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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right? Would Nick write Episode two thirty

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Speaker 2: three on a somewhat bitter sweet day? You know, we

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Speaker 2: we got to see a great basketball game last night.

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Speaker 2: We got to see Jamal Murray continue to write an

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Speaker 2: NBA story that is without precedent, really, and we also

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Speaker 2: got to see a guy who is doing his best

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Speaker 2: to climb up the NBA pantheon. In Nikola Jokic show

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Speaker 2: you how great players, truly historically great players, even in

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Speaker 2: games where they don't seem to have it and are

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Speaker 2: uncharacteristically sloppy, not that sharp. You're like, oh, he still

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Speaker 2: had twenty five, twenty and nine as he climbs up

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Speaker 2: of and this is the case with every playoff game

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Speaker 2: Lebron plays in. At this point, what could be the

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Speaker 2: final playoff game of the career of the great best

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Speaker 2: shout out and happy, I can't believe it. Nineteenth birthday

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Speaker 2: to one of my favorite co hosts, one of my

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Speaker 2: beings to ever live, Diora as she wakes up in

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Speaker 2: sunny Santa Cruz, California this morning, nineteen years old. So

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Speaker 2: a very happy birthday to my beloved daughter, Demonsey. If

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Speaker 2: you would like before we start the show, there you

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Speaker 2: go soon. No, I know you will, But if you

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Speaker 2: that's fine too. Episode two thirty three. Here's what missed

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Speaker 2: the cut not on today's show. The Prince gets his

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Speaker 2: fifth year option picked up. The Celtics take a three

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Speaker 2: and in a series watched by hundreds and hundreds of people,

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Speaker 2: the thunder Do in fact sweep the New Orleans Pelicans.

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Speaker 2: And this is the reward you get for being the

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Speaker 2: one seed. You get a walk over in round one

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Speaker 2: as you prepare for a Round two opponent that's gonna

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Speaker 2: have just played a six or seven game war in

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Speaker 2: the Clippers of the MAVs. But of course we must

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Speaker 2: start demons with the news of the day, and that

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they they did finish the close gentlemen's sweep.

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Speaker 3: Lebron not too much to lose there. I think he

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Speaker 3: that said, Ham is likely out. Ellie wants to re

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Speaker 3: So on the bright side of all these things, it's

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Speaker 3: Sure came down to one possession. I think they could

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Speaker 3: He missed. He didn't. But like I'm saying, it came

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. That and then Dinwiddie, who's an

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Speaker 2: are things the Lakers could have done, there's and there's

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Speaker 2: no excuses here, and it just that the Nuggets are

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Speaker 2: do I think in the majority of basketball universes right

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Speaker 2: think a four to one Nugget series win is not

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Speaker 2: I think that is a fair sober minded commentary. Now,

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Speaker 2: a lot of this. It is unfathomable and historically unprecedented

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Speaker 2: This is where I will I don't think Lebron is done,

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Speaker 2: Does he impact winning more right now than Shay? Probably not?

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Speaker 2: Well they have to sell a kidney. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of reasons that's not gonna happen. There's,

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Speaker 2: I understand why it's not likely, but that's where he

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Speaker 3: YEA happens if somebody ends up drafting Bronnie before the Lakers, though.

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Speaker 3: But slow grow that one.

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Speaker 2: The Knicks are drafting at thirty eight, The Sixers are

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Speaker 2: The Clippers are drafting at forty six. Now the Clippers

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Speaker 2: which is like we're not having a conversation, We're just

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Speaker 2: I guess you're coming here. I don't think that's going

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Speaker 2: This is an odd spot because if Bronnie were a

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Speaker 2: It doesn't appear that that's the case. What appears to

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Speaker 2: A lot of NBA teams that right now look at

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Speaker 2: It would be because of the family connection, right, and

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, a team that thinks they're a piece away

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Speaker 2: That's what it would be. All right now, as promised,

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Speaker 2: Jamal Murray what never an All Star, never All NBA

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Speaker 2: I mean he was All Rookie second team, right, He's

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Speaker 2: and this isn't my take, this is the NBA voters take.

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Speaker 2: At no point in his career at the end of

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Speaker 2: Star level player. And he now is building a truly

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Speaker 2: I don't know if yeah, I mean, like this year

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Speaker 2: season career eighteen points on forty five thirty eight eighty

431
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Speaker 2: seven splits. And even if you're like, well take out,

432
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: let's just go his last five years, okay, since he

433
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 2: became who he is in the regular season twenty points,

434
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: five assists, forty six thirty nine splits in that same

435
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: span in the postseason twenty five points six assists on

436
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: forty seven forty splits. He's just a killer. Shout out

437
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: to him, man, I it is in a lot of

438
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: ways kind of the reverse Embeid sadly a guy who

439
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: is so that's like a galaxy brain take that. I

440
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: think in this unique circuit of the stance, maybe is yes,

441
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 2: so teams never foul win tied, but if you are

442
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 2: the if the circle, if you are the when when

443
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: tied in the other team is gonna be able to

444
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: take the last shot. Teams never fell if you're the

445
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 2: older team and the team that is more likely to

446
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 2: be on fumes and the team that is, you know,

447
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 2: the underdog being in a situation where your best case

448
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: is well, I actually think yeah, the the no time

449
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 2: amounts to me thing was less relevant to the foul

450
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 2: or not foul because Denver's gonna basically be holding for

451
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: the last I guess it is relevant. But the the

452
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 2: you're playing for a stop there is what you're doing

453
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: there either way, Uh, there's an argument to be made

454
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: foul and have the ball down two or down one

455
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,479
Speaker 2: if he misses one, and take your chances that way

456
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 2: and just try to end it rather than play for overtime.

457
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 2: It would be no one's ever done it on purpose.

458
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 2: I think there are certain circumstances where it actually would be.

459
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 2: Plus EV and a team playing a thirty nine year old,

460
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 2: plus your other superstar can't raise his left arm above

461
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 2: his head, plus you're at altitude and gassed. All of

462
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 2: those things you can make.

463
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Speaker 3: An Jamal Murray is the final shit. Like with everything

464
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 3: that you were saying about Jamal Murray and how deadly

465
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 3: is at that time of the game, they probably want

466
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 3: to get a free throw line so you can give

467
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 3: yourself a chance. But yeah, they put a bunch of

468
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray comps in here.

469
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: All right. So here's the thing. So people brought up Eli,

470
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's a that's actually a good comp

471
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Speaker 2: because here's the thing. Here's the thing about Eli. Eli

472
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 2: had two unbelievable playoff runs. As far as his team's success.

473
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 2: He was awesome on the second one, He was decent

474
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: on the pretty more than decent. He was very good

475
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 2: on the on the first one. But he had four

476
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: other postseason appearances where they lost their first playoff game.

477
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: Eli made the playoffs six times and was one and

478
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 2: done four of them and then won the two Super Bowls.

479
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 2: That's not what we're seeing with Jamal Murray. Julian Edelman

480
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 2: is maybe a decent one. But I don't think Julian Edelman.

481
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 2: Let me look, I I think it was he was

482
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: more about the reason he has those postseason records is

483
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: the number of playoff games he played in the opportunities,

484
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: not because he was this playoff juggernaut. And you know,

485
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 2: I'll fact check myself on it. Edelman, Well, at the end,

486
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: he did have some really monster playoff games, that is true.

487
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: So maybe Edelman is there. Maybe the Edelman's not a

488
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: bad one, I guess. And people say Robert Robert Ory

489
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 2: wasn't all of a sudden some like, he wasn't great,

490
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 2: like an all star level player in these playoff games.

491
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 2: He just hit huge shots, and Murray's doing more than that.

492
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on. This is forty minutes on

493
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: the opening topic. Uh, let we just keep going to Montay.

494
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Anthony Edwards is taking the league by storm.

495
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: You mentioned if a few shows ago that this could

496
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 3: be the NBA's torch passing is now Kevin Durant, Steph

497
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 3: and Lebron are all in Cancun. Anthony Edwards just become

498
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 3: the guy of the NBA.

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00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: Well, so a couple things that I think is funny.

500
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 2: Folks are real quick on the first piece of it.

501
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 2: A thing that's going all around Twitter is oh my goodness.

502
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 2: These are the first playoffs since two thousand and five

503
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 2: that Lebron, Steph and Kad none of them are in.

504
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 2: And it's like, yes, that is true, but if I may,

505
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 2: Lebron is doing a lot of that heavy lifting. Durant

506
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: was not in the league until the eight playoffs. Steph

507
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: was not in the league until the twenty ten playoffs.

508
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: Those guys didn't make a postseason. Durant's first postseason that

509
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: he played in was two ten. Curry's first postseason that

510
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:08,959
Speaker 2: he played in was was it twenty twelve? Was twenty thirteen. So, yes,

511
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: it is true, this is the first playoffs without the

512
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 2: three of them, but that is mostly a Lebron James Statt.

513
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: Those guys are you know, it's nice that they get

514
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: to be a part of it. But set that aside, man,

515
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is so electric And I sounded a little

516
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: like jingoistic on TV yesterday, but I'm you know, sorry,

517
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 2: not sorry. There is a when I know it's become

518
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 2: very in vogue to bleep on American born NBA players

519
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 2: like ah All the MVPs are foreign born guys. They

520
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 2: have more skill over there. They're taught the game better.

521
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 2: There's never been like. Anthony Edwards is a vintage American

522
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 2: NBA player and I love it. He is going to

523
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: beat you from every single level and dunk on your

524
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 2: face in a none of the none of as great

525
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 2: as and they are the best players in the league

526
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 2: right now. I give him credit. As great as the

527
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: international players are, none of them were yet to see

528
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 2: one with the best American born players full arsenal. Now,

529
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean they're not better, right, But like Jannis, Yeah, well,

530
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 2: Yiannis has the athleticism, right, but he doesn't have the

531
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 2: full rounded out game Jok can do and Luca can

532
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 2: do everything offensively without the athleticism, right, Anthony Edwards is

533
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: gonna ship talk you like Luca's got the two block

534
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: you at the rim, stunk on your head. I know you,

535
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 2: Luca annoys you. I know he does dunk on your face.

536
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: I just love him, and he's demons. He's twenty two

537
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 2: years old. Yeah, twenty two, So he's real quick. Guys

538
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: full list last fifty years. Hold on, real quick, last

539
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 2: fifty years. Full list of guys twenty two or under

540
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 2: to lead a team, be the unquestioned best player on

541
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: a deep playoff run, finals, conference finals, something like that.

542
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant, Lebron James. That's a complete list. That's it.

543
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards twenty two years old. Now, I'm not saying

544
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: he's gonna do it, but if he were to do it,

545
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: he enters hallowed ground. Luca did it at twenty three,

546
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: Shaq did it at twenty three. Now, Kobe did it young,

547
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: but that was and Kobe was unbelievable. That was Shack's team.

548
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: You know, Shaq was the best guy. Uh. I'm excited

549
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 2: to see how far Anthony Edwards can take this.

550
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, so things aren't looking super

551
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 3: Sonny In Philadelphia, Joel Embiid isn't like in the way

552
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 3: that the playoff series has turned it out, and he's

553
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 3: getting dirties, he's hitting people. Uh but uh, he's even

554
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 3: calling out fans for not coming to the game at

555
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 3: this At this point, do you think Joel Embiide has

556
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: done irreversible damage to his image.

557
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 2: I didn't see that. I don't what's going on there?

558
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 2: What you didn't see? What go ahead?

559
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 3: I didn't see him call it. I didn't see. I

560
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 3: don't know if it was a tweeter, if he was

561
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 3: like doing that in like a opress or the fans,

562
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 3: the fans not coming to lam.

563
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So I was at that game in Philly on Sunday,

564
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: and I don't know if you saw, Demonse that this

565
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: was a good example of the difference. You know what,

566
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: Let me tell a quick story. Let me hold on.

567
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: I'm gonna interrupt myself as I often do. Remind me

568
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: to tell a story about where I was sitting. Demonse, Okay,

569
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 2: don'tkay forget to remind me that crowd did sound like

570
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 2: MSG that the Madison Square Garden tickets are so expensive. Though.

571
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: Let me give you an example, Demanse, I'm gonna those

572
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 2: seats that you had for uh Clippers maps, right, those

573
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 2: seats that you had for Clippers maps, which again it's

574
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, so it's like they are a super cheap ticket,

575
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: but it is the Clippers. Those seats were four hundred

576
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 2: and fifty dollars. They were sideline for two tickets fourhundred

577
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: fifty bucks sideline call it sixteenth eighteenth row. Okay, those

578
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: same exact two tickets at MSG tonight are fifty two

579
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: hundred dollars side it is when I say it is

580
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 2: x No, they're twenty six hundred seat for those seats

581
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: demnse and those were good seats, but they weren't life

582
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 2: changing seats. The cheapest ticket in the building, okay, right now,

583
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: the cheapest fifty can't be right. The cheapest ticket in

584
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 2: the building, it is sectioned three seventeen top bowl of

585
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: MSG in the corner or four hundred and seventy dollars each. Okay.

586
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 2: So what's happened is some of the most diehard Knicks

587
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: fans who aren't corporate tickets, who don't have a ton

588
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 2: of money, they figured out cheaper to go to Philly,

589
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: cheaper to make the drive or take the train to

590
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: Philadelphia in order to go to the game. And it

591
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: was like a fifty to fifty Knicks sixers crowd. It

592
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 2: was unbelievable. So that was Embiid's frustration. I will cut

593
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: embeads slack in this regard. Man, he is playing on

594
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 2: one leg, his half, his face has collapsed due to

595
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 2: bells palsy. When he goes to the bench, the team dies,

596
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 2: so he has to play the whole game and by

597
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter he's exhausted. What I was saying earlier

598
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: when I said Jamal is the reverse Embiid, what I

599
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: mean is is a good regular season player who in

600
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: the playoffs is unbelievable. Embiid historically has been an unbelievable

601
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: regular season player who in the playoffs is just good.

602
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 2: And so that this postseason, I actually think he's played

603
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 2: well under adverse circumstances. And also, man Jalen Brunson, like

604
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 2: I'm excited for the game tonight. Jalen Brunton first player

605
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 2: in NBA history to have eighty five points and twenty

606
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 2: assists in consecutive playoff games. First player in NBA history,

607
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 2: No one's ever done it. And that brings me to

608
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 2: the story I wanted you to remind me to tell,

609
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 2: which was I had. I was right next to demons

610
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: the scorers table in the between the Knicks bench and

611
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 2: the scorers table for this Sixers Knicks game. Okay, so

612
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 2: the way of seats work is there's true court side

613
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 2: feet on the wood where Michael Parsons and c. J.

614
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: Stroud were sitting. There's that there's second row court side,

615
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: feet on the wood, but there's a row of people

616
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: in front of you, and then there's row one in

617
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: the actual like stands. Right. I was row one in

618
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 2: the stands, so not court side, but pretty unbelievable seats right,

619
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 2: and I'm between the Knicks bench and the SCORESS table.

620
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 2: Into the first quarter, Jalen Brunson's dad, Rick Brunson, who

621
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 2: is playing in the NBA for a long time, went

622
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 2: to Temple, a Philly legend, and Nick's assistant coach sees

623
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 2: me and his smiling He's like, hey, you owe my

624
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: son an apology. And I'm like, yo, what do you

625
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 2: What do you mean? He's like, you owe him an apology?

626
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: And I think this is in relation to the flip

627
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 2: of me after well, it was when the Knicks signed

628
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson three years you know, we were still remote

629
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 2: from the MAVs. So a couple of years ago, I

630
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 2: was like, listen, he's a good player, but if you

631
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: think he's going to be the best player on a

632
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: you know, a high level team, you're out of your mind. Essentially,

633
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: I thought of him what I think almost everyone thought

634
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: of him. It's not like I was like this guy

635
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: stinks this whatever it is. I was like, he's a

636
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 2: good player, but he's not. If he's your best player,

637
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 2: you're not a good team. And I was wrong, Like Flatley,

638
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:43,839
Speaker 2: he's been unbelievable. And so I what Rick didn't know

639
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 2: was I have already you know, I don't know if

640
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 2: i've said I'm sorry. I don't know that I need

641
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 2: to apologize, but I have owned that I was wrong.

642
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: And so I was like no, I was like I

643
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 2: already did. He was like, no, you need to do

644
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: it on TV. I'm like, no, I already did. I

645
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 2: was like I had him fourth on my I AMVP ballot,

646
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 2: which I didn't really explain to him. I don't actually

647
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 2: have a ballot, but I pretend I have a ballot

648
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 2: to release it anyway. But like on my fake MVP ballot,

649
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 2: I had him fourth and he was like okay. And

650
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,879
Speaker 2: so now we're having like a cool back and forth.

651
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 2: But you know how I talk, I talk with my hands.

652
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 2: He does the same thing. And at this point he

653
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 2: has walked, so he's kind of like between the person

654
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: that's true court side and the person the score table

655
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 2: is in charge of the Knicks challenges. I have stood

656
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 2: up and I am right behind the person who's second

657
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: row court side, and we are two feet apart, laughing

658
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: or whatever, but talking with our hands. And the ref

659
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 2: comes over and asks Rick if he wants me to

660
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 2: be thrown out, to be ejected. And by the way,

661
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 2: man shout out to Rick Brunton for being a good dude,

662
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 2: because he told me. He's like no, no, no, He's like,

663
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 2: we're cool. We're just talking, you know what I mean,

664
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 2: Everything's all good, We're having fun. But Rick Brunton could

665
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 2: have really screwed me there. He could have been like, yeah,

666
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 2: get him out of here. Like do you know how

667
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 2: mortified it was? It was at the end, it was

668
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 2: between the first and the second quarter. It would have

669
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 2: been like it was right before they came back from commercial,

670
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 2: Like can you imagine if on the Richard Jefferson broadcast

671
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, the referees kicking a fan out, and

672
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 2: it's me like and so and again like I wasn't heck,

673
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do anything wrong. But the ref just saw.

674
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 3: Rick's with what he thought was just a fan.

675
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: He probably no, no, no, I think. I don't think the

676
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 2: ref did know who I was. And it's fine, but

677
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 2: he's just all a coach having a very demonstrative discussion

678
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 2: with a fan and now they have both like stood

679
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 2: and there we weren't not like you know what I mean.

680
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 2: And again it was one hundred percent friendly. But it

681
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: was so funny that the ref just saw it. And

682
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 2: in that moment I was like, oh man, he really

683
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 2: could have screwed me there. He could have been like, yep,

684
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 2: get him out of here. He said my son was

685
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 2: a bad contract. Yeah, no, it was great. Now one

686
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 2: added piece of it, the funny Rick Brunton anecdote, and

687
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 2: then we really gotta move on. Brew covered Rick in

688
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 2: the NBA and mentioned him regularly in two context. One

689
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,319
Speaker 2: is whenever we talk summer league. He says, man, I

690
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 2: was at a summer league once when Rick Brunson looked

691
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 2: like Jason Kidd, and he uses that as an example

692
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 2: as to why you shouldn't overrate summer league. But the

693
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 2: other reason he mentioned Rick Brunson a lot is because

694
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: Brew is just the right age where if you cut

695
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,919
Speaker 2: I heard somebody's dad and that kid's now playing, you're

696
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 2: just gonna call the kid the dad's name. So basically,

697
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 2: every time we have a jail in Brunson discussion, Bru

698
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 2: calls him Rick Brunson and we just let it go.

699
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:17,439
Speaker 2: So if anything there we should be a beloved show

700
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 2: in the Brunson household for father and son. But yeah,

701
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 2: so that's that's my anecdote from Philly. Take a quick break,

702
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 2: Come right back, play Private Investigator. All right, welcome back

703
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 2: in What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode two thirty three, Demons,

704
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 2: Let's get right to it. We're gonna play a game,

705
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 2: Nick Right, Private Investigator lead us.

706
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 3: Yes, we're playing Nick Right Private Investigator. Today. Life is

707
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 3: full of mysteries. Who was dB Cooper? Our aliens? Real?

708
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,399
Speaker 3: Why couldn't the Lakers ever defend a back door cut

709
00:51:54,440 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 3: by Aaron Gordon? I'll give you a hit. Oh luckily

710
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 3: there's one man. Oh it's Gray Bear, old old man.

711
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 3: Oh god, Luckily there is one man capable of solving

712
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,919
Speaker 3: the biggest mysteries in sports, Nick Right, Private Investigator. Yeah, okay,

713
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 3: all right, So first off, we got this Falcons Pinis situation.

714
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 3: The station has been blown up with calls of criminal

715
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:25,720
Speaker 3: activity involving the Falcons draft Atlanta selected Michael Pennocks junior

716
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 3: at number eight, despite paying Kirk Cousins one hundred and

717
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 3: eighty million, One of these moves has to be a waste.

718
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 3: So detective, right, who is getting robbed?

719
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 2: First and foremost, I think it's Michael Pinnox. I know

720
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 2: people are like, ah, you gotta feel bad for Kirk.

721
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 2: He didn't sign up for this. Listen, when you're a

722
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 2: NFL financial mercenary, you all of a sudden put yourself

723
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 2: in a position where a team might not have loyalty

724
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 2: to you because you never played a snap for him.

725
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 2: This can happen. So like, I don't I don't really

726
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 2: feel for Kirk. Pinnix, on the other hand, is twenty

727
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 2: four years old and now they're setting him up to

728
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 2: where you know their alleged plan is for him to

729
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 2: not play till lose twenty six. That's brutal. So I

730
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 2: feel first and foremost, I feel bad for Penicks. Secondly,

731
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 2: I feel badly for Atlanta Falcons fans, who, as I

732
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 2: explained on Friday, their team has prioritized not bottoming out

733
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 2: over trying to be great and win the first Super

734
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 2: Bowl in the history of the franchise. And you cannot

735
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 2: convince me that this was a coherent offseason, because first

736
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 2: of all, they had thirty people in for pre draft visits.

737
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 2: Pinnix wasn't one of them. That's odd. Second of all,

738
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 2: they gave Kirk Cousins a no trade clause in his contract, Well,

739
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: that doesn't make sense. Third of all, they structured the contract,

740
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 2: so trading him, even if he were to waive the

741
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 2: no trade clause in a year, is incredibly punitive to

742
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 2: them cap wise, when they could have still guaranteed them

743
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 2: all that money, but made it to where it's not

744
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 2: punitive for them to trade him a year from now,

745
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 2: which leads me to believe this was not their original plan,

746
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: and that makes it unjustifiable because you had the college

747
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 2: football season was over, you knew your cap situation, you

748
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: knew the draft order before free agency started, so it's

749
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 2: not like you got new information, and so they just

750
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 2: don't want to ever have the Desmond Ritters situation at

751
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,280
Speaker 2: quarterback again. But you should have either had the courage

752
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,800
Speaker 2: of your convictions and took Pinnicks and used this hundred

753
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 2: million dollars on defensive players to help the team and

754
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: build a great team around him, or sign Kirk and

755
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 2: use the eighth overall pick to draft the first defensive

756
00:54:55,640 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 2: player off the board. Instead, they went quarterback quarterback with

757
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 2: their two biggest offseason assets their cap space and the

758
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 2: eighth pick. And so yes, that should prevent them from

759
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 2: it being a total disaster, but it also puts a

760
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 2: ceiling on them. So I feel most badly for Michael

761
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: Pinnix and second most badly for Falcons fans.

762
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,399
Speaker 3: Next, Bradley Beal will be damned. What do you think

763
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 3: this is a movie? Man? Phoenix tried to pull off

764
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 3: a free but botch the whole operation. Detective right, who

765
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 3: deserves the most blame for Phoenix being swept.

766
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 2: Matt Ishbia. Matt Ishbia bought the team and then just

767
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 2: couldn't help himself, bought the team and then immediately trades

768
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 2: seventy of their future assets and picks and everything for

769
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant, and then this offseason trades the rest of

770
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 2: it for Bradley Beal. And so listen, we can put

771
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: it on Durant again, like, who are we comparing Durant to?

772
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 2: Are we comparing Durant to Prime Durant? That's unfair? Are

773
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 2: we comparing Durant to the rest of the league. He

774
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 2: is still one of the fifteen best players in the league.

775
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 2: He had a good series. He's thirty six years old.

776
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 2: He's not going to be able to single handedly carry you.

777
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 2: And honestly, that's never really been exactly who he is.

778
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 2: Booker is. You know, he has a lot of A

779
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 2: plus playoff games and a lot of D minus playoff games,

780
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 2: not a ton of in the middle. And the roster

781
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 2: was poorly built. Some of us saw it coming. Some

782
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 2: of us said the Bradley Beal trade was insane and

783
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 2: using all your remaining assets to add one piece, that

784
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 2: is the piece you least need a perimeter scorer when

785
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 2: you need a point guard and you need Biggs. We

786
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 2: told you that was a problem to begin with. And

787
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 2: now you don't control any of your own picks. You

788
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 2: don't have any second round picks left. Even Beal's got

789
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 2: a no trade, it's kind of a disaster for them next.

790
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 3: So we've got a pretty big file on Katie leaving teams, Detective, right,

791
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 3: do you suspect Katie will demand another trade?

792
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 2: So that's tricky, man, You look great there to Marse Uh.

793
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 2: That is it's tricky to say whether or not he'll

794
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 2: demand another trade. I I would like to see him elsewhere,

795
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 2: but a fifteen would be weird?

796
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 3: Is there not?

797
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 2: Can't trade go ahead?

798
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 3: I don't. I guess I'm not a detective, but like,

799
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 3: is there not? Like if any team that Katie has

800
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 3: ever been on, is this not the situation that he

801
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 3: should leave the most?

802
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 2: No? I mean that's a great point, But you wonder

803
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: if he's just gonna feel like I handpicked the situation

804
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: to be. To be fair, Katie, he's only you know,

805
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 2: demanded a trade. Well, I guess twice, but from the

806
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 2: same team twice. Really out of one spot. He left

807
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City in free agency. He left the Warriors in

808
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 2: free agency. Totally is right. But yeah, they are screwed.

809
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no question about it. They have to

810
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 2: make and you probably would get more for Booker because

811
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 2: Booker's younger. I know folks would love to see Durant

812
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 2: go to Oklahoma City. I don't know if Oklahoma City wants.

813
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 2: I don't know what they want to do. I mean,

814
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 2: Durant's thirty six. Okay, SE's the one seed they're rolling now.

815
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,520
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a team that I could see. But

816
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 2: then for Durant, it's weird. It's like, am I kind

817
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 2: of copying Lebron? You don't want to do that, But

818
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: Miami makes sense. The trade package that Miami was ready

819
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 2: to offer for Damian Lillard finding a way to offer

820
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 2: that for Kevin Durant. I mean, that's that one makes sense.

821
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 2: But I don't know what he's gonna do, to be

822
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 2: honest with you, all Right, Next.

823
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson dropped the Knicks playoff record forty seven points

824
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 3: on Sunday. Not even you, as who has been on

825
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 3: their beat for decades, saw Brunson becoming the star he

826
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 3: has in New York sides Rick Detective, Right, Ye, how

827
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 3: do we all miss the clues?

828
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: Oh?

829
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,960
Speaker 2: Because there's no I mean, there's not a lot of

830
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 2: precedent in all of NBA history for a player his

831
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 2: size dominating the way he does. Just isn't a guy

832
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 2: as short as he is being this type of scorer.

833
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 2: We saw it for a year with Celtics Isaiah Thomas,

834
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 2: but we kind of knew that was smoking mirrors. We

835
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 2: knew that wasn't real. You know, the original Isaiah Thomas

836
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 2: obviously dominated, but it was more of a floor game

837
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 2: him putting up these types of and I know he

838
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 2: was great in his last playoffs with Dallas, but him

839
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,400
Speaker 2: carrying a team this way and it's not Keep in mind,

840
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 2: he scored forty seven, the team scored ninety seven. He

841
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 2: had forty seven and ten for a team that didn't

842
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 2: break one hundred. So I don't. I don't think people

843
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 2: really missed. I mean, I guess they did. But it's

844
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 2: reasonable when in all of NBA history the only guy's

845
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 2: under six six to be the unquestioned best player on

846
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 2: a champion are Steph Curry and Isaiah Thomas. To think

847
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 2: a guy who's not even six feet tall is gonna

848
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: do what he's done, it's just it's it's hard to predict,

849
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 2: it's hard to see coming. And so I mean, I don't.

850
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you.

851
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 3: All right, Next, it's never too early for never too

852
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Speaker 3: early for a mock draft or to bet on the draft.

853
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 3: Something doesn't smell right though, Shadu Sanders is even money

854
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 3: to be the number one pick, Detective, Right, is this

855
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 3: the squarest beat you've ever seen?

856
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 2: It's all there, man, It doesn't get much squarer than

857
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 2: making a bet at even odds that involves you essentially

858
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 2: loaning a sportsbook your money interest free for three hundred

859
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 2: and sixty three days. Like, hey, here you go, take

860
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 2: my money. I get zero you know, return interest or investment,

861
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: and I'll see if I can get you know that

862
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 2: even money back. It's yeah, of all the post. If

863
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 2: you're gonna do a long term futures bet, you have

864
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 2: to incorporate the opportunity cost of the fact that that

865
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 2: money is sitting there interest free for you. Meanwhile the

866
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 2: sports book gets to invest it and make a return

867
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 2: on it. Like that is just it's just an the

868
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 2: I am not here to tell people not to gamble

869
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 2: on sports, because I gamble on sports. But do not

870
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 2: if you if you want to make this bet, find

871
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 2: a human being you can make it with that you

872
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 2: have good credit with that you just the loser pays

873
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 2: up on you know, once it comes in, not that

874
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 2: it's held an.

875
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 3: Escort number one me and you, okay, get you one

876
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty bus you want it?

877
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 2: No that okay? I didn't think so I was like,

878
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 2: I don't think that's a good bet, buddy, All right,

879
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 2: quick break answer your questions. Next, what's right? Wow? What

880
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 2: a moment. Sometimes demanse hard work pays off dedication, hard work,

881
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 2: just in How about this from the mock draft database,

882
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 2: which graded every single public mock draft. There was all

883
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 2: of it, across all hundreds of mock drafts. People that

884
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 2: do this professionally, people that do this year round, My

885
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 2: dear friend person. I did my first ever television appearance

886
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 2: on FS one with Peter Schrager. He won the competition

887
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 2: with an all time score of fifty two point five,

888
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:34,919
Speaker 2: which is really elite. It's one of their highest scores ever.

889
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 2: He's totally plugged in and did a great job. I

890
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 2: saw they posted their mock draft standings this morning and

891
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 2: my mock appeared to not have been graded, and I

892
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 2: was wounded by that demonse. It was like they didn't

893
01:03:54,880 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 2: take me seriously as a mock drafter. So I messaged

894
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 2: them and said, hey, guys, think you missed one. Not

895
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 2: sure how I did. I don't think I beat Shraker,

896
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 2: but I would appreciate it if you would tell me

897
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:14,760
Speaker 2: how I did. And they just got back to me.

898
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 2: In the entire mock draft universe, your buddy Nick Wright

899
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 2: eighteenth place of all the mock drafts, a top twenty

900
01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 2: finish in my debut season as a mock drafter. Let

901
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 2: me see if I can get some context for some

902
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 2: of the experts that I beat. Let me go here

903
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: the find out more. I saw these earlier. Hold on

904
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 2: a moment, I would really like to find where the rest. Okay,

905
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:52,320
Speaker 2: all right, here we go. So if I came in eighteenth,

906
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 2: that means not to listen. I'm not calling people out.

907
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 2: I would never do that. But Charles Davis got move

908
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 2: the sticks. Daniel Jeremiah, the king of the industry. He

909
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 2: came into Ben Solac, Oh from the Ringer post this

910
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 2: on social Ben Solac, hold that ol the Ringer Draft Show.

911
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 2: You do this year round? Oh my goodness, gracious. Dane

912
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 2: Brugler The Beast, the greatest draft guide that has ever existed.

913
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 2: Dame Brugler's The Beast thirty third place. My old friend

914
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 2: Pete Brisco thirty fifth place. Oh my goodness, gracious, I

915
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 2: beat Evan Silva, Benjamin Albright, Eric at Home, Oh my goodness.

916
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 2: Florio Pro Football Talk fifty first place. How does that feel?

917
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 2: Chris Condroth, he owned Pro Football Focus fifty fifth place.

918
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, gracious, eighteenth place, with a final score,

919
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 2: Hold on, what was my final score? Let me go

920
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 2: ahead and check this real quick. This is this is

921
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 2: really forty three point eight final score. Oh my goodness,

922
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 2: two points behind mel Kiper. Oh, oh my goodness.

923
01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you, Buf.

924
01:06:32,520 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 2: I am so happy for me too. I decided this

925
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 2: year that I was gonna broaden my expertise. I've never

926
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 2: been a mock drafter. Last year, my entirety of my

927
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 2: mock drafts were Chiefs only, and I just texted him

928
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 2: to Brett Veach repeatedly, and people made fun of me

929
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 2: about it. But then I saw Kevin Clark at a

930
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 2: conference a couple months ago. He took a picture of

931
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 2: us together, texted to Beach and Beach Tech. Clark said, hey,

932
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:04,160
Speaker 2: tell him to ask Nick where my mock drafts are.

933
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,120
Speaker 2: So he appreciated it. Now I left Veach alone this year.

934
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 2: He had a lot of important things to trying to

935
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 2: go for three P. Didn't want to mess with him,

936
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 2: and instead I brought my horizons to the whole league

937
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:18,120
Speaker 2: top twenty. Oh my goodness, gracious move. Daniel Jeremiah, the Greatest,

938
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 2: the guy who's a lot of people believe myself included

939
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 2: teams based draft selections off his big board. Dane Brugler

940
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 2: who created the greatest draft guid ever beat him? Florio,

941
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 2: hold that l Florio, Tayte sticky, you take my pin

942
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 2: my mock draft up right next to your Andy Reid's

943
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 2: retiring articles. Oh my goodness, gracious. All right, demonse, what

944
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 2: are the listener questions? Well? This is thrilling. I'm so excited.

945
01:07:47,360 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 3: Richard Winston asked, do you think the Nuggets postseason success

946
01:07:50,880 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 3: will allow Murray to get to get regular season awards?

947
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 2: Well, I, listen, I think he was going to this

948
01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,959
Speaker 2: year because of last year, but then he got hurt,

949
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 2: and so I think that is that has worked against him.

950
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 2: All right, let's go fast. Let's try to get a couple. Uh.

951
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 3: Album asked, Well, the MAVs versus Clipper series go to

952
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 3: a seven games, who wins?

953
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,120
Speaker 2: I think it does, and I think the MAVs win.

954
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 2: I think it does go seven at this point, and

955
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 2: I think the MAVs win. Uh. All right, let's keep

956
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 2: going six.

957
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:25,799
Speaker 3: Niss says Nick is like a nineteen fifties car, nineteen

958
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:28,799
Speaker 3: fifties cartoon villain. They got dropped in the wrong time period,

959
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 3: and I love it.

960
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means, that seems, but

961
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 2: I don't know what it means, all right, real.

962
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 3: Quick, Reginald Pierre Nick, do you think that once again

963
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 3: trolling Wild's with the unanswered call tweet while the Lakers

964
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 3: were winning was the final bit of the hubris that

965
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:51,879
Speaker 3: the sports gods ultimately punished.

966
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 2: No, I don't believe that I can impact the games

967
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 2: from my couch. I don't believe those types of jinxes,

968
01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 2: and I don't think the sports gods will punish. The

969
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:03,919
Speaker 2: sports gods would not punished Lebron James and the Lakers

970
01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:07,040
Speaker 2: because I wanted to mess with Kevin Wilds. Should be

971
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:09,960
Speaker 2: a fun TV show today. I'm on with Colin in

972
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 2: just under ninety minutes. I am on TV in just

973
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 2: over three hours. Wilds wanted to fight me on the

974
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 2: area yesterday. For the first time ever. He lasted longer

975
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 2: than anybody else I've ever worked with without wanting to

976
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 2: fight me. Was bound oppen at some point. Today. Should

977
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 2: be a great show. Talk to you guys, hey, thanks

978
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:31,479
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01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:34,479
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983
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984
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985
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,639
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986
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