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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's driving Nick Great? Episode two thirty. This
Speaker 2: could be a two hour show and we don't have
Speaker 2: two hours to do it, so we got to get
Speaker 2: right into it. There's too much to get to. Here's
Speaker 2: what did not make the cut. Jontay Porter receives a
Speaker 2: potential lifetime ban from the NBA Bulls Hawks. Happened last night?
Speaker 2: The Bulls won. It doesn't really seem like that relevant
Speaker 2: of a basketball game, to be totally honest with you,
Speaker 2: and maybe as a reason, the NBA should tweak the
Speaker 2: nine to ten part of the play in where you
Speaker 2: don't have eligibility for it if you're X amount of
Speaker 2: games away from the seven eight part of the play
Speaker 2: in and news to me Taylor Swift new album dropping
Speaker 2: at midnight. I did not know any of that, Demanse,
Speaker 2: how are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? This I love this time of year.
Speaker 2: These next two months are probably my favorite two months
Speaker 2: on the sports calendar. The NBA Playoffs just starting Saturday.
Speaker 2: We have six straight weeks where every single night saved
Speaker 2: two or three total massive basketball games on I can't Wait,
Speaker 2: and a series that I've been waiting eleven months for.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get right off the bat, and I think
Speaker 2: my excitement showed by what I did the night slash
Speaker 2: early morning of the first playing game, which is where
Speaker 2: we're gonna start today's show. Go ahead, DEMANSA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I see you to join us, mister right,
Speaker 4: you don't have a Twitter space to go in terrorized
Speaker 4: this morning?
Speaker 2: Okay, so we got a sound bite to play in
Speaker 2: the morning. I'll give some context. Yeah, go ahead, Let's
Speaker 2: play the sound bite and then I'll give some context.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, And then I keep saying I have to go.
Speaker 2: I really do have to go. My wife is texting me.
Speaker 2: Who are you talking to? Its least coast, So I gotta.
Speaker 5: Talking Nick, t you talking.
Speaker 2: Game? It will make a ton of sense. Okay. So
Speaker 2: if any of those folks are up early on the
Speaker 2: West coast, or maybe there were listening not from the
Speaker 2: West Coast and want to leave comments, you can do
Speaker 2: that live on the YouTube feed now and I'll try
Speaker 2: to get to them. But Demonse, I know you have
Speaker 2: a bunch of questions, So start with whatever you want
Speaker 2: to start with him, then we'll discuss.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, we'll start off with the how did
Speaker 4: you end up in the Warriors Twitter space? The Warriors?
Speaker 2: Okay, so I have never I've only participated in a
Speaker 2: Twitter space once before, and I didn't really participate, but
Speaker 2: made an intention to log in and listen. And it
Speaker 2: was actually this same guy's Twitter space when Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: had jumped on defending himself against these maniacs. And there
Speaker 2: are I'm familiar with Warriors Twitter and Lakers Twitter and
Speaker 2: Nuggets Twitter and a little bit of Nick's Twitter, and
Speaker 2: all of them have what I would consider postgame call
Speaker 2: in shows via Twitter spaces right after the game. They
Speaker 2: have built communities and people you know, listen and chime in.
Speaker 2: And I had never been a speaker on it. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize how easy it was. You just request to
Speaker 2: speak and whomever is running the space can then just
Speaker 2: they call it put you on stage, and you're running
Speaker 2: the right Well, so that is that is true? Right? So?
Speaker 2: I think because there were once I started rolling, there
Speaker 2: were almost ten thousand people listening to this thing, and
Speaker 2: so everyone listening, whoever's hosting, would have to scroll through it.
Speaker 2: But I think the algorithm populates to the top of
Speaker 2: the listeners. Is someone either with a check mark or
Speaker 2: prioritizes by number of followers or something. I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but they instantly knew I was there and then let
Speaker 2: me talk. And so why did I do it? Well,
Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of reasons. One was these
Speaker 2: guys have been trolling me for years. These guys also
Speaker 2: have been trolling a fan base that I have become
Speaker 2: somewhat I don't know if protective is the right word,
Speaker 2: but a defender of in the Lakers over the last
Speaker 2: five years, and these guys have essentially sworn a blood
Speaker 2: oath to attempt to destroy my favorite athlete ever who
Speaker 2: also happened to be the greatest athlete ever in Lebron.
Speaker 2: So there was some bad blood, I would say, and
Speaker 2: you know, this was them at their lowest, So I
Speaker 2: wanted to hear it.
Speaker 3: I was wanted.
Speaker 4: There was little less wholesome reasons in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was. There was some shawdenfreud of I want
Speaker 2: to hear how down bad these guys are, because these
Speaker 2: were the These folks thought the Warriors were gonna win
Speaker 2: the championship. They thought all year long, this was the
Speaker 2: best team in basketball, that this was the deepest team
Speaker 2: in basketball, that this team had still the best player
Speaker 2: in basketball. Those are all these things that this group
Speaker 2: of people thought, which is why I ended up actually speaking.
Speaker 2: Because when you think all of those things right, and
Speaker 2: then you get beat by two dozen points by your
Speaker 2: little brother from across the bay in Sacramento, who doesn't
Speaker 2: even have its fourth and fifth best players, and a
Speaker 2: guy named Kean Ellis outperforms Klay Thompson massively, you've got
Speaker 2: to find someone to blame. And they laid it all
Speaker 2: not all of them, but some of the most vocal
Speaker 2: ones at the feet of Steve Kerr, who they clearly
Speaker 2: thought was out of his mind, and they thought, they
Speaker 2: think is one of the worst coaches in basketball. And
Speaker 2: I think that shows a fascile, juvenile and low basketball
Speaker 2: IQ understanding of what Steve Kerr's job actually is. Because
Speaker 2: maybe and the guy that I got into it the
Speaker 2: most with was adamant that if the Warriors had simply
Speaker 2: played Trace Jackson Davis Moore, the whole season's different. And
Speaker 2: I know what you're thinking, is Trace Jackson Davis fair question?
Speaker 2: The answer is he's the fifty seventh pick of this
Speaker 2: past year's draft. Probably not the difference between being the
Speaker 2: ten seed rocked, the first team officially eliminated from this
Speaker 2: year's playoffs that made the play in and a championship.
Speaker 2: But it's neither here nor there. The Steve Kerr stuff
Speaker 2: was a fundamental misunderstanding that Steve Kerr's job. The reason
Speaker 2: he's great at it is because he has kept this
Speaker 2: team together for a decade, because he has this live
Speaker 2: grenade of a key player in Draymond Green that he
Speaker 2: has to navigate. The reason Steve Kerr great at his
Speaker 2: job is because it is not as simple as Jonathan
Speaker 2: Kaminga gives us more value in certain spots than Klay
Speaker 2: Thompson and he should take his minutes. It's recognizing this
Speaker 2: isn't NBA two K or Football Manager, where you can
Speaker 2: just where the emotions of it don't have any factor.
Speaker 2: How will staph react to Clay's minimization? How will it
Speaker 2: hurt the overall morale? Enjoy the team plays with? All
Speaker 2: of these things are things Steve Kerr learned when he
Speaker 2: was part of a dynasty with the Bulls, part of
Speaker 2: the beginning of a dynasty, with the Spurs, part of
Speaker 2: a dynasty with the Warriors, navigating all those things, and
Speaker 2: these folks wanted him fired for Mike Brown and whomever else,
Speaker 2: and they're just out of their minds. And so I
Speaker 2: jumped in and I gotta tell you to Monsey man,
Speaker 2: oh man, did I have fun? That was? That was?
Speaker 2: Go ahead? You can ask your next follow up question.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: I mean, what a sick man?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: Do you are you have any teams? Do you have
Speaker 4: any other teams that you're going to go to next?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not listening. I'm I'm open to it. But uh,
Speaker 2: I mean, if the Lakers end up beating the Nuggets,
Speaker 2: maybe I'll stop by, you know, the Nuggets fans space space.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I hope I don't have bad blood
Speaker 2: with Knicks fans. I know some Knicks fans are mad
Speaker 2: at me because I underestimated Jalen Brunton right when he
Speaker 2: got there, but so did everyone's I don't think you
Speaker 2: know what I mean that I that there is a key,
Speaker 2: so maybe i'd have fun with it. But go ahead,
Speaker 2: what's your next follow up question, because that's yeah for
Speaker 2: you into what I want to talk about.
Speaker 4: Were you just trying to prove that you still have
Speaker 4: the ability to chop it up with chop up sports
Speaker 4: with the fans?
Speaker 3: Did it feel good to have that back?
Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to say it was as innocent as that,
Speaker 2: but I really really like arguing and having an opportunity
Speaker 2: to And this is where I'm gonna sound a little,
Speaker 2: not a little, I'm gonna sound arrogant, but it's okay
Speaker 2: because I'm right. I truly believe I'm the best in
Speaker 2: the world at this specific thing, this specific thing. I
Speaker 2: think I am the overall number one draft pick of
Speaker 2: the world. Take a sports topic. To take a sports topic,
Speaker 2: develop an opinion, gather evidence, and then defend it against
Speaker 2: possible weaknesses.
Speaker 4: Naysay, Yeah, and to have it be one on nine
Speaker 4: thousand and whomever got the mic got to be like, well,
Speaker 4: what about this?
Speaker 2: And I just swatted it down and said next man up.
Speaker 2: It felt like an old WWF royal rumble where whoever
Speaker 2: the best in the like Andre the Giants, like, okay,
Speaker 2: who's next? And I felt like Andre the Giant.
Speaker 5: It was this is going on, okay, so this is.
Speaker 2: The funniest part of it. And this actually worked to
Speaker 2: my benefit, I think, and it was a good reminder
Speaker 2: for me because right after the shooting at the Chiefs Parade,
Speaker 2: I went on uh conservative radio in Kansas City and
Speaker 2: had a one on one debate with a total fool
Speaker 2: uh for about as long as this lasted about an hour,
Speaker 2: and I ofviscerated that guy as well, but I lost
Speaker 2: some standing because I got so angry that I kept
Speaker 2: raising my voice and I have trouble at times modulating
Speaker 2: the volume of my voice when I'm passionate about something.
Speaker 2: But it was demands understands how our house works. So
Speaker 2: we live in a brownstone in New York City. But
Speaker 2: let me just describe it to the audience. Like brownstones
Speaker 2: in the city, they're very skinny houses with a bunch
Speaker 2: of floors. And because of that, from the bottom floor
Speaker 2: to the fourth floor, it's open air at the stairwell,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's like a column of
Speaker 2: open air if you will. So if doors are open,
Speaker 2: you can hear anyone in any room. And on the
Speaker 2: kitchen level of the house and the living room level
Speaker 2: of the house, there are no doors except for bathrooms. Right,
Speaker 2: So it's I logged in it twelve thirty this winter
Speaker 2: or twelve, you know, I got on at like twelve
Speaker 2: forty am. This was still going at one thirty in
Speaker 2: the morning. I had left the bet in my bedroom
Speaker 2: where your mom was sleeping, hadn't closed the door. Your
Speaker 2: sister's sleeping as well, and Dexter are doll is the
Speaker 2: floor beneath us. So I am in the living room,
Speaker 2: sitting on the couch trying to talk to people at
Speaker 2: this level because I didn't want to wake anybody up,
Speaker 2: and so this entire time I appear to be whispering,
Speaker 2: so I don't wake up the house. But it gave me,
Speaker 2: I think, because I'm not gonna lie to you, guys,
Speaker 2: I've listened back to it when I told you, like
Speaker 2: I listened back to it this guy first time today
Speaker 2: before the podcast, because I knew we were going to
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 3: It gave me a uh batman.
Speaker 2: Really well, No, I felt like a patronizing parent, which
Speaker 2: is exactly the tone I was going for, Like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I know you think you're right, but yeah.
Speaker 3: I guess I do recognize that tone.
Speaker 2: Yes, they like it's one thing to be like god,
Speaker 2: dog it what, it's another thing to be like okay,
Speaker 2: but here's what you don't understand because actually you're a
Speaker 2: moron and so the and that's not to you, that's
Speaker 2: to them. And so uh so I had I mean,
Speaker 2: I just honestly had a grand time, a grand time
Speaker 2: and all right, you got one more follow up. Pal.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean you came at them one versus
Speaker 4: nine ten thousand, and it seemed like it ended up
Speaker 4: and everybody respecting you.
Speaker 5: So that's well, so that was the risk. So the
Speaker 5: risk was.
Speaker 2: Most folks would say, don't do this. You're punching down
Speaker 2: and there's no wins, only losses. Right, what are you
Speaker 2: going to win from this? What? And what you have
Speaker 2: to lose is look like an idiot, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of make yourself seem less important to all these things.
Speaker 2: Turns out what I won was the massive respect of
Speaker 2: the Internet, because folks, evidently a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: like love it. This Warrior spaces crew and you know what,
Speaker 2: to sound like a bit of a jerk again, I
Speaker 2: helped him out because this morning, when I was looking
Speaker 2: for the recording so I could re listen to it,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, they've done a lot of spaces and
Speaker 2: I'm like, let me see if I can find which
Speaker 2: one was the one I was on. Well, this one
Speaker 2: here had two hundred and eighty six listeners, this one
Speaker 2: had ninety six, this one had one point eleven hundred,
Speaker 2: this one had twenty one hundred, this one had sixty
Speaker 2: three thousand, six hundred. Oh that was mine. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it was kind of mutually beneficial, Like I brought a
Speaker 2: wider audience to your crew that thinks, if only you
Speaker 2: were lucky enough to have Chris Finch and Trait as
Speaker 2: your coach and Trace Jackson Davis and that your starting rotation,
Speaker 2: you to win a championship. And I got to exercise
Speaker 2: a lot of old uh you know, warriors, demons and last,
Speaker 2: but not least, I gotta kind of, you know, prove
Speaker 2: to myself still got it, man, Like I don't one
Speaker 2: of the things like that. This was similar to when
Speaker 2: I used to I used to get a haircut twice
Speaker 2: a week, when I used to have the skin fade,
Speaker 2: I'd get a haircut, well, I guess I got a
Speaker 2: haircut once a week and with my beard lined up,
Speaker 2: and then my beard lined up another time. And so
Speaker 2: there was a barbershop element of I'd go to the
Speaker 2: barbershop and everyone just want to argue with me, and
Speaker 2: I just you know, like kind of take turns of
Speaker 2: like this why you're wrong, This is why you're wrong.
Speaker 2: That's actually disappoint keep going. So yeah, so for all
Speaker 2: those things is pretty good. Uh So, I'm glad we
Speaker 2: did it. Dusty says, be Less Humbled twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: is bleeding over into twenty twenty four. I think be
Speaker 2: Less Humble might be the next tattoo. I think never
Speaker 2: a doubt this arm, be less humble. This arm just
Speaker 2: three just three words each. By the way, I haven't
Speaker 2: shown the audience this from when I broke my arm
Speaker 2: and I had the plate put in. Shout out to
Speaker 2: the surgeons at NYU langone. I gotta do this upside down,
Speaker 2: you guys, probably you can't see. I still don't know
Speaker 2: how to show my arm to the camera, but regardless,
Speaker 2: the scar is right over the never a doubt it
Speaker 2: didn't ruin the tattoo, So very fortunate in that regard.
Speaker 2: Maybe alright, you want to read a few of these
Speaker 2: chap responses, demanse, and then we'll get you to the basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Duke de Duct said, bro is absolutely ethering these
Speaker 4: Warriors fans a bunch of laughing umojis. TMP from the
Speaker 4: MAVs Pod said, thought Nick was extremely gracious while also
Speaker 4: shooting facts.
Speaker 3: Doves fans just couldn't cope.
Speaker 2: So oh, by the way, So that's uh, that's just
Speaker 2: I don't know if I think they do. Because the
Speaker 2: Mavericks online community likes me because I've been a Luca
Speaker 2: guy forever. Uh so I might the I might hop
Speaker 2: because I have a hard time. Here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: I have a hard time, uh falling asleep right after
Speaker 2: great sporting events, like sporting events that I'm super into.
Speaker 2: So the for the MAVs folks, I might join after
Speaker 2: one of the you know games in Los Angeles when
Speaker 2: Luca drops forty two, sixteen and eight on the Clippers,
Speaker 2: I might join one of theirs as well. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: let's read a cup more than we get to the basketball.
Speaker 4: Sam Davidson when the Lakers. Oh, so, I guess when
Speaker 4: the Lakers go up to to one, are you start?
Speaker 3: You're gonna start? Are you gonna start a space?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: So that's I guess, Like it's kind of like the
Speaker 2: Instagram live thing. Now I'm thinking about it, just not
Speaker 2: on video. It's the same idea behind it. I said
Speaker 2: to these guys that I'll do one when the Lakers
Speaker 2: are up to one on the Nuggets. I might just
Speaker 2: be too busy facetiming Daniel making him answer Daniel, I
Speaker 2: will not forget those brooms you sent in the group
Speaker 2: chat last year.
Speaker 4: A So somebody said, no hate, I guess you really
Speaker 4: did win the Internet.
Speaker 2: Well I got it. It was I the Oh, I
Speaker 2: do have to hold on. I'll tell you what I did,
Speaker 2: what did happen, and then we'll move on. So the
Speaker 2: next morning after this, I I woke up and I
Speaker 2: saw I was trending. Okay, so when I saw I
Speaker 2: was trending, I clicked on the trend and I guess
Speaker 2: on Twitter now they've got an AI tool. So this
Speaker 2: is not written by a person. This is by Grock
Speaker 2: or yeah Groke Croc. I know, I saw like an
Speaker 2: old man when I don't know these things. So this
Speaker 2: was four hours after the space ended. There had been
Speaker 2: enough commentary from people's tweets on the Internet that this
Speaker 2: is how the Twitter AI tool described it in its
Speaker 2: trending session. Nick Wright quote schools Warriors fans in epic
Speaker 2: online showdown, this is from again a robot or a computer.
Speaker 2: In a lively online exchange, sports analyst Nick Wright engaged
Speaker 2: in a spirited debate with Golden State Warriors fans, showcasing
Speaker 2: his expertise and knowledge in a Warriors space. The discussion,
Speaker 2: which took place in an online forum, highlighted rights master
Speaker 2: class in sports analysis, leaving fans both impressed and entertained.
Speaker 2: Just fight the intensity of the debate, Wright maintained his composure,
Speaker 2: providing a testament to the power of respectful debate even
Speaker 2: in the face of different opinions. The interaction was marked
Speaker 2: by playful banter and humorous remarks, with fans and right
Speaker 2: exchanging arguments and facts about the team.
Speaker 3: I mean sounds like that a lot to learn.
Speaker 2: I mean, how about that. Look at that the AI
Speaker 2: overlords when AI takes over. I really I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be like, hey man, your people like me. They say,
Speaker 2: I'm a good part of respectful, lively debate. That you
Speaker 2: got you AI folks wrote this, all right, let's talk
Speaker 2: actual hoops.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, all right, So every dynasty must come to
Speaker 4: an end eventually.
Speaker 3: Uh, some men in war and some in corruption.
Speaker 4: But the Golden State dynasty ended with you whispering on
Speaker 4: Twitter spaces to disgruntled fans.
Speaker 3: Uh, you called it on Tuesday Show. So where did
Speaker 3: the Golden State war do? Now? Where do they go?
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's let's be honest about how. And I
Speaker 2: made this point before. How dynasties actually end? They they'd
Speaker 2: don't end like this and Russell's Celtics. I think I
Speaker 2: might have done this on the pod and here, so
Speaker 2: I'll do it quickly. The original dynasty, they ended with
Speaker 2: an eleventh championship game seven win and Bill Russell retiring.
Speaker 2: There were no Dynasties in the seventies. In the eighties,
Speaker 2: Magic's Lakers five rings, four other finals appearances from nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty to nineteen eighty nine that ended in a finals loss,
Speaker 2: going for a three peat with Kareem retiring, Michaels, Bulls
Speaker 2: ended with a third straight championship, sixth overall, and Michael retiring.
Speaker 2: Shaq and Kobe's Lakers won three in a row, lost
Speaker 2: in round two, got back to the finals, lost in
Speaker 2: the finals, and Shaq was traded. You want to talk,
Speaker 2: you know, like many dynasties, what with the Heat lost
Speaker 2: in the finals and Lebron left, the Pistons lost in
Speaker 2: the finals, or the I'm sorry the Pistons lost in
Speaker 2: the conference finals. But that's not really a dynasty. Uh,
Speaker 2: those are the dynasties. The Warriors lost in the playing
Speaker 2: game to Sacramento. So it's odd for it to end
Speaker 2: quite like this. Now, another way to look at it
Speaker 2: would be that the dynasty actually ended when kd left, right,
Speaker 2: six straight finals appearances. You could make that argument, right
Speaker 2: with that, No, that would have.
Speaker 3: Been Warriors fan probably hate that arguing.
Speaker 2: Huh, exactly right, So I'm sorry, not six to st
Speaker 2: eight finals appear. It was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eights, five
Speaker 2: straight finals appearances, three rings and a loss in the finals,
Speaker 2: and that you know, that's when the dynasty ended, and
Speaker 2: then from twenty twenty to now, because from twenty twenty
Speaker 2: to now, what they've done is missed the playoffs, missed
Speaker 2: the playoffs, win a championship out in round two, missed
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So that's kind of weird. But if you
Speaker 2: consider this whole thing, the dynasty this ten years, then
Speaker 2: it ended with a whimper. I believe and I sat
Speaker 2: on Tuesday Show that that was going to be Clay's
Speaker 2: last game with the Warriors. I think it's his last
Speaker 2: game with the Warriors. What I am the only person
Speaker 2: discussing is this, Well, Steph want to.
Speaker 5: Stay and.
Speaker 2: The Warriors are in a weird spot because Steph wants
Speaker 2: Clay back. But Joe Lacob has said, they've got to
Speaker 2: get under the salary this luxury tax, pardon me, not
Speaker 2: just under the second apron. They don't have enough assets
Speaker 2: to acquire another star. They need to shed salary. So
Speaker 2: my point is this, if Steph is like, I want
Speaker 2: you to pay Clay whatever it takes to keep it,
Speaker 2: and they don't, does that open the door for Steph
Speaker 2: Curry to consider his options. Because as I set a
Speaker 2: month ago. What is my my Nick Wright's dream retirement
Speaker 2: to retire in Kansas City and live on the ocean.
Speaker 2: Can't do both. What is Steph Curry's dream end of
Speaker 2: career scenario to retire a warrior competing for championships? Can't
Speaker 2: do both? So I will have to make a choice
Speaker 2: one day. Do I want to retire in my home
Speaker 2: town or do I want to live on the ocean.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry is going to have to make a choice
Speaker 2: either this summer or next summer. Do I want to
Speaker 2: retire a warrior or do I want to compete for championships?
Speaker 2: Because he can't do both. And there is a unique
Speaker 2: thing that is happening this summer de Monsey the Olympics,
Speaker 2: where all these guys hang out together and people talk
Speaker 2: about plans and off seasons and free agencies and trades
Speaker 2: and the heat Big Three was plotted at in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Legend tells it. The Katie joining the Warriors was plotted
Speaker 2: at in Olympics. They tell us the Olympics are, and
Speaker 2: who's at the Olympics, Old man, Steph, old Man Lebron,
Speaker 2: all these guys that maybe have just watched, you know,
Speaker 2: the the inner National Crew when all the MVPs and
Speaker 2: all the championships as of late, something just something to
Speaker 2: watch for. So yes, the Warriors as we know them
Speaker 2: are done. I am gonna continue to be the one
Speaker 2: person that says, I think demand's a I think it
Speaker 2: is better than seventy five percent. That Tuesday night was
Speaker 2: Clay's last game as a Warrior, and that sucks that
Speaker 2: he went out that way. By the way, that's a
Speaker 2: big reminder, man, stuff just ain't always fair. You don't
Speaker 2: get the ending you want, like it it almost always
Speaker 2: ends in a loss, but to end in the war
Speaker 2: that is. We were talking about this on the show.
Speaker 2: That's almost assuredly the worst basketball game of his entire life.
Speaker 2: Wild said on the air, He's like, he probably hasn't
Speaker 2: gone over for ten since he was nine years old.
Speaker 2: And I said to him, I was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I bet at nine years old, Klay Thompson was busting ass.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing he's never like I bet nine year old
Speaker 2: old Clay was cooking up the fellow nine year old
Speaker 2: Like that was almost assuredly the worst game of his life.
Speaker 2: And that sucks. And I hate that because everybody likes
Speaker 2: Clay and I think that he was the only unlike done.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. But I see I
Speaker 2: was that. I don't think that was arrogance, Tomansey. I
Speaker 2: think that was yes, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I think over compensation exactly right. I think it was
Speaker 2: I'm not the same guy. This is kind of unfair,
Speaker 2: and I don't you know what I mean. So, and
Speaker 2: everybody has those moments because that is like the only
Speaker 2: unlikable thing he's ever done. He's got everybody loves Clay.
Speaker 2: No the the your your mom said to me yesterday,
Speaker 2: she's gonna get mad at me. Uh. She was like,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of sad the Warriors are you know, gonna
Speaker 2: break up. I was like, you're not a Warriors fan.
Speaker 2: She's like no, but you know I love Clay Thomas.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, yeah, I know you love it. But uh.
Speaker 2: And so I think Clay's gone. And then this is
Speaker 2: the thing nobody thinks but me. If someone were to
Speaker 2: offer me ten to one, let me put it like this,
Speaker 2: a ten to one bet that Tuesday night was STEP's
Speaker 2: last game with the Warriors. I would take that bet.
Speaker 2: If you offered me five to one, I wouldn't. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's a one in five chance. Do I
Speaker 2: think there's a one in ten chance? I do? All right,
Speaker 2: let's go on to the series that you know everyone's
Speaker 2: excited for, most notably me. But go ahead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, despite a late comeback effort by the Publicans, the
Speaker 4: Lakers held on and clinched that seventh seed. So now
Speaker 4: they've got a date with the Nuggets in the first round.
Speaker 4: You're a believer in bulletin board material, and boy did
Speaker 4: Denver and Daniel give La that bulletin board material. Is
Speaker 4: that the Lakers best Is that their best weapon head
Speaker 4: into the series.
Speaker 2: No, the best weapon that they have headed in this
Speaker 2: series compared to last year's series. The first and foremost
Speaker 2: is this, Lebron's healthy and Lebron's shot isn't broken right now.
Speaker 2: So that is a fundamental change from last year. Okay,
Speaker 2: so last year, Lebron in that series shot twenty seven
Speaker 2: percent from three, which was an improvement from how he
Speaker 2: had been shooting in the playoffs. And Lebron couldn't drive
Speaker 2: to the basket repeatedly because he was dealing with the
Speaker 2: broken foot or plan or fascio, whatever it is, right,
Speaker 2: that's the biggest change. But I went on TV yesterday
Speaker 2: and I picked the Lakers to win the series. Lakers
Speaker 2: have lost the Nuggets eight straight times. The Nuggets have
Speaker 2: been the best team in basketball. Why would I do that?
Speaker 2: Here is the argument for why this series can go
Speaker 2: differently than last year's series. What are you laughing about, Demons?
Speaker 2: Before I go, go ahead, tell me what you're like?
Speaker 3: The follow up here is just hilarious.
Speaker 2: Okay, but all right, you're fine. So in last years
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals, the following things happened. Jamal Murray, who
Speaker 2: is a great player, Okay, I want to make this clear,
Speaker 2: a great playoff player, even by his playoff standards. What
Speaker 2: series of his career was the best one by a mile?
Speaker 2: The one last year against the Lakers. The only one
Speaker 2: that comes close is the seven game series against the
Speaker 2: Jazz four years ago. But he was thirty two and
Speaker 2: a half points, six rebounds, five assists on fifty three
Speaker 2: forty splits. Just for a context to that, Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: he averaged more points in the series against the Lakers
Speaker 2: than any guy other than any guard, pardon me, other
Speaker 2: than Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant have ever averaged in
Speaker 2: a conference finals or NBA finals. Okay, so is if
Speaker 2: let's just say Jamal Murray instead of being thirty three
Speaker 2: a game on fifty three forty ninety five splits, is
Speaker 2: twenty seven a game. Okay, So there's one thing. What
Speaker 2: about the guy across from Jamal Murray, the Lakers' best
Speaker 2: perimeter player. Well, that's D'Angelo Russell. How did he do
Speaker 2: in that series? Well, he avered six points on thirty
Speaker 2: two percent from the field and thirteen percent from three. Well,
Speaker 2: he'll be better than that. Okay. What about the key
Speaker 2: rotation piece that both teams lost, Well, the Lakers lost
Speaker 2: Dennis Shrewder. How did he play in that series? He
Speaker 2: averaged seven points on thirty seven percent from the field.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets lost Bruce Brown, who averaged twelve points on
Speaker 2: fifty three percent from the field. Oh, so the Nuggets
Speaker 2: lost a player who helped them. The Lakers lost a
Speaker 2: guy who hurt them. All right, that's noteworthy. Were there
Speaker 2: any aberrant team level events? Well, the Nuggets shot a
Speaker 2: better percentage from three in that series than any team
Speaker 2: that has played Lebron in the playoffs in a decade,
Speaker 2: which means better than the Warriors ever did in any
Speaker 2: of their series against the Lakers, including the Katie Steph
Speaker 2: Clay Peak Warriors. Oh well, that's noteworthy, a little intangible factor. Hey, Demonse,
Speaker 2: is there a huge scandal going around the NBA right now?
Speaker 2: Did somebody just get banned for a bunch of like
Speaker 2: the first player band? Who was that?
Speaker 3: Michael Porter Junior's little brother.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I don't know. It distracted me, It's all
Speaker 2: I'm saying. I don't know, like the it would be,
Speaker 2: it would at least be on my mind. And if
Speaker 2: I it would, it would It's not a nothing if
Speaker 2: the if? And so I am old enough to remember
Speaker 2: they're once being early in Lebron's career, alleged scandal and
Speaker 2: certainly rumors swirling around about a family member of his
Speaker 2: going into a playoff series he didn't quite look like himself.
Speaker 2: So all of that is layered into this analysis, right,
Speaker 2: and then you ask yourself this question. Okay, but even
Speaker 2: if all those things go differently, this series was a
Speaker 2: blowout last year, yes, and no it was four to Zho.
Speaker 2: But what were the games?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Game one, where, according to the broadcast, nikal Ijokic had
Speaker 2: the best first half of basketball Jeff BEng Gundy had
Speaker 2: ever seen was a three point game with the ball
Speaker 2: in Lebron James's hands with forty five seconds left. Oh,
Speaker 2: so that game could have gone either direction. What about
Speaker 2: Game two, Game two, when Jamal Murray had literally one
Speaker 2: of the greatest fourth quarters in Finals history when he
Speaker 2: scored twenty three fourth quarter points? What was that situation?
Speaker 2: That game was a I want to get this exactly right,
Speaker 2: a three point A two point game, pardon me, A
Speaker 2: two point game with one minute left?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay? So what about Game three, Game three, which was uh,
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray had another monster game, thirty seven points. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell in that game played twenty minutes and had
Speaker 2: three points, so he was outscored thirty seven to three.
Speaker 2: Was that game a blowout?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: That game was tied halfway through the fourth And then
Speaker 2: Game four, of course two point game with Lebron either
Speaker 2: taking the three for the win or going for the tie,
Speaker 2: go to the basket and misses it. So do I
Speaker 2: think Jamal Murray average? Again?
Speaker 4: The Warriors music guy did put up a whole paragraph
Speaker 4: about how Clay Thompson just owns the Kings and like
Speaker 4: the history that he has with him, and then he
Speaker 4: went out there and went off for Ted.
Speaker 5: Maybe listen, maybe I did.
Speaker 2: I'm opening The easy pick here is to go with
Speaker 2: the defending champion, the guy who's about to win his
Speaker 2: third MVP in four years, a guy who the team
Speaker 2: that's won eight straight games. I don't think Lebron is
Speaker 2: going to be worn out in the fourth quarters of
Speaker 2: these games. I don't think that the there is going
Speaker 2: to be a twenty six point differential per game between
Speaker 2: Jamal Murray and D'Angelo Russell this time around. I don't
Speaker 2: think Jokic, on four separate occasions, is going to find
Speaker 2: himself with the ball with the shot clock expiring and
Speaker 2: throw a one handed hook shot towards the rim or
Speaker 2: over the head like he's firing a pass from out
Speaker 2: of bounds in soccer.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of magic involved in some of those.
Speaker 2: So and by the way, even if those things don't happen,
Speaker 2: the Nuggets win the series last year the Lakers were
Speaker 2: out of gas.
Speaker 5: But how much.
Speaker 2: Would people's analysis right now be different if that series
Speaker 2: were four to two last year instead of four to up.
Speaker 2: Maybe a little so instead of being every other day
Speaker 2: after a month of the playoff gauntlet. We're talking every
Speaker 2: you know, three days between the playing in game one
Speaker 2: and then the schedule. Let me give you the exact schedule,
Speaker 2: because there are some every other days built in here obviously,
Speaker 2: but here is the rest Lebron is going to have
Speaker 2: and the Lakers are going to have between games. They
Speaker 2: played on Tuesday, the next play Saturday. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 2: three days off, Saturday then Monday. Okay, but no travel.
Speaker 2: So that's just one day off Monday, then Thursday, two
Speaker 2: days off, Thursday, then Saturday two days off, and then
Speaker 2: Saturday to Monday, just one day off with travel. That's
Speaker 2: a tough one. And then Monday to Thursday two days off,
Speaker 2: and then Thursday to what is now listed is Saturday night,
Speaker 2: but I don't. I guess that's locked in. I thought
Speaker 2: that could potentially be Sunday, but I guess I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: That would be just one day off. So yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: go ahead and you know, play the fool again. We'll
Speaker 2: see how it works out. I think the Lakers win.
Speaker 2: Now I don't know that that means at all they
Speaker 2: even win the next round, but I think, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna add one other thing and Daniel knows this. I'm
Speaker 2: sure who is the last team to beat the Denver
Speaker 2: Nuggets in a playoff series that Nikolajokic and Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: played in That is, of course, Okay, the Lakers were
Speaker 2: the one seed, guys, that is of course the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers, same top two on both teams, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm excited for it. And I'm gonna add one other
Speaker 2: piece to this if the Nuggets lose Demonse or even
Speaker 2: if they win, but it's a long, hard series and
Speaker 2: they then lose in the next round to either Phoenix,
Speaker 2: who's beat them twice in the last month, or Minnesota
Speaker 2: who played them. Both those teams played them tough in
Speaker 2: last year's playoffs and have real answers for him. Uh,
Speaker 2: both I think have winning records against them this year.
Speaker 2: You know who's sneaky gets a weird legacy boost if
Speaker 2: the Nuggets either lose this round or next, like it's
Speaker 2: his first real relevant NBA moment, Wimby, because the Nuggets
Speaker 2: were gonna be the one seed and they were blowing
Speaker 2: out the Spurs, and he scored seventeen straight points and
Speaker 2: brought the Spurs back in Game eighty one, to knock
Speaker 2: the Nuggets down from instead of being the one seed
Speaker 2: to dealing with the Lakers in round one and the
Speaker 2: need of the sunder Timberwolves in round two. It's an
Speaker 2: interesting little sliding doors moment if Wimby ends up altering
Speaker 2: Jokicic's path to defend his title. All right, that was
Speaker 2: a good thirty five minute a block. We'll get to
Speaker 2: the news from last night, Jimmy Butler's injury, Philly advancing
Speaker 2: all of that. Next quick break, right back, what's right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in what's right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Uh, let's get to the games and news from night
Speaker 2: demanse Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the seventy six Ers pulled off the comeback
Speaker 4: versus the Heat who will be endure di mode against
Speaker 4: Chicago now? But Philly fans can't feel too good about
Speaker 4: it because Embiide looks sluggish all night and the Sixers
Speaker 4: were bailed out by Nick Batoon, of all people, what
Speaker 4: do you expect when they face the grittier Nixon round one?
Speaker 2: Well, so a few things. It's okay to be bailed
Speaker 2: out by Nick batoum. And this is where and I
Speaker 2: will admit my bias here because he's a personal friend
Speaker 2: of mine, but I like being friends with smart people
Speaker 2: and people who are good at their jobs. This is
Speaker 2: why I think Darryl Morey's as good of a GM
Speaker 2: as there is in the NBA. He filled out this
Speaker 2: roster to where you can all of a sudden have
Speaker 2: either Buddy Healed or Nick Batoum or Kelly Oubre come
Speaker 2: through with big in big spots for you. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean. They have, in my opinion, a legitimate
Speaker 2: even and a half guys they trust because you've got
Speaker 2: your You've got obviously Embiid, maxi Ubre, Tobias and Lowry
Speaker 2: and then Batoom and Buddy coming off the bench with
Speaker 2: a little b ball, Paul if you need it. So
Speaker 2: shout out to Daryl on that. I think that's that's
Speaker 2: good roster building. I am gonna a spoiler alert, sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick Philly to beat the Knicks. I think
Speaker 2: the Knicks are a regular season team that has a
Speaker 2: Round two ceiling under its current health, and I don't
Speaker 2: I think this Philly's a bad matchup for him and Embiid,
Speaker 2: even when he's far from one hundred percent, can have
Speaker 2: real impacts on games. And you saw it in the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter yesterday. Uh so, I understand Philly fans being frustrated,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna pick Philly to beat the Knicks the now,
Speaker 2: if we may demands get to what he's maybe the
Speaker 2: bigger news or just as big of a news from
Speaker 2: yesterday's game.
Speaker 4: Yes, so the reports are Jimmy Butler's dealing with a
Speaker 4: knee injury, so it seems like he's going to be
Speaker 4: out multiple weeks. Do you think the heat will make
Speaker 4: light of Chicago? Will they be able to still do
Speaker 4: it without him?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't really actually think the Chicago game matters
Speaker 2: with Jimmy Butler out. Yeah, And this is where I'm
Speaker 2: going to turn the screws on you a bit. If
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics don't make the NBA Finals this year,
Speaker 2: it is one of the biggest choke jobs in modern
Speaker 2: NBA history.
Speaker 4: And even if they do, they're gonna say that they
Speaker 4: didn't have to face Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 2: Well, well, hold on, maybe so Jannis Embeid, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 2: all Giannis is out for the time being. Embiid is
Speaker 2: not one hundred. Jimmy Butler is you know, not going
Speaker 2: to be ready for if they get to the Celtics.
Speaker 2: The Celtics. So my point is the path could not
Speaker 2: be clearer for Boston's. And this is a weird spot.
Speaker 2: Boston's season begins in the NBA finals. It starts in
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals. They are the healthiest team, the best
Speaker 2: record by a mile, top five point differential, everything. If
Speaker 2: somehow they don't make the finals, it's inexcusable, absolutely utterly.
Speaker 3: In team as well. Huh. I feel like they're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the I mean they they're they're starting five,
Speaker 2: is the is the best and then you will So
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think of I don't love because
Speaker 2: I remember talking about on the show, I don't love
Speaker 2: the bench that much, but you have five awesome starters
Speaker 2: because coming off the bench, your first guy's probably Al Horford,
Speaker 2: who's old, and then after that you're talking to either
Speaker 2: Peyton Pritchard or Sam Hauser. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: I agree with you on you know, guys six, seven, eight,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't matter. Like you're one through five, every
Speaker 2: single guy and you're starting five. The Ringer does the
Speaker 2: top one hundred players in the league. Every single guy
Speaker 2: and you're starting five should be on that list. Like
Speaker 2: every single guy and you're starting five has had moments
Speaker 2: this year where they look like their top fifty players
Speaker 2: in the league. And obviously Tatum's one of the very
Speaker 2: best Browns one. You know that next tier. So I
Speaker 2: you've got to make the finals. You absolutely have to
Speaker 2: make the finals, rested and ready to go the right now,
Speaker 2: demands Let me check again. Hold on. Whoops? Uh, you
Speaker 2: guys are like a minus two hundred favorite against the
Speaker 2: field to make the NBA Finals, to be the gosh
Speaker 2: darn it, this is the I can't pull up. Let
Speaker 2: me try it on my phone. I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Pull up back in another three days. Last game was.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you've been able to rest for weeks essentially,
Speaker 2: and now you're not gonna have to deal with Jimmy.
Speaker 2: So conferences right now they are minus two twenty. The
Speaker 2: next best odds are is Milwaukee at eight to one.
Speaker 2: So just little context here. If you bet on the
Speaker 2: favorite in the Eastern Conference to win the title, the
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics one hundred dollars, you win forty five dollars.
Speaker 2: If you bet on the second favorite to win the
Speaker 2: title for one hundred bucks, you win eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: So they are overwhelming favorites to make the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: They absolutely have to finish it off. And for Miami,
Speaker 2: this is listen, this is I have massive respect for
Speaker 2: playoff Jimmy, massive respect. But this is one of the
Speaker 2: problems of kind of puttsing around during the regular season
Speaker 2: as a team. Yeah, all of a sudden you find
Speaker 2: yourself in the play in when you shouldn't have been.
Speaker 2: In the East this year, there's no reason the Orlando
Speaker 2: Magic should have finished higher than the Miami Heat and
Speaker 2: the standings for Philly. You had an excuse, you know,
Speaker 2: Philly's excuse was our best guy missed half the year.
Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden he's hurting. Your season
Speaker 2: could end Friday, if not at all, end in a week.
Speaker 2: All right, next, all right?
Speaker 4: So Zion Williamson has had a career plagued by injuries.
Speaker 3: He probably had his best post season.
Speaker 4: Game earlier, he had forty points, and then he got
Speaker 4: ended up getting injured again. So he's already been ruled
Speaker 4: out for the game Friday versus Sacramento. So for the Pelicans,
Speaker 4: is it worth keeping Zion around or is it too
Speaker 4: big of a risk considering his injury history.
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're not going to move on from Zion,
Speaker 2: especially after he played his best game ever in his
Speaker 2: biggest game ever. And I want to be very careful
Speaker 2: with how I say this. That was a weird injury, right,
Speaker 2: I said the same thing. That was really strange. He
Speaker 2: didn't even really seem to right, I want to I'm not,
Speaker 2: And I mean, the audience is smart and understands why
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be very judicious with my words. It
Speaker 2: just looked weird. It you didn't see and I understand
Speaker 2: with muscle injuries you don't see it. But even his
Speaker 2: the pace at which he left the court and his
Speaker 2: ability to jog into the tunnel. For it to then
Speaker 2: be a hamstring injury, it was just weird. And for
Speaker 2: them to immediately rule him out it was bizarre. And
Speaker 2: I'm not it wouldn't you know, any like conspiracy theory
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. He was having the best game of
Speaker 2: his career. He had just tied the game. There, you
Speaker 2: know the the I it looked so weird to meet
Speaker 2: himnse that I honestly thought in real time, because it
Speaker 2: also looked like he pointed to his stomach. I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: was he dealing with like a stomach bug throughout the day.
Speaker 2: I was like, geez, there's worst time possible. I have
Speaker 2: to run to the bathroom. I honestly thought that, like
Speaker 2: which I that would be The timing would suck, but
Speaker 2: that would be understandable. But then he's not ruled out
Speaker 2: for the next game. So it is an odd microcosm
Speaker 2: of what his career has been so far, which is
Speaker 2: these unbelievable highs, tantalizing talent, and then head scratching like
Speaker 2: injury stuff that doesn't totally make sense. I'm also really
Speaker 2: interested to see how Brandon Ingram looks Friday, because Brandon
Speaker 2: Ingram got benched by Willy Green for that fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Now he's been out, he's been injured. I understand that,
Speaker 2: but he's the highest paid guy or second highest paid
Speaker 2: guy on your team. He was the piece from the
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis trade. You know that was a huge moment
Speaker 2: for him and Willie Green, even after Zion got hurt
Speaker 2: left him on the bench. But also, Okac's got to
Speaker 2: be like, this is perfect. This is why you fight
Speaker 2: for the one seed. We're out here chilling with the
Speaker 2: We're not gonna have to deal with the Champion. What
Speaker 2: you know, last vestiges of the Champion Warriors, Phoenix moved
Speaker 2: up to six, LA moved up to seven. Now we
Speaker 2: either get a Kings team that kind of just won
Speaker 2: its own championship right by beating the Warriors and is injured,
Speaker 2: or we get a Pelican's team where it looks like
Speaker 2: Zion is not going to be available. All right, I
Speaker 2: know we're supposed to do it, maybe in the next
Speaker 2: segment or whatever. I want to Sorry for the graphics
Speaker 2: on the side. Let's do the Bill Belichick combo here quickly,
Speaker 2: because this show's gone too long already and we've got
Speaker 2: more to get to.
Speaker 4: So reports of the Patriots owner Robert Kraft Warren Falcons
Speaker 4: owner Arthur Blink about hiring Bill Belichick says, do not
Speaker 4: trust Bill. What could have possibly happened there for Robert
Speaker 4: Kraft to be saying that about Belichick?
Speaker 2: So I think this is one of the worst I
Speaker 2: think this is one of the slimiest things I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: unless it comes out that Belichick was like embezzling from
Speaker 2: the Patriots, was stealing money for Robert Kraft to knife
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick like this right after producing a documentary that
Speaker 2: painted Bill Belichick as a villain is so beyond the pale.
Speaker 2: To go out of your way to submarine this guy's
Speaker 2: job prospects when your franchise is worth billions more dollars
Speaker 2: than when you bought it thanks to him. Now you
Speaker 2: can say thanks to Brady primarily fine, but Belichick also
Speaker 2: is the guy who drafted Brady and the guy who
Speaker 2: put Brady in the game, and to go out of
Speaker 2: your way to cost him a job he thought he had.
Speaker 2: And also there were so many good things in that
Speaker 2: ESPN story. And credit to those great reporters for acting.
Speaker 2: You know, we could use some of the great NFL
Speaker 2: reporters that get actual stories on the NBA beat, by
Speaker 2: the way, that would be nice every NBA All our
Speaker 2: NBA stories are just transactions. Like all the breaking NBA
Speaker 2: news is actually things that if reporters did not exist,
Speaker 2: we would find out anyway eventually, like trades, draft picks, signings,
Speaker 2: That news would come to light anyway. But what the
Speaker 2: heck actually happen with em Udoka? Where's Andrew Wiggins been?
Speaker 2: Who leaked the Draymond Green tape? What is going on
Speaker 2: with Zion? Those things just out in the ether like
Speaker 2: nobody can. Nobody can damage any pre existing relationship. They
Speaker 2: have to actually report on those things, because then they
Speaker 2: won't be able to tweet out one second before somebody
Speaker 2: else that this guy got an extension. But the Don
Speaker 2: Van NATting Company, they get real stories. And this was
Speaker 2: a treasure trove of stories there about the Eagles, the Bills,
Speaker 2: so many things. Right, one of the underrated parts of
Speaker 2: it is this. I think this likely torches Belichick's relationship
Speaker 2: with the Patriots organization. They had that press conversation, is like,
Speaker 2: I'll always be a Patriot, I'll come back. No, I
Speaker 2: do not think that is happening. I think Belichick reads
Speaker 2: this and is like, I had a job. You used
Speaker 2: your relationship with Arthur Blank to cost me my job,
Speaker 2: Like I brought you six super Bowls. So I think
Speaker 2: that was wild, absolutely wild. And I also and also,
Speaker 2: if you're Robert Kraft, buddy, you don't have exactly a
Speaker 2: spotless reputation during the I understand Bill Beljack's been accused
Speaker 2: of cheating, he hasn't ever had to show up to
Speaker 2: court for it. You like, let's maybe glass houses my man,
Speaker 2: quick break right back? What's right? All right? Welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's right with Nick? Right demands that were playing
Speaker 2: a new game here Before we get to the listener questions.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Uh yeah, so weird. It's time for moving
Speaker 3: the needle.
Speaker 4: I will ask you about a team, and you'll determine
Speaker 4: how far, how far a run they can go in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, and where their season will end. For those
Speaker 4: watching on YouTube, there will be a small graphic, but
Speaker 4: your options are in round one, sweep later in Round one,
Speaker 4: the conference, the semis, the semi conference, or the finals sorry,
Speaker 4: or NBA Finals. First, we've got the Bucks here. You
Speaker 4: had the Bucks as your finals favorite at one point,
Speaker 4: but now it seems like Giannis will miss multiple games
Speaker 4: in Round one versus the Pacers, and that scenario didn't
Speaker 4: go well for the Bucks last year.
Speaker 3: How far did the Bucks go? All right?
Speaker 2: Right now, right now? My pick is the Bucks go
Speaker 2: to round two. I do think they can beat the
Speaker 2: Pacers if Giannis only plays a couple games in that series,
Speaker 2: I think that it could be two to one Indiana.
Speaker 2: But that is a coin that is I don't want
Speaker 2: to say a coin flip, but close to it. The
Speaker 2: thing is, Halliburton's not fully healthy either, and hasn't looked
Speaker 2: the same. They haven't been able to guard him. Can
Speaker 2: Dame be awesome for a week and a half? I
Speaker 2: think so? So I'm gonna go round two for Milwaukee
Speaker 2: given Giannis's injury status.
Speaker 3: So no, no finals at all.
Speaker 2: No fine, No, I mean that they were they were
Speaker 2: my pick to win the whole thing, but the Jannas
Speaker 2: the Janni's dealing with a calf, which could mean dealing
Speaker 2: with an achilles, obviously changes things massively. Next.
Speaker 4: Uh, the Sons went all in on Kadie Booker and
Speaker 4: Beal and they've had mixed results throughout the season, but
Speaker 4: the postseason is a whole different story.
Speaker 3: So how far do the Suns go?
Speaker 2: Same thing? Round two? I do think they can beat Minnesota,
Speaker 2: go barn the playoffs not great history, trying to work
Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns back in. But then in round two
Speaker 2: they're playing either Denver or the Lakers. And so round
Speaker 2: two to me is where the Suns where the Sons go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go on to the next one.
Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead? Uh yeah, how far up? How far
Speaker 4: of a star or a rising star do you think
Speaker 4: Anthony Anthony Edwards will go?
Speaker 2: Well, if you lose one, not far, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like if they if he carries them to
Speaker 2: the conference finals. Yeah, but with a round one exit,
Speaker 2: he probably stays where he is. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, Despite the Knicks facing injuries all year, they claimed
Speaker 4: they climbed to the two seed Brunton and this team
Speaker 4: has exceeded expectations to this point.
Speaker 3: But do you see the trend continuing? How far do
Speaker 3: the Knicks go?
Speaker 2: I mean, unfortunately it's round one. I think it is
Speaker 2: a you know, a six or seven game war against Philly,
Speaker 2: But I think they I could.
Speaker 3: See the Knicks beating Philly for some reason, but that's
Speaker 3: just no.
Speaker 2: I listen, I don't think that's just you. I wonder
Speaker 2: are they the favorites? Hold on, I'm gonna check real quick.
Speaker 2: They might be the favorites, demanse underdogs even as the
Speaker 2: even as the home team they got it. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean it's minus one thing even money, so they're close
Speaker 2: to a coin flip. But I'm gonna go Philly in
Speaker 2: a close series, all right?
Speaker 3: Next?
Speaker 4: All right, So, after a year off from the playoffs,
Speaker 4: your lard slovignion my son is gearing up for another run.
Speaker 4: This time he's got Kyrie in the passenger seat. How
Speaker 4: far do you think the MAVs will.
Speaker 2: Go the NBA Finals. I think the MAVs are gonna
Speaker 2: right now the Maps we might pick to win the
Speaker 2: Western Conference. Uh now, I reserve the right to change
Speaker 2: that pick if it's MAVs Lakers in the conference finals,
Speaker 2: because I all, obviously, I mean, that's kind of a
Speaker 2: can't lose for me. It's kind of the opposite of
Speaker 2: when it was uh, who was it Warrior Celtics in
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, which was a can't win. But I am, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the MAVs. I think the oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, buddy. I think they're going to annihilate
Speaker 2: the Clippers and then beat okayc and then be waiting
Speaker 2: for whomever just got through a gauntlet on the other
Speaker 2: side of the bracket. All right, next, all.
Speaker 4: Right, So my Celtics ran through the league this year
Speaker 4: on their way to the one seed and are now
Speaker 4: minus two hundred to make the finals. But as Vegas
Speaker 4: just begging to make make that a square bet, how
Speaker 4: far do my Celtics go?
Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be in the finals at a
Speaker 2: mini Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, like we said, the question or who they're
Speaker 3: seeing there?
Speaker 2: Correct? Who are they seeing there? And any of those teams?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the Celtics are probably rooting to
Speaker 2: see the other one Seed. I think that they are
Speaker 2: probably rooting to see Oklahoma City because the Celtics have
Speaker 2: so much playoff experience in Oklahoma City has none, and
Speaker 2: the Celtics can throw so many people at Shay that
Speaker 2: it's weird to say they're hoping to face the other
Speaker 2: one Seed, But I think they are. But they'll be there.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get I'm gonna run through some of
Speaker 2: these listener questions. What's the read the one in bold demonse?
Speaker 2: The first one?
Speaker 4: We found your award for being the best in the
Speaker 4: world at one specific thing.
Speaker 3: Let me see it.
Speaker 2: Let me see what what I'm the best in the
Speaker 2: world at. Oh, that's great. That's a coach?
Speaker 3: Is that so?
Speaker 2: I that's a Coach of the Year award? Maybe that's
Speaker 2: Greg Popovich holding it. I'm not sure who that is
Speaker 2: that they photoshop.
Speaker 5: All right, we have a bunch of questions.
Speaker 2: We have a bunch of questions about the same thing,
Speaker 2: which is Nick, why didn't you Essentially the question is
Speaker 2: why didn't you include the Spurs on your list of dynasties.
Speaker 2: So the Spurs are a tough one.
Speaker 4: We got some technical difficulties over there in New York.
Speaker 4: We got you, we got you back, we got you,
Speaker 4: okay back.
Speaker 2: And so the Spurs dynasty question is because they never
Speaker 2: won back to back. They did win three and five years.
Speaker 2: They won in ninety nine three to five oh seven,
Speaker 2: and then the really unbelievable one in fourteen, and they
Speaker 2: also went to the finals in thirteen, So I do
Speaker 2: consider them a dynastic run. What's weird is if you're
Speaker 2: saying it started in ninety nine, then in the middle
Speaker 2: of their dynasty, another team three peat and had their
Speaker 2: own dynasty from and if you're like, no, it goes
Speaker 2: from three to fourteen, will still in the middle of
Speaker 2: their run, two separate teams went back to back, the
Speaker 2: Lakers and then the Heat. So it's just a weird one.
Speaker 2: So it is an unbelievable run of excellence, but it's
Speaker 2: a dynasty, and so yeah, I would probably have it sixth.
Speaker 2: But it's weird.
Speaker 5: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: Kind of feel funny saying say the Spurs are on
Speaker 4: a dynasty. Definitely the most likable if they were a dynasty,
Speaker 4: I think they'd probably be the most likable dynasty.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and I and I and I think that. No,
Speaker 2: I I'm fine with including them on the Dynasties. It's
Speaker 2: just it's all you just say Pop and Duncan. That's fine,
Speaker 2: but it's just hard. It's just weird and all the
Speaker 2: other like dynasties you know, did win back to back
Speaker 2: the Spurs didn't. I don't know, just a weird one.
Speaker 2: Eric Allen Demonse has a question we can get too quickly.
Speaker 4: Eric Allen, I know you skipped over Porter, but if
Speaker 4: he was an A level or even B level star
Speaker 4: in the league, do you still think he gets a
Speaker 4: lifetime ban.
Speaker 2: Oh. I think if he was an A level or
Speaker 2: B level star accused of doing these things, it's a
Speaker 2: way bigger story. And yeah, an A level or B
Speaker 2: level star in the league was betting on his own
Speaker 2: team to lose and clearly giving out tips on you know,
Speaker 2: bet his under it's on it's on sixty minutes instead
Speaker 2: of on first things for h go to Scott Murphy.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got Scott Murphy.
Speaker 4: Nick, what's most likely Katie wins a ring with the
Speaker 4: Suns wins a ring as a veteran role player on
Speaker 4: a young team like Okay See, or spends his final
Speaker 4: years ringless with a revived Seattle franchise.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I think none. I think Katie's gonna
Speaker 2: be retired by the time Seattle comes into the league.
Speaker 2: I was actually at Demons the final game ever played
Speaker 2: in Seattle twenty years ago or whenever it was. Was
Speaker 2: it twenty years ago, No, it was eighteen years ago,
Speaker 2: something like that. I was seventeen years ago. I was
Speaker 2: there when they did save Barsonics and Katie did the
Speaker 2: thing rookie Kevin Durant. Oh, I got yeah, it was
Speaker 2: pretty cool. Uh. I had a friend that was living
Speaker 2: in Seattle at the time. I went to go see
Speaker 2: her and I, you know, I was doing radio in
Speaker 2: Kansas City. I got us two press passes because my
Speaker 2: producer at the time his name was had the same
Speaker 2: last name as my friend in Seattle. We got there
Speaker 2: and then it just went down to the Great Seats
Speaker 2: where her it was totally unprofessional and against the rules,
Speaker 2: went down to Great Seats to baby. Yeah, Rookie kad
Speaker 2: as a Seattle Supersonic in the final game they ever
Speaker 2: played at Key Arena. I was there for that. It
Speaker 2: was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: You're taking any like anything from the game now.
Speaker 2: And the person who I went with, if they have pictures,
Speaker 2: I can't ask them for it, all right, and so
Speaker 2: uh so the yeah, but I was it's cool memory
Speaker 2: to be there. Uh I think I don't think Katie
Speaker 2: wintering with the Suns. I think he's kind of an
Speaker 2: NBA nomad. So I'm going to go none of the above.
Speaker 2: And then last question is I got to get to work.
Speaker 2: JD has a very important question, demonse Y.
Speaker 3: So, JD. I realized that as we were wrapping up
Speaker 3: the show. But here about two minutes ago.
Speaker 4: I tell the audience what the question is, Oh, j
Speaker 4: the sunglasses? Sorry guys, Yeah, so I just I didn't
Speaker 4: put them on came in. I forgot about the I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 4: but also.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: We also were saying that I was gonna get the
Speaker 4: shades this whole time when I went out to Kansas
Speaker 4: City for the vow renewal, and that that didn't get wrong.
Speaker 2: Forgot to Yeah, I forgot to give it to you
Speaker 2: so bad, Joe.
Speaker 3: I saw you had them, so they were there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're in my backpack. They were in that room
Speaker 2: at them where we were watching the Masters, and I
Speaker 2: just forgot to give them to you. All right, great show,
Speaker 2: fun show. I'll see you guys on first things. First,
Speaker 2: good job de mont A, good job Blue Duck Crew. Daniel,
Speaker 2: you're my sworn enemy the next two weeks. See you guys.
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