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Speaker 3: Are you I? Are we cool?
Speaker 4: Now? I'm genuine I genuinely.
Speaker 3: We don't have to talk about why you were mad.
Speaker 3: But you were mad at me.
Speaker 4: I was not mad.
Speaker 3: You were mad. You started the show. You wouldn't even
Speaker 3: talk to me. I was like, you good to go to.
Speaker 4: YO that they'll maybe there are other things going on
Speaker 4: in my life? Well, oh what's about you, mister Nick?
Speaker 3: Okay, well you know what. Guess what the forty five
Speaker 3: minutes twice a week when we do this kind of
Speaker 3: is hey, I need you. You think you don't think?
Speaker 3: There are days that I walk downstairs and I and
Speaker 3: I'm either irritated with one of your little sisters, maybe
Speaker 3: even you. Maybe your mom's gotten mad at me for something.
Speaker 3: I don't sit in the seat before the TV show,
Speaker 3: I'm all right, welcome in. It is episode twenty two
Speaker 3: of What's Right with Nick right in the podcasting and
Speaker 3: YouTube show. Unlike episode twenty one, we are not recording
Speaker 3: this this show through a string in a cup. We
Speaker 3: are back online fully and unlike any of the previous
Speaker 3: twenty one episodes, we have a brand new microphone. So
Speaker 3: these takes should be crystal clear, even more so than always.
Speaker 3: So all that's good. Also reminder, check out the weekly
Speaker 3: series fifty Garys players the last fifty years. The one
Speaker 3: that comes out this coming Sunday will be the most controversial,
Speaker 3: but I feel better about it than even when I
Speaker 3: recorded it a few days ago. One serious note, we
Speaker 3: are recording this one day after the massacre in Texas.
Speaker 3: I am going to use the final segment of today's
Speaker 3: show to talk about that. Some of what I say
Speaker 3: will come across as political, and some of what I
Speaker 3: say will simply be a parntal plea for some level
Speaker 3: of sanity. If you are coming to this show as
Speaker 3: an escape, or if you fear you're like I really
Speaker 3: like Nick, but if I hear what I think he's
Speaker 3: going to say about guns in this country, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: hate him. If I find out his political opinion than me,
Speaker 3: I won't be able to listen to him anymore. Then
Speaker 3: just into the podcast or the YouTube show however you're
Speaker 3: consuming it. After our second segment, the third segment, though,
Speaker 3: we will be discussing that it's where my head is
Speaker 3: right now, it's where my heart is right now. However,
Speaker 3: we are here to provide an escape for many of
Speaker 3: you and to talk about the sports news of the day.
Speaker 3: So that is what we will do for the first
Speaker 3: two segments of today's show. As always, we start the
Speaker 3: show by telling you what we're not talking about. Here's
Speaker 3: what did not make today's show in any way, shape
Speaker 3: or form. Eastern Conference Finals Game five, because, as it happens,
Speaker 3: that game has not yet happened, even though you are
Speaker 3: consuming this after has happened. Brady hitting some ducks to Gronk.
Speaker 3: Gronk shagging balls for Brady the left handed swing did,
Speaker 3: wasn't that impressive with it? And the rural Virginia Commanders
Speaker 3: as the former Washington football team now the Washington Commanders
Speaker 3: might be moving outside of Washington, DC entirely, none of
Speaker 3: that is on the show. Demonse will tell us what
Speaker 3: is on the show. I hope I know what we're
Speaker 3: starting with, but I don't know what we're starting with.
Speaker 3: What are we starting with, Demanse.
Speaker 4: How could we not? The MAVs avoided the broom Tuesday night?
Speaker 3: Oh they sure did, didn't they?
Speaker 4: Yep? Definitely helped that they finally started hitting the threes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but no team has ever come back from a three
Speaker 4: tozero deficit in the NBA history. So if you think
Speaker 4: that Luca can be the guy to do it. I
Speaker 4: think it's probably time to make another bet.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I'm not the first of there's a number
Speaker 3: of things here. First of all, I've made plenty I
Speaker 3: already have plenty of actual bets involving the Mavericks making
Speaker 3: the finals and winning the finals. I'm what we would
Speaker 3: call pop committed to that. I don't there's unless you
Speaker 3: are going to give me outrageous odds. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I don't even want to make this bet with you
Speaker 3: because you're rooting for the Mavericks. I know you want
Speaker 3: to root against me, but in this series, I've watched
Speaker 3: the games with you. You're rooting for the Mavericks. You
Speaker 3: don't like Draymond, you don't like the Warriors. So no bet,
Speaker 3: there is no bet. That's first of all. Second of all,
Speaker 3: I'm so sick of hearing people talk about three to zero.
Speaker 3: It's not three to zero anymore. It's three to one.
Speaker 3: And thirteen teams have come back from down three to one,
Speaker 3: and the Warriors have blown a three to one league.
Speaker 3: And here's the other thing. All the analysis of Game
Speaker 3: four has been exactly what you said. Oh, the MAVs
Speaker 3: finally hit their threes. Yes, that happened. But the other
Speaker 3: thing that happened is they held the Warriors to seventy
Speaker 3: points through three quarters. So the defense was outstanding as well.
Speaker 3: Now do they have a major uphill battle? What go ahead?
Speaker 4: Kind of reminds me of that game? Kind of reminded
Speaker 4: me of another game. What game earlier in the playoffs?
Speaker 4: What game was it? Game five of Grizzlies Warriors. I
Speaker 4: knew you were going to say that when they came
Speaker 4: and scored fifty points. I think they had fifty two
Speaker 4: minutes into the third quarter of that game. It was
Speaker 4: very clear.
Speaker 3: The Grizzlies led by fifty in that game.
Speaker 4: It was just very clear that they did not give
Speaker 4: a damn about winning that game.
Speaker 3: Okay, that might be true, however, I think that is
Speaker 3: And by the way, good job by you. That is
Speaker 3: the exact point Chris Brussard made on the TV show
Speaker 3: this morning. So is your evolution into professional takesman. You're
Speaker 3: now thinking the same way of the actual professional takesman.
Speaker 3: So good job by you. However that is I'm going
Speaker 3: to say to you what I said to him. That's
Speaker 3: a terrible example for the Warriors case, which is this
Speaker 3: the next game the Warriors didn't play great. If you
Speaker 3: remember Game six of that series, the Warriors are trailing
Speaker 3: with six minutes left in the fourth quarter, and then
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies self destructive. The Warriors ended up winning by
Speaker 3: fourteen points in that game because the final half of
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter the Warriors fell apart. But I agree
Speaker 3: with you. It did remind me a bit of that game.
Speaker 3: But it's like the Warriors came out the very next
Speaker 3: night and totally took care of business on their home
Speaker 3: court the way one were to say the Mavericks on
Speaker 3: the Grizzlies. Lucas the best player in the series. That
Speaker 3: was the Grizzlies without John Morant. And here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: The Mavericks could have rolled over. The Mavericks could have said,
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty sixteens fen down three to zero,
Speaker 3: they're zero in one hundred and forty six, it's not
Speaker 3: gonna happen, blah blah blah blah blah. But that is
Speaker 3: not what they did. Instead, what they did was they
Speaker 3: took the game seriously and now they're in a position
Speaker 3: where they go back to Golden State where they've got
Speaker 3: to believe they can win in Golden State demanse. I
Speaker 3: know they lost Game one. In Game two, but they
Speaker 3: were up nineteen in Game two. They were up fourteen
Speaker 3: at the half, and then they fell apart. And here's
Speaker 3: what I will unequivocally say. If the MAVs win Game
Speaker 3: five and then the series goes back to Dallas for
Speaker 3: Game six, the amount of pressure on Steph and the
Speaker 3: Warriors will be unimaginable. So no, I'm not ready to
Speaker 3: make another bet. The series should be to two games apiece.
Speaker 3: The Mavericks should have won Game two, I mean, but
Speaker 3: they didn't. So they dug themselves a seemingly undiggable outable
Speaker 3: that's not the phraseology. I apologize, hole a too big
Speaker 3: of a hole. But they have the best player there is,
Speaker 3: the massive three point shooting variants. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: Kevon Looney wasn't you know, in the best center in
Speaker 3: the Western Conference for finally a night. Kevon Looney and
Speaker 3: Andrew Wiggins were a modern name. Mark eaton Karl Malone
Speaker 3: for the first three games of this series. Mark eaton, Yes,
Speaker 3: Mark Eaton, one of your favorites. So I'm not I'm
Speaker 3: not going to make another bet for the MAVs to
Speaker 3: really be in good shape it. Obviously you need to
Speaker 3: be too, too. But I'm so sick of people talking
Speaker 3: about three to zero. Three to zero is gone. It's
Speaker 3: in the past. If I were to ask you guess
Speaker 3: the number between one and one thousand, you would have
Speaker 3: a one in one thousand chance. But if I then
Speaker 3: told you the first digit of the number, you would
Speaker 3: have a one in one hundred chance. That's what this
Speaker 3: one was. It went from one in one thousand to
Speaker 3: one in one hundred. Told you the second digit, you
Speaker 3: would then have a one in ten chance. That's what
Speaker 3: Game five would be. And then if I told you
Speaker 3: the third digit, you'd have it. You'd have the number.
Speaker 3: That's what Game six would be. They win Game five,
Speaker 3: they're gonna get to win Game six, and then Game
Speaker 3: seven Warriors will fall apart. Mark it down Game five.
Speaker 3: Here's the official prediction. Game five is either the Warriors
Speaker 3: by twenty or the Mavericks win the series.
Speaker 4: I'm rooting for you.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that. That's why we're not betting
Speaker 3: on it. All right, what we have an extended twelve
Speaker 3: minute clock. We spent five minutes on that first topic,
Speaker 3: so we gotta go faster.
Speaker 4: What's next we're recording before Game five is Celtics and Heat.
Speaker 4: I'm feeling great about it. Man. Yeah, Celtics bully the
Speaker 4: Heat on Monday. There hasn't been one game where both
Speaker 4: teams played pretty well, but this one kind of felt
Speaker 4: like a turning point. So are you sticking to Heat
Speaker 4: and seven or you finally ready to admit that Celtics
Speaker 4: are the better team.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Celtics are the better team. I
Speaker 3: am sticking with Heat and seven. However, the only chance
Speaker 3: the Heat have is if Jimmy Butler is close to
Speaker 3: one hundred percent and we the audience will know, So
Speaker 3: I don't want to spend ton of time on it here.
Speaker 3: The audience will know by the time they hear this,
Speaker 3: how Jimmy Butler looks like. Listen, Jimmy Butler played just
Speaker 3: one half of Game three, played Game four, but was
Speaker 3: nothing like himself. Didn't get to the free throw line,
Speaker 3: had six or eight points. The Heat struggled too much
Speaker 3: to score to be able to survive Jimmy Butler at
Speaker 3: this level, and by the way, Tyler Hero didn't play
Speaker 3: Game four. I do think it's noteworthy that there has
Speaker 3: been one half this entire series. The Heat were at
Speaker 3: full strength the first half of Game three. Kyle Lowry
Speaker 3: was back, Hero played, Jimmy Butler played that half, and
Speaker 3: the Heat won that half by fifteen points. I think
Speaker 3: that's noteworthy. Now, I want to give you credit for something.
Speaker 3: You have been big on time Lord on Robert Williams.
Speaker 4: And he is a factor.
Speaker 3: Well, it is not lost on me that the only
Speaker 3: game this series that Bam has looked like an All
Speaker 3: NBA center was the one game Robert Williams miss. With
Speaker 3: that said, I wouldn't be shocked if Robert Williams misses
Speaker 3: Game five or miss his Game six. He's been in
Speaker 3: out of lineup the entire postseason, so injuries are obviously
Speaker 3: a huge factor here. I'm not gonna use injuries as
Speaker 3: an excuse with the caveat of if the best player
Speaker 3: on a team gets hurt, that kind of removes the
Speaker 3: pick I picked Grizzlies over at Warriors. Nobody threw that
Speaker 3: in my face because John missed the final three games
Speaker 3: of a series. If Giannis had gone down, not Middleton,
Speaker 3: nobody'd be like Nick, you picked Giannis to make the finals.
Speaker 3: If the best player on a team goes down. Now,
Speaker 3: Jimmy Butler is gonna play Game five. I'm sure what's
Speaker 3: he gonna look like. You guys already will know this.
Speaker 3: We're recording a few hours for the game, so we'll
Speaker 3: discuss this more next week, when hopefully we've gotten to
Speaker 3: a seventh game in this series. We'll find out, all right,
Speaker 3: what's next?
Speaker 4: Rob Pickens the scene with the next GMS, Rob Polinka,
Speaker 4: Rob Pelinka.
Speaker 3: Dickens, go ahead, You're fine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Rob Polinka was seen with GM with next GM Sean
Speaker 4: Marks at the combine. Yep. Maybe they were discussing your
Speaker 4: old Russ Kyrie trade.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: And the Lakers' coaching situation was so bad by the
Speaker 4: last show we couldn't even really discuss it. Yeah, seems
Speaker 4: like Legm has his hands full. Uh huh, But what
Speaker 4: would you like to see first? The Russ move or
Speaker 4: the Doc move?
Speaker 3: Okay, you know how I wouldn't talk about the Lakers
Speaker 3: on the last show. I'm not telling the Lakers on
Speaker 3: this show either. You guys keep putting the Lakers in
Speaker 3: the show. I am not interested in talking about the
Speaker 3: Lakers in their present form. Mad They're still the idea
Speaker 3: that Doc Rivers is even on the list. Doc Rivers
Speaker 3: has a job, and why do you want Doc Rivers?
Speaker 3: And then Phil Jackson advising him to keep Russ. I
Speaker 3: don't like any of it. I don't like that Lebron
Speaker 3: James just made his record eighteenth All NBA team and
Speaker 3: he's playing for this franchise that is just a total mess.
Speaker 3: So I'm not you call them GM. You put it
Speaker 3: in the rundown because people expect me to talk Lakers.
Speaker 3: I am not interested in talking Lakers. Next topic. Okay,
Speaker 3: well stop putting it in the show.
Speaker 4: Well, you won't enjoy this any much more. But odds
Speaker 4: or the Warriors will win this series by the time
Speaker 4: you record our next show. If Steph win's another title
Speaker 4: with al Katie or a real number two player, it's
Speaker 4: a really big deal. The Warriors will be an all
Speaker 4: time dynasty. Steph probably moves up in your top fifty list.
Speaker 4: How much of this? How much is on the line
Speaker 4: in terms of NBA history? If the Warriors win.
Speaker 3: Oh well, listen, everything you said there is true. If
Speaker 3: they win, it to me moves Steph to a clear
Speaker 3: number two player of his generation. It moves him past
Speaker 3: Durant and at least for the time being past you honest, because.
Speaker 4: So he's not past Durant right now? Is what's your name?
Speaker 3: I Going into the year, I would have said no.
Speaker 3: Going into the year, I would have said because Steph
Speaker 3: two years since Durant left, missed the playoffs, missed the playoffs,
Speaker 3: looked like he wasn't gonna make another NBA finals. Durant.
Speaker 3: You know, Steph had more regular season MVPs, Durant had
Speaker 3: the finals MVPs. When they played together, it looked like
Speaker 3: Durant was the better player. But if Steph wins a
Speaker 3: title before Durant got there and after Durant leaves, the
Speaker 3: fact that Steph, if they make the finals this year,
Speaker 3: will have during this run since Steve Kerr took over,
Speaker 3: have never lost before the finals. Since Steve has gotten there,
Speaker 3: they've lost two series. One they lost to the greatest
Speaker 3: player ever due to the greatest three game stretch of
Speaker 3: basketball ever, Lebron James. He went forty one sixteen and seven,
Speaker 3: and then forty one nine to eleven, and then he
Speaker 3: had the triple double in game seven, twenty nine to
Speaker 3: eleven and ten. I think to win twenty seven eleven
Speaker 3: ten to win the title. I don't hold that against Steph.
Speaker 3: You're up against the greatest player ever, has the greatest
Speaker 3: three game stretch ever. And the other title you lose
Speaker 3: was when Durant popped his achilles and Clay blew out
Speaker 3: his knee. If they win the title this year, it's
Speaker 3: an unbelievable stretch. Now there's the two years in the
Speaker 3: middle of it, when they don't make the playoffs during
Speaker 3: those two years. It's spelt to me like, Okay, you
Speaker 3: know Durant those two years missed one year because he
Speaker 3: was out.
Speaker 4: With the achilles, basically missed this year.
Speaker 3: Well and this year. But last year was unbelievable in
Speaker 3: that series against Giannis and the Bucks. You couldn't put
Speaker 3: that on Durant. But Steph, given that what happened with
Speaker 3: Durant this year, swept in round one. If Steph with
Speaker 3: a great supporting cast, but as you mentioned, not a
Speaker 3: great number two. Jordan Pool's a one way player.
Speaker 4: Clays A Shelby and Wiggins at this point that's his
Speaker 4: number two. It seems like maybe, well.
Speaker 3: Andrew Wiggins is the second best in this series, has
Speaker 3: been the second best all around guy because Draymond's all defense,
Speaker 3: Pool is all offense. Clay is not the same and
Speaker 3: so yes, like Steph Curry, it was prior to this
Speaker 3: year the point my point to be this. Prior to
Speaker 3: this year, it was a real debate greater all time
Speaker 3: Steph or kd if before this year it was a debate.
Speaker 3: And if at the end of this year, Katie's swept
Speaker 3: in around one and Steph wins the title, that's got
Speaker 3: to sway it. Four rings, six finals appearances quickly, Guys
Speaker 3: with the league MVP who have been to six finals,
Speaker 3: it is Coozy, Russell, Kareem Magic, Michael Shaq, Kobe lebron I,
Speaker 3: might a Duncan. That's the full list. If Steph adds
Speaker 3: himself with that list, yeah, is he top ten all time?
Speaker 3: Probably not, but banging on the door his second best
Speaker 3: player of his generation. If they finished this off, he
Speaker 3: might be second best player of his generation for the
Speaker 3: time being. If they just make the finals, we'll be
Speaker 3: right back.
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Speaker 4: Maybe I was irritated because my alarm didn't wake me
Speaker 4: up on time? No, no, no, did you have any idea
Speaker 4: that if you set a timer on the clock app
Speaker 4: and you don't like reset it and you leave it open,
Speaker 4: your alarm does not go off? And if you think
Speaker 4: that I'm lying, test the theory tomorrow with your job.
Speaker 3: Okay, you always just jump to And if you think
Speaker 3: I'm lying, I don't think.
Speaker 4: Because I used to lie a lot once upon a.
Speaker 3: Time, I understand that I don't think you're lying. I
Speaker 3: think that you are. You have now gotten to the
Speaker 3: level where you are blaming Menlo Park, California and the
Speaker 3: late Steve Jobs. The fact that you have for the
Speaker 3: I don't know the last decade of your life overslept like.
Speaker 4: Maybe like maybe, no? What BS is when my alarm
Speaker 4: what I am a thousand and zero when my alarm.
Speaker 3: Goes I'm a thousand.
Speaker 4: No, I am quick like when my alarm goes off.
Speaker 4: I don't oversleep. That's that's just the fact.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, then I if I were you, didn't I
Speaker 3: buy you a plug in the wall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was using an iPhone eight, which is
Speaker 4: that alarm wasn't very her life.
Speaker 3: Why don't you use that as a backup if you're
Speaker 3: undefeated when an alarm goes off. If I were you,
Speaker 3: I would make sure the alarm always goes off.
Speaker 4: I've got a point to prove. I got you. I
Speaker 4: will set it up. I will set it.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey new running tally and now demand has done it.
Speaker 3: This is show twenty two. How many shows do we
Speaker 3: get to before the damn dastardly iPhone screws him again
Speaker 3: and he's a little late for the show prep meeting.
Speaker 3: Let's see, let's just see. I'm gonna say we don't
Speaker 3: get to show thirty one. Okay, I hope you proved
Speaker 3: me wrong. Are you ready to go? Let's have like
Speaker 3: seven away, that'd be nine away. Nobody said you're twenty
Speaker 3: two to thirty one. No, listen, it might be a
Speaker 3: thousand and zero at waking up? Can he count to
Speaker 3: a thousand? I'm sure? All right, let's go. When are
Speaker 3: we starting?
Speaker 4: All NBA teams were announced. Joka's got first team and
Speaker 4: then b got ann out second. So yeah, you got
Speaker 4: your wishes kind.
Speaker 3: Of yeah, exactly, that was important to me.
Speaker 4: Lebron made thirdeam. I'm sure you have major issues with this,
Speaker 4: and you know, considering how bitter you are, you don't
Speaker 4: even have a vote. Huh, So what would you fix
Speaker 4: about it? What would you make it right about this
Speaker 4: year's NBA All NBA Team?
Speaker 3: All right, so a little nick makes it right with
Speaker 3: the All NBA team since I don't have a vote,
Speaker 3: but I'm about to have a vote, and I'll tell
Speaker 3: you why in just a moment. So I do like
Speaker 3: that they kept to just one center. Fifty three of
Speaker 3: the one hundred voters. By the way I crunch the
Speaker 3: numbers on this, voted Jokic and Embiid both first team.
Speaker 3: But despite that, in biding up being second team, I
Speaker 3: would have had Himbiid first team in Jokic second team.
Speaker 3: But it's fine.
Speaker 4: I think that was a secret honest of course.
Speaker 3: But overall, the first team. They did a really good job.
Speaker 3: Luca makes first team, which, by the way, Lucas played
Speaker 3: four years. He has three first Team All nbas Wild
Speaker 3: demontse That is as many as Kyrie, Dame and Russ
Speaker 3: combined combined. Kyrie's never been first Team All NBA, Dame's
Speaker 3: only been at once, Russ has been at twice. That
Speaker 3: is one less first Team All NBA. What a stat Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's one less First Team All NBA than Chris Paul
Speaker 3: has in his career than Steph Curry has in his career.
Speaker 3: It is the same number of first Team All NBA's
Speaker 3: Kawhi Leonard has and Lucas twenty three years old. So
Speaker 3: great job, Luke. A great job by them in that regard.
Speaker 3: The I think in general, the voters did a good job.
Speaker 3: I would have had Lebron's second team and Demarta Rosen
Speaker 3: third team, but that's listen, the team missed the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I didn't like. Nine of the All NBA voters left
Speaker 3: Lebron off their ballot entirely. That says Patty. I understand
Speaker 3: the team was bad. He averaged thirty points, eight rebound,
Speaker 3: six assists. Nobody in league history that as those numbers
Speaker 3: has not been at least second team. To leave him
Speaker 3: off your ballot seems silly, But that's not the issue.
Speaker 3: Here's the reason why I say I might get a vote.
Speaker 3: You know who got one vote for an All NBA team?
Speaker 3: Who's a star that has no business being on the
Speaker 3: All NBA team this year? And who would make me
Speaker 3: the angriest that they got a vote? You have a
Speaker 3: guess someone we've talked about a lot on this show.
Speaker 4: It's right, No, James hard Draymond nom no.
Speaker 3: Worse than any of that. Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 4: Oh damn it.
Speaker 3: Someone voted Kyrie Irving All NBA this year. Now the
Speaker 3: the votes are public. We don't yet have the list yet,
Speaker 3: but we will. Someone make an argument that that person
Speaker 3: shouldn't lose their vote. No, I'm dead, I'm deadly serious.
Speaker 3: Why should they not lose their vote? Of Yeah, he
Speaker 3: played twenty nine Yeah, he played twenty nine games. He's
Speaker 3: the biggest reason Harden wanted out. He was he was,
Speaker 3: he was the opposite of good for his team. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a and even if he was, even if he
Speaker 3: had just missed twenty nine games, because he's Dame Lillard.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, miss twenty nine games played twenty nine games,
Speaker 3: Dame played twenty nine games, nobody's voting for him, and
Speaker 3: Dame e Lee's team got like, so I'm serious that
Speaker 3: person should lose their vote. And I assume I am
Speaker 3: the next person on the NBA's list that's gonna get
Speaker 3: a vote, so that you come to me. So that's
Speaker 3: my big In general, I actually think the all NBA
Speaker 3: voters did a really nice job. I might have, you know,
Speaker 3: made the argument Jimmy Butler should have gotten the final
Speaker 3: because he was eligible at guard or forward, that he
Speaker 3: should have gotten the final guard spot over Trey Young
Speaker 3: but in or the final forward spot over Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 3: But in general, I think the all NBA voters did
Speaker 3: a really nice job with it. But Kyle, the one
Speaker 3: person vote for Kyrie Irving, to me, that's indefensible. The
Speaker 3: guy missed fifty three games. It was the biggest reason
Speaker 3: the next season imploded. It's just outrageous. All right, what
Speaker 3: are we doing now?
Speaker 4: What game are we that is? That's pretty bad?
Speaker 3: Okay, let's play, sir.
Speaker 4: What's the bigger red flag? Rogers not at the OTAs
Speaker 4: or Kyler not at the OTAs.
Speaker 3: Oh, Kyler for sure. Rogers been in the league damn
Speaker 3: near twenty years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I figured he's got some time of senior Yeah.
Speaker 3: Are fifteen plus years. I understand he doesn't have Davante,
Speaker 3: but he knows the receiver, he knows the offense Kyler.
Speaker 3: To me, that's about the contract. I personally would be
Speaker 3: very hesitant to give Kyler this contract. He wants Kyler
Speaker 3: not being at the OTAs would concern me if I
Speaker 3: were the Cardinals. All Right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Okay, who's the worst? Liar? Tyreek saying Tula has got
Speaker 4: a crazy arm or Belichick will pick the offensive coordinator
Speaker 4: when we get to it.
Speaker 3: Oh, Tyreek, listen Belichick, I Belichick, I seem I believe. Actually,
Speaker 3: I don't think he thinks the titles are super important.
Speaker 3: He never really has. I also don't think he has
Speaker 3: great options. He's had Josh McDaniels there for so many
Speaker 3: years in a row. I think this is kind of
Speaker 3: putting him in a rough spot. He's gonna let Matt
Speaker 3: Patrician Joe Judge battle it out, or maybe one of
Speaker 3: his sons battle it out. Tyreek, though having to lie
Speaker 3: about going from Mahomes to Tua, it listens.
Speaker 4: Its like picture of Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just right. Yeah, Tyreek got the money, he
Speaker 3: got the location. I'm sure Tyreek will have decent numbers
Speaker 3: because they'll do a lot of like screenpack and short passes.
Speaker 3: But Tua is not good. Tua does not have a
Speaker 3: good arm. And it's going from Patrick Mahomes tou. If
Speaker 3: you just if you were going from Matt Ryan to
Speaker 3: to it'd be like, ooh, this rough. But he made
Speaker 3: this choice. But of course he's got to lie about it,
Speaker 3: so I mean it is Tyreek is lying. Tyreek also
Speaker 3: at the end of one of these quotes said no homo,
Speaker 3: which like, bro, like, I'm not gonna make it the
Speaker 3: biggest deal.
Speaker 4: In the world.
Speaker 3: But you're a grown man and it's twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: and you're at a press conference. Yeah, I mean, it's
Speaker 3: not like he was caught on you know what I
Speaker 3: mean saying it to a friend, which, again, you're a
Speaker 3: grown man. But to have the lack of awareness that
Speaker 3: at a press conference Mike's in your face to drop
Speaker 3: a quote no homo onot, it's like, come on.
Speaker 4: Man, that's high school culture right there.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's like embarrassing high school culture, like you got
Speaker 3: to be better than that, all right, what's next?
Speaker 4: Predict a trade partner for one? DeAndre Ayton or Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3: These are both hard. I'm just gonna be totally honest.
Speaker 3: They're both eight and will have plenty of suitors out there.
Speaker 3: It's hard for him because it's hard to narrow it
Speaker 3: down to one, because I think a lot of teams
Speaker 3: would like eight and if they could get it. Young
Speaker 3: was the number one pick of a draft showed you
Speaker 3: last year, not this year, but last year in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: He could be something of a force now unless you
Speaker 3: have Other people have said this in their right that
Speaker 3: unless you have Embiid or Jokic, does it make sense
Speaker 3: to pay a center thirty plus million dollars when you
Speaker 3: can get a Kavan Looney making almost nothing to give
Speaker 3: you sixty percent of the production?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: What I mean is that I'm not certain, but there'll
Speaker 3: be teams that want him. Russ is in a different situation.
Speaker 3: My gut tells me if I have to pick one
Speaker 3: trade partner, I think it's the Knicks. The Knicks have
Speaker 3: some contracts they want to get off of, like Evan
Speaker 3: forty A and Alec Burks. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 3: get any super They're not. They're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to trade for Donovan this summer. They're gonna want to
Speaker 3: put asses in the seats and keep their cap. That
Speaker 3: would help them clean up their cap for future years
Speaker 3: because Russ's contract is expiring. But now, would it be
Speaker 3: a one team trade or a three team trade? I
Speaker 3: don't know. Some people had postulated the Hornets, but Brusard
Speaker 3: has said, and I trust him when he's reporting on this,
Speaker 3: the Hornets are not actually interested. I do believe Russ
Speaker 3: is going to be traded, and I would if I
Speaker 3: had to pick one team, I would pick the Knicks.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna be hard work. Luckily, the Lakers have
Speaker 3: one of the worst gams in basketball, Rob Blinko. In
Speaker 3: the case, you guys tricked me and talking about the Lakers,
Speaker 3: like I wasn't gonna talk about the Lakers and you
Speaker 3: tricked me into doing it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've actually talked about the Lakers a couple
Speaker 4: of times.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, First of all, up the what it was? Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, what's let's okay, go ahead, what's next?
Speaker 4: What's the better fight? Canelo Triple G three or Barkley
Speaker 4: versus Warrior fans.
Speaker 3: It's definitely Barkley versus the Warrior fans, and Charles Barkley
Speaker 3: is a great example and other people should learn from it,
Speaker 3: which is this, I know everyone is all terrified of
Speaker 3: cancel culture these days, and oh, you're not allowed to
Speaker 3: say anything anymore. Charles Barkley's stance of I'm going to
Speaker 3: act the way I've always acted and never acknowledged the
Speaker 3: criticism is the best stance possible. If you don't say
Speaker 3: anything that's actually truly awful, but it's just uncouth or
Speaker 3: slightly non pc for the moment. What you don't like that?
Speaker 3: I said, I'm sorry, Hey, Nicki Minaj said in a
Speaker 3: song and then spelled it. She said, Oh, you probably
Speaker 3: can't even spell it.
Speaker 2: Co U t H.
Speaker 4: I knew exactly how to spell it. Oh, okay, I
Speaker 4: know how.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's you just don't think it's a
Speaker 3: word people use.
Speaker 4: That was the first time I've heard it, which is okay.
Speaker 3: Oh, but you knew how to spell it. It is
Speaker 3: like you knew what thirty one minus twenty two was.
Speaker 3: But regardless, Oh okay, thought were on episode. Point is this,
Speaker 3: that was quick math, good job by you. Point is this,
Speaker 3: Barkley turned around to Warriors fans and said, keep messing
Speaker 3: with me. I'm gonna bleep your I'm gonna go to
Speaker 3: your house and bleep your mama. And nobody was like,
Speaker 3: oh my, My'm dying. That's laughing because it's Chuck. And
Speaker 3: there's a thread right now which is the best thread
Speaker 3: on Twitter of a thousand great Barkley moments. Everyone just
Speaker 3: loves him. The lesson, as always is if you don't
Speaker 3: really do anything wrong, apologizing doesn't help. And the other
Speaker 3: lesson is you can be the allowed. How offensive you
Speaker 3: are allowed to be is direct correlated with how funny
Speaker 3: you are. A slightly offensive joke that is not funny
Speaker 3: at all, we'll get you in so much more trouble
Speaker 3: then a very offensive joke that is wildly hilarious. Right,
Speaker 3: and Barkley has walked that line better than just about anybody. Okay,
Speaker 3: that is not the end of the show, but that
Speaker 3: is the end of the sports part of today's show.
Speaker 3: So if you don't want my thoughts on the tragedy
Speaker 3: in Texas, I would ask you to join us again
Speaker 3: on Sunday for the latest in the NBA of fifty
Speaker 3: best players last fifty years and join us again. That's
Speaker 3: coming Tuesday for episode twenty three, which is one more
Speaker 3: than twenty two demandsay of this show if you would
Speaker 3: like my thoughts on what just happened in Texas, that
Speaker 3: is next. All right, welcome back in What's Right with
Speaker 3: Nick Wright podcasting YouTube show. We are as recording this
Speaker 3: right around twenty four hours removed from nineteen second, third
Speaker 3: and fourth graders being murdered while at school outside of
Speaker 3: Texas and Demons was sitting with me in the kitchen
Speaker 3: when the news came across my Twitter feed and I
Speaker 3: I don't think he's ever heard me. I audibly gasped
Speaker 3: and started to cry. And I'm not a big crier.
Speaker 3: You've probably seen me cry. I don't know four times
Speaker 3: in the time, you know, in your life. Four yeah,
Speaker 3: four might be high. And one of them was when
Speaker 3: I was trying to cold turkey quit cigarettes and nicotine patches,
Speaker 3: and I did it at dinner. I just started crying
Speaker 3: one day because I just I don't know what was
Speaker 3: going on with my body. Was like, no, you need
Speaker 3: these nickeotine patches. I'm not a big crier, but it's
Speaker 3: just the never ending, just cavalcade of horror that we've
Speaker 3: been living through. Plus the fact that my youngest daughter
Speaker 3: is the age of these kids. And so there's something
Speaker 3: I want to say about the big picture gun discussion
Speaker 3: in this country, and then I want to talk about
Speaker 3: what actually happened in Texas. The big picture gun discussion
Speaker 3: is it's just so wildly disingenuous and dishonest that it
Speaker 3: is for me impossible to talk about nearly impossible, because
Speaker 3: it all comes downright. People say it's Second Amendment, and
Speaker 3: it's essentially people argue it is an inherently American right
Speaker 3: to be able to arm yourself against a tyrannical government.
Speaker 3: And if people who are the most ardent Second Amendment
Speaker 3: supporters actually believed that, then I would say, you know what,
Speaker 3: I don't look at things that way, but I respect
Speaker 3: your opinion. If they truly believed the government cannot be
Speaker 3: trusted and because of that we must be able to
Speaker 3: arm ourselves. That is what America was built on, fighting
Speaker 3: an oppressive government, from you know, England to now all
Speaker 3: of it. I will listen to that, but that never
Speaker 3: holds up under scrutiny because we all know that even
Speaker 3: as armed as we are as Americans, if the federal government,
Speaker 3: if a president ordered the United States military to attack
Speaker 3: the most heavily armed American city, it would wipe it
Speaker 3: out in twenty four hours. The federal government has stealth
Speaker 3: bombers and nuclear weapons and tanks and weaponry, which I
Speaker 3: don't care how armed you are, your small munitions are
Speaker 3: not going to hold up. So that part it falls
Speaker 3: apart initially, but then one could argue, Okay, so we're
Speaker 3: not going to be able to take on the US military,
Speaker 3: but we should be able to protect ourselves against over
Speaker 3: zealous agents of the state. Well, the most direct first
Speaker 3: line of defense for the state is police officers. They
Speaker 3: are agents of the state that are literally deputized by
Speaker 3: the state or city, that carry weapons and are allowed
Speaker 3: to use them in a way most Americans are not.
Speaker 3: And the reason that I find it so difficult to
Speaker 3: have discussions with the vast majority of Second Amendment fetishists
Speaker 3: is because they almost always not always, but the vast
Speaker 3: majority I have come in contact with are the same
Speaker 3: exact people who whenever there is a police shooting, side
Speaker 3: with the police. They they are not worried about a
Speaker 3: tyrannical government, because what could be more tyrannical than an
Speaker 3: agent of the government killing a person in the street
Speaker 3: with no judge, no jury, no trial. And the same
Speaker 3: people that argue we must be able to carry weapons
Speaker 3: of war because the government might come after us are
Speaker 3: the same people that say should have complied, should shouldn't
Speaker 3: have run? Was he armed? All of it? And so
Speaker 3: in my in my opinion, if you want, if I
Speaker 3: will listen to someone who is an ardent Second Amendment defender,
Speaker 3: but not if they all so are a thin blue line,
Speaker 3: blue lives matter, anti police brutality, protest person, and they're
Speaker 3: almost the Venn diagram of that is damn near one circle.
Speaker 3: That is, the the armed agents of the state in
Speaker 3: my lifetime that you have theoretically wanted to be to
Speaker 3: have some level of defense against are certain elements within
Speaker 3: the police force, and that the people who want us
Speaker 3: armed never in my experience, side with the civilian in
Speaker 3: that case. So I just don't think there's a logical consistency.
Speaker 3: That's the big picture element of it. That's the macro.
Speaker 3: The micro is I I think is important. And this
Speaker 3: is again this is again like gruesome to a degree,
Speaker 3: but I think it's worth discussing, which is I think
Speaker 3: people need to think about and process what actually happened
Speaker 3: after those nineteen children were murdered. They're little kids, so
Speaker 3: they don't have ID and many of them, I mean,
Speaker 3: they were shot with weapons of war and many of
Speaker 3: them reportedly were shot multiple times or shot in the face.
Speaker 3: So what you have is and this is similar with
Speaker 3: what happened in Sandy Hook, because in my in the
Speaker 3: last ten years, we have had two we have a
Speaker 3: countless school shootings, but two massacres of babies, of little
Speaker 3: little kids. The way to identify the victims is a
Speaker 3: process of elimination of well who made it out, pair
Speaker 3: them up with the parents, and then, as what happened
Speaker 3: in Sandy Hook, the parents who are left your kids died,
Speaker 3: But then you have to match those parents up with
Speaker 3: the dead kid. So yesterday they did DNA samples for
Speaker 3: the parents and some of the parents had to go
Speaker 3: identify those their babies bodies. And we choose to live
Speaker 3: in this it is active choices that we as a
Speaker 3: unique nation of mate where for the first time in
Speaker 3: modern world history, or at least in this contractions, they
Speaker 3: world history, but the first time ever in American history.
Speaker 3: As of last year, the number one cause of death
Speaker 3: among children was firearms, not car accidents. It's unfathomable. Now.
Speaker 3: Part of that's because car accidents have gotten the cars
Speaker 3: have gotten safer. That's good. And of course part of
Speaker 3: that is suicide. Those are firearm deaths, but those are
Speaker 3: tragic and of itself in a totally different way. And
Speaker 3: one does wonder if firearms weren't so readily available, would
Speaker 3: some of the kids not have made that decision, Would
Speaker 3: they have gone another route? Would they have attempted suicide
Speaker 3: in a different way that maybe they fail and then
Speaker 3: get on track. But we we're the only place in
Speaker 3: the world this happens, and we all know it.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 3: There is not the political will to stop it, and
Speaker 3: so we just it's not unimaginable, it's not unbelievable, and
Speaker 3: it is terrifying. And I use that word on purpose
Speaker 3: because I I've said this for but I live in
Speaker 3: New York City, theoretically the number one target in this
Speaker 3: country for geopolitical terrorism. It was obviously the main target
Speaker 3: at nine to eleven. It has been targeted before. You know,
Speaker 3: I used to live in Kansas City, the odds of
Speaker 3: being the victim of a foreign terror attack in Kanasity
Speaker 3: not nearly the same as in New York City. But
Speaker 3: I've never once spent one day had one moment in
Speaker 3: New York where I was like, ah, I'm afraid of
Speaker 3: being a victim of a foreign terrorist attack. Now maybe
Speaker 3: that's because we're winning the war on terror, who knows.
Speaker 3: But we've spent a lot of time and money and
Speaker 3: treasure and human lives fighting it. We've made it a
Speaker 3: very high priority. Meanwhile, we are just giving up the
Speaker 3: fight on domestic terror. And I don't mean domestic terror
Speaker 3: in the form of what happened in Buffalo ten days ago,
Speaker 3: which was domestic terrorism because there was like a political motive.
Speaker 3: I just mean legit that I am over the last
Speaker 3: ten years of my life I have I'm no longer
Speaker 3: able to walk into a movie theater without having a
Speaker 3: moment of where's the exit, because that's a place that
Speaker 3: I know. Get shut up now. After Buffalo add grocery
Speaker 3: stores to the list, we're reminded regularly that our little kids,
Speaker 3: their schools are on the list, and it's we shouldn't
Speaker 3: be numb to the fact that it's nineteen nineteen dead babies.
Speaker 3: But it's also every single child in that school is
Speaker 3: traumatized forever in ways that will have a lasting impact
Speaker 3: on every single moment of the rest of their life,
Speaker 3: and that community is changed forever. But all of our
Speaker 3: kids are victimized here. All of our kids live under
Speaker 3: this specter of this so much so that they practice
Speaker 3: for it. And there are so many it grisly tweets.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 3: I Lady Aaron Alberti tweeted, I told my third grader
Speaker 3: about the shooting. She replied, third grader, same age, Diana. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we had a lockdown drill today. There aren't very many
Speaker 3: hiding places in our room. The good ones all get
Speaker 3: taken in like three seconds. And then Lillia writes her
Speaker 3: daughter walked out. I told Diora, our older daughter, about
Speaker 3: what happened yesterday. She didn't seem to blink. She hadn't
Speaker 3: heard about it. I told her. She was not surprised.
Speaker 3: And this is the country we've built for our children,
Speaker 3: and I, uh, it feels unsustainable. It feels at times
Speaker 3: like we are ripping ourselves apart at the seams. We
Speaker 3: see that we're doing it, and we just keep walking
Speaker 3: towards more disaster, and it took two mentally unstable, hateful,
Speaker 3: eighteen year old kids themselves two. I don't know ruin
Speaker 3: two communities change the lives of forty families or thirty
Speaker 3: families directly and indirectly change the live of five hundred more.
Speaker 3: The ease with which it can be done, and the
Speaker 3: power that we just can just seede to anybody. It's
Speaker 3: just not a it's not a sustainable model for a
Speaker 3: thriving society. And I don't know where we go from here.
Speaker 3: I don't have the answer. I have some ideas, but
Speaker 3: they're all quite radical, and I'm not going to get
Speaker 3: into them here. I do know that we really owe
Speaker 3: our kids not only an apology, but a level of amazement,
Speaker 3: because I am telling you right now, if any workplace
Speaker 3: in America got shot up with the regularity schools did,
Speaker 3: us adults would be demanding change and a lot of
Speaker 3: us wouldn't go anymore. And our brave children march themselves
Speaker 3: into school every day knowing this happens. Says it's part
Speaker 3: of doing business, part of growing up in America, and
Speaker 3: hopefully if it comes to my school, I'm one of
Speaker 3: the kids that finds one of the good hiding spots
Speaker 3: and it's revolting. I'll talk to you guys next week.