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Speaker 3: Welcome in episode one, What's Right with Nick Wright on
Speaker 3: just a glorious Tuesday morning, as we are entering Week
Speaker 3: four of the NBA Playoffs, the Lakers still undefeated at home,
Speaker 3: and the Los Angeles Lakers that I on this very
Speaker 3: show six weeks ago, just six short weeks ago, gave
Speaker 3: you all to win the title at fifty to one,
Speaker 3: are now the favorites in the Western Conference.
Speaker 4: And down to four to one to win the title.
Speaker 3: If you're the type of person that sells bets on
Speaker 3: prop swap or hedges, that would get you a twelve
Speaker 3: x return.
Speaker 4: On the fifty to one bet.
Speaker 3: But you know on this show, we are team no hedge.
Speaker 3: Twelve extra turn sounds great, a fifty extra turn sounds
Speaker 3: even better. And they are now just nine wins away.
Speaker 3: As the Warriors dynastic run is on the brink. We
Speaker 3: will get to all of that shortly. Diora is here.
Speaker 3: She is doing a tremendous job. She also gave out
Speaker 3: her Instagram at the end of yesterday's show. And many
Speaker 3: of you are very bad people. That's just a fact.
Speaker 3: You can deal with that however you want. That's between
Speaker 3: your priest, or your God or whomever you can ask
Speaker 3: us questions. We will do that in the C block. Also,
Speaker 3: we are doing Nick right public defender today. When we
Speaker 3: did that with Demanse, he had to wear a powder
Speaker 3: wig and had a gavel. Demonse called me yesterday saying,
Speaker 3: you need to bring the wig and gavel to the show.
Speaker 3: And I didn't tell him this, but I will be.
Speaker 4: Telling him this now. I'm not gonna make my daughter
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna make diora ware the powder wig and
Speaker 3: do the gavel and all that foolishness. Demon's that was
Speaker 3: something I felt good about making him do, making him
Speaker 3: look ridiculous. I'm not gonna do that to you. We
Speaker 3: will still play public defender. Here is what is not
Speaker 3: on today's show, and then we will officially welcome door in.
Speaker 3: The NBA's all Rookie team has been announced. Not on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Pacheco has two offseason surgeries.
Speaker 3: The guy who's running all year, running through defenses for
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl champion Chiefs with a torn lab room
Speaker 3: and other stuff, no problem. And Cal McNair says he
Speaker 3: didn't force the CJ Stroud pick. All right, Diorra, welcome in.
Speaker 3: You're doing a wonderful job, big show today. Well, that's
Speaker 3: one of your best shows already. You know how, Some
Speaker 3: days I say, you know how? You know how? Some
Speaker 3: days I say I'm gonna stay true to the clock.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go over. I'm going the opposite today.
Speaker 5: Maybe that will mean that you stay under this time.
Speaker 3: Maybe probably not though, because I think we're doing twenty
Speaker 3: minutes on the Laker game. But we'll see. I know
Speaker 3: you have places to be. Dooro needed today to be
Speaker 3: a short show.
Speaker 4: Not gonna happen. What are we starting with?
Speaker 5: So the most clutch player of all time had a
Speaker 5: huge fourth quarter for the Lakers. I'm referring, of course,
Speaker 5: to Lonnie Walker.
Speaker 3: Shout out Lonnie.
Speaker 5: Now it's three to one and the Warriors could never
Speaker 5: come back from three to one.
Speaker 3: Okay, stop god, Kevin Duranslaw walking through that door. By that,
Speaker 3: I mean going up against him, but go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 5: Are you at all worried that this is part of
Speaker 5: the Warriors plan to get back at Lebron for twenty sixteen?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not at all worried about that. The Warriors
Speaker 3: are cooked. They're done, they're finished. You guys were all
Speaker 3: so giddy. Oh, Nick's gonna have to eat crow on
Speaker 3: the Warriors again. Oh they beat his Kings. And while
Speaker 3: I'm sad, they beat my Kings and it did cost
Speaker 3: me some money. It is more fitting that the Golden
Speaker 3: State Warriors, who have never lost a playoff series under
Speaker 3: Steve Kerr in the Western Conference playoffs, finally for the
Speaker 3: first time ever, lose a series under Kerr on the
Speaker 3: Western Conference side of the bracket because Lebron James walks
Speaker 3: through that door to that conference and beats them. But
Speaker 3: the story, you are correct, was not Lebron last night.
Speaker 3: While he was good, once again, he can't hit threes,
Speaker 3: very frustrating. The story, of course, for the Lakers was
Speaker 3: Lonnie Walker. Lonnie Walker had fifteen fourth quarter points, the
Speaker 3: majority of which over steph Curry, and it helped the
Speaker 3: Lakers come back from a double digit second half deficit
Speaker 3: to put the Warriors on the brink. And Anthony Davis
Speaker 3: was brilliant early and then very good late Defensively, Lonnie Walker,
Speaker 3: who was a starter for some of this year, was
Speaker 3: heavily in the rotation and then relegated to the bench.
Speaker 3: DNP coaches decisions. He's stayed ready and he came through
Speaker 3: he's only twenty four years old and now for the Lakers.
Speaker 4: But the Lakers are not the.
Speaker 3: Most interesting side of this. The Warriors are. We'll get
Speaker 3: to them in a second. That door is mocking my
Speaker 3: hand movements. That's fine.
Speaker 4: The Lakers.
Speaker 3: Now you have your starting five that you trust, Lebron.
Speaker 5: Ad Lebron and Lebron.
Speaker 3: Lebron, ad van Do for defense, Reeves for a little
Speaker 3: bit of everything, and d Low. Now you don't know
Speaker 3: what you're gonna get from all of those guys every night,
Speaker 3: and Vando yesterday didn't play much. But that's your five.
Speaker 3: Then off the bench, you have Shrewder who can get
Speaker 3: hot and is a smart player, even if sometimes he's
Speaker 3: a very inefficient player. You have Rui who has been
Speaker 3: excellent all postseason. And now all of a sudden, you
Speaker 3: have a Lonnie Walker that gets you to eight before
Speaker 3: you have to go to your backup center Wining Gabriel,
Speaker 3: and then your backup shooters Troy Brown and Malik Beasley
Speaker 3: if you ever see him again. That is a deep,
Speaker 3: dangerous team.
Speaker 5: But the other deep and dangerous if they didn't have
Speaker 5: Lebron and had all those other players.
Speaker 4: Well, well, listen, Lebron has not been the best player
Speaker 4: in the Lakers this posting. It's been Anthony Davis. But
Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought up Lebron.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: And pull your microphone up a little closer to you
Speaker 4: if you could.
Speaker 3: You'll have time here because I'm probably gonna talk for
Speaker 3: about fourteen minutes here. Ah. It's very interesting what we
Speaker 3: saw from Lebron yesterday. All postseason, he has not been
Speaker 3: running the point. He has been playing more of a
Speaker 3: traditional forward role. Fourth quarter, down seven yesterday, gotta have
Speaker 3: it gain, I know what have just been to to.
Speaker 3: The Lakers have to win their home games to win
Speaker 3: the title. They had to win last night to win
Speaker 3: this series. Lebron says, all right, I'll put my hand
Speaker 3: on the joystick. I'm going to control everything now. Again,
Speaker 3: he didn't even play great in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 3: it was just so crystal clear that he was waiting
Speaker 3: to see when he had to activate point. Lebron, he
Speaker 3: has not done it yet this postseason. For the vast
Speaker 3: majority of his career, it was the only way he played,
Speaker 3: and now he has been playing a different role, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, who was twenty sixteen all over again.
Speaker 4: Where's Steph Curry hunt?
Speaker 3: Steph Curry gets step in a pick and roll LEBRONI
Speaker 3: their backs him down or Lonnie Walker takes him off
Speaker 3: the dribble, and Steph, who had on the offensive side
Speaker 3: been brilliant much of the night, of course, had no answer.
Speaker 3: We also got a little twenty sixteen throwback Lebron Steph
Speaker 3: Curry chase down block with a little with a bit
Speaker 3: of a mean mugging as well. So that's how the
Speaker 3: Lakers got up three to one. Now to the Warriors
Speaker 3: side of things, so forget, we'll go little picture to
Speaker 3: big picture.
Speaker 4: Kurk does not know.
Speaker 3: Who he can play set on TV yesterday and I
Speaker 3: was of course proven correct. And by the way, that
Speaker 3: is now ten Laker games these playoffs, ten times on television,
Speaker 3: we've picked a winner of the day of the game,
Speaker 3: and I am ten and up. I have correctly picked
Speaker 3: the Lakers winner in each and every game. Before the
Speaker 3: Grizzly series, I said Lakers win one, three, four and six.
Speaker 3: And before the Warriors series, I said the Lakers win
Speaker 3: same as the Grizzly series one, three, four and six.
Speaker 3: We're ten for ten. The other thing I said on
Speaker 3: TV yesterday was Kurrz got five guys he trusts, but
Speaker 3: you can't play all five at the same time against
Speaker 3: this team. Those five are Steph Clay, Draymond, Wiggins, Looney,
Speaker 3: but they don't want to play Draymond and Looney at
Speaker 3: the same time against this team. So who's going to
Speaker 3: be that fifth guy? They started Jamichael Green, They tried that.
Speaker 3: He played two minutes yesterday. Yesterday they've started Jordan Pool
Speaker 3: these playoffs. Pool played ten minutes, had was over four,
Speaker 3: had two of the most hilarious turnovers you'll ever see,
Speaker 3: and then was relegated to the bench. More on him
Speaker 3: in a moment. So yesterday start Gary Payton. Gary Payton
Speaker 3: played as well as he can play. Still not a
Speaker 3: guy you want out there and playoff crunch time. So
Speaker 3: they went to Moses Moody, who of their young guys
Speaker 3: once upon a time kaminga Wiseman Pool Moody, he was
Speaker 3: the one they trusted the well, Wiseman's one they trusted
Speaker 3: the least, but he was then or two pick. Moody
Speaker 3: was the one they trusted the secondly, uh least, and
Speaker 3: now he can't Now they're playing him in crunch time.
Speaker 4: Of playoff games, they don't have enough.
Speaker 3: They got seven of nine from the field and three
Speaker 3: of five from three.
Speaker 4: In fact, you know what, they got fourteen.
Speaker 3: Of eighteen from the field and four of seven from
Speaker 3: three and thirty two points from Peyton Devenceinzo Moody.
Speaker 4: That's as good as you can possibly hope for.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't enough. Why well, their big three core
Speaker 3: all had massive gaffs in the final few minutes. Let's
Speaker 3: start with Steph. Step was brilliant as a distributor. The
Speaker 3: two highest assist games he's had in the last decade
Speaker 3: in the playoffs have been in the last week, Game
Speaker 3: two and Game four of this series. Last night he
Speaker 3: had thirty one, ten and fourteen, but he did not
Speaker 3: have his shot. He was three of fourteen from three.
Speaker 3: Despite that, late in the game, Steph goes a little
Speaker 3: hero ball down one less than a minute left, Steph
Speaker 3: takes a pull up twenty footer over Anthony Davis miss
Speaker 3: Draymond gets the rebound. More on that in a moment
Speaker 3: kicks it out to Steph. Steph does it was a
Speaker 3: carbon copy of the Kevin Love play from Game seven
Speaker 3: to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: Dribbled dribble, dribbled, crossover, crossover, try to shake.
Speaker 5: Any We're trying to get back at Lebron.
Speaker 3: What well, I think they're trying to win the game.
Speaker 3: I think they're trying to win the game. And I
Speaker 3: think Steph thought this was their best chance. But he
Speaker 3: couldn't get around Anthony Davis and he heaves a bad three,
Speaker 3: a bad three miss. Then they get the jump ball
Speaker 3: with five seconds left, they have a time out. Steph
Speaker 3: is on the ground, could call time out, have two
Speaker 3: and a half three seconds left, down three, Steph just
Speaker 3: has a mental lapse, throws the ball blindly over the
Speaker 3: back of.
Speaker 4: His head out of bounds.
Speaker 3: Game over, you lose.
Speaker 5: It was pretty close.
Speaker 3: It was very close. I understand that, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: you trying to be nice to the Warriors. But Steph
Speaker 3: was too good offensively for forty seven minutes to have
Speaker 3: that be the end. But it was. And this is
Speaker 3: where we have the uncomfortable facts conversation last twenty five years,
Speaker 3: to tie or take the lead in the final minute
Speaker 3: of playoff games. Steph Curry is now six for twenty five.
Speaker 3: That is the second worst in the league, ahead of
Speaker 3: only Russell Westbrook. He's shooting twenty four percent playoff games
Speaker 3: tire or take the lead minute left or less. He
Speaker 3: was zero for two yesterday. Six for twenty five now Lebron,
Speaker 3: of course, is the second best in that stretch, behind
Speaker 3: only Ray Helm on threes. By the way, in that situation,
Speaker 3: Steph is three for fourteen twenty one percent.
Speaker 4: That is better than only Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: Hadu Turklou, Kobe Bryant who's three for seven, and Russ
Speaker 3: who is an impossible one for fourteen. Lebron again, if
Speaker 3: you care, in those situations, three pointers to tire or
Speaker 3: take the lead in the final middle playoff games is
Speaker 3: the fourth best.
Speaker 5: It's about talking about this for thirteen minutes.
Speaker 3: No twenty minutes probably, uh, Reggie Dame and Ray Allen
Speaker 3: round ten for sixteen on those just bananas. So for Steph,
Speaker 3: brilliant offens. Lonnie Walker has not taken enough of those
Speaker 3: shots to qualify. In fact, he's taken none to qualify.
Speaker 3: But I've still got nothing but love. He just hasn't.
Speaker 4: He's never taken it. It is his first real playoff action.
Speaker 3: Uh So that's Steph offensively great for forty seven minutes.
Speaker 3: Bad for the last minute. Defensively, Lonnie Walker kept dotting
Speaker 3: his eye and Lebron got isoed with him a few times,
Speaker 3: and he kept foiling and Lebron, Lebron, who famously is
Speaker 3: afraid of free throws, runs from the foul line, even
Speaker 3: though and people say that, despite the fact that even
Speaker 3: the most ardent Lebron James hater can't point to a
Speaker 3: single playoff game in his twenty year career that oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: his team lost because he missed a late free throw. Lebron,
Speaker 3: of course, goes four for four from the line the
Speaker 3: final three minutes. So there's the staff part.
Speaker 4: Now the Clay part, steph part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not moving on yet. I told you this
Speaker 3: was gonna be a while. The Clay part. Clay did
Speaker 3: not have it last night. Now, he hit a corner
Speaker 3: three of a great pass I think for Moses Moody
Speaker 3: to go up ninety nine to ninety six. At that moment,
Speaker 3: he was three for seven from three. He was three
Speaker 3: for nine for the game, and at least he made
Speaker 3: that big shot. Clay then takes an impart possibly bad
Speaker 3: pull up thirty footer from the right wing, and then
Speaker 3: an almost equally bad pull up twenty four footer from
Speaker 3: the left wing that almost made Kerr pass out. You
Speaker 3: can see him in one of the shots. You see
Speaker 3: Clay take the shot, and you see Kerr have a
Speaker 3: little mini conniption.
Speaker 4: And then they move on.
Speaker 5: I swear you're making these.
Speaker 3: Look it up.
Speaker 4: So Clay.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, man, everybody loves Clay. Clay's one of
Speaker 3: the greatest players ever. We all know that. Man oh man.
Speaker 4: When he's great, he gets all the love.
Speaker 3: And when he's bad, we just move on other guys
Speaker 3: that are second best guys on a team. When they're bad,
Speaker 3: people come for him. Clay was really bad last night.
Speaker 3: Took two really bad shots, and it's just got to
Speaker 3: be acknowledged. And then there's Draymond. Draymond off the first
Speaker 3: Steph miss with forty seconds left, thirty seconds left, whatever
Speaker 3: it was. Draymond gets the offensive rebound, has shrewder on him.
Speaker 3: They're down one. He's three feet from the basket, could
Speaker 3: just go up with it, doesn't even look at the
Speaker 3: basket and instead throws it thirty five feet away from
Speaker 3: the basket to Steph. Go up, Draymond, trust yourself, offensive rebound,
Speaker 3: lay up your ahead by one.
Speaker 5: He didn't want it to be his fault if.
Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately for him, it ended up being his fault
Speaker 3: because after all that, they run a play with fifteen
Speaker 3: seconds left, after a trying to think what happened here?
Speaker 3: Did make two free throws? I think whatever it was,
Speaker 3: or maybe Lonnie Walker made a jump shot. I gotta
Speaker 3: the I'm not sure exactly. I'm gonna check real quick,
Speaker 3: but the to give you the exact circumstances that led
Speaker 3: to the turnover. But uh, yeah, Lonnie Walker made two
Speaker 3: free throws. That's right, because they fouled him and the
Speaker 3: Warriors run hammer. Lebron calls it out. Every is pointing
Speaker 3: to everyone where to go. Draymond throws a perfect pass
Speaker 3: to Anthony Davis. Problem, of course, there is Anthony Davis
Speaker 3: place for the Lakers. Now, I'm yet, let me check
Speaker 3: and see Draymond, you know who's been potting quite regularly. Uh,
Speaker 3: let me see if we have an updated Draymond Green
Speaker 3: show after yesterday's game. Waiting, waiting. Uh, that's a shame.
Speaker 3: We don't if this was the last high leverage moment
Speaker 3: for that Warrior's Big three altogether, because Draymond is not
Speaker 3: guaranteed to be back It's a rough final three minutes
Speaker 3: for each of them. Steph had some bad moments, Clay
Speaker 3: had some brutal the two brutal shots, and Draymond had
Speaker 3: the killer turnover, just killer for all of them. And
Speaker 3: then last point on this as bad as being down
Speaker 3: three to one and as dire as it looks, the
Speaker 3: worst thing for the Warriors right now might be that
Speaker 3: Jordan Poole, who curse seems to be giving up on,
Speaker 3: has four years and one hundred and twenty eight million
Speaker 3: dollars on an extension that does not even start until
Speaker 3: next season. They paid Jordan Poole early, Draymond slugged him,
Speaker 3: his season has been bad, his playoffs have been worse,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I think that might be
Speaker 3: the worst contract in the league. So dire straits for
Speaker 3: the defending champion Golden State Warriors, DIORA moving on.
Speaker 4: We can now move on what's next.
Speaker 5: The Heat are a game away from making the conference finals,
Speaker 5: but they only have to beat the banged up Bucks
Speaker 5: and the Knicks to get there. Yep, it's hard to
Speaker 5: say that the team, if the team that could actually
Speaker 5: beat the Hawks, is actually legit. At eighteen to one
Speaker 5: to win the title. Is it worth the shot?
Speaker 3: So absolutely? The Heat. How the Heat are still underrated
Speaker 3: and undervalued is beyond me. I understand they don't have
Speaker 3: a roster full of great players. I get that, and
Speaker 3: this piece of hair is just going to drive me crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to fix it the whole I'm looking at
Speaker 3: myself and the camera screen. It's just killing me. I
Speaker 3: understand that what they do have is the best coach
Speaker 3: in the NBA and Jimmy Butler, who's been as good
Speaker 3: as just about anyone in this postseason. And now they're
Speaker 3: up three to one on the Knicks, and the Bucks
Speaker 3: were the one.
Speaker 4: Seed and they beat them.
Speaker 3: I know Yannis was missed Game two and three and
Speaker 3: large part of game one, Game four and five, though
Speaker 3: he was back and game five, Yannis seemed to be
Speaker 3: pretty damn healthy. And in both of those games, the
Speaker 3: Heat had double digit deficits that they overcame in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. And in this game, game four, they just
Speaker 3: out hustled and out fought the Knicks. And can the
Speaker 3: Heat beat Boston? Of course they can. They took them
Speaker 3: to seven last year came down to a Jimmy Butler three.
Speaker 3: Can the Heat with Jimmy and Spoe beat Philly. Of
Speaker 3: course they could.
Speaker 5: You're very passionate today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fired up? Is a so I the Heat
Speaker 4: it Listen.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Heat are gonna win the title,
Speaker 3: but I think right now, let me see what their
Speaker 3: odds are to win the conference. He definitely knows the
Speaker 3: I No, I don't know what their odds are to
Speaker 3: win the conference. The let me, I'm just gonna look
Speaker 3: real quick, the to win the Eastern Conference. They're play Yeah,
Speaker 3: four to one, that's not what they should be. It
Speaker 3: is crazy to me that Boston is minus one seventy five.
Speaker 3: And it's not because Boston would be the favorite over Miami.
Speaker 3: I know they would be in Vegas, but Boston might
Speaker 3: not get there, and the Heat are definitely getting there.
Speaker 3: The Heat are. They were bad in the play in,
Speaker 3: they were bad in the regular season. Jimmy Butler is
Speaker 3: a sixteen game player. Spolstra is a great coach.
Speaker 4: They have enough.
Speaker 3: What's the follow up here?
Speaker 5: What do you think about Julius Randall saying that the
Speaker 5: Heat won it more.
Speaker 3: The Knicks effort, particularly on the defensive glass yesterday, was pathetic.
Speaker 3: And listen, the Knicks fans were all mad at me,
Speaker 3: and I understand I underrated them slightly, but I mostly
Speaker 3: I underrated them against the Cavs. But otherwise I had
Speaker 3: it right. This team was not a real threat. And
Speaker 3: Julius Randalls anyone box score wise had a good game yesterday,
Speaker 3: ie test wise, he didn't, and Randal now has to
Speaker 3: reconcile these things. In twenty twenty one, he was twenty
Speaker 3: four and ten on forty five percent shooting in the
Speaker 3: regular season, and then in the playoffs he was eighteen
Speaker 3: and eleven. Give him credit for that on twenty nine
Speaker 3: percent shooting in the postseason. This year he's gonna make
Speaker 3: an All NBA team. He was twenty five and ten
Speaker 3: on forty six percent in the regular season, and in
Speaker 3: the playoffs he's been sixteen and eight on thirty seven percent.
Speaker 3: The Knicks actually have some nice pieces. Jalen Brunson can
Speaker 3: be the number two on a really good team.
Speaker 4: RJ.
Speaker 3: Barrett has shown enough in this postseason that I think
Speaker 3: one day he could be the number three on a
Speaker 3: really good team. I like your compliment pieces, you gotta
Speaker 3: resign heart. I like grimes obviously, I like topping. I
Speaker 3: like quickly that's for rotational guys. You have your second,
Speaker 3: number two and number three question is can you get
Speaker 3: a real one? Can you get someone to bite on Randall?
Speaker 3: Because that's another bad contract now not a playoff player. Sorry,
Speaker 3: he's like the bizarro Jimmy Butler. Awesome in the regular
Speaker 3: season and then just becomes borderline liability in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And if the Knicks acknowledge that, admit that, and try
Speaker 3: to move on, they could be dangerous at some point.
Speaker 3: If not, they're gonna have a very clear ceiling in
Speaker 3: the postseason next.
Speaker 5: Statistically, Devin Booker is having is having the hottest start
Speaker 5: to a playoffs ever. He clearly won the Luca Booker debate.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know. I don't know, so that he clearly.
Speaker 5: Won, Okay, speaking of Luca, he went off last postseason,
Speaker 5: then open the year as MVP favorite. Josh Allen did
Speaker 5: the same after losing a shootout with Mahomes. Playoff success
Speaker 5: definitely impacts early season expectations. So do you think, like,
Speaker 5: is Booker's lights out shooting setting him up to be
Speaker 5: the favorite going into next year too?
Speaker 3: Well, that's really interesting question that I hadn't really considered that.
Speaker 3: How will this postseason affect Devin Booker when it comes
Speaker 3: to MVP odds, Yeah, I mean I think he probably
Speaker 3: will be one of the favorites. It is interesting that
Speaker 3: how I mean, nobody has ever done what he's doing
Speaker 3: from a field goal percentage and volume scoring perspective. I mean,
Speaker 3: the guy's shooting seventy one percent true shooting percentage on
Speaker 3: a super high volume. We've never seen it done. The
Speaker 3: only even nine game stretches, these nine games across all
Speaker 3: of playoffs for guys to shoot in the mid sixties
Speaker 3: true shooting on thirty five points per game is Kareem
Speaker 3: in seventy seven, Jordan in eighty nine, Lebron in twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen and two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4: That's the list.
Speaker 3: So you have Jordan, Kareem, and Lebron the three greatest
Speaker 3: players ever. Lebron did it twice, Kareem wants, Jordan wants,
Speaker 3: and Devin Booker is doing it at a higher rate
Speaker 3: than any of them. We have coming out tomorrow on
Speaker 3: the TV show Club Superstar, and he is a spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: He's going to be in there, and he's been remarkable
Speaker 3: now on that series. The story really of the Sun's
Speaker 3: winning Games three and four. Is not that Booker and
Speaker 3: KD were unbelievable. It's that they finally in Games three
Speaker 3: and four, got some thing off their bench, so it
Speaker 3: didn't squander how great Booker and Katie were. I steal
Speaker 3: think Denver's heavy heavy favorite in that series. But Booker
Speaker 3: has taken his game to a level I did not
Speaker 3: think he had in him, and he now is in
Speaker 3: the discussion as a top eight, six, five guy in
Speaker 3: the league. That's what the playoffs can do, and he
Speaker 3: is having a playoff run unlike almost anyone we've ever seen.
Speaker 3: All Right, last one for the segment and.
Speaker 5: So well, only your show would put this in the
Speaker 5: A block. Okay, I feel like this should be what
Speaker 5: didn't make the cut. But Bronni is staying in Southern
Speaker 5: California with his dad at USC. Does this mean for
Speaker 5: both him, his dad and the future? What does this
Speaker 5: mean for him, his dad and the future of the NBA.
Speaker 3: Well, it means Lebron's definitely gonna be on the Lakers
Speaker 3: next year, but that was kind of validated just by
Speaker 3: this playoff run already. It Here's what I'll say that
Speaker 3: is interesting about the USC.
Speaker 5: So you thought Lebron might retire this year.
Speaker 3: No, I thought he might try to leave the Lakers.
Speaker 3: I thought he might try to go somewhere else. But
Speaker 3: with Bronnie at USC and the Lakers playing well, there's
Speaker 3: no chance. I'm not saying Bronni's gonna be one and done,
Speaker 3: but if you were to be one and done, his
Speaker 3: best case scenario is probably yeah, straight to the MBA
Speaker 3: after a year of college. His best case scenario would
Speaker 3: probably be to be a late first round pick. It
Speaker 3: is nowhere, and Lebron after next year is a free agent.
Speaker 3: Lebron has said he wants to play with Bronni now.
Speaker 3: He did come out and say that that just because
Speaker 3: that's my goal doesn't mean that's his goal, and he's
Speaker 3: got to, you know, do what's best for him and
Speaker 3: live his life. Also, Lebron said, and I thought it
Speaker 3: was a pretty touching moment. I had never thought of it,
Speaker 3: that Bronni's the first person in his whole family he'd
Speaker 3: ever go to college, and how really yeah, and how
Speaker 3: happy that makes him and how excited it makes him.
Speaker 3: I've never thought of that. But like obviously, Lebron, I
Speaker 3: didn't go to college and went straight high school to
Speaker 3: the pros and he's saying no one in his family's
Speaker 3: ever gone to college until the Sun. I thought it
Speaker 3: was pretty nice.
Speaker 5: I do think though, when he's like Bronnie can go
Speaker 5: on his own path, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's kind of like if you don't like,
Speaker 5: you'll be shunned, but like, you know, do whatever.
Speaker 3: This is what I think, and I've said this before.
Speaker 3: I think Lebron initially said publicly, I'm I want to
Speaker 3: play with Bronni at a time when it looked like
Speaker 3: Bronni might not be good enough to be an NBA player,
Speaker 3: to try to incentivize a team to draft him, to
Speaker 3: give him a chance to be an NBA player because
Speaker 3: they know if they draft and they'll get Lebron as well,
Speaker 3: like as a way to get his foot in the door.
Speaker 3: And by the way, people criticize that, that's kind of
Speaker 3: what happened with Steph Curry's brother. Steph's brother was Baby Curry. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you call him Baby Curry and you see him on
Speaker 3: the nets. He's good now, but it was he was
Speaker 3: cut repeatedly. He was a guy who was not gonna
Speaker 3: be an NBA guy. He kept getting chances because teams
Speaker 3: wanted in case, the Warriors gave him chances, other teams
Speaker 3: in case Steph ever wanted to go play with him.
Speaker 3: Jannis has two brothers who have played in the NBA,
Speaker 3: neither of whom are good because they are getting chances
Speaker 3: either by Giannis's teams or teams that want Giannis as
Speaker 3: a carrot. So we've seen guys do this for their brothers.
Speaker 3: We've never seen someone do it for their son. J R.
Speaker 3: Smith did it for his brother Chris, but that's because
Speaker 3: the ages have never matched up. So I think that
Speaker 3: was initially the plan. But then Bronnie kept getting better
Speaker 3: and better and better, and now he might be a
Speaker 3: legit NBA player eventually on his own. So it complicates things,
Speaker 3: but in a good way. But here is the Galaxy
Speaker 3: brain part of it. Evan Mobley, who's one of the
Speaker 3: best young players in the league, plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3: Cleveland famously obviously draft of lebron He played there, he left,
Speaker 3: he came back won a title with him. Evan's dad, Eric,
Speaker 3: is a coach at USC. The Cleveland Cavaliers traded away
Speaker 3: all their future draft picks for Donovan Mitchell except for
Speaker 3: their first rounder in twenty twenty four, which is the
Speaker 3: year Bronni could come out. Lebron is a free agent
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four and the Calves have every spot
Speaker 3: on the roster filled out except for a really good
Speaker 3: small forward. So could the Calves draft Bronni in the
Speaker 3: late first round a year from now and have bron
Speaker 3: come back a third time? It's on the board. Could
Speaker 3: the Knicks draft him trying to get Lebron to Madison
Speaker 3: Square Garden.
Speaker 4: It's on the board.
Speaker 3: It's also on the board that Bronni decides not to
Speaker 3: be one and done or you know, go on his
Speaker 3: own pat But if Lebron were to, whether they're on
Speaker 3: the same team or not, play in the NBA at
Speaker 3: the same time his son was playing in the NBA,
Speaker 3: it would be one of the most remarkable feats in
Speaker 3: sports history. Because of the longevity and all of it.
Speaker 3: We've seen it in baseball, King Griffy Senior and King
Speaker 3: Griffy Junior. We've never even King Griffy Ken.
Speaker 4: Ken Ken Griffy j That is wow.
Speaker 3: King Griffy Junior is one of the greatest baseball players
Speaker 3: of all time.
Speaker 5: And that's amazing for him, you know, but that that's.
Speaker 3: A great name. Are you getting? He was so cool?
Speaker 3: I don't have to do a King Griffy thing. He
Speaker 3: was like the coolest base What did you say? Uh?
Speaker 3: But we've seen it in baseball. We never thought it
Speaker 3: was possible to see him basketball, and we might be
Speaker 3: a year away from it. All right, we talk a
Speaker 3: little Nikola jokicch and we play Nick right public defender.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in What's right with Nick Right? Oh,
Speaker 3: you missed your chance to welcome us back into yours.
Speaker 5: I saw that you were about to do it.
Speaker 3: Dior and I were having an interesting conversation off the
Speaker 3: ear that will run on the air in just a moment.
Speaker 3: But first I got it. I'm such no I am
Speaker 3: such an anxiety riddled mess. Broussard text me during the
Speaker 3: first block, and if you guys were watching and you
Speaker 3: might have seen I got distracted a bit. Brew text me.
Speaker 3: He was like, are you free for a second or
Speaker 3: are you doing the pod? And all I could think
Speaker 3: about is like, oh man, Brew must be really upset
Speaker 3: with me about something. And I was like racking my
Speaker 3: brain about what I could have done that to upset Brew.
Speaker 3: But he's never mad at me, so I don't know
Speaker 3: why I thought he was, And so I text him
Speaker 3: during this segment. I was like, I'm doing the podcast,
Speaker 3: but what's up? Because I had to know what was
Speaker 3: going on? And he was like, I just text you
Speaker 3: and wild She was like, I just think you should
Speaker 3: go first to start the show today instead of me.
Speaker 3: That was it. It was about a Steph question for
Speaker 3: the top of the TV show. I don't know why
Speaker 3: my brain every time I get a phone call or
Speaker 3: a text, I'm just like that.
Speaker 5: Why everyone know every time I every time I call you, you.
Speaker 3: Answer, You're like, hello, I'm always nervous. Hello, I'm Michaels nervous.
Speaker 4: Every time my phone rings.
Speaker 5: Every single time I call him, I'm like are you okay?
Speaker 3: Just like yeah, yeah, fine, I'm always fine, but I'm
Speaker 3: always word something terrible is going on. I don't know
Speaker 3: why Brian need medication. All right, so do Youora mentioned
Speaker 3: in the break that this is now the second time
Speaker 3: that she almost went to school with Bronnie James, Lebron's kid,
Speaker 3: because their same grade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're the same age. And there's a point in
Speaker 5: time we thought we were going to have to move
Speaker 5: to la for the show, and we were looking at
Speaker 5: high schools and I applied to one and I got
Speaker 5: into one. I was like, Okay, that's the one we'll
Speaker 5: go to, and Bronnie went to that same.
Speaker 4: Is the school you were going to go exactly, and
Speaker 4: then we ended.
Speaker 5: Up moving exactly, and then USC was my top choice school,
Speaker 5: but then I didn't get in, and then Bronni.
Speaker 3: Is Bronni and now Bronnie's going there, And then we
Speaker 3: were talking about something else, which is you said because
Speaker 3: you asked me if that was his real name, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and his real is It is his real name now,
Speaker 3: but he was named Lebron James Junior and he changed
Speaker 3: his name to Bronni and Lebron Senior. I guess has
Speaker 3: talked about this and that was his call here. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just I want to make we're talking
Speaker 3: about that it was his that it was the son's call.
Speaker 3: And Lebron has said that he regrets naming him Lebron
Speaker 3: James Junior, that that was put too much on his shoulders. Uh,
Speaker 3: and you had thoughts on that and then one other
Speaker 3: point on it, But go ahead, what do you mean
Speaker 3: about him why he changed his name, about why you
Speaker 3: would want to change his name.
Speaker 5: I was just saying it must be like rough because
Speaker 5: you don't know why people want to be friends with you.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that is to me a really fascinating thing,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 5: If you are like I've had that before and you're
Speaker 5: definitely not as big as a star as Lebron James's,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 3: What, Well clearly, but so that so you actually you've
Speaker 3: you've wondered that before, like is someone being nice to
Speaker 3: you because they thought they could get something from me
Speaker 3: or they liked me on the show or something.
Speaker 5: Well like yeah, there's like a few kids at my
Speaker 5: school that's just like are just like, you know, a
Speaker 5: little off like to everyone, and then all of a
Speaker 5: sudden it's just like, hey, like, I'm it's almost my birthday, Like,
Speaker 5: do you want to do something with me and my friends?
Speaker 5: And I'm like no, like.
Speaker 3: And like what there's a either some sports connection or
Speaker 3: something involving yeah, so uh.
Speaker 5: Or remember there was a point in time where my
Speaker 5: dad came and spoke to the sports club at my
Speaker 5: school because they begged me to get like to convince
Speaker 5: him to do it. And it was like with a
Speaker 5: kid I wasn't really friends with. I'm kind of friends
Speaker 5: with him now, but like it was just out of nowhere,
Speaker 5: and I was like, eh, I don't know about that,
Speaker 5: Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So and I And to your point, it is we
Speaker 3: are I am now, I am not a celebrity, and
Speaker 3: I am like very very very like sports TV guy
Speaker 3: is somewhere ahead like sandwich between like famous commercial actor
Speaker 3: who no one knows their name but recognizes them from
Speaker 3: the commercials.
Speaker 5: Hey you're that guy from ESPN.
Speaker 3: Right right, exactly right, And so it's it is not
Speaker 3: real celebrity, it is more notoriety. You then go to
Speaker 3: the other end of the spectrum, which is Lebron James
Speaker 3: is one of the most probably one of the fifteen
Speaker 3: most famous human beings alive if you are his kid,
Speaker 3: once you are old enough to be self aware and
Speaker 3: you know, deal with high school politics and stuff, do
Speaker 3: you have to be Do you have like a level
Speaker 3: of insecurity about anyone who's nice to you or tries
Speaker 3: to be friends with you.
Speaker 4: Is it because they actually like me?
Speaker 3: Or is it because they want to be invited my
Speaker 3: house or meet my dad or those.
Speaker 5: My thing is, though, when you're in public, I I
Speaker 5: could just because I have a terrible memory, but I
Speaker 5: could see a famous person and be like, huh, I
Speaker 5: know them from somewhere and just be like completely oblivious
Speaker 5: and just and like not saying Brownie is not famous.
Speaker 5: But if I saw Bronnie on the street, I wouldn't
Speaker 5: be like, oh, that's lebron James.
Speaker 4: Kid that you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But kids at his high school all.
Speaker 5: Know, well, yeah, of course, And now maybe.
Speaker 3: It's good he goes in high school. It goes to
Speaker 3: because a lot of.
Speaker 5: I must say, a lot of celebrity kids go there,
Speaker 5: and a lot of them are kind of on the
Speaker 5: same level.
Speaker 4: Well, that is the thing. Like it is.
Speaker 3: It is a level of celebrity, fame and wealth that
Speaker 3: is a very like I you.
Speaker 4: Know who's gonna deal with this once she.
Speaker 3: Gets a little bit older. Blue Ivy, Oh, that's gonna
Speaker 3: be rough.
Speaker 5: Right, she's homeschooled, though.
Speaker 3: I almost wonder if you I don't want to say
Speaker 3: you have.
Speaker 5: It's Beyonce's kid though, that's that's like a whole.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. That's so that's what I'm.
Speaker 5: Saying, like the president's kid, right, and I and by
Speaker 5: the way, and I know people, sorry, just real quick.
Speaker 3: Historically that's been really tough on president's kids. The Bush
Speaker 3: twins had a rough time, Chelsea Clinton had a rough time.
Speaker 3: No Chelsea Clinton part at a rough time because Rush
Speaker 3: Limbaugh was truly horrible to her as a child.
Speaker 4: And the Obama kids, I don't know if they've had
Speaker 4: a rough time, but you know.
Speaker 5: They kind of had a rough time in college, not
Speaker 5: as much in high school.
Speaker 3: But you know people that are friendly with one of them,
Speaker 3: correct now.
Speaker 5: I know people that are not friendly. But no Trump's
Speaker 5: kid because he's Columbia the wait, which the one that's
Speaker 5: like sixteen or something.
Speaker 3: Oh, not Columbia University.
Speaker 5: No, Columbia. We played in all the leagues and stuff.
Speaker 4: So right, so all of that's is it is.
Speaker 3: And then to circle back to the browny thing, if
Speaker 3: you are a big time athlete at one of these schools,
Speaker 3: there's a natural in high scularity. Yes, in high school,
Speaker 3: the two quickest paths to popularity, and this is a
Speaker 3: tale as old as time. I don't think it will
Speaker 3: ever change is very pretty girl, great athlete boy, Those
Speaker 3: across all high schools, all eras.
Speaker 4: That's not the only ways to be popular, but.
Speaker 3: Those are almost surefire popularity ways if you want it. So,
Speaker 3: if you are that kid, do you have like you
Speaker 3: probably even if you weren't a famous person's kid, you'd
Speaker 3: have a lot of people that want to hang out
Speaker 3: with you, be friends with you. But do you have
Speaker 3: a level of like a voice in your head that
Speaker 3: always wonders do the actions right? And I think that's
Speaker 3: I think that's This is a very fern version, but
Speaker 3: it's kind of a branch of the same tree. It's
Speaker 3: the same reason why I said your first year at college,
Speaker 3: you can't have a car. One of the reasons, remember, yeah,
Speaker 3: that I the.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be the person that has the
Speaker 5: car because every want to use.
Speaker 3: You well and you don't. Right, then you don't. You
Speaker 3: don't get a good gauge on whether or not these
Speaker 3: people actually like you, or whether or not you are
Speaker 3: just the person with the car, so they're nice to
Speaker 3: you by out of necessity. And so again it's not
Speaker 3: the same, but it's the same kind of thought pattern.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I I think. And it's also
Speaker 3: why it's a tough road for celebrity kids. Man, it's
Speaker 3: a tough and I again, I there are obviously far,
Speaker 3: far tougher things. I'm not trying to say any of that.
Speaker 3: What I am saying is it is not surprising that
Speaker 3: sometimes famous people's children go through some stuff because there
Speaker 3: are these added things that during adolescence, when you already
Speaker 3: have so many you know, changes and things going on
Speaker 3: your brain, and all of this is just an added
Speaker 3: layer of the lack of ability to be one hundred
Speaker 3: percent sure on who's your who's got your back, and
Speaker 3: who doesn't. And it's also one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: so many people, particularly athletes, that become famous and wealthy,
Speaker 3: their closest group are the people that predate the fame
Speaker 3: and wealth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because those are the.
Speaker 3: People the only people that you can be lock solid
Speaker 3: certain like you for you as opposed to and it's why.
Speaker 3: But it's also why so many actors and actresses date
Speaker 3: others actors and actresses because it's.
Speaker 4: Like, we know, you know, you're not using it.
Speaker 5: They could use you for the levels of correct and
Speaker 5: we've seen that, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: But it's also why a lot of A listers try
Speaker 3: to date A listers. Yeah, you know, it's like we're
Speaker 3: because we're in the same We're in the same world. Okay,
Speaker 3: this was kind of a cidebard, but it was interesting.
Speaker 3: All right, let's let's move on to the back to
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Okay, According to you, Jokic pushed a nerd Sunday.
Speaker 3: I made wild die laughing when I said that. Man,
Speaker 3: he tries never to like break character if you will
Speaker 3: laugh at mean jokes, but he couldn't help himself. But
Speaker 3: go ahead, and that.
Speaker 5: Nerd was the Sun's owner.
Speaker 3: Yeah are you?
Speaker 5: Are you in on Jokic now that he's the NBA villain.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, Jokic has been unbelievable this postseason, and I
Speaker 3: don't blame him at all for pushing matt Ashbia Matt Ashbia.
Speaker 3: Joey Taylor said this I'd never heard this line before.
Speaker 3: Evidently it's an old line, but I'm gonna credit Joy
Speaker 3: with it because I had never heard it before.
Speaker 4: She said it, play stupid.
Speaker 3: Games, get stupid prizes, and matt E Shbia was playing
Speaker 3: stupid games and he won a stupid prize, which is
Speaker 3: a giant Serbian gentleman shoving him in the chest. And
Speaker 3: then he flopped like a fish on a boat. So
Speaker 3: I'm glad the NBA didn't suspend Jokic. The funny thing
Speaker 3: about it is this, he almost assuredly would have been
Speaker 3: suspended if that wasn't the Sun's owner. Some people thought
Speaker 3: he was gonna get in more trouble because, oh my god,
Speaker 3: you pushed an owner of the team.
Speaker 4: I think it actually worked the opposite.
Speaker 5: Because the owner doesn't want the team to lose.
Speaker 3: Well, no, he owns the other team. So but but
Speaker 3: if he had just shoved a random fan sitting courtside,
Speaker 3: I think he gets in way more trouble because the
Speaker 3: owner was clearly trying to like insert himself in the action,
Speaker 3: and he didn't really feel like just a civilian. It
Speaker 3: was someone who has a connection to the team owned
Speaker 3: the team and was because the what happened if people
Speaker 3: didn't watch it. The ball goes out of bounds, a
Speaker 3: Sun's player falls down Jokic and the ball bounces to
Speaker 3: the Son's owner, brand new owner just bought the team.
Speaker 3: Jokic runs over because he wants to start the fast
Speaker 3: break because the Sun's players still on the ground. The
Speaker 3: Son's owner doesn't want to give up the ball. Jokic
Speaker 3: tries to grab it from him. The owner Ishbia, won't
Speaker 3: give it to him, and the ball pops away and
Speaker 3: then Jokic pushes him. He was Ishbia was inserting himself
Speaker 3: into the action. Jokic didn't like it. I and I
Speaker 3: liked Jokiic's postgame prize conference. I did not believe Jokic
Speaker 3: should have won the MVP two years ago or last year.
Speaker 3: It does not mean I think he stinks, and far
Speaker 3: from stinking, he's been awesome in the playoffs this year. Now.
Speaker 3: It is true that Jokic has a history of some
Speaker 3: dirty plays, this.
Speaker 4: Was not one of them, and.
Speaker 3: It's really good the NBA didn't suspend him. And I
Speaker 3: think she looks way worse than jokicen this all right,
Speaker 3: We're playing nick right public defender. Okay, keep in mind,
Speaker 3: by the way, like a public defender does. I am
Speaker 3: simply defending the client. I have been assigned by the
Speaker 3: state to the best of my abilities. I am not
Speaker 3: necessarily I do not necessarily believe these takes. Go ahead,
Speaker 3: So sorry, you're fine, Go ahead.
Speaker 5: The Sun's owner, Matt held the ball after a play
Speaker 5: was stopped in the crowd, then flop back into a
Speaker 5: seat when Yoki bumped him. Defend your client, s nerd
Speaker 5: Matt Ashbia.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, the jury of this verse. My client
Speaker 3: did not get up. Do you want to go get
Speaker 3: some water? Do this your honor? Are you okay? Would
Speaker 3: you like a five minute recess? No? I just cure
Speaker 3: if you would, your honor. If it pleases the court,
Speaker 3: we can take a break.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: My client just sitting there watching a basketball game. Ball
Speaker 3: bounces to him. He was not trying to delay any action.
Speaker 3: He was checking on the health of one of his players.
Speaker 3: And then a man who has a history of violence
Speaker 3: against my team specifically shoves my client in the chest.
Speaker 3: And by the way, when they say when they say
Speaker 3: that the assault, the assailant, Nikolajokic was trying to start
Speaker 3: a fast break. This isn't street ball.
Speaker 4: Can't check it in. He needs a referee.
Speaker 3: Anyway, my client did nothing wrong and was assaulted, and
Speaker 3: due to the reckless assault of Jokic, my client had
Speaker 3: to be defamed on television, the very popular TV host
Speaker 3: calling him a nerd, talking badly about him when all
Speaker 3: he was trying to do was check on the health
Speaker 3: and well being of his player, Josha Kobe. Yes, your honor, nothing,
Speaker 3: I arrest my case. I didn't really wanted to bendh yet.
Speaker 5: Next, the Celtics had a shot to win in overtime
Speaker 5: versus the seventy six ers, but Jason Tatum went full
Speaker 5: Ben Simmons counselor defend your client, Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3: My client's job is to play basketball. My client's job
Speaker 3: is to guard, score, rebound. My client's job is not
Speaker 3: to strategize. There is someone whose job is to strategize,
Speaker 3: the head coach, Joe Mizzoula. And the head coach Joe
Speaker 3: Mizzouola was negligent, didn't call time out, didn't put his
Speaker 3: best offensive unit on the floor. He's not dead. Well,
Speaker 3: maybe he should be. Maybe he should be on trial
Speaker 3: because he set my client up to be the fall guy.
Speaker 3: His Michael Cohen, if you will, while he is getting
Speaker 3: away scott free due to gross negligence standing there.
Speaker 5: Doing nothing, Come down, Come down.
Speaker 3: My client almost had a twenty and twenty game, has
Speaker 3: come through again and again for this franchise over the
Speaker 3: course of the last six years, and you're blaming him
Speaker 3: as opposed to his thirty four year old first time
Speaker 3: head coach that can't be bothered to call a time
Speaker 3: out and keeps running plays for Marcus Smart.
Speaker 4: It should also be noted that.
Speaker 3: My client, before overtime got Mark is Smart a wide
Speaker 3: open look to win the game right after my client
Speaker 3: hit a step back three to go ahead in the game,
Speaker 3: and Mark is Smart short armed.
Speaker 4: My client, Jason Jatum, is not the villain here.
Speaker 3: He is the hero.
Speaker 5: You're not a very good lawyer. Next, leave it, Tom Tjo.
Speaker 4: Next.
Speaker 5: Chris Paul has always come up short in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Now after his injury, Phoenix is two and all without him.
Speaker 5: Sky is so overrated, Coutzer. Defend your client, Chris Paul.
Speaker 3: No defense necessary for the point god god. My client,
Speaker 3: the point God, Chris Paul. My client's the fifth gradest
Speaker 3: point guard in the history professional basketball. My client's thirty
Speaker 3: seven years old, five foot eleven and still a winning
Speaker 3: quality player. And without my client's leadership, you think a
Speaker 3: team led by Kevin Duranton Ben and uh Devin Booker
Speaker 3: would be able to survive two games to save their
Speaker 3: season without my client's on bench coaching, without my client
Speaker 3: coaching up.
Speaker 4: Campaign, literally not even playing right.
Speaker 3: And so he has to go full blown leadership, all right,
Speaker 3: coaching from the bench. Okay, I agree, case dismissed his
Speaker 3: scurtless charges.
Speaker 5: Next, the Westminster Dog Show is underway in New York
Speaker 5: with one notable admission. Counsel, defend your client Dexter. Right,
Speaker 5: my handsome guy.
Speaker 3: So I think we have pictures of my client is
Speaker 3: also a dog. Look at my guy. That's Dexter, or
Speaker 3: Portuguese water dog, wearing what looks like a Bottlin Siaga sweatshirt,
Speaker 3: but it's actually Paul in Siaga, handsome like my little,
Speaker 3: my little that's him laying on the steps. We have
Speaker 3: more pictures of Dexter that we're gonna show.
Speaker 5: Like I'm the one who gets these photos that I'm
Speaker 5: still like, oh my Godnes.
Speaker 3: You listen, you door loves this dog, and I'll defend him.
Speaker 3: In just a moment, we can just roll through these pictures.
Speaker 3: So here's why my client, uh was not invited to Westminster.
Speaker 5: He's a babiac.
Speaker 3: He's one of the dumbest animals ever to live.
Speaker 5: He's really he's not great.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand no dogs are brilliant, but our
Speaker 3: dog is cartoonishly stupid.
Speaker 5: He I watched him chase his tail yesterday until he
Speaker 5: fell down the stairs. He like, was it going at
Speaker 5: circle with going a circle? Still he fell down the stairs.
Speaker 3: He We have these somewhat windy staircase at our house
Speaker 3: and in the on the kitchen level, it's like two
Speaker 3: stairs and then a ninety three turn. And every day
Speaker 3: when that's the different staircase, but it's similar setup. Every
Speaker 3: day when I walk up those stairs and he follows me,
Speaker 3: he gets so excited. He jumps up the first two stairs,
Speaker 3: but he is not yet figured out that every time
Speaker 3: he does that, he just launches himself into the wall,
Speaker 3: so he hits the wall, stumbles and then goes back up.
Speaker 3: It goes up the rest of the.
Speaker 5: Stairs, just acts like nothing happened.
Speaker 3: And he gets so excited. Every time someone comes to
Speaker 3: the house, he just peas on himself. He just can't
Speaker 3: help himself, and he jumps and peas on himself and
Speaker 3: then gets embarrassed and then just keeps jumping.
Speaker 5: He gets really excited when he sees me.
Speaker 3: He's a very loving, wonderful dog who honestly might be
Speaker 3: I don't know what the proper noman Isn't he.
Speaker 5: One of the like dumbest dog breeds though, like.
Speaker 3: Water dogs are historically pretty stupid, But I think he's
Speaker 3: like the dumbest of the dumb I I just really
Speaker 3: really think he Yeah.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, you're supposed to be defending it.
Speaker 3: That's my defense. My client's incompetent to stand trial. He
Speaker 3: doesn't understand the charges against him. He barely knows his
Speaker 3: own name. How on earth could the he doesn't.
Speaker 5: He actually doesn't respond to me when I call him dexter.
Speaker 5: The other response when I call him handsome. Yeah, he's
Speaker 5: like the best. He's the best little fur ball ever.
Speaker 4: All right, we answer your questions next.
Speaker 3: What's right? Well, oh, you literally just heard me say
Speaker 3: that i'd will uh go ahead and welcome and said.
Speaker 5: Gosh, welcome back. Episode one forty nine. Now we're gonna
Speaker 5: answer the listener's question. Yeah, so first we have Noah
Speaker 5: Cauldron said, here's my question, why is Steph the greatest
Speaker 5: PG ever ever?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I got that.
Speaker 5: I'm reading what it says.
Speaker 4: Oh gotcha, and the best shooter ever.
Speaker 5: But late in the game, when he doesn't make any
Speaker 5: shots and he gets the small player pass.
Speaker 3: I don't listen. I don't He's not gonna get a
Speaker 3: small player pass for me. First of all, he's not
Speaker 3: the greatest point guard ever. That's magic Johnson. He is
Speaker 3: the second greatest point guard ever, and he is the
Speaker 3: greatest shooter ever. He has not been good in his career.
Speaker 3: When he's been unbelievable on clutch shots to ice games
Speaker 3: like up five ninety seconds left, one more bucket ends it.
Speaker 3: STEP's one of the best, maybe the best we've ever scene,
Speaker 3: But when trailing in the final minutes, he's historically just
Speaker 3: hasn't been great. That's part of the story, it's part
Speaker 3: of his basketball history.
Speaker 4: Listen, there is no perfect play.
Speaker 3: Well, there might be one perfect player, but typically there
Speaker 3: is no perfect player. You know what, I think you
Speaker 3: get canceled for those types of comments.
Speaker 4: I thought that's wrong.
Speaker 3: But so there is no perfect player. But you've got
Speaker 3: to be fair and just say Steph's limitations defensively which
Speaker 3: were exploited again in the fourth quarter last night, and
Speaker 3: his lack of you know, hardly any of those iconic
Speaker 3: team trailing hits the shot to win the game moments,
Speaker 3: those hurt him. Now he just had fifty in a
Speaker 3: game seven. It's not that he gets nervous, it's not
Speaker 3: the moments too much for him. He just hasn't been great.
Speaker 3: That's part of his story.
Speaker 5: Next, Okay, glass Dan twenty five said, Nick, do you
Speaker 5: think Lebron is reserving energy until the finals where he'll
Speaker 5: go all out? Or is he going to stay around
Speaker 5: this level for the entire playoffs or finals? Will he
Speaker 5: make concerted a concerted effort to win.
Speaker 3: The finals? MVP? So, I think Lebron knows how much
Speaker 3: gas he has left in the tank and his panage.
Speaker 3: It's not that much, and he's planning for four rounds.
Speaker 3: So I do think we will see the best version
Speaker 3: of Lebron come the finals, especially because the finals aren't
Speaker 3: every other day. You have two games two days between
Speaker 3: games for all of them except for games three and four.
Speaker 3: And you saw last night last night was a critical game.
Speaker 3: Lebron was playing one style for three quarters and then
Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter went to point. Lebron started hunting,
Speaker 3: step and doing old Lebron stuff. Now he's got to
Speaker 3: start making his threes, and at some point you would
Speaker 3: think he will. But I do think he is trying
Speaker 3: to ration out his energy and thus far it's gone
Speaker 3: very well.
Speaker 5: Next okay, Darth Jesse said, if Barnie gets drafted by
Speaker 5: a small market team like Charlotte, like Jordan.
Speaker 3: Did, no, not saying like he's put lol Jordan, because
Speaker 3: Michael Jordan owned Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Got it? Do you see Lebron going there?
Speaker 3: So that's interesting. I don't think so, but maybe I mean,
Speaker 3: if Lebron's serious that that's what matters most to him.
Speaker 3: I also think it matters the timeline of it, and
Speaker 3: is Lebron still competing for championships or has he moved
Speaker 3: to a different phase of his career if Lebron, if
Speaker 3: Bronni comes out in a year, Lebron's still obviously competing
Speaker 3: for championships. Uh all right?
Speaker 5: Next okay? Next, Jonathan Malaria said that they need Dexter
Speaker 5: to co host.
Speaker 3: He's not allowed in the stories too dumb, He'll eat
Speaker 3: the close Next.
Speaker 5: Uh cutlass okay, cutlass. Nick said, if the heat went
Speaker 5: it all, does Jimmy Butler make it onto your.
Speaker 3: Best fifty best players over the last fifty years.
Speaker 5: I don't need you to finish my sentences.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I thought you left out an important word. Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's such a unique career because the
Speaker 3: regular season accomplishments aren't there. But if they were to
Speaker 3: win it all, it's an all time playoff run. Uh.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Next, Matt asked, is there a dumber sports crime in
Speaker 5: history than the Commander's tampering to sign Andrew Love?
Speaker 3: So here's the thing. I have a feeling that Matt
Speaker 3: is our producer, Matt Ford, who tried to put that
Speaker 3: in the show today, And it was the one question
Speaker 3: I erased, Is it Matt? Is it you? Confirmer? Deny?
Speaker 4: Is it you confirmed? I knew it he put it
Speaker 4: in the show.
Speaker 3: I erased it because I do not care about the
Speaker 3: commanders at all. But he's a Commander's fan. So now
Speaker 3: he's putting it in the chat like he's just a
Speaker 3: listener or viewer trying to get his questions answered when
Speaker 3: he produces the show. Matt two minute minor put yourself
Speaker 3: in time out like they do on Loveoutard show.
Speaker 5: All Right, next, Gave Goodwin asked, will our produce where
Speaker 5: our production team need to go back and scrub the
Speaker 5: archives of all your Draymond slander when he teams up
Speaker 5: with his boss Lebron.
Speaker 3: No, I my commentary is unbiased. There, Listen, my Draymond
Speaker 3: opinions have not made my life easier. Draymond is super
Speaker 3: close with someone I'm super close with, and it causes
Speaker 3: me a little bit of no. Uh, it's part of
Speaker 3: that crew though, But it's just what did you say?
Speaker 3: I didn't. I really didn't hear what you said. But
Speaker 3: it just is what it is. And I respect Draymond's
Speaker 3: basketball career. I also think my opinions on Draymond are
Speaker 3: well founded. His opinions on me are well founded. I
Speaker 3: also do think Gabe is onto something that he and
Speaker 3: Lebron could end up playing together at some point. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that would work, but I do think
Speaker 3: that could happen. All right, Huge Day to Day.
Speaker 4: I'll be on with Coward in about ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: I am the Today's show is going to be brilliant,
Speaker 3: and we had one for show Dior. You did a
Speaker 3: great job. You don't want a rating out of ten?
Speaker 3: What about on a one to one hundred scale.
Speaker 5: No, I'm okay, okay. I have a great day everybody.
Speaker 3: You know, see you guys on Thursday. What's right?
Speaker 5: Bye here Cho