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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode to twenty
Speaker 2: nine as I send out the link for the show.
Speaker 2: Huge show today after a massive weekend, so let's just
Speaker 2: get right into it.
Speaker 3: What missed the cut from today's show.
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark goes number one in the WNBA draft of
Speaker 2: the Indiana Fever. Travis Swift and Travis Swift, What a
Speaker 2: slip there? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey go to Coachella
Speaker 2: and friend of the Pod Danny Parkins his book Pipeline
Speaker 2: to the Pros is out today.
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Speaker 2: Danny parkins Ben kap If you're a fan of this
Speaker 2: show and a fan of basketball, I strongly encourage.
Speaker 3: You to buy it.
Speaker 2: And honestly, even if you're a fan of this show
Speaker 2: and a fan of basketball and you're like, but I
Speaker 2: don't read books, buy it anyway. It's twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2: Just buy it anyway. The revenue, the revenue goes. Danny
Speaker 2: didn't talk about this as much when he was on
Speaker 2: the show, but while Danny was writing this book, his
Speaker 2: brother lost a battle after fighting valiantly to glioblastone, which
Speaker 2: formed brain cancer. So a lot of the money that
Speaker 2: generate from this book is going to go to brain
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Speaker 3: It's also an awesome book.
Speaker 2: Jeff van Gundy is prominently involved, Mike buden Ulter Bred,
Speaker 2: Stevens ring Vogel, Tom Thibodeau, Sam Presty, Greg Popovich, a
Speaker 2: lot of big names. So by Danny Parkins book today
Speaker 2: it is the opening day. Want to move it up
Speaker 2: those charts as hot as far as we can. Also
Speaker 2: on today's show, we had quite the weekend because I
Speaker 2: had it's called a vow renewal, but it appeared to
Speaker 2: be a wedding because we didn't have an official wedding
Speaker 2: eleven years ago. The very quick version of it is
Speaker 2: to Bonse it was maybe I'm trying to think of him,
Speaker 2: the best weekend of my life. Certainly, I think it
Speaker 2: was the best weekend for us collectively as a family.
Speaker 3: We'll talk more about it later, but you go ahead.
Speaker 2: You were prominently involved, gave got the speeches, kicked off
Speaker 2: and crushed it. So your thoughts on the wedding weekend
Speaker 2: that we just had.
Speaker 4: Oh, it was amazing. It was amazing, and just being
Speaker 4: able to see all those people that I haven't seen
Speaker 4: or maybe you haven't seen in a long time. Do
Speaker 4: think it was very galvanizing and brought of everybody closer
Speaker 4: and it was like it wasn't even my wedding, and
Speaker 4: it was one of the greatest weekends of my life
Speaker 4: as well. I I'm still feeling so energized from it,
Speaker 4: and it was just good to see everybody and thank
Speaker 4: you for having me be one of your groomsmen. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: the boot on while I was standing up there, But
Speaker 4: it's perfectly fine. Like I said, it was a nice
Speaker 4: little touch to the wedding or a nice little touch
Speaker 4: to the outfit, should I say, But yeah, no, it
Speaker 4: was amazing.
Speaker 3: It was great, so unbelievable weekend.
Speaker 2: Danny Parkins, who I mentioned before, was another, was co
Speaker 2: best man along with Demanse. So here's what I want
Speaker 2: to do, because today is such a big sports day.
Speaker 2: If you have any wedding, vow, renewal, personal life, weekend
Speaker 2: thoughts or questions, that's what we'll do in the C block.
Speaker 2: So I want to respect the audience's busy time because
Speaker 2: we have an awards ballot, we have the playing games,
Speaker 2: we have all that.
Speaker 3: We'll do all of that for the first couple.
Speaker 2: Segments of the show, and then we'll do all things
Speaker 2: wedding related, weekend related, vow renewal related in.
Speaker 3: The sea block.
Speaker 2: So let's get to the top of the show and
Speaker 2: we have win or go home basketball tonight, and then
Speaker 2: also win and maybe have to go home basketball tonight.
Speaker 3: Demands lead us off.
Speaker 4: All right, So it seems like everybody in the media
Speaker 4: has got a really bad case of galaxy brain. Everybody's
Speaker 4: just pitching the idea that LA should intentionally lose to
Speaker 4: try to face OKC in round one. But do you
Speaker 4: think that's LA's best shot considering they haven't beaten Denver
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty two, but also Denver has also been
Speaker 4: playing their worst basketball over the last month and a
Speaker 4: half or so. But yeah, are you confident that this
Speaker 4: would be yet another Category two take by you? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's address all of this. The idea that
Speaker 2: the Lakers should throw this game to get on the
Speaker 2: opposite side of the bracket of the as the Nuggets
Speaker 2: is wrong on every account. Okay, it's wrong on this
Speaker 2: account because if the way the play in worked was
Speaker 2: there is no nine to ten and the seven eight
Speaker 2: game is just four, the winner gets the seven and
Speaker 2: the loser gets the eight, then I would at least
Speaker 2: engage in the thought exercise of it. Where you're locked
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, it's just for seeding, then I would
Speaker 2: engage in the thought exercise of it. I still would
Speaker 2: not endorse it. More on that in a moment, but
Speaker 2: I would engage in it. But if the Lakers lose
Speaker 2: this game, which they could do by the way, the
Speaker 2: idea that they would lose it intentionally to set up
Speaker 2: a do or die game. That would be either against
Speaker 2: the Kings who swept them this year, the Kings, who
Speaker 2: for some reason, Ad has a lot of trouble with
Speaker 2: those European centers. Man, now that doesn't bode well for
Speaker 2: him against yok It's more on that in the moment.
Speaker 3: But Sabonus kills him.
Speaker 2: The Kings again, the Kings, and I know the Kings
Speaker 2: don't have Monk, they don't have hurt Her, and the
Speaker 2: Lakers would be favored. The Kings haven't played great lately,
Speaker 2: but that's a Doard eye game against a team that
Speaker 2: has beaten you every time you've played this year, or
Speaker 2: a Doord eye game against Steph Curry, who you just
Speaker 2: saw a week ago.
Speaker 3: That team can.
Speaker 2: Have the greatest shooting night in NBA history, which is
Speaker 2: what they did to you a week ago when they
Speaker 2: beat you, when they shot over forty threes and shot
Speaker 2: over sixty percent on them. The idea that you would
Speaker 2: opt into that scenario purely because you're so scared of
Speaker 2: the Nuggets is ludicrous on its face. But the other
Speaker 2: reason it's ludicrous is this, unless your only hope for
Speaker 2: making the finals is well, maybe someone on Denver will
Speaker 2: get hurt, which is a crazy reason to believe you
Speaker 2: can do it. Unless that is your hope or your plan,
Speaker 2: You've got to play them early. Flatly, there is no
Speaker 2: if ands or butts about this point that I said
Speaker 2: three weeks ago, and people thought I was going Galaxy brain,
Speaker 2: But it is any way you slice it logically sound.
Speaker 2: If you are going to have to play Denver at
Speaker 2: some point to make the NBA Finals, right now is
Speaker 2: when you want them.
Speaker 3: You win tonight, you.
Speaker 2: Will have Wednesday off, Thursday off, Friday off, and then,
Speaker 2: depending on how the bracket is set, maybe Saturday off,
Speaker 2: you will have three or four days before Game one.
Speaker 2: The way the first round is spread out, you will
Speaker 2: have two or three days between other games. Lebron is
Speaker 2: currently playing out of his mind. You are healthy, you
Speaker 2: are rolling, you have all of these things working for you.
Speaker 2: So again, you might say, Nick, the Lakers cannot beat
Speaker 2: the Nuggets, and that might be true, okay, but it's
Speaker 2: obviously not a zero percent chance. And so the question
Speaker 2: is does the chance get bigger? And this is what
Speaker 2: I've been talking about for three weeks. At what point
Speaker 2: in the postseason would you have the best chance of
Speaker 2: beating them right now? Because you know what the conference
Speaker 2: finals are every other day, and that's after thirty nine
Speaker 2: year old year twenty one. Lebron has already been in
Speaker 2: playoff mode for a month and likely exhausted. Why did
Speaker 2: the Lakers last year lose all four of those games
Speaker 2: against the Nuggets because they were all close going into
Speaker 2: the fourth, because Lebron ran out of gas.
Speaker 3: Why was that Well, part was.
Speaker 2: Because he was dealing with an injury, but another part
Speaker 2: was because it was six weeks into the playoffs. So
Speaker 2: if your goal for the Lakers is simply have the
Speaker 2: playoffs last as long as possible, then yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: want to play Denver in Round one. But if your
Speaker 2: goal for the Lakers is to have a chance to
Speaker 2: actually make the finals and win a championship. Then you
Speaker 2: have to Then the best thing you can possibly do
Speaker 2: is beat New Orleans tonight and then take Denver on
Speaker 2: and take your chances and the New Orleans. By the way,
Speaker 2: I want to talk about what this game means for
Speaker 2: Zion for a moment, because Zion has had some rough
Speaker 2: moments this year against the Lakers. What a lot of
Speaker 2: people thought was kind of the low point of his
Speaker 2: career is too strong, but of his season was that
Speaker 2: playing game against the Lakers when he had thirteen points,
Speaker 2: they got annihilated. In the twenty five minutes he was
Speaker 2: on the court, he was a minus thirty three. I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say in the plane in the nd season tournament game,
Speaker 2: I misspoke. And the other times that Zion has played
Speaker 2: this year against the Lakers, he played well once or
Speaker 2: actually played well twice even though they lost one of
Speaker 2: them got blown out. But then game eighty two, which
Speaker 2: was a big game for the Pelicans, Lebron locked him
Speaker 2: up and that was something else. Man Lebron in year
Speaker 2: twenty one, age thirty nine, guarding Zion, the athletic phenom,
Speaker 2: number one pick who should be entering his prime, Lebron
Speaker 2: having thirteen assists at halftime doing everything he wants and
Speaker 2: Zion once again looking out of his depth. There's a
Speaker 2: big moment for Zion. It's a big moment. Now flips
Speaker 2: it go ahead demands.
Speaker 4: Along with Zion playing badly or whatever. Anthony Davis has
Speaker 4: played the most games of his career in a career
Speaker 4: this year, but he's been banged up lately. Do you
Speaker 4: think that's going to be a concern going in to
Speaker 4: the play and further.
Speaker 2: So, so he's been healthy this year. The back spasms
Speaker 2: are obviously a concern because it happened at the tail
Speaker 2: end of Game eighty two. But I would expect him
Speaker 2: to I mean, he said he's gonna play. I would
Speaker 2: expect him to play. I don't think that he's going
Speaker 2: to miss this game. And whoever loses this game, obviously
Speaker 2: we'll have another chance with a home game against either
Speaker 2: Sacramento or a Golden State. But this could be a
Speaker 2: big moment for Zion and the Listen. The Pelicans, much
Speaker 2: like the Timberwolves, are trying to work in their second
Speaker 2: best player and brandon Ingram Karl Anthony Towns, and there
Speaker 2: have been some fits and starts with it. There is
Speaker 2: one more follow up, Demons, which is kind of about
Speaker 2: the Denver side of things, So let's get to that
Speaker 2: before we move on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, on the Denver side, was Wimby's upset of Denver
Speaker 4: the game of the year.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the game of the year,
Speaker 2: but it was one of the most impactful and important
Speaker 2: results and it's one of the reasons why Denver to me,
Speaker 2: is a little shaky. They win that game, they control
Speaker 2: their own destiny for the one seed. They're up seventeen
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, and the Spurs without DeVante Grahm
Speaker 2: or without Sohan, without somebody else come back and beat them.
Speaker 2: Davante Deavonte Graham obviously he did play. It was Kelten Johnson.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Daniel, and so Denver. It's not that Denver's
Speaker 2: played poorly, but Denver's had some odd losses that one
Speaker 2: in particular, and so.
Speaker 4: You think there's just a chance Denver is kind of
Speaker 4: just letting off the gas because they, you know, are
Speaker 4: very doubtful.
Speaker 2: No, because they wanted the one seed. They beat Minnesota
Speaker 2: that was supposed to lock up the one seed. Then
Speaker 2: all you gotta do is beat the damn Spurs who
Speaker 2: won twenty games this year and weren't even playing all
Speaker 2: their best players because they have such a home court
Speaker 2: advantage with that altitude and all of it. And Denver,
Speaker 2: I understand Denver rightfully so is not scared of anybody.
Speaker 2: Denver does not want the Lakers in Round one, not
Speaker 2: because they're afraid of them, because that's a pain in
Speaker 2: the ass matchup, you know what I mean, They're.
Speaker 4: Beat them to go into the second round.
Speaker 2: Little exactly right and sound no, no, no, it would be
Speaker 2: the second round you have, right, And so for all
Speaker 2: those reasons, like I'm just the Lakers need to handle
Speaker 2: their business. The other reason Lakers need to win tonight
Speaker 2: is get those extra time off.
Speaker 3: You don't want to.
Speaker 2: Play tonight, you know, you know, go all out lose it.
Speaker 2: Then you're playing in a true game seven scenario Joridi Thursday,
Speaker 2: and then starting off your postseason Sunday. You don't eat
Speaker 2: with just a couple of days. And so I think
Speaker 2: Lakers will win tonight. I think Lebron this is the
Speaker 2: first time Lebron goes into a postseason healthy since they
Speaker 2: won the title. They won the title in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, Solomon Hill had done that somersault into
Speaker 2: his ankle and he was gimpied that old post or
Speaker 2: that first round, and then Anthony Davis got hurt in
Speaker 2: that first round disaster. Twenty twenty two, they missed the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, he was wearing a walking boot shortly
Speaker 2: before the postseason demons dealing with that playanner fascia in
Speaker 2: his foot. And if you remember last year, the other
Speaker 2: story last year with the playoffs, sorry I have some
Speaker 2: in my eye was Lebron was having his worst three
Speaker 2: point shooting season in fifteen years. He had a run
Speaker 2: in the playoffs where he was like one of twenty
Speaker 2: three from three opposites going on right now where he's
Speaker 2: having the best three point shooting year of his career
Speaker 2: and Lebron the last seven games he's played he had
Speaker 2: a career high or career high season high forty. He
Speaker 2: is averaging thirty seven and ten on sixty three percent
Speaker 2: from the field, fifty one percent from three sow for
Speaker 2: those reasons like I don't know, man, it is.
Speaker 3: This is when.
Speaker 4: Were those stats who just ran off? Again? Those are
Speaker 4: for the last how long?
Speaker 2: Or was that the last the last seven games, copy
Speaker 2: Okay had thirty points, seven rebounds, ten assists, sixty three
Speaker 2: percent from the field, fifty one percent from three Well
Speaker 2: that because that includes the nine of ten from three games,
Speaker 2: and so the and so we'll we'll see. But I
Speaker 2: am I'm optimistic about the Lakers chances tonight, and and
Speaker 2: they win tonight, and we'll do a full blown Lakers
Speaker 2: Nuggets preview on Thursday.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Next, I'd head over to the East Coast. The Heat
Speaker 4: headed to the Philly in the seven eight game. Philly's favored,
Speaker 4: but emb just tweaked his knee and you count, can't count?
Speaker 4: You can count on playoff, Jimmy. Sorry, who should the
Speaker 4: Celtics be rooting for? Here? Uh, I'll tell you we
Speaker 4: want to play the Heat.
Speaker 3: You want to, so you go tell me why you
Speaker 3: want to play? You really want?
Speaker 2: Real quick, we should acknowledge it is for whoever loses
Speaker 2: this game to then lose the next game to Atlanta
Speaker 2: or Chicago. But we're crossing them out. We're saying Atlanta,
Speaker 2: Chicago's got no chance. So you're gonna play either Philly
Speaker 2: or Miami. You say you want Miami?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think I think that there's a little
Speaker 4: bit of truth to the playoff, Jimmie, but that craft
Speaker 4: that happened last year, Like, come on, I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: have these guys pop out of the world works and
Speaker 4: do all the stuff they did last year. And I
Speaker 4: do think the Celtic can get over the hump this year.
Speaker 4: They're definitely at least not lose to the Heat. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I think I think Philly with him be back, is
Speaker 4: a little dangerous. I think that he would stay healthy
Speaker 4: throughout the series. But yeah, no, I'd much I'd much
Speaker 4: rather play the Heat than than Philly.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, so be careful what you wish for there, because,
Speaker 2: by the way, I think you're right.
Speaker 4: I know Philly's playoff experience isn't isn't the best or
Speaker 4: their playoff performance should I say?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Let me just over the Let me just give you
Speaker 2: the Celtics with Tatum and Brown, what it's been like
Speaker 2: in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Okay. In twenty eighteen, they beat the Sixers four games
Speaker 3: to one.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, they lose to the Heat four games
Speaker 2: to two.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Two, they eat the Heat four to three in a
Speaker 2: game that Jimmy Butler in Game seven, had a three
Speaker 2: pointer to win the game near the buzzer and missed it.
Speaker 2: And in twenty twenty three they beat the Sixers four
Speaker 2: to three and then lose to the Heat for to three.
Speaker 2: So the Heat played them tough every time and beating
Speaker 2: them twice, the Sixers have.
Speaker 3: Never beaten them.
Speaker 2: With all that Skow and I left out sorry in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty when they lost to the Heat, they swept
Speaker 2: the Sixers in round one, so there since Tatum and
Speaker 2: Brown been together, they're three and zero in the playoffs
Speaker 2: against the Sixers and one and two against the Heat.
Speaker 2: With that said, I think you're right that Philly would
Speaker 2: that Boston would rather play Miami, especially because Miami has
Speaker 2: not looked anything like even regl you know, forget playoff Miami,
Speaker 2: anything like regular season Miami over the last.
Speaker 3: Couple of years.
Speaker 2: This year they have been They haven't shown you that gear,
Speaker 2: but the embid thing is tricky and I'm interested to
Speaker 2: see it tomorrow because his numbers have been awesome since
Speaker 2: he came back from injury, but he's left a couple
Speaker 2: of games, like he got hurt again and then came back.
Speaker 2: Injury has been such a big part of the story
Speaker 2: of his career. He seems a little heavy right now
Speaker 2: because of you know, all the time off and you
Speaker 2: can't do it.
Speaker 3: And so let me ask a different question, like I
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say a different question.
Speaker 2: I think it's because it's probably the same answer, like
Speaker 2: who are the Knicks rooting for tonight because they're gonna
Speaker 2: play the winner? And the answer that is, they're probably
Speaker 2: also rooting for Miami. Either way, whether it's Nick's heat,
Speaker 2: which is old school nineties rivalry or Nick sixers, which
Speaker 2: is a nice eighties rivalry, we're gonna get a great
Speaker 2: round one on that side of it. And if it's
Speaker 2: Boston Miami that has been the story of the Eastern
Speaker 2: Conference the last you know, gosh, twenty years, it feels
Speaker 2: like dating back to Lebron and the Big Three and
Speaker 2: all of it. Or Boston Philly, which is another all
Speaker 2: time great NBA rivalry Doctor J and Bird, So that'll
Speaker 2: be that'll be great. I think Philly has the highest
Speaker 2: upside of those teams by far. But we've never seen
Speaker 2: Embiid make Round three. We've never seen Embiid with a
Speaker 2: great playoff run, and it seems like it's always been
Speaker 2: hampered by injury, and so it's just something essentially.
Speaker 4: So it sounds like you think Philly's fans should be
Speaker 4: fairly concerned within beads, within beads health.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 2: I mean you're optimistic that he came back a couple
Speaker 2: weeks for the playoffs. But he he has it as
Speaker 2: great as his numbers are. If you've watched, there have
Speaker 2: been some concerning signs. All right, let's go on to
Speaker 2: the Warriors.
Speaker 4: All right, So the Warriors are facing two road elimination
Speaker 4: games just to make the playoffs. The first comes against Sacramento,
Speaker 4: and that one's tonight. But win or not, you've got
Speaker 4: no you've got no faith at Golden State will want
Speaker 4: to ring. How far do the Warriors have to make
Speaker 4: it through this playoff run or run it back next year?
Speaker 2: Oh that's a great question. So let's just play this out.
Speaker 2: They beat Sacramento and they beat New Orleans or the Lakers,
Speaker 2: then they would be playing. Okay, see they beat them,
Speaker 2: if they do all of that, make it round two
Speaker 2: like they did last year, but that includes, you know,
Speaker 2: upsetting the number one seed, then maybe they run it back.
Speaker 3: If they do all of that and then beat.
Speaker 2: The Clippers or the MAVs in round two and make
Speaker 2: the conference finals, then they definitely run it back. But
Speaker 2: none of that matters because they're not winning tonight. Like
Speaker 2: I'm ok I and the Kings. I understand the Kings
Speaker 2: have not been good since the injuries. I don't dispute that,
Speaker 2: But in the Warriors. After the Warriors beat the Lakers,
Speaker 2: they had it all sitting out there for him. As
Speaker 2: long as they went three and oh the rest of
Speaker 2: the way, they were gonna move up to the seven eight.
Speaker 2: They were in great position to, you know, I have
Speaker 2: two chances to win one. And what they did after
Speaker 2: that was they played a Portland team that was two
Speaker 2: and twelve in its previous fourteen, that was not tru
Speaker 2: trying to win games, and that game was tied with
Speaker 2: six minutes left. They escape with a victory and have
Speaker 2: to play STEPH thirty seven minutes to get it, and
Speaker 2: then the very next night they play a New Orleans
Speaker 2: team and get beat and now they find themselves as
Speaker 2: the ten seed going to Sacramento, where if you're a
Speaker 2: Kings fan, winning tonight and eliminating the Warriors would honestly
Speaker 2: probably be the best moment for your franchise in twenty years,
Speaker 2: even if you lose.
Speaker 3: In the next round and lose the next game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and because you get to say de moon day,
Speaker 2: because I.
Speaker 3: Think that if the Warriors lose tonight.
Speaker 4: Oh this is why we split that team up, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, the last game ever Steph Clay and Draymond together
Speaker 2: could be.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Think about that, man, that like that.
Speaker 2: Is to I don't I don't think this has gotten
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say enough coverage because we just got set.
Speaker 2: We just you know, on Friday, as of Friday evening,
Speaker 2: we thought the Warriors were going to be in the.
Speaker 3: Seventy eight potential a lot of time.
Speaker 2: I the Warriors are two and a half point favorites
Speaker 2: to night, So there's this, you know, they're slight favorites.
Speaker 2: It's not quite a coin flip according to Vegas, but
Speaker 2: it's close, right.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: There is around a coin flip's chance that the final
Speaker 2: game that Klay Thompson and Steph Curry ever play together
Speaker 2: as teammates is in ten hours.
Speaker 4: They're the biggest time, one of the.
Speaker 2: Greatest ds ever, right, Yes, one of the greatest dynasties
Speaker 2: in NBA history are.
Speaker 3: In this order.
Speaker 2: The Russell Celtics eleven titles in thirteen years. I'm doing
Speaker 2: this off the top of my head, but I'll get it.
Speaker 2: The Russell Celtics eight straight titles, eleven titles in thirteen years.
Speaker 2: They're number one with a bullet right. The second greatest
Speaker 2: dynasty ever are Jordan's Bulls six titles in eight years.
Speaker 2: The third greatest dynasty ever are the Magic and Kareem
Speaker 2: Lakers where five titles in a decade, And the fourth
Speaker 2: greatest dynasty ever are the Steph Clay Draymond Warriors where
Speaker 2: they won four rings, went to six finals in eight years.
Speaker 2: And then rounding out the top five would be the
Speaker 2: Shaq Kobe Lakers. Three straight titles, four finals overall in
Speaker 2: five years. So the greatest dynasty this league has seen
Speaker 2: since the nineties. And you could see the final last
Speaker 2: gasp of it this evening. And by the way, the
Speaker 2: other layer to that is.
Speaker 3: This, if they get cooked, not if they get cooked.
Speaker 3: If they lose.
Speaker 2: And Clay's a free agent and signs elsewhere, what does
Speaker 2: Steph do.
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: And we've talked about this before, like does Steph say
Speaker 2: and he can do whatever he wants, But does Steph
Speaker 2: prioritize the best possible chance at winning more championships.
Speaker 4: Or goes and plays with Lebron gives them a lethal shooter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's yeah, that would be Listen.
Speaker 2: I don't want Lebron to stay with the Lakers for
Speaker 2: the rest of his career, and I don't want Steph
Speaker 2: stay with the Warriors for the rest of their career.
Speaker 2: My favorite fantasy scenario is because the only way Stephen
Speaker 2: Lebron could ever team up is on like neutral ground. Like,
Speaker 2: Steph's not going to go to Lebron's teaming. Lebron's not
Speaker 2: gonna go to Steph's team. So the team that makes
Speaker 2: the most sense demand's for them to do it is
Speaker 2: the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 3: And here's why Steph is from there. His dad played there.
Speaker 2: Steph gets to do a little homecoming, and Lebron gets
Speaker 2: to be like, hey, Michael Jordan ran this team for
Speaker 2: twenty years, made the playoffs once, and we're a trash franchise.
Speaker 2: All come here at forty years old and show you
Speaker 2: what winning basketball looks like. That's a dream scenario, not
Speaker 2: gonna happen. But the point is, does you know what
Speaker 2: is Steph? What matters the most? Steph and there's no
Speaker 2: judgment there, but finishing his career with the Warriors and
Speaker 2: winning championships are now contradictory ideas. All right, very quickly,
Speaker 2: let's go on to the Masters corner just for a moment.
Speaker 4: All right, it's time for the golf corner. Couldn't they
Speaker 4: have any corner I'd rather be in? Sure, Scottie Scheffler
Speaker 4: won the Masters, But could he beat me in Golden
Speaker 4: te The answer is no. Fill everybody in on what
Speaker 4: happened this weekend?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean what happened this weekend is the best
Speaker 2: player in the world played like it and ran away
Speaker 2: with the Masters, and he turned a one shot lead
Speaker 2: going into Sunday into kind of a snoozer by the
Speaker 2: second half of the back nine, Birdie's fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 2: and sixteen other guys kind of fell apart. The non
Speaker 2: Scheffler stories, of course, Tiger who played a great Friday round,
Speaker 2: great even part and terrible condition, brutal conditions to break
Speaker 2: the record for most consecutive made cuts.
Speaker 3: And then immediately, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know, his body gave out what he gave it as
Speaker 2: all that, and then he finished in the last place
Speaker 2: of all the people who did make the cut. There
Speaker 2: is a weird Lebron Tiger make the cut at the
Speaker 2: Masters play the Nuggets in round one corollary of is
Speaker 2: there a scenario where the Lakers do get the Nuggets
Speaker 2: in round one? Lebron empties the entire clip, knocks off
Speaker 2: the Nuggets and then just gets beaten in round two
Speaker 2: by either Phoenix or Minnesota or who you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like.
Speaker 3: Does it like that is the cause?
Speaker 2: That's kind of like Tiger played great for the first
Speaker 2: two rounds and then finished in dead last in the tournament.
Speaker 3: Like it was really he clearly had a goal reached it.
Speaker 4: And we were watching the Masters up in that room
Speaker 4: and I saw his name on the thing and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, he's placed, but it was just because
Speaker 4: he was golfing and he was actually like sixty third
Speaker 4: at the time or something like that.
Speaker 2: Exactly, you know, that's exactly right, Demonsi's like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: the first time I've seen Tiger's name on the leaderboard
Speaker 2: because we were watching the Masters in the room before
Speaker 2: the wedding, and I'm like, well, they're just showing his
Speaker 2: name because he's on screen, but he's actually in last place,
Speaker 2: which wasn't great, so but listen, Scotty Scheffler is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I also would caution folks when it comes to, oh,
Speaker 2: how many majors is he gonna win? He's now at two,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I've been here before with guys
Speaker 2: that were like, oh my god, how are they not
Speaker 2: going to win?
Speaker 3: Seven? Eight, nine.
Speaker 2: Rory had a run like this and then just went away.
Speaker 2: Rory from twenty eleven to twenty fourteen won four majors.
Speaker 2: Has not won one since brooks Koepka. At one point
Speaker 2: in time, it looked like, oh, he's just gonna win
Speaker 2: the PGA every year, and by the way, he did
Speaker 2: win it last year. Brooks Koepka from twenty seventeen through
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen won four majors. Since then, twenty twenty to
Speaker 2: now has won one.
Speaker 3: Like getting to five is wildly difficult.
Speaker 2: Modern era golfers with five, I'll tell you who they
Speaker 2: are and how many they have. Nicholas of course, eighteen,
Speaker 2: Tiger fifteen, Ben Hogan, if you call him modern era,
Speaker 2: I will you know what, We'll just go World War
Speaker 2: two to now. That's a good time frame. So we've
Speaker 2: got eighty years of golf here's everyone in that timeframe
Speaker 2: who has five and Demonsey. You might be like, why
Speaker 2: are we, you know, going that far back and not
Speaker 2: just do the whole history, because when you look at
Speaker 2: all time major championship winners, you get names like this,
Speaker 2: Tom Morris Senior, who won four British opens from eighteen
Speaker 2: sixty one to eighteen sixty seven, and then demonse by
Speaker 2: the way, you know who won four of the next
Speaker 2: five British opens after Tom Morris Senior from eighteen sixty
Speaker 2: eight to eighteen seventy two.
Speaker 3: Hold on, you can guess this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it again, exact same information and I'm
Speaker 2: just going to change the tone of my voice. From
Speaker 2: eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty seven, Tom Morris Senior
Speaker 2: won four British opens from eighteen sixty eight to eighteen
Speaker 2: seventy two. Who do you think won four British opens?
Speaker 3: Tom Morris, Tom or the junior? Nail it? There you go,
Speaker 3: you got it exactly right.
Speaker 2: So the old golf records we go to and so
Speaker 2: you have Willie Parks and you got Willie. We're not
Speaker 2: gonna do those guys, so but nailed at good job.
Speaker 2: Hell World War two to now. Full list of guys
Speaker 2: with at least five Nicholas eighteen, Tiger fifteen, Ben Hogan nine,
Speaker 2: Gary Player nine, Tom Watson eight, Sam Snead seven, Arnold
Speaker 2: Palmer seven, Lee Trevino six, Nick Foudo and Phil Mickelson six.
Speaker 2: And then, okay, sorry, Peter Thompson five, seventy five.
Speaker 3: Brooks Koepka five. That's it. Oh, that's rude.
Speaker 2: Give me a damn history lesson after brooks Kopka's Tom
Speaker 2: Morris Senior and junior.
Speaker 4: So I would say it's interesting.
Speaker 2: I would because you like his iced teas. Oh, and
Speaker 2: shout out to the Blue Dog folks for sending me
Speaker 2: the iced ts for the wedding.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I would set the Scotti Scheffler Career Majors over affair
Speaker 2: over under at four and a half. It's really hard
Speaker 2: to get to five guys. All right, my NBA Awards
Speaker 2: ballot next, what's right?
Speaker 3: All right? Welcome back in We'll Driving the right Episode two.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine.
Speaker 2: NBA Awards ballots are due by six pm today. I
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about that deadline because I don't
Speaker 2: have one. Honestly, what the come on, NBAPR. I've put
Speaker 2: my time in, I have shown my expertise and dedication.
Speaker 2: One hundred and twenty people have a ballot the idea
Speaker 2: that I don't have one it.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say hate it with your lebron bias.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, so that's interesting. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about that in a moment, because I do think there's
Speaker 2: some bias happening here, but not in the direction people think.
Speaker 3: But let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: Demon's uh so, what's the first award we're gonna start with.
Speaker 4: Uh So, we'll hit MVP first, and your ballot is
Speaker 4: I think for those watching on YouTube, we're gonna show
Speaker 4: up a little graphic and those listening on the on
Speaker 4: the app, you got Luke at one. Do you want
Speaker 4: to go one by one or just go off you five?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: You go you?
Speaker 4: Ok at two? You got Sga at three, Giannis at four,
Speaker 4: and Brunson at five.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Brunson shout out to him.
Speaker 2: The Knicks, despite the injuries, despite not having another in
Speaker 2: my opinion, all star lovel player, Jalen Brunson, like.
Speaker 3: True all star level player, carried them to fifty wins.
Speaker 2: He to me is like a better version of the
Speaker 2: Celtics Isaiah Thomas the year he came in fifth place
Speaker 2: in MVP voting, Except he's better than the it and sturdier,
Speaker 2: and I'm okay with him taking Tatum spot on the
Speaker 2: MVP ballot. Giannis, despite the team being under you know,
Speaker 2: a little underwhelming his numbers or bananas Sga, had an
Speaker 2: MVP caliber season, carrying the Thunder to a one seed
Speaker 2: and being the only superstar on that team. But he
Speaker 2: dealt with two historic years by two historic players in.
Speaker 3: Luke and Jokic. And ultimately.
Speaker 2: What broke the tie for me because Lounjokic were that close,
Speaker 2: was the unprecedented nature of what Luca did this year.
Speaker 2: The only players since the merger to average more points
Speaker 2: per game than Luca in any season. Harden did it twice,
Speaker 2: Kobe did it once, Jordan did it twice. You then
Speaker 2: add he did it efficiently with nine rebounds and nine
Speaker 2: assists a game. And and this part is key. We
Speaker 2: have never seen Kyrie Irving be a consistent part of
Speaker 2: winning without Lebron James guiding him. And I thought that
Speaker 2: this MAVs team was not going to be able to
Speaker 2: and demon' say that's we have a decade of Kyrie's
Speaker 2: career before and after Lebron where he just wasn't couldn't
Speaker 2: be a part of winning, and Luca helped unlock the
Speaker 2: best of Kyrie. They played excellent too with each other.
Speaker 2: The last two months of the year, they might have
Speaker 2: been the best team in the league. So so I
Speaker 2: gave Luca the slight not over, yo, Kich, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I mean a few points with with your list here,
Speaker 4: So do you think it's fair to give Luca full
Speaker 4: credit for Kyrie? Also? Along with that, like Luca has
Speaker 4: Kyrie on his team and like the other guys, and
Speaker 4: he like a right right, Yeah, he's the two seed
Speaker 4: with that team. Okay, fair, I understand.
Speaker 2: But but they won the same amount of games they
Speaker 2: both want, you know, and one team, you know, the
Speaker 2: West was so much tougher, and so the Dallas won
Speaker 2: fifty and the Knicks one fifty, And so I the
Speaker 2: I mean, I I shouldn't I want I'm I think
Speaker 2: Brunson had an amazing year. There's no way you can
Speaker 2: argue Brunton is the MVP of the league.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, keep going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're okay with Luca being the five seed,
Speaker 4: And when a couple of years ago or no, last year,
Speaker 4: you had issues with Jokic being six.
Speaker 3: Two years ago?
Speaker 4: Is right?
Speaker 2: Hold on, let me let me respond to that. Well,
Speaker 2: this is now like a circular logic, right, you can't
Speaker 2: argue the door was open fairly for Jokic, but no
Speaker 2: one else can walk through it, Like I did not
Speaker 2: like a six seed winning league MVP a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago, but now that precedent has been set, Like,
Speaker 2: so what are we talking about the If if Jokic
Speaker 2: hadn't won that MVP, then yeah, then Luca maybe would
Speaker 2: be fairly not really eligible.
Speaker 3: But he did. And now two of the last seven.
Speaker 2: MVPs have been six seeds because Russ one of those
Speaker 2: sixth seed and Jokic did. And I will say something
Speaker 2: else that Jokicic fans might and Daniel might not like,
Speaker 2: others might not like, but I'm totally comfortable with it.
Speaker 2: And this is what I said last year about Himbeid.
Speaker 2: If it is Razor thin, I am totally fine with
Speaker 2: it going to the guy who hasn't won one yet now,
Speaker 2: unlike years past, if Jokic wins it, I got no
Speaker 2: problem with it. The guy has a more than credible
Speaker 2: case as the single best player in the league. They're
Speaker 2: the scariest team in the league. He is the key
Speaker 2: to everything. The guys with three MVPs are Magic Bird
Speaker 2: and Moses. Jokich is already better than Moses. Probably he's
Speaker 2: at least yeah, yeah, yeah, probably he probably is. And
Speaker 2: so if that he deserves to be in that.
Speaker 4: I think where the Nuggets, those two to those two
Speaker 4: back to back MVPs that you'll get, you got.
Speaker 2: So they were the sixth seed for his second MVP
Speaker 2: and they were the three seed for his first MVP.
Speaker 4: So so Lucas sandwiched in between the two.
Speaker 2: Of those, correct, and and so. But again, like I
Speaker 2: I think Luca was had the best season of anybody.
Speaker 2: I think that Jokic it's like a.
Speaker 3: Fifty one forty nine thing.
Speaker 2: And SGA is a in my opinion, and I know
Speaker 2: thunder fans probably be upset with me on this. I
Speaker 2: think SGA and he won't be clearly he'll get some
Speaker 2: first place votes, but I think he should be a
Speaker 2: unanimous third place, meaning there is no way you can
Speaker 2: vote him lower than third. But I also don't think
Speaker 2: there you can make a case he was better than
Speaker 2: Luca or Jokic.
Speaker 3: Sorry, ahead, let's go.
Speaker 4: They have the best record, and you don't have Tatum
Speaker 4: on here. Do you have him right outside at six
Speaker 4: or what's what's.
Speaker 3: So he would be right outside at six?
Speaker 2: And you'll see on when it comes to first team
Speaker 2: All NBA, I give Tatum some love. So it's a
Speaker 2: little contradictory to some people to not have your MVP
Speaker 2: ballot be the same as your first team All NBA.
Speaker 2: But I am doing some lifting on Jalen Brunson's value
Speaker 2: because of what the team situation was versus Tatum's team
Speaker 2: overall being so dominant and overwhelming, And so I just
Speaker 2: thought those five guys had better seasons than Tatum. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the defensive player of the year.
Speaker 4: For defensive Player of the year, you've got Anthony Davis
Speaker 4: at one, You've got Wimby at two, and then you've
Speaker 4: got Gobert at three. Just saw it really sad story
Speaker 4: about that guy.
Speaker 2: So oh, I did two about his family. Now I
Speaker 2: saw it just briefly. Is that the thing that go
Speaker 2: Bear's party. I didn't read the whole stories, so I
Speaker 2: want to miss quote. But it seems like when Rudy
Speaker 2: was a child, he dealt with some horrible racism from
Speaker 2: inside his own family, which is just about as sad
Speaker 2: as it gets. I haven't read that whole story, but
Speaker 2: I saw it too, all right. So here's the deal.
Speaker 2: The Lakers team defense has been average this year. Without
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, it's a total and utter train wreck. I
Speaker 2: think he is the best most impactful defender in the league.
Speaker 2: And the fact that Gobert's won this award three times
Speaker 2: already and Wimby's team won two Winny games or twenty
Speaker 2: one games is enough for me to give it to
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis and the fact and people can dislike this,
Speaker 2: but this is part of the math that I have
Speaker 2: on it. If Anthony Davis doesn't win this year, I
Speaker 2: don't know when he's gonna win, because as soon as
Speaker 2: Wimby's team is decent, he's just gonna win. I don't know,
Speaker 2: five straight, six straight, Like I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: what's gonna stop him from winning Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: So all three of these guys are more than worthy.
Speaker 2: I think that because the entirety of the Lakers being
Speaker 2: passable defensively rests on Anthony Davis's shoulders, I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: it to him, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah on all the follow ups.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, before we get to the All NBA teams,
Speaker 2: by the way, a reminder in the chat if you
Speaker 2: have any questions about the wedding or vow renewal, anything
Speaker 2: personal life related, we'll get to those in the C block.
Speaker 2: But now the really fun stuff, the All NBA teams.
Speaker 4: Let's do it, all right, So for your first team,
Speaker 4: you've got Luca Sga, Eannis, Tatum, Jokic.
Speaker 3: All right, so let's start. Oh no, no, no, don't
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: Let's just so let's just start there and go from
Speaker 2: go from there. So Luca Sga, Yanni's, Tatum Jokic. To me,
Speaker 2: that is incredibly easy. Everyone is going to have Luca
Speaker 2: Sga and Jokic and then Jannis, Tatum and Brunson are
Speaker 2: going to be the three guys for two spots. But
Speaker 2: the Celtics were a sixty plus win utter juggernaut, and
Speaker 2: because of that, in my opinion, they have to have
Speaker 2: to at least they have to have someone on first
Speaker 2: team All NBA. So I kind of split the baby
Speaker 2: to be fair and put Tatum first Team All NBA
Speaker 2: and put Brunson second team All NBA, with Brunson getting
Speaker 2: the fifth MVP spot. All right, now to second team,
Speaker 2: where I have Brunson and Edwards is my guards. And
Speaker 2: I know that it can be positionless, but I wanted
Speaker 2: to at least for the first and second team stick
Speaker 2: with two guards, two forwards in a center. Brunton and
Speaker 2: Edwards are my guards. Lebron and Durant are my forwards,
Speaker 2: and Anthony Davis is my center. Anthony Edwards, I think
Speaker 2: it speaks for himself. They were in contented for the
Speaker 2: one seed. He had some of the moments of the year.
Speaker 2: His numbers are unbelievable and he more than kept them
Speaker 2: afloat without Karl Anthony Towns. We already have talked about Brunson,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis my defensive player of the years. Offensive numbers
Speaker 2: are great. So it's really about Lebron, Durant and Kawhi
Speaker 2: two of those three guys to get the final forward
Speaker 2: spot or the final two forward spots. And I think
Speaker 2: it is crazy how many people have Lebron third team.
Speaker 2: I understand the case for Durant, I don't understand the
Speaker 2: case for Kawhi.
Speaker 3: I don't know what Kawhi.
Speaker 2: Was better at this year than Lebron consistently, so regular
Speaker 2: numbers or metrics, but so not really though, I mean
Speaker 2: so the team that the team's overall record the if
Speaker 2: the Clippers won three more games than the Lakers did,
Speaker 2: but Kawhi also missed four.
Speaker 3: More games than Lebron did.
Speaker 2: One of Lebron's wins, the in season tournament win, doesn't
Speaker 2: count for some reason. It's not it's a game that happened,
Speaker 2: but it's not in the standings. So if we look
Speaker 2: at it, Durant played seventy five games, Lebron's seventy one,
Speaker 2: Kawhi sixty eight. So Durant wins that category. Points a
Speaker 2: game Durant twenty seven a game, Lebron twenty six, Kawhi
Speaker 2: twenty four. Durant wins that category. Rebounds Lebron has per game.
Speaker 2: Lebron wins. Assists, Lebron kills them. Field goal percentage, Lebron
Speaker 2: beats them both. Effective field goal percentage, Lebron beats them both.
Speaker 2: True shooting percentage, Lebron beats them both. You want to
Speaker 2: go to the Advance Stats box score plus minus.
Speaker 3: Lebron beats them both.
Speaker 2: VORP Lebron beats them both. Peer Lebron beats them both.
Speaker 2: They all three have ice, yeah, value, offensive replacement player,
Speaker 2: no no, no, that's just learned. So for all those things,
Speaker 2: so I I actually some people. And by the way,
Speaker 2: as far as defensive rating, they are all tied identically
Speaker 2: at one fourteen. That's the one category where Kawhi actually
Speaker 2: and that's kind of team based as well, so you're
Speaker 2: on the court with where So Lebron I'm sure benefits
Speaker 2: from having Anthony Davis on the court. I understand that
Speaker 2: offensive rating, that's where Kawhi actually shines the most. His
Speaker 2: is one twenty four, Lebron won twenty, Durant one eighteen.
Speaker 2: But defensive box plus minus, Lebron beats them both. I
Speaker 2: don't know that that passes the eye test, but that's
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 3: Win shares co.
Speaker 2: Kauhai is at eight point nine, Lebron's at eight point five,
Speaker 2: Durant at eight point three. So I just think Lebron
Speaker 2: had a better season than Kawhi Leonard and I don't
Speaker 2: know the argument against it. And you can say that
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is better than than Paul George, sure, but
Speaker 2: the rest of the Clippers roster is far better than
Speaker 2: the rest of the Lakers roster. So I think Lebron
Speaker 2: should be second team All NBA. And what I actually
Speaker 2: think has happened.
Speaker 3: Here is.
Speaker 2: There was some concern that, oh, Lebron, even if he
Speaker 2: has a bad year, because he's Lebron and because he's old,
Speaker 2: is gonna get graded on a curve. I actually think
Speaker 2: he was graded down. I think because he's in year
Speaker 2: twenty one and he's the oldest guy in the league,
Speaker 2: people have.
Speaker 3: Just assigned him. What what'd you.
Speaker 4: Say, Oh, sorry, no, I'll say, we don't need to
Speaker 4: give you more awards, but go ahead, wait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, and they and it was like, well,
Speaker 2: last year Lebron was a fringe All NBA guy.
Speaker 3: This year it will be worse.
Speaker 2: But he's better than he was last year. He's not hurt,
Speaker 2: he played more games. He's having the best three point
Speaker 2: shooting year of his career. He's better than Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 2: He's just flat Lee better than on Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, right.
Speaker 4: So with that said, Lebron and eighty both making the
Speaker 4: second team and then being in the eighth seeds kind
Speaker 4: of crazy, right, And you've got Brown in your toughest
Speaker 4: emissions and anyways, so let me explain that and I'll
Speaker 4: get to the third team in a moment.
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that because this Lakers
Speaker 2: team once Darvin ham stopped being a dope, and you know,
Speaker 2: first fifty games of the year, they're starting their worst
Speaker 2: lineup and Torrian Prince is prominently involved.
Speaker 3: Since then, they've been one of the best.
Speaker 2: Teams in the league. They've won eighteen of their last
Speaker 2: twenty four. Since the twenty four and twenty five start,
Speaker 2: they've been outstanding.
Speaker 3: And I just think they've been two of the best.
Speaker 2: Ten players in the league. So people can parse it.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I think gave Ben two of the best
Speaker 2: ten players in the league. Third team Steph Booker, Kawhi
Speaker 2: and Paul George were the easiest ones, and then the
Speaker 2: final spot came down between these following people, Dearon Fox,
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown, Tyrese Haliburton, Palo Bancaro, Wimby, Gobert, Demontes, Sabonis
Speaker 2: and Zion. There's nine guys for one spot. I went
Speaker 2: with Fox, and I know some Kings fans will say
Speaker 2: Sabonis is more deserving than Fox. Maybe I'm holding Sabonis'
Speaker 2: playoff stuff against him. Halliburton was not the same guy
Speaker 2: post injury. And I understand the argument. The Celtics won
Speaker 2: sixty four games, they should have two guys on there.
Speaker 2: I just thought Fox had a better season than Jalen Brown.
Speaker 2: So there's the all NBA teams. We do wedding questions.
Speaker 2: Next quick break, right back, what's right?
Speaker 3: All right? Welcome back in what's right with Nick?
Speaker 2: Right Demanse, Let's roll through these so if people don't know,
Speaker 2: Saturday was me and my wife's eleven year wedding anniversary,
Speaker 2: and we never had a real wedding, didn't have any money.
Speaker 2: We got married in Reno with Demanse. Wasn't even invited,
Speaker 2: couldn't afford the plane ticket.
Speaker 4: The.
Speaker 2: My Danielle and I flew to Sacramento and eleven years
Speaker 2: ago and drove your grandparents and my mom who flew
Speaker 2: out there on her own, to a chapelain Reno, and
Speaker 2: we got married. And we always said on our ten
Speaker 2: year anniversary we would do a real, big, actual wedding.
Speaker 2: We ended up doing it on our own eleven years.
Speaker 4: Awesome, go ahead. It was awesome that you guys had
Speaker 4: the foresight to say like ten years. I could see
Speaker 4: somebody being like, oh and five years, we'll do this, sir,
Speaker 4: or in a year, two years, whatever it may be.
Speaker 4: But the patients and it all worked out well.
Speaker 2: To be fair to Monsey, the plan was five years
Speaker 2: and we didn't get it together. And so what happened
Speaker 2: was we had said, Okay, we're going to do it
Speaker 2: in five years, and five years and four years after,
Speaker 2: you know, five four years after we got married, we
Speaker 2: moved to New York, yes, and so like then we're like,
Speaker 2: all right, we can't work just now in New York.
Speaker 2: Roted in too much. And so then we said, all right,
Speaker 2: ten years, and we didn't check the calendar properly, and
Speaker 2: ten years was yours high school graduation, so we had
Speaker 2: all that going on and so and Trentidge opened all
Speaker 2: that stuff. But we did it. It was absolutely a
Speaker 2: perfect weekend. And I didn't want to start the pod
Speaker 2: with it because it's a little self important. But I
Speaker 2: know some people, if you're listening an hour into the pod,
Speaker 2: you care about these things.
Speaker 3: So go ahead ask some of these questions to Monsey.
Speaker 4: All right, so JD Nobless, what did you wear for
Speaker 4: your wedding. I enjoy your style fit selections on the show.
Speaker 4: Shout out to mom. I'm a suit. I'm a suit
Speaker 4: in Bow's eyes, so I'm curious what you choose.
Speaker 3: So I wore Danielle.
Speaker 2: Your mom's actually here, she just walked in. I think
Speaker 2: it was Ralph Laren Purple Label tuxedo. That was purple
Speaker 2: label is like the brand.
Speaker 4: It was a fun but it was.
Speaker 3: Also literally purple. It was a purple velvet.
Speaker 2: So it was a Ralph Laren purple velvet tuxedo with
Speaker 2: just a traditional white tuxedo shirt and some traditional I
Speaker 2: think Hugo Boss tuxedo shoes, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Adrian Z Jackson asked how bad was Nick crying
Speaker 4: during the vow renule so you.
Speaker 3: Can deestify to this. I didn't cry. I was surprised
Speaker 3: he had the entire time. Oh yeah, saying.
Speaker 2: I almost I gave a speech at the rehearsal dinner
Speaker 2: where I almost cried. I almost cried during your mom's
Speaker 2: vows to me. And then the part that was the
Speaker 2: hardest for me not to cry was the speeches, which
Speaker 2: I'll talk about more in a moment. But I never cried.
Speaker 2: It was just it was just joyous. Your mom cried
Speaker 2: a bit, as to be expected, but it was I
Speaker 2: amazingly didn't cry.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, keep going.
Speaker 4: Richard Huddnell asked, did you have a bachelor's party?
Speaker 3: No, because I'm not a bachelor.
Speaker 2: Uh and so I uh no, I didn't have like
Speaker 2: a wild weekend in Vegas.
Speaker 3: No, Uh I did not at all? All right?
Speaker 4: Uh different having a bachelor party, you know, with your sons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're there and ten years in the marriage,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 4: Next uh, Jay asking Quinn question, what was the most surprising?
Speaker 4: Did did anything surprise you about the wedding?
Speaker 3: My sister shout out to Joanna.
Speaker 2: She gave an unbelievable toast at the way the rehearsal
Speaker 2: dinner worked. Is the best man Danny Parkins and the
Speaker 2: Maid of Honor, Nicole Brown both gave prepared speeches.
Speaker 3: And then we did kind of open mic.
Speaker 2: Anyone who wanted to talk could talk, and man, twenty
Speaker 2: people talked. It was so moving and unbelievable, and my
Speaker 2: sister and your mom's sister, Deanna kind of stole the show.
Speaker 3: Dianna gave one of the best speeches.
Speaker 2: I've ever heard, including a quote that I thought was
Speaker 2: fabricated from me, but evidently true. And my sister said,
Speaker 2: with some of the nicest things she's ever said to
Speaker 2: me in our life. And then at the wedding was
Speaker 2: the damn life of the party. Yeah, and I don't,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't, I'm not. I don't want to
Speaker 2: finned her, but it is not. She is one of
Speaker 2: the most brilliant litigators in the world. And you know,
Speaker 2: someone who doesn't do any social media, and I would
Speaker 2: have you know, I think fairly described her as pretty
Speaker 2: buttoned down, you know what I mean, not conservative in
Speaker 2: her politics, but conservative in the apolitical sense.
Speaker 3: And she just had the time of her life. It
Speaker 3: seemed like a.
Speaker 2: Ball and was really making everyone have a ball. And
Speaker 2: so that that was like such a pleasant development. I
Speaker 2: texted her and staid, she was the MVP of the wedding.
Speaker 2: Your Grammy's husband, Bernard, gave a speech at the rehearsal dinner,
Speaker 2: which was shocking and so wonderful.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was so wonderful. Uh.
Speaker 2: And Danielle's older sister, Divina, who's a semi professional singer,
Speaker 2: sang two songs at the wedding, the first one of
Speaker 2: which like kind of got the party started and it
Speaker 2: was just untouchable.
Speaker 4: That was awesome. Floodgates for mom.
Speaker 2: Oh her crying, Yeah, all right, go ahead, let's keep going.
Speaker 4: So Logan m asked demands. How terrified were you to
Speaker 4: give a speech? Logan M I was super terrified, if
Speaker 4: I'm being honest with you. I was very terrified up
Speaker 4: until the moment that I started speaking, actually up until
Speaker 4: about like the last hour and a half. Strangely, but uh,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it was. I was really scared, but I
Speaker 4: just could not not give a speech. My sisters go
Speaker 4: out there and do what they do. But no, I
Speaker 4: was really glad that I ended up giving it. I
Speaker 4: thought I thought it went very well. Spilled a glass
Speaker 4: of wine on the table like five minutes before I
Speaker 4: gave the speech.
Speaker 2: But you know, really I didn't even know. Uh, you
Speaker 2: did great, pal, and you didn't. I knew you were
Speaker 2: nervous about it. You had told me, and then I
Speaker 2: knew you were nervous about it because of how you started.
Speaker 2: But once you started, you didn't seem nervous at all,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Smooth.
Speaker 3: You seemed totally comfortable and.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, everybody here loves each other.
Speaker 2: It's it's all good, but also it was weird for
Speaker 2: you also because some of your coworkers were there. You're
Speaker 2: like bosses, boss boss is there, So it's a you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, there's that element of it.
Speaker 3: But also one thing that I don't know.
Speaker 2: If you gave yourself credit for, because the way the
Speaker 2: speeches at the wedding worked was it was just our
Speaker 2: three kids. It was Demond's a do or Indiana who
Speaker 2: gave speeches. You're the only one of the three who
Speaker 2: didn't read. You just gave it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: you knew you and you know the story, what story
Speaker 2: you were gonna what story you were going to tell?
Speaker 3: Uh, you be great, all right, Matt's got.
Speaker 4: A question which of your kids have the best speech?
Speaker 3: So there wasn't a best speech, but they were all
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 2: To me, the speeches were the best part of the
Speaker 2: whole night, uh, because it was so impressive watching the
Speaker 2: three of you and Demanse relaying a story that I
Speaker 2: did not remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm glad that I told it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because and it's funny how like life in parenting works
Speaker 2: is this is like a you know what they call
Speaker 2: these days a core memory.
Speaker 3: For Demanse, it seems like.
Speaker 2: Like you can you vividly remember the details of it,
Speaker 2: what led up to it, all pieces of it. I
Speaker 2: have no recollection of even the vaguest parts of it.
Speaker 3: I just didn't know what happened.
Speaker 2: And hearing that Deana Deanna is an impressive ten year old.
Speaker 2: And Deanna Deanna was saying to me the day before,
Speaker 2: she was like, I don't think my speech is funny enough.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, baby, don't go for funny, go for
Speaker 2: sincere and sweet. And she was like, no, everyone likes funny.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, it's really hard to be funny, Like
Speaker 2: being prepared funny is hard, don't She's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be funny, and she was funny.
Speaker 4: Funny.
Speaker 2: Well, ten year old gave a funny speech at the wedding,
Speaker 2: and it was touching what she said at the end
Speaker 2: about how she looks and how she used to feel
Speaker 2: about it and how she feels about it now.
Speaker 3: And then Diora.
Speaker 2: Diora's speech was maybe the most heart wrenching because I knew,
Speaker 2: and what I don't think the audience knew was a
Speaker 2: couple lines of her speech were the opening lines of
Speaker 2: her college application essay. And I won't say what lines
Speaker 2: they were, but it was I knew that that was
Speaker 2: kind of a wink and nod to me that I
Speaker 2: because I knew it, and you know, she and I
Speaker 2: knew it. And say one other thing, So Diora talked
Speaker 2: about some things that she dealt with in middle school
Speaker 2: from like a bullying perspective, and I didn't know it
Speaker 2: until hours later, but shortly after the speeches, Deanna was crying, crying,
Speaker 2: like really hard. And it was because she didn't know
Speaker 2: that her big sister had ever been bullied, and it
Speaker 2: was so like moving and like moving and emotional for
Speaker 2: her that she started sobbing about it and so like
Speaker 2: that level of like sibling connectivity and whatever it was.
Speaker 2: It was really a beautiful.
Speaker 4: Part of the experience.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, I'll try to go fast through these
Speaker 2: next week because I gotta get to work.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. Jason Lawton asked Nick. When planning such a
Speaker 4: big event with your partner, how do you collaborate so
Speaker 4: both of you have aspects of the event you want.
Speaker 4: Were you both on the same page or did you
Speaker 4: have conflicts on the plants?
Speaker 2: So I didn't have many many like strong takes on
Speaker 2: what it needed to be. Your mom is a designer, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, beauty is kind of what She's best in
Speaker 2: the world at creating, curating, visualizing, and I'm terrible at
Speaker 2: that stuff, so it would have been ridiculous for me
Speaker 2: to be like, no, we have to do this. There
Speaker 2: were a few things I felt strongly about, like that
Speaker 2: we weren't doing a registry, and we weren't accepting gifts.
Speaker 2: Some people gave some gifts anyway, and you know, the.
Speaker 3: Which they shouldn't have. But he can't be mad because
Speaker 3: people are trying to be nice. But the the you know,
Speaker 3: that is what it is. I felt.
Speaker 2: I felt strongly about, you know, a couple things, but
Speaker 2: mostly I followed her lead on it, and that part
Speaker 2: was easy because she nailed every aspect of it.
Speaker 3: It was a gorgeous events. Let's go to Reginald. Let's
Speaker 3: go to Reginald Pierre, Pierre.
Speaker 4: Wilds, Reginald Pierre ass Who's got the better wedding dance moves?
Speaker 4: Brewer Wilds.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Bruce's wife couldn't come, so bru was not gonna be
Speaker 2: out on the dance floor.
Speaker 3: I already knew it.
Speaker 2: Wilde's wife was there, Wild's wife was dancing. Wild's is
Speaker 2: a hip hophead, considers himself super cool and all of that,
Speaker 2: and this guy was scared to get on the dance floor.
Speaker 2: I mean really really a tragic performance.
Speaker 3: Like his wife was dancing and wild things easy.
Speaker 2: He missed her, you know, deep cut hip hophead and
Speaker 2: this guy couldn't get out on the dance floor.
Speaker 3: So you know, that is what it is.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, while I look at him, all moving
Speaker 2: forward probably, but you know, so be it.
Speaker 4: All right, let's on top of the set at the
Speaker 4: show today.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Kevin Gillan and then we
Speaker 2: can wrap it up.
Speaker 4: Kevin. Kevin Gillan asked what tips can you offer for
Speaker 4: a long lasting marriage? What's the secret?
Speaker 3: So listen, I don't I don't think there's a secret.
Speaker 3: I think that uh. And this is not something that
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: One of my vowels to my wife was that, you know,
Speaker 2: this time around, to remember that she's always on my
Speaker 2: side and that we're teammates and we're not in competition. Uh,
Speaker 2: and to take any what I consider at times maybe
Speaker 2: incorrectly criticism as not criticism, but at as her you know,
Speaker 2: efforts to help me.
Speaker 3: I also think.
Speaker 2: Finding the what has been one of the keys for
Speaker 2: Danielle and I, aside from the fact like what everyone
Speaker 2: says is true, like you know, be attracted to each other,
Speaker 2: make each other laugh, like all those things are obviously
Speaker 2: like part of any good relationship, right, But I think
Speaker 2: one of the keys for Danielle and I are we
Speaker 2: are we have just enough in common to not vehemently
Speaker 2: disagree on anything super important. Right Like if she were like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I can't wait to go, you know,
Speaker 2: put on my red hat and campaign for Trump.
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't marry it, I couldn't be with her.
Speaker 2: Like we are where that we have enough similar on
Speaker 2: the important things, but we have enough differences that many
Speaker 2: of my weaknesses are her strengths, and many of my
Speaker 2: strengths are her weaknesses. So you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like the we can balance out each other's lives in
Speaker 2: that degree, and like I just I there's I can't
Speaker 2: see any snapshot of my life where she's not alongside.
Speaker 2: So I hope that is good, you know, good advice,
Speaker 2: good thoughts, That's what I think. All right, great job demanse,
Speaker 2: I hope you had a wonderful weekend, fun show, great
Speaker 2: night of basketball to I am on the herd in
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