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Speaker 2: Welcome in what should be a very interesting What's Right
Speaker 2: with Nick Wright? Episode one six. Now, I promised last
Speaker 2: week that today, after the opening block, we would spend
Speaker 2: the majority of the rest of the show discussing answering
Speaker 2: listener questions and viewer questions live in our YouTube chat
Speaker 2: as a thank you for the audience getting us to
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. Okay, so I one
Speaker 2: of the reasons I wanted to do it today was
Speaker 2: because I foolishly thought that there wasn't gonna be a
Speaker 2: ton of news. It's like it's pre trade deadline. Lebron
Speaker 2: won't have the record yet, the super Bowl stuff won't
Speaker 2: really get to a fevered pitch until later in the week.
Speaker 2: So what felt like the right day to do it?
Speaker 2: And Friday afternoon Kyrie demands a trade, and Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 2: Kyrie gets traded, So that obviously is going to be
Speaker 2: the majority of our first segment of the show. We
Speaker 2: will then get to your listener and viewer questions and comments.
Speaker 2: I will jump into the YouTube chat myself after the
Speaker 2: opening block, and we're gonna try to work this on
Speaker 2: the fly. But first we must start with what we missed.
Speaker 2: Here's what we missed on today's show. Lebron is thirty
Speaker 2: six points away from the record. He could break it
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. If not, he will certainly break it on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Tom Brady's retirement sand auctioned off. I don't buy that
Speaker 2: for one second. I understand people like, oh, someone bid
Speaker 2: half a million dollars until that check clears that nobody
Speaker 2: is paying for that. Sand and Kyle Kuzma had a
Speaker 2: very interesting fit. Kuzma listen, takes a lot of chances
Speaker 2: with his fashion. He's very confident in it. This to
Speaker 2: me was a miss. But I like kus, but I
Speaker 2: think this was a miss. Okay, reminder again, you can
Speaker 2: start with your questions and comments already in the chat
Speaker 2: and I will get to them in the second segment.
Speaker 2: But Demons, I assume we have to start with Kyrie.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we were just talking about how Kyrie was on
Speaker 5: good behavior on Thursday show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he demanded a trade the very next day. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So now he's headed to Dallas.
Speaker 5: The team up with Cherslovenian son Lucas probably n ended
Speaker 5: up being a two pac type of guy.
Speaker 4: Deal with Kyrie Irving. Uh huh.
Speaker 5: Kyrie is more bound to hurt Dallas than to help
Speaker 5: correct long.
Speaker 2: Term, yes, short term, maybe not long term. I think
Speaker 2: that this is the first, maybe not the first, maybe
Speaker 2: screwing up the jail and Brunson extension. The first domino,
Speaker 2: honestly in Luca ultimately leaving Dallas, which I think is
Speaker 2: going to happen.
Speaker 4: I hope, you hope.
Speaker 2: I just think that he deserves better, better, better team
Speaker 2: MASc think.
Speaker 4: He should leave and drive.
Speaker 2: Well, he's got three years after this one left on
Speaker 2: his deal, so he's not going to do it immediately,
Speaker 2: but he could do it eventually. So the first domino
Speaker 2: in the Luca MAVs tenure not being as great as
Speaker 2: it should be given how brilliant he is, was probably
Speaker 2: the Kris STAPs Porzingis trade traded assets for a guy
Speaker 2: who was not the right coastar. The second domino was
Speaker 2: not giving Jalen Brunson four years fifty five million, which
Speaker 2: he would have taken, and then not wanting to give
Speaker 2: him the max last summer, so he then walks. The
Speaker 2: most important domino is now this one where they handicap
Speaker 2: their future flexibility. They trade away a few you pick,
Speaker 2: they lose an excellent three and d Piece and Dorian
Speaker 2: Finney Smith maybe their best perimeter defender, and they do
Speaker 2: it for the most unreliable star in the league, one
Speaker 2: of the most unreliable stars in league history, Kyrie Earth.
Speaker 2: Now with that set in the very short term, it
Speaker 2: absolutely could work. The defense is not going to be good,
Speaker 2: but the offense will be unstoppable and most importantly, the
Speaker 2: offense which goes to die. This team is zero to
Speaker 2: seven when Luca doesn't play, and they are one of
Speaker 2: the league league's worst offenses when Luke is on the bench.
Speaker 2: Now this team offensively can survive when Luca rests. Also,
Speaker 2: Luca won't be as war and out at the end
Speaker 2: of games, so that's critical come the postseason. Here's what
Speaker 2: we know about Kyrie. He's not scared. Now. I don't
Speaker 2: consider him a legendary postseason performer. I consider him a
Speaker 2: guy who had a legendary postseason stretch in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: culminating in one of the biggest shots in league history.
Speaker 2: But it is worth noting that he left Lebron James
Speaker 2: in the summer of twenty seventeen. Okay, we've had the
Speaker 2: eighteen nineteen, twenty twenty one twenty two, and this is
Speaker 2: now the twenty three season. Six years since then, Kyrie
Speaker 2: does not have a single significant postseason moment since then.
Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, he missed the playoffs with the Celtics.
Speaker 2: The Celtics were there, he wasn't. He was hurt, and
Speaker 2: then he didn't show up to Game seven at the
Speaker 2: Boston Garden to even sit on the bench because he's
Speaker 2: had nasal surgery. Twenty nineteen, he flames out in epic fashion,
Speaker 2: demanding to Guardianis and playing. He demanded to Guardianis and
Speaker 2: they lost four consecutive games to the Bucks. Twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: he was hurt and not really interested in playing in
Speaker 2: the playoffs for the Nets in the bubble because Durant
Speaker 2: wasn't there. Twenty twenty one, they look unbelievable in the
Speaker 2: first round against Boston with Harden and Durant. Then Harden
Speaker 2: gets hurt in Game one of that series. Kyrie gets
Speaker 2: hurt in Game four of that series. They lose an
Speaker 2: epic Game seven. Last year, he was awful and they
Speaker 2: got swept yep And now we're to this year. So
Speaker 2: it's been a very long time since Kyrie Irving had
Speaker 2: an impactful playoff moment. With that said, if he's available,
Speaker 2: he's still obviously dangerous. His availability is a huge question,
Speaker 2: and the long term sustainability of this is essentially impossible.
Speaker 2: We know that with this player. Now are the MAVs.
Speaker 2: Here's the deal. The MAVs whoever traded for Kyrie he
Speaker 2: wanted out of Brooklyn in part because they would not
Speaker 2: in part but because they wouldn't give him the fully
Speaker 2: guaranteed contract all right, The MAVs, whoever traded for him,
Speaker 2: can only give him a two year extension right now. Now.
Speaker 2: The MAVs, I'm sure, would love to just sign Kyrie
Speaker 2: to a two year max extension eighty some million bucks.
Speaker 2: That is not what Kyrie wants. So Kyrie is going
Speaker 2: to hit free agency this summer. What will he do?
Speaker 2: Where will he go? You would think the MAVs, because
Speaker 2: they're trading, they traded all this for him, are willing
Speaker 2: to get in the Kyrie irving business long term. That
Speaker 2: has never worked out for anyone. If they're not willing
Speaker 2: to sign him long term, then they just mortgaged a
Speaker 2: hell of a piece in Dorian Finney Smith. I don't
Speaker 2: care so much about Dinwiddie and a future. First, for
Speaker 2: a few months of Kyrie irving. Now, if you win
Speaker 2: the title, it's worth it. But my guess is, even
Speaker 2: if they win the title, this could still result in
Speaker 2: Lucas souring on the team long term. You win a
Speaker 2: title now doesn't mean Lucas in three years going to
Speaker 2: like the direction of the franchise, and this long term
Speaker 2: wise will absolutely hurt the direction of the franchise. Every
Speaker 2: team that's gotten into the Kyrie Irving business has ended
Speaker 2: up regretting every team he has randomly and shockingly turned.
Speaker 2: He turned on Lebron and the Calves, he turned on
Speaker 2: the Celtics, and he turned on the Nets multiple times.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, it seems like it.
Speaker 5: Seems to be something a little different though, like from
Speaker 5: Kyrie going to the MAVs to the Nets and from
Speaker 5: the Calves, what do you mean Celtics? Actually, yeah, it's
Speaker 5: just I don't know, Like I feel like he just
Speaker 5: can't keep doing this.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 4: It's got to come to a stop.
Speaker 2: So that's where everybody tries to assign logical decision trees
Speaker 2: to Kyrie. He's a obviously and clearly illogical person. It's
Speaker 2: not there is he he missed out on over ten
Speaker 2: million dollars and the majority of a season because he
Speaker 2: out of nowhere became vaccine hesitant when that wasn't was
Speaker 2: nowhere in his history. He almost submarined this season because
Speaker 2: he refused to back down from promoting a movie that
Speaker 2: I still to this day believe he never even watched.
Speaker 2: And now and and that was that was sandwiched in
Speaker 2: between a trade request in the summer that he changed
Speaker 2: his mind on, and then a new trade request that
Speaker 2: came three days after talking about how this Nets team
Speaker 2: can't be compared to last year's next team because he's
Speaker 2: here now and he wasn't then, and then he demanded
Speaker 2: a trade three days later. The idea that Kyrie all
Speaker 2: of it is gonna be like, Okay, now I get it.
Speaker 2: No he won't. But in the West this year, with
Speaker 2: the Lakers being run by one of the worst gems
Speaker 2: in sports, with the Warriors and we'll talk about them later,
Speaker 2: Steph getting hurt again, with the Grizzlies probably being a
Speaker 2: piece away, and the Pelicans falling apart. Unless you think
Speaker 2: Denver is this juggernaut. The West is there for the taking.
Speaker 2: So that's why they did it. See if they can
Speaker 2: steal a title this year, but long term that's gonna
Speaker 2: be a heavy, heavy build a peg.
Speaker 5: All right, Listen, does this package seem better than what
Speaker 5: the Lakers could have.
Speaker 2: Offered if the Nets are trying to win right now? Yes,
Speaker 2: Dorian Finney Smith adds defense and three point shooting. Dinwiddie
Speaker 2: gives you sixty five percent of Kyrie's offensive production, and
Speaker 2: they got to pick. The Lakers were offering you Russ
Speaker 2: and future picks. The Lakers package is better if you're
Speaker 2: ready to admit. If they were going to trade Durant
Speaker 2: as well, then the Lakers package is. But because they
Speaker 2: are going to try to placate Durant and compete, this
Speaker 2: is the better trade package.
Speaker 5: Okay, And do you do you think that a he'll
Speaker 5: at all corrupt Luca? Do you think how do you
Speaker 5: get that?
Speaker 2: I don't think think that'll happen. I think lucas too
Speaker 2: strong of a personality basketball wise. We have seen the
Speaker 2: one time Kyrie is one at any level, it was
Speaker 2: alongside Lebron.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't earlier.
Speaker 2: Well, and Luca's but Luca's game is it's the most
Speaker 2: similar to Lebron or Lebron of anybody, so we know
Speaker 2: basketball wise it can work. Now the difference is this
Speaker 2: Lebron when he was with Kyrie was still in the
Speaker 2: discussion for the best defender in the league. Luca is not.
Speaker 2: And now that is going to be a backcourt that
Speaker 2: teams absolutely can score on in Kyrie and Luca. All right,
Speaker 2: the next one.
Speaker 5: So we've got the pole question. Yeah, we've got the
Speaker 5: pole question. Will Kyrie and will the Kyrie Luca paring work?
Speaker 4: Say yes? Fifty? Say no?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, next one?
Speaker 5: All right, So now to my man Kevin Durant, who
Speaker 5: is stuck on a team that he very clearly wanted
Speaker 5: to leave earlier in the season. Yep, no respect to
Speaker 5: didn Witty, but the Nets obviously took a step back
Speaker 5: after this trade.
Speaker 4: Kadie picked Kyrie as.
Speaker 5: His running mate and now he bailed on him. How
Speaker 5: embarrassing and sad is is for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: Listen, it's he's made an all time historic wonder in
Speaker 2: teaming up with Kyrie.
Speaker 5: But go ahead, he tried to get out like that's
Speaker 5: the like he did. That's the sad part about it, man.
Speaker 2: He did try to get out, and then Kyrie ended
Speaker 2: up being the one who got out. And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to criticize Durant for leaving the Warriors, because we
Speaker 2: all told him he had to leave the Warriors, but
Speaker 2: choosing Kyrie as his running mate was a grievous error. Now,
Speaker 2: let me say something else here. This does give Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant a golden opportunity for all time legacy stuff. I
Speaker 2: believe historically Jannis is a better player than Kevin Durant.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant now has an opportunity to do something similar
Speaker 2: that to what we saw Jannis did. Now I understand
Speaker 2: that he doesn't have a Chris Middleton. I get that,
Speaker 2: And you can say he doesn't have a Drew, But
Speaker 2: that next roster is not a bad roster.
Speaker 4: Right, He's got Seth.
Speaker 2: He's got Seth. They might make another move. You have, right,
Speaker 2: you have Dorian Finney Smith. You have the kid Cam
Speaker 2: Thomas who just got to play the other night and
Speaker 2: scored forty four points the game you were at. He
Speaker 2: You look around the East and does Boston have a
Speaker 2: better roster, yes? Does Philly have a better roster? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Does Milwaukee have a better roster? With Middleton the way
Speaker 2: his health concerned, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just got you, honest, No.
Speaker 2: But my point is this, if Durant, when he comes
Speaker 2: back from this injury, can play like the best player
Speaker 2: in the league, there is now there are no, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, juggernauts in the NBA this year. I don't
Speaker 2: think Boston is a juggernaut. I think they're very good.
Speaker 2: Philly is not a juggernaut. They're very good. Milwaukee right
Speaker 2: now is kind of mismatched a bit. They probably have
Speaker 2: a move that they need to make, and we already
Speaker 2: talked about the West. I think if Durant can be
Speaker 2: healthy and dominant with this supporting cast, going on a
Speaker 2: finals run with these guys is a legacy changer. It's
Speaker 2: a no doubt. But I am the bus driver, as
Speaker 2: Barkley would say, I am the man. He's not in
Speaker 2: a position where the roster is so bereft. We didn't
Speaker 2: even mention Roy so O'Neil. We didn't. There's a there's
Speaker 2: I like the watson Abe kid. I like him, right, yeah.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: It we saw in twenty eighteen Lebron carry a Cavs
Speaker 2: roster that is way worse than this one. Yeah, way worse.
Speaker 2: To the NBA Finals now they got smoked by Durant
Speaker 2: and the Warriors, but he got him to the finals.
Speaker 2: We saw Luca last year carry a roster that it
Speaker 2: was worse than this one to the Western Conference finals.
Speaker 2: This is an opportunity for Durant to be the guy.
Speaker 4: It's nice and I.
Speaker 2: Don't mind the pieces they got, and they might have
Speaker 2: an another move to me. So now will he want
Speaker 2: to be their long term? Maybe not, and maybe this
Speaker 2: summer he does get moved. That's absolutely on the board.
Speaker 2: But for the here and the now, this is a
Speaker 2: shot at some legacy redemption for Durant because there will
Speaker 2: be no question who the man is, no question who
Speaker 2: the leader is, no question who the offense has to
Speaker 2: run through at the end of games, and we can
Speaker 2: see how far he can carry it. Because here's what
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now this moment. If the Nets
Speaker 2: had the exact roster that they have, but instead of
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant as the league guy, it was Giannis, no
Speaker 2: one would be writing them all, nobody right now this moment.
Speaker 2: If the Nets have the exact roster that they have,
Speaker 2: but in that of Kevin Durant as the league guy,
Speaker 2: it was Luca, no one would be writing them all.
Speaker 2: I don't know if right now this moment the Nets
Speaker 2: had this roster with that many shooters and that many
Speaker 2: switchable wings, if the league guy was Lebron James, people
Speaker 2: would be writing them all. It's actually kind of a
Speaker 2: perfect roster for Bron. Yeah, so Durant is supposed to be,
Speaker 2: some argue, the best player in the league. So and
Speaker 2: now you don't have to worry about any of the
Speaker 2: off court nonsense with Kyrie, got a decent coach, You
Speaker 2: just go play. Jacques Vaughn's done a good job. So
Speaker 2: I'm excited to go see it.
Speaker 5: Uh, go ahead, not random, but yeah, where does the
Speaker 5: where does Harden, Kyrie and Durant Nant's Nets rank ranking?
Speaker 4: Failed super team?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Oh, I think it's one of the biggest disasters
Speaker 2: in LEAG.
Speaker 4: I think it's the biggest as far as well.
Speaker 2: So you don't remember Kobe and Pow got Steve Nash
Speaker 2: and Dwight Howard one summer and people thought that was
Speaker 2: going to be an all time team. Everyone then ended
Speaker 2: up getting banged up. They lost I think in round one. Also,
Speaker 2: you probably don't remember, and well, I mean you were five,
Speaker 2: but the Lakers won three straight titles with Kobe and Shack.
Speaker 2: They then got beat by the Spurs when they're going
Speaker 2: for their fourth title. And the next year they added
Speaker 2: Garry Peyton and Karl Malone, both much older, and that
Speaker 2: team made it all the way to the finals actually,
Speaker 2: but then Malone the Pistons, the four Pistons ended up
Speaker 2: crushing them in the finals, I think four games to one.
Speaker 2: There have been, you know, a few of these where
Speaker 2: it's like, wait, this should be great. I mean right now,
Speaker 2: the I mean the Clippers with Kawhi and Paul George
Speaker 2: is a face old super team, but didn't have three
Speaker 2: guys right. The thing is is Harden was there so briefly.
Speaker 2: It's just a disaster. That Katie and Kyrie played eighty
Speaker 2: seven games too.
Speaker 4: I think it might have been less than that.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was exactly eighty seven playoffs combined.
Speaker 2: Was a regular season combined. I maybe I'm wrong, but
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. I talked about this on Freday. Not
Speaker 2: Katie Kyrie and Hart and Katie Kyrie. I think it's
Speaker 2: eighty seven games together. They won one playoff series together one.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. They won seven total playoff games together. It's
Speaker 2: a disaster, total disaster.
Speaker 5: Next all right, So the trade deadline is on Thursday,
Speaker 5: so we'll see plenty more action. Obviously, there's a bound
Speaker 5: to be a lot of action with thirteen teams in
Speaker 5: both conferences still very alive for the postseason. Yeah, the
Speaker 5: Kyrie trade showed even Chris Paul's available in the next
Speaker 5: few days. Now that Kyrie is gone, who was Lebron
Speaker 5: trading for to help him lose in the second round?
Speaker 2: All right? Well, I don't I don't know if they're
Speaker 2: losing the second round or not. I also don't know
Speaker 2: if Plinka is going to make a move. There is
Speaker 2: a sneaky Bradley Beal move potentially available because Bill is
Speaker 2: on such a horrific contract.
Speaker 5: Wait, so you say that Pelinka didn't try to make
Speaker 5: a move. You don't think he tried to make a
Speaker 5: move towards Carrie.
Speaker 2: No, I think he did. It wasn't enough. But my
Speaker 2: point is the the Lakers should have made a move
Speaker 2: off for us before the year, and they didn't because
Speaker 2: they were hoping Kyrie might come available. He did, and
Speaker 2: you didn't get him, So the whole reason didn't make
Speaker 2: a good offer, right, And I by the way. I
Speaker 2: don't know if the Nets were actually going to trade
Speaker 2: him to the Lakers, because yeah.
Speaker 4: They're so SI didn't want him to go, right.
Speaker 2: But that's Plinka's job to know those things and to
Speaker 2: offer extra Well, Listen, I don't know that you would want.
Speaker 2: Reportedly they wanted Russ, Christie's Reeves and all the picks.
Speaker 2: You don't have depth already, so I understand that. My
Speaker 2: point is that you're not getting yeah, and then something
Speaker 2: else exactly, And so he's got a few days to
Speaker 2: do it. Bradley Beal just signed Demons, a five year,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollars deal for a Bad
Speaker 2: Wizard's team. It started this year. The only way for
Speaker 2: them to reboot the way they need to is to
Speaker 2: move off that. So Russ and a couple picks for
Speaker 2: Bradley Beal be a game changer for the Lakers. Zach
Speaker 2: Levine is a possibility for the Lakers. A bunch of
Speaker 2: role players from the Jazz are a possibility for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: There are moves to make, and I believe it is
Speaker 2: incumbent upon the Lakers to make one, even if it
Speaker 2: you don't if you were willing to give a up
Speaker 2: both of those picks for Kyrie and his unreliability, then
Speaker 2: you've got to be willing to give up those picks
Speaker 2: for another guy that gives you a third legitimate scoring
Speaker 2: for you. Just have to do it. The team does
Speaker 2: not have enough shooting, It does not have enough depth
Speaker 2: right now, with your best player being thirty eight years
Speaker 2: old and your second best player being one of the
Speaker 2: most injury prone guys in the league.
Speaker 5: All right, next, al right, your boy pat Pastor Mahomes
Speaker 5: is a game away from entering a truly elite roof
Speaker 5: of quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Only twelve quarterbacks have won multiple Super Bowls in their career.
Speaker 5: However, with the loss, the narrative may spin against him
Speaker 5: if he plans to make a run on be in
Speaker 5: the goat one day. Is Mahomes at risk of digging
Speaker 5: himself into deep of hole with a loss in the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 2: It would be very, very difficult. And it's not so
Speaker 2: much because he would have lost the Super Bowl and
Speaker 2: be like, oh, now he's lost too. These idiots that
Speaker 2: think it'd be better to lose earlier in the playoffs
Speaker 2: than later in the playoffs sense to me like his
Speaker 2: legacy would be better if he had just lost to
Speaker 2: the Bengals like he did last year, Like it's dumb.
Speaker 2: But here's where I think it's critical that they win
Speaker 2: this year. Legacy wise, Andy Reid and Travis Kelcey are
Speaker 2: not going to be around for him. Kelsey is the
Speaker 2: best tight endeavor and he's old. He's older than grind
Speaker 2: retired twice already. Andy Reid is I think the second
Speaker 2: or third oldest coach in the NFL. Now, he'll coach
Speaker 2: for a long time, but Kelsey playing at this level
Speaker 2: is not guaranteed for you know, more than another year
Speaker 2: or so. And you've got to have multiple rings. With
Speaker 2: Mahomes and Kelsey together, the most talented quarterback, the best
Speaker 2: tight endeavor, those two guys together, you need multiple rings.
Speaker 2: We'll talk a lot more about the Super Bowl on
Speaker 2: Thursday show when I'm down there, but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mahomes, if they win Sunday, he has the greatest
Speaker 6: opening five years of any NFL player ever.
Speaker 2: I understand Brady in his first five years, Starter won
Speaker 2: three super Bowls, but the other two years one year
Speaker 2: he missed the playoffs, the other year he went out
Speaker 2: in Round two and he won zero league MVPs. Obviously, Mahomes'
Speaker 2: first five years, wins two MVPs, wins two super Bowls,
Speaker 2: goes to a third, and makes the only years he
Speaker 2: didn't go to the Super Bowl, he lost in overtime
Speaker 2: of the conference championship game. It's a pretty unimpeachable record. Also,
Speaker 2: if Patrick Mahomes wins this Super Bowl, the complete list
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks in NFL history with multiple league MVPs and
Speaker 2: multiple Super Bowls Tom Brady, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, Mahomes.
Speaker 2: That's it. If Mahomes wins this Super Bowl, wins Super
Speaker 2: Bowl MVP, the complete list of quarterbacks with multiple league
Speaker 2: MVPs and multiple Super Bowl MVP will be Tom Brady,
Speaker 2: Joe Montana, Patrick Mahomes. That's the list. So he already,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is one of the five greatest quarterbacks ever.
Speaker 2: He will have an argument that he is top three
Speaker 2: if he wins the Super Bowl, and I think he
Speaker 2: will talk more about that on the Gambling show that
Speaker 2: comes out tomorrow. All Right, we're gonna jump in do
Speaker 2: a little on staph and then I will jump into
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right
Speaker 2: Episode one six. Let's quickly get to Steph Curry and
Speaker 2: then his promise. We're gonna spend the rest of the
Speaker 2: show answering your guys listener questions. I have the chat open,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna be uh, I'm gonna be going through
Speaker 2: it here shortly, but demonte go ahead with the Steph
Speaker 2: Curry topic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so Steph got banged up the other night. I
Speaker 5: forgot he bumped knees with some other guy. I forget
Speaker 5: his name, but yeah, so he's gonna miss multiple weeks
Speaker 5: with this knee injury. The Warriors is only a game
Speaker 5: above five hundred at the moment, yep, is there season over?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think they're cooked. They weren't that good with Steph,
Speaker 2: right facts, and this is a team that is seven
Speaker 2: and twenty on the road. This is a team whose
Speaker 2: young players have not improved. This is a team that
Speaker 2: had one guy punch another guy in the face and
Speaker 2: it seemed to really hurt the vibes for the year.
Speaker 2: And now we have less than thirty games remaining, and
Speaker 2: I just don't see a path forward for them. I
Speaker 2: understand they be the MAVs the other night, but Luca
Speaker 2: was out injured, go ahead to Moseley.
Speaker 5: I think it'd be good for them though, like Steph
Speaker 5: being hurt, I feel like forces the younger players to
Speaker 5: find some type of rhythm and like it might mean
Speaker 5: that the rest of this season.
Speaker 4: I guess the question was how they cooked for this season?
Speaker 5: Yeah, which, but I feel like it might be like
Speaker 5: a little bit of like some building blocks into the
Speaker 5: next season.
Speaker 2: Possibly, Man, I don't know, because the they have a
Speaker 2: big Draymond Green question after this year. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's realistic to expect Clay to get better. You
Speaker 2: just hope he can maintain you know, Draymond, we assume
Speaker 2: is probably gonna opt out after this year and look
Speaker 2: for big money. Do you want to give him that?
Speaker 2: And you know, Wiseman's been a total bust for them, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: and they right now are one game up, one game
Speaker 2: out of the eleven seed. And if you look right
Speaker 2: now at the teams that there are three teams not
Speaker 2: in the playoffs right now that are still alive in
Speaker 2: the West, Portland, OKC, and the Lakers. Those teams all
Speaker 2: have twenty five or twenty six wins. The Warriors have
Speaker 2: twenty seven. You're saying, well, I'm saying that while maybe
Speaker 2: the Jazz play themselves out of the play in because
Speaker 2: they're right now the ten seeds. The Pelicans are not
Speaker 2: going to the Pelicans, assuming Zion comes back, they're going
Speaker 2: to get it back together. I mean, they've obviously had
Speaker 2: a terrible stretch, but you know they still they have
Speaker 2: one more win than Golden State does. If we think
Speaker 2: the Lakers are going to fight, I find a way
Speaker 2: into that top ten, and if we think Portland is
Speaker 2: not going to strip it down at the deadline, We're
Speaker 2: gonna find out a lot at the deadline as far
Speaker 2: as who does what there's going to be some team
Speaker 2: that falls out or teams that fall out. Golden State,
Speaker 2: to me is primed for them. So I think it
Speaker 2: is absolutely on the board, absolutely on the board that
Speaker 2: Golden State misses the playoffs entirely, and that would be
Speaker 2: a disaster for them as the defending champions. Uh okay,
Speaker 2: all right, now let's get to the listener comments. I
Speaker 2: saw one of these when I was scrolling it during
Speaker 2: the break saying that saying that Tony Gonzalez was a
Speaker 2: better title than Travis Kelce. That is not a viable opinion. Told,
Speaker 2: if you want to argue gronk all, listen to it.
Speaker 2: I disagree with you, but Tony Gonzalez is not a
Speaker 2: viable option for it is the Kelsey's biggest weaknesses is blocking.
Speaker 2: He was a better blocker than Tony. Listen. I love Tony.
Speaker 2: Tony was one of my favorite players ever growing up.
Speaker 2: He was a chief and Tony was an excellent receiving threat.
Speaker 2: But Tony Gonzalez had in his career career four seasons
Speaker 2: of more than a thousand yards in his entire career,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey has had seven seasons in a row of
Speaker 2: more than a thousand yards. Tony Gonzalez in his career
Speaker 2: had three double digit touchdown seasons. Travis Kelsey has already
Speaker 2: had three in the last five years. Tony Gonzalez in
Speaker 2: his career in the postseason had thirty catches for two
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty six yards and four touchdowns. Travis Kelcey
Speaker 2: in his career has one hundred and twenty seven playoff catches,
Speaker 2: almost fifteen hundred yards and fifteen touchdowns. Travis Kelcey is
Speaker 2: second all time in playoff catches, touchdowns, and receptions, not
Speaker 2: amongst tight ends. Amongst all players, Kelsey, Gronk, and Shannon
Speaker 2: are the three best tight ends ever. And I think
Speaker 2: Kelsey is without question. I shouldn't say without question, but
Speaker 2: I think Kelsey is the best.
Speaker 5: UH.
Speaker 2: How to upload in full quality rights? What NBA franchise
Speaker 2: has the best five year outlook? Listen? If Zion can
Speaker 2: be healthy, New Orleans is in great shape, they have
Speaker 2: a billion picks, they have movable contracts, and Zion's a star.
Speaker 2: The answer to me is not the MAVs now that
Speaker 2: they've traded for Kyrie. I don't think that's a five
Speaker 2: year plan. I think they hope it's a five month plan.
Speaker 4: The Rockets, Oh, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Especially if they can get Wimby or Scoop in this
Speaker 2: year's draft. Also, keep in mind the Rockets have the
Speaker 2: next future picks, so the next trade KD and have
Speaker 2: to start over. Those are great assets for them, great
Speaker 2: assets for them and the Grizzlies. I think they need
Speaker 2: another piece. But obviously also you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: they're young and excellent. I'm gonna throw one other team
Speaker 2: in there. What go ahead? It seems like you.
Speaker 4: Want to say something. No, I was just gonna say
Speaker 4: something about John Morant, but it's you.
Speaker 2: Know, you're okay, you're worried about his health or you're
Speaker 2: worried about his demeanor. Yeah, yeah, I think John didn't
Speaker 2: surround himself with the best people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it's.
Speaker 2: A little worrisome. The Calves are the other interesting one,
Speaker 2: especially if in a year Lebron goes back there at
Speaker 2: age forty to be a like contributor. Because the one
Speaker 2: they they have the centers, they have power forward, they
Speaker 2: have the guards. They just don't have a small forward,
Speaker 2: which Lebron could maybe slide into if they draft Bronnie.
Speaker 2: I think that's an I think that's on the board.
Speaker 2: Somebody said, which NFL End of Season award do you
Speaker 2: think is most likely to not go to the current favorite?
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can find the end of
Speaker 2: season awards favorites. I'm not sure that I can find it. Actually,
Speaker 2: I just see all these Super Bowl props, So right now,
Speaker 2: I think it's very clear. Mahomes is winning MVP. NICKI
Speaker 2: Bosa is winning Defensive Player of the Year, and I
Speaker 2: think Justin Jefferson will win Offensive Player of the Year too.
Speaker 2: Sauce Gardner's definitely gonna win Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: Offensive Rookie of the Year, I'm not sure. Could be
Speaker 2: a lave, could be Garrett Wilson. I wonder if Rock
Speaker 2: Purty is going to get some love for Offensive Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year. Yeah, I don't think it will be
Speaker 2: Pierced the running back from Houston. Uh. Let me, Nick,
Speaker 2: what's the worst bet you've ever made? I the Jayhawks,
Speaker 2: the Kansas Jayhawks Memphis Tigers played in the National Championship
Speaker 2: Game in eight Memphis was favored by three and a
Speaker 2: half and I paid minus one forty to bet them
Speaker 2: laying two and a half and let meet Tigers Jayhawks
Speaker 2: National Championship box score. Let me read you what happened there, Demanse.
Speaker 2: And this was a I laid fourteen hundred to win,
Speaker 2: to win a thousand, which was way more money than
Speaker 2: I had like that. It was two thousand and eight
Speaker 2: and I didn't have that type of money. I felt
Speaker 2: so confident in what was gonna happen. I did that,
Speaker 2: and here's how that game ended, Demanse. It's unbelievable. Again.
Speaker 2: I need the Memphis Tigers to win by at least
Speaker 2: three points. They were three and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2: I paid a huge viig to get them down to
Speaker 2: minus two and a half with two minutes and twelve
Speaker 2: seconds left, Demonse, the score is sixty one to fifty.
Speaker 2: They're up nine in a college basketball game. Again, it's
Speaker 2: sixty to fifty one. I think might have said it
Speaker 2: wrong there. It's sixty to fifty one with two minutes left. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then Kansas makes a bucket. Kansas makes a three,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's a four point game
Speaker 2: with a min and a half left. They then both
Speaker 2: Memphis hits two free throws, Kansas HiT's two free throws. Okay,
Speaker 2: not good. Kansas fowls Memphis one in one missed, no good.
Speaker 2: It's a four point game. Kansas goes down and scores.
Speaker 2: They're down two. Memphis then has the ball. There's thirty
Speaker 2: seconds left. They miss a shot. Okay, now I'm sick.
Speaker 2: Kansas then misses a shot. You know what, Hold on,
Speaker 2: let me get this right. Yeah. Uh, Kansas actually gets
Speaker 2: called for an offensive foul. Memphis goes to the line,
Speaker 2: missus two free throws. Kansas gets the ball, does nothing.
Speaker 2: Memphis gets found up to Derek Rose, misses the first,
Speaker 2: makes the second. Memphis is up three with ten seconds left,
Speaker 2: and Mario Chalmers goes down the court and hits a
Speaker 2: game tying three and Kansas wins by seven in overtime.
Speaker 2: That was crushing. I think about that bet to this day.
Speaker 2: All right, let me find another one.
Speaker 4: They lose money to Mario Chalmers.
Speaker 2: I know, Mario unbelievable. Uh do you think Brady Mahomes
Speaker 2: becomes Jordan Lebron one will have all the other, all
Speaker 2: the rings, the other will have all the stats. I mean,
Speaker 2: if Mahomes gets to within two rings of Brady the
Speaker 2: way Lebron has gotten with Jordan, then people will acknowledge
Speaker 2: Mahomes the greatest ever. If Malmes gets the five rings
Speaker 2: in this era with his numbers and his eye test,
Speaker 2: the real question is if Mahomes finishes with like three,
Speaker 2: people consider him the goat. Uh Nick, what's the worst
Speaker 2: take you've ever had? I mean, the one I'm probably
Speaker 2: most famous for is I said.
Speaker 4: Are you talking about what are you gonna say? Wiggans
Speaker 4: Warriors take?
Speaker 2: I said that the Warriors were never gonna regret know
Speaker 2: that they were gonna regret getting Durant. Oh, that they
Speaker 2: should have just that they it was the best team
Speaker 2: I'd ever seen, the seventy three win team, and they
Speaker 2: overreacted to Lebron beating them. They should just run the
Speaker 2: thing back, and that it wouldn't work with Durant. That
Speaker 2: was bad.
Speaker 4: That was way worse than the Wigans.
Speaker 2: W All right, let me find another one. Uh Hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: I know you said the other day that Daniel Jones
Speaker 2: would have no suitors if you left the Giants. What
Speaker 2: would you think about Miami possibly getting I think Miami
Speaker 2: is rolling with tool, But I didn't say you'd have
Speaker 2: no suitors. Daniel Jones would have plenty of suitors. I
Speaker 2: just don't think he's good. I don't think it would
Speaker 2: be money well spent. Uh but I but I Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: Quarterbacks are hard to find and teams will trick themselves
Speaker 2: into it. Uh, let me find another one here.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 5: Marcus Hravino says, is signing this past extension with the
Speaker 5: Lakers Lebron's biggest career mistake.
Speaker 2: I think it's a huge mistake. I didn't get at
Speaker 2: the time. I I didn't understand it. I still don't
Speaker 2: understand it. I it's a baffling move. It's truly baffling move. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you go ahead.
Speaker 5: There was a fan in there to ask you about, like,
Speaker 5: what was like your worst take? Do you think that
Speaker 5: if the Eagles ended up winning the Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 5: that the way that you talked about them throughout the
Speaker 5: entire season could end up being like one of your
Speaker 5: worst take?
Speaker 2: Pretty bad? Yeah, I mean it would not be good
Speaker 2: for me. But I did that once before. This is
Speaker 2: the nervous part. I I have some experience with that.
Speaker 2: Not because I didn't believe in the Bucks Brady's first
Speaker 2: year there and I thought Brady was cooked and then
Speaker 2: they played My Chiefs in the Super Bowl and crushed them,
Speaker 2: so that one wasn't good. Uh, let me find another one.
Speaker 2: What sports talk show do you think is your top competition?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: I think if we're talking about shows on the other network,
Speaker 2: I think NFL Live is really good. I gotta give
Speaker 2: them credit. They have great chemistry, they have fun, they're smart.
Speaker 2: Mina is brilliant. I love Marcus Spears and that's a
Speaker 2: really good show. And it's on during my show, so
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. That's a bummer. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of good shows out there, but I think they
Speaker 2: do a really, really good job. Nick. Why is nobody
Speaker 2: besides you, obviously, John, about how impressive it is that
Speaker 2: after trading Tyreek, the Chiefs are back the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: after crushing a load of AFC. Because people don't like
Speaker 2: to admit that their idiotic takes were wrong. One thing
Speaker 2: that I will give myself credit for is when I
Speaker 2: do get things wrong, I own it. I don't pretend
Speaker 2: I didn't say it. Our friend Dusty Techan with how
Speaker 2: you not mentioned the twenty seventeen Eagles as your worst take?
Speaker 2: I think that was still defensible. The twenty seventeen Eagles,
Speaker 2: Carson Wentz was in route to winning League MVP. He
Speaker 2: broke his leg with two weeks left in the season,
Speaker 2: and I said, well, they can't win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Then the whole reason this team's been awesome is because
Speaker 2: of your quarterback. He broke his leg, so you can't
Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl. Nick Foles came in and it's
Speaker 2: not like the defns carried him. Brady played them in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Brady threw for five hundred yards and
Speaker 2: the Eagles hung on the Patriots defense. Like, I don't
Speaker 2: think that was an indefensible take. It was just Nick
Speaker 2: Foles and out of body experience for a month. Uh, Nick,
Speaker 2: Is Demanse still By the way, Demanse's name does not
Speaker 2: have an E in it. Every demon Yeah, everybody thinks
Speaker 2: it's it. It would be. It's spelled like it's it's literally.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Is Demansei still gonna be on the show
Speaker 2: when he moves? He's great on the show. He's a
Speaker 2: foil to Nick who talks sports all the time. So
Speaker 2: Demanse is definitely going to be on the show in
Speaker 2: some capacity when he moves. We haven't actually yet fleshed
Speaker 2: it all out. There's going to be a transition period
Speaker 2: where uh, Demanse's mom and his older sister fill in
Speaker 2: for him during the move and during the beginning of
Speaker 2: his time in LA while he kind of gets settled,
Speaker 2: figures out what the day to day in the office
Speaker 2: life is like, gets his apartment situated. So there's going
Speaker 2: to be a at least, you know, like a six
Speaker 2: week period or so where he's definitely not on and
Speaker 2: then once he's fully settled with the office job in
Speaker 2: LA we figure out logistically how it could work. We're
Speaker 2: then going to determine if he's going to be on
Speaker 2: every show as he is now, how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2: So there will be a period where Demanday's gone. He
Speaker 2: then will be back in some capacity. We haven't quite,
Speaker 2: to be totally honest, figured out all the logistics of
Speaker 2: it and the technical side of.
Speaker 4: It just yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people have been nice to you, man.
Speaker 4: People appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Some of the I don't know if you checked any
Speaker 2: of the comments from the piece I did on Brady
Speaker 2: and parenting and the tough decisions. People were very nice
Speaker 2: to you in that as well. I'm talking about enjoying
Speaker 2: watching you and I work together in those Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that made me happy. Nick, who's the funniest person you've
Speaker 2: ever worked with on TV's Wild Yeah. Wilds is legitimately
Speaker 2: a very funny got Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think you should tell me about the the mad dog Beard.
Speaker 2: No, the mad dog.
Speaker 4: Mad I've got mad dog Beard.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well this is I mean, I don't know
Speaker 2: if I should tell him this or not. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's gonna make him look like a told dufist, but
Speaker 2: it's true, so I'll tell it. So I I said
Speaker 2: something I said to Wilds, I think that I have
Speaker 2: all these gray hairs in my beard. And Wilds has
Speaker 2: two dogs at home and uh loves them and like,
Speaker 2: I know, like over Thanksgiving or Christmas, his family hosted
Speaker 2: and he said, we're gonna have X amount of people
Speaker 2: and nine dogs.
Speaker 4: At the house. Wow.
Speaker 2: And wild said to me. He's like, man, yeah, he
Speaker 2: goes yeah, he goes, yeah, I have dog.
Speaker 4: Jaw, dog jaws.
Speaker 2: And I said, and I said dog jaw. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you don't see this rash right here on my jaw
Speaker 2: lines from my dogs. I'm like no, and he's like
Speaker 2: and he was kind of weird. I thought he was
Speaker 2: like feel it. So I'm like, okay, he wants me
Speaker 2: to rub his face. So I reach out and he
Speaker 2: just as soon as I reached towards and he goes
Speaker 2: all right and pretends to bark and bite me. He
Speaker 2: didn't actually bite me, and then just started laughing hysterically
Speaker 2: at his own idiotic joke. So he actually is a
Speaker 2: funny guy, even though I found that to be a
Speaker 2: wild thing for a forty something year old man to do. Uh,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's yeah, that's a good point. It's in
Speaker 2: the name. All right, I'm let's take a very quick break.
Speaker 2: Come back. We'll answer more questions than the chat before
Speaker 2: I have to go to TV. Talk to you guys shortly.
Speaker 4: What's right?
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in gonna read a few more
Speaker 2: of your comments. Be where we get out of here.
Speaker 2: People are saying the dog jaw comment is from ace Ventura.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that. Have you ever seen x Ventura?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think you'd love it.
Speaker 4: What's it about?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's Jim Carrey at his peak. Okay, hilarity, it's
Speaker 2: what made him a superstar. Oh, he's a pet detective.
Speaker 4: Sweet is like busting dogs.
Speaker 2: No, he's well, the premise is, uh, the Miami Dolphins mascot,
Speaker 2: the dolphin goes missing. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: that was way that was way before your time. But
Speaker 2: you've seen dumb and dumber. Yeah, and so this was
Speaker 2: pre dumb and dumber. Uh. So Matt Ford beside himself,
Speaker 2: he said, what is ace venturer about the guy's twenty
Speaker 2: four man? Demonse? I mean I ace Ventura almost assuredly
Speaker 2: came out before he was born.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet you've never seen jeepers creepers Matt.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, take that, Matt, ace Ventura came out. Let
Speaker 2: me see the year. Uh doesn't say, oh, nineteen ninety four. Wow,
Speaker 2: way before you were born, way before you were born.
Speaker 2: Did Demande resolve his issue with the Kansas City DMV? Unfortunately, no,
Speaker 2: that has not happened. But maybe someone can.
Speaker 4: It won't be Yeah, it's as simple as going out there.
Speaker 2: But again, I think someone did say they could help us,
Speaker 2: but I didn't.
Speaker 5: They said something about their sister being able top and
Speaker 5: then they were like they.
Speaker 2: Weren't able to. Yeah, all right, but if you think
Speaker 2: you can help at at Demonse on Twitter at Demanse bird.
Speaker 4: Because you'll see it more than I'll give you money.
Speaker 2: Big ups to Demonse for being an Orange Man. I
Speaker 2: also went to Syracuse for my master's Demonse did not
Speaker 2: go to Syracuse. I did I get the credit for
Speaker 2: the Syracuse part of it. James said that Demonse didn't
Speaker 2: go to Syracuse. I went to Syracuse. Uh, what's your
Speaker 2: dream NBA starting five all time?
Speaker 4: Ray Allen's my two.
Speaker 2: Over Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd have Kobe run the one.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's crazy. I I would if we're just
Speaker 2: doing the best I know, the favorite player. If we're
Speaker 2: just doing the best players at each spot, you have
Speaker 2: to go Michael at the or Magic at the one,
Speaker 2: Michael at the two, Bron at the three, Duncan at
Speaker 2: the four, Kareem at the five. That's that's what you've
Speaker 2: got to do if you're doing best players. But if
Speaker 2: you're trying to make.
Speaker 4: An actual team, trying to.
Speaker 2: Make actual team, this is what I would do. Personally.
Speaker 2: I would have Steph at the one. Yeah, bron Jordan
Speaker 2: at the two?
Speaker 4: What go ahead?
Speaker 5: No? No, no, go ahead. I have a I know exactly
Speaker 5: how I'm going to pick this team. I would destroy
Speaker 5: my friend Nathan on the black top with it. Pick
Speaker 5: any player, but go ahead.
Speaker 2: So I would go Steph at the one, Jordan at
Speaker 2: the two, Bron at the three, Janice at the four,
Speaker 2: and Shack or Dream at the five. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Shack.
Speaker 5: So similar Okay, uh not, actually not when you get
Speaker 5: to that two and three. But yeah, Curry at the one,
Speaker 5: who is it? Ray Allen at the two, Vince Carter
Speaker 5: is my three, Yannis is the four, and Shack at
Speaker 5: the five.
Speaker 2: Son, No, you're going Vince Carter over Bron. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a terrible idea.
Speaker 5: Telling you man Shack and Giannice at the four and
Speaker 5: five just makes up for you got Stephan there and
Speaker 5: then you got Ray Allen. He can hit those threes
Speaker 5: at I honestly just really like Toople and Vince Carter
Speaker 5: on the black top.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough. Somebody said Steph over Magic only for
Speaker 2: that team, because that team needs spacing and shooting. And
Speaker 2: if I'm gonna have Giannis and Shack as my front court,
Speaker 2: Lebron can shoot. Obviously, Jordan wasn't a great three point
Speaker 2: shooter with great mid range. Steph gives me and Lebron
Speaker 2: can give me all the things Magic could give me.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So like the The other option is to try to
Speaker 2: go like crazy long athletic and have le Bron play
Speaker 2: the one, Jordan play the two, Gianni's play the three,
Speaker 2: Dream play the four, and Kareem play the five and
Speaker 2: to just no one would be able to score a
Speaker 2: point on you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have great shooting, but defensively it'd be totally unstoppable.
Speaker 4: Uh, switch out Kawhi for Vince Carter.
Speaker 2: By the way, so now you're taking Kawhi over Lebron.
Speaker 2: That's smart? This is it's no sense. Uh. Somebody says,
Speaker 2: has an athlete ever confronted you for something you said
Speaker 2: to him? Yeah? So with the last Super Bowl, I
Speaker 2: was at Chiefs forty nine ers Saturday morning for the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. I'm at a bougie hotel in Miami with
Speaker 2: your mom and uh Nicole eating breakfast and there's a
Speaker 2: group of clear it's clear, there's NFL guys at a
Speaker 2: table over and there's one white guy with tiny eyes,
Speaker 2: big and kind of chubby who keeps looking over at
Speaker 2: me and I'm like, who is this. It's like, I
Speaker 2: know I recognize him, but who is it? And he
Speaker 2: walks over to the table says Hi, Nick, and I'm like, god, dog,
Speaker 2: I can't say who are you? So I'm like, hi,
Speaker 2: shake his hand shakes my head in real time, and
Speaker 2: I was like, there's my wife, Danielle. The payoff of
Speaker 2: the story won't matter that much to you in the beginning,
Speaker 2: but it will to the audience and do our producers.
Speaker 2: When I say the name and Danielle stands up and
Speaker 2: says hi, and I'm like, please introduce yourself, Please introduce yourself,
Speaker 2: he goes, Hi, I'm Richie, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's Richie Incognito. Richie Incognito, who was pretty much well
Speaker 2: known at the time for being one of the most unhinged,
Speaker 2: dangerous people in the league. He had just gotten into
Speaker 2: trouble because well, a lot of things. It was part
Speaker 2: of the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal, but that's not the
Speaker 2: big problem. He then went on to shoot up his
Speaker 2: own Lamborghini or Ferrari with an assault rifle. Allegedly, he
Speaker 2: was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold for getting in
Speaker 2: a fight at a lifetime fitness He then went to
Speaker 2: a funeral home where his father was being His father's
Speaker 2: body was being prepared he had two glocks, three rifles,
Speaker 2: a silencer in his truck, and he said he wanted
Speaker 2: to cut his father's head off for research purposes, so
Speaker 2: the cops had to come get him. When they got there,
Speaker 2: he was walking through the funeral home punching caskets and
Speaker 2: throwing objects. He also, it should be noted, is six
Speaker 2: three three forty and he has walked up to me
Speaker 2: in this restaurant because I said that the Raiders should
Speaker 2: cut him and that he's a lunatic. And I was like,
Speaker 2: he might hit me, like he might beat me to death,
Speaker 2: and there's I've gotten no moves. And he had just
Speaker 2: posted because the Raiders signed him or re signed him,
Speaker 2: like his own sizzle real highlights that underneath it was
Speaker 2: my commentary roasting him. And I'm like, this guy's so mad,
Speaker 2: and I think he wanted me to like apologize, but
Speaker 2: I'm in front of my wife and her friend. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna apologize. So I was like, Eh, congrats on
Speaker 2: the deal. He's like, yeah, you didn't think I would
Speaker 2: get it. It's like I didn't. Good for you, man,
Speaker 2: Hope you keep it up. It's like okay, and shook
Speaker 2: my hand again and squeezed the shit out of it,
Speaker 2: pardon me. Then went back to his table, and Danielle
Speaker 2: has no idea who he is, obviously knows none of
Speaker 2: this story. And she says, you know, she has like
Speaker 2: this amazing.
Speaker 4: And so with the telepathic stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was like, that guy's crazy. I'm like, I know,
Speaker 2: how do you know? She's like, you could see it
Speaker 2: in his eyes. She's like, he wanted to hurt you.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I think so. So that's the worst one.
Speaker 2: Robert Griffin the third confronted me on the air, like
Speaker 2: my commentary prevented teams from signing him, as opposed to
Speaker 2: his terrible play preventing teams from signing him.
Speaker 4: But double down on it right now.
Speaker 2: I've never liked that guy. I'm nicer to him now
Speaker 2: because he's in the industry and we're not supposed to
Speaker 2: take shots at other broadcasters, but I've never liked him. Nick,
Speaker 2: are you a fan of the Pat McAfee show. Do
Speaker 2: you like what he's on in the sports world? I
Speaker 2: don't watch Pat show, but I'm wildly impressed with what
Speaker 2: he's done. What he's done is a great story of
Speaker 2: betting on yourself and hitting it huge. I've Pats a
Speaker 2: massive success story, a huge talent. He's fantastic. Nick, do
Speaker 2: you really think Lebron would beat Jordan one on one
Speaker 2: both in primes? I do, because he's so much bigger
Speaker 2: and stronger. But I also think that is a terrible
Speaker 2: measure of basketball.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just think that's not at all the measure of
Speaker 2: what makes someone great, Like I think that, you know,
Speaker 2: James Harden might cook Tim Duncan one on one. Tim
Speaker 2: Duncan's one of the eight greatest players in the history
Speaker 2: of the league. So I just think one on one
Speaker 2: is silly.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can squeeze in a couple more, uh, Nick.
Speaker 2: Do you think Darvin Ham's terrible rotations have escaped Flame?
Speaker 2: I do, But I also think him getting Russ to
Speaker 2: accept the role that he's gotten, and Anthony Davis playing
Speaker 2: at the level that he's played at when he's healthy,
Speaker 2: he deserves credit for that. Nick. What player would you
Speaker 2: want to see get traded to a better situation other
Speaker 2: than Lebron just to make the league better? Dame. I'd
Speaker 2: like to see Dame in big games on a contender. Nick,
Speaker 2: If you met Lebron in person, I have do I
Speaker 2: have any pictures with him? I don't. I don't take
Speaker 2: pictures like with I take pictures if someone wants to
Speaker 2: take a picture with me, but I don't ever ask
Speaker 2: people for pictures, Nick, if I go to one sports
Speaker 2: book as far as which one's the best, if you
Speaker 2: want to go in person, the Circus Sports Book off
Speaker 2: the strip in Vegas is pretty phenomenal as far as
Speaker 2: what they have, as far as the TV screens and
Speaker 2: how big of a what they're set up is, Nick,
Speaker 2: your top five receivers of all time, Rice and Randy
Speaker 2: have to be there, and then it gets very tough.
Speaker 2: I got it. I don't want to just of that
Speaker 2: list flippantly without thinking about it.
Speaker 5: This Stanley Stanley Gifner would oh, Stanley Gifner, No. Would
Speaker 5: Adopting relegation for the bottom teams in the NBA detaed
Speaker 5: teams from tanking.
Speaker 2: I like the relegation model. The problem is you can't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work the way the NBA, the way American
Speaker 2: sports are formatted, because you can't have a G League
Speaker 2: team promoted, you know what I mean, Like, you just can't,
Speaker 2: and so it wouldn't work in that regard. I do
Speaker 2: I think relegations smart and a cool thing, but the
Speaker 2: European soccer leagues are just formatted so differently. Somebody asked
Speaker 2: de Monte, could he beat JJ Reddick one on one
Speaker 2: right now? The answer to that is no, I could
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick. Yeah, okay, I I.
Speaker 4: What are were probably the same heightn't you might be
Speaker 4: a little shorter than me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but recently retired from the NBA. Very good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was very good.
Speaker 4: I just retired from basketball.
Speaker 2: Like, okay, okay, good point. Uh, Dan Patrick and Colin Cowhard. Nick,
Speaker 2: come out and tell us what you did to get
Speaker 2: where you are. I mean, the very short version is
Speaker 2: an asinine amount of hard work and a whole lot
Speaker 2: of good luck. That's those are the that's the short version.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's an argument to made the honest
Speaker 2: are the best player in the world right now? I
Speaker 2: don't think there's an argument to be made against it.
Speaker 2: I think he's clearly and unequivocally the best player in
Speaker 2: the world. Uh, the Nick, Do you and Lebron have
Speaker 2: any relationship at all? I have a very very good,
Speaker 2: close relationship with Maverick, Lebron's business partner. We've been to
Speaker 2: each other's houses, were Maverick I would call a legitimate
Speaker 2: personal friend. I have a good relationship with Rich Rich,
Speaker 2: Paul Lebron's agent, also Rich who got a lot of
Speaker 2: airtime at the Grammy's yesterday because he's dating Adele. I
Speaker 2: don't have a relationship with Lebron other than to say hello.
Speaker 2: It's nothing bad, It's just we've never our paths have
Speaker 2: never really crossed. I've never lived in the same city
Speaker 2: he played in, so we have had a lot of
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But I'm I'm friendly with
Speaker 2: people in his orbit. And last time I saw Lebron,
Speaker 2: he was at a nightclub in Houston, and he seemed
Speaker 2: happy to see me, and we dapped each other up.
Speaker 2: But that's the extent of it, not like not someone
Speaker 2: that I can text with or that I can be
Speaker 2: honest to call a friend. I just think he's the
Speaker 2: greatest athlete ever lived. All Right, fun show. I hope
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Speaker 2: As Brussard's nets, I think he's gonna think they're in shambles,
Speaker 2: and I think they might have actually gotten a little
Speaker 2: bit better we'll do that on TV. I'll talk to
Speaker 2: you guys throughout the week, Ambling show tomorrow. What's right,