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Speaker 2: in another episode of What's Right with Nick Wright, the
Speaker 2: podcast and the YouTube show. After a marvelous Father's Day,
Speaker 2: which we will discuss was marvelous for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: I hope all the dad's out there had a wonderful
Speaker 2: Father's Day. I hope all the single mom's out there
Speaker 2: got a little Father's Day love. You know, this is
Speaker 2: almost a point of contention in this house. Ye once
Speaker 2: all a time, my wife, your mother was a single mom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got Mother's Day in Father's Day, and now there's
Speaker 2: Father's Day for me and Mother's Day for her. And
Speaker 2: there was a period of time, not anymore, but where
Speaker 2: there was almost a little bit of like like, hey,
Speaker 2: why yeah, So for everyone out there, I hope everyone,
Speaker 2: all families come in all different shapes and sizes.
Speaker 3: Ope you auto wonderful Father's Day.
Speaker 2: I spent mine kicking ass in an international poker tournament.
Speaker 2: We will explain that at the end of the show.
Speaker 2: It is a true story, and to be honest, a
Speaker 2: truly glorious story. But before we get into what we
Speaker 2: are going to talk about on today's show, which is
Speaker 2: some breaking news that happened just about an hour before
Speaker 2: we recorded the podcast, let's start with, as we always do,
Speaker 2: what we're not discussing on today's show. Here's what did
Speaker 2: not make the cut. Matt Fitzpatrick winning the US Open.
Speaker 2: It was a thrilling finish. I'm sure you were locked
Speaker 2: in for the final, you know, for the final eighteen
Speaker 2: on Sunday to Monday. Serena playing Wimbledon. That actually is exciting,
Speaker 2: and Bart Scott saying Peyton Manning was scarier for defenses
Speaker 2: than Tom Brady. That actually doesn't surprise me at all. However,
Speaker 2: we are still in the afterbirth, if you will, of
Speaker 2: the NBA finals of the NBA season. So we're going
Speaker 2: to start with the NBA, and I think start with
Speaker 2: some NBA breaking news. Demonse, Oh, look at you see.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if you did this on purpose,
Speaker 2: but today is our first show post NBA, pre NFL.
Speaker 2: We're technically the only major sport going on as baseball,
Speaker 2: and you are wearing a Mets Jersey that I don't
Speaker 2: know where you got or how you have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they won last night, just showing support.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Oh did they Oh I was unaware.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I got you just now. I got
Speaker 4: you ways sooner than But they didn't win last night.
Speaker 4: I don't think they even had a game.
Speaker 2: Okay, my guess is they did have a game, and
Speaker 2: they might have won. They're actually quite good. So let's
Speaker 2: find out if you did back to get me. The
Speaker 2: thing with baseball is they play almost every day. The
Speaker 2: Mets lost last night, so you did get well played,
Speaker 2: well played, even though it was a little bit of
Speaker 2: luck involved. You got me way sooner than expected. You
Speaker 2: got me live on the show. That's no problem. All right,
Speaker 2: what are are we starting with? Let's get to the
Speaker 2: actual show.
Speaker 4: Sham's report. Kyrie and Nets are to impass. Yeah, might
Speaker 4: be a free agent soon and seems like the Lakers, Clippers,
Speaker 4: and Nicks are interested.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: So did like Katie and Kyrie like have a fallout?
Speaker 4: You know what happens here and what happens next.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, I don't think Katie and Kyrie had a fallout.
Speaker 2: I now listen, I'm not reporting anything on this, But
Speaker 2: from what I deduce, it's not about Katie or Kyrie
Speaker 2: having a fallout. It's about the Nets trying to retake
Speaker 2: control of their franchise. The Nets wanted Kevin Durant, he
Speaker 2: wanted Kyrie Irving, so they remade the franchise in their image.
Speaker 3: It seemed like good idea.
Speaker 2: Then when Katie missed his first year and Kyrie was
Speaker 2: in and out that first year, they made him get
Speaker 2: rid of Kenny Atkinson, which appears to have been a
Speaker 2: huge mistake, at least in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Kenny Atkinson's going to be in the show.
Speaker 2: I think actually the DeAndre Jordan you had to sign
Speaker 2: DeAndre Jordan, you that had to give DeAndre Jordan minutes
Speaker 2: that that was a mistake, And so much of the
Speaker 2: drama surrounding the Nets over the last couple of years
Speaker 2: is not the fault of Kevin Durant, except the fact
Speaker 2: that he, you know, teamed up.
Speaker 3: With Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving's one of the least reliable excellent players in
Speaker 2: sports history.
Speaker 3: That's not an overstatement.
Speaker 2: Reliability from a personality standpoint, from a professionalism standpoint, and
Speaker 2: from an injury standpoint. He's about as unreliable as any
Speaker 2: future Hall of Famer in any sport that I can remember.
Speaker 3: And now I think the.
Speaker 2: Nets are in a spot where they're like, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be damned if we're about to watch you opt out
Speaker 2: of this last year of your contract and then give
Speaker 2: you a four year max. So I think that it
Speaker 2: would appear soured the relationship. Kyrie is doing what he does,
Speaker 2: going on Twitter and tweeting, you know, indecipherable memes. You
Speaker 2: just tweeted a gif of brother moozone from The Wire,
Speaker 2: which I listen. I am as big of a Wire
Speaker 2: fan as anyone in the world. Once upon a time,
Speaker 2: I thought I was writing a book on the seventy
Speaker 2: five most who our best characters in the Wire. All
Speaker 2: I know i'd do is lists, so I actually sketched
Speaker 2: that out. But I can't decipher that Kyrie tweet. But
Speaker 2: here's what I know. The Nets are playing a dangerous
Speaker 2: game because as unreliable as Kyrie may or may not be,
Speaker 2: he is still clearly and unequivocally your second best player,
Speaker 2: and your third best player might be more unreliable in
Speaker 2: Ben Simmons, and he could walk for nothing. I know
Speaker 2: everyone is saying, oh, well, the teams with cap space
Speaker 2: like San Antonio or Orlando, He's not going to go there.
Speaker 3: Agreed.
Speaker 2: The Knicks would make the cap space and he could
Speaker 2: still live in New Jersey and he could just sign
Speaker 2: with the Knicks.
Speaker 3: Sign with the Knicks outright.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the Lakers would do what they could to try
Speaker 2: to sign and trade for Kyrie. We've been talking about
Speaker 2: a three team, Russell Westbrook to somewhere, picks and role
Speaker 2: players to the Nets, Kyrie Irving to the Lakers.
Speaker 3: We've been talking about the show for six months.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's plaw, if that's realistic, but
Speaker 2: I know Sham's put them on the list, and he
Speaker 2: put the Clippers on the list.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: You think Kyrie would rather go to the Knicks than
Speaker 4: the Lakers, No, but it is he could teams pushing
Speaker 4: pushing for him.
Speaker 2: Well, the Lakers cannot sign him as a free agent
Speaker 2: like Kyrie Irving can opt out of his deal. The
Speaker 2: Knicks can make a few moves which they will be
Speaker 2: able to make, and he could just sign there. The
Speaker 2: Lakers would have to execute a very complicated trade that
Speaker 2: would involve a team having to get Russell Westbrook and
Speaker 2: the Nets would have to cooperate. So it's just a
Speaker 2: lot harder to get to the Lakers or the Clippers.
Speaker 2: But we have been talking about the honeymoon period with
Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Nets ending for quite some time. Little like
Speaker 2: inside basketball stuff, Joe Side, the owner keeps firing team presidents,
Speaker 2: like they went through another team president this year, a
Speaker 2: guy I actually knew a bit. He's not happy they
Speaker 2: would appear the.
Speaker 3: New York Daily News report of this.
Speaker 2: I think he's not happy with the revenue compared to
Speaker 2: the money outlaid. Obviously not happy with In the three
Speaker 2: years of kat Kyrie year run, Year one out and
Speaker 2: round one, Katie and Kyrie don't play in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Year two out and round two, Kyrie only plays part
Speaker 2: of the second round.
Speaker 3: Year three, the.
Speaker 2: Only team in the league swept in Round one. But
Speaker 2: I understand why they don't want to give Kyrie the
Speaker 2: full max. I wouldn't want to give Kyrie the full max.
Speaker 2: But you're running the risk of what are you going
Speaker 2: to do? Try to reset the thing during another year
Speaker 2: of Kevin Durant the tail end of his prime. It's dangerous,
Speaker 2: but this is the you know, this is the cost
Speaker 2: of your own decisions, which is empowering Durant, which meant
Speaker 2: empowering Kyrie to a position that he had that Kyrie
Speaker 2: Flatley had not earned and had not shown the responsibility
Speaker 2: to be able to deserve, if you will. And after
Speaker 2: the year he was promoting himself to assistant GM, which
Speaker 2: is I'm sure these shocked negotiations aren't going well. It's
Speaker 2: like I was gonna be negotiating with myself, fellas. All right,
Speaker 2: what's next?
Speaker 4: Golden State Warriors keeping Kenny Atkinson's but Kenny Atkinson Sorry, yep,
Speaker 4: but there's still change to come. Wiggins is in his
Speaker 4: last year of his deal, Looney's about to be a
Speaker 4: free agent, and pools up for any sension. Yeah, Steph
Speaker 4: thinks that Kamingo, Wiseman and Pool were the next big three.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: The Warriors seem to be building for the future, but
Speaker 4: still are also chasing a title next yep? Is that possible?
Speaker 4: Can you do that?
Speaker 2: Well? I think they showed you could do it this year.
Speaker 2: They didn't trade They had two lottery picks. They not
Speaker 2: only did they not trade them, they drafted two of
Speaker 2: the youngest players in the draft in Kaminga and Moody.
Speaker 2: Two guys who didn't see the court at all in
Speaker 2: the finals. Right. They drafted Wiseman a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: the year they had the was the number two pick,
Speaker 2: and he never played the flat just never played. And
Speaker 2: now he's been hurt. So that's not because they didn't
Speaker 2: want him to play. So they kept all those assets.
Speaker 3: And just won the title.
Speaker 2: Now, right now, they're the favorites in Vegas to win
Speaker 2: next year. I do not buy that, and I understand
Speaker 2: that I am setting myself up.
Speaker 3: Did you know D. L. Hugly? You know? D. L.
Speaker 2: Hugly is obviously you don't know, you absolutely know.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, if I if I seen him that hugely
Speaker 4: sounds familiar, he had a.
Speaker 2: TV show, you would absolutely recognize him. I'm gonna show
Speaker 2: you his face real quick. The reason I'm bringing up
Speaker 2: is this guy is putting me on his TikTok page.
Speaker 2: My old Andrew Wiggins take. That Andrew Wiggins take is
Speaker 2: gonna outlive me.
Speaker 3: So hold on, that's D. L.
Speaker 4: Huger.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and so of course, so all these folks
Speaker 2: roasting me for the Wiggans teake, Well, eventually that's kinda
Speaker 2: have a show play.
Speaker 3: So let me give you guys.
Speaker 2: Another one, man, I don't think the Warriors win another
Speaker 2: title anytime soon. I just don't you. I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: something else. I you went title at last forever, it
Speaker 2: always counts. There is no asterisk, none of that. I
Speaker 2: didn't think that team was this great. They just won
Speaker 2: the title and never faced elimination. I didn't think they
Speaker 2: were that great. So who should be the favorites? The
Speaker 2: damn Milwaukee Bucks obviously should be the favorites. Okay, And
Speaker 2: in the West, I the Clippers are gonna be demonstrably better,
Speaker 2: The Nuggets should be better. The Lakers can't be worse.
Speaker 2: The Hornets and Grizzlies are on the uptick. The Hornets, sorry,
Speaker 2: the Pelicans and Grizzlies are on the uptick. Minnesota is
Speaker 2: not a contender, but they're on the uptick.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: The only team in the West who you expect to
Speaker 2: be worse definitely is Utah and maybe Phoenix, and so
Speaker 2: I under the Warriors get massive credit for holding onto
Speaker 2: these young guys and still winning the title. But no,
Speaker 2: I don't think that the favorites, and I don't think
Speaker 2: that I think their chances of repeating are slim to none.
Speaker 3: All Right, next.
Speaker 4: Okay, so bigger loser in the finals than the Celtics
Speaker 4: Kevin Durant. Okay, Steph pasted on probably just about everybody's
Speaker 4: top ten lists, including yours. And that thing that you
Speaker 4: said about this isn't a part of the question, but
Speaker 4: the worst possible outcome that could have happened to Kevin Durant,
Speaker 4: it happened to him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, and let's stay there just for a
Speaker 2: second before we get to the question, because I do
Speaker 2: try to be fair and consistent with this. Thirteen months ago,
Speaker 2: I was on television the day after we went to
Speaker 2: I don't think you were in New York yet, So
Speaker 2: I went with your mom and your sisters to Game five,
Speaker 2: Round two nets Bucks and Barclays. The best game of
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's life. He had doing this from memory, but
Speaker 2: I think it was forty eight points, either seventeen.
Speaker 4: Or nineteen res every minute of the game.
Speaker 2: Can assists played every minute, no Kyrie essentially, no Hardens
Speaker 2: on one hamstring beats Giannis. Looks like they're going to
Speaker 2: win the title. Yeah, Steph had missed the playoffs.
Speaker 3: In back to back years.
Speaker 2: In that moment, the post KD Steph breakup, if you will,
Speaker 2: could not have been going better for Durant.
Speaker 3: He missed one year with injury, but we knew that
Speaker 3: was happening.
Speaker 2: The two years without him, Steph hadn't played in a
Speaker 2: single playoff game, and Durant looked like the best player
Speaker 2: in the world. Since then, it ain't been like that.
Speaker 2: And so, just like there was a point in time
Speaker 2: where last year's playoffs looked like the best case scenario
Speaker 2: for the Durant versus Steph discussion, this year's playoffs where
Speaker 2: he gets swept, he doesn't play well, the team that
Speaker 2: sweeps him loses Steph, and Steph wins the title and
Speaker 2: plays great.
Speaker 3: That is the worst case scenario. That's not it. Neither
Speaker 3: one of those is hyperbolic. But what's the question?
Speaker 4: Uh so Katie and Draymond coming at him, and I
Speaker 4: mean not Katy and Draymond, Draymond and fans coming at
Speaker 4: him on social media and Charles Barkley said that Katie
Speaker 4: has to win the title while in the driver's seat. Yes,
Speaker 4: so your Twitter pin pals or mates with Kevin Durant. Yeah,
Speaker 4: get Kevin.
Speaker 2: Duran and I are are were I don't know if
Speaker 2: for friendly, but I think I think the relationship is
Speaker 2: in a better spot than it once was, So go ahead,
Speaker 2: So are you going to defend him? Here's what I
Speaker 2: will defend Kevin Durant on. You can't defend the playoff series.
Speaker 2: What I will defend him on is this, And Berkley's right.
Speaker 2: The thing, just like Step need to check off a
Speaker 2: great start to finish finals.
Speaker 3: Finals, MVP on his resume.
Speaker 2: Katie needs to check off win a title outside of
Speaker 2: the incubator of Golden State on the resume.
Speaker 3: He needs to check that out.
Speaker 2: Okay, However, where I will defend Kevin duran is this,
Speaker 2: because what is happening right now is people are like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, he made such a mistake. Why would
Speaker 2: he leave Golden State because we've told him to the
Speaker 2: whole media said, your legacy will be trash forever unless
Speaker 2: you leave, unless you go win somewhere else.
Speaker 3: And then the whole media is like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, you could have won seven titles with.
Speaker 4: The Step and he should have went and won the
Speaker 4: seven titles.
Speaker 2: Well maybe, but he would have gotten me. So if
Speaker 2: I'm Durant, I am a little frustrated. I'm like, you
Speaker 2: gotta be kidding me. You've got to be you guys
Speaker 2: all said I.
Speaker 3: Had to leave.
Speaker 2: I left, and now you're like, you're such an idiot
Speaker 2: for leaving. Like that's a if your parent has a
Speaker 2: owns a car dealership and you're like, and you're like,
Speaker 2: your first job out of college, go work for the
Speaker 2: car dealership, and then you become an executive vice president
Speaker 2: of the car dealership, still got your dad's.
Speaker 3: Name on it.
Speaker 2: You're making money and you're doing good, and everyone around
Speaker 2: you it's like.
Speaker 3: You need to go prove it on your own. You
Speaker 3: need to go go.
Speaker 2: You can't just following you. You can't just take over
Speaker 2: your dad's business. And then you go and a year
Speaker 2: laterone's like, man, what happened all that money you were making?
Speaker 2: What a terrible decision? So stupid you had it made
Speaker 2: you'd be like, dude, you told me I had to leave.
Speaker 2: And so in that regard, I totally defend Durant. And
Speaker 2: here's the other thing I will do fin Duranton. And
Speaker 2: this is where sports are not really fair.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: There were two guys who were and I apologize, we
Speaker 2: once again have failed the clock. There were two guys
Speaker 2: who were starting players on championship level. Teams that were
Speaker 2: playing in cities with vaccine mandates that weren't vaccinated. One
Speaker 2: was Kyrie Irving, one was Andrew Wiggins. Andrew Wiggins got vaxed,
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving didn't get backed. Kevin Durant has no control
Speaker 2: over that. Does anybody think the next season goes as
Speaker 2: disastrously if Kyrie makes the decision Wiggins did? And does
Speaker 2: anybody think the Warriors season goes as well if Wiggins
Speaker 2: makes decision Kyrie did so. Duran Durant's got no impact
Speaker 2: on that. Steph benefits, Durant gets dinged for it. Let's
Speaker 2: go another level. Both of these teams had a third
Speaker 2: level player. One in James Harden, goes totally a wall Haywire, quits.
Speaker 3: On the team and leaves.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The other, Jordan Poole, goes from g leaguer to briefly like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, is he a twenty point per game guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Duran has no impact on that either.
Speaker 2: So that's where I think he understandably gets a little
Speaker 2: frustrated with some of the media narrative stuff. So I
Speaker 2: get that. With all that said, he's got to do better.
Speaker 3: He's got it. You can't get swept in round one
Speaker 3: and shot thirty eight percent. That's not good. All right,
Speaker 3: last thing quickly Philly.
Speaker 4: Hard and likely to sign a short term deal in Philly. Yeah,
Speaker 4: report there's reported a three year dealers in the I'm
Speaker 4: sorry is likely the outcome. Yeah, you and Daryl Mory
Speaker 4: are really good friends. Yeah, but this call, could you know,
Speaker 4: really screw him in the long run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So listen, here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I would be screamings throughout giving James Harden any money
Speaker 2: the way he looked and the way he's quit on
Speaker 2: a couple of teams. But Darryl held on to Ben
Speaker 2: Simmons longer than anyone said he should, trying to get
Speaker 2: a star. He got the star that he's always wanted.
Speaker 2: That he did great within Harden, and I think I
Speaker 2: even't talked to Darryl about this.
Speaker 3: I think they will.
Speaker 2: That that that hamstring.
Speaker 3: Was a huge part of his issues. I know that sounds.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous because it's like he's at the world's worst hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: But what I've been told about Harden is this one
Speaker 2: of the things that made him the greatest euro stepper
Speaker 2: ever was he is a guy who can jump off
Speaker 2: either leg equally right, and so the lack of explosiveness
Speaker 2: and strength in that one hand, it does make sense
Speaker 2: now to me, it doesn't explain the general lethargy, the
Speaker 2: fact that his playmaking. I mean, he was really just
Speaker 2: a shell of himself down the stretch. But they've got
Speaker 2: no other path, and so you've got to just hope
Speaker 2: that Harden can get back to seventy percent of what
Speaker 2: he once was, because that's the thing. And now we're
Speaker 2: going along. I said, I wasn't we have to, you
Speaker 2: know what, we need to have a show meeting about
Speaker 2: this clock because I'm terrible at it. But I want
Speaker 2: to just remind people of what James Harden did forget
Speaker 2: last year's regular season when people were last year in
Speaker 2: the regular season, people were arguing, can he win MVP
Speaker 2: of the league even though he quit on a team
Speaker 2: that happened in the regular season last year. In the postseason,
Speaker 2: before he got hurt in Round one against Boston, James
Speaker 2: Harden this is post the hamstring injury, initially averaged twenty eight,
Speaker 2: seven and eleven, including a forty one, seven and ten
Speaker 2: and to close him out a thirty four to ten
Speaker 2: and ten. That was the thirty four to ten and
Speaker 2: ten was June first. It was what ten or twelve
Speaker 2: and a half months ago. So I understand betting on
Speaker 2: Harden because you don't have any other choice, but yet
Speaker 2: it absolutely could screw them. But you have Joel Embi,
Speaker 2: who's one of the very best players in the league.
Speaker 2: You've got to try to win right now. I've got
Speaker 2: to try to learn how to make twelve minutes not
Speaker 2: eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right
Speaker 2: by the way, we just came out with the latest
Speaker 2: edition of our fifty Guards players. In the last fifty years,
Speaker 2: and that edition was being changed and edited up until
Speaker 2: the very last moment six weeks ago. It was Steph twelve,
Speaker 2: Moses eleven, Doctor J ten. Then when it looked like
Speaker 2: Steph was making the finals, I said, all right, we
Speaker 2: gotta have this on the fly out of Moses. Then
Speaker 2: when he won the championship and got that elusive finals MVP,
Speaker 2: I said, gotta be fair. He's a had of Doctor J.
Speaker 2: So it's now Doctor J twelve. I'm sorry, Moses twelve,
Speaker 2: Doctor J eleven, Step ten. It is amazing, by the way,
Speaker 2: how many people and this is what the Internet's done
Speaker 2: to our attention spans The graphic says Nick writes fifty
Speaker 2: greatest players of last fifty years, says of last fifty years.
Speaker 3: Also missing from.
Speaker 2: It is Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Bob Pettittt,
Speaker 2: George mikeen let Alone, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bill Russell, who
Speaker 2: wouldn't be revealed anyway, because we're not into the We
Speaker 2: haven't revealed the top nine. However, the number of people
Speaker 2: who have tweeted to me, oh, Nick, where's the consistency?
Speaker 3: You said all week? STEP's not top ten all time,
Speaker 3: and now you have a number ten. It's like you idiots.
Speaker 2: I also did a contest for that contest is now closed.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone won it because there were
Speaker 2: too many submissions where I said, if you guess one
Speaker 2: through twelve perfectly, you're going to I'll pay five hundred
Speaker 2: bucks your favorite charity and five hundred bucks to you cash, cash, app.
Speaker 3: Binmo whatever.
Speaker 2: There were multiple people who might have gotten it exactly right,
Speaker 2: except they included Wilton Russell on the list, like they
Speaker 2: didn't obey the rules of the Top twelve.
Speaker 3: It's of the last fifty years, but it should have been.
Speaker 2: Those people should have realized, wait, I'm including Wilton Russell,
Speaker 2: which means this list all of a sudden doesn't have
Speaker 2: Larry Bird or Chema lajoh On or whoever they left
Speaker 2: out that's either here or there. So nine and eight
Speaker 2: are coming out this coming Sunday, and I think the
Speaker 2: numbers for both of these guys. Everyone knows how great
Speaker 2: these players are, or they think they do, but I
Speaker 2: think the numbers they were jaw dropping for you, de Monsey.
Speaker 3: I think we'll be jaw dropping for the audience.
Speaker 2: Also into today's show, in just a few minutes, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about one of my highlights.
Speaker 3: Of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: But first let's get to the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: Demons go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Four days ago, Tyreek Hill said that Tula was more accurate,
Speaker 4: a more accurate pass than Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes is surprised
Speaker 4: by these comments. Yeah, he said, offense is about more
Speaker 4: than one player. Steven Hill was very eager to take
Speaker 4: a shot or throw Pat Mahomes under the bush. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So you think Tyreek Hill will be a head case
Speaker 4: because of his botch decision.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, you can't get everything life.
Speaker 2: Tyreek took the money, Yeah, took the weather, took the security,
Speaker 2: and the trade off is you go from arguably the
Speaker 2: most talented quarterback to ever play to arguably not one
Speaker 2: of the twenty five best current starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Tyreek knows that.
Speaker 2: I wish you know.
Speaker 3: Eric Mangini says a lot.
Speaker 2: You don't have to blow out somebody else's candle to
Speaker 2: make yours brighter.
Speaker 3: I wish he could try to.
Speaker 2: Build up to a without taking little shots at Mahomes.
Speaker 4: Because then it puts two in a weird position.
Speaker 2: But it also becomes less believable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if he was.
Speaker 2: If he When he said the quote that Tyreek said that,
Speaker 2: I think people were like, oh, okay, Tyreek said something
Speaker 2: along the lines of, hey, I went nine catches for
Speaker 2: buck fifty four with Matt Moore as the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Once two is ten Matt moorees.
Speaker 2: I think people were like, okay, maybe, but when you
Speaker 2: start trying to compare two with to Patrick Mahomes, no
Speaker 2: one believes you, and it feels like you're overcompensating. Do
Speaker 2: I think Tyreek, if things aren't going well, could become
Speaker 2: a handful?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Listen, Tyreek was one half of the most important play
Speaker 2: in Chief's history, wasp to pull that Super Bowl out
Speaker 2: of the fire. He is a future Hall of Famers,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest receivers of his era. I also
Speaker 2: think that, let me put it like this, if he
Speaker 2: puts up monster numbers anywhere close to what he put
Speaker 2: up with the Chiefs, then I think he was He's
Speaker 2: a future, and I think he's underrated. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's gonna happen, however, and I do think that this
Speaker 2: could be not great for Miami. I also think Miami
Speaker 2: was hoping they were gonna have Tom Brady. I think
Speaker 2: there was a lot. Yeah, there's a lot there all right.
Speaker 4: Next NFL reportly wants to significantly or maybe even give
Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson a full suspension.
Speaker 3: Full year suspension.
Speaker 4: Yeah. One might think that means that the Browns want
Speaker 4: to keep Baker around. Yep, brown so, But the Browns
Speaker 4: are so eager to get rid of Baker they were
Speaker 4: willing to pay the Panthers half of his salary.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Is it too early to call Deshaun Watsons trade? It's
Speaker 4: just total disaster.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's too early. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's too early at all. And I think that there
Speaker 2: is a chance this goes down as one of the
Speaker 2: biggest errors any team has ever made. The Cleveland Browns
Speaker 2: won one game in the two years before they drafted
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield. They were one in fifteen, and then Owen sixteen,
Speaker 2: and then he got for real. Then he got there
Speaker 2: and they won seven games his first year.
Speaker 3: His second year was no good, and they.
Speaker 2: Had Freddie Kitchens as their head coach, maybe the worst
Speaker 2: coach I've ever seen. His third year, they won a
Speaker 2: playoff game and were in a one score game.
Speaker 3: At Arrowhead against the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: His fourth year, they were three and two and the
Speaker 2: losses were to the Chiefs and I forget the other one.
Speaker 2: I think it was to the Chargers, like forty seven
Speaker 2: forty two, and then Baker got his shoulder ruined and
Speaker 2: played poorly the rest of the way. They still were
Speaker 2: hovering around five hundred, and the Browns decided we're gonna
Speaker 2: torch that relationship entirely to go after someone who as
Speaker 2: as horrifying of off field allegations as we've seen for
Speaker 2: any player in the last decade. They made that decision
Speaker 2: just hoping and praying that this was going to go away.
Speaker 2: And listen, I am not in the criminal justice system.
Speaker 2: I am not in the Browns franchise of the NFL
Speaker 2: front office.
Speaker 3: But what I.
Speaker 2: Would say is this, if you are weighing the pros
Speaker 2: and cons of bringing someone in, and someone in the
Speaker 2: meeting is like, well, what if there are more accusers
Speaker 2: someone else in the meeting, and someone's like, well, what
Speaker 2: are the odds of that? I would say pretty damn high.
Speaker 2: When the current accuser number was at twenty two, and
Speaker 2: when it was already at twenty two, the idea that
Speaker 2: it wasn't going to maybe tick up to twenty three
Speaker 2: or twenty four was foolish of them, and they didn't
Speaker 2: do a good job keeping that. I think there is
Speaker 2: a strong argument to be made that no team should
Speaker 2: have traded for Deshaun. But if you want to set
Speaker 2: the horrifying off field out legations aside and talk just
Speaker 2: football from a purely football perspective, because you knew a
Speaker 2: substantial suspension was likely in the offing, you should only
Speaker 2: have done it if you had no core, if you
Speaker 2: had no hope.
Speaker 3: At quarterback whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Right, and so yeah, I think that this is a
Speaker 2: potential disaster.
Speaker 4: Baker shouldn't even want to play there.
Speaker 3: Oh, he clearly doesn't want to play there.
Speaker 2: But if and that's the other thing the Browns screwed up,
Speaker 2: what they should be doing right now is going to
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield and saying, listen, it's pretty clear your trade
Speaker 2: value is not where we want it or where you
Speaker 2: would like. The teams you could possibly go to are
Speaker 2: going to be worse teams than us.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've made it clear you're not our quarterback of
Speaker 3: the future.
Speaker 2: However, let's help each other out here, right, you play
Speaker 2: for us for eight to sixteen games, this season, you
Speaker 2: can rebuild your value. We can contend, and then this
Speaker 2: if it's the whole year, you're a true free agent.
Speaker 2: After this year, you can go get paid out. If
Speaker 2: it's midway through the year, you can show the league
Speaker 2: you're still a viable, real starting quarterback. But I don't
Speaker 2: think they've handled this well at all. And I think
Speaker 2: they forgot they're the Browns for a minute, and they're
Speaker 2: like hovering.
Speaker 3: Around five hundred. Isn't good enough?
Speaker 2: You won one game in the two years before Baker
Speaker 2: walked through that door. Now, there's other things that went
Speaker 2: along with that, but there are also other things that
Speaker 2: went along with his struggles, not the least of which
Speaker 2: were his injuries. In fact, that he had four offensive
Speaker 2: coordinators and four head coaches in four years. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: let's play a game. Let's try to end on a
Speaker 2: lighter note before we get to my glorious father's.
Speaker 4: Day time for two?
Speaker 5: Wrong?
Speaker 4: Is one? Right?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 3: Which big name creation.
Speaker 4: Is worth going all in for? Okay, Out of DeAndre Ayton,
Speaker 4: Bradley Beale, or Zach Levine.
Speaker 2: Levine is probably the safest because he's younger than bal
Speaker 2: he doesn't have the injury issues of bal Ayton is
Speaker 2: a cross off to me. If you want to pay
Speaker 2: a center max money, I need that center to be
Speaker 2: Embiid Jokich, Anthony Davis, and Ayton is nowhere close to that. Okay,
Speaker 2: and I think we saw by the way that you
Speaker 2: can there are certain teams that can look Kevon Looney
Speaker 2: made the MAVs pay for playing small more than DeAndre
Speaker 2: Ayton made the MAVs pay for playing small. That's a problem, right.
Speaker 2: The question with Bial is the injury. If you guaranteed
Speaker 2: me three years of health for any of these guys,
Speaker 2: Beal would be my answer, because of Bill a little
Speaker 2: bit older and the injury. Zach Levine because injury of
Speaker 2: the injury factor, I'd say Levine. But I like Bill
Speaker 2: as a player and as kind of a steady hand
Speaker 2: more than I like Uh, more than I like Levine.
Speaker 2: I know that's kind of a copy out, but that's
Speaker 2: where I'm at all right, Next.
Speaker 4: Okay, uh draft is on Thursday. Yet one of these
Speaker 4: bet on one of these guys to go first? Yeah,
Speaker 4: Jabbari Smith, yep chet Homegum or Paolo Bonchero.
Speaker 2: So I was very curious if you were gonna nail
Speaker 2: all those pronunciations. I'm gonna give you a nine out
Speaker 2: of ten because you mispronounced Ben Caro's last name. But
Speaker 2: you did it in a way a lot of people do.
Speaker 2: You did the and it's.
Speaker 4: Cut son Caro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, you got it there. So I
Speaker 2: I'm so first of all, good job by you. Uh
Speaker 2: my pick would be if i'm the magic.
Speaker 3: Would be Jabbari.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably gonna be Chet, so I would
Speaker 2: The one that I would be shocked by is bon Carro.
Speaker 2: I don't think Paulo has any real shot of going
Speaker 2: number one. I would draft Jabbari. I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: draft Chat and now, oh it's one of my favorite words,
Speaker 2: Charlatan's Okay, what's last? What are we doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Kenny Atkinson backed out of the Hornets coaching job.
Speaker 3: Yeah that was crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty wild. Who had the most egregious flip
Speaker 4: flops since our shows started? Oh my, Kitty Atkinson screw
Speaker 4: in the Hornets, Brady's fake retirement, Yeah, or you switching
Speaker 4: off of the team that ended up winning the finals.
Speaker 2: Okay, mine was dumb, but it came from an honest place.
Speaker 2: Kenny Atkinson, I think the Words just decided to pay
Speaker 2: him a lot of money and they said that's a
Speaker 2: I can get a better head coaching job than Charlotte.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the answer is Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: As me, Dan Levitard and Ben Valin and Mike Floria
Speaker 2: are the only people that really care about this story.
Speaker 2: But Tom Brady announced his retirement days before the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: and it didn't last six weeks, and it was all
Speaker 2: a ploy to get to a different team. And now
Speaker 2: we're supposed to believe he's all in on the Bucks.
Speaker 2: The answer, unequivocally, unabashedly, unquestionably is Tom Brady. Just as
Speaker 2: unquestionable as how awesome my Sunday was. We will explain
Speaker 2: that What's Right?
Speaker 4: I think that was like your fourth time teasing it.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in last segment What's Right with
Speaker 2: Nick Right. We appreciate you watching, subscribing, downloading, listening all
Speaker 2: the ways you do it. I think we're right at
Speaker 2: fifty thousand subscribers on YouTube. I think our podcast numbers
Speaker 2: are doing well. I know the Twitter page for the
Speaker 2: What's Right Show just past ten thousand. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'd really appreciate it. If you tell people about the show.
Speaker 2: You know, if you have a following and you think
Speaker 2: the show's good, you know, publicize it and I'll pay
Speaker 2: you in gratitude if nothing else. And now I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you a very self congratulatory story, and also
Speaker 2: I think an impressive story because I am doing this
Speaker 2: show and I did the TV show. The last time
Speaker 2: I slept was eight am Sunday morning, so I have
Speaker 2: not slept in however many hours that is, I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing the math right now because I'm.
Speaker 4: Eight am Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I woke up eight am Sunday morning, and I have
Speaker 2: been ups until right now. So Father's Day rolling around.
Speaker 4: Good math, buddy, I mean, come on, good math Buddy's.
Speaker 3: I said I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: He did it.
Speaker 3: Quickly, Okay. So here's the deal.
Speaker 2: So Father's Day obviously Sunday also Father's Day. I know
Speaker 2: my wife has trintage to run and her best friend
Speaker 2: is in from Memphis and it's Juneteenth, and I know
Speaker 2: they're gonna want to go out and I typically I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't really go out and drink on nights for
Speaker 2: the show. So I knew that there might be a
Speaker 2: window where she wasn't expecting me to be involved. And
Speaker 2: I knew his Father's Day, so I will actual lee. Wait, okay,
Speaker 2: I also knew this. The World Series of Poker is
Speaker 2: going on right now, and the World Series of Poker
Speaker 2: is live in Vegas. But there are a few high
Speaker 2: dollar events that are online events that, because of America's
Speaker 2: bizarre gambling rules, you can only play if you are
Speaker 2: You don't have to be from you have to be
Speaker 2: physically located in Nevada.
Speaker 3: Or New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So there was one that was starting Sunday
Speaker 2: at six pm. It was a thousand dollars pot limon
Speaker 2: Omaha where it's World Series of Poker Circuit Event Circuit Championship.
Speaker 2: And I said, I want to play in this thing,
Speaker 2: and I want to figure out how I can play
Speaker 2: in this thing and still be a great dad. Filled
Speaker 2: my father's day, figure out the whole thing. So we
Speaker 2: did the whole Father's Day morning. You guys gave me
Speaker 2: this awesome sweatsuit. You guys gave me amazing cards, went
Speaker 2: to a great lunch, and then I went to the
Speaker 2: old price line, found the hotel with a really nice pool,
Speaker 2: right across the old George Washington Bridge, and I said
Speaker 2: to my wonderful children, I'm like, hey, the girls, most
Speaker 2: notably because I knew you this wouldn't be as exciting
Speaker 2: for you. But to your sisters, Hey, you guys want
Speaker 2: to spend the night in a hotel? They said, yeah,
Speaker 2: so you get go swimming? Said sounds amazing, Like that's
Speaker 2: really how you want to spend Father's Day. Dad like, well,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I'm gonna be the business center hooked
Speaker 2: up to a you know, hardwired internet connection playing in
Speaker 2: this poker tournament. Now, you don't sign up for a
Speaker 2: poker tournament if you don't have the time to play
Speaker 2: the entire thing. You got to say how long how
Speaker 2: long will it take for this thing to be over?
Speaker 2: Because I'm not going to pay a thousand dollars injury
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, I'll go out in seventy eighth
Speaker 2: place right and just blow the money. So I obviously
Speaker 2: have to make sure if I sign up for this tournament,
Speaker 2: there's no chance I'm going to miss the TV show.
Speaker 3: But I'm also doing I want.
Speaker 2: To play in this tournament from New Jersey, so there's
Speaker 2: always the chance of like traffic or something. So I
Speaker 2: brought my suit with me, brought an iPad, brought a computer.
Speaker 2: Everything I could need, and I had in the back
Speaker 2: of my brain.
Speaker 3: I'm like, worst.
Speaker 2: Case scenario, I'm gonna have to do some explaining to
Speaker 2: the bosses. But I'm ana that I was going, I
Speaker 2: was gonna skype the TV show if you know, if
Speaker 2: it happened. I was like, I don't think that'll happen,
Speaker 2: but if it does, at least I'll be dressed and
Speaker 2: I can say, hey, you know what, I've been having
Speaker 2: internet issues. I went I needed a more reliable connection,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Sign up for this poker tournament.
Speaker 2: First place was it was one thousand dollars buy in
Speaker 2: pot limit, Omaha unlimited re entry, so you could fire
Speaker 2: bullet after bullet after bullet if you wanted to. First
Speaker 2: place ended up being over thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Sign up.
Speaker 2: Your sister's swimming.
Speaker 3: They can back, like you're still playing in this tournament.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I am, like, what are we doing for dinner? Like? Well,
Speaker 2: you guys like five guys, like five guys, Like there's
Speaker 2: one literally right there. I think five guys will be
Speaker 2: delivered to this hotel. I can't get up. Five guys comes,
Speaker 2: they eat. I'm still playing the tournament. They turn on
Speaker 2: a movie on Netflix. I'm still playing in the tournament.
Speaker 2: Your older sister wakes up about two in the morning, Padre,
Speaker 2: Are you still playing in this tournament? Oh? I am,
Speaker 2: which means I'm on a deep run. You're up there, yeah,
Speaker 2: three am rolls around. We are approaching what you call
Speaker 2: the money bubble. Top eleven get paid. Eleventh place was
Speaker 2: I don't know a couple grand I didn't come to
Speaker 2: New Jersey stay up all night to win one thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Tell you that.
Speaker 2: So playing all of a sudden, I'm I'm at risk
Speaker 2: of being the person that bubbles this tournament. So I
Speaker 2: deep and I say, you know what we're going. We're
Speaker 2: gonna We're not gonna get tilted. We had we had
Speaker 2: a we had with fourteen people left a poker players
Speaker 2: will get this.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: I have the nut flush on a Queen four seven
Speaker 2: five three Heartburt board. I get. I am the reason
Speaker 2: I was almost on the money bubble. I was third
Speaker 2: in chips. I have the nut flush with one card
Speaker 2: to come. I get the person who's fifteen chips to
Speaker 2: put all his money in. He has queen queen, so
Speaker 2: he needs the board to pair or I am the
Speaker 2: massive chip leader.
Speaker 3: Now there's the board pair. It's a queen. He has quads.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I'm low. I fight my way
Speaker 2: back up. Now we're down to nine. Now we're down
Speaker 2: to six. We're at the final table. It's four in
Speaker 2: the morning. Clock's a ticking on the old show. We're
Speaker 2: down to six people, with three people left. I took
Speaker 2: the chip lead. Unfortunately, while this story is a great story,
Speaker 2: it is not a truly one in a you know,
Speaker 2: glorious story of where I tell you I won the
Speaker 2: thirty thousand. I briefly had the chip lead. I think
Speaker 2: I made a really good fold. I'll never know. Two
Speaker 2: hands later, I get it's plo. So you get drawn
Speaker 2: out on I'm in a huge pot. We're all short
Speaker 2: because of the blinds. I end up going out in
Speaker 2: third for a smooth twelve point eight thousand dollars. It
Speaker 2: was then four to forty five am, girls still sleeping,
Speaker 2: drove straight home, left them sleeping. You're seventeen. Totally responsible
Speaker 2: behavior by me. Did the old zoom Golf of the
Speaker 2: TV show? Did the TV show soon as the TV
Speaker 2: show was over, drove back to the hotel, girls eating
Speaker 2: room service, having the time of their life. I'm Dad
Speaker 2: of the Year, twelve grand richer. It's on my hind
Speaker 2: in mob profiles. Shortly, World Series of Poker circuit event
Speaker 2: added pot limit ovahaul to it had only been we'd
Speaker 2: only had hold them on there. Now we have all
Speaker 2: a little plo third place in a circuit event. And
Speaker 2: you know, I might become a Marriott Bond Voyage member
Speaker 2: the little points because that's a short little drive across
Speaker 2: the GW And guess what, they got a lot of tournaments.
Speaker 4: It happens often.
Speaker 2: Oh, the next few weeks, it does, the next few weeks,
Speaker 2: It sure does.
Speaker 3: During the World Series of Poker, I just got it.
Speaker 2: And if these tournaments are during the day, I could
Speaker 2: just do what you do for your work, just post
Speaker 2: up in a Starbucks hang out. You just have to
Speaker 2: be physically located in Jersey.
Speaker 4: So if if you had, if you had still been
Speaker 4: you know, in the pot once it got to like
Speaker 4: second and first place, would you have played that? Would
Speaker 4: you have played the tournament on the show? Oh?
Speaker 2: If the tournament, if it was down to the final
Speaker 2: three and it was gonna like seven twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I guess we'll never know.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh, you know, I I don't know what they
Speaker 2: they pay me. Well, they don't pay me thirty grand
Speaker 2: a show, so like at some point, like it'd be
Speaker 2: an irresponsible decision. I've also never taken a sick day,
Speaker 2: and I would have been sick to have to leave
Speaker 2: that tournament. So I listened hearing R there, nobody's the wiser. I, however,
Speaker 2: have not slept. And what DEMANDE says is over twenty
Speaker 2: seven hours. So I'm going to get a nap and.
Speaker 4: Figure out drinking four red bulls. Say it again, I staid,
Speaker 4: winning twelve grand it is like drinking four.
Speaker 3: Oh it felt great.
Speaker 4: You're awake off that high.
Speaker 3: Chister's both got a one percent free roll on that.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I told him, because they went with me and they
Speaker 2: supported me, they each got one percent. So they just
Speaker 2: got one hundred and twenty bucks. Wait, what's what's.
Speaker 4: Going on here? What's one hundred and twenty bucks?
Speaker 2: It didn't come you were invited, and when we were leaving,
Speaker 2: you were step I.
Speaker 3: So that's where your hundred.
Speaker 4: And twenty bucks is going to do with our one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty bucks.
Speaker 2: Uh. I have a pretty good idea what she's gonna
Speaker 2: do with all her money. It ends up backing my banking.
Speaker 4: What what she got?
Speaker 2: She what you gonna sell a b bank? It just
Speaker 2: goes in back in my pocket. We'll talk to you
Speaker 2: guys on Thursday.