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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode one fifty
Speaker 2: one and I am solo today. Demandy's in La. He
Speaker 2: was gonna tap in for the show, but he got
Speaker 2: called into the Fox lot to do what he claims
Speaker 2: is cutting tape. I'm not sure exactly what that means,
Speaker 2: but so he couldn't do it. Deora is flying back.
Speaker 2: We were all in California together this week and as
Speaker 2: a family for Diora's great grandmother's ninetieth birthday and for
Speaker 2: Mother's Day. So I am solo today. But that is
Speaker 2: just fine because we have so much to get to
Speaker 2: that we will get to starting right now. Here is
Speaker 2: what has missed the cut for today's show. Not on
Speaker 2: today's show is Brady and the Raiders talking ownership. Not
Speaker 2: on today's show is Matt Ryan seemingly not retiring but
Speaker 2: also joining CBS. And not on today's show is the
Speaker 2: fact that Bryce Young is very very short. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's breaking news, and it is a massive concern. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you can't see Bryce Young if you're watching on YouTube,
Speaker 2: but we promise he's out there. Oh they actually edited him. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's unfair. I thought he was just being obscured by
Speaker 2: the offensive lineman, but instead they just made him much
Speaker 2: smaller than he actually is. What we will discuss on
Speaker 2: today's show is all things NBA Playoffs, and the entirety
Speaker 2: of the A block is going to be Lakers, Warriors,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Steph. We will get to Jah, we will
Speaker 2: get to the Sixers, Celtics, we will get to Celtics Heat,
Speaker 2: and Lakers Nuggets. But to start today's show, we are
Speaker 2: going to do Lakers Warriors and Lebron's Steph. And it
Speaker 2: is not just because eight million people watched every game,
Speaker 2: seven and a half to eight million, I should say
Speaker 2: and it was the highest rated second round series on record.
Speaker 2: It is not just because it was my pick that
Speaker 2: kind of went against the grain and I was taunted that, oh,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do when the Warriors make you
Speaker 2: look like an idiot again? It the reason we are
Speaker 2: going to give this series the attention it deserves is
Speaker 2: because going into the series, my colleagues in sports media
Speaker 2: decided this was going to be a referendum on Lebron
Speaker 2: James versus Steph Kirk. How can a guy be the
Speaker 2: goat if he couldn't beat someone in his own era?
Speaker 2: What will it say if Steph gets to four and
Speaker 2: one in playoff series against Lebron James? Is Steph actually
Speaker 2: the player of this post Michael Jordan era not Lebron James.
Speaker 2: That that is not a straw man, That is not
Speaker 2: a fa that is not fake news. Those are the
Speaker 2: conversations people were demanding we have. And then Lebron wins
Speaker 2: on a Friday night and by Monday, it's all look
Speaker 2: at Ah Lakers, Nuggets, all the Sixers melt it down again,
Speaker 2: au Tatum's fifty one, Keep it moving, Keep it moving,
Speaker 2: Clay Stunk, what's Draymond's future? Can ad handle Joker, And
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there listening to every podcast there is
Speaker 2: consuming as much as sports TV and media as I could, saying, Hey,
Speaker 2: we gonna do a final tally? Heere are we going
Speaker 2: to discuss that? This is now five times Lebron James
Speaker 2: and Steph Curry have met in the postseason, and five
Speaker 2: times Lebron has outplayed him. Oh, Nick, that's unfair, is it?
Speaker 2: Let's go through them. Twenty fifteen Steph Curry. I disagreed
Speaker 2: with the folks who voted on the award, but twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen NBA Finals MVP voters said Steph wasn't even the
Speaker 2: most valuable guy on his own squad. That was Kevin,
Speaker 2: That was Andre Iguidala and his sixteen six and four.
Speaker 2: So why did a guy who averaged sixteen six and
Speaker 2: four win a Finals MVP over a teammate who averaged
Speaker 2: twenty six five and six. Oh because Iguidalah's real heroics
Speaker 2: were holding Lebron James to thirty six thirteen and nine,
Speaker 2: holding him to thirty six, thirteen and nine. So twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen was no it was no question who outplayed who.
Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen, we know the story Steph calls Game seven
Speaker 2: the biggest game of his life, and then after after
Speaker 2: the game, calls it one of the worst games of
Speaker 2: his life. Lebron goes for thirty eleven and nine in
Speaker 2: the series, and Steph goes for twenty two, five and four.
Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen, Steph was really good, twenty seven, eight and nine.
Speaker 2: Lebron thirty four to twelve and ten on fifty six
Speaker 2: percent from the field. In the finals twenty eighteen, Lebron
Speaker 2: has arguably the single greatest game of his career in
Speaker 2: Game one for the series gives you thirty four, nine
Speaker 2: and ten on fifty three percent. Steph twenty eight, six
Speaker 2: and seven. And then this series Steph Curry was quite good?
Speaker 2: Was he great? No more on that in the moment, Stephan,
Speaker 2: this series gave you twenty seven five and a half
Speaker 2: and seven and a half. Lebron gave you twenty five
Speaker 2: nine and five and a half. The keynotes here on
Speaker 2: why to me, it is crystal clear that for the
Speaker 2: fifth consecutive series when they played each other, Lebron outplayed him.
Speaker 2: Is not only the shooting percentages, where Lebron's forty nine
Speaker 2: percent Steph's forty four percent the three point percentages, where
Speaker 2: Lebron was thirty three point three and Steph was thirty
Speaker 2: four point three. But the series flipped by hunting Steph
Speaker 2: Curry and to a lesser extent when he was out
Speaker 2: there Jordan Poole in the pick and roll and the
Speaker 2: critical game. The fork in the road game of the series,
Speaker 2: Game four, involved Steph missing back to back ahead shots
Speaker 2: and then at the end of it throwing the ball
Speaker 2: backwards over the top of his head out of bounds.
Speaker 2: And anyone who is being honest would tell you that
Speaker 2: if the Lakers had lost the series and the numbers
Speaker 2: were identical and the reason they lost was because old
Speaker 2: man Lebron was hunted defensively and in the critical game
Speaker 2: missed back to back clutch shots and then had an
Speaker 2: egregious turnover, no one would be arguing, oh, yeah, Lebron
Speaker 2: played him to a draw. Lebron outplayed him nobody. But
Speaker 2: that's not where the revisionist history of something we just
Speaker 2: saw ended. I then, from folks who picked the Warriors
Speaker 2: to win the series, some picked him to win the title.
Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, Oh well, I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: it's like Lebron in twenty eighteen. Yeah, they lost, but
Speaker 2: you can't hold it against Steph. That team was no good. Really,
Speaker 2: I mean I actually agree the team is not very good,
Speaker 2: but no one agreed with me. I was a hater,
Speaker 2: I was a troll champion. I wasn't respecting the heart
Speaker 2: of a champion. Well, Nick Lebron's now got a d.
Speaker 2: It's like when Steph had Kevin Durant. Yes, if all
Speaker 2: Steph had was Kevin Durant. And while I like Austin
Speaker 2: Reeves a lot and I think the other Lakers role
Speaker 2: players have been quite good, please do not insult my
Speaker 2: intelligence by saying, after Stephan Lebron, a next three of
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis, who's unbelievable, Austin Reeves and Lonnie Walker is
Speaker 2: in the same stratosphere of a next three of Apex
Speaker 2: pre injury, Kevin Durant, apex pre injury Klay Thompson, and
Speaker 2: Apex Draymond Green. Give me a break. These are not
Speaker 2: the same. They're not and it's not an indictment on
Speaker 2: Steph Curry. Steph is one of the twelve greatest players ever,
Speaker 2: maybe one of the ten greatest players ever. But think
Speaker 2: about what that means because the entirety of Steph's case,
Speaker 2: all of his MVP votes, all of his Finals appearances,
Speaker 2: all of his first Team All NBAS, all of them
Speaker 2: have come from twenty fifteen to now, this nine season
Speaker 2: stretch that coincides with when Lebron went back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2: So if after Miami Lebron had pulled an MJ and
Speaker 2: called it a career, I've got four MVPs, I've got
Speaker 2: two rings, I've got two Finals MVPs, I'm done. Four MVPs,
Speaker 2: two rings, four finals appearances. I think nine first Team
Speaker 2: All NBAS that would have been Lebron. Maybe eight first
Speaker 2: Team All NBAS that would have been Lebron's career from
Speaker 2: his rookie year through the end of Miami. That would
Speaker 2: put him as one of the twelve greatest players ever.
Speaker 2: Put him neck and neck with a team bird those guys, right,
Speaker 2: So follow me along here. Lebron, his career before Steph
Speaker 2: even gets going, is a top twelve guy at a minimum.
Speaker 2: At a minimum, Steph then has a decade of a
Speaker 2: career starting after the Heatles era that he accomplishes enough
Speaker 2: to become the top twelve guy, and at the end
Speaker 2: of that Stephan Lebron meet in the playoffs again and
Speaker 2: Lebron outplays him. Think about it, what we're and we
Speaker 2: we take for granted, and we we become somewhat a
Speaker 2: nerd to what we're seeing. Mark Jackson, beginning of game
Speaker 2: fourth quarter Game six, says, just somewhat flippantly, if I'm Lebron,
Speaker 2: I'm not coming out in this fourth quarter. Up to
Speaker 2: that point, Lebron had spent one minute on the bench.
Speaker 2: He had played thirty five of thirty six minutes, and
Speaker 2: Mark Jackson is saying just casually that the expectation, therefore
Speaker 2: is Lebron's gonna have to play forty seven of forty
Speaker 2: eight minutes in this game. Now, he ended up playing
Speaker 2: forty three of forty four, and then they took everyone
Speaker 2: out in the final four minutes because it was a blowout.
Speaker 2: But he was going to do it. But Nick, I'm
Speaker 2: a Lebron guy, but we all know, you know he's
Speaker 2: not vintage Lebron. Agreed, But let's talk about what that
Speaker 2: means too. So Lebron James this postseason is averaging for
Speaker 2: the postseason. I'll give you the exact numbers, twenty three,
Speaker 2: ten and five on forty nine percent, twenty three, ten
Speaker 2: and five on forty nine percent. It's his worst career
Speaker 2: playoff numbers. What is that comparable to the So again,
Speaker 2: it's twenty three ten five forty nine percent. Larry Bird's
Speaker 2: Larry Bird one of the ten greatest players ever, a
Speaker 2: guy who also didn't have a super long career and
Speaker 2: doesn't have long playoff runs like Kareem did into his
Speaker 2: much later years. That dragged down the averages Larry bird
Speaker 2: career playoff averages. Remember, Lebron is twenty three, ten and
Speaker 2: five on forty nine percent in what's his worst postseason ever?
Speaker 2: Bird's career twenty three, ten and six on forty seven percent.
Speaker 2: So the worst we've ever seen. Lebron is damn near
Speaker 2: identical to median Larry Bird. I'll put it to you
Speaker 2: another way. The narrative that I somewhat agreed with after
Speaker 2: round one Steph Curry's thirty five and this is the
Speaker 2: best he's ever been might be true, might be the
Speaker 2: best he's ever been. So think about that. We all
Speaker 2: agree this is the worst Lebron's been basically ever in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. So that's eighteen years, so we have the
Speaker 2: worst Lebron has come all the way down from the
Speaker 2: heights of you know, either the best or second best
Speaker 2: player ever, all the way down to the worst he's
Speaker 2: ever been. Steph keeps raising, raising, raising, and he's now
Speaker 2: the best he's ever been, and Lebron was just better
Speaker 2: than him, the best step we've ever seen, the worst
Speaker 2: Lebron we've ever seen. And the series came down to
Speaker 2: Lebron James with the ball in his hand, hunting Steph
Speaker 2: Curry saying, get him in this switch, get him in
Speaker 2: this matchup. And then in Game six, Lebron scores thirty
Speaker 2: points on fourteen shots, playing an essentially perfect close out
Speaker 2: basketball game, which should not surprise anybody, because and this
Speaker 2: is what is baffling to me that seemingly nobody else
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say nobody, but very few of my colleagues
Speaker 2: have picked up on that. While every other star that
Speaker 2: we you know, the last twenty some years, except for
Speaker 2: maybe Shank, treats at the very least each series and
Speaker 2: very often each game in the playoffs as a singular,
Speaker 2: enclosed event, Lebron correctly treats the postseason as a marathon,
Speaker 2: a twenty six mile race. And there is no use
Speaker 2: whatsoever to being the leader after six miles or ten
Speaker 2: miles or fourteen miles, if it means by mile twenty
Speaker 2: three or twenty four, you're out of gas. You don't
Speaker 2: have anything left. And his ability to pace himself and
Speaker 2: find the moments. So he is and this is what
Speaker 2: he is better at. This is undeniable, better at than
Speaker 2: any player in league history. To make sure he is
Speaker 2: playing in the final game of the season and still
Speaker 2: has stuff left in the tank. It is not happenstance.
Speaker 2: It is not because of just the raw athleticism. It's
Speaker 2: not just because of the hyperbaric chamber. It's because he
Speaker 2: is mapping out these two months the moment the postseason begins.
Speaker 2: And these are other great players in the league who
Speaker 2: have not figured this out. Kevin Durant, unbelievably efficient in
Speaker 2: round one, played really well in Round two, but could
Speaker 2: not pace himself and by the latter half of Round
Speaker 2: two fell off a cliff, as did his teammate Devin Booker.
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid game seven, didn't have it. Steph game six,
Speaker 2: his legs were gone. We now all of those guys
Speaker 2: that I just mentioned had over the first month of
Speaker 2: the playoffs, each of them three four in Booker's case,
Speaker 2: probably eight singular playoff games that were more impressive than
Speaker 2: anything Lebron had done prior to Game six. But that's
Speaker 2: not the goal. Now. If you are Jalen Brunson, then
Speaker 2: and your team really can't win the title, then maxing
Speaker 2: out in round two makes sense. But if you are
Speaker 2: on a team, you know, the one guy who I
Speaker 2: think gets the oddly better than almost any other star.
Speaker 2: And then, by the way, let me also add this,
Speaker 2: there's Jokic who and we'll see. We'll see how the
Speaker 2: conference finals work out for him, but Jokic appears to
Speaker 2: just be at an able to be at an A
Speaker 2: to a plus level every game and not slow down. Now,
Speaker 2: we'll see, but thus far he's been doing that. But
Speaker 2: the one other guy who understands a la Lebron. I
Speaker 2: am trying to be in this for the long haul,
Speaker 2: and I can't be great twenty times. So let me
Speaker 2: pick my spots is Jimmy Butler. And you would you've
Speaker 2: seen it the year they went to the finals. Jimmy
Speaker 2: Butler Round two against Milwaukee, huge spot, go for forty
Speaker 2: throttles down a bit in Game two, Game three, a
Speaker 2: chance to take control of the series goes for thirty
Speaker 2: then throttles down entirely, get to the finals down oh
Speaker 2: two of forty eleven and thirteen, doesn't have it the
Speaker 2: next night Game five, an elimination game thirty five twelve
Speaker 2: and eleven, and at that point he was out of
Speaker 2: Gasidonavin in game six. Same thing last year for Jimmy
Speaker 2: in the conference finals. Now he was banged up. But
Speaker 2: in those conference finals they're in Boston for games three
Speaker 2: and four, he has fourteen points combined. He has thirteen
Speaker 2: points in game five, Game six of forty seven to nine,
Speaker 2: and eight. Game seven a thirty five and nine, playing
Speaker 2: all forty eight minutes. He knew he had to bring
Speaker 2: it every single game this year against Milwaukee, and then
Speaker 2: throttled back against the Knicks because he knows he's gonna
Speaker 2: have to have it every single night against Boston. There's
Speaker 2: a strategy to this, and you would think the fact
Speaker 2: that's from twenty eleven to now, Lebron's seasons have ended
Speaker 2: with playing in the last game, playing in the last game,
Speaker 2: playing in the last game, playing in the last game,
Speaker 2: injured with the Lakers playing in the last game, injured,
Speaker 2: injured playing, well, we'll see if he's playing in the
Speaker 2: last game. I you would think folks would realize there's
Speaker 2: levels to this, And on that note, I do worry
Speaker 2: that there is anybody that watches this show or is
Speaker 2: a fan of this. The stuff I've done knows. One
Speaker 2: of my favorite kind of thought exercise things is unintended consequences.
Speaker 2: This happens, then, so I one quick nonsports tangent. One
Speaker 2: of the most fascinating articles I've ever read was Gosh,
Speaker 2: probably a decade ago, and it talked about self driving
Speaker 2: cars and self driving cars. The ripple effect of that
Speaker 2: is felt across basically every industry in America, for good
Speaker 2: and for bad. About if they're self driving cars, then
Speaker 2: people don't own cars anymore because they're just gonna be
Speaker 2: driving around. You're just gonna hop in. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: essentially like auto uber everywhere. People won't spend money on it,
Speaker 2: so people will have an extra thirty forty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: more small businesses will start. There will be that. That'll
Speaker 2: be good. The bad will be The biggest employer in
Speaker 2: the country is truck driving, those jobs will be gone mechanics.
Speaker 2: That's all of the ripple effects. And the article again,
Speaker 2: I gave you the four cent version of a fifty
Speaker 2: dollars article. I'm fascinated by that. So there is a
Speaker 2: really unfortunate, unintended consequence of the fact that we have
Speaker 2: witnessed in real time over the last fifteen years the
Speaker 2: greatest team sport athlete in American history, with the possible
Speaker 2: exception to Tom Brady, and so much of the people
Speaker 2: watching it and covering it have been dedicated to trying
Speaker 2: to pick at it or tear it away, and the
Speaker 2: unintended consequences Now everybody sucks. What do I mean? Well,
Speaker 2: we not only got spoiled to the eight straight finals
Speaker 2: appearances nine out of ten years, consistent excellence, one bad
Speaker 2: playoff game a season. And because if the narrative while
Speaker 2: that was happening was this guy is either clearly either
Speaker 2: the greatest or the second greatest player ever it is
Speaker 2: impossible what he's doing, then we wouldn't hold anyone else
Speaker 2: to that standard. But because a loud portion of the
Speaker 2: narrative was overrated, Ray Allen saved his legacy, Kyrie saved
Speaker 2: his legacy, Mickey Mouse Ring not as good as Kobe
Speaker 2: is scared all this stuff, then, either consciously or subconsciously,
Speaker 2: if what Lebron did wasn't jaw dropping impressive, then who's
Speaker 2: any good we now look at? And I'm guilty of
Speaker 2: this two degrees as well. Giannis wins a title, goes
Speaker 2: out in round two but is great, and then a
Speaker 2: really disappointing Round one. Man, maybe not as good as
Speaker 2: we thought. Durant by our eyes, one of the greatest
Speaker 2: players we've ever seen. Man long time since he's been
Speaker 2: to a finals, even though he's been to four in
Speaker 2: his career. You know what's his legacy about? Anyways? Forget
Speaker 2: guys like Harden and Embiid who actually have legitimate pardon
Speaker 2: much more so, but postseason failures, nobody, nobody will hold
Speaker 2: up even Steph. Steph, Yeah, he's unbelievable, but missed the
Speaker 2: playoffs two years in a row this year out in
Speaker 2: round two. I mean, he's great, but nobody is going
Speaker 2: to look good under the light of those standards because
Speaker 2: there was an impossible precedent set of what what Lebron
Speaker 2: has done is not what the best player in the
Speaker 2: league is supposed to be able to do. It's only
Speaker 2: what the best player ever is supposed to be able
Speaker 2: to do. But because not only do most people not
Speaker 2: think he's the best player ever, many people don't want to.
Speaker 2: At various points during this have tried to argue he's
Speaker 2: not even the best player in the league. If that's
Speaker 2: the standard, if Lebron when he was doing this, wasn't
Speaker 2: as good as Duran, or wasn't as good as Steph,
Speaker 2: or at the beginning of it, wasn't as good as Kobe,
Speaker 2: then it's a fair standard. You want to be the
Speaker 2: best player in the league, you gotta do X, Y
Speaker 2: and z. But it's always been an impossible standard, and
Speaker 2: now everybody's gonna fall victim to it. Everybody. Luca, you
Speaker 2: are the second all time highest leading playoff score points
Speaker 2: per game. You drag a team to the conference by
Speaker 2: you have a down year. I guess you're not that good.
Speaker 2: I guess we've overrated you for much. Dame missed the
Speaker 2: Bios multiple years in a row. Volume score. What else
Speaker 2: are you? Devin Booker? I just watched you score thirty
Speaker 2: six a night for three weeks of the playoffs, but
Speaker 2: you're out in round two and back to back years
Speaker 2: after making the finals. Yeah, but who cares? How good
Speaker 2: are you? Chris Paul all time legend? We thought, but
Speaker 2: one finals appearance. These are some of the greatest players ever,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna end up disrespecting all of them as
Speaker 2: the unindended consequence of how we've discussed Lebron. All right,
Speaker 2: now to the Warriors quickly. We didn't talk about this
Speaker 2: on TV, but I will acknowledge I think the Draymond
Speaker 2: moment in the handshake line was something in this regard.
Speaker 2: So if people didn't see it after the game, the
Speaker 2: first people to the first person to greet Lebron is Draymond,
Speaker 2: and it is a joyous embrace. And those guys are
Speaker 2: close friends and business partners, and they're both clutch guys.
Speaker 2: Got it? But you then saw that? And then the
Speaker 2: camera smartly cut to a disconsolate Steph Curry just beside himself.
Speaker 2: And it was, in my opinion, somewhat telling in this regard.
Speaker 2: Draymond at this point in his career to be great
Speaker 2: has to kind of go outside the bounds of the rules.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it. I thought it was wildly dirty.
Speaker 2: But stomping on Sabonis's Chest worked in Round one and
Speaker 2: probably for them, was worth the one game suspension. Draymond
Speaker 2: was not gonna be able to do that type of
Speaker 2: stuff to Lebron. Lebron seen it too many times and
Speaker 2: it just wasn't gonna work. But he might have been
Speaker 2: able to do some of it to Anthony Davis. But
Speaker 2: because their friends and both clutch guys, it felt like
Speaker 2: Draymond in this series tried to play it straight, and
Speaker 2: at this point in his career, he's not good enough
Speaker 2: to have the type of impact they need him to
Speaker 2: have if he's playing it straight. So I did think
Speaker 2: that was noteworthy. As far as what the Warriors do
Speaker 2: from here, all the reporting seems to be they are
Speaker 2: going to bring back Draymond and Clay. Here's the issue
Speaker 2: with that, and Zach Low pointed this out, and he's correct.
Speaker 2: I don't want to misquote Zach. Zach made kind of
Speaker 2: a tangential point off this that got me thinking about this.
Speaker 2: So I'm giving Zach credit, but I don't want to
Speaker 2: misrepresent what he said. Zach pointed out that they want
Speaker 2: to bring back Clay and Draymond, but they're going to
Speaker 2: need to do it at significantly lower numbers. Clay has
Speaker 2: one guaranteed year left on his deal, so it would
Speaker 2: be as far as an extension goes, Draymond can opt
Speaker 2: out and get a new deal. There's two issues with that.
Speaker 2: The first one is you cannot credibly ask either one
Speaker 2: of those guys to take less money than Jordan Poole makes.
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole makes thirty two million dollars a year. Neither
Speaker 2: one of those guys can you ask them to take
Speaker 2: less money than him unless he's not on the team.
Speaker 2: But trading Jordan Poole is not going to be easy
Speaker 2: because that right there might be the worst contract in
Speaker 2: the league. He is an unplayable playoff guy at the moment,
Speaker 2: because here's the thing about the NBA playoffs. In the
Speaker 2: regular season, offense is drastically more important than defense, and
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, offense is still more important than defense.
Speaker 2: With this caveat, you can get away with playing an
Speaker 2: offensive zero in the playoffs if they do everything else, great,
Speaker 2: you can. The Sixers were kind of doing with PJ. Tucker.
Speaker 2: We've seen teams do it in the past. Guys who
Speaker 2: will just stand in the cour corner stay out at
Speaker 2: an O'tucker can hit corner threes. But you guys know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Guys that are either rebounders, great defenders.
Speaker 2: You can get away with playing those guys in the postseason,
Speaker 2: not huge mans, We can get away with playing them.
Speaker 2: You cannot get away with playing defensive zeros because the
Speaker 2: other team in the playoffs will scrap if they're smart
Speaker 2: everything they do. Force that guy into the action every
Speaker 2: single time and get a good look every single time.
Speaker 2: It's why Jordan Poole was a foul machine and unplayable
Speaker 2: in this series. So who wants a thirty plus million
Speaker 2: dollars a year playoff liability that his teammates don't seem
Speaker 2: to love. But you have to trade him if you're
Speaker 2: going to try and get Clay and Draymond to take
Speaker 2: less money. Here's the other hang up on getting Clay
Speaker 2: and Draymond to take less money. And this is the point,
Speaker 2: zach mate. It doesn't actually allow the war It's not
Speaker 2: like you can go to Clay and Draymond be like,
Speaker 2: take less money, so we can add X, Y and Z.
Speaker 2: That's not the case at all. The Warriors are capped
Speaker 2: out with no matter what. If they have Steph Wiggins,
Speaker 2: Clay Draymond at any amount of money, they're capped out.
Speaker 2: So the only advantage to them taking less money is
Speaker 2: it saves Joe lakeup money against the tax. And yes,
Speaker 2: the Warriors could you know, be kicked to the end
Speaker 2: of the draft seven years from now and things like
Speaker 2: that in the new CBA, but none of that affects
Speaker 2: Clay and Draymond. So it is just a discussion of
Speaker 2: we want you the multi millionaire to take less money
Speaker 2: because it will save the billionaire millions. That takes some
Speaker 2: real finessing, so we'll see. But it's not as easy
Speaker 2: as it sounds. And credit to Steph for being brilliant
Speaker 2: enough to get them a title. They really had no
Speaker 2: business winning last year. But this is the end of
Speaker 2: the road for them. It's an unbelievable run. It's nine years,
Speaker 2: it's six finals, it's four rings. But they had they
Speaker 2: had a chance to extend this. They had the number,
Speaker 2: they had the number two pick, the number seven pick
Speaker 2: and whatever Moody was the number fourteen pick, I think,
Speaker 2: and they appear to have whiffed. They definitely whiffed on.
Speaker 2: Wiseman Kaminga was DNB Coaches decision all postseason and Moody
Speaker 2: is was the youngest player in the draft when he
Speaker 2: was taken, I think, and while he was out there
Speaker 2: in some moments he's not ready yet. And Steph, as
Speaker 2: great as he is, is thirty five. So I fear,
Speaker 2: and by fear, I mean it does kind of delight me.
Speaker 2: Light years season and the Warriors window is closed. It's
Speaker 2: an unbelievable run, but it also does mean to circle
Speaker 2: this back to Lebron for world what it's worth. When
Speaker 2: Lebron came into the league in the East, the Detroit
Speaker 2: Pistons were the team I think they went to was
Speaker 2: it five straight or six straight Eastern Conference Finals? I
Speaker 2: want to make sure I have it right. It started
Speaker 2: in three, three, four, five, They went to eight I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: six straight conference finals. They won a championship the very
Speaker 2: next year they were in Game seven of the finals.
Speaker 2: Lebron ended that run with the forty eight Special. In
Speaker 2: reaction to the forty eight Special, the Celtics created the
Speaker 2: first modern super team in the East. They're at well, yeah,
Speaker 2: of the twentieth century. Of the sorry twenty first century.
Speaker 2: Lakers tried with Malone and Gary Payton didn't work, but
Speaker 2: in reaction to what Lebron did. The Celtics created KG
Speaker 2: Paul Pierce ray Allen. They had an unbelievable run and
Speaker 2: knocked out Lebron a few times. Lebron then ended the
Speaker 2: Celtics Big Three in Boston. The death knell was the
Speaker 2: forty five, fifteen and five, down three to two, Game
Speaker 2: six of the twenty twelve Eastern Conference Finals. That was
Speaker 2: that they beat him the previous year, beat him again.
Speaker 2: That was that he then there is a budding dynasty
Speaker 2: in Golden State. They win a title. They then win
Speaker 2: seventy three games, execute a three to one comeback, have
Speaker 2: the unanimous MVP. Lebron so rocks them with the greatest
Speaker 2: three game stretch in the history of the league. And
Speaker 2: I know, I say that a lot just kind of nonchalantly.
Speaker 2: That is undeniable. Down three to one to a seventy
Speaker 2: three win team, he went forty one sixteen seven, three
Speaker 2: and three, followed that up with forty one eight eleven,
Speaker 2: four and three, and followed that up with twenty seven
Speaker 2: eleven eleven, two and three and the greatest defensive play
Speaker 2: in the history of the league. He so shook them
Speaker 2: with that that Draymond's crying in his car and they
Speaker 2: go get Kevin Durant, that teem's essentially unbeatable, and then
Speaker 2: Durant leaves and it's like, oh, they win another title.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they're gonna go on another run. And
Speaker 2: Lebron ended that one too, and in the midst of it,
Speaker 2: in the in between, Lebron peeled to title himself with
Speaker 2: the Lakers. So the Pistons era ended by Young Lebron,
Speaker 2: the Celtics era ended by Prime Lebron, the Golden State
Speaker 2: pre kd era ended by older Lebron, and the Golden
Speaker 2: State post Kde era ended by old man Lebron. Never
Speaker 2: see anything like it, never in the past, never will
Speaker 2: again as forty solid. So you guys might wonder what
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick writ
Speaker 2: Some breaking news from literally just a couple minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Not shocking. Doc Rivers fired, so Boonenholtz fired, Money, Williams fired,
Speaker 2: Doc Rivers fired, man me and NBA head code. Not
Speaker 2: great job security, great money, not great job security. This
Speaker 2: likely comes as a shock to no one, and man,
Speaker 2: this is one of my favorite things about sports, not
Speaker 2: Doc being fired, but also one of the craziest things
Speaker 2: about sports. Midway through the fourth quarter of Game six,
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum was one for fourteen. The Celtics were trailing,
Speaker 2: and Philly was poised to be a massive favorite in
Speaker 2: Round three against Miami. Have home court advantage against whomever
Speaker 2: comes out of the West, Denver or the Lakers make
Speaker 2: their first conference finals since Iverson and one embied validate
Speaker 2: the MVP. Harden really shed some of the playoff choker
Speaker 2: stuff because he was so great in games one and four,
Speaker 2: all of that. If the Sixers could close Game six,
Speaker 2: they had three possessions up to midway through the fourth
Speaker 2: before Tatum made us had made a single three to
Speaker 2: get hot. They blew those possessions. And by the way,
Speaker 2: if Philly wins that, it's not just what it means
Speaker 2: for Philly, it's also Boston probably as a Really the
Speaker 2: news today is probably Missoula's been fired, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of jail and brown speculation instead, and a lot
Speaker 2: of conversation about Tatum, who had been bad in the
Speaker 2: first quarter of Game four five, first three quarters of
Speaker 2: Game six, a lot of talk. Instead, Tatum makes a
Speaker 2: few huge shots, Philly can get nothing going. They lose.
Speaker 2: They didn't have an all time meltdown. In the third
Speaker 2: quarter of Game seven, Tatum breaks Steph's game seven record.
Speaker 2: We went seventy six years of the NBA with nobody's
Speaker 2: scoring fifty in a game seven. It's happened twice in
Speaker 2: fourteen days. Steps record stood for two weeks and now
Speaker 2: Docs fired Hardin has a three for eleven total afraid, embarrassing,
Speaker 2: no show. Embeed not only doesn't validate the MVP, but
Speaker 2: goes in the other direction. Has the worst playoff game
Speaker 2: of his life in Game seven, particularly when you include
Speaker 2: the fact that they hunted him defensively and now Docs
Speaker 2: fired and who the hell knows and Boston is a
Speaker 2: massive favorite to go to their second straight finals. Man,
Speaker 2: those margins, man, So I happen to like Miami in
Speaker 2: this series. I think Jimmy in this series is more
Speaker 2: reliable than Tatum, and you can't even be like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe he's more reliable, but Tatum's peaks. I mean, Jimmy
Speaker 2: had fifty six in a playoff game a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Jimmy's peaks are as high as anybody's this postseason. To me,
Speaker 2: he's more consistent than Tatum is, and he's had some
Speaker 2: time to get that ankle right. But the real reason
Speaker 2: I like Miami in this series is because the Spolstra
Speaker 2: missoula mismatch that might be coach one versus coach thirty.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is as big of a coaching mismatch
Speaker 2: as you will ever see in a conference finals. So
Speaker 2: I like Miami the other news since the last time
Speaker 2: we talked, predictably is Phoenix ran out of gas and
Speaker 2: the Nuggets ran rough shot all over them. So Mani's gone.
Speaker 2: Everybody likes MANI I get why you'd fire him. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize this until after the fact. A lot of
Speaker 2: reporting after the factors like, oh, yeah, we all knew
Speaker 2: this was coming. I didn't know it was coming. But
Speaker 2: I guess I'm not just plugged in that Ishbo wanted
Speaker 2: to get his own guy. So be it the h
Speaker 2: The noteworthy stuff from that Phoenix series and we'll get
Speaker 2: to the Denver side in a moment. Is you can't
Speaker 2: play these guys forty four minutes a game and then
Speaker 2: they're gonna stay super efficient. You just can't. I was
Speaker 2: wilds and brew kept laughing at me in round one
Speaker 2: when Phoenix kept winning games, and I kept saying, I'm
Speaker 2: less confident in them. I'm less confident in them. They
Speaker 2: were a five man team at best. That then Chris
Speaker 2: Paul got hurt predictably eight and was a no show
Speaker 2: and then literally couldn't play, which is not shocking, and
Speaker 2: Durant and Booker's efficiency falls off the map, and they
Speaker 2: just weren't built for it. They need to find a
Speaker 2: way see if they can move Chris for rotational pieces
Speaker 2: because they need more playoff bodies. But the real story
Speaker 2: in Phoenix is just a totally bizarre five years of
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's career. Kevin Durant went to three straight finals
Speaker 2: in Golden State, and in twenty nineteen, he has a
Speaker 2: calf injury in round two against the Rockets, Minces the
Speaker 2: entire conference finals, comes back, probably early against the Raptors
Speaker 2: in the finals, and tragically pops his achilles. He played
Speaker 2: eleven minutes in that game, that is June of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Those are the only eleven minutes of playoff basketball post
Speaker 2: round two we have seen from Kevin Durant in the
Speaker 2: last five years. That's incomprehensible. Twenty twenty, he's out all
Speaker 2: year because of the achilles. Twenty twenty one, Kyrie gets hurt,
Speaker 2: Hardens hurt, hardens them back. They have the duel with Giannis.
Speaker 2: They lose twenty twenty two, swept in round one. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, he forces the trade to Phoenix. They're out
Speaker 2: in round two in what was not a particularly close
Speaker 2: six game series, and he turns thirty five before next
Speaker 2: season starts, and it is just a bizarre end of
Speaker 2: his prime because when he's been out there, he's been
Speaker 2: so good. Now he wasn't great this postseason, but he
Speaker 2: was good and nothing to show for it, absolutely nothing
Speaker 2: to show for it. So I think Phoenix is in
Speaker 2: really rough shape, really rough shape moving forward. And I
Speaker 2: really didn't like Devin Booker skipping out on all the
Speaker 2: media stuff. I think, if you're the best player on
Speaker 2: a team or the co best player in the face
Speaker 2: of the franchise, so much worse than Dylan Brooks. Devin
Speaker 2: Booker didn't do post game availability after Game six, after
Speaker 2: the second straight year at home in a closeout game,
Speaker 2: they're down thirty at halftime. It's mortifying, and then he
Speaker 2: skips the exit interview. Guy's been in the league too
Speaker 2: long to do that, in my opinion. So I think
Speaker 2: Phoenix has some really rough choices ahead the eyes. We
Speaker 2: have to trade Aighton. That's another I mean, I threw
Speaker 2: this out there on the TV show. There seems to
Speaker 2: be more momentum towards it now eight and for Pool
Speaker 2: with a few other things kicked in. If you're the
Speaker 2: Warriors is an interesting idea, but that's probably not what
Speaker 2: Phoenix needs. And then there's the jaw situation, and I
Speaker 2: have I could do twenty minutes on this, but so
Speaker 2: much of it is what we discussed the first time.
Speaker 2: So here's here's all I'm gonna say about the jaw situation.
Speaker 2: The point is not whether or not he broke any laws.
Speaker 2: Talked about it for again, and people got mad at
Speaker 2: me because I guess I accurately under stand history. But
Speaker 2: obviously there is a different and hypocritical reaction from the
Speaker 2: media and the general population when it's black guys playing
Speaker 2: with guns than white guys playing toy soldier. We know that.
Speaker 2: And all the proof anyone that's arguing that I'm wrong
Speaker 2: about that, go look up the Moulford Act, where you
Speaker 2: had the NRA and Ronald Reagan uniting to pass gun
Speaker 2: control measures. Again, Ronald Reagan is the governor of California.
Speaker 2: The NRA came together to pass gun control legislation. Why
Speaker 2: because the black panthers were marching around with guns and
Speaker 2: it freaks people out. So of course there is a
Speaker 2: level of me that, from a righteousness perspective, say, as
Speaker 2: Job broke no laws, we are insane in this country.
Speaker 2: About guns, which is why what he did in that
Speaker 2: car is not breaking any laws. So what's the problem.
Speaker 2: But the logical part of me and the logical part
Speaker 2: of everyone knows what the problem is. There are a
Speaker 2: lot of things you can do that don't break a law,
Speaker 2: but that will get you in trouble with your employer.
Speaker 2: The NBA if job posted on Instagram a home made
Speaker 2: sex tape three months ago, and the Grizzlies suspended him
Speaker 2: and Adam Silver talked to him. He's like, I'll never
Speaker 2: do it again. I learned my lesson, and then a
Speaker 2: week after being eliminated from the playoffs, posted another sex tape.
Speaker 2: Guess what he'd be in a lot of trouble, not
Speaker 2: illegal breaking no laws can still get in trouble if Ja,
Speaker 2: tweeted Jaron Jackson Junior is the league's most overrated defender.
Speaker 2: Can't believe he won Defensive Player of the Year. Well
Speaker 2: what about his First Amendment rights? Yes, broke no laws
Speaker 2: would be in trouble. John Morant and his buddies clear
Speaker 2: there are now the incident where he fought the seventeen
Speaker 2: year old and the seventeen year old's father says he
Speaker 2: had a pistol in his waistband, the incident the mall
Speaker 2: with his mom and the security guard, with the security
Speaker 2: guard says Joh threatened him, the incident at the volleyball
Speaker 2: game with his mom and the student where the students
Speaker 2: said they threatened him, the shotgun Willie's video, this video,
Speaker 2: and most importantly the Pacers team bus where they say
Speaker 2: they had a laser pointer ostensibly attached to a pistol
Speaker 2: pointed at him that we're at a half dozen gun incidents.
Speaker 2: It's insane, and I there's no easy solution here. But
Speaker 2: this is heading down a dark path and everybody can
Speaker 2: see it seemingly but JA even as Dufus buddy who
Speaker 2: started the Instagram live, so one hundred people, I mean,
Speaker 2: how let me look how many people and we don't
Speaker 2: even have that many people that watch this thing live.
Speaker 2: We've got almost four thousand people watching this right now
Speaker 2: that Dante pac Dufus his IG live had one hundred
Speaker 2: and twelve people watching right after an IG live literally
Speaker 2: cost jaw thirty nine million dollars. That's how much money
Speaker 2: that is contract would have been bumped by if he
Speaker 2: made all NBA. He didn't make it out thirty nine million.
Speaker 2: How much is this next one gonna cost him? And
Speaker 2: that's again assuming the best case scenario. The best case
Speaker 2: scenario for Job at this point is that these two
Speaker 2: Instagram lives cost him fifty million dollars five zero, and
Speaker 2: that's it. The worst case scenario is that folks don't
Speaker 2: take too kindly to him throwing up sets and playing
Speaker 2: with guns, and this ends horribly, really bad and scary,
Speaker 2: and color me shocked. That's seventy two hours in an
Speaker 2: alleged rehab in Florida. Didn't get this all fixed? A
Speaker 2: man I was lucky enough to call a friend, and
Speaker 2: a true legend passed away. Sunday. We'll discuss that and
Speaker 2: answer your questions next. What's right? All right? Welcome back in.
Speaker 2: We'll get to your questions and you guys can add
Speaker 2: some more if there's some good ones in the chat.
Speaker 2: In just a second. Diora will be back Thursday. She's
Speaker 2: traveling this morning back from California, but I just want
Speaker 2: to mention. So Sunday we're in California at my wife's
Speaker 2: aunt's house, having a nice mother's day. We had a
Speaker 2: really nice surprise ninetieth birthday for my wife's great grandmother,
Speaker 2: my wife's grandmother, pardon me. The day before and I
Speaker 2: checked Twitter and I see that Doyle Brunson passed and
Speaker 2: I was I didn't cry, but I almost did. Uh.
Speaker 2: Doyle Brunson. If you don't know, he's they call the
Speaker 2: Godfather of poker, one of the greatest poker players of
Speaker 2: all time. I for a sports analogy, he would be
Speaker 2: like Bill Russell, unbelievable success, unprecedented success in the early
Speaker 2: era of the World Series of Poker, and a you know,
Speaker 2: gambler for seventy years. A guy who was drafted to
Speaker 2: the NBA sixty five years ago, got hurt, couldn't play,
Speaker 2: and became professional gambler who was a die hard sports
Speaker 2: fan in sports better who took a shining to me
Speaker 2: because of my work on Coward Show and the fact
Speaker 2: that I gave out winning NFL picks. And he and
Speaker 2: I became friends. And I was lucky enough this December
Speaker 2: to be in Vegas and he invited me to his
Speaker 2: house to watch Chiefs Bengals. Eighty nine years old. And
Speaker 2: I get to his house and his nurse lets me in.
Speaker 2: He's old, old man and he's got in his office
Speaker 2: three computer monitors two TV screens and all these betting
Speaker 2: outfits open and tells me that for the last however
Speaker 2: many years, such a legend man eighty nine years old.
Speaker 2: The last however many years, he and a friend every
Speaker 2: NFL Sunday go down the board and say who they
Speaker 2: like against the spread in each game, and any game
Speaker 2: they have disagreements on is an auto fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: bet he and his friend and he spends every NFL
Speaker 2: Sunday sweating their five or six disagreements, just the coolest
Speaker 2: thing ever, eighty nine And then his nurse comes in
Speaker 2: and he's like, oh, I owe you one hundred bucks
Speaker 2: and says to me. He's like, I let her pick
Speaker 2: a game every week and give her one hundred dollars
Speaker 2: free roll. And he opens his file cabinet or desk
Speaker 2: drawer deep, you know, probably this high desk drawer, not
Speaker 2: like a skinny one, like like a file cabinet, and
Speaker 2: I swear to god, there's at least one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: cash in loose hundreds in this drawer. And I'm just
Speaker 2: sitting there and I'm like, this guy won the World
Speaker 2: Series of Poker forty five years ago, has ten bracelets,
Speaker 2: was a golf hustler, was playing in Texas carthouses. His
Speaker 2: stories are unbelievable. He's almost ninety and he's still just
Speaker 2: out here doing it. Fifty grand a game for NFL
Speaker 2: games one hundred thousand plus and loose cash in his office,
Speaker 2: just living the life man. And then in March he
Speaker 2: texts me, ah, this makes me sad. Man. Uh, He
Speaker 2: text me, Hi, Nick, March, maddness almost here and I
Speaker 2: don't have a clue. If you have the time to
Speaker 2: message with me some picks, I would appreciate it. And
Speaker 2: then he writes, better yet, if you come to town,
Speaker 2: come out to my house and we can sweat them
Speaker 2: in together. And I wrote back, I have no college
Speaker 2: basketball insight, but if I do, once the bracket posts,
Speaker 2: I'll send you what I find. Not sure when I'm
Speaker 2: in Vegas next ball, I'll hit you as soon as
Speaker 2: I know. And he said thank you. And that's the
Speaker 2: last time we talked. And he's eighty nine, lived on
Speaker 2: believable life. But it's sad, but salute to the legend
Speaker 2: Doyle Brunson Man. And I'm really really grateful and glad
Speaker 2: that randomly, out of nowhere he befriended me and I
Speaker 2: got to spend an afternoon watching the Chiefs Bengals game.
Speaker 2: Last game the Chiefs loss all right. Some fan questions
Speaker 2: Noah Rodriguez two part question, which team deserves to win
Speaker 2: the draft lottery and where do you personally want to
Speaker 2: see Wimby go the most. I think the Magic kind
Speaker 2: of deserve it. Even though they won last year, they
Speaker 2: have been They've been so unlike they were unbelievably lucky
Speaker 2: getting the number one picking back to Becca. Years ended
Speaker 2: with Shack and Penny. Then they had terrible lottery luck
Speaker 2: for a long time. I think the Magic deserve it
Speaker 2: to a degree. I wouldn't. I'd love him to go
Speaker 2: to Dallas obviously, for Luca, Portland for Dane would be fun.
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City would be fun. Uh, Houston has the history there.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see san Antonio. Get him san Antonio.
Speaker 2: David Robinson then tanked a year and got Duncan. Now
Speaker 2: I've tanked a couple of years. I don't want him
Speaker 2: to go there, And I don't want him to go
Speaker 2: to Detroit or Charlotte. Really don't want him to go
Speaker 2: to Charlotte because they're terribly run coach. Mystic says is
Speaker 2: Doc rivers in the conversation for worst postseason coach ever,
Speaker 2: I mean thirty two elimination game losses, three blown three
Speaker 2: to one leads, four more blown three two leads. It's
Speaker 2: not great, but he does have a title and a
Speaker 2: Game seven appearance in the NBA Finals that they could
Speaker 2: have won. But it's not great. Josiah Diaz says Eric
Speaker 2: Spolstra submitted themselves top ten coach of all time since
Speaker 2: the Heatles, he's always has a competitive team with lesser talent.
Speaker 2: Celtics fan, I believe he's gonna make Missoula look silly.
Speaker 2: He's certainly on the cusp. I think he's probably already there,
Speaker 2: and I think he's the biggest matchup edge they have
Speaker 2: from Troy Duffy says, great take on Lebron. Evidence by
Speaker 2: our inability to name who the best player in the
Speaker 2: world is currently we expect because Lebron the best player
Speaker 2: in the world to play in the finals every year.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. That's the problem. The problem is it's
Speaker 2: not that Lebron set an impossible standard because Brady did two,
Speaker 2: but nobody was out there saying, actually Brady stinks. Nobody
Speaker 2: was out there saying, actually, Brady's not that good, and
Speaker 2: so we are able to appreciate it and not hold
Speaker 2: other people to that standard. Beach Bead says, how do
Speaker 2: you think the media will look at the Lakers' bubble
Speaker 2: ring if they go on to win it all? Listen
Speaker 2: that the only reason people disrespected what happened in the
Speaker 2: Bubble was it's all revisionist history. It's all because the
Speaker 2: Lakers won. During the Bubble, people were saying, this is
Speaker 2: the highest level of basketball we've ever seen, because guys
Speaker 2: are more rested, there's no travel, there's great sight lines.
Speaker 2: The games were unbelievable. But because Lebron won the title,
Speaker 2: people wanted to retroactively take away from it, which maybe
Speaker 2: I would have listened to if it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: they didn't have to go on the road, but they
Speaker 2: were the one seat. But the fact that it was Lakers,
Speaker 2: Nuggets heat Celtics in the final four and this year
Speaker 2: it's the final four again, those arguments are falling even flatter. Oh, Nick,
Speaker 2: the teams are different. Not the best players. Lakers were
Speaker 2: Lebron and Ad Nuggets were Jokic, Murray and Michael Porter. Junior,
Speaker 2: The Heat were Jimmy Bam and Hero, and the Celtics
Speaker 2: were Tatum, Brown and Smart. That's who it was then,
Speaker 2: that's who it is now. Gig says this most impressed
Speaker 2: ring for Lebron No. Twenty sixteen, most impressive, most important,
Speaker 2: and there's no question about it. Three o'clock today on
Speaker 2: FS one, I give out my pick for Game one
Speaker 2: Lakers Nuggets. I'd love to do it here, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: save that for the TV show because we're twelve and zero.
Speaker 2: Take that, you stupid Corgy. Talk to you guys Thursday.
Speaker 2: What's right,