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Speaker 4: It is the What's Right with the Great podcast and
Speaker 4: YouTube show episode number thirteen again a reminder. Just a
Speaker 4: couple of days ago, the latest episode in our fifty
Speaker 4: Greatest Players of the Last Fifty Years series dropped on
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Speaker 5: Check those out.
Speaker 4: We are rounding out the top players fifty through forty.
Speaker 4: We're going to get into the top thirty next week,
Speaker 4: so I guess the top forty, but the thirty ish
Speaker 4: guys next week, So check that out. But before we
Speaker 4: get into today's show and the wild NBA playoffs that
Speaker 4: we've had so far, as we always do, let's talk
Speaker 4: about what we're not going to talk about here is
Speaker 4: what did not make today's show. What did not make
Speaker 4: today's show is Nikola Jokiz. That's hard for me to believe.
Speaker 4: I thinks are going to be in here somewhere because
Speaker 4: he played well NFL stealing Christmas Day from the NBA.
Speaker 5: That didn't make the show.
Speaker 4: And Ben said Lemmens' re injury when he never had
Speaker 4: an actual injury that I saw one of the most
Speaker 4: bizarre years of any Max athlete ever. That did not
Speaker 4: make today's show. If you're new to the show, the
Speaker 4: person you're about to hear from is my son Demanse.
Speaker 4: He's kind of co host sidekit keeps.
Speaker 5: Us moving along.
Speaker 4: You're also, if you're watching, gonna see a clock that
Speaker 4: I usually fail, but sometimes I keep to to try
Speaker 4: to keep us moving.
Speaker 5: All right, now, I will turn to you, Demanse.
Speaker 4: Demanse, I think I know where we're starting, but you
Speaker 4: go ahead and.
Speaker 3: Tell me there are we not starting? Yeah, the Nets
Speaker 3: are down three to out to Boston.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, you're very listen everyone, you know, a Demanse
Speaker 4: is a Celtics fan is called ripped in our relationship
Speaker 4: because I've never read the Celtics prior to this series.
Speaker 4: Be they should know when people are hearing or seeing this,
Speaker 4: the series is either over or they're down three to one.
Speaker 4: We're recording a few hours before Game four, so as
Speaker 4: we sit here at three to zero, we know in
Speaker 4: your world it's either three to one or it was
Speaker 4: a sweep of a go ahead.
Speaker 3: Right, And Durant hasn't played very well, Oh you don't
Speaker 3: say no, And these problems are much bigger than him.
Speaker 3: Ben Simmons hasn't played a single minute. Yeah, Nash is
Speaker 3: probably gonna get fired.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as you should.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and after a year of carrying the Nets, it
Speaker 3: seemed like Durant is finally guessed. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 3: you can't. You can't possibly put all this on Durant.
Speaker 3: What's the situation? Okay, So here's the deal. This is
Speaker 3: Kevin Durantworth's worst playoff series of his career. He was
Speaker 3: nine of twenty four in Game one.
Speaker 4: We all said he won't be that bad again, and
Speaker 4: that was his best get.
Speaker 5: Game two he was zero for ten in the second half.
Speaker 4: Game three, he took one shot in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: shooting thirty six percent from the field. There's the worst
Speaker 4: playoff series he's ever but that to me, and that
Speaker 4: is a story. But there is a bigger kind of
Speaker 4: macro story that we are going to see throughout these
Speaker 4: playoffs and then throughout the next few years of playoffs
Speaker 4: that is going to snap something in the focus. And
Speaker 4: that's what I want to focus on because what we
Speaker 4: are going to find, doubt and what we are going
Speaker 4: to see is every single one of our great players
Speaker 4: in this league is going to fail to live up
Speaker 4: to the false standard that was created for Lebron James.
Speaker 5: And here's what I.
Speaker 4: Mean, because what has happened in the media the last
Speaker 4: decade is out of a thirst and a quest to
Speaker 4: try to tear down Lebron. There were these false premises,
Speaker 4: built false premises of all time greats never had bad
Speaker 4: playoff awful playoff games, let alone awful playoff series. And
Speaker 4: so Lebron to this day has twenty eleven still hung
Speaker 4: around his neck. But that's that was a bad series
Speaker 4: a decade of more than a decade. But since then,
Speaker 4: every single year in the postseason the moment Lebron had
Speaker 4: a forget a bad series, because since twenty eleven he
Speaker 4: hasn't had a bad series, a bad game.
Speaker 5: It was a referendum.
Speaker 4: It was all, this is why Katie's better, this is
Speaker 4: why he's not Michael. And now those chickens are coming
Speaker 4: home to roost for everybody else's favorite guys. Because the
Speaker 4: rules that the rules of engagement have been best player
Speaker 4: in the league can't be bad in the series. And
Speaker 4: guess what that's gonna end up with. There isn't gonna
Speaker 4: be the best player in the league. It's just there's
Speaker 4: gonna be everyone's gonna be ineligible. Jokic is gonna get
Speaker 4: beaten five games. Giannis was awful in a series the
Speaker 4: year before he won the title. Durant's been awful here.
Speaker 4: We've seen Steph miss the playoffs and be bad in finals.
Speaker 4: Who's left. Joel Embiid is playing well at the moment,
Speaker 4: we'll see, but we've never seen him play in a
Speaker 4: conference finals. And so what has happened is there was
Speaker 4: such a fake standard built in order to tear down
Speaker 4: Lebron versus Michael Jordan, that now the guys that many
Speaker 4: folks have wanted to elevate alongside, if not ahead of Lebron,
Speaker 4: not in the all time pantheon, but in the contemporary pantheon,
Speaker 4: they're realizing, oh, that that's an unrealistic standard. The idea
Speaker 4: that Kevin Durant, who by the way, has lost seven
Speaker 4: of his last eight playoffs, has lost five playoff games
Speaker 4: in a row, was going to go his entire career
Speaker 4: and never have a terrible series was unrealistic. But that's
Speaker 4: the standard we were told.
Speaker 2: The man's I know he's saying he's not tired, but
Speaker 2: that the man is tired.
Speaker 4: Obviously, the man's tired. And I've been talking about how
Speaker 4: he's been playing forty minutes a game since March first.
Speaker 4: How stupid that is, What a bad coaching job that
Speaker 4: is by Nash. But he and credit Katie for not
Speaker 4: using it as an excuse. But again, I want to
Speaker 4: just emphasize this point. There have been a lot of
Speaker 4: folks in my profession who have tried to argue for
Speaker 4: various reasons, forget Lebron versus Jordan, but that, oh, Lebron
Speaker 4: hasn't been the best player in the league in years,
Speaker 4: that Durant was better than that Steph was better than
Speaker 4: him for a couple of years, that Durant's been better
Speaker 4: than him since the twenty seventeen finals had shot.
Speaker 5: In his face.
Speaker 4: But now what everyone is going to experience is realizing, Uh,
Speaker 4: that standard demands you never have a bad game, let
Speaker 4: alone a bad series, and no one in NBA history
Speaker 4: lives up to it. Daream had bad series. People want
Speaker 4: to pretend like Michael didn't go check the box scores.
Speaker 4: Go check Michael going three for eighteen down oh two
Speaker 4: after a nighty gambling in Atlantic City against the Knicks
Speaker 4: and Scottie pittmanbale him out. Check Michael in the ninety
Speaker 4: five semi finals against Orlando when he was the fourth
Speaker 4: best player on the court. Check my Michael pre Pippin,
Speaker 4: or in one of those Piston series with Pippin. Michael
Speaker 4: had bad playoff series. Michael had bad playoff games. Giannis
Speaker 4: has had awful playoff moments, Durant were in the middle
Speaker 4: of it right now. With Durant, everybody's had him. Kobe
Speaker 4: blew a three to one league. Kobe's zero four finals
Speaker 4: were a disaster. But we have created this fake world
Speaker 4: where no, no, no, the all time. If you're really
Speaker 4: that guy, you don't have these So now what you're
Speaker 4: either going to have to concede Okay, we were wildly
Speaker 4: unfair to Lebron James, or we're just going to enter
Speaker 4: a desert of greatness because nobody's going to live up
Speaker 4: to the standard. If people don't think if he stays
Speaker 4: in the playoffs long enough that Jason Tatum has a.
Speaker 5: Five for twenty one in him, you're kidding yourself.
Speaker 4: But now it's like, oh, Tatum's the next guy, he's
Speaker 4: out playing, Dura's sinking. Okay, Tatum's got a bad game coming, Yannas.
Speaker 4: I'm sure I'll have an awful game.
Speaker 5: All of them will.
Speaker 4: But we created a world where that's not allowed, and
Speaker 4: so now now Durant is paying the penalty, so that, yes,
Speaker 4: Durant's been awful. It's been odd to see these games.
Speaker 4: The games one, two, and three were all close in
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. Game one it's his Nets have a
Speaker 4: five point lead with four minutes left and they lose.
Speaker 4: Game two, they have a it's tied with eight minutes left.
Speaker 4: Game three, it's a five point game with eight minutes left.
Speaker 4: All they needed was one great Durant quarter and it's
Speaker 4: two to one. Two great Durant quarters and they're in the.
Speaker 5: League, in the series. They didn't get it.
Speaker 4: So, yes, this is a bad look for Durant, but
Speaker 4: he's getting extra crushed because we've set the rules on
Speaker 4: you must always be excellent at all times or else
Speaker 4: you're not that guy. It's an unfair standard. All right,
Speaker 4: what's next? Since there was a good seven minutes there,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 2: You made a joke on Twitter saying straight up, trade
Speaker 2: Kyrie for Russ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody loves reunions. Get Katie and Russ back together.
Speaker 4: Get it was a joke for you Twitter folks.
Speaker 3: While Lebron can probably make the play in am I
Speaker 3: right if he's if he's got a third A list
Speaker 3: star on the team with the vaccination and COVID stuff,
Speaker 3: hopefully being behind us, wouldn't teams be lined up to
Speaker 3: max out Kyrie if the Nets don't.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean you want to give Kyrie Irving four
Speaker 4: or five years max money. That's one of the wildest
Speaker 4: decisions anyone's ever made.
Speaker 5: The better question.
Speaker 4: So no, I would a lot of teams be lining up. No,
Speaker 4: all it takes is a few though, yes, of course
Speaker 4: somebody would. There are a number of teams that would
Speaker 4: love to have Kyrie Irving right. The question is would
Speaker 4: he loved to go there?
Speaker 2: Right? And do you want the baggage?
Speaker 4: And and to me, I've said this and again. I've
Speaker 4: been wrong on a few things on this show and
Speaker 4: on the TV show, but I have nailed the fraudulent
Speaker 4: teams of the NBA better than any of my colleagues.
Speaker 4: For four years running, everyone was all over the Clippers.
Speaker 4: I told you the Nuggets would beat him back with nuggets.
Speaker 5: Fans love me.
Speaker 4: The only person in the world that picked the Clippers
Speaker 4: losing round two said it all your long, nuggets feed him.
Speaker 4: I was right on the nets last year. I was
Speaker 4: right on the nets this year. And the Kyrie thing
Speaker 4: I've been right on the juice is not worth the squeeze.
Speaker 4: At the very least, what Kyrie Irving is supposed to
Speaker 4: give you is instant, unguardable offense that hasn't existed since
Speaker 4: he stopped flipping fans. He's been bad in Game two,
Speaker 4: bad in Game three. Again, we're not maybe he'll explode today.
Speaker 4: Ram Okay, Okay, Well that's well, all right, that was
Speaker 4: maybe an unfair shot. That might be Demonse's first unfair
Speaker 4: shot at anybody. Hey, let's not. Let's not bring anyone's
Speaker 4: the personal beliefs. Oh, you're saying to be disrespectful.
Speaker 2: During Ramanan.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair, because you're you're not supposed to furst
Speaker 4: during Ramanan?
Speaker 5: That is true. Did you know I once fasted during
Speaker 5: Ramanon in high school?
Speaker 4: Did you know that?
Speaker 6: Because my best friend was more, I did it? Slidary,
Speaker 6: That's definitely a lie. I swear to God, you fast.
Speaker 6: Problem is, I don't know if I made it the
Speaker 6: whole time. But yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: My basketball teammate was most of my past with him
Speaker 4: neither here nor there.
Speaker 5: Let me finish the Kyrie point because we are going
Speaker 5: to go a little long.
Speaker 4: Sorry, boys. So Kyrie Irving has not had a single
Speaker 4: relevant postseason moment after Round one since twenty seventeen. That's
Speaker 4: a half decade. It's a half decade where he hasn't
Speaker 4: played in a game after round two, and he hasn't
Speaker 4: been good in a game after round one. Like, that's
Speaker 4: a problem, a massive tripling problem. The deal, though, for
Speaker 4: the Nets is even if you don't want to trust him,
Speaker 4: you can't let him walk. They're so screwed. We can
Speaker 4: talk more nets long term future. But no, if I
Speaker 4: were a GM, I wouldn't trust Kyrie Irving with a
Speaker 4: four year maximum or a five year maximum extension. But
Speaker 4: someone will give it to him. All right, what's the next?
Speaker 4: That was?
Speaker 5: By the way, we're already out of time. We have
Speaker 5: two topics left. What's the next?
Speaker 3: The Pelicans took Game four from the Suns. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: world has been dying to root for CP three, but
Speaker 3: he had four points in thirty five minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you get a bad game.
Speaker 3: D Book may need another few weeks with his injury.
Speaker 3: Does Chris Paul have terrible luck? Or can we finally
Speaker 3: say that he's overrated?
Speaker 4: He's not overrated. No, we cannot finally say that again
Speaker 4: the Durant Lebron corollary, Oh, you have bad games, suck now.
Speaker 5: Chris Paul's bad game was really bad.
Speaker 4: Point I understand, but he's also point guard. Scoring is
Speaker 4: not what he tries to do most of the time.
Speaker 4: I think he's still out of eleven assists, but he
Speaker 4: was He played perfect point guard in games one and
Speaker 4: three and they needed that to win. He was bad
Speaker 4: in game four. He's not overrated, but bad luck is true.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know that.
Speaker 5: I thought the.
Speaker 4: MAVs could beat them with a healthy Devin Booker. Devin
Speaker 4: Booker's out, They're not there. I think they are drawing
Speaker 4: dead to beat the Mavericks. Now They're gonna beat the
Speaker 4: Pelicans no matter what. So I don't think they're in
Speaker 4: actual trouble this series, but next series of Booker's not there,
Speaker 4: Luca will dice them up.
Speaker 5: All right, what's last?
Speaker 3: We could talk Warriors Nuggets only if you promised to
Speaker 3: not make it about jo Kics credit.
Speaker 4: Yogics played a good game until the very end when
Speaker 4: they started hunting him on defense and they took them
Speaker 4: out of the offense seven substitution.
Speaker 5: That's odd for an MVP, but Yogics played really well.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, So Golden State obviously won't get the sweep,
Speaker 3: but Yo can save the Nuggets with a thirty seven
Speaker 3: point performance. But the Warriors are looking like a championship
Speaker 3: team again, Draymond's feeling like himself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, Curry is still.
Speaker 2: Not one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: But if Steph wins another title without Katie, maybe top ten.
Speaker 4: All time, Top ten, Top ten all times again. The
Speaker 4: thing with with top tens is there's only ten people on.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to spoil the fifty best players
Speaker 4: of the last fifty years. But let's just give some
Speaker 4: names in no particular order, Okay, And I'm gonna give
Speaker 4: a dozen names, and then we're gonna find in order
Speaker 4: for Curry to be top.
Speaker 2: Ten, one of those guys got to move out.
Speaker 5: Three of them have to move out, Okay, three of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, math is hard, Okay, So here's a dozen names.
Speaker 4: We'll start with those super old timers, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain,
Speaker 4: Kareem Lebron, Michael Magic. Okay, so there's six guys that
Speaker 4: are obviously not moving out. Now we only there's only
Speaker 4: room for three more guys, But there's six, right tim
Speaker 4: duncan he five rings? His two? He went to seven
Speaker 4: finals or six finals? Pardon me, Kobe.
Speaker 5: Bryant, Shaquille O'Neill a, Keem Olajuan.
Speaker 4: We're already at ten.
Speaker 2: You might have said the keem already.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I definitely didn't say I'll do it. Russell, Wilt, Magic,
Speaker 4: Michael Lebron Kareem. I said, kareem is what you would think, Bird, Kobe, Duncan,
Speaker 4: shack a keem.
Speaker 5: Now we're at eleven.
Speaker 4: We have not mentioned Doctor J or Moses Malone. Find
Speaker 4: let's move him ahead of them. Then there's Kevin Durant.
Speaker 4: So the point is this, even if he's better than Durant,
Speaker 4: which he's making the case for Doctor J and Moses,
Speaker 4: give it to him. I'm not sure if I will,
Speaker 4: but give it to him. There is still shack a keem, Bird, Duncan, Kobe.
Speaker 4: You got to take two of those guys out, two
Speaker 4: of them out the step to be top ten, you
Speaker 4: got to take two of them out. My buddy Bill
Speaker 4: Simmons has been saying. And by the way, that's without
Speaker 4: having Oscar Robertson or Jerry West in there. Take them
Speaker 4: out too. The only super old timers we have are
Speaker 4: Wilton Russell. If you, my buddy Bill Simmons been calling
Speaker 4: Katie a top ten all time guy for a month. Now,
Speaker 4: I just want to know what the top ten is.
Speaker 4: I just know, I'm series. I just want to know,
Speaker 4: are we kicking Larry Bird out? Are you kicking Kobe
Speaker 4: Bryan out? Are we kicking a Keem or Shock out?
Speaker 4: Now some would say a key okay, even if you
Speaker 4: kick a Keem out. It was Steph Curry better than
Speaker 4: Shaquille O'Neill.
Speaker 2: That's two totally different players.
Speaker 4: I understand.
Speaker 2: I guess it's like what they did for their teams.
Speaker 4: But the problem with ten person lists is there's only
Speaker 4: room for ten guys. And by the way, a name
Speaker 4: I didn't mention who might have a in six weeks
Speaker 4: here A really legitimate shot argument he should be at
Speaker 4: a lot of them is Yannis didn't even mention Giannis
Speaker 4: so top ten all time. That's a tough putt, better
Speaker 4: than Durant all time. That might be in progress. That
Speaker 4: was a twenty minute dy block, and I said I'd
Speaker 4: hit the clock.
Speaker 5: I'm terrible at that. We'll be right there.
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Speaker 4: But we the first segment went long. This segment, maybe
Speaker 4: I'll go undertime on this segment. We have ten minutes
Speaker 4: on the clock. Maybe I'll get this segment done in
Speaker 4: eight minutes. We're gonna start with I think a discussion
Speaker 4: of Marquis Demons. Go right ahead.
Speaker 3: Deebo surely seems like he's done with San Francisco. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we all found this out via a nightclub marquee on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seems like the Jets are willing to give up
Speaker 2: pakes for him. But who will be worse.
Speaker 3: Off when Diebo is no longer in the Shanahan office
Speaker 3: Diebo or Shanahan.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think Debo would be I think listen, I
Speaker 4: think the Niners. This would hurt them.
Speaker 2: He is a.
Speaker 4: Perfect weapon for them in the way Kyle Shannan likes
Speaker 4: to run the football, and he's also a very good receiver.
Speaker 4: And by the way, while Deebo is handling this a
Speaker 4: little awkwardly, I do not blame him for wanting to
Speaker 4: play a different style. Running Backs have short careers and
Speaker 4: don't get paid. Wide receivers have long careers and get
Speaker 4: paid massive amounts of money. He's a wide receiver is
Speaker 4: being used like a running back, so is self preservation wise.
Speaker 4: I get why he would want to be elsewhere, at
Speaker 4: the very least if he's in San Francisco to get
Speaker 4: paid now. But San Francisco can manufacture a running game
Speaker 4: that offense dating back to Kyle's dad and Mike Shanahan
Speaker 4: did that in Denver for years and years and years.
Speaker 4: I think Deebo is the one whose numbers would suffer.
Speaker 4: But if he gets to go somewhere where they treat
Speaker 4: him as a real wide receiver, he'll make so much
Speaker 4: more money and have such a longer career. I totally
Speaker 4: get why he'd want to go ty. He kills, numbers
Speaker 4: are going to suffer, but the Dolphins paid him so
Speaker 4: much money. I understand why he wanted to do that.
Speaker 4: All right, speaking of Tyreek Hill, looks like we're talking
Speaker 4: about Chiefs.
Speaker 3: What's next Chiefs GM Brett Viach I love that last name,
Speaker 3: by the way, So as the team is not in
Speaker 3: rebuilding bone, yeah, kind of seems crazy given the standards
Speaker 3: that the Chiefs have been put in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years. The Rams are all in after winning the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, but the Chiefs are protecting draft picks and
Speaker 3: cap space. You gotta admit, don't you wish they were
Speaker 3: more like the Rams than the Patriots?
Speaker 4: Not necessarily because I believe the offense is going to
Speaker 4: be elite no matter what. So to me, this is
Speaker 4: less about a rebuild or cap space or it's more
Speaker 4: about you have limited resources. How are you going to
Speaker 4: allocate You have limited resources via the draft and be
Speaker 4: the salary cap. The defense for Mahome's entire career has
Speaker 4: been average at best and at many times looked god off.
Speaker 4: They must spend money and assets on that side of
Speaker 4: the ball, and so I get the idea of, oh,
Speaker 4: manipulate the cap all in all in all in one
Speaker 4: of the reasons the Rams it makes sense for them
Speaker 4: is because Stafford is going into year fourteen. He's on
Speaker 4: the wrong side of thirty. They don't look at a
Speaker 4: ten year time horizon. The Chiefs do. They have the
Speaker 4: best quarterback in football and he's in his mid twenties.
Speaker 4: And the reason they don't have multiple super Bowls already
Speaker 4: is because the offensive line was bad in one of
Speaker 4: the Super Bowls, so they fixed that. And the defense
Speaker 4: has been bad throughout this time. This Mahomes tenure, so
Speaker 4: they're going to try to fix that. And so I know,
Speaker 4: I'm fine with the way the Chiefs are attempting to build. Now,
Speaker 4: you must hit on the draft. You absolutely have to
Speaker 4: knock this draft out of the park. Last year's draft
Speaker 4: the Chiefs knocked out of the park. We'll see if
Speaker 4: they do it again. All right, time for a game.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what game we're playing.
Speaker 2: It is time for this or that?
Speaker 5: Okay, play go ahead.
Speaker 3: More believable ruler Sean Payton for a first round pick
Speaker 3: or Tom Brady for a second round pick.
Speaker 5: I believe in both.
Speaker 4: And people might be like, why would you only give
Speaker 4: up a second for Brady? I have to give him
Speaker 4: a second for Brady. If Brady got what he wanted here,
Speaker 4: he was going to have so much leverage and control.
Speaker 5: I feel like by already.
Speaker 4: Having left the having left Tampa, it would be similar
Speaker 4: to how Tampa got Drunk from New England, where it
Speaker 4: was okay, but if you don't agree to trade me,
Speaker 4: I'm not playing for you anyway. I'm just gonna stay retired,
Speaker 4: so you might as well get something rather than nothing.
Speaker 4: Tampa didn't have to give up much for Grunk because
Speaker 4: that's the leverage he held. I also think, on the
Speaker 4: flip side with Sean Payton in New Orleans, I think
Speaker 4: the going right for a great coach has always been
Speaker 4: one first round pick or more so I believe him both.
Speaker 5: All right, what's next?
Speaker 2: Okay, bigger deal in Bed being injured or Middleton being injured.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think it's Inbeed being injured because.
Speaker 5: Middle is out. We'll see how long he's out.
Speaker 4: But I have such faith in Yannis, and it's very
Speaker 4: interesting what's happened in that series. The Bucks were okay
Speaker 4: during the regular season, not great. They were okay in
Speaker 4: Game one, escape of the win, worse than okay in
Speaker 4: Game two and lost in Milton got hurt, and then
Speaker 4: what happened. They immediately flipped the switch, went to Chicago
Speaker 4: and kicked their teeth in the back to back games.
Speaker 4: Giannis was out of this world in game four. So
Speaker 4: I think Jannis can carry them. I think they can
Speaker 4: beat the Celtics even if Middleton misses half the series.
Speaker 4: I think Giannis is that good. I also think sidebar
Speaker 4: this whole idea. There is some KD defense, which is well,
Speaker 4: maybe the Celtics are just the best defensive the last
Speaker 4: fifteen years.
Speaker 5: I don't know how how well that's going to hold.
Speaker 4: Up in the light when Giannis averages thirty five points
Speaker 4: per game in that series. Now, maybe thirty five right, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think you will if there's no Middleton.
Speaker 3: I mean you like the Celtics as goal as to
Speaker 3: win the series, can average thirty five milley once the
Speaker 3: goal is to get to the next.
Speaker 4: Of course, and maybe the Celtics will. I think the
Speaker 4: Bucks are gonna win the series and win the championship.
Speaker 4: But my point is for a couple of years now
Speaker 4: more than that, a lot of folks have argued Durant
Speaker 4: is better than Yannis because Durance is so much of
Speaker 4: a better offensive player, is what I was told.
Speaker 5: Because everyone knows Jan's a better defensive player.
Speaker 4: If this same defense that is Steimy and Kevin Durant,
Speaker 4: if Giannis has success, if Giannie averages thirty plus, it,
Speaker 4: you know that doesn't look quite as good in the light.
Speaker 5: But to answer the question, I think it's.
Speaker 4: Indeed because Harden hasn't been great.
Speaker 2: Would you like to bet on that?
Speaker 3: Bet on what I'll make it on the outcome of
Speaker 3: that series the Celtics fed the Bucks?
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, and averages about.
Speaker 4: Hold on you, we're adding, we're adding different layers to it.
Speaker 3: Average average is less than thirty one.
Speaker 5: So the are these two separate bets? Are these one?
Speaker 2: We can do two separate?
Speaker 4: But uh, okay, here's the buddy, buddy that I'm not
Speaker 4: about doing anything to you. I'm just going to make
Speaker 4: it very clear to you that they're like, you're going
Speaker 4: to have to pay if you lose.
Speaker 5: I want you to know that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I will take the Bucks. You'll take the
Speaker 4: Celtics of course. Straight up though, do you want any odds?
Speaker 2: No odds?
Speaker 4: And like you mean, like, okay, this is what I
Speaker 4: could take advantage of you. You should get like one
Speaker 4: point so one. So like, if I risk fifty. I
Speaker 4: risk sixty.
Speaker 5: You risk it.
Speaker 2: Okay, you should get that.
Speaker 4: You should get because the Bucks will be the favorites
Speaker 4: in that series, So you should get a little bit
Speaker 4: extra if you will.
Speaker 3: Okay, we don't have to do it like I'm betting
Speaker 3: online or something. We get just straight up. The Celtics
Speaker 3: are going to beat the Bucks.
Speaker 4: Oh and you don't want extra mone Okay, deal, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to help you out. This is what you
Speaker 4: shouldn't gamble, buddy. All right, so fifty bucks on. I've
Speaker 4: got the Bucks, We've got the Celtics and another fifty bucks.
Speaker 4: I have Giannis averaging at least thirty point zero or
Speaker 4: what you said, thirty five, But well, I don't think
Speaker 4: he's actually going I mean thirty five. Now I would
Speaker 4: need some minds. Okay, do you want to do thirty points?
Speaker 4: I said we were going to be early. Now we're
Speaker 4: negotiating a bet here, dude.
Speaker 5: To be continued next podcast.
Speaker 4: We will hammer out the terms of the bet because
Speaker 4: buck Celtics wouldn't have started. The point I was making
Speaker 4: on embiid is this Maxi has been amazing.
Speaker 5: He's also his.
Speaker 4: First real playoff run. Harden to look like he can
Speaker 4: get past anybody anymore. They need EMBIID to be fully functional,
Speaker 4: and he's not going to be. He's going to play
Speaker 4: through it. But to me, EMBIID is the bigger concern.
Speaker 4: All Right, what's next?
Speaker 3: Worst Lebron take ohkay tea Max saying that Katie and
Speaker 3: Kyrie are more skilled than Lebron and d wait, that
Speaker 3: is not age well at all. Or Lebron saying he's
Speaker 3: never missing the playoffson.
Speaker 4: Oh well, he's obviously right about never missing the playoffs again.
Speaker 4: So it's team Max. Even though by the way, I
Speaker 4: actually love Yeah, I got somebody I can't believe. I'm
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm actually I'm actually fine with Lebron
Speaker 4: not being in this postseason. They were gonna lose anyway.
Speaker 4: It shined a brighter light on other stars across the league.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with it. I don't like that it's given
Speaker 4: this guy a little AMMO because Tatum's having.
Speaker 5: His best run at outstanding.
Speaker 4: Tatum has been great. Tatum has been absolutely great, there's
Speaker 4: no denying it. Lebron, meanwhile, is tweeting from a beach somewhere.
Speaker 4: Oddly enough, on that beach, Lebron is tweeting from he
Speaker 4: has the same as we sit here today, the same
Speaker 4: number of playoff wins as Kevin Durant this year. That's
Speaker 4: odd to hear. All Right, what's last? What's last?
Speaker 2: She's better fit?
Speaker 4: Yeah, your robe or Ben Simmons court side out? Oh,
Speaker 4: these are both legendary fits. I don't know if we're
Speaker 4: gonna if you're watching on YouTube, I assume we're gonna
Speaker 4: show him to you, Ben Simmons. I honestly believe Ben
Speaker 4: Simmons is catching ten percent more for not being eligible
Speaker 4: to play now in Game four because he's dressing like this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and the sunglasses. I think that is a legendary.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 5: However, if you're gonna.
Speaker 4: Wear something that ostentatious, you need to play basketball.
Speaker 2: Look it up. Marquee and austentatious.
Speaker 4: I don't saw, the other hand, is a far more
Speaker 4: legendary fit.
Speaker 2: It's cool.
Speaker 4: And the fact that I already had in my possession
Speaker 4: the Versace robe that Patrick Beverly wore when he did
Speaker 4: his thing, that I could then wear on television to
Speaker 4: uh mott Patrick Beverly. It was I know, it was
Speaker 4: a bit of a place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 3: It's a bit embarrassing for Patrick Beverley that.
Speaker 4: That robe is as expensive as people think. How much
Speaker 4: you think that robe costs?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's not upward of like seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 4: You're very close. Six hundred bucks. Best six hundred bucks
Speaker 4: I've ever spent. That is a gorgeous piece of clothing.
Speaker 5: We all be right.
Speaker 2: Six he's ever spent. I've got that fee for Christmas roasted.
Speaker 2: He tried it roasted.
Speaker 4: You're right about that.
Speaker 5: Best six hundred bucks my wife's ever spent.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Nick, Nick Winer pushed me into that.
Speaker 4: Oh you're trying to ask out of it, well halfway halfway.
Speaker 4: Well we didn't. We didn't set the official term. So
Speaker 4: you're okay, we can we can wait on it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'd rather not take money for you.
Speaker 2: After after game one.
Speaker 4: I'll have a better feel your game one. Ye. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well that's not I get Listen, you don't want to
Speaker 4: bet against Johannis. I understand I wouldn't work against honest.
Speaker 4: All right, are you ready to go?
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. I appreciate that, Nick, no problem,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 5: Uh, you're talking to different Nick, talking to Nick the cruiser.
Speaker 4: I was like, why do you call me, Nick, all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, you gotten a little too comfortable. All right,
Speaker 4: welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Great podcast and
Speaker 4: YouTube show again, like great subscribe. He's talking to that Nick,
Speaker 4: not this Nick. If you're watching on YouTube, you just
Speaker 4: saw our wonderful production staff, including our engineer Victor, who
Speaker 4: just has gorgeous hair. I'm confident enough to say I
Speaker 4: don't know if we can show him with on camera again.
Speaker 5: I mean that is I mean, he's a handsome man.
Speaker 4: In general. I feel like he I don't know Victor,
Speaker 4: but he feels like the type of guy that might
Speaker 4: ride a motorcycle. And then but I mean that hair
Speaker 4: is blowing in the wind. He does ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 5: I knew it.
Speaker 4: I could just see Victor riding like down the beach
Speaker 4: in Bennis. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh he's got a helmet.
Speaker 4: Look at that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not trying to judge a book by
Speaker 4: its cover, but I just figure Victor's out there riding
Speaker 4: a motorcycle, you know, hollering at people, having that gorgeous
Speaker 4: locks flowing in the wind. All right, final segment here,
Speaker 4: demand's got mad at me last night?
Speaker 5: Do you want to tell the audience what happened?
Speaker 2: WHOA, I don't know, mad is.
Speaker 3: The word, but I just felt like I don't want
Speaker 3: to also don't want to say I felt disrespect me.
Speaker 4: Oh, you felt disrespected.
Speaker 3: But he was just like I was going out last
Speaker 3: night to a bar, just, you know, have a drink
Speaker 3: with a couple of friends, chill out, watch the games.
Speaker 2: Watch the games.
Speaker 3: Yes, and so this guy text me and tells me
Speaker 3: not to be out too late. And you know, he's
Speaker 3: just like every time there's a night before the show,
Speaker 3: he's like caught all my back. You know, we got
Speaker 3: a schedule. It's just like I just feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's gotten to the point where I know what I
Speaker 3: can and can't do, and then I get home talk
Speaker 3: to him about it.
Speaker 4: Okay, hold on, so pause the story for a moment,
Speaker 4: so listen. We record these shows on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Speaker 4: Demandy's a grown man who because we needed some more
Speaker 4: help around the house because my wife opened a store
Speaker 4: here in Harlem, Demons agreed to move back in here
Speaker 4: and help us out. And he's gonna leave us shortly
Speaker 4: to go. I don't know if he's gonna stay in
Speaker 4: New York or where he's gonna go. But right now
Speaker 4: he is back living under our room to help us out,
Speaker 4: and I leave. I leave him to his own devices. However,
Speaker 4: now that he's a part of this, I've made it clear. Hey,
Speaker 4: Mondays and Wednesdays we do the show. So maybe Sundays
Speaker 4: and Tuesdays it don't be you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Old Danny drinks at.
Speaker 5: The at the bar with range and.
Speaker 4: And you're you know, you're in your bed at a
Speaker 4: reasonable hour. So yesterday, when after what game were we watching,
Speaker 4: I don't remember which game, it was Nuggets Warriors. Where
Speaker 4: after that, I see all of a sudden he leaves
Speaker 4: the room for a little bit, comes back and he's
Speaker 4: got a little fit on. He's got like some Jordan's
Speaker 4: on a match in OKC SGA Jersey, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 4: about to step out for a bit, all right. So
Speaker 4: he leaves three hours later, still not home. So I
Speaker 4: just sent him at text like reminder, it is Sunday night.
Speaker 4: So but I also, uh, last I went out to
Speaker 4: dinner with my wife, came home. I'm home, I'm in
Speaker 4: bed watching the Sun's game. Demonsey comes in. It's not
Speaker 4: that late. What's up? What's the problem?
Speaker 3: All right, So the problem here, as you said, three
Speaker 3: hours later, I might have left the house at seven thirty.
Speaker 2: Oh you text me at eight eleven.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, that's true. All right, you know that's
Speaker 4: April o'clock. That's a fair point.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I was a little apprehensive. But so then
Speaker 4: he comes upstairs like to show me his sobriety, and
Speaker 4: how's yet he's back in the house and I'm not
Speaker 4: hearing it, and I'm just like, okay, whatever, man, And
Speaker 4: then what do we hear?
Speaker 3: Dexter barking from outside, whining at that not even barking.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how long he was outside. I
Speaker 3: got home at like eleven, I gotten.
Speaker 4: The dog outside, and our dog had been outside in
Speaker 4: our little breakfast nook area for god not only knows
Speaker 4: how long. And right as Demons was leaving, I was
Speaker 4: telling him be more responsible. He had to then let
Speaker 4: our dog in, who I had totally forgotten about. Why
Speaker 4: I was watching uninterrupted twelve hours of NBA basketball.
Speaker 5: So not a great listen. A win for you, I'm
Speaker 5: very happy for you.
Speaker 4: A win for you. Now, you took that win a
Speaker 4: little too far with some of your attitude and commentary
Speaker 4: on Today's show.
Speaker 5: So we got a real that back in.
Speaker 4: That's a big win for you, and that's Today's Show.