter at Barclays Center on April 10, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Both Irving and Schroder were issued double technical fouls and ejected from the game.NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) /
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OK, OK, we get it. At this point, Los Angeles Lakers guard Dennis Schröder is extremely confident about his team’s odds of defeating the Brooklyn Nets if the two teams clash in the NBA Finals.

Is his feud with Kyrie Irving the reason for that belief in his own team? Well, probably. These two groups don’t like each other very much.

Let’s face it. In a hypothetical Finals matchup, you might be getting LeBron James and Anthony Davis (with Schröder in the background) against James Harden, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant.

Or you might be getting Joe Harris bombing threes while Irving attacks the lane solo, barely impeded by Kyle Kuzma.

We just don’t know, but there’s really no way to accurately predict the matchup right now.

That hasn’t stopped fans from trying, though. Confident Brooklyn Nets fans still believe they have a title in the bag, and ditto for the West Coasters who already watched LeBron and AD run through the bubble last year.

To be fair, we already know the Lake Show can flip the switch. We’re not sure the Brooklyn Nets can (yet) and neither is Schröder, who had a corrosive reaction to a fan who dropped a “Nets in four!” on him this week.

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Dennis Schröder of the Lakers doesn’t really believe in the Brooklyn Nets.

This was not Schröder’s only confident comment of the week, though it was his most colorful.

Most NBA experts don’t feel comfortable writing off the Lakers in the West despite the presence of upstarts like the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz as well as last year’s supposed favorite, the cross-town Clippers.

Schröder knows his own team’s strength better than anyone, and he’s sitting back and looking at a version of LeBron James and Anthony Davis that are coming off several months off following freak accidents.

He’s not wrong, by the way.

Brooklyn Nets-Los Angeles Lakers is definitely the high-profile, star-laden NBA Finals matchup that the broadcast networks would enjoy most.

Frankly, we’d like to see it, too. To either see Schröder shut up, or to learn that he was actually ahead of his time.