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Speaker 2: Welcome Ma. In episode one fifty seven, What's Right with Nick? Right,
Speaker 2: we appreciate you joining us. Right before we sat down
Speaker 2: to record, there was massive breaking news in the golf world. Now,
Speaker 2: while we do love of the Nick's Golf Corner segments
Speaker 2: on this show, we have not really gotten into the
Speaker 2: muddy waters of the Live Tour and the PGA Tour.
Speaker 2: And today it would appear our decision not to was
Speaker 2: somewhat vindicated. It as and we'll just get into this
Speaker 2: here and then we'll get into the actual show. And
Speaker 2: we appreciate you watching on YouTube. We appreciate you listening
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Speaker 2: We'll get to them at the end of the show.
Speaker 2: The livetour and PGA tour have merged. All of the
Speaker 2: details are not yet out that it has just happened
Speaker 2: in the last twenty minutes that it has been announced.
Speaker 2: But there are going to be some folks, Luckily I
Speaker 2: am not one of them, be it golfers, golf commentators,
Speaker 2: or sports commentators that have found themselves in a bit
Speaker 2: of a pickle because they were just adamant that they
Speaker 2: would never, under any circumstances support anything associated with the
Speaker 2: Saudi government because of the murder of Jamal Kashagi, and
Speaker 2: I apologize if I'm pronouncing his name wrong, because of
Speaker 2: obviously the connections to the terrorists on nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: because of human rights abuses, and that was an understandable position,
Speaker 2: totally understandable. But the reason we didn't take it on
Speaker 2: this show was any of us that are involved in
Speaker 2: any type of capitalistic enterprise. For a lot of us,
Speaker 2: I should say, you go high enough up the corporate
Speaker 2: org char or food chain and you start dealing with
Speaker 2: some uncomfortable realities. You start dealing with some of your
Speaker 2: own hypocrisies, grab your iPhone and you're like, wait, who
Speaker 2: made this? How does it work? You look at your sneakers. Now,
Speaker 2: I understand there's different lines for everybody, and I don't
Speaker 2: really want to relitigate it. We talked about this a
Speaker 2: year ago, but we decided, you know what, We're just
Speaker 2: gonna stay out of it because the other possible train
Speaker 2: coming down the tracks was the really rich golfers and
Speaker 2: the really rich PGA tour that was standing on principle
Speaker 2: and claiming the moral high ground that eventually they would fold.
Speaker 2: And that appears to be what has happened. So for
Speaker 2: folks that were really into the live tour PGA tour
Speaker 2: feud and Phil Mickelson and Brooks Kopka and Brandy Shambly,
Speaker 2: Brandal Shamblee seemed to get a lot of people mad
Speaker 2: at him and what's Greg Norman doing and all of that.
Speaker 2: I'll just be totally honest. There are going to be better,
Speaker 2: more informed shows on that very story that I'm sure
Speaker 2: you can find. We are gonna talk NBA finals, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk a little NFL. That is what we do.
Speaker 2: We also might squeeze in a little French open as
Speaker 2: we might get a Djokovic alkradized semifinal, which would be
Speaker 2: just spectacular. However, we first must get to what is
Speaker 2: not on today's show. Not on today's show chiefs Ahlik,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs fan who was allegedly robbing banks to pay
Speaker 2: for his Chiefs tickets. He is on the most wanted
Speaker 2: list that did not make show. Also Patrick Mahomes that
Speaker 2: I tried to fix the sign behind me, potentially being
Speaker 2: the greatest multi sport athlete ever. That might be a
Speaker 2: spit of a stretch, but we knew the guy was
Speaker 2: an unbelievable baseball player. He is a great golfriend's greatest
Speaker 2: football player ever that did not make the show. And
Speaker 2: the Chiefs visit the White House that did not make
Speaker 2: the show either. Travis Kell, Oh, there's me, you know,
Speaker 2: I went in. There's me. I shaved my head then
Speaker 2: grew all the hairback. I don't know why that's the
Speaker 2: picture they used of me for the YouTube audience, but
Speaker 2: that is an older picture of me, that's six and
Speaker 2: a half years old. That's from our original First Things
Speaker 2: First photoshoot the Chiefs visiting the White House. But Diora,
Speaker 2: let's get to the NBA Finals. Quite the interesting Game
Speaker 2: two we had. Why don't you set it up?
Speaker 3: After Miami took Game two in Denver, your boy Mike
Speaker 3: Blone called out his team. He said the loss was
Speaker 3: about a lack of effort from Denver. Was it truly
Speaker 3: an effort problem or is Miami just better?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna go with neither. Miami is not flatly
Speaker 2: better than Denver, but they might very well be just
Speaker 2: as good, and they are definitely better coached. And that
Speaker 2: is not a knock on Mike Malone. That is just
Speaker 2: a reality of you're up against the best coach in
Speaker 2: basketball and Eric Spolstro I did not think this was
Speaker 2: flatly a effort issue. I know Michael Malone called it
Speaker 2: an effort issue, and I think no. I don't think
Speaker 2: it was a skill issue either. I think it was
Speaker 2: an execution issue. So there was When Michael Malone's talking
Speaker 2: about effort, he's talking about Michael Porter Junior specifically, and
Speaker 2: Michael Porter Junior got lost on defense played Lackaday's ago.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of what we were used to
Speaker 2: seeing for Michael Porter Junior early in his career. That's fine,
Speaker 2: so be it now? Is it smart? For Michael Malone
Speaker 2: to all out make it pretty clear he's talking about
Speaker 2: one guy in his press conference. I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's smarter or not, but it wasn't hard to figure
Speaker 2: out who he was talking about because the other Nuggets
Speaker 2: player who had a really rough game was KCP, but
Speaker 2: that was because he was fouling three point shooters. That's
Speaker 2: not a lack of effort. That is playing out of control.
Speaker 2: That's almost trying too hard exactly. It's so the getting
Speaker 2: lost on defense, you can say that's lack of focus
Speaker 2: and attention to detail. But at some point folks are
Speaker 2: going to have to recognize this Miami Heat team is
Speaker 2: just different. Chris Vernon had this stat on the mismatch
Speaker 2: with Kevin O'Connor, so I want to give credit to
Speaker 2: him because it's truly remarkable. This postseason, when trailing by
Speaker 2: eight or more in the fourth quarter, the Miami Heat
Speaker 2: are four and seven, four wins, seven losses. Now, that
Speaker 2: might not sound that good, and considering the fact that
Speaker 2: they have only lost seven games the entirety of the postseason,
Speaker 2: it means in all seven of those they were trailing
Speaker 2: by at least eight in the fourth They're four and
Speaker 2: seven these playoffs when trailing by eight or more the
Speaker 2: rest of the league diora that has happened sixty two
Speaker 2: times or sixty three times. Pardon me, what do you
Speaker 2: think their record is? Every team other than the Heat
Speaker 2: in games when they trail by eight or more in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter of the sixty three games, how many wins?
Speaker 2: How many losses? Obviously you're gonna lose way more than
Speaker 2: you win because you're trailing by at least eight in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. Miami is four and seven. The rest
Speaker 2: of the league is one and sixty two. Think about that,
Speaker 2: the rest? What are you laughing about? Because I let
Speaker 2: you off the hook by not having you actually give
Speaker 2: a number. Yeah, yeah, I saw that. I saw a
Speaker 2: look of panic across your eyes. You were like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I have to do math on the fly to
Speaker 2: make sure they add up to sixty three, and I
Speaker 2: have to give a guess that makes sense. I realized
Speaker 2: I was putting you. That was me being a bad team,
Speaker 2: and I was putting you in a bad spot. I apologize.
Speaker 2: I saw it, So I just turned it into a
Speaker 2: rhetorical question. One in sixty two. So let's put it
Speaker 2: a different way. There have been five playoff games this
Speaker 2: year that a team trailed by eight or more in
Speaker 2: the fourth and one. Four of them have been by Miami,
Speaker 2: one by the other fifteen teams to make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: This is a different team. You are fighting a different
Speaker 2: war than you're fighting with every other team in the league.
Speaker 2: And no, they don't have the raw talent that the
Speaker 2: Lakers had, that the Bucks had, that the Celtics had,
Speaker 2: that the Nuggets have. But they have unlocked a winning
Speaker 2: formula in a way that no other team this playoffs
Speaker 2: other than Denver has unlocked. And so I don't think
Speaker 2: it was that Denver didn't try. I think it's that
Speaker 2: Miami never bleeping quits and keeps finding a way. Now,
Speaker 2: I will tell you also why I think that win
Speaker 2: was critical, piercing the balloon of invincibility of Denver, which
Speaker 2: had not lost at home this postseason, had not lost
Speaker 2: at home in a game Yokic's played since March twelfth,
Speaker 2: nearly three months ago this year at home playoffs in
Speaker 2: regular season, when they had at least a five point
Speaker 2: lead going into the fourth quarter, they were unbeatable twenty
Speaker 2: nine to zero. Psychologically, that does two things. One Miami
Speaker 2: now knows unequivocally we can go in there and win.
Speaker 2: And two the Nuggets know, oh, this is a different
Speaker 2: type of challenge because the Lakers never really threatened us
Speaker 2: in this building. The Sun's never threatened us in this building, obviously,
Speaker 2: the Timbrels never threatened us in this building. The Heat,
Speaker 2: without their best player playing that well, without their second
Speaker 2: leading score from the conference finals, Caleb Martin, doing anything,
Speaker 2: they found a way to come back from fifteen down
Speaker 2: and beat us. And aside from the Caleb Martin minutes,
Speaker 2: there was I'm sorry, aside from the Cody Zeller minutes,
Speaker 2: I almost got that wrong, the Heat dominated that game.
Speaker 2: So this is going to be a great finals. I
Speaker 2: understand after Game one everyone was talking sweep and that
Speaker 2: the Miami's Cinderella carriage is turned back into a pumpkin
Speaker 2: and all that reactionary nonsense. The Heat have earned everyone's
Speaker 2: unquestioned respect. It is now a best of five series
Speaker 2: and Miami has home court. Since Jimmy Butler got to Miami,
Speaker 2: no team in the league has more playoff victories. Since
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler got to Miami. No team in the league
Speaker 2: has been to the finals more than once other than Miami.
Speaker 2: Since Jimmy Butler got to Miami, no team has had
Speaker 2: the postseason success overall of the Miami Heat. If they
Speaker 2: can finish the job and win these next three games,
Speaker 2: or win three of the next five games, all right
Speaker 2: next to you are.
Speaker 3: So the Heat are now in control of the finals
Speaker 3: and are about to get Tyler herro back, but Vegas
Speaker 3: still has them as home dogs. Are you hammering the
Speaker 3: Heat in Game three?
Speaker 2: I'm not. I bet the Heat for a real amount
Speaker 2: of money on the money line in Game seven against Boston,
Speaker 2: Game one against Denver, and Game two against Denver. All
Speaker 2: of those bets were better than three to one, better
Speaker 2: than plus three hundred. I obviously went two and one
Speaker 2: because they lost Game one. I don't I like the
Speaker 2: Heat in this spot. I might bet a little bit
Speaker 2: on them, but I am not dead on certain that
Speaker 2: they're gonna win both of these games in Miami. I
Speaker 2: think they could. I do think the line is disrespectful.
Speaker 2: I think the fact that how far back do we
Speaker 2: have to go till the last from the last time
Speaker 2: we had a home underdog in the NBA Finals. It's
Speaker 2: gotta be Lebron's cabs in twenty eighteen against the uh
Speaker 2: against the Katie Warriors. I guess maybe the Raptors in
Speaker 2: the game Katie popped his achilles because they knew Katie
Speaker 2: was coming back that game. But it's been years, so yeah,
Speaker 2: I do think it's a disrespectful line, and I'll probably
Speaker 2: bet a little on Miami. But I hammered Miami in
Speaker 2: game seven, game one, in game two because they were
Speaker 2: getting better than three to one, and that was outrageous.
Speaker 2: This is Vegas places saying this is not quite a
Speaker 2: coin flip game, but a sixty to forty game. Now,
Speaker 2: I think it should be sixty forty in Miami's favor.
Speaker 2: But I don't think this is a mismatch. I don't
Speaker 2: think this is lopsided. I don't think Denver is a
Speaker 2: fraudulent team. That would be ridiculous. I just think the
Speaker 2: betting public's lack of regard for the Miami Heat is bananas.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Yokic dropped another forty point game and a loss.
Speaker 3: They never win when he scores a ton of points,
Speaker 3: so I see why you are coming around on Jokic.
Speaker 3: He's like Lebron where he could only win when his
Speaker 3: teammates hit the big shots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always said it's very unfair that Lebron's teammates
Speaker 2: are allowed to make shots. It's so it's such a
Speaker 2: dumb take, and that's not done by you. I understand
Speaker 2: the producers right the questions, but the idea that Lebron James,
Speaker 2: who has more playoff buzzer beats and more playoff game
Speaker 2: winners than any player in NBA history, that he can
Speaker 2: only win when his teammates hit shots is just such
Speaker 2: a such a straw man nonsense that they knew would
Speaker 2: get me angry. By the way, where's a hey, show
Speaker 2: the control room again real quick, if you could please,
Speaker 2: cuz I do remember something from the last time we
Speaker 2: saw you. Guys. Hey, Daniel, where's your broom? Buddy, where's
Speaker 2: your broom? Oh? Yeah, that doesn't Yeah, I know, don't
Speaker 2: put it down cause you know I've been talking behind
Speaker 2: the scenes. Gabe thought I was being a little harsh
Speaker 2: saying that your job's on the line in these finals.
Speaker 2: Daniel the Nuggets fan who trolled me in the group jets,
Speaker 2: and Gabe said we can't do that. So I just
Speaker 2: guy said, you know what, instead of you know, threatening
Speaker 2: the employment. Let's just add to the responsibilities. And since
Speaker 2: the guy seems to like brooms so much, I figure
Speaker 2: when everyone goes home for the day, you can sweep
Speaker 2: up after the team. You can help everybody out. Waving
Speaker 2: that broom in my face going into the finals, thinking
Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets were gonna become the first team and
Speaker 2: mby That was the other insane thing about the commentary.
Speaker 2: And then we'll get to the Jokic question. Sorry about
Speaker 2: the commentary all across media on Friday about a sweep.
Speaker 2: No team in NBA history has ever swept the final
Speaker 2: two rounds of the playoffs. No team ever has gone
Speaker 2: conference finals finals sweep. And yet folks were ready to
Speaker 2: just start handing over the lob to the Denver Nuggets. Insane.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be a quick series. Not gonna be
Speaker 2: a quick series. All right, what's the Jokic question?
Speaker 3: What does it say about him that Miami would rather
Speaker 3: take their chances letting him score.
Speaker 2: I don't even says anything about him. I think it's actually,
Speaker 2: well it does. I think it's a compliment to him
Speaker 2: because here's there are so many downstream effects from everyone
Speaker 2: being involved. First of all, you play more confident and
Speaker 2: locked in an attention to detail defensively when you are
Speaker 2: making shots. So Michael Porter Junior's defense would have been
Speaker 2: more attentive. I think kcp's defense would have been less
Speaker 2: frenetic if they had been hitting shots, but they weren't,
Speaker 2: and that affects different players in different ways. And because
Speaker 2: of that, Jokich's passing is the thing that unlocks Denver's
Speaker 2: offense to next level production. I I had this tweet.
Speaker 2: Your mom is so funny. By the way, Sorry, I'll
Speaker 2: finish the thought. Come on, your mom just texts me, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's the address to that plant spot? Crying emoji? Sorry,
Speaker 2: I know you're doing your show and stuff. Well, she's
Speaker 2: the best. Uh. I had this. I tweeted out this
Speaker 2: stat and I understand that Eric Spolstra attempted to tamp
Speaker 2: down on this talk, but I think it's very relevant.
Speaker 2: The Denver Nuggets this year in the regular season, when
Speaker 2: Yokich had double digit assists, we're thirty four and four.
Speaker 2: When he didn't, they were fourteen and seventeen. So when
Speaker 2: jo Kich has ten plus assists, they are a seventy
Speaker 2: two win. Seventy two win caliber team would be as
Speaker 2: good as any team in NBA history. When he doesn't,
Speaker 2: they're a losing team. And we have seen. I brought
Speaker 2: this up before the series. I said this would be
Speaker 2: that should be the strategy. O five Western Conference Finals
Speaker 2: Spur Sons, Amari Stodemeyer averaged thirty seven a game that series.
Speaker 2: Popovich was just like, you know what, we're not doubling him.
Speaker 2: We are if he scores. For now. He was a
Speaker 2: very different player, obviously a very different player than Jokic,
Speaker 2: demonstrably different. But the point was let him go crazy.
Speaker 2: Don't let Joe Johnson and Sean Marion and the other shooters,
Speaker 2: Sean mariwin really a shooter kind of turned into one
Speaker 2: don't let them go off, and it worked. They won
Speaker 2: in five. There are this is a sound strategy because
Speaker 2: it's gonna take around one point fifteen to win these games.
Speaker 2: If Jokic is quote only unquote creating fifty points, you
Speaker 2: can live with that, you really can. What you can
Speaker 2: live with is when he's creating, scoring and assisting sixty
Speaker 2: sixty five points like he did in Game one, that's
Speaker 2: what kills you. So I do think this is a
Speaker 2: sound strategy. Do you have a follow up there to.
Speaker 3: Your Yeah, is he the only player in the in
Speaker 3: NBA history whose kryptonite is scoring forty points a game?
Speaker 2: Well, it's not that it's his kryptonite. I know they're
Speaker 2: ozer and three. This post is when he scores forty plus.
Speaker 2: But there is a level of other great playmakers. Isaiah
Speaker 2: Thomas was at his best, he could score forty. He
Speaker 2: was at his best when he was twenty and ten.
Speaker 2: Steve Nash similarly magic. He could score big numbers, but
Speaker 2: not with regularity. He had to be passing great playmakers
Speaker 2: and distributors. That is what their secret sauces, and it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be shot. So Isaiah, to me, is a good
Speaker 2: example because Isaiah was just best. The Pistons were best
Speaker 2: when he was getting everyone involved. Famously, they lost the
Speaker 2: forty three point finals game when he had twenty five
Speaker 2: in a quarter. They lost. I mean they only lost
Speaker 2: by a couple, but they lost. He just so, this
Speaker 2: is not something we've never seen before. We've just never
Speaker 2: seen it from a center.
Speaker 3: Next, Kyrie has apparently reached out to Lebron to see
Speaker 3: if he would come to Dallas. Luca on Lebron together
Speaker 3: would make your head explode. If Kyrie really just wants
Speaker 3: to get back together with Lebron, was this the best
Speaker 3: way to go about it?
Speaker 2: All? Right? So this is more complicated story than people
Speaker 2: are giving it credit for. It's also very simple. The
Speaker 2: simple part is this, there is no way for the
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks to acquire Kyrie Irving. I'm sorry, Lebron James
Speaker 2: this off season. It doesn't It's not gonna happen. There's
Speaker 2: no trade that makes sense for the Lakers. He's not
Speaker 2: getting bought out. That's not happening. So why is this
Speaker 2: story out there now? I do think Kyrie wants to
Speaker 2: play with Lebron, and Bill Simmons mentioned Lebron trying to
Speaker 2: angle to get to Dallas, but that is, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: only tenable after this coming season, when Lebron's a free
Speaker 2: agent and he can go anywhere he wants. Simmons talked
Speaker 2: about Draymond going down there and then Lebron going down
Speaker 2: there eventually. I think this is Kyrie wants the MAVs
Speaker 2: to give him the Max.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I also think Kyrie ideally would love to find a
Speaker 2: way for the Lakers for him to play with the
Speaker 2: Lakers and to get the Max I don't see how
Speaker 2: that is feasible because the MAVs are not gonna want
Speaker 2: D'Angelo Russell and as signing, this is not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So what I think Kyrie is sick of giving up
Speaker 2: money and he wants the max. He understands this might
Speaker 2: be his last big contract. But I think this is
Speaker 2: Kyrie trying to engender goodwill from Dallas. Making it cleary
Speaker 2: is two things. One is Kyrie trying to engender goodwill
Speaker 2: from Dallas, like, look, guys, I'm recruiting for you, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to help this situation as much as I possibly can,
Speaker 2: and then also making it clear to Lebron, I still
Speaker 2: want to play with you. If you can somehow find
Speaker 2: a way to get me over to the Lakers, that
Speaker 2: would be great too. But Lebron, Luca and Kyrie in
Speaker 2: Dallas this season is not a possibility, no matter who
Speaker 2: what's being reported. That's the twenty minutes on the Die eight.
Speaker 2: Under time, we will take a very quick break, come
Speaker 2: back and play a game of right or wrong? What's right?
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Speaker 3: Welcome Back, Episode one fifty seven.
Speaker 2: Are you right? I don't know. You said you wanted
Speaker 2: to bring us back. Let's host. That's the most important
Speaker 2: thing to get the episode count right.
Speaker 3: I think I got it?
Speaker 2: Okay, good job. What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: We're playing a game of right or wrong?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3: So. NBA Commissioner Adam sover Su suggested NBA expansion is coming.
Speaker 3: Vegas has long been rumored as a home for an
Speaker 3: NBA team, and soon there'll be a four sports city.
Speaker 3: Right or wrong, Vegas will be the best sports town
Speaker 3: in America.
Speaker 2: Oh wrong by a mile. Now, it will be awesome
Speaker 2: to have four teams in Vegas. So who is the
Speaker 2: current Well, I'll get that, and let me get that
Speaker 2: in a second. Let me first explain why Vegas won't
Speaker 2: be number of things very difficult for warm weather places
Speaker 2: with awesome things to do, being the best sports town.
Speaker 2: So why is La not a great sports town because
Speaker 2: of the beach in the mountains. That's why, because there
Speaker 2: are so many other entertainment options. And another problem is
Speaker 2: cities that are disproportionately transplants don't have like the lifelong
Speaker 2: fan loyalty we lived in Houston. Houston not a good
Speaker 2: sports town. Sorry, I know people in Uston might get
Speaker 2: mad at me. Good football town, Okay, baseball town, bad
Speaker 2: basketball town, not a great sports town. Miami not a
Speaker 2: great sports town. Doesn't mean there aren't great fans, but
Speaker 2: is it the lifeblood of the city. No, Vegas wildly
Speaker 2: disproportionate amount of transplants. It will be tourists, fans of
Speaker 2: opposing teams at a lot of these games, like, oh,
Speaker 2: what road trips are we going? Let's go to Vegas
Speaker 2: see our team play hit the strip, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So no, those are not your best sports towns. Your
Speaker 2: best sports towns are either small markets like Buffalo or
Speaker 2: Kansas City where the entirety of the green Bay. The
Speaker 2: entirety of the town's identity is built up in having
Speaker 2: a pro sports team. I used to say this all
Speaker 2: the time about my hometown. I probably said it on
Speaker 2: the podcast. The only difference between Kansas City and Des
Speaker 2: Moines is we have the Chiefs and the Royals and
Speaker 2: they don't like. That's it the reason when I say
Speaker 2: I'm from Kansas City, they were like, oh, I know
Speaker 2: that place. It's because we have the Chiefs and Royals.
Speaker 2: I don't know that Kansas City is markedly bigger than,
Speaker 2: like I said, Des Moines or Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska. Omah
Speaker 2: is a great example. Like what does Omaha have is
Speaker 2: Warren Buffett? There? College World Series is there? I don't know?
Speaker 2: Like so and the very best sports cities are cold
Speaker 2: weather northeastern, angry places just are where the people's entire
Speaker 2: identity is wrapped in the sports team. There is not
Speaker 2: a lot to do because the weather sucks so much.
Speaker 2: And what it is is you go to a game.
Speaker 2: So Detroit's not northeastern. It to great sports city Chicago,
Speaker 2: there is a lot to do. It's a very good
Speaker 2: sports city. But Boston and Philly and probably third place
Speaker 2: New York are your best sports cities now, it also
Speaker 2: creates the craziest fans and the most irrational ones, but
Speaker 2: nicer weather, more entertainment options. Is is that not New York?
Speaker 3: Though? Well, New York's you no matter what the weather,
Speaker 3: you could still be outside.
Speaker 2: So neat New York's unique in New York's a pretty
Speaker 2: damn good sports city despite all of the other options,
Speaker 2: because there are so many people that you you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, you just have so many Now you
Speaker 2: might say, what about Los Angeles?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 2: Has that many people? Los Angeles had so many transplants.
Speaker 2: Sports are not the biggest entertainment option because of Hollywood
Speaker 2: and the beach really takes away like there is it
Speaker 2: is sure exactly there is not a single what I
Speaker 2: would consider great American sports city that also has an
Speaker 2: awesome beach. I just Tampa's not a great one. Uh Miami.
Speaker 2: Houston doesn't have an awesome beach, but it does have
Speaker 2: a beach.
Speaker 3: Who's going to Galveston a lot? I understand who's gonna
Speaker 3: put Galveston with good?
Speaker 2: But La San Diego, San Francisco coastal places is not
Speaker 2: great sports cities As far as where the NBA should
Speaker 2: expand to Vegas and Seattle make the most sense. I
Speaker 2: know people want me to say Kansas City.
Speaker 3: You don't think Kansas City should have a basketball team.
Speaker 2: I would love it. Uh, Kansas City is a college
Speaker 2: sports city for basketball. It's Jayhawks fans. We had one,
Speaker 2: we lost it.
Speaker 3: What team was that?
Speaker 2: The Kansaity Kings. They went to Sacramento, AH. So I
Speaker 2: people say Virginia Beach should have one. I guess that's
Speaker 2: a huge city that I just am not familiar with.
Speaker 2: If you wanted to put one in the Midwest, Kansas
Speaker 2: City would be the place. You have Oklahoma City, you
Speaker 2: have Denver, you have Chicago. Kansas City wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 2: But I don't think you need to expand by four teams.
Speaker 2: I think expanding by two and doing Seattle and Vegas
Speaker 2: probably makes the most sense. I also think that I'm
Speaker 2: trying to if I'm trying to think if there's another city,
Speaker 2: another kind of area of the country that needs a team.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't do anywhere in what's called the
Speaker 2: Big West, like Idaho, Montana, the Dakota's Wyoming. You just
Speaker 2: can't have a minute. You can't. It's a crime that
Speaker 2: those five states have ten senators. Give me a break.
Speaker 2: It's like eighty five people live there. Sorry for the
Speaker 2: people watching the show, but it's not really one person,
Speaker 2: one vote. When his state with four hundred thousand the
Speaker 2: real states, but the founders didn't expect one state to
Speaker 2: have four hundred thousand people another to have forty million.
Speaker 2: You have the same number of senators. Give me a break.
Speaker 2: All right? Next?
Speaker 3: All right? The Celtics keep their keep their embattled coach
Speaker 3: head coach Joe Missoula next year. Right or wrong? Boston
Speaker 3: is smart for keeping Mozilla.
Speaker 2: You're right? No? I like, yeah, you want to know
Speaker 2: how that questions will sound? No, I am keeping their
Speaker 2: battle head coach Joe Missoula next year, right or wrong?
Speaker 2: Boston is smart for keeping.
Speaker 3: I'm aware how it was supposed to be read.
Speaker 2: I think are how it was read. Yes, the Celtics
Speaker 2: keeping their battle head coach for me, Joe Masila next
Speaker 2: year right a wrong? Misua wrong. I understand why they're
Speaker 2: doing it, but I think it's a mistake. I think
Speaker 2: they know it's a mistake. The problem is when you
Speaker 2: are the person that hired the guy, you don't want
Speaker 2: to have to fire him because you are then admitting
Speaker 2: you screwed up. And it's not that Brad Stevens made
Speaker 2: Missoula the head coach. It's that twenty five games in
Speaker 2: he gave him a contract extension that he didn't have
Speaker 2: to give him. So when you do that, does Brad
Speaker 2: Stevens then want to go to his bosses, the grouse
Speaker 2: Beck and the owners and be like, Hey, you guys
Speaker 2: got to cut a check for fifteen to twenty million
Speaker 2: bucks for this contract extension that we got to pay
Speaker 2: out that I shouldn't have given him. And so they're
Speaker 2: gonna try to keep Jalen Brown. I assume they are
Speaker 2: keeping Joe Missoula, and I think it's a mistake.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Russell Wilson was reportedly reportedly set to be
Speaker 3: traded to Philadelphia before he nixed the trade in favor
Speaker 3: of a move to Denver. Right or wrong, Philly, Russ
Speaker 3: would have beaten the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't have been in the Super Bowl. Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: was awesome last year. The idea that Russell Wilson Philly,
Speaker 2: they would have been as good as with Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2: And I'm not the biggest Jalen Hurts guy in the world.
Speaker 2: But the idea that they would have sniffed the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl if they lost Jalen in place of Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2: Talk about a sliding doors NFL moment. Jalen Hurts has
Speaker 2: got a quarter of a billion dollar contract. Damn near one.
Speaker 2: NFL VP took him to the Super Bowl. They were
Speaker 2: gonna relegate him to second string in favor of Russell Wilson,
Speaker 2: and Russell Wilson threw his body in front of the
Speaker 2: car wanting to come to Mahomes's division instead. Bananas but
Speaker 2: obviously wrong.
Speaker 3: Next, Dalvin Cook trade rumors are swirling, and Ezekiel Ella
Speaker 3: is still unsigned. These are huge name guys, but no
Speaker 3: one wants to spend on running backs anymore. Right or wrong,
Speaker 3: The NFL has a running back problem.
Speaker 2: Wrong, I don't think it's a problem. Sports change man
Speaker 2: and Zeke is a huge name, but he's not a
Speaker 2: very good player anymore. Dalvin Cook's a good player to
Speaker 2: a very good player, but expensive player to spot. People
Speaker 2: don't want to spend money guys. Things change. There's the
Speaker 2: and there's no shit problem with that. There used to
Speaker 2: be a market in the NBA for what we call
Speaker 2: the big white stiff, the seven footer that couldn't move
Speaker 2: and could give you six fouls a game and post up.
Speaker 2: Those guys are now unemployed. These sports change, media changes,
Speaker 2: the world changes. There are things that used to want
Speaker 2: to be valuable that no longer are. And the running
Speaker 2: back position is right now in a spot where you
Speaker 2: can find eighty percent of top level production for ten
Speaker 2: percent of the cost. So why would you not just
Speaker 2: go with that nearly every time?
Speaker 3: Next Jaguar, Yeah, okay, go ahead, you've got to stop.
Speaker 2: Well, I listened. I expect excellence. Who are on one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty seven episodes in people are expecting it
Speaker 2: to be nice and tight.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jaguars coach Doug Peterson said. Trevor Lawrence showed
Speaker 3: that he can put the team on his back last
Speaker 3: season and expects more of him this year. Right or wrong,
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence will be the twenty twenty four MVP.
Speaker 2: I think. I mean, if I right now you're asking me,
Speaker 2: well I picked Trevor to win MVP, I might, But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say wrong right now because I don't want
Speaker 2: to be locked into the prediction. It's on the board
Speaker 2: and people are not giving the Jaguars the respect they
Speaker 2: earned last year. They were six and one after the bye.
Speaker 2: They had a twenty seven point comeback in a playoff
Speaker 2: game against the Chargers, a good team, and then they
Speaker 2: played the Chiefs within a score they I said this
Speaker 2: on TV yesterday and people lost their minds. Maybe this
Speaker 2: is why I'm trending on Twitter right now my Trevor
Speaker 2: Lawrence Bills take. I'm sure that's the reason. Uh. Last year,
Speaker 2: what did the Bills accomplished more than the Jaguars. They
Speaker 2: both won their division, they both won a playoff game.
Speaker 2: Let's think about those playoff games. The Jags beat the Chargers,
Speaker 2: the Bills escaped against Skuyler Thompson. They both lost in
Speaker 2: Round two. The Jags lost on the road in Kansas
Speaker 2: City by seven. The Bills lost at home to Cincinnati
Speaker 2: by seventeen. The Jags quarterback is on an upward, upward trajectory.
Speaker 2: The Bills quarterback finished the last ten games of last
Speaker 2: year with some of his roughest football of his careers,
Speaker 2: of his last four years of his career. So I
Speaker 2: don't know about him being the league MVP, but the
Speaker 2: Jags deserve more respect than they're getting.
Speaker 3: Next announced that Vision Pro a new VR headset. Right
Speaker 3: or wrong, you are in on VR.
Speaker 2: I'm not in on VR until they listen. People don't
Speaker 2: want to put on goggles.
Speaker 3: Now I did, a lot of people want to put
Speaker 3: on goggles. Actually, what do you mean. I mean a
Speaker 3: lot of people enjoyed the virtual reality stuff like you
Speaker 3: can like you can play games, you could go to
Speaker 3: the mall, like the okay watch games.
Speaker 2: So now I did read that someone that wore these
Speaker 2: and it gives you the full blown NBA court side experience.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: That could be cool. But I don't think virtual reality
Speaker 2: or any of this augmented reality because this this isn't
Speaker 2: like a typical VR headset the way I understand it.
Speaker 2: It's you put on this headset and then like your
Speaker 2: phone screen is in front of you and could swipe
Speaker 2: with your hand, and like it moves based on where
Speaker 2: your eyes are, and you can do all that without
Speaker 2: your phone in your hand.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of VR headsets too.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I think I get that. But I think that.
Speaker 3: I, oh, yeah, because it's Apple, It's gonna.
Speaker 2: It's exactly, and I think this is a more I
Speaker 2: mean it's thirty five hundred dollars compared to the other ones,
Speaker 2: so I think this is a more refined tech. The
Speaker 2: point I'm making is some there might be a niche,
Speaker 2: a niche market of people that are willing to walk
Speaker 2: around wearing this. It is not going but just like
Speaker 2: people like oh, three D TVs and it's like, I
Speaker 2: gotta wear these stupid glasses. No, and then the oculus,
Speaker 2: there was a there was a market for it, but again,
Speaker 2: people don't like wearing not enough, in my opinion, people
Speaker 2: like wearing that big stuff on their face. And I
Speaker 2: know the Apple one it's clear, so you could theoretically
Speaker 2: just walk the streets with it on. I don't think
Speaker 2: people are gonna do it. I think eventually when it
Speaker 2: becomes either an implant or like a lens or something
Speaker 2: very small that is an augment to like glasses that
Speaker 2: you already wear, then it will take off. But people
Speaker 2: don't like walking around wearing what looks like ski goggles. Again.
Speaker 2: This maybe this will end up being something like when
Speaker 2: Katie Kirk and Matt Lower were laughing about the Internet
Speaker 2: and they're like, oh, the Internet, who's gonna use that?
Speaker 2: And now they look stupid if in twenty years or
Speaker 2: in two years, I should say everyone's walking around wearing
Speaker 2: these headsets. I don't think people are gonna do it,
Speaker 2: do you. I just don't think people are.
Speaker 3: Gonna think like maybe like the head Inmplant thing, I
Speaker 3: could completely see happening.
Speaker 2: I think that could happen, maybe.
Speaker 3: Just because I've watched him episodes about Black Mirror.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know they're coming out with a new season
Speaker 2: really of Black Mirror. Yeah, five episodes. I think. I
Speaker 2: I just I And again, putting on an Oculus to
Speaker 2: play video games at home is very different than what
Speaker 2: they're trying to market for here because I get that.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm gonna sit down here and play a
Speaker 2: video game by myself. What does it really matter if
Speaker 2: I'm wearing this headsetter? You know what I mean? Headset
Speaker 2: or not? You sometimes when you play Fortnite or Brother
Speaker 2: Place Fortnite, you put on pretty bulky headphones anyway with
Speaker 2: a mic like. I get that. But the idea that
Speaker 2: these are I think, and I might be wrong. Apple
Speaker 2: wants these to be like AirPods, like people just walk
Speaker 2: around with them. I don't think that's realistic. And let
Speaker 2: me ask you this how long until you think you
Speaker 2: start somewhat regularly seeing people on the streets of New
Speaker 2: York City walking around with these with the months few months. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, thirty five hundred dollars is a hell of
Speaker 2: a price.
Speaker 3: But for the rich people in New York City, like
Speaker 3: that was like how I was how people saw the
Speaker 3: other six hundred dollars headphones at first. And I know
Speaker 3: it's a totally different price difference, but when that first
Speaker 3: came out, everyone's like, I'm not paying six hundred dollars
Speaker 3: for Yes, I am, Okay, they were a gift. They
Speaker 3: were they were a gift. You don't know. But I'm saying,
Speaker 3: like people thought that was insane.
Speaker 2: Yes, but the thing is you didn't look ridiculous. People
Speaker 2: have walked around wearing headphones for a long time, I think.
Speaker 3: But New York City is a totally differenttographic fashion and
Speaker 3: for different like the fashion New York is different than
Speaker 3: everywhere else.
Speaker 2: No, that's fair.
Speaker 3: People in New York don't care about walking around looking
Speaker 3: a fool because no, it matches my outfit, it.
Speaker 2: Looks Okay, I mean, listen, I could be wrong on this,
Speaker 2: We'll see. I'm just I am. I didn't buy land
Speaker 2: in the metaverse, I didn't. I only very very lightly
Speaker 2: dipped my toe into crypto and I don't. And I
Speaker 2: am not as panicked as everyone else is about AI.
Speaker 2: I am. I am still going to short that we
Speaker 2: are where where the tech needs to get for virtual
Speaker 2: reality to become a major part of our lives. I
Speaker 2: think it will get there eventually. I don't think we're
Speaker 2: there yet.
Speaker 3: All Right, last one, this last one, So maybe you
Speaker 3: should pronounce this one. But right or wrong, you should
Speaker 3: stop trolling me.
Speaker 2: Right or wrong? You should be better at your job.
Speaker 2: Quick break right back? What's right?
Speaker 3: I quit? Welcome back Episode one. Now we're going to
Speaker 3: read your fan questions. Scott Fraser says, So is this
Speaker 3: a Bengal shirt you're wearing?
Speaker 2: Nick oh No, I understand why you'd think that it
Speaker 2: is a Tiger on it, But it's a Kenzo shirt,
Speaker 2: not a Bengals. It has no team affiliation, just high fashion,
Speaker 2: that's all it is.
Speaker 3: Next, it's you cool guy. Ben Whitney asked, if Miami
Speaker 3: loses the series in five or six games, what moves
Speaker 3: do they make in this offseason to get back and
Speaker 3: finally break through after a second Finals loss of the
Speaker 3: Jimmy bam era.
Speaker 2: I don't think they do anything major. I think you
Speaker 2: clearly have a core that is good enough. I think
Speaker 2: that you expect continued growth from Caleb Martin. You have
Speaker 2: decisions to make on Struce and Vincent, and because you're Miami,
Speaker 2: you're always going to be big, you know, whales shopping
Speaker 2: as pat Riley talks about, and going after the biggest
Speaker 2: fish possible. But I don't think you do any massive
Speaker 2: overhaul because unless you think we're just not good enough.
Speaker 2: But I don't think they're gonna feel like we're just
Speaker 2: not good enough.
Speaker 3: Next, Michael Harris asked which team would be better if
Speaker 3: the rest of the roster remained the same. Lebron and
Speaker 3: the MAVs are Kyrie on the Lakers. Kyrie just needs
Speaker 3: to come back to the Nets.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not happening, and they don't want him back.
Speaker 2: Lebron on the MAVs because Lebron and Luca I just
Speaker 2: think would be an absolutely dominant offensive unit. And then
Speaker 2: when you also have Kyrie as a shooter, they wouldn't
Speaker 2: be a great defensive team. I understand that, but they
Speaker 2: would be so overwhelming offensively. And I think Lebron would
Speaker 2: play more of a traditional small forward role. It's Lebron
Speaker 2: and Luke is so much healthier than Anthony Davis that
Speaker 2: it just I Lebron on the MAVs to me, would
Speaker 2: be better. Next. Okay, come Africa, Yeahfrica, I'm going.
Speaker 3: Africa, asked Nick, does the series matchup remind you of
Speaker 3: the Heat versus MAVs in twenty eleven with roles reversed.
Speaker 2: No, Listen, it doesn't because there wasn't. I understand what
Speaker 2: the question there is, and I understand why because it's like, well,
Speaker 2: in this situation, the MAVs are the less talented team
Speaker 2: with one star, and the Heat are the big favorites,
Speaker 2: you know, but you flip it, so the MAVs are
Speaker 2: the Heat, and the Heat are the Nuggets, if that
Speaker 2: makes sense. No, because that series was not defined by
Speaker 2: really anything other than Lebron James, the greatest player of
Speaker 2: all time, having his only true professional failure. The moment
Speaker 2: got too big for him and he short circuited. That's
Speaker 2: all that was. That is not a duplicable model of
Speaker 2: hey have this Apex predator, best player in the league,
Speaker 2: short circuit in the NBA Finals. So no, I don't
Speaker 2: think that would be in Jokichen Lebron. But if Jokic
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, had three of the
Speaker 2: worst games of his career in a row to end
Speaker 2: this series. But that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Next, producer Matt asked who wins more majors in the
Speaker 3: next three years? Hey, Matt, this question is unfair because
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Alaaz or Djokovic are the two names. I'll go Alcarez.
Speaker 2: I think the I think he's the next guy up
Speaker 2: in tennis, and I think he's winning this major. All right.
Speaker 3: Next, Okay. Jackson Higknite asked serious question for doorra When
Speaker 3: are you and Demants gonna unionize? Siblings of the world unite.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to unionize. Ther is about to
Speaker 2: leave us and she already has been better at negotiating
Speaker 2: a salary than her brother ever was. But I do
Speaker 2: think Demonse is gonna want a bit of a rais
Speaker 2: and pay come football season again.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna have to match us.
Speaker 2: Oh that's what he means by unionized. That's what he
Speaker 2: means that you two are going to negotiate together. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: let's see the show solo.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we'll see how your views go after.
Speaker 2: Oh, how my views go. My views are dependent on
Speaker 2: you mispronouncing names and questions.
Speaker 3: I'm the beauty or the brain.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a good show right there, one time good show.
Speaker 2: Nine out of ten. Love you. See you guys on
Speaker 2: Thursday as we recap Game three of the Finals. See
Speaker 2: you Thursday's
Speaker 3: Foll