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Speaker 2: Welcome back, What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode two forty
Speaker 2: after a week of some technical difficulties and we apologize
Speaker 2: for those uh To be honest, I would take accountability
Speaker 2: for my fault, and I would have no problem throwing
Speaker 2: the folks at Blue Dog under the boss if it
Speaker 2: were their fault. But instead, like most issues with America
Speaker 2: these days, who's some nameless, faceless mega corporation that should
Speaker 2: have been broken down by our antitrust laws we used
Speaker 2: to have once upon a time, thanks a lot, Reagan. Instead,
Speaker 2: it's some giant conglomerate that controls our cell phones, our TVs,
Speaker 2: our internet, all of it. They're like, ah, we'll get
Speaker 2: to your block when we can get to it. The
Speaker 2: block was having issues, it was, but we are I
Speaker 2: don't know what buttons. The Blue Dock people pushed what
Speaker 2: to get it a tech not even on site necessarily
Speaker 2: for this space at Trentage and Harlem, but to fix
Speaker 2: the internet for the block. So the great people in
Speaker 2: this community kind of have the What's Right show to
Speaker 2: thank for the internet finally working back up here. However,
Speaker 2: demand's a funny story. So they did after fixing, after
Speaker 2: working on the block throughout the day, they did need
Speaker 2: a tech to come into the store to you know,
Speaker 2: do like double and triple checks or whatever. Right, And
Speaker 2: I'm just going to I am just gonna tell you
Speaker 2: how it went, and then you can guess how your
Speaker 2: wonderful mother reacted. So the Trenton just supposed to close
Speaker 2: at seven. I call Danielle and I'm like, Hey, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a spectrum. Oh darn it, gosh, darn it.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's not that company. Who knows there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a person from a company coming to fix some things. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's gonna get there around six and I can come
Speaker 2: up and relieve you and sit there. She's like, no,
Speaker 2: it's no problem. Like, I'll ask him how long did
Speaker 2: you take when he gets here? So he gets there,
Speaker 2: he said, oh, I should be done before seven, like
Speaker 2: when you're supposed to close. She's like, oh, it's no problem.
Speaker 2: So then it's seven twenty. I get the side eye
Speaker 2: emoji text. I'm like, uh oh I, so I call her.
Speaker 2: She doesn't answer, So I call the store and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I called your phone. She's like, yeah, I can't use
Speaker 2: my phone because the guy who's here working is using
Speaker 2: my phone because he doesn't have FaceTime, so he has
Speaker 2: to FaceTime on my phone and this he's using his
Speaker 2: phone on the phone. I'm like, okay. I'm like I'm already.
Speaker 2: I'm already a little anxious about how this is gonna go.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, do you want me to come up
Speaker 2: right now? And I hear say, sir about how much longer?
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh, less than ten minutes. So she's like, no,
Speaker 2: it's less than ten minutes. This seven twenty ish when
Speaker 2: I tell you, demanse. I get a phone call at
Speaker 2: eight fifteen FaceTime and it's her sitting there looking at
Speaker 2: me with this guy behind or working on some things.
Speaker 2: And again, this is no one's fault, but I want
Speaker 2: to let everyone know. Demanse, who do you whose fault?
Speaker 2: Do you think your mom thought it was? Of all
Speaker 2: the people she could go ahead? You? Yeah, me, me,
Speaker 2: it was me. It was my fault. It's not Victor's fault.
Speaker 2: It's not even the poor tech guy's fault who's trying
Speaker 2: to help us out. I don't blame him at all.
Speaker 2: It was not blued. It was no one's fault. I'm
Speaker 2: telling you right now. And so Victor, because he's a
Speaker 2: great guy, texts me and says, hey, I'd love to
Speaker 2: buy you and your wife dinner. You know, sorry about that.
Speaker 2: And I text him and I'm like, man, don't worry
Speaker 2: about that. And so your mom at that point is
Speaker 2: home and and I'm like, I'm like, man, And again
Speaker 2: it's as if I ripped the internet chords and then
Speaker 2: locked her in the in the boutique, like this is
Speaker 2: it is all my fault. I mean just I'm just
Speaker 2: an easy target, man. And so I then say I
Speaker 2: didn't say to her. I'm like, hey, I'm like Victor,
Speaker 2: you know, offered to buy us dinner. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he texts me too. I'm like, what did you say.
Speaker 2: She's like, I didn't respond. He doesn't need to buy
Speaker 2: me dinner. You need to buy me dinner. This is
Speaker 2: your fault. I'm like okay, Like okay, so, but bright
Speaker 2: side is podcasts working great. The Internet's crystal clear. I'm
Speaker 2: moving my arms around, I'm doing stuff. There are about
Speaker 2: two months ago I got the note. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: they told me, hey, the Internet gets shakier if you move.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, then we might have an issue.
Speaker 2: Like if the internet connection is reliant on me staying still,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be able to Also, that kind of
Speaker 2: feels like when I had a when once upon a time,
Speaker 2: when your mom and I first started dating, and I
Speaker 2: bought a old, old Cadillac cash from a guy who
Speaker 2: played poker with Because, if I'm being honest, your mom
Speaker 2: wrecked my other car, and then your mom wrecked the
Speaker 2: Cadillac but not fully, and I had to and I
Speaker 2: had to drive to work. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: were old enough to remember this, with the bumper tied
Speaker 2: to the body of the car via like sailor's rope
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, this is not a sustainable model,
Speaker 2: but for the time being, the for the time being,
Speaker 2: it's gonna work. Okay, they is about six months I
Speaker 2: drove in and that sailor the rope I used was
Speaker 2: like electric yellow because it was the only rope I
Speaker 2: could find the day of the event. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll either get this fixed or change out
Speaker 2: the rope at some point because it looks extra ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And when I'm here to tell you that electric yellow
Speaker 2: was on that car until it was finally left on
Speaker 2: the side of the road one day, I mean, it
Speaker 2: just is what it is, all right. Here's what missed
Speaker 2: the cut. Not on today's show, Wimby gets a funko
Speaker 2: pop doll. A lot of people love those things. I
Speaker 2: don't really get it. That's fine, though, Scotti Scheffler's charges
Speaker 2: are dropped, because of course they are. And we were
Speaker 2: last week when we had the technical difficulties, supposed to
Speaker 2: have a whole conversation about policing in America, and at
Speaker 2: some point we're gonna have that conversation. But I'm in
Speaker 2: too good of a mood right now and i don't
Speaker 2: want to do it, so we're not gonna do it today.
Speaker 2: And Aaron Rodgers, Uh, that's so funny that the producers
Speaker 2: made this the what missed the cut Aaron Rodgers video
Speaker 2: of him seemingly hobbling around and looking at his other achilles.
Speaker 2: That's not the achilles he tore. That's the other achilles.
Speaker 2: The question they put in there something or definitely nothing.
Speaker 2: That is literally the question on the TV show today
Speaker 2: that we just agreed upon in our meeting. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: video something or nothing. I think Gabe used his editorial
Speaker 2: influence to have definitely put in there. Oh, it's something
Speaker 2: when the forty year old quarterback, it's like, wait, my
Speaker 2: other achilles is bothering me and they're like, no, it's
Speaker 2: a blister. All right, Demanda, let's get to the actual show.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's strolling. I think he's an old
Speaker 2: injured man.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, all right, no faith, all right, Minnesota survives.
Speaker 3: History tells us that no team has ever come back
Speaker 3: from three zero. That doesn't mean that Minnesota can't wear
Speaker 3: the Dallas Mavericks down a little bit for the Celtic
Speaker 3: make them easy pickings.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: So with that said, do you think Luca and the
Speaker 3: Mavericks get it done tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, I do I think you make the exact This
Speaker 2: is the exact right question to ask, because I I
Speaker 2: think this series is incredibly evenly matched. I think that
Speaker 2: all four games either team could have won, which is
Speaker 2: why I'm so confident that this isn't going to be
Speaker 2: the first time in NBA history a team blows a
Speaker 2: three to zero lead. Because people have tried to make
Speaker 2: the argument like, well, all these games came down in
Speaker 2: the last minute, these two teams are dead even. But
Speaker 2: that's not an argument for one team than winning four
Speaker 2: in a row. That you know what I mean. The
Speaker 2: argument for a team coming back from three to zero
Speaker 2: is the one we almost saw last year when it
Speaker 2: was Celtics Heat. When you think the Celtics clearly have
Speaker 2: more talent, the Heat are playing over their ski and
Speaker 2: then you know, eventually water will find its level. And
Speaker 2: that is what happened in that series. It went from
Speaker 2: three to zero to a game seven, two evenly matched teams.
Speaker 2: The MAVs will get it done over in my opinion,
Speaker 2: in one of the next two games. But the right
Speaker 2: question is are they going to be worn down? Worn down? No,
Speaker 2: because the finals don't start until June sixth, but a
Speaker 2: turned ankle or a reaggravation of the knee sprain or
Speaker 2: something as fluky as Derek Lively getting clocked in the
Speaker 2: back of the head and a next sprain, even though
Speaker 2: that next sprain sure looked like a concussion. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor and I was just watching on TV,
Speaker 2: but that looked like a concussion. But whatever, I'm not
Speaker 2: making any allegations, I'm just saying from my couch, it
Speaker 2: looked like a concussion. That's the concern. That is the concern.
Speaker 2: And so if the MAVs win tonight and get through
Speaker 2: fully healthy, then I actually think for the finals, for
Speaker 2: their finals purposes, that loss in Game four was good
Speaker 2: for them. In this regard, I think that a week
Speaker 2: off is plenty of time, and that nine ten days
Speaker 2: off can maybe be a little like almost too much.
Speaker 2: I also think a sneaky important part for the Mavericks
Speaker 2: is Maxi Kleiba getting ramped back up after being out
Speaker 2: with He had demands the injury you had in your shoulder.
Speaker 2: He had the ac joint, the dislocation collar bone thing right,
Speaker 2: and so he's been out a month because of it.
Speaker 2: He also he didn't have the surgery. It's like, like
Speaker 2: we had talked about what happened with you and him
Speaker 2: being able to get twelve minutes in Game four and
Speaker 2: now maybe fifteen minutes tonight. Like that to me is
Speaker 2: a minor concern for Boston. Is Boston made such quick
Speaker 2: work of Indiana even though those games and we'll talk
Speaker 2: more about that later, they didn't get the opportunity to
Speaker 2: let Chris STAPs get game action and you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, in less than the NBA Finals cauldron. And
Speaker 2: so now it is nice that they didn't have to
Speaker 2: risk any other injury and.
Speaker 3: They Christ.
Speaker 2: Chris STAPs had never been to Round two. Before Chris
Speaker 2: STAPs was with the Knicks and then got hurt, was
Speaker 2: with the MAVs and was in Round one, and then
Speaker 2: the next year when they were in Round one, got hurt,
Speaker 2: and then he then he was with the Wizards. You know,
Speaker 2: So he Chris STAPs has never had a real postseason run.
Speaker 2: And so that is I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 2: right about I'm almost certain I am. But he's obviously
Speaker 2: never been to the finals. But I don't think prior
Speaker 2: to this year he's ever played in a playoff game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm right. In fact, including this year, he's still never
Speaker 2: played in a non round one playoff game because the
Speaker 2: last game he played in was the Game four against
Speaker 2: Miami this year. And so yeah, so in that regard,
Speaker 2: I don't think that MAVs losing in game one or
Speaker 2: Game four, pardon me, was bad. I also think you
Speaker 2: were kind of I know this is illogical, but it
Speaker 2: is how I look at sports kind of do for
Speaker 2: a bad game. And I know that doesn't mean you're
Speaker 2: not gonna have a bad game moving ahead. But if
Speaker 2: they had just won Game four and it's like, man,
Speaker 2: you're you win back to back games against OKAC, You
Speaker 2: then sweet Minnesota, are you gonna have your cold shooting
Speaker 2: bad game, things are off in game one or game
Speaker 2: two of the finals. So may be it resets that
Speaker 2: a bit. I know again that is not really sound logic,
Speaker 2: but it is it makes sense in my brain. However,
Speaker 2: another forty eight minutes of basketball is another forty eight
Speaker 2: minutes where somebody can get dinged, where somebody can get hurt,
Speaker 2: and so it's not without cost. What I will say
Speaker 2: is I the MAVs need Kyrie Irving to be able
Speaker 2: to and maybe with the day between games in the finals,
Speaker 2: it'll help him. They need a level Kyrie Irving. What
Speaker 2: we've had throughout these playoffs is a level Kyrie Irving
Speaker 2: for spurts, for quarters or for halves, not many times
Speaker 2: for entire games. They are going to need that for
Speaker 2: entire games against a lead defense and one other piece.
Speaker 2: They're going to need Kyrie Irving to maintain his disposition
Speaker 2: that he has had this entire postseason in what will
Speaker 2: be a very difficult environment for him. Those Boston fans
Speaker 2: are brutal on everyone, but they really hate him. Now.
Speaker 2: He did a lot of that to himself. You know,
Speaker 2: he flipped him off and he stopped on Lucky. So
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna now the I think it's almost there's
Speaker 2: going to be some improper years sent his way out
Speaker 2: of Boston. Nobody does that to himself. But the extra
Speaker 2: vitriol that he's gonna deal with, I just want to
Speaker 2: I hope Kyrie can keep his disposition because obviously, what'd
Speaker 2: you say, apartmentalize Yeah, exactly right, yeah, and which is hard,
Speaker 2: it's not easy, but well, I will say a guy
Speaker 2: that he you know, had great success with and now
Speaker 2: has you know, Uh, what's the what's the made amends with?
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's probably not the right term. Reconcile.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm looking for with in Lebron. Lebron's one
Speaker 2: of the best athletes ever. The ability to do that
Speaker 2: that like the no matter what you're hearing, or the
Speaker 2: narrative is or anything going into a game, you once
Speaker 2: the game starts, you're just there. So I I really
Speaker 2: I think the MAVs are going to win tonight. If
Speaker 2: they don't win tonight, I am fully confident they're going
Speaker 2: to win the game six at home. But you just
Speaker 2: don't want more chances for injury, and a full week
Speaker 2: off would be good for anybody. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: to your Boston Celtics. Oh go ahead. Did you want
Speaker 2: to say something else?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, we can get to the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Because the world on the street was that you canceled
Speaker 3: the show last Tuesday to avoid talking about the Celtics
Speaker 3: sweep getting to the finals. Uh huh, I knew you
Speaker 3: hate him.
Speaker 2: I guess that much.
Speaker 3: But so Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown are back in
Speaker 3: their second finals in three years, and Jalen Brown is
Speaker 3: fresh off of his Eastern Conference MVP. It was the
Speaker 3: same way the last time, I believe when they played
Speaker 3: the Warriors in the finals. But what that said just
Speaker 3: Tatum needs to be the alpha in order for the
Speaker 3: Celtics to succeed.
Speaker 2: No, so that I don't think Tatum has to be
Speaker 2: the best player for the Celtics to win at a title.
Speaker 2: I now, I don't think the Celtics are going to
Speaker 2: win the title and the obvious clearest way for them
Speaker 2: to do it is for Tatum to jump a level
Speaker 2: in the finals. I don't think that's realistic. I think
Speaker 2: he can play better than he played in those finals
Speaker 2: against Golden State. But I think the Celtics are built
Speaker 2: And tell me, if you agree to Monte, there's your team.
Speaker 2: In a way, they are built similarly to not defensively,
Speaker 2: the same the Four Pistons. You don't remember that team,
Speaker 2: so let me give a little context. The Four Pistons
Speaker 2: had but on any given night, you did not know
Speaker 2: who their best player was gonna be. Like their best
Speaker 2: players were Chauncey Phillips and Rashid Wallace, but Tayjon Prince
Speaker 2: could be their best guy On a night, Rip Hamilton
Speaker 2: could be their best guy on a night. Ben Wallace
Speaker 2: was defense only. I think the Celtics are built in
Speaker 2: a way that on any given night, Derek White can
Speaker 2: go off. Jalen obviously can be the best player. On
Speaker 2: multiple nights, Tatum can be the best player. We forget it,
Speaker 2: but Chris STAPs will see it's what he had looked like.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's gonna be many nights Drew as
Speaker 2: the best player. He's a better offensive player obviously than
Speaker 2: Ben Wallace was, but he's gonna be focused more defensively.
Speaker 2: So I don't look at the Celtics Demons as a
Speaker 2: team that man if Tatum doesn't go toe to toe
Speaker 2: with Luca, they can't survive. And I think that's good
Speaker 2: for them because I don't think Tatum can go toe
Speaker 2: to toe with Luca. But that's no shame. There might
Speaker 2: not be anyone alive that can go toe to toe
Speaker 2: with Luca and will go ahead.
Speaker 3: You go yeah, So I mean we'll just Tatum hasn't
Speaker 3: really had I do think that he's kind of owning
Speaker 3: this thing of like he doesn't he doesn't need to
Speaker 3: ball out or go crazy or do the Josh Allen
Speaker 3: thing in order for them to win games, and I
Speaker 3: think that he's gonna do what it is that's necessary.
Speaker 3: And I just don't think that they've seen that opponent. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the teams that they've faced to get to this finals run,
Speaker 3: their best player has been injured each time. I don't
Speaker 3: think that any of these games have called for Jason
Speaker 3: Tatum's A plus. So I do think we'll see a
Speaker 3: different version in these finals.
Speaker 2: But nope, and he, by the way, he deserves credit.
Speaker 2: He did have an A plus game in Game three.
Speaker 2: I think he had thirty six points, ten rebounds, eight assists,
Speaker 2: zero turnovers. He was spectacling. That was one of the
Speaker 2: five or six best games playoff games he's ever played.
Speaker 2: He was great in that game. The weird thing about
Speaker 2: Tatum is the last two years in the postseason, he's
Speaker 2: thirty one percent from three on eight threes a game.
Speaker 2: He takes threes and confidently and at the volume of
Speaker 2: a guy who's thirty seven percent, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like it is a huge part of his arsenal, and
Speaker 2: it just hasn't been the case. And so there are
Speaker 2: times where I think it can be frustrating because he's
Speaker 2: six nine and a half he's built over the ball,
Speaker 2: and when he came into the league he was skinny.
Speaker 2: He is now super strong. It feels like he could
Speaker 2: be more impactful slashing than he allows himself to be.
Speaker 2: It does feel like he settles a little too long.
Speaker 3: He probably takes like three more shots than he should
Speaker 3: have just taken to gone to the rim a game.
Speaker 3: I see it. That's right, Like he'll stop it like
Speaker 3: a little jumper. You can just power through.
Speaker 2: And so and here's the thing on that, So that
Speaker 2: is sometimes guys do that.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 2: I remember, this is like one of my earliest Fox memories.
Speaker 2: I remember watching a Cavs playoff game at some restaurant
Speaker 2: in Santa Monica with Charlie, the guy who's probably, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the two people most responsible for my entire
Speaker 2: career at Fox, and it's still my boss to this day,
Speaker 2: runs the network now and Lebron on back to back
Speaker 2: plays had driven to the basket and scored. This was
Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen playoffs, Yeah it would have been twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen playoffs, maybe twenty seventeen, doesn't matter. And Charlie turns
Speaker 2: some and says, see why doesn't he do that every play?
Speaker 2: And me exasperated, turned to him and said, because it's
Speaker 2: god dog exhausting, because even Lebron at that, let you know,
Speaker 2: and so if people would get frustrated when Lebron would
Speaker 2: settle for jumpers, But the answer is nobody has thirty
Speaker 2: drives to the basket in them a game. What's frustrating.
Speaker 2: What's uniquely frustrating about Tatum.
Speaker 3: He also has to carry a team.
Speaker 2: Well correct right and tired right. And but the other
Speaker 2: thing is Lebron was not shooting eight threes a game.
Speaker 2: You know he was shooting at that point, he was
Speaker 2: shooting five. And so it it just like three is
Speaker 2: the exact right number. It just feels like there's three
Speaker 2: or four times a game that Tatum settles when he
Speaker 2: doesn't need to. Now, where I do think that where
Speaker 2: if you're a Celtics fan, where you have to be
Speaker 2: the most nervous is this at the end of games.
Speaker 2: The MAVs know exactly what they're doing. One out of
Speaker 2: three possessions, they are going to let Kyrie try to
Speaker 2: cook someone. Two out of three they are gonna say, Luca,
Speaker 2: go do it. If you get a favorable matchup, get
Speaker 2: them on your hip, do your little old man move
Speaker 2: in the lane or a step back or throw a
Speaker 2: up and the LOB numbers. Have you seen the lob
Speaker 2: stats these playoffs? This is the craziest thing ever, so
Speaker 2: so going in this is as of game prior to
Speaker 2: Game four, so these are so the team with the
Speaker 2: third most alley oops successful alley oops these playoffs was
Speaker 2: the Celtics at eight. The team with the second most
Speaker 2: was the Thunder at nine, and the team with the
Speaker 2: most so second most was nine. The team with the
Speaker 2: most was the MAVs with forty eight. Forty eight successful
Speaker 2: aloops this postseason. Going into Game four, Luca had twenty
Speaker 2: eight by himself, like such a huge part of their
Speaker 2: offense has been Luca's You know, Derek Lively is shooting
Speaker 2: one hundred percent from the field in the Conference finals
Speaker 2: because everything on one of them is just a dunk, right,
Speaker 2: And that's also why they need Chris STAPs back, That's all,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It's also why they need
Speaker 2: Christaps back. But my point is at the end of games,
Speaker 2: the MAVs know exactly what they want to do, and
Speaker 2: the Celtics. This is the downside to the Jalen Brown,
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, Batman Robin Robin Batman situation. It is not clear,
Speaker 2: crystal clear at the end of games who they're going
Speaker 2: to that, you know what I mean? That is the
Speaker 2: one downside to it. Now, I don't buy into there's
Speaker 2: this weird narrative going on, like, was does it matter
Speaker 2: that Jalen Brown one Conference Finals MVP? Was Tatum not
Speaker 2: happy enough of it? All that to me is bs.
Speaker 2: Those two guys are clearly good friends. They work really
Speaker 2: well together. They have had they have had consistent A
Speaker 2: minus success together. The question is can they finally have
Speaker 2: an A plus? All right, let's move on to me too.
Speaker 3: So on Tuesday, you tweeted out a graphic comparing Jok
Speaker 3: to Jannis. Are you saying that Jannis is the best
Speaker 3: player in the after the lebron era? Is that what
Speaker 3: you were getting at there?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's certainly a debate. So this, by
Speaker 2: the way, so this is this graphic is incredibly cool
Speaker 2: and was made by and We're gonna have a lot
Speaker 2: more of these types of things. There is I don't
Speaker 2: know if he wants me to say his name, I'll
Speaker 2: ask him, but he signed it as Leo. Leo is
Speaker 2: not his name. This was made by a guy that
Speaker 2: just really really wanted to be a part of what
Speaker 2: we do on this show and the stuff I do,
Speaker 2: and is doing like doing this statistical and statistical work
Speaker 2: and graphical art on his own. We have one coming
Speaker 2: out about Anthony Edwards and age twenty two seasons. It's
Speaker 2: really cool. It's data visualization and i'll the very least
Speaker 2: say his first name. Shout out to Zach for this
Speaker 2: amazing work. He's also working on a much bigger project
Speaker 2: related to our top fifty players of all time that
Speaker 2: is I don't even want to tease what it is
Speaker 2: because when we debut it, it'll blow your mind. But
Speaker 2: this guy is brilliant and is doing this, you know,
Speaker 2: on his own time, and I really appreciate it. So
Speaker 2: the point that I was trying to make is, I
Speaker 2: think it's very clear that Yannis had been the best
Speaker 2: player from call it. I know, Lebron won the title
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and won a finals MVP. I know,
Speaker 2: but I think Giannis have been the best player from
Speaker 2: nineteen to twenty one, and I think Jokich has been
Speaker 2: the best player from twenty two to twenty four. Right,
Speaker 2: But what if we are talking about nineteen to twenty
Speaker 2: four this six year stretch. Who has had the better run.
Speaker 2: They have both been to one finals and one finals MVP.
Speaker 2: They both have been to one other conference finals they
Speaker 2: have they they both have been to round two twice.
Speaker 2: They are the Oh, I'm sorry. Yoga's been around two
Speaker 2: three times, Yiannis twice. Yanni's has made the playoffs more.
Speaker 2: He's also played a little bit longer. Their career numbers
Speaker 2: are very similar, twenty three to ten and five versus
Speaker 2: twenty one to eleven and seven. They're all NBA's Yannis
Speaker 2: has six, Jokicic has sure go ahead said, the career
Speaker 2: is so very very similar.
Speaker 3: But weren't there do you think their paths to the
Speaker 3: finals were a little bit easier different in each other?
Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing. I think in general, Jokic
Speaker 2: has had to face tougher competition in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2: I think in their championship run, Yanna's faced far tougher competition.
Speaker 2: That Suns team was the best team in the league
Speaker 2: that year. People was gonna win the title. They were
Speaker 2: up two zero. That Brooklyn team was peak Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: and so I can we uh, I'm sorry, no, Durant
Speaker 2: was fully healthy. Durant was fully healthy. Kyrie got injured
Speaker 2: at the end of Game four, and Harden got injured
Speaker 2: before at the very beginning of the series and then
Speaker 2: came back, and I misstated the All NBAS. My apologies.
Speaker 2: Yanni's has eight All NBAS, Jokic has six, Yanni's has
Speaker 2: two MVPs, Jokicic has three. I think it's a real debate.
Speaker 2: I think because of what happened in the postseason this year,
Speaker 2: that debate opened back up. And here's the other piece
Speaker 2: of it. Luka is five wins away from entering that
Speaker 2: debate himself. And so the Lucas stuff. People don't believe
Speaker 2: me when I demon say Luca's made first team All NBA.
Speaker 2: He's been in league six years. He's made first Team
Speaker 2: All NBA five times. Steph Curry has four. Steph Curry
Speaker 2: has four First Team All NBAS, Luca has five. Luca's
Speaker 2: individual statistical resume is why I put him where I
Speaker 2: put him, projecting it on that top fifty list. And now,
Speaker 2: and if you look at Luca's basketball life, here's what
Speaker 2: it is. At sixteen years old, he was playing in
Speaker 2: the second best league in the world. At eighteen years old,
Speaker 2: he was the MVP of the second best league in
Speaker 2: the world and won the championship. At twenty years old,
Speaker 2: he was the NBA's Rookie of the Year. At twenty
Speaker 2: one years old, he was first team All NBA and
Speaker 2: scored forty two in his first career playoff game. At
Speaker 2: twenty two years old, he took the Clippers to seven
Speaker 2: games with no other even fringe all star on his roster,
Speaker 2: averaging thirty six eight and eight I think or something
Speaker 2: like thirty six ten and I'm not sure exactly what
Speaker 2: is insane. At twenty three years old, he beat the
Speaker 2: number one seed en route to the conference finals. At
Speaker 2: twenty four years old, had a weird down team's success year,
Speaker 2: and at twenty five years old, he's about to be
Speaker 2: in the finals. It is an unbelievable run to start
Speaker 2: his career.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, he had those guys that were kind of
Speaker 3: dragging him down. I think you said when he.
Speaker 4: Was twenty two, do you hold Yokic's twenty one and
Speaker 4: twenty twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two exits against
Speaker 4: him when he's playing with Austin Rivers.
Speaker 2: Well, so, I don't so again there's an imagetween holding
Speaker 2: it against you and acknowledging that it happened. I don't
Speaker 2: hold it against you. But when Yannis was trying to
Speaker 2: defend his title and lost in seven in round two,
Speaker 2: he didn't have Chris Middleton. It's again, we're not holding
Speaker 2: that against Giannis, but it is a real part of it.
Speaker 2: And so there that was the series that Tatum had
Speaker 2: the forty six in game six and then they won
Speaker 2: game seven. Chris Middleton did not play one second in
Speaker 2: that series. Yes, games are harder if you don't have
Speaker 2: your best supporting cast. When Lebron lost in the finals
Speaker 2: to the Warriors the first time, Kevin Love didn't play
Speaker 2: one minute in that series, and Kyrie got hurt in
Speaker 2: the game one of that series. Like that, those are
Speaker 2: real factors here, and so it's just part of the
Speaker 2: I don't hold it against him, but he has not
Speaker 2: in my opinion, because of the loss this year with
Speaker 2: a fully healthy team is not. Giannis's title defense ended
Speaker 2: in round two in game seven to a team that
Speaker 2: didn't win the championship. Jokic's title defense ended in round
Speaker 2: two in game seven to a team that's not gonna
Speaker 2: win the championship, Like, it's just a lot of it
Speaker 2: is what whoever you have leading that race, it's close.
Speaker 3: Say that is a basketball mastermind and Giannis is not.
Speaker 3: I know, the question or the topic here is which
Speaker 3: which players better?
Speaker 2: And yeah, but yeah, that's true. That is true. Yannis
Speaker 2: is also arguably year in, you're out, the best defensive
Speaker 2: player in the sport. And Jokis just you know, was
Speaker 2: a part of letting Karl Anthony Towns finally for the
Speaker 2: first time in his career, have a good playoff series.
Speaker 2: So it's just it's all the the I mean, that
Speaker 2: is true. I thought Jokic's defense last postseason was excellent.
Speaker 2: I thought this postseason wasn't quite as good. And so
Speaker 2: those are those those are true stories. And so it's all.
Speaker 2: And I know people talk about Yanni's not having a bag. Well,
Speaker 2: bagless Yannis won a championship by scoring fifty points in
Speaker 2: Game six of the finals, and bagless Yannis, also, after
Speaker 2: it looked like he had blown out his knee, responded
Speaker 2: in those finals Game one, he was mediocre. When people
Speaker 2: thought he was going to be out for the year.
Speaker 2: The rest of the finals, what he did was average.
Speaker 2: Let me give it to you exactly for games two
Speaker 2: through six of the finals thirty eight, twelve and five
Speaker 2: on sixty three percent shooting. So I again, Jokics is
Speaker 2: obviously you know, there are a lot of things Jokic
Speaker 2: does better than Yannis shoot and pass, there's no question
Speaker 2: about it. But he's not a more efficient scorer because
Speaker 2: Giannis has afficient of a high volume scorers we've ever seen,
Speaker 2: and he's not in the same region defensively. I'm simply
Speaker 2: saying it is a real argument. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 3: So finally, Negro League stats are officially being added into
Speaker 3: the MLB record books. The Negro League Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: is in Kansas City and has always been a big
Speaker 3: part of your life. What does this mean to the
Speaker 3: sport of baseball and also on a personal level to you?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I talked about this a bit on the
Speaker 2: TV show yesterday, So I don't want to be in
Speaker 2: reruns here, but I fact of matter is this. I
Speaker 2: was at the opening of the Negro League Museum when
Speaker 2: I was a little kid, and I really think it helped.
Speaker 2: It partially helped shape who I am. I really believe that,
Speaker 2: Like I uh, I found it so captivating. I also
Speaker 2: was so lucky to become friends with the legend and
Speaker 2: actual friends with the legendary Buck O'Neill, who passed in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six, but was the voice and the
Speaker 2: representative of the Negro leagues worldwide forever. To the point
Speaker 2: to where my dad demands when I was a teen,
Speaker 2: you know, I met Buck when I was twelve, I
Speaker 2: think is when the when the museum opened where it
Speaker 2: is now, it's on eighteenth and Vine. It's big, beautiful space.
Speaker 2: And then I would see him every year at the
Speaker 2: galas and the things or whatever. I became really a
Speaker 2: big part of that museum. I was one of the
Speaker 2: only kids who was in, you know, there all the time.
Speaker 2: And Bob Kendrick, who's the president of museum, I've known
Speaker 2: him forever, and so it's just been a big part.
Speaker 2: And Buck always remembered me to the point to where
Speaker 2: Buck was doing a something, my dad was either speaking
Speaker 2: at an event Buck was at, or Buck was speaking
Speaker 2: at an event my dad was at, and my dad
Speaker 2: went over to him and said, Hi, my name's Louis Wright.
Speaker 2: I think you know my son, And Buck said, oh,
Speaker 2: you're Nicky's father, and gave him a bit, like, so,
Speaker 2: I love that place and I love that man, and
Speaker 2: I think it is real history. And so I I
Speaker 2: talked about on the TV show, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: get fully into all of it right here. What I
Speaker 2: am going to do, though, is tell an unrelated story,
Speaker 2: because damn it, I want to. So on the TV show,
Speaker 2: I talked about the people who are upset about this
Speaker 2: and how they're either just acting in faith or just racists,
Speaker 2: like it's one of the two. And if you're like,
Speaker 2: I'm upset about this and I'm not a racist, well
Speaker 2: then you're just acting in bad faith. And if you're like,
Speaker 2: I'm not acting in bad faith and I'm not a racist, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine. You're just dumb, Like you pick the hat
Speaker 2: you want to be in. You either dumb, acting in
Speaker 2: bad faith or a racist, I don't really care which whatever.
Speaker 2: And we can talk about why, like again, they're only
Speaker 2: including the stats that were in officially recognized Negro League games.
Speaker 2: That's why Josh Gibson is only getting one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty some home runs. And it's like, oh, well, it's
Speaker 2: not fair because they weren't playing against the best competition.
Speaker 2: The idea Okay, sure they weren't playing against all of
Speaker 2: the best competition, but neither were the white guys in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. You know why, because the best black
Speaker 2: players weren't in that league. And we've recognized those stats forever.
Speaker 2: So all of these arguments are easily dismissed if you
Speaker 2: really want to have them. But I don't want to
Speaker 2: have them, and I told people on Twitter not to
Speaker 2: have them. But then I saw one guy who's in
Speaker 2: the media who is angry about this and chirping about
Speaker 2: this and on the wrong side of all these issues.
Speaker 2: And that guy's name is Mike North. Mike North hosted
Speaker 2: a radio show in Chicago for thirty years and then
Speaker 2: he hosted a talk show on Fox Sports Radio. And
Speaker 2: I am uh, I am here to say to Mike North,
Speaker 2: thank you, Mike, because if not for your truly unlistenably
Speaker 2: awful radio show, I wouldn't have the job I have now.
Speaker 2: So a story I've never told. I used to drive
Speaker 2: in to do mornings in Houston at five in the morning,
Speaker 2: Houston time to go do the radio show I did there.
Speaker 2: And the live radio show on Fox Sports Radio was
Speaker 2: hosted by Mike North and someone else and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to remember who it was. If one of the producers
Speaker 2: can try to google the who Mike North did the
Speaker 2: radio show with on Fox Sports Radio State in my
Speaker 2: ear if you get it. But when I tell you,
Speaker 2: it was consistently the worst radio show in America, I
Speaker 2: mean that every morning. But it was the only thing
Speaker 2: that was like ESPN Radio at that time was basically
Speaker 2: replaying the audio version of Sports Center, so it was
Speaker 2: the only people talking, and it was just what was
Speaker 2: on on my way in. There's no local radio on
Speaker 2: it that early in the morning, so I heard it
Speaker 2: every morning and every morning. Oh yeah, Andy Furman, Andy,
Speaker 2: this is this is You were an unfair casualty in this. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe you listen, maybe you should have taken control of
Speaker 2: the steering wheel a bit, But this is not about you, Andy,
Speaker 2: this about Mike. And I'm just telling you it was
Speaker 2: such a terrible show, and it was such a terrible
Speaker 2: show Tomanse that I was like, you know what, I
Speaker 2: should just have that job. And so I, on my
Speaker 2: own dime, flew to Los Angeles in the fall of
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen and set up a meeting with the two
Speaker 2: guys who run Fox Sports Radio and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to say their names, but they're great guys. I just
Speaker 2: don't want them to be drawn into this because it's
Speaker 2: a little unfair to them. They're great guys. And I
Speaker 2: had done some fill in work for them, and I
Speaker 2: had just negotiated a new contract in Houston that allowed
Speaker 2: me to leave mid contract for a national opportunity. And
Speaker 2: I walked into their office and I said, and they're like,
Speaker 2: they were so nice, like Nick, you know, you know
Speaker 2: we love you. We you know we have you fill
Speaker 2: in on our network and we didn't want it when
Speaker 2: you said you wanted to come out. We didn't want
Speaker 2: to say no. But you know, you've come a long way.
Speaker 2: It's on your own dime. And you know, we don't
Speaker 2: have any jobs, Like there's no like you can you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. If you want a weekend show, we can
Speaker 2: talk about that, but that's you're not gonna get. You know,
Speaker 2: we could have done that on the phone. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: here's the deal. You guys know and I know your
Speaker 2: morning show is the worst radio show in the country,
Speaker 2: and you it can't be inexpensive. You have two guys,
Speaker 2: one of whom has done radio for thirty years. So
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I don't know what you
Speaker 2: are paying to do that show, but cut it in
Speaker 2: half and let me do it, and you will have
Speaker 2: a show that is five times better for half the price.
Speaker 2: I should have that job. And they were, I think,
Speaker 2: taken aback, but they also knew I was right. And
Speaker 2: they they said, and I didn't know at the time
Speaker 2: that they were had just that Colin had just agreed
Speaker 2: to move from ESPN TV and radio to FS one
Speaker 2: TV and Fox Sports Radio, and this part of the
Speaker 2: story I've told before. And they said, well, listen, we're
Speaker 2: about to have some major things going on with Fox
Speaker 2: Sports Radio and more of a direct partnership with Fox,
Speaker 2: with Fox Sports One, which is what f S one
Speaker 2: was called at the time. So we're not we don't
Speaker 2: want to launch any new shows without you know, that
Speaker 2: show potentially having the real chance of being simulcast on TV.
Speaker 2: So you know, if you can get a meeting with
Speaker 2: the guy who just got hired to run Fox Sports
Speaker 2: one and he like, you know what I mean, he
Speaker 2: thinks your show could potentially be simulcast, we can have
Speaker 2: a real conversation about this. So I ended up finagling
Speaker 2: a meeting with the guy who used to run Fox
Speaker 2: Sports One, Jamie Horowitz, and pitched him on, Hey, I
Speaker 2: just want you to sign off on if I get
Speaker 2: a radio show, it you simulcasting it, because these guys
Speaker 2: I think will give me a radio show because the
Speaker 2: radio show they have currently hosted by Mike North is unlistenable.
Speaker 2: And at the end of that meeting, Jamie said to me,
Speaker 2: he was like, I just have one question for you.
Speaker 2: He's like, why have you not has asked me to
Speaker 2: give you a job? And I'm like, well, I don't
Speaker 2: do TV. And he's like, well, I think you can
Speaker 2: do TV, buddy, And that ended up being, you know,
Speaker 2: ten auditions and eight months later, this job. So Mike North,
Speaker 2: God bless you man for consistently having the worst opinions
Speaker 2: in the world. If not for that, I'm not here.
Speaker 2: And I had not thought of this guy in years.
Speaker 2: And then I saw when Major League Baseball announced the
Speaker 2: negro league stats we're gonna be incorporated that who's there
Speaker 2: firing off tho, Oh my god, the woke mind virus
Speaker 2: is infiltrating our beloved baseball statistics. I'm like, it's my guy,
Speaker 2: my guy that changed my life. Shout out, buddy, quick break,
Speaker 2: right back, What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's
Speaker 2: Right with Nick? Right. We have a brand new segment
Speaker 2: debuting in the C block, and I will explain that
Speaker 2: when we get there. We'll also get to your listener
Speaker 2: questions and comments. But right now, demons, it's time for
Speaker 2: a game we've done before. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: We are gonna be playing right in today. And first off,
Speaker 3: we got our guy Bronni here. It's new animation each time. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: So reports are that Bronni has had over ten workout
Speaker 3: invites but has declined most of them. It will visit
Speaker 3: at least the Suns and the Lakers. Weird move for
Speaker 3: somebody averaging less than five points per game. Bronni is
Speaker 3: declining these invites because.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not a one word answer. I'll say it again.
Speaker 3: His dad is Lebron James. That's why he's declining the inlets.
Speaker 2: So it's partially that it's partially because Clutch, for Good
Speaker 2: or for Bad, does business a little differently than the
Speaker 2: last spot. Rich Paul and Clutch tried to steer clients
Speaker 2: to certain spots where they think is best for them,
Speaker 2: even if it annoys people in Ruffles Feathers. Clutch once
Speaker 2: upon a time a few years ago, held their own
Speaker 2: basically NBA Combine just for clutch clients. They do things
Speaker 2: and make a lot of other agents mad, but they
Speaker 2: have seemed to be effective for their clients. Now, I
Speaker 2: also want to clear up some misinformation about Bronni because
Speaker 2: Rich said Bronni is not going to take a two
Speaker 2: way contract, and a lot of people in the media
Speaker 2: took that to mean Rich is saying Bronnie won't play
Speaker 2: in the G League. That is not what a two
Speaker 2: way contract means. That a two way contract is a
Speaker 2: financial designation. It means you are paid half the league
Speaker 2: minimum and you can go back and forth between the
Speaker 2: NBA team and the G League team if you can
Speaker 2: be on a regular NBA contract and spend your whole
Speaker 2: rookie season in the G League. So, when Rich said
Speaker 2: Bronnie won't be signing a two way contract, it does
Speaker 2: not mean that he won't play in the G League.
Speaker 2: It does mean he's not going to agree to it's
Speaker 2: a financial basically demand. And now, if people want to
Speaker 2: argue that a player in Brownie's position is not in
Speaker 2: position to be making any demands, I understand people saying
Speaker 2: that and thinking that, but this is a unique situation.
Speaker 2: The Lakers have the fifty to fifth pick of the draft.
Speaker 2: There are only fifty eight guys that are going to
Speaker 2: be taken in this draft. It's a fifty eight pick draft.
Speaker 2: If Bronni is there at fifty five, they are taking him.
Speaker 2: So when you have that built in floor, you then
Speaker 2: can try to, you know, play a little more aggressive.
Speaker 2: And I don't think Lebron James is now I'm talking
Speaker 2: about Lebron now, Bronni is going to sign with the
Speaker 2: Sons for the league minimum. I don't think that's going
Speaker 2: to happen, and that's the only way they could get him.
Speaker 2: I do think it's on the board that the Suns,
Speaker 2: because they are not well run, might spend the twenty
Speaker 2: second pick of the draft on Bronni at hopes Lebron
Speaker 2: signs with them for the league minimum, and when he doesn't.
Speaker 2: If and when he doesn't, well you just spend a
Speaker 2: first round pick on this guy. It's a guaranteed contract.
Speaker 2: You're invested in his success. So people cannot like the
Speaker 2: fairness or optics or any of this. That's everyone's own.
Speaker 2: I'm obviously a little conflicted. You know, I have bias
Speaker 2: this year because I don't know Bronni, but I know
Speaker 2: people very close to him. I also think that while
Speaker 2: people don't like the way Rich always does business, incredibly
Speaker 2: effective at advocating for his clients in a way better
Speaker 2: than almost any NBA agent that I can remember, and
Speaker 2: not worried about hurting people's feelings.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The reality is that what they are doing everything they
Speaker 2: can to set Bronnie up for success, and the bigger
Speaker 2: investment a team has in him, the more invested that
Speaker 2: team than is in his success.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you want to chime in on this or do
Speaker 2: you want to move on to Monsey? No?
Speaker 3: I mean I thought I was a little crazy that
Speaker 3: he was declining invites, but I get like he's probably
Speaker 3: they're probably going about it so, like you said, it's
Speaker 3: a unique situation, like going about it a.
Speaker 2: Different Yeah, I mean it wouldn't be the case for
Speaker 2: other for other guys with his draft profile, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. But he's not other guys with his
Speaker 2: draft profile, So it just kind of is what it is,
Speaker 2: all right? Next?
Speaker 3: Uh, So the Pacers were swept in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 3: Finals by my Celtics, but hey, they had a pretty
Speaker 3: good run.
Speaker 2: There's a lot.
Speaker 3: There's a lot the so the East had a bunch
Speaker 3: of injuries this year, and some young teams are ready
Speaker 3: to take the lead. Boston's largest future threat in the
Speaker 3: East is.
Speaker 2: I think a healthy Yannis is the answer. I mean,
Speaker 2: Yannis didn't play in the playoffs this year, and last year,
Speaker 2: you know, got hurt in the playoffs and it wasn't
Speaker 2: the same guy. I think the answer to healthy, honest
Speaker 2: if Philly, if they were to get Lebron is an
Speaker 2: interesting one. And while I would like that to happen,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to. We got Philly's got
Speaker 2: all this cap space, so we got to see. I
Speaker 2: don't look at the Pacers as like all the Pacers
Speaker 2: they're the thunder of the West of the East. I
Speaker 2: don't look at them like that at all. And I
Speaker 2: don't think Halli Burton as close to the player Shay
Speaker 2: is so a healthy Yiannis or the Knicks if they
Speaker 2: add another real piece. I respect what the Knicks have done,
Speaker 2: but they they don't as good as jalen Is. They
Speaker 2: are still a piece away, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, Alan Clark dropped a career high thirty points versus LA,
Speaker 3: but it came to another loss, So the Fever at
Speaker 3: now one in seven, despite Clark being the league's thirteenth
Speaker 3: highest score after her first few games. Clark's adjusted adjusted
Speaker 3: year one expectations are.
Speaker 2: For me the same as that they were, that she
Speaker 2: will be an All Star caliber player, that by the
Speaker 2: end of the year she will be playing at the
Speaker 2: level of one of the ten best players in the league.
Speaker 2: I think that's going to happen now. I am not
Speaker 2: going to pretend as if I have watched the Fever
Speaker 2: closely enough to talk about why they're one in seven,
Speaker 2: what their biggest issues are. I know the number one
Speaker 2: overall pick from last year who was who's also on
Speaker 2: the Fever because they had the number one big back
Speaker 2: back years Aleah Boston, after being awesome last season, had
Speaker 2: struggled considerably. But Caitlin has been fine. Guys, Caitlyn has
Speaker 2: been the only other rookie averaging more than seven points
Speaker 2: a game. Is angel like in Angels, shooting like thirty
Speaker 2: five percent as a big Caitlyn is playing, she does
Speaker 2: she look like the best player in the league. No did.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I was as high on Gitlan as anybody.
Speaker 2: I didn't think she was gonna come in and be
Speaker 2: better than Asia Wilson. I didn't think she was gonna
Speaker 2: come in and be better than the very best player
Speaker 2: in the WNBA. Does she look like she is on
Speaker 2: track to being one day the best player in the league?
Speaker 2: I think so. Does she look like she is already
Speaker 2: one of the better players in the league? I think so.
Speaker 2: The team stinks.
Speaker 3: Next Yeah, so the seventy six ers only have three
Speaker 3: players roster for next year. In a ton of cap
Speaker 3: space they have accumulated quite the wishless with it seems
Speaker 3: like they're interested in Paul George Lebron or even trading
Speaker 3: for Jimmy Butler again. Butler's feelings on a Philadelphia return.
Speaker 2: Would be Oh. I think that he would love it.
Speaker 2: I listen, Jimmy Butler wears out as welcome. I love Jimmy,
Speaker 2: but the Heat seem annoyed with him. Chicago got everywhere
Speaker 2: gets sick of Jimmy. Jimmy's a lot to deal with,
Speaker 2: and now he's getting older and he's not as available.
Speaker 2: I think that the Sixers obviously targeting Lebron would be amazing.
Speaker 2: I think it is. I don't think it is guaranteed
Speaker 2: Lebron is going back to the Lakers, but I think
Speaker 2: it is likely he's going, you know, better than eighty
Speaker 2: five percent of going back to the Lakers. Paul George
Speaker 2: would be a great fit on that team, perfect fit,
Speaker 2: and they've got the money. And so we'll see if
Speaker 2: Paul George wants to leave the Clippers. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to.
Speaker 3: The Obviously, still some hard feelings there with the whole
Speaker 3: Tobias Harris over me thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again that was a different front office when
Speaker 2: it's a different coach and it from front office, and
Speaker 2: the only player who's still there is Embiid and Embiid
Speaker 2: has been writing you love letters for years, like you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So the fans loved him, Embiid
Speaker 2: loved him, and the guys who picked Tobias Hairs over
Speaker 2: him are all gone, so that, you know, So it's
Speaker 2: not quite to me. It wouldn't make sense, Like what
Speaker 2: are you mad at the Liberty Bell? Like it's all different,
Speaker 2: You're mad at the arena, all right?
Speaker 3: Next, so the Vikings were allegedly trying to trade up
Speaker 3: to draft theleak neighbors with the plan to trade Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson was looking for a record contract extension. The next
Speaker 3: team Justin Jefferson will play for will be.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna keep playing for the Vikings. But
Speaker 2: this was an underrated story that the Vikings you know,
Speaker 2: were open to potentially trading Justin Jefferson, and they seem
Speaker 2: to be legitimately, you know, anxious about giving him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, but the way to fix it. Listen, Justin
Speaker 2: Jefferson's gonna get thirty five million dollars a year as
Speaker 2: a wide receiver. It's what's gonna happen. Now, you can
Speaker 2: argue that's not smart money, but it's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: The Vikings are gonna have to pay it. They just
Speaker 2: drafted their quarterback. They you know what I mean there,
Speaker 2: it's I don't know why they haven't paid it already,
Speaker 2: but that's what's going to end up happening. All right,
Speaker 2: I hear we have a bonus one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Nick Wright is doing blank. If not for the great
Speaker 3: Mike North.
Speaker 2: I'm right now doing a show, probably a radio show
Speaker 2: only on ESPN Radio. That's what I think. I think
Speaker 2: that if if not for those dominoes, I think what
Speaker 2: ended up would have happened would have been this. I
Speaker 2: would have found out that Colin was going leaving ESPN
Speaker 2: when everyone else did, and that ESPN Radio was doing
Speaker 2: a reshuffling, and that you know LeBatard and you know
Speaker 2: Bamani and then le Levatar and the Bimani. I don't
Speaker 2: remember the order we're going to take over that time slot,
Speaker 2: and there was a reordering there, and I think I
Speaker 2: would have ended up, honestly, Demanse, I think we all
Speaker 2: would have ended up moving probably to Bristol, Connecticut, and
Speaker 2: I would have been doing like nights on ESPN Radio
Speaker 2: and you know, eventually parlayed that into a bigger time
Speaker 2: slot on the radio. I really believe that I had
Speaker 2: never when I say I had never planned on doing TV. Guys,
Speaker 2: when I was in college at Syracuse, the broadcast journalism
Speaker 2: major the vast majority of his TV stuff, and I
Speaker 2: remember saying, like in one of my TV classes, they
Speaker 2: were like, so that you know, we're going to learn
Speaker 2: to read off the prompter and I totally blew it off,
Speaker 2: and the professor was kind of annoyed with me because
Speaker 2: they're like, we know you're like you're into broadcasting, Like
Speaker 2: this is you know, we know this is what you
Speaker 2: want to do. And I just remember saying to them like,
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna be on TV. I don't want to
Speaker 2: be on TV. I'm not gonna be on TV. This
Speaker 2: is kind of a waste of my time. Like uh
Speaker 2: And and by the way, that's a lesson for young
Speaker 2: people out there, because to this day I'm not good
Speaker 2: reading now. Luckily, for my job, I don't really ever
Speaker 2: have to read off a prompter, but sometimes I do. Uh.
Speaker 2: And you never know where things are gonna take you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I would have just kept doing rad you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, kept doing radio. I And so yeah,
Speaker 2: you said, I mean, life's weird.
Speaker 3: TV more than radio, Like do you enjoy doing TV more?
Speaker 2: Well, so more? It's so different. It's I don't think
Speaker 2: I love it more. I think that. Listen, since I've
Speaker 2: been doing the TV show, I either have had the
Speaker 2: radio show, because remember then I did do a radio
Speaker 2: show for two years, maybe longer a mad dog was
Speaker 2: it three years? Two years, I don't remember how long
Speaker 2: at nights, and now I do this, which is like
Speaker 2: a radio show to me. This is way closer to
Speaker 2: a radio show than a TV show. And so I
Speaker 2: love the the The cool thing about radio is the
Speaker 2: audience gets to know you as a human being. They
Speaker 2: get to know your whatever you want to share of
Speaker 2: your personal life and your family. You can have long
Speaker 2: form discussions, right, and so all of that's cool. Cool
Speaker 2: thing about TV is you get to be famous and
Speaker 2: they pay you a lot of money and so, like
Speaker 2: you know, there's a I mean it and you can
Speaker 2: see so there's a give and take to all of it.
Speaker 2: But I don't think intellectually I would. I don't think that.
Speaker 2: I think that I and again, I have never had
Speaker 2: more fun. The most fun I've ever had in my
Speaker 2: career doing my show is the number one draft pick
Speaker 2: is First Things First, right Now with Bruin Wilds. And
Speaker 2: the number two draft pick is What's Right with Nick
Speaker 2: Wright When I was on in the afternoons in Kansas
Speaker 2: City with Carmen Carrington and Jared Carter the producer, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like that crew, you know, So
Speaker 2: that was so like those So those are the two
Speaker 2: most fun I've ever had. Uh, And so I love, love,
Speaker 2: love what I'm doing. I was joking about it just
Speaker 2: being about the you know them that come along with TV.
Speaker 2: But it's just different. It's different to being like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a thirty minute atman like things that
Speaker 2: go along with something like added benefits is I guess
Speaker 2: the way the word that is what it would mean. Um,
Speaker 2: but uh, they're just very, very different animal. And I
Speaker 2: would say to anybody that wants to do anything in
Speaker 2: media sports media in particular, there is no better training
Speaker 2: than solo radio. You're out there with just your words.
Speaker 2: You've got to create compelling, long form thoughts and arguments
Speaker 2: with just your words. And if you can successfully do
Speaker 2: a listenable, much less captivating radio show, there's you can
Speaker 2: do almost anything in media, in my opinion, A brand
Speaker 2: new segment involving motor sports next plus listener questions, What's right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick rat Okay,
Speaker 2: So like a year ago demanse maybe longer. The producers
Speaker 2: mostly I think Kara tried to get me to start
Speaker 2: incorporating f one into the show. That that that that
Speaker 2: Netflix show was it Drive to Survive or Drive for
Speaker 2: five or I don't know. I haven't watched it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna watch it. Though now had taken the world by storm.
Speaker 2: Everybody loved people were super into F one, it was
Speaker 2: getting bigger ratings, and I simply said, I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about it and I don't watch it, and I
Speaker 2: also kind of thought it would go away, but it's
Speaker 2: not going away. People like it. And so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: but if I can't talk about it, and demons can't
Speaker 2: talk about it, and Diora when she's here, she can't
Speaker 2: talk about it, what are we gonna do? Little did
Speaker 2: I know that the first I don't know if you
Speaker 2: know this about me, the first infant I ever held,
Speaker 2: my goddaughter, Sierra, who is the one of the only
Speaker 2: people still in my life that I've known longer than
Speaker 2: I've known you. That I'm I've known her her entire life,
Speaker 2: and she is now not much longer than I've known you.
Speaker 2: But she's nineteen, you know what I mean, So a
Speaker 2: little bit, you know, a few years longer. So my
Speaker 2: goddaughter and I again, I should be fair because you'll
Speaker 2: probably see this. I don't think technically she's my goddaughter,
Speaker 2: but she's my goddaughter, Sierra Faddel. She is an aspiring
Speaker 2: sports journalist and a huge F one fan. So here
Speaker 2: is what we are going to do. There are races
Speaker 2: evidently every couple of weeks. They're not every week, but
Speaker 2: on Thursday shows, before a race, she's going to have
Speaker 2: sent in an F one minute, and on Tuesday shows
Speaker 2: after a race, she's gonna give us an F one recap. Also,
Speaker 2: I am not going to I am whatever coaching or
Speaker 2: critiquing I have on her an aspiring night ten year
Speaker 2: old broadcaster is only going to come after the clips air.
Speaker 2: So every time she sends something in, it's what's getting aired.
Speaker 2: This is the best training and practice for her possible,
Speaker 2: and so the audience will get to see her evolution
Speaker 2: and growth as a broadcaster. Now it turns out there
Speaker 2: is not a race this weekend, but so what I
Speaker 2: thought made sense was for those of us that haven't
Speaker 2: been following or don't know anything about it, and eventually
Speaker 2: in the summer we might want something to gamble on,
Speaker 2: which is another benefit from this that we could learn
Speaker 2: a little bit and do something with it. So what Sierra,
Speaker 2: our F one correspondent is doing in her debut video
Speaker 2: is giving us. I told her I needed a ninety
Speaker 2: second recap of the season. That's not an easy task,
Speaker 2: but so I'm going into this blind as are you.
Speaker 2: This is catching us up on the twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: Formula One season in ninety seconds or less by our
Speaker 2: F one correspondent, the lovely and talented Sierra Fidel take
Speaker 2: it away.
Speaker 5: Since the twenty twenty four from the one season has
Speaker 5: already started, we have eight out of the twenty four
Speaker 5: Grand Prix under our belts already. But out of these
Speaker 5: eight races, Max Verstappen has won all but three, because
Speaker 5: Max Verstappen is the world champion and has been since
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one. Now these three races that he hasn't
Speaker 5: won have been won by the Ferrari driver Carlos Signs
Speaker 5: in Australia, and then the second is by Lando Norris
Speaker 5: at McLaren he won his maiden win in Miami. And
Speaker 5: then the third is the other Ferrari driver, Charles the Clerk,
Speaker 5: who won for the first time in Monaco as his
Speaker 5: home race. In the duration of EP one season, we
Speaker 5: have two championships happening simultaneously. We have the Drivers Championship
Speaker 5: for the drivers obviously, and then we have the Constructors Championship,
Speaker 5: which is for the teams. Now, after a Grand Prix weekend,
Speaker 5: a set of points are rewarded to the teams and
Speaker 5: the drivers based on their performance. Now, the current stats
Speaker 5: for the drivers championship is of course max Or Sappin
Speaker 5: leading with one hundred and sixty nine points, and then
Speaker 5: Charles Leclerk with one hundred and thirty eight, Landa Norris
Speaker 5: with one hundred and thirteen, and Carlos Signs with one
Speaker 5: hundred and eight points. Now for the constructors championship, we
Speaker 5: have Red Bull Racing of course leading with two hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy six points, and then we have Ferrari with
Speaker 5: two hundred and fifty two. Third place is for McLaren
Speaker 5: with one hundred and eighty four, and then fourth place
Speaker 5: is Mercedes with ninety six. Now these are just the
Speaker 5: top four in both the drivers and the constructors, but
Speaker 5: they go all the way to the entire grid.
Speaker 2: There. It is our first ever f one minute. I
Speaker 2: think I'm officially now a Carlos signs guy. I don't
Speaker 2: know who he is, but I like the cut of
Speaker 2: his jib. It sounds like he won a race first.
Speaker 2: Stappen just wins every year and wins every race. That's
Speaker 2: no fun. I'm gonna be a Carlos signs guy. I
Speaker 2: don't know where the next race is or when it is,
Speaker 2: but we'll hear from it again. What'd you think think?
Speaker 2: What do you think? Demand?
Speaker 3: I thought that was awesome. She did great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and Demand grew up with. That's her first
Speaker 2: time doing it for us, and that was her first take.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was her first take, but
Speaker 2: she sent me one video. I told I was like,
Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do, but send me one
Speaker 2: video and so and Karen Daniel, who seemed to know
Speaker 2: about f one, said she did a good job. Here's
Speaker 2: the other thing I'm gonna tell you, guys, I'm not
Speaker 2: fact checking these that could have all been wrong. I
Speaker 2: have no idea. I'm gonna need you guys to be
Speaker 2: our arm budsman because in the meantime, I know nothing
Speaker 2: about it, and so I hope it's accurate, but I
Speaker 2: know nothing about it. All right, Demante, quickly, let's do
Speaker 2: some questions here.
Speaker 3: We love you. Cecie Justin Justin Field probably ask why
Speaker 3: am I doing running back drills? We think we're gonna
Speaker 3: show the video for those watching them on YouTube.
Speaker 2: So I'm not gonna kill him for this. I think
Speaker 2: that's smart. I see see here's the thing. I think
Speaker 2: that's smart because he's doing quarterback drills as well, but
Speaker 2: running a big part of his game. Yeah, well, that
Speaker 2: part's true. I mean that parts. Know that part's true,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 3: Next, Jack Fisher, as is the thunder ceiling around what
Speaker 3: the Celtics are now a lot of really good players,
Speaker 3: but nobody who is truly great Top fifteen ever or
Speaker 3: do you think SGA can be that guy?
Speaker 2: Well, listen, I don't think SGA can be top fifteen ever.
Speaker 2: But can SGA be a consistent frontline MVP candidate in
Speaker 2: the way Tatum hasn't been. I'll be honest, I don't
Speaker 2: think so, but everyone else does. I think SGA is
Speaker 2: exactly in that Tatum tier of like not actually uh
Speaker 2: consistent top five best player in the league, but right
Speaker 2: in that six seven eight range. But the under I
Speaker 2: mean the thunder. I have so many assets and chats
Speaker 2: good and Jalen Williams is good, and they have a
Speaker 2: smart coach and the smart front office. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what they're this is. You know, they're just getting started.
Speaker 2: The weird thing is SGA is older than you think.
Speaker 2: Tatum's twenty six. SGA's twenty five Lucas twenty five SGA.
Speaker 2: I found that out on this show. I remember you
Speaker 2: guys corrected me that Sga is older than Luca, and
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe.
Speaker 3: It all right, Next, Austin Tatt is this the worst
Speaker 3: long term situation? Is this the worst long term situation
Speaker 3: for the Celtics to make the finals Eastern Conference finals
Speaker 3: every year, never get over the hump due to coaching,
Speaker 3: and then never have a reason to fire Missoula.
Speaker 2: Well, so listen, I think we're getting ahead of yourself there.
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not impressed consistently by Missoula. Let's see
Speaker 2: how he does in these finals. You're obviously not going
Speaker 2: to fire him if they lose in the finals. But
Speaker 2: I think that depending on how these finals go, A
Speaker 2: lot of guys like if the Celtics get this close again,
Speaker 2: I think it is very important for the Celtics. Obviously,
Speaker 2: if they win the championship, nothing matters, but if they
Speaker 2: don't win, it's very important for this to be a
Speaker 2: great series. What can't happen for the Celtics is for
Speaker 2: them to roll through the injured Eastern Conference and then
Speaker 2: get whacked by a team A lot of people think
Speaker 2: was maybe the fourth or fifth best in the West
Speaker 2: this year. That can't happen next yep.
Speaker 3: Carl Weezer asked, why hasn't the media killed Jokic for
Speaker 3: his playoff exit. He's supposed to be the best player
Speaker 3: in the league, and any other superstar best player would
Speaker 3: have been cooked.
Speaker 2: So I don't think that's really true. I think you
Speaker 2: only would get cooked if they had this exit because
Speaker 2: he played so poorly. I thought Jokic in this second
Speaker 2: round was overall and as I thought games four and five,
Speaker 2: he was a quadrue plus. He obviously wasn't great in
Speaker 2: the opening two games, and I don't put the last
Speaker 2: two games on him, but he wasn't, you know, getting
Speaker 2: beat by fifty in game six and then blowing a
Speaker 2: twenty point lead in game seven. It's gotta fall on
Speaker 2: him a bit. Again, I feel similar to how I
Speaker 2: felt about Giannis when he lost in round two. It
Speaker 2: is like it wasn't on him, So I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't think he needs to get killed for it. The
Speaker 2: only guy whoever would get by the way, Steph didn't
Speaker 2: get killed when he lost as the defending champ in
Speaker 2: round two last year and threw the ball away. The
Speaker 2: only guy who ever gets killed for this stuff is Lebron.
Speaker 2: Everybody else mostly gets passes unless it happens again and
Speaker 2: again and again.
Speaker 3: All right, next, Buffy, Lucky Choples. I know you said
Speaker 3: there's no chance in the three to zero comeback, But
Speaker 3: if it was to happen, would you pick who would
Speaker 3: you pick for the finals?
Speaker 2: Oh? I mean if Minnesota won fourth, I would say
Speaker 2: I think Minnesota would be out of gas. But also
Speaker 2: that would mean they were down three to two against
Speaker 2: the defending champs and one and then the first team
Speaker 2: ever to come back from down three to oh to win.
Speaker 2: It'd be hard to pick against some.
Speaker 3: Of the between the next series and they got to
Speaker 3: rest it with.
Speaker 2: Dallas right and during the series. But they're not gonna
Speaker 2: come back. Uh, they're not gonna come back to win it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to let's go to Sam Davison's question. Demonse.
Speaker 3: Sam Davison said, can't believe PJ. Washington does this podcast
Speaker 3: with Nick on a game day?
Speaker 2: Do you think you look like PJ. Washington? No, No,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't see it.
Speaker 2: On Oh you've heard it before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear it. At work a little bit.
Speaker 3: Hear it at work from Maddy. Yeah, I've heard it
Speaker 3: from it, but I hear the most.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well the Jordan Poole thing, I do see.
Speaker 2: But I also think that's because I used to think,
Speaker 2: you guys when he was with the Warriors played similar
Speaker 2: styles of basketball, so like I didn't know if that
Speaker 2: was polluting my you know what I mean, polluting my brain.
Speaker 2: And again, Warriors Jordan Poole was peak Jordan Poole. I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about Wizards Jordan Poole. Goofy Jordan Poole game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I get what you said.
Speaker 2: What a great way to end the pod. That's perfect,
Speaker 2: all right to mon' say call me later. Great job everyone,
Speaker 2: Great job to the Internet people. I mean this was flawless.
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