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The Deep 3 Podcast

We Picked The Biggest NBA "What-Ifs" Of The 2020s | TD3 Clips

The Deep 3 Podcast

Isaac Gutierrez

Sports, Basketball

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

Last year I run this time, we did an episode of this show about the greatest what ifs in NBA history. The biggest needle moving sparks in history that went one way, that could have went the other way and changed the game as we know it. Today we're going to do that again, but specifically what ifs about the 2020s. So of the last five, six seasons, what are the biggest what ifs that are going to shape the league going forward? Okay.

0:22.5

Okay, biggest what is? Let's do it.

0:23.0

I have one.

0:23.8

You go first time.

0:24.8

What's your first biggest what if?

0:26.1

You were cooking last time we did this.

0:27.6

My biggest what if happens in 2023.

0:31.8

What if Tatum doesn't go crazy in game six against the sixers?

0:35.8

Because what happened was it was a close game.

0:38.8

Tatum was sucking.

0:41.1

He was trashed up until the third quarter or up until the fourth quarter.

0:45.1

He had three points and was one for 13 going into the fourth.

0:49.4

Then in the last five minutes, he hits four threes.

0:53.0

And the Celtics win that game and they force a game

0:56.1

seven and then the sixers collapse in game seven. If the sixers win that game and they close

1:02.6

out the series, Joel and B gets to the conference finals for the first time. Do the Philadelphia

1:09.6

76ers, then take that and then go on on the championship. I forget, is that the first year they had James Hardin or second year? Yes. That was what James Hardin though, right? Yeah, and that was the year they would have played the Miami Heat. Yes. Good chance. Good chance they beat the Heat. And that's... On the other side of that, too. And then do they go ahead and decide.

1:28.0

Go ahead.

1:28.7

They would have ended up playing the Nuggets and we would have gotten an Embedg-Yokage final. We got the MVP Big Bowl. That would have been good for history. I don't think it would have changed much because I think there's a good chance that he would have beat the six years. Yeah. The he were really good that year. that was the year they were,

1:42.6

that was the year they were, that was the one seat, right?

1:44.0

In 23?

1:44.9

I think that was, yeah,

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