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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode one fifty

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Speaker 2: one and I am solo today. Demandy's in La. He

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Speaker 2: was gonna tap in for the show, but he got

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Speaker 2: called into the Fox lot to do what he claims

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Speaker 2: is cutting tape. I'm not sure exactly what that means,

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Speaker 2: but so he couldn't do it. Deora is flying back.

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Speaker 2: We were all in California together this week and as

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Speaker 2: a family for Diora's great grandmother's ninetieth birthday and for

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Speaker 2: Mother's Day. So I am solo today. But that is

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Speaker 2: just fine because we have so much to get to

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Speaker 2: that we will get to starting right now. Here is

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Speaker 2: what has missed the cut for today's show. Not on

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Speaker 2: today's show is Brady and the Raiders talking ownership. Not

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Speaker 2: on today's show is Matt Ryan seemingly not retiring but

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Speaker 2: also joining CBS. And not on today's show is the

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Speaker 2: fact that Bryce Young is very very short. I don't

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Speaker 2: think that's breaking news, and it is a massive concern. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can't see Bryce Young if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 2: but we promise he's out there. Oh they actually edited him. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's unfair. I thought he was just being obscured by

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Speaker 2: the offensive lineman, but instead they just made him much

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Speaker 2: smaller than he actually is. What we will discuss on

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Speaker 2: today's show is all things NBA Playoffs, and the entirety

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Speaker 2: of the A block is going to be Lakers, Warriors,

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Speaker 2: Lebron and Steph. We will get to Jah, we will

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Speaker 2: get to the Sixers, Celtics, we will get to Celtics Heat,

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Speaker 2: and Lakers Nuggets. But to start today's show, we are

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Speaker 2: going to do Lakers Warriors and Lebron's Steph. And it

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Speaker 2: is not just because eight million people watched every game,

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Speaker 2: seven and a half to eight million, I should say

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Speaker 2: and it was the highest rated second round series on record.

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Speaker 2: It is not just because it was my pick that

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Speaker 2: kind of went against the grain and I was taunted that, oh,

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Speaker 2: what are you gonna do when the Warriors make you

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Speaker 2: look like an idiot again? It the reason we are

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Speaker 2: going to give this series the attention it deserves is

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Speaker 2: because going into the series, my colleagues in sports media

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Speaker 2: decided this was going to be a referendum on Lebron

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Speaker 2: James versus Steph Kirk. How can a guy be the

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Speaker 2: goat if he couldn't beat someone in his own era?

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Speaker 2: What will it say if Steph gets to four and

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Speaker 2: one in playoff series against Lebron James? Is Steph actually

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Speaker 2: the player of this post Michael Jordan era not Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: That that is not a straw man, That is not

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Speaker 2: a fa that is not fake news. Those are the

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Speaker 2: conversations people were demanding we have. And then Lebron wins

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Speaker 2: on a Friday night and by Monday, it's all look

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Speaker 2: at Ah Lakers, Nuggets, all the Sixers melt it down again,

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Speaker 2: au Tatum's fifty one, Keep it moving, Keep it moving,

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Speaker 2: Clay Stunk, what's Draymond's future? Can ad handle Joker, And

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Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there listening to every podcast there is

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Speaker 2: consuming as much as sports TV and media as I could, saying, Hey,

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Speaker 2: we gonna do a final tally? Heere are we going

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Speaker 2: to discuss that? This is now five times Lebron James

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Speaker 2: and Steph Curry have met in the postseason, and five

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Speaker 2: times Lebron has outplayed him. Oh, Nick, that's unfair, is it?

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Speaker 2: Let's go through them. Twenty fifteen Steph Curry. I disagreed

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Speaker 2: with the folks who voted on the award, but twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen NBA Finals MVP voters said Steph wasn't even the

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Speaker 2: most valuable guy on his own squad. That was Kevin,

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Speaker 2: That was Andre Iguidala and his sixteen six and four.

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Speaker 2: were holding Lebron James to thirty six thirteen and nine,

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Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen, we know the story Steph calls Game seven

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Speaker 2: Lebron thirty four to twelve and ten on fifty six

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Speaker 2: this series gave you twenty seven five and a half

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Speaker 2: fifth consecutive series when they played each other, Lebron outplayed him.

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Speaker 2: Is not only the shooting percentages, where Lebron's forty nine

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Speaker 2: four point three. But the series flipped by hunting Steph

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Speaker 2: there Jordan Poole in the pick and roll and the

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Speaker 2: Game four, involved Steph missing back to back ahead shots

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Speaker 2: And anyone who is being honest would tell you that

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Speaker 2: if the Lakers had lost the series and the numbers

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Speaker 2: played him to a draw. Lebron outplayed him nobody. But

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Speaker 2: that's not where the revisionist history of something we just

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Speaker 2: it's like Lebron in twenty eighteen. Yeah, they lost, but

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Speaker 2: you can't hold it against Steph. That team was no good. Really,

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Speaker 2: of a champion. Well, Nick Lebron's now got a d.

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Speaker 2: It's like when Steph had Kevin Durant. Yes, if all

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Speaker 2: Reeves a lot and I think the other Lakers role

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Speaker 2: players have been quite good, please do not insult my

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Speaker 2: intelligence by saying, after Stephan Lebron, a next three of

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Speaker 2: the same. They're not and it's not an indictment on

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry. Steph is one of the twelve greatest players ever,

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Speaker 2: about what that means because the entirety of Steph's case,

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Speaker 2: all of his MVP votes, all of his Finals appearances,

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Speaker 2: So if after Miami Lebron had pulled an MJ and

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Speaker 2: two rings, I've got two Finals MVPs, I'm done. Four MVPs,

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Speaker 2: two rings, four finals appearances. I think nine first Team

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Speaker 2: All NBAS that would have been Lebron. Maybe eight first

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Speaker 2: Team All NBAS that would have been Lebron's career from

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Speaker 2: put him as one of the twelve greatest players ever.

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Speaker 2: Put him neck and neck with a team bird those guys, right,

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Speaker 2: So follow me along here. Lebron, his career before Steph

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Speaker 2: At a minimum, Steph then has a decade of a

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Speaker 2: nerd to what we're seeing. Mark Jackson, beginning of game

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Speaker 2: that point, Lebron had spent one minute on the bench.

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Speaker 2: He had played thirty five of thirty six minutes, and

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Speaker 2: Mark Jackson is saying just casually that the expectation, therefore

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Speaker 2: But he was going to do it. But Nick, I'm

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Speaker 2: it's twenty three ten five forty nine percent. Larry Bird's

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Speaker 2: the best he's ever been, and Lebron was just better

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Speaker 2: a twenty six mile race. And there is no use

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Speaker 2: like you can go to Clay and Draymond be like,

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00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: take less money, so we can add X, Y and Z.

427
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: That's not the case at all. The Warriors are capped

428
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: out with no matter what. If they have Steph Wiggins,

429
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 2: Clay Draymond at any amount of money, they're capped out.

430
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: So the only advantage to them taking less money is

431
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 2: it saves Joe lakeup money against the tax. And yes,

432
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: the Warriors could you know, be kicked to the end

433
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 2: of the draft seven years from now and things like

434
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 2: that in the new CBA, but none of that affects

435
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 2: Clay and Draymond. So it is just a discussion of

436
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 2: we want you the multi millionaire to take less money

437
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 2: because it will save the billionaire millions. That takes some

438
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 2: real finessing, so we'll see. But it's not as easy

439
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:15,240
Speaker 2: as it sounds. And credit to Steph for being brilliant

440
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 2: enough to get them a title. They really had no

441
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: business winning last year. But this is the end of

442
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: the road for them. It's an unbelievable run. It's nine years,

443
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 2: it's six finals, it's four rings. But they had they

444
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 2: had a chance to extend this. They had the number,

445
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 2: they had the number two pick, the number seven pick

446
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 2: and whatever Moody was the number fourteen pick, I think,

447
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: and they appear to have whiffed. They definitely whiffed on.

448
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 2: Wiseman Kaminga was DNB Coaches decision all postseason and Moody

449
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: is was the youngest player in the draft when he

450
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: was taken, I think, and while he was out there

451
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 2: in some moments he's not ready yet. And Steph, as

452
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: great as he is, is thirty five. So I fear,

453
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: and by fear, I mean it does kind of delight me.

454
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 2: Light years season and the Warriors window is closed. It's

455
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: an unbelievable run, but it also does mean to circle

456
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 2: this back to Lebron for world what it's worth. When

457
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: Lebron came into the league in the East, the Detroit

458
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: Pistons were the team I think they went to was

459
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 2: it five straight or six straight Eastern Conference Finals? I

460
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: want to make sure I have it right. It started

461
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: in three, three, four, five, They went to eight I'm sorry,

462
00:38:55,520 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 2: six straight conference finals. They won a championship the very

463
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: next year they were in Game seven of the finals.

464
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: Lebron ended that run with the forty eight Special. In

465
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: reaction to the forty eight Special, the Celtics created the

466
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 2: first modern super team in the East. They're at well, yeah,

467
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 2: of the twentieth century. Of the sorry twenty first century.

468
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 2: Lakers tried with Malone and Gary Payton didn't work, but

469
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: in reaction to what Lebron did. The Celtics created KG

470
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: Paul Pierce ray Allen. They had an unbelievable run and

471
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: knocked out Lebron a few times. Lebron then ended the

472
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: Celtics Big Three in Boston. The death knell was the

473
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 2: forty five, fifteen and five, down three to two, Game

474
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 2: six of the twenty twelve Eastern Conference Finals. That was

475
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 2: that they beat him the previous year, beat him again.

476
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 2: That was that he then there is a budding dynasty

477
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 2: in Golden State. They win a title. They then win

478
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: seventy three games, execute a three to one comeback, have

479
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 2: the unanimous MVP. Lebron so rocks them with the greatest

480
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: three game stretch in the history of the league. And

481
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: I know, I say that a lot just kind of nonchalantly.

482
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 2: That is undeniable. Down three to one to a seventy

483
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: three win team, he went forty one sixteen seven, three

484
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 2: and three, followed that up with forty one eight eleven,

485
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 2: four and three, and followed that up with twenty seven

486
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: eleven eleven, two and three and the greatest defensive play

487
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: in the history of the league. He so shook them

488
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: with that that Draymond's crying in his car and they

489
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: go get Kevin Durant, that teem's essentially unbeatable, and then

490
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 2: Durant leaves and it's like, oh, they win another title.

491
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they're gonna go on another run. And

492
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: Lebron ended that one too, and in the midst of it,

493
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 2: in the in between, Lebron peeled to title himself with

494
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 2: the Lakers. So the Pistons era ended by Young Lebron,

495
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: the Celtics era ended by Prime Lebron, the Golden State

496
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: pre kd era ended by older Lebron, and the Golden

497
00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 2: State post Kde era ended by old man Lebron. Never

498
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: see anything like it, never in the past, never will

499
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Speaker 2: again as forty solid. So you guys might wonder what

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Speaker 2: would this podcast sound like if Demands or Duora weren't

501
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 2: a part of it. Well, that was forty uninterrupted brilliant

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Speaker 2: minutes on this series with little NBA history mixed in

503
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: quick break talk the rest of the NBA playoffs. Next,

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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick writ

514
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 2: Some breaking news from literally just a couple minutes ago.

515
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:17,240
Speaker 2: Not shocking. Doc Rivers fired, so Boonenholtz fired, Money, Williams fired,

516
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers fired, man me and NBA head code. Not

517
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 2: great job security, great money, not great job security. This

518
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: likely comes as a shock to no one, and man,

519
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 2: this is one of my favorite things about sports, not

520
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: Doc being fired, but also one of the craziest things

521
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 2: about sports. Midway through the fourth quarter of Game six,

522
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum was one for fourteen. The Celtics were trailing,

523
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 2: and Philly was poised to be a massive favorite in

524
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 2: Round three against Miami. Have home court advantage against whomever

525
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 2: comes out of the West, Denver or the Lakers make

526
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 2: their first conference finals since Iverson and one embied validate

527
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 2: the MVP. Harden really shed some of the playoff choker

528
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 2: stuff because he was so great in games one and four,

529
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 2: all of that. If the Sixers could close Game six,

530
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 2: they had three possessions up to midway through the fourth

531
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Speaker 2: before Tatum made us had made a single three to

532
00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: get hot. They blew those possessions. And by the way,

533
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 2: if Philly wins that, it's not just what it means

534
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: for Philly, it's also Boston probably as a Really the

535
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 2: news today is probably Missoula's been fired, and there's a

536
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:25,359
Speaker 2: lot of jail and brown speculation instead, and a lot

537
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: of conversation about Tatum, who had been bad in the

538
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: first quarter of Game four five, first three quarters of

539
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: Game six, a lot of talk. Instead, Tatum makes a

540
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:44,720
Speaker 2: few huge shots, Philly can get nothing going. They lose.

541
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 2: They didn't have an all time meltdown. In the third

542
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: quarter of Game seven, Tatum breaks Steph's game seven record.

543
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: We went seventy six years of the NBA with nobody's

544
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 2: scoring fifty in a game seven. It's happened twice in

545
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 2: fourteen days. Steps record stood for two weeks and now

546
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: Docs fired Hardin has a three for eleven total afraid, embarrassing,

547
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: no show. Embeed not only doesn't validate the MVP, but

548
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 2: goes in the other direction. Has the worst playoff game

549
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 2: of his life in Game seven, particularly when you include

550
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: the fact that they hunted him defensively and now Docs

551
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 2: fired and who the hell knows and Boston is a

552
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: massive favorite to go to their second straight finals. Man,

553
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 2: those margins, man, So I happen to like Miami in

554
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 2: this series. I think Jimmy in this series is more

555
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 2: reliable than Tatum, and you can't even be like, well, yeah,

556
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 2: maybe he's more reliable, but Tatum's peaks. I mean, Jimmy

557
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 2: had fifty six in a playoff game a few weeks ago.

558
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 2: Jimmy's peaks are as high as anybody's this postseason. To me,

559
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 2: he's more consistent than Tatum is, and he's had some

560
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,760
Speaker 2: time to get that ankle right. But the real reason

561
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: I like Miami in this series is because the Spolstra

562
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: missoula mismatch that might be coach one versus coach thirty.

563
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 2: I mean, that is as big of a coaching mismatch

564
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: as you will ever see in a conference finals. So

565
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 2: I like Miami the other news since the last time

566
00:47:55,320 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: we talked, predictably is Phoenix ran out of gas and

567
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 2: the Nuggets ran rough shot all over them. So Mani's gone.

568
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 2: Everybody likes MANI I get why you'd fire him. I

569
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 2: didn't realize this until after the fact. A lot of

570
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 2: reporting after the factors like, oh, yeah, we all knew

571
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 2: this was coming. I didn't know it was coming. But

572
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 2: I guess I'm not just plugged in that Ishbo wanted

573
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 2: to get his own guy. So be it the h

574
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: The noteworthy stuff from that Phoenix series and we'll get

575
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 2: to the Denver side in a moment. Is you can't

576
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 2: play these guys forty four minutes a game and then

577
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna stay super efficient. You just can't. I was

578
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 2: wilds and brew kept laughing at me in round one

579
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 2: when Phoenix kept winning games, and I kept saying, I'm

580
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 2: less confident in them. I'm less confident in them. They

581
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: were a five man team at best. That then Chris

582
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 2: Paul got hurt predictably eight and was a no show

583
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 2: and then literally couldn't play, which is not shocking, and

584
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 2: Durant and Booker's efficiency falls off the map, and they

585
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: just weren't built for it. They need to find a

586
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 2: way see if they can move Chris for rotational pieces

587
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 2: because they need more playoff bodies. But the real story

588
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 2: in Phoenix is just a totally bizarre five years of

589
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's career. Kevin Durant went to three straight finals

590
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 2: in Golden State, and in twenty nineteen, he has a

591
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 2: calf injury in round two against the Rockets, Minces the

592
00:49:53,400 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 2: entire conference finals, comes back, probably early against the Raptors

593
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 2: in the finals, and tragically pops his achilles. He played

594
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 2: eleven minutes in that game, that is June of twenty nineteen.

595
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: Those are the only eleven minutes of playoff basketball post

596
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: round two we have seen from Kevin Durant in the

597
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: last five years. That's incomprehensible. Twenty twenty, he's out all

598
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 2: year because of the achilles. Twenty twenty one, Kyrie gets hurt,

599
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: Hardens hurt, hardens them back. They have the duel with Giannis.

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00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 2: They lose twenty twenty two, swept in round one. Twenty

601
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 2: twenty three, he forces the trade to Phoenix. They're out

602
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 2: in round two in what was not a particularly close

603
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 2: six game series, and he turns thirty five before next

604
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 2: season starts, and it is just a bizarre end of

605
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 2: his prime because when he's been out there, he's been

606
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 2: so good. Now he wasn't great this postseason, but he

607
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:18,720
Speaker 2: was good and nothing to show for it, absolutely nothing

608
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 2: to show for it. So I think Phoenix is in

609
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 2: really rough shape, really rough shape moving forward. And I

610
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 2: really didn't like Devin Booker skipping out on all the

611
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 2: media stuff. I think, if you're the best player on

612
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 2: a team or the co best player in the face

613
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: of the franchise, so much worse than Dylan Brooks. Devin

614
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,439
Speaker 2: Booker didn't do post game availability after Game six, after

615
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 2: the second straight year at home in a closeout game,

616
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 2: they're down thirty at halftime. It's mortifying, and then he

617
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 2: skips the exit interview. Guy's been in the league too

618
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 2: long to do that, in my opinion. So I think

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Speaker 2: Phoenix has some really rough choices ahead the eyes. We

620
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 2: have to trade Aighton. That's another I mean, I threw

621
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: this out there on the TV show. There seems to

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00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 2: be more momentum towards it now eight and for Pool

623
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Speaker 2: with a few other things kicked in. If you're the

624
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 2: Warriors is an interesting idea, but that's probably not what

625
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: Phoenix needs. And then there's the jaw situation, and I

626
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 2: have I could do twenty minutes on this, but so

627
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 2: much of it is what we discussed the first time.

628
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: So here's here's all I'm gonna say about the jaw situation.

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Speaker 2: The point is not whether or not he broke any laws.

630
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 2: Talked about it for again, and people got mad at

631
00:52:55,320 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 2: me because I guess I accurately under stand history. But

632
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 2: obviously there is a different and hypocritical reaction from the

633
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 2: media and the general population when it's black guys playing

634
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 2: with guns than white guys playing toy soldier. We know that.

635
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 2: And all the proof anyone that's arguing that I'm wrong

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Speaker 2: about that, go look up the Moulford Act, where you

637
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 2: had the NRA and Ronald Reagan uniting to pass gun

638
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 2: control measures. Again, Ronald Reagan is the governor of California.

639
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 2: The NRA came together to pass gun control legislation. Why

640
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: because the black panthers were marching around with guns and

641
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 2: it freaks people out. So of course there is a

642
00:53:54,960 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 2: level of me that, from a righteousness perspective, say, as

643
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 2: Job broke no laws, we are insane in this country.

644
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 2: About guns, which is why what he did in that

645
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 2: car is not breaking any laws. So what's the problem.

646
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: But the logical part of me and the logical part

647
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 2: of everyone knows what the problem is. There are a

648
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: lot of things you can do that don't break a law,

649
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,240
Speaker 2: but that will get you in trouble with your employer.

650
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 2: The NBA if job posted on Instagram a home made

651
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 2: sex tape three months ago, and the Grizzlies suspended him

652
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 2: and Adam Silver talked to him. He's like, I'll never

653
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 2: do it again. I learned my lesson, and then a

654
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 2: week after being eliminated from the playoffs, posted another sex tape.

655
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,440
Speaker 2: Guess what he'd be in a lot of trouble, not

656
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 2: illegal breaking no laws can still get in trouble if Ja,

657
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 2: tweeted Jaron Jackson Junior is the league's most overrated defender.

658
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 2: Can't believe he won Defensive Player of the Year. Well

659
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 2: what about his First Amendment rights? Yes, broke no laws

660
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 2: would be in trouble. John Morant and his buddies clear

661
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 2: there are now the incident where he fought the seventeen

662
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: year old and the seventeen year old's father says he

663
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 2: had a pistol in his waistband, the incident the mall

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00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 2: with his mom and the security guard, with the security

665
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 2: guard says Joh threatened him, the incident at the volleyball

666
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 2: game with his mom and the student where the students

667
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 2: said they threatened him, the shotgun Willie's video, this video,

668
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 2: and most importantly the Pacers team bus where they say

669
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 2: they had a laser pointer ostensibly attached to a pistol

670
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 2: pointed at him that we're at a half dozen gun incidents.

671
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 2: It's insane, and I there's no easy solution here. But

672
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 2: this is heading down a dark path and everybody can

673
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 2: see it seemingly but JA even as Dufus buddy who

674
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 2: started the Instagram live, so one hundred people, I mean,

675
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 2: how let me look how many people and we don't

676
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 2: even have that many people that watch this thing live.

677
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 2: We've got almost four thousand people watching this right now

678
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:47,720
Speaker 2: that Dante pac Dufus his IG live had one hundred

679
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 2: and twelve people watching right after an IG live literally

680
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 2: cost jaw thirty nine million dollars. That's how much money

681
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 2: that is contract would have been bumped by if he

682
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 2: made all NBA. He didn't make it out thirty nine million.

683
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 2: How much is this next one gonna cost him? And

684
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: that's again assuming the best case scenario. The best case

685
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:21,479
Speaker 2: scenario for Job at this point is that these two

686
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 2: Instagram lives cost him fifty million dollars five zero, and

687
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 2: that's it. The worst case scenario is that folks don't

688
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 2: take too kindly to him throwing up sets and playing

689
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: with guns, and this ends horribly, really bad and scary,

690
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 2: and color me shocked. That's seventy two hours in an

691
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 2: alleged rehab in Florida. Didn't get this all fixed? A

692
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 2: man I was lucky enough to call a friend, and

693
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 2: a true legend passed away. Sunday. We'll discuss that and

694
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 2: answer your questions next. What's right? All right? Welcome back in.

695
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 2: We'll get to your questions and you guys can add

696
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 2: some more if there's some good ones in the chat.

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00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 2: In just a second. Diora will be back Thursday. She's

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00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 2: traveling this morning back from California, but I just want

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00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 2: to mention. So Sunday we're in California at my wife's

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00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 2: aunt's house, having a nice mother's day. We had a

701
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 2: really nice surprise ninetieth birthday for my wife's great grandmother,

702
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 2: my wife's grandmother, pardon me. The day before and I

703
00:58:53,080 --> 00:59:00,919
Speaker 2: checked Twitter and I see that Doyle Brunson passed and

704
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 2: I was I didn't cry, but I almost did. Uh.

705
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 2: Doyle Brunson. If you don't know, he's they call the

706
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 2: Godfather of poker, one of the greatest poker players of

707
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 2: all time. I for a sports analogy, he would be

708
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 2: like Bill Russell, unbelievable success, unprecedented success in the early

709
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 2: era of the World Series of Poker, and a you know,

710
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 2: gambler for seventy years. A guy who was drafted to

711
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 2: the NBA sixty five years ago, got hurt, couldn't play,

712
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: and became professional gambler who was a die hard sports

713
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 2: fan in sports better who took a shining to me

714
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 2: because of my work on Coward Show and the fact

715
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 2: that I gave out winning NFL picks. And he and

716
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 2: I became friends. And I was lucky enough this December

717
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 2: to be in Vegas and he invited me to his

718
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 2: house to watch Chiefs Bengals. Eighty nine years old. And

719
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 2: I get to his house and his nurse lets me in.

720
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 2: He's old, old man and he's got in his office

721
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 2: three computer monitors two TV screens and all these betting

722
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 2: outfits open and tells me that for the last however

723
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 2: many years, such a legend man eighty nine years old.

724
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 2: The last however many years, he and a friend every

725
01:00:53,520 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 2: NFL Sunday go down the board and say who they

726
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 2: like against the spread in each game, and any game

727
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 2: they have disagreements on is an auto fifty thousand dollars

728
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 2: bet he and his friend and he spends every NFL

729
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 2: Sunday sweating their five or six disagreements, just the coolest

730
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 2: thing ever, eighty nine And then his nurse comes in

731
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, I owe you one hundred bucks

732
01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 2: and says to me. He's like, I let her pick

733
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 2: a game every week and give her one hundred dollars

734
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 2: free roll. And he opens his file cabinet or desk

735
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 2: drawer deep, you know, probably this high desk drawer, not

736
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 2: like a skinny one, like like a file cabinet, and

737
01:01:51,640 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 2: I swear to god, there's at least one hundred thousand

738
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 2: cash in loose hundreds in this drawer. And I'm just

739
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 2: sitting there and I'm like, this guy won the World

740
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: Series of Poker forty five years ago, has ten bracelets,

741
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: was a golf hustler, was playing in Texas carthouses. His

742
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:27,080
Speaker 2: stories are unbelievable. He's almost ninety and he's still just

743
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 2: out here doing it. Fifty grand a game for NFL

744
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 2: games one hundred thousand plus and loose cash in his office,

745
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 2: just living the life man. And then in March he

746
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 2: texts me, ah, this makes me sad. Man. Uh, He

747
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: text me, Hi, Nick, March, maddness almost here and I

748
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 2: don't have a clue. If you have the time to

749
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 2: message with me some picks, I would appreciate it. And

750
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 2: then he writes, better yet, if you come to town,

751
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 2: come out to my house and we can sweat them

752
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 2: in together. And I wrote back, I have no college

753
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 2: basketball insight, but if I do, once the bracket posts,

754
01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 2: I'll send you what I find. Not sure when I'm

755
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 2: in Vegas next ball, I'll hit you as soon as

756
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:25,880
Speaker 2: I know. And he said thank you. And that's the

757
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 2: last time we talked. And he's eighty nine, lived on

758
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 2: believable life. But it's sad, but salute to the legend

759
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 2: Doyle Brunson Man. And I'm really really grateful and glad

760
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 2: that randomly, out of nowhere he befriended me and I

761
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 2: got to spend an afternoon watching the Chiefs Bengals game.

762
01:03:55,480 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 2: Last game the Chiefs loss all right. Some fan questions

763
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 2: Noah Rodriguez two part question, which team deserves to win

764
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 2: the draft lottery and where do you personally want to

765
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 2: see Wimby go the most. I think the Magic kind

766
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 2: of deserve it. Even though they won last year, they

767
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 2: have been They've been so unlike they were unbelievably lucky

768
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 2: getting the number one picking back to Becca. Years ended

769
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 2: with Shack and Penny. Then they had terrible lottery luck

770
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 2: for a long time. I think the Magic deserve it

771
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 2: to a degree. I wouldn't. I'd love him to go

772
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 2: to Dallas obviously, for Luca, Portland for Dane would be fun.

773
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City would be fun. Uh, Houston has the history there.

774
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 2: I don't want to see san Antonio. Get him san Antonio.

775
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 2: David Robinson then tanked a year and got Duncan. Now

776
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 2: I've tanked a couple of years. I don't want him

777
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 2: to go there, And I don't want him to go

778
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 2: to Detroit or Charlotte. Really don't want him to go

779
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 2: to Charlotte because they're terribly run coach. Mystic says is

780
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 2: Doc rivers in the conversation for worst postseason coach ever,

781
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 2: I mean thirty two elimination game losses, three blown three

782
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 2: to one leads, four more blown three two leads. It's

783
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 2: not great, but he does have a title and a

784
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 2: Game seven appearance in the NBA Finals that they could

785
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 2: have won. But it's not great. Josiah Diaz says Eric

786
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 2: Spolstra submitted themselves top ten coach of all time since

787
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 2: the Heatles, he's always has a competitive team with lesser talent.

788
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 2: Celtics fan, I believe he's gonna make Missoula look silly.

789
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,040
Speaker 2: He's certainly on the cusp. I think he's probably already there,

790
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 2: and I think he's the biggest matchup edge they have

791
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 2: from Troy Duffy says, great take on Lebron. Evidence by

792
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 2: our inability to name who the best player in the

793
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 2: world is currently we expect because Lebron the best player

794
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 2: in the world to play in the finals every year.

795
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. That's the problem. The problem is it's

796
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:12,560
Speaker 2: not that Lebron set an impossible standard because Brady did two,

797
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:20,320
Speaker 2: but nobody was out there saying, actually Brady stinks. Nobody

798
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 2: was out there saying, actually, Brady's not that good, and

799
01:06:26,880 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 2: so we are able to appreciate it and not hold

800
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 2: other people to that standard. Beach Bead says, how do

801
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 2: you think the media will look at the Lakers' bubble

802
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 2: ring if they go on to win it all? Listen

803
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 2: that the only reason people disrespected what happened in the

804
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 2: Bubble was it's all revisionist history. It's all because the

805
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 2: Lakers won. During the Bubble, people were saying, this is

806
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 2: the highest level of basketball we've ever seen, because guys

807
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 2: are more rested, there's no travel, there's great sight lines.

808
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 2: The games were unbelievable. But because Lebron won the title,

809
01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 2: people wanted to retroactively take away from it, which maybe

810
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,680
Speaker 2: I would have listened to if it's like, oh, well,

811
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 2: they didn't have to go on the road, but they

812
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 2: were the one seat. But the fact that it was Lakers,

813
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 2: Nuggets heat Celtics in the final four and this year

814
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 2: it's the final four again, those arguments are falling even flatter. Oh, Nick,

815
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 2: the teams are different. Not the best players. Lakers were

816
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:32,920
Speaker 2: Lebron and Ad Nuggets were Jokic, Murray and Michael Porter. Junior,

817
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:38,240
Speaker 2: The Heat were Jimmy Bam and Hero, and the Celtics

818
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 2: were Tatum, Brown and Smart. That's who it was then,

819
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 2: that's who it is now. Gig says this most impressed

820
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 2: ring for Lebron No. Twenty sixteen, most impressive, most important,

821
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 2: and there's no question about it. Three o'clock today on

822
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,480
Speaker 2: FS one, I give out my pick for Game one

823
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 2: Lakers Nuggets. I'd love to do it here, I'm gonna

824
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 2: save that for the TV show because we're twelve and zero.

825
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:09,160
Speaker 2: Take that, you stupid Corgy. Talk to you guys Thursday.

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01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 2: What's right,