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Speaker 2: Can I make an observation as Demanse's on air counts
Speaker 2: gotten better? Dude, his stability to do the blue collar
Speaker 2: manual labor that he was originally hired to do has
Speaker 2: really really fallen off. In fact, before you add an
Speaker 2: on air roll, you know what I used to occasionally
Speaker 2: hear that I don't know that I've heard since before
Speaker 2: the playoffs started, certainly in the playoffs. Do you know
Speaker 2: what I want us?
Speaker 3: What you used to hear?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: Do you want some coffee?
Speaker 3: That's all?
Speaker 2: It's just beneath you now, WHOA, I'm up here pouring
Speaker 2: my own coffee yeah, heating it up like all this
Speaker 2: stuff like it's just you know, it's the evolution of
Speaker 2: you know, a personality. All right, welcome man, another episode
Speaker 2: of What's Right with Nick? Right in the podcast the
Speaker 2: YouTube show. I think we are around episode thirty, but
Speaker 2: I have lost the exact count because we have done
Speaker 2: these bonus episodes surrounding the NBA Finals. One more off
Speaker 2: schedule episode coming this Friday, where we will either be
Speaker 2: reacting to the Warriors winning the championship or reacting to
Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics forcing a Game seven. We will get
Speaker 2: into everything from Game six in a moment, but first,
Speaker 2: before we get into what we're not talking about, as
Speaker 2: we all always do certain show, I do want to
Speaker 2: say I'm proud of Demanse. Demanse is rallying today. He
Speaker 2: last night was I think the most crushing loss of
Speaker 2: your life as a sports fan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very frustrating to watch.
Speaker 2: And you might say, really, the the Celtics have lost
Speaker 2: in the finals in a Game seven. When the Celtics
Speaker 2: lost in the Finals in the Game seven, Demonse was.
Speaker 4: Twelve.
Speaker 2: At eleven years old, Yeah, you were eleven years old,
Speaker 2: and I don't even think you were a real you
Speaker 2: were a Celtics fan. You were a Celtics fan then,
Speaker 2: but you're a little kid, you didn't care as much,
Speaker 2: and then when you were playing college basketball, you weren't
Speaker 2: as invested, like in yeah, the.
Speaker 4: Career.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, No, no, no, exactly no. I'm not talking trash.
Speaker 2: But so Demanse rallying this morning, so I'm proud of them.
Speaker 2: We will get into the game in just a moment,
Speaker 2: but before that, let's discuss what we will not be
Speaker 2: discussing on today's show, which is a bit of an oxymoron,
Speaker 2: but it's how we do it anyway. Baker Mayfield to
Speaker 2: the Panthers, I think that's going to happen. By the way,
Speaker 2: bonus take, I think that's going to happen. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to happen soon. A weatherman roasts the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Demanse showed me this sweet. It was actually the rare,
Speaker 2: actually pretty funny one liner from a local weather guy.
Speaker 2: And can demands name a team in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna ask you to do it. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I can't Stanley that like race cards.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's worse than what I would have done there.
Speaker 2: That's hockey. That's the NATL Finals. I know that the
Speaker 2: Rangers were playing the Lightning to make it the Stanley
Speaker 2: Cup Finals. I don't know who won that series. I
Speaker 2: know the Rangers lost a big game. And I only
Speaker 2: know that because we saw Palinko Polinka.
Speaker 4: Uh no, not Polinka.
Speaker 2: Palinka is the GM of the lakes stalk.
Speaker 4: He got in a fight. He just got in a fight.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know anything about hockey either, Buddy, this
Speaker 2: is I was letting you off the hook, and now
Speaker 2: you're going race cars and lakers. It's like a mad
Speaker 2: libs of incorrect sports stakes. Let's just get into the show.
Speaker 2: Speaking of incorrect sports steaks, you said anyone that thought
Speaker 2: the Celtics were gonna win the title was an idiot. No,
Speaker 2: what's putting an asylum.
Speaker 4: What's what's wild is that was not that tweet.
Speaker 5: The tweet where I said that they needed to be
Speaker 5: publicly watched was if you don't think the Celtics are
Speaker 5: winning this series, I want to go back in fact
Speaker 5: check that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what are we starting with?
Speaker 4: Go ahead?
Speaker 5: We are starting with Golden State in Game five, obviously
Speaker 5: carried by Andrew Wiggins. Which is kind of weird because
Speaker 5: everybody's saying that, you know, the finals experience will matter,
Speaker 5: but you got this guy Andrew Wiggins coming on.
Speaker 2: Well, that's an interesting point because the Warriors do have
Speaker 2: all the finals experience, but the one guy without the
Speaker 2: finals experience was their best player last night.
Speaker 4: The charge.
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that, but okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3: And that's especially tough for you.
Speaker 2: The Wiggans thing, well, yeah, that's the tweet that listen.
Speaker 2: I want before you even get to your question, I
Speaker 2: want to say one thing about the Wiggans thing. I've
Speaker 2: given my last apology for the Wiggins take. I've given
Speaker 2: my pound of flesh. I have had enough people come
Speaker 2: after me. I have owned it as publicly as anyone
Speaker 2: can ever own an incorrect take. At this point, I
Speaker 2: think bringing up to me is cyberbullying. I think I
Speaker 2: think it is. I think we have passed the threshold
Speaker 2: of where this harassment. It's a harassment. But okay, but
Speaker 2: what's the question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, great win for Golden State, but I gotta say
Speaker 5: Celtics and seven, what.
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, the Celtics, I mean, Celtics in eight isn't an option.
Speaker 2: So seven is the only viable round. Here's what I think.
Speaker 2: I think that it is concerning the way they've lost
Speaker 2: the last two games. What is particularly concerning is that
Speaker 2: last night, and this is not breaking news, but it does.
Speaker 2: We can't gloss over it. They lost a game where
Speaker 2: Steph was terrible and you can't lose when if you're
Speaker 2: I don't want to say can't, but you have put
Speaker 2: yourself in an incredibly rough spot when, for the first
Speaker 2: time in Steph Curry's entire playoff career, and we'll get
Speaker 2: more on him in a moment, he doesn't hit a
Speaker 2: three and you lose the game. I do believe Boston's
Speaker 2: going to win Game six. In fact, if I didn't
Speaker 2: think it would be such a miserable experience. I thought
Speaker 2: about this last night was should you and I go
Speaker 2: to Game six? It's a four hour drive to Boston,
Speaker 2: go to Game six, and then drive back after and
Speaker 2: I'd be home in time for the TV show. What
Speaker 2: has What made me lean against it was I envisioned
Speaker 2: what are you shaking your head about to?
Speaker 5: No, I mean, like tell me cutting it that close
Speaker 5: to like driving back to you know, Oh that's not
Speaker 5: what I'm No, No, no, no, and if the Celtics worts
Speaker 5: it like this won't happen.
Speaker 4: But if we were to go out there and they lost.
Speaker 2: Oh that's not a fun ride. But that's not what
Speaker 2: That's not what I envisioned up I actually think, because
Speaker 2: even though I picked the Celtics and I'm gonna stick
Speaker 2: with it, I'm not gonna flip flop twice in this series.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm already putting myself in the position to
Speaker 2: be wrong twice and once just brutal. And I do
Speaker 2: believe they're gonna win Game six, and they've shown they
Speaker 2: can win a Game seven on the road, they did
Speaker 2: it against Miami, And I still the Warriors are gonna
Speaker 2: win the title possibly, and I'm still gonna believe they're
Speaker 2: not that good. Like I just don't think this Warriors
Speaker 2: seems that good. But they're one game away from the title.
Speaker 2: But the reason I decided against us going out there
Speaker 2: is even though I've picked the Celtics, Celtic fans hate me,
Speaker 2: and I don't think you are prepared for the level
Speaker 2: of vitriol towards me in that building. And I absolutely
Speaker 2: could see a scenario where you end up getting in
Speaker 2: a fight on my behalf, and I was like, I
Speaker 2: can't put you in that position. I can't bring you
Speaker 2: to Boston and all of a sudden, like I would
Speaker 2: absolutely like have to be prepared to have like a
Speaker 2: drink thrown at me. When Bimani and I went out
Speaker 2: there four years ago for a Celtics Cavs game, it
Speaker 2: got Harriet times and I was way less hated four
Speaker 2: years ago by Celtic fans. All Right, so we're not
Speaker 2: gonna go. I do think we're gonna get a Game seven.
Speaker 2: I am going to stick with the Celtics because I
Speaker 2: do think they can play so much better. And that
Speaker 2: was the story to me of Game five, and that
Speaker 2: was so frustrating for you is it was the same
Speaker 2: old turnovers and.
Speaker 5: They were at critical points, Like I wish they would
Speaker 5: have gotten some of those turnovers at a different position,
Speaker 5: but sometimes they got those turnovers right when we got
Speaker 5: the lead. I know Jason Tatum started the third quarter
Speaker 5: with the turnover was the second quarter, but it was
Speaker 5: just turnovers when we'd absolutely just at a different time.
Speaker 2: And the end of the third quarter, that pool Bank shot.
Speaker 2: Those shots are worth like six points. I know there
Speaker 2: were three, but they it feels like that as, Oh,
Speaker 2: what do you mean, because I mean and stunk and
Speaker 2: now he's been good.
Speaker 5: And I said, James the pick, you said Pool sucked,
Speaker 5: You said Wiggans sucked. Pool's hitting these.
Speaker 2: Okay, Pool is not good.
Speaker 5: I'm not wrong, but like those threes, definitely, you know,
Speaker 5: I turned the tide.
Speaker 4: We would have had the lead if.
Speaker 2: The Celtics come back to win this title. I'm going
Speaker 2: to recreate my Andrew Wiggins take word for word and Pole.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look into the camera and say, Jordan Pool
Speaker 2: is a bad basketball player and thanks to him, Steph
Speaker 2: Curry will never win another NBA title. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna walk down that same exact road, all right.
Speaker 2: I speaking of Staff, I think we need to get
Speaker 2: to him. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Curry was off in Game five, to say the least.
Speaker 5: He didn't hit a three in a game for the
Speaker 5: first time since November twenty eighteen. And yeah, I think
Speaker 5: the double standard is crazy because I saw this little
Speaker 5: graphic of you know, they say Curry has no help,
Speaker 5: and they said Lebron had no help in.
Speaker 4: Eighteen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but when you compare the numbers to Lebron's no help,
Speaker 5: teammates to of course no help teammates. It's a drastic difference,
Speaker 5: and it's like he's got no help, but he was
Speaker 5: carried last night.
Speaker 2: Well, so that's the thing. That's what's frustrating to me
Speaker 2: is Listen, they won, so he shouldn't get criticized that much.
Speaker 2: That's how we always do it. If they had lost
Speaker 2: and he had played poorly, he'd be getting crushed this morning.
Speaker 2: But they won, so we we can overlook the fact
Speaker 2: that it was a that was his fifth career really
Speaker 2: bad finals game. And you know, Lebron hasn't had a
Speaker 2: really bad finals game since twenty eleven. He's been to
Speaker 2: eight finals since then, but we still bring it up. Durant,
Speaker 2: to his credit, has never had a really bad finals game, right,
Speaker 2: Giannis Now he's only been there for six games. Giannis
Speaker 2: never had a bad finals game. Step And what's also
Speaker 2: unbelievable is this was Steph's fifth career and by really bad,
Speaker 2: I mean games score in the single digits for Basketball reference.
Speaker 2: Fifth time it's happened. They're three and two in those games. Now,
Speaker 2: everyone knew that Steph had a ton of help before
Speaker 2: this year, and I do think Steph is carrying this
Speaker 2: team offensively through giant stretches when the games when Clay
Speaker 2: is off, they have no one else that's a reliable score,
Speaker 2: and his gravity alone obviously makes them a dangerous offense.
Speaker 2: But Van Gundy compared to them to the twenty eighteen Calves.
Speaker 2: The twenty eighteen Calves, Lebron had to score forty eight
Speaker 2: times that playoff run. We wanted to throw Steph a
Speaker 2: parade for scoring forty once in the finals. There was
Speaker 2: a game against the Warriors, game one of the Finals,
Speaker 2: where Lebron scored fifty one, eight and eight and they lost.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing that is the frustrating thing for
Speaker 2: me with Steph is because I won't call him top
Speaker 2: ten all time. I'm a hater. Here's the spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone actually thinks he's top ten. I
Speaker 2: think they just like to say it because and I've
Speaker 2: done this before, but I'll do it again quickly. No
Speaker 2: order here. But if you have Kareem, Lebron and Jordan
Speaker 2: as three, Wilton, Russell, Burden, Magic, Kobe and Duncan and
Speaker 2: then Shaq in a Keem, that's eleven guys. So for
Speaker 2: Steph to be top ten. You gotta be picking two
Speaker 2: of those guys that he's better than. I don't think
Speaker 2: anyone actually thinks that. And give him the not over Katie,
Speaker 2: give him the not over Giannis. Even in that example,
Speaker 2: I gave him the not over Doctor J which is
Speaker 2: very is very borderline right now. But people just say
Speaker 2: these things. Just like I'm telling you, I guarantee you
Speaker 2: if Steph is bad in game six or even just mediocre,
Speaker 2: do you know what will immediately be discussed.
Speaker 3: Is foot injury.
Speaker 2: Yes, as if we didn't see game four. It's a
Speaker 2: weird thing.
Speaker 4: Hell.
Speaker 2: Bill Simmons on his podcast today and he's Celtics fan,
Speaker 2: said well, you gotta wonder if STEP's injured, like you, No,
Speaker 2: he just sometimes is bad a guy. He is the
Speaker 2: greatest shooter ever. But because he is such a high
Speaker 2: uh oh my goodness, the volume, thank you. I couldn't
Speaker 2: think of the word high volume three point shooter, He's
Speaker 2: going to be susceptible to these bad games that guys
Speaker 2: who consistently drive and attack the basket or not, because
Speaker 2: he's not going to get as many free throws. He's
Speaker 2: not gonna get as many easy looks. I just don't know.
Speaker 2: Why we need to. He's one of the greatest players
Speaker 2: in the history of the game. He's one of the
Speaker 2: most important players. Yeah, I don't know why we need
Speaker 2: to embellish when the truth tells a good enough story.
Speaker 2: All Right, what's next?
Speaker 5: Jason Tatum was very frustrating and has been very frustrating
Speaker 5: to watch. Yeah, he's either on fire, air balling, three
Speaker 5: are a little coming up short on layups.
Speaker 4: Ye, he's now five for twenty one in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. Is he tired? Is he too passive? What's
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 2: I listen, I think he's twenty four years old and
Speaker 2: he's in his first finals. Yeah, and I think the
Speaker 2: how many times have I said to you all were
Speaker 2: watching the game, moment's a little big for him? A
Speaker 2: few and it's he he's see. The only thing he
Speaker 2: seems comfortable doing.
Speaker 4: Is contested threes.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely right, step back threes and contested threes. He
Speaker 2: seems comfortable. He seems uneasy driving, he seems uneasy dribbling. Defensively,
Speaker 2: he's been good, I'll give him credit, and he's fighting
Speaker 2: a way to impact the game. This is why I
Speaker 2: think this is what superstars do, even when they're not
Speaker 2: playing well, they impact the game. So he's not playing well,
Speaker 2: but he's still giving you twenty three, seven and seven. Now,
Speaker 2: the turnovers are bad, but Jalen Brown's been worse to
Speaker 2: me handling the ball. Jalen Brown was a huge from
Speaker 2: in game five. But here's the other thing for Tatum
Speaker 2: that I find so fascinating. If you were to ask
Speaker 2: a casual fan, what is the when you say Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum highlight? What is the play you think of? I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's if one specific moment comes to
Speaker 2: your mind, but there I think for most people it is, oh,
Speaker 2: you're talking about the lights, the layup against the nets
Speaker 2: that's from this year. But one highlight, it's the dunk
Speaker 2: over Lebron as a rookie in the Eastern Commerce Mine
Speaker 2: and the flex, the bump Lebron, the whole thing. I
Speaker 2: say that, and let me ask you this, when's the
Speaker 2: last time you remember Jason Tatum duncan.
Speaker 4: He is not dunk.
Speaker 2: It's so it's so weird. It's it's like he he
Speaker 2: is around the basket, uneasy and unsure, and it's really
Speaker 2: affecting him. Now, that's one of the reasons why I
Speaker 2: think the Celtics are live is we saw him have
Speaker 2: some struggles in Round two against the Honest, and then
Speaker 2: in Game six on the road, not at home, but
Speaker 2: on the road, had the best game of his life.
Speaker 2: I don't think they need forty six from Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: to win, but I what I do think is this,
Speaker 2: and this is why I still am holding out a little,
Speaker 2: you know, more than a little hope for that Boston
Speaker 2: can win this. We know, or I feel like we
Speaker 2: know step can score thirty five and the Warriors could
Speaker 2: still lose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if.
Speaker 2: Tatum scores thirty five, the Celtics absolutely went because I
Speaker 2: do trust the rest of the cast, even though they
Speaker 2: haven't played up to that level. All right, quickly, because
Speaker 2: we're out of time. What's Last?
Speaker 5: Next podcast is out Friday after Game six. Hopefully we're
Speaker 5: previewing Game seven. Obviously I want the Celtics, but.
Speaker 2: I need a hear of verbal Yeah you know, I listen,
Speaker 2: I'm picking the Celtics in Game six. In fact, I
Speaker 2: want to check. What do you think the line is.
Speaker 2: I guarantee the Celtics are favored. I'll tell you that,
Speaker 2: but I haven't looked yet. What do you think the
Speaker 2: Celtics are favored by how many points? Last context? Last night,
Speaker 2: the Warriors were favored by four. It is Boston by
Speaker 2: three and a half. Boston by three and a half.
Speaker 2: I like Boston in Game six. We'll see we'll have
Speaker 2: a Game seven in San Francisco. That'd be crazy. The
Speaker 2: Warriors lose two Game sevens in their own building during
Speaker 2: this dynastic run. All right, take quick break, come right back.
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright podcast.
Speaker 2: Another reminder, this is gonna come out sometime Tuesday. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you guys are listening to the same day, but whenever
Speaker 2: you listen to it's great. Our next episode will not
Speaker 2: be out until Friday. We're gonna do a reaction to
Speaker 2: Game six of the Finals, either talking about what a
Speaker 2: fourth ring means for Steph Clay and Draymond, or talking
Speaker 2: about what a Game seven is going to look like
Speaker 2: between that trio and of course the Boston Celtics. So
Speaker 2: that's all coming out on Friday, and we are continuing
Speaker 2: our countdown coming out on Sunday of the fifty greatest
Speaker 2: players of the last fifty years. We are getting into
Speaker 2: the I mean this week's episode that comes out, it's twelve, eleven,
Speaker 2: and ten. So we just did fifteen, fourteen thirteen, which
Speaker 2: is the original Isaiah Thomas, who, by the way, tweeted
Speaker 2: out his video and talk to us about it, so
Speaker 2: that was very cool. Number fourteen Yan and number thirteen
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant twelve, eleven and ten are coming out this Sunday.
Speaker 2: But before we get to all of that later in
Speaker 2: the week, right now, let's continue today's show demands. What
Speaker 2: are we starting the second segment with?
Speaker 5: I had to balance out some of the depressing Celtics
Speaker 5: talk with some fun golf stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh sweet, I know you're excited for it. The only
Speaker 2: thing Demand likes more than golf talk is tennis talk.
Speaker 2: So this is good. Go ahead.
Speaker 4: The US Open is happening this week. But that's not
Speaker 4: the story here.
Speaker 5: Bill didn't apologize for joining the LV Tour, says he
Speaker 5: wants to play PGA events too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't know if they'll let him, but go ahead.
Speaker 5: Family's a nine to eleven victims wrote Phil and other golfers,
Speaker 5: urging them to reconsider. Meanwhile, Tiger turned down a high
Speaker 5: nine figure offer to join it real quick.
Speaker 2: High nine figure did you in your head, like, do
Speaker 2: the math on what that means? High nine figures means
Speaker 2: high hundreds of millions. Yeah, so that means he they
Speaker 2: high nine figures means close to a billion dollar offer
Speaker 2: to leave the PGA Tour and go play on the
Speaker 2: Saudy Tour essentially, but go ahead, which is which is
Speaker 2: very that's unbelievable. Unbelievable Also that they that men, there's
Speaker 2: so much oil money that they would offer him. What
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it is. It's oil money.
Speaker 4: Tiger could fix the gas situation.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: could do, however, what they offer M seven hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars to come play for them. But go ahead
Speaker 2: if you can get to the question. Sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's all good.
Speaker 5: What's your stance on golfers leaving PGA for the Saudi
Speaker 5: backed tour free market or unethical?
Speaker 2: All right, So here's the thing I do. I think
Speaker 2: it's unethical. Sure, yeah, I'm you know, I'm not a
Speaker 2: fan of the Saudi's politics. Uh. And I understand why
Speaker 2: nine to eleven families would be even more horrified given
Speaker 2: the the majority of the hijackers that day were from
Speaker 2: you know, Saudi Arabia. I understand that. I also understand
Speaker 2: why just Americans in general, given what you know, it
Speaker 2: seems pretty well confirmed that the crown Prince in Saudi
Speaker 2: Arabia did to the journalists from the Washington Post Jamal Kashagi,
Speaker 2: Sorry if I mispronounced his name. I understand why he'd say, Eh,
Speaker 2: don't want to be in business with them. Here's where
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a little bit of moral relativism, and
Speaker 2: where I'm gonna do a little bit of honesty. I
Speaker 2: think the majority of these gigantic multinational corporations that all
Speaker 2: of us, to some extent or another are in bed with,
Speaker 2: there is some real moral issues with so point being
Speaker 2: I is, there has to be a line, and I
Speaker 2: understand for a lot of people going to play on
Speaker 2: this tour crosses that line. But I also think it's
Speaker 2: a little bit of lack of awareness to act like
Speaker 2: you can have endorsement contract. If we are saying, let
Speaker 2: me put it like this, if we are saying that
Speaker 2: the golfers who went to go play on this tour,
Speaker 2: the Saudy Back Tour, they are culpable in some way,
Speaker 2: shape or form for the atrocities of that government, are
Speaker 2: we going to take this to its for this logical conclusion.
Speaker 3: A lot of people get blackballed at that.
Speaker 2: Point, right, Like, are we going to say that Lebron
Speaker 2: James is you know it culpable or whatever word you
Speaker 2: deserve some level of blame for the fact that I
Speaker 2: don't think Nike necessarily treats its workers overseas in Bangladesh
Speaker 2: and other places, you know, under the greatest conditions. Are
Speaker 2: we going to say that anybody that there's there are
Speaker 2: a lot of people that work for a company, and
Speaker 2: if you go far enough up the corporate ladder, you
Speaker 2: get to someone with some really really either bad history
Speaker 2: or bad current actions. Are we saying those people should
Speaker 2: you know, resign not work there? Or are we saying,
Speaker 2: ah got to make a living. So I understand this
Speaker 2: isn't like the hottest take in the world, but I
Speaker 2: think it is. BUTMANI made this point, and he's correct.
Speaker 2: It is very if we are going to try to
Speaker 2: be truly pure, it is very hard to be a
Speaker 2: truly ethically pure capitalist because in most cases, you go
Speaker 2: high enough up the money tree, you get to some really,
Speaker 2: really morally questionable behavior. Now, is it as objectively awful
Speaker 2: as ing and dismembering a journalist because you don't like
Speaker 2: what he wrote, No, of course not. However, do I
Speaker 2: think that, for instance, that if you were to go play,
Speaker 2: let's say, I will use you as an example for
Speaker 2: a moment. Okay, because you were talking about your basketball
Speaker 2: career earlier. All right, I know you had envisions of
Speaker 2: playing at some point in the NBA, and I always
Speaker 2: tried to be honest with you, and I told you
Speaker 2: that I thought that if you honest I was brutally honest,
Speaker 2: and maybe I shouldn't have been. Maybe, but it was,
Speaker 2: you know, a parent as best as you can that.
Speaker 2: I thought, if you did everything, if you dedicated yourself,
Speaker 2: did everything right, I thought you could play overseas. That's
Speaker 2: what I thought. I thought. Listen, you're tall for a
Speaker 2: real person. You'd be very small for an NBA player.
Speaker 2: I thought, I thought, if everything fell right, you could
Speaker 2: play overseas. So let's just say that opportunity came about,
Speaker 2: but you got the league was based in and backed
Speaker 2: by an oppressive government. Let's say, pre how about this
Speaker 2: pre war was Britney Griner uh and the other women
Speaker 2: that played in this Russian league? Are they? Are they immoral?
Speaker 2: Because in a one way shape or form, they're helping
Speaker 2: putin out? Because even before the war everyone got new
Speaker 2: that's a bad dude. They a lot. I'm not a
Speaker 2: fan at all, and I don't know anybody that is.
Speaker 2: Of a lot of the things China does for guys
Speaker 2: that go play in the Chinese Basketball League, are they culpable?
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think so. And so again I
Speaker 2: understand that this is not a clear through line. The
Speaker 2: point I'm making is I think at times, folks that
Speaker 2: set their own morals and ethics aside when it is
Speaker 2: convenient throw stones at the low hanging fruit e targets.
Speaker 2: And that's what I think these live golfers or l
Speaker 2: I V golfers are. I think right now they're low
Speaker 2: hanging fruit, easy targets. Because everyone can say the way
Speaker 2: the Saudis do business, they the history, all of it
Speaker 2: is abhorrent. And again I'm talking about the Saudi government,
Speaker 2: not the Saudy people. And I don't know how how
Speaker 2: much stone throwing from glasshouses is being done. I hope
Speaker 2: that made sense. I know it was a little rambling.
Speaker 2: I think I got there. Okay, let's try to have
Speaker 2: some fun before we end the segment.
Speaker 5: Lamar and Kyler both reported to mandatory OTAs despite their
Speaker 5: future contracts being up in the air.
Speaker 4: Who last? Sorry about that? Guys? This or that? Okay,
Speaker 4: no problem, I apologize. Who lasts longer with their current team?
Speaker 4: Kyler or Lamar?
Speaker 2: Oh Lamar. I think Lamar is gonna be a raven
Speaker 2: for I don't want to say his entire career, because
Speaker 2: we have seen quarterback movement at the end of guy's careers.
Speaker 2: I think Lamar and the Ravens are gonna say together,
Speaker 2: they have an excellent organization, they have an excellent coach,
Speaker 2: they have maybe the best front office in football. They
Speaker 2: are consistently good, they are almost never bad. And Lamar,
Speaker 2: while not a perfect player, is an excellent player at
Speaker 2: the most important position. Kyler seems first of all, the
Speaker 2: Cardinals are not well run, They're not well managed, they
Speaker 2: have bad ownership, in my opinion, and I think Kyler
Speaker 2: is more of a wild card personality wise than Lamar is.
Speaker 2: So for me, this is very easy Lamar without a doubt.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: In Rappaport said, a DK Metcalf trade is not impossible. Yeah,
Speaker 5: who should trade all their picks for him? Green Bay
Speaker 5: or Kansas City?
Speaker 2: Okay, definitely not Kansas City. The argument for Green Bay
Speaker 2: doing it would be, Aaron Rodgers has one or two
Speaker 2: years left. Let's try to win a Super Bowl right now.
Speaker 2: Future be damned. Now, for the record, I don't think
Speaker 2: either team's gonna do this. If either of these teams
Speaker 2: wanted to pay a receiver thirty million a year, they
Speaker 2: would have just kept the receiver they had. But it
Speaker 2: would make no sense to me. For the Chiefs to
Speaker 2: do this because DK is not as good as Tyreek.
Speaker 2: They let Tyreek walk. Now they got picks back for him,
Speaker 2: but to then go trade the same amount of picks
Speaker 2: to get DK Metcalf. Now, I know he's younger, but
Speaker 2: I don't know that over the next three years, DK
Speaker 2: is going to be a better player than Tyreek. Tyreek
Speaker 2: showed you he is a first ballot Hall of Fame talent.
Speaker 2: Now he has had some I think dumb comments lately
Speaker 2: that means Tyreek, But I think it would be illogical
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs, and they drafted their wide receiver. I
Speaker 2: think for the Packers it might make sense, but it's
Speaker 2: probably neither of those teams because both of those teams
Speaker 2: are too long term focused. I think the Chiefs it's
Speaker 2: smart because Mahomes is young. I think the Packers it's foolish.
Speaker 2: Bron't think I go to those teams. But of those two,
Speaker 2: I would say the Packers, All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Lebron made some news on the Shop this week, which
Speaker 5: statement is a bigger clue about Lebron's future. Wants to
Speaker 5: own a Vegas NBA team or says that he'd fit
Speaker 5: in with Miami or the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Well, the first we already knew he wanted to own
Speaker 2: a team, and we also knew that Vegas was probably
Speaker 2: going to get a team eventually. Now, sorry again, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna break the clock because I went too long in
Speaker 2: the golf thing. So the apologies if you guys are
Speaker 2: watching the clock today was meaningless. That's my bet. Uh Lebron.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about both these for a moment. Do you
Speaker 2: know who the biggest news of Lebron confirming he might
Speaker 2: want to own a team in Vegas? Do you know who?
Speaker 2: That was?
Speaker 3: Probably?
Speaker 4: Skip?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, No, you're fine. You think it was a
Speaker 5: big Bayless No?
Speaker 4: Well Skip had good Forbes?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, it's someone you know very well who
Speaker 2: this news was really important for. You can't figure it
Speaker 2: out team? Why it would who? Do you know that
Speaker 2: it would be super relevant if Lebron bought a team
Speaker 2: and it was based in Las Vegas? Yeah, buddy, Oh yeah, buddy,
Speaker 2: that's right. Oh you don't listen. I love being a broadcaster,
Speaker 2: But first of all, you don't think that I could
Speaker 2: get a job in the front office if Lebron bought
Speaker 2: a team, Because I know I could now, do I
Speaker 2: think he would make me president of basketball operations? I don't.
Speaker 2: But do I think I could talk to Maverick about
Speaker 2: getting an assistant GM job? I do? And do I
Speaker 2: think that If it's like, hey, Lebron is buying a team,
Speaker 2: he's gonna put it in Akron, then I'm like, Eh, can
Speaker 2: I sell that to your mom? No? I can't if
Speaker 2: it's in Vegas. Do you think I could sell to
Speaker 2: your mom? In five years when this happens, Babe, We're
Speaker 2: gonna have to, you know, we're gonna have to, uh
Speaker 2: simplify our lifestyle a bit because an assistant GM job
Speaker 2: doesn't really pay what America's most beloved sports broadcaster job pays.
Speaker 2: But we're going to Vegas. We're gonna open a trintage
Speaker 2: out there, and I'm gonna work for the Vegas Gamblers
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. So that's big news for me.
Speaker 2: I'm very happy was in Seattle because Seattle might get
Speaker 2: a team as well. And I don't want to live
Speaker 2: in Seattle, but I'd live in Vegas. Live in Vegas, gamble,
Speaker 2: gamble once a weekend, Yeah, once a weekend, live in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Part time professional poker player, part time assistant GM for
Speaker 2: Lebron's team, help Lebron win another ring. Oh it's three,
Speaker 2: So that's big news for me. That's you know what. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, of course. Let me tell you one other thing.
Speaker 2: Don't put this on social again. This is just for
Speaker 2: our podcasts and listeners and YouTube viewers. The last time
Speaker 2: I was with Maverick, I I floated the me and
Speaker 2: the front office. I did as we both We both
Speaker 2: had each at that point drank probably three quarters each
Speaker 2: of a bottle of Lobos because there were two bottles
Speaker 2: of Lobos. And by the time it was over, who
Speaker 2: were together a long time watching college football, just drinking.
Speaker 2: And at one point I was like, so, if Lebron
Speaker 2: ends up buying a team, like, you know, are you
Speaker 2: gonna be involved? He's like, well, you know, I'll probably
Speaker 2: be like you know, one of the investors. I was like,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't want to be like in the front office.
Speaker 2: And he's like no, it's like that's not for me.
Speaker 2: He's like, you would. I'm like, yeah, I would. Now
Speaker 2: he tried to explain to me why that's not as
Speaker 2: good of a job as I think it is. But
Speaker 2: I think it'd be a good job. I think so.
Speaker 2: So that's the answer. So Lebron Vegas for for your
Speaker 2: old buddy Nick Wright for those purposes. Okay, I know
Speaker 2: we're way late here, but also I'm gonna pull back
Speaker 2: the curtain a bit. We have been having massive internet
Speaker 2: issues and the fact that it's been working has made
Speaker 2: me so happy. I just want to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: So let's just keep going into a twenty minute B block.
Speaker 5: It's fine, Anthony Davis hasn't picked up a basketball since
Speaker 5: April fifth. Uh it's June fourteenth and the finals are on,
Speaker 5: which might make you want to play basketball.
Speaker 4: Which wait, hold on, yeah.
Speaker 2: Which might make you just said it, You said it
Speaker 2: with weirding, might make you want to play basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeahhh. What's your reaction to this story? Uh oh? Or
Speaker 4: who cares?
Speaker 2: Okay, my reaction is uh oh, But not for the
Speaker 2: reasons people think Anthony Davis has always had this off
Speaker 2: season schedule where he takes a month of nothing and
Speaker 2: then like six weeks of just like working on his
Speaker 2: body and then gets into basketball stuff. But here's the reason.
Speaker 2: It's uh oh, bro, your off season program doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Like if it's like, hey man, I study for the test,
Speaker 2: the same way every time, and three of the last
Speaker 2: four I've failed, like.
Speaker 5: Especially being a guy that has like, oh, I guess
Speaker 5: he's resting. I was about to say, like, especially being
Speaker 5: a guy that gets injured a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's clearly whatever he's doing for body clearly
Speaker 2: is not the right thing for his body, I would argue.
Speaker 2: And as far as not shooting, my guys shot less
Speaker 2: than twenty percent from three this season, So I would
Speaker 2: say we maybe need to adjust the offseason a bit.
Speaker 2: If we're Anthony Davis. All right, what's last?
Speaker 5: Kevin Durant and Shack have been debating who would win
Speaker 5: on Twitter Katie's Warriors or shacks Lakers?
Speaker 2: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: Who would win Katie's Warriors or shacks Lakers.
Speaker 2: Okay, so here's the thing. I believe Katie's Warriors would win.
Speaker 2: I know that surprises you. I also believe Shack would
Speaker 2: average forty five a game in that series. Right, So
Speaker 2: I think that Shack would be the single biggest mismatch.
Speaker 2: There is no one that could guard Shack or that
Speaker 2: Warriors team. Nobody, Well, there's no one that could guard
Speaker 2: Prime Shack. Ever, as you're gonna find out when he
Speaker 2: comes up on our fifty Greatest Players list, but it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be enough. And so here's the thing to me
Speaker 2: is you've been mind Katie's Warriors. That's when Draymond was
Speaker 2: still excellent, right, and you've got Durant. Durant and Kobe
Speaker 2: cancel each other out. Yeah, Shaq is going to be
Speaker 2: better than Steph, but he is not going to be
Speaker 2: better than Steph and Clay combined, right, and so, and
Speaker 2: then after that we get to the real role players.
Speaker 2: And now it's like Draymond Green and not prime but
Speaker 2: still good Andre Woudala versus the Lakers role players, which
Speaker 2: was like old Derek Fisher and guys that just weren't
Speaker 2: you know, Rick Fox, Robert or got So. I like
Speaker 2: Katie's Warriors, but I do think Shaq would be forty
Speaker 2: five and twenty. And you might say that's crazy, dude,
Speaker 2: average thirty six and fifteen in the finals appearances with
Speaker 2: the Lakers, like forty five and twenty against a small,
Speaker 2: thin team is not outrageous. I just don't think they'd
Speaker 2: have enough apps other than Shack. That might be the
Speaker 2: longest B block we've ever done, including eight minutes on
Speaker 2: moral relativism, and then three minutes on me playing fantasy
Speaker 2: GM for a basketball team that doesn't even exist. You'll
Speaker 2: only get that type of content on What's Right. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back, all right, welcome back in final segment
Speaker 2: What's Right with Nick? Right again? A reminder Friday will
Speaker 2: be our next episode as we react to Game six
Speaker 2: of the Finals and either the Warriors championship or the
Speaker 2: Celtics forcing a Game seven. Little quick game six prediction
Speaker 2: for you. You know who I think is gonna be
Speaker 2: walking through those doors for Game six?
Speaker 3: Lil Wayne?
Speaker 2: Oh well, maybe Lil Wayne might be walking through those
Speaker 2: doors for Game six. That's not why I said it.
Speaker 2: That's not what I'm talking about. Someone's gonna be more
Speaker 2: involved in you guys can start the clock. Someone that's
Speaker 2: gonna be more involved in the action than the way.
Speaker 3: Is he an artist?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, okay, he's gonna he's gonna have an
Speaker 2: impact on the result. You know, I could see getting
Speaker 2: the old tap on the shoulder to referee a Game
Speaker 2: six to give then Oh, Scottie Foster, Oh, scott Foster.
Speaker 2: Haven't seen him in the Finals in a little bit,
Speaker 2: h could we see old Scottie Foster just you know,
Speaker 2: maybe lean a little Celtic's green to make sure we
Speaker 2: get a game seven. I think we could.
Speaker 3: I mean, in Scott Foster's defense, the refing wasn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't great, Dell wasn't great. But also also here's
Speaker 2: the other thing. In Marcus Smart's anti defense and Marcus
Speaker 2: Smart in attack of Marcus Smart, Jordan Poole got you
Speaker 2: on the thing you've gotten people on four years, which
Speaker 2: is the you get someone swipes into the general vicinity
Speaker 2: of your face, doesn't touch you, and you throw your
Speaker 2: head back like you've been sniped, yes, and you get
Speaker 2: the foul. You get the foul call. And the other
Speaker 2: one is this Marcus Smart. It's a five point game
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, Steph is on the bench. There
Speaker 2: is one shooting threat out there, real shooting threat out there.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure Pools there not. So maybe two Klay Thompson,
Speaker 2: you're guarding him, you're the defensive player of the year,
Speaker 2: and maybe don't flop and slide for thirteen feet. Maybe
Speaker 2: just d him up. Maybe just d up a guy
Speaker 2: that can't dribble. Now, the referring was bad. I didn't
Speaker 2: like Udoka's technical I didn't like the phantom call when
Speaker 2: the guy tripped himself, Gary Payton. I think all of that,
Speaker 2: but that's not what I wanted to talk about this segment.
Speaker 2: What I want to talk about in this segment is
Speaker 2: and you can be honest with me here. And I'm
Speaker 2: treading lightly, And if I sound like I'm talking a
Speaker 2: little quieter, it's because I'm a little nervous to discuss
Speaker 2: this in the house. But I'm going to do. You
Speaker 2: think it's fair that your mom mocks me as much
Speaker 2: as she does for all of a sudden playing video
Speaker 2: games again.
Speaker 3: I think it's we're afraid too.
Speaker 2: We're both afraid. We're both just walking around this house.
Speaker 2: It's just terrified.
Speaker 4: But go ahead. Uh no, I mean, she.
Speaker 2: Said when she was leaving yes day. I'm because we were.
Speaker 2: We mentioned FIFA, which I listen, have I become I
Speaker 2: suck my toe in the Fortnite waters not for me.
Speaker 2: I played a couple of games of Madden. I like
Speaker 2: Madden from the strategic standpoint, but I with Madden, the
Speaker 2: only thing I've ever really liked to do on that
Speaker 2: is build a team and simulate seasons, and I don't
Speaker 2: have time for that. FIFA, on the other hand, is
Speaker 2: like a true love of my life. I love it.
Speaker 2: And Demanse walked in the office the other day and said,
Speaker 2: are you in training camp? Because you saw me. I was,
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, how am I going to
Speaker 2: beat these you know, young European rates if I don't
Speaker 2: go to training And he's like, wait, you're like you're
Speaker 2: actually doing training drills.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, Bud, yeah it's the off season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's never the off season. But your mom
Speaker 2: when she heard us talk about this before, just like dominate,
Speaker 2: she said, yeah, I'm real happy that my thirty seven
Speaker 2: year old husband is playing video games, to which my
Speaker 2: question is, but is there am I supposed to age
Speaker 2: out of video games? Am I?
Speaker 3: I've been saying this for like the last two years
Speaker 3: of my life.
Speaker 2: Oh, Danielle, do you want to chime in just for
Speaker 2: a moment, Hold on, if you just come here so
Speaker 2: people can hear you on the microphone. At least you
Speaker 2: see this is what.
Speaker 4: We've been worried about.
Speaker 3: I'm never going to age out of video games. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I think as long as they keep releasing new systems,
Speaker 2: I feel like and the systems keep guess guess you
Speaker 2: know what, how about this can a fourteen year old
Speaker 2: afford an eight hundred dollar PS five? So you know
Speaker 2: who they're making them for? For me and damp poop.
Speaker 4: Do you want.
Speaker 2: Play three times a day? Well every day?
Speaker 4: You cannot play three times a day every day? Too much?
Speaker 6: You have, though, she.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, do you want to come sit
Speaker 2: with us? You see, she thinks it's childish.
Speaker 4: Whoa, And I'm getting good at it.
Speaker 2: This at least it's not wasted time. I mean, I
Speaker 2: am getting good at it. I am getting good at it.
Speaker 2: We'll see you guys on Friday.