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Speaker 2: Hey there, welcome in for the first time in a while.
Speaker 2: What's right with Nick? Great episode two forty seven. Few
Speaker 2: programming notes, Uh, little intermittent last week. We were out
Speaker 2: because of the World Series of Poker fourth of July
Speaker 2: this week, so I think we give everybody off. I
Speaker 2: haven't discussed that. I don't think we have a show
Speaker 2: for the j The next week family vacation, so we're
Speaker 2: gonna hit you hard with a bunch of NBA free agency,
Speaker 2: and then post family vacation will be back, kind of
Speaker 2: turning the page to all things NFL. But I had
Speaker 2: a great week in Vegas, and we will discuss that
Speaker 2: on the show. There was also a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of the Internet thinks that Tom Haberstrow's article unmasking
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's fraudulent defensive Player of the Year award. It
Speaker 2: was a Tom Habershrow and Nick Wright article. And while
Speaker 2: I appreciate the credit, and I think Tom did a
Speaker 2: great job, he deserves all the credit. I just did
Speaker 2: a little bit of media consultation about how to kind
Speaker 2: of position that in the marketplace as best as it
Speaker 2: could be. But turns out my media consulting on that
Speaker 2: was useless because the network other than mine acted like
Speaker 2: that article didn't exist. You know, shows that will spend
Speaker 2: thirty forty minutes on a single Lebron James Tweet decided
Speaker 2: not to dedicate a single word to you know, you know,
Speaker 2: was one of the pillars of Michael Jordan's goat case
Speaker 2: built on a lie. Struck me as odd, it struck
Speaker 2: me as interesting. But again, the as much as I
Speaker 2: love getting credit for other people's work, that was Tom
Speaker 2: Haberstrow's Blood, Sweat and Tears, And I'm gonna go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this, but I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: and do this real quick. I was thinking about this
Speaker 2: when I was in Vegas, and I didn't know if
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it or not. And we'll bring
Speaker 2: de Mon's an in a moment. But I just want
Speaker 2: to get this out there now and feel free bad
Speaker 2: actors on the internet to clip this and distribute it
Speaker 2: however you want. This is a verbal contract, because folks
Speaker 2: then took Tom's article and they were like, what about
Speaker 2: this game from Lebron? Okay, here is not even a
Speaker 2: wager a free role for any one person out there.
Speaker 2: If anyone out there can find a mutually agreed upon
Speaker 2: respected statistician to look at the Lebron James statistical record
Speaker 2: and find anything as statistically outlandish as what Tom found
Speaker 2: about Jordan's nineteen eighty eight season and are able to
Speaker 2: draw the similar line to this specific award Lebron won
Speaker 2: was based in this level of statistical anomaly or Malfe's
Speaker 2: if there is a again, you guys can pick them
Speaker 2: as long whoever wants to do it, as long as
Speaker 2: they are credentials pass muster to me. Let them do
Speaker 2: their study. If you can find that person to do
Speaker 2: that study and come back and be like, hey, this
Speaker 2: award has as much of an asterisk on it as
Speaker 2: Jordan's nineteen eighty eight Defensive Player of the ar award.
Speaker 2: I'll give you ten thousand dollars. So that is a
Speaker 2: challenge to the internet, an open challenge to the Internet.
Speaker 2: Anyone can apply. I just laid out the parameters, hand
Speaker 2: over heart ten thousand dollars guarantee replay. Exactly what the
Speaker 2: parameters were. They're very very clear. But until you and
Speaker 2: by the way, there's no risk. It's not a bet.
Speaker 2: If you can't, you owe me zero. So that that
Speaker 2: is now out there in the ether for as long
Speaker 2: as people want it, and it's available for as long
Speaker 2: as people want it. My guess is no one's going
Speaker 2: to take it because it's not going to be doable
Speaker 2: because Lebron's entire career has been in the high definition
Speaker 2: mostly streaming League pass era and it's not being relied
Speaker 2: upon legend the way kind of some of that eighties
Speaker 2: Jordan stuff is. But it's out there. Ten grand's a
Speaker 2: real amount of money, so go try to do it.
Speaker 2: The real question is, right now, while I'm talking, is
Speaker 2: Demanse thinking could I am I eligible? Could I find
Speaker 2: the statistician. That would be a hell of us plot twist.
Speaker 2: I knew you were thinking. Demanse's like, hold on a second,
Speaker 2: I might know some people that would love to do this.
Speaker 3: How are you doing, Pal, I'm doing pretty good. How
Speaker 3: are we doing? How are we doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Glad to be back. Today's an interesting
Speaker 2: thing on the TV show because we have the nether
Speaker 2: Romania game on FS one at noon Eastern, and the
Speaker 2: moment that game ends, we're live on the air, which
Speaker 2: means two things. One is we should have a million
Speaker 2: plus people watching at the beginning of the show. The
Speaker 2: other is the show might start an hour early. The
Speaker 2: show could start at two pm. If that thing goes
Speaker 2: right in regulation doesn't go extra time, then we're starting
Speaker 2: at two and rolling till four thirty. So we got
Speaker 2: a lot to do, a lot to catch up on
Speaker 2: NBA Free Agency and Demond's e It seems like, you know,
Speaker 2: we missed quite a bit in this week. I was gone,
Speaker 2: So why don't you tell us what we're doing here
Speaker 2: before we get.
Speaker 4: So A lot of events if unfolded while we've taken
Speaker 4: our break for your World Series of Poker and this
Speaker 4: other stuff.
Speaker 3: So the producers put a list.
Speaker 4: Of stuff that happened over that time, and you can
Speaker 4: just pick a couple of what you want to hit on.
Speaker 2: So okay, so break Brandon Ayuk. It's a whole list.
Speaker 2: If you're watching YouTube. Brendan aug seems to not want
Speaker 2: to be with the Niners anymore, so they don't want
Speaker 2: to pay him. But it looks like he's gonna stay
Speaker 2: with the Niners, so that's nothing. Summer TV heating up again.
Speaker 2: This is there's podcast for that US men's national team
Speaker 2: eliminated from Copa America. Put a pin in that we'll
Speaker 2: get to it. Uh. This kid, that NBA draft pick,
Speaker 2: Jared McCain. People seem to not like his tiktoks or
Speaker 2: gen z nish of him. Fact of the matter is,
Speaker 2: I've got the I've got teenage kids, so or a
Speaker 2: teenage kid, and I already had a teenage kid. Demanda's
Speaker 2: not full on gen Z. My daughter is full on
Speaker 2: gen Z and I'm around her people, so I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm nonplussed by this. The w NBA's record setting weekend.
Speaker 2: We will discuss that the USA track legends and gymnastics
Speaker 2: legends heading to Paris. We'll get into that when the
Speaker 2: Olympics actually starting in July. Don't really care again about
Speaker 2: the Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift relatedtionship other than I think
Speaker 2: it's going to extend his career because I think she
Speaker 2: loves going to the games. And the Jaguars are building
Speaker 2: the Prince of Castle, befitting his royal name, a new stadium.
Speaker 2: So two things in that I want to get to.
Speaker 2: One is the WNBA. The other is the US men's
Speaker 2: national team. So the WNBA, this is what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: These two rookies, Caitlyn and Angel had so much hype
Speaker 2: and they're exceeding it. Caitlyn this weekend was one rebound
Speaker 2: away from the first rookie triple double in the history
Speaker 2: of the WNBA, and did it in the Pardon Me,
Speaker 2: in the midst of beating Diana Tarazi in that and
Speaker 2: the Phoenix Mercury. It was a great game. I watched
Speaker 2: the whole fourth quarter of it. Caitlin continues to answer
Speaker 2: the bell. The turnovers are a lot, but go.
Speaker 3: Ahead about the turnovers.
Speaker 4: But I saw a video or like a montage saying,
Speaker 4: look at the turnovers that Caitlin Clark is getting in
Speaker 4: like on half of them, there passes that our teammates
Speaker 4: could catch, and it seems like they're just selling her
Speaker 4: down the river.
Speaker 2: So I don't so I think half is an overstatement.
Speaker 2: I do think there's you know, usually I saw that
Speaker 2: montage as well, but the volume is so high. Some
Speaker 2: of that is it's a rookie woes being asked to do,
Speaker 2: you know, everything, And right now she leads the WNBA
Speaker 2: and assists and leads the WNBA in three pointers. The
Speaker 2: turnovers will need to get. Yes, her teammates could help
Speaker 2: out a little bit more, but it's also she was
Speaker 2: a high turnover player at Iowa, and at some point
Speaker 2: the job is know what passes your teammates can catch.
Speaker 2: But I'm not here. I'm not trying to knock her.
Speaker 2: My point is that's the only real Yeah. But about
Speaker 2: the resume and then the flip side, Angel Reese, it
Speaker 2: damn Dennis Rodman out there just to double double every game.
Speaker 2: Not Dennis wasn't double double, but as far as the rebounding,
Speaker 2: and she just set the record for ten straight double
Speaker 2: doubles in WNBA rookie record. So those two rookies whose
Speaker 2: teams are neck and neck in the standings for the
Speaker 2: final playoff spot. Who's individually are neck and neck in
Speaker 2: the Rookie of the Year standings. It has been spectacular
Speaker 2: to watch and it's great for the league. And then
Speaker 2: we get to the US men's national team, which I
Speaker 2: am not going to act as if I am a
Speaker 2: full blown US men's national team expert, but I know
Speaker 2: a team that is underachieving and needs a change when
Speaker 2: I see one. And the performance in Copa America by
Speaker 2: the US men's national team Greg Berholter on down is
Speaker 2: the type of performance that in a serious organization would
Speaker 2: to the manager his job. And for Burholter to now
Speaker 2: be if you were against top fifteen opponents, if you
Speaker 2: remove Mexico zero wins, five losses, five draws, to be
Speaker 2: hosting Copa America and not get out of the group stage,
Speaker 2: and to have that performance last night, Yeah, the officiating
Speaker 2: was terrible. I don't care. You were putting this position
Speaker 2: because you couldn't handle your business against Panama, so you
Speaker 2: have to beat Uruguay. You have seemingly no real scoring
Speaker 2: chances until it's too late at the end, and then
Speaker 2: this might not be popular. Don't care. Polisic, buddy, you
Speaker 2: doing the whole of the ref Oh go Celegrabrate with Uruguay,
Speaker 2: give me a break, man. You guys, the the level
Speaker 2: of underachieving by this alleged golden generation of the US
Speaker 2: men's national team is unfathomable. And the World Cup is
Speaker 2: here on our soil in two years and they look
Speaker 2: as far away from contending for anything as at any
Speaker 2: point in my lifetime. I don't know if you can
Speaker 2: fix it in two years, but I know that at
Speaker 2: a minimum you must make a managerial change, and then holistically,
Speaker 2: US soccer needs to decide, Hey, guys, our country produces
Speaker 2: the best athletes in the world. We have three hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million people. Are we going to actually try
Speaker 2: to figure out why we can't get our arms around
Speaker 2: twenty awesome American soccer players when, by the way, the
Speaker 2: money for these guys is there. It's not like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: the best athletes don't want to play it because you
Speaker 2: make more money as an elite soccer player than you
Speaker 2: do anything other than NBA. And you might be like, oh, well, no,
Speaker 2: you actually make more than the NBA. Well, Messi and
Speaker 2: Ronaldo do, but the NBA guys still make absurd money.
Speaker 2: But you make more as an elite soccer player than
Speaker 2: you do an NFL player, then you do a baseball
Speaker 2: player for the vast majority of these guys, and to
Speaker 2: not be able to develop the pipeline of talent is
Speaker 2: a long term issue. Not getting embarrassed in the World
Speaker 2: Cup in two years after being embarrassed Coopa last night
Speaker 2: in this past week is a short term issue. I
Speaker 2: don't see how they don't fire the manager. All right, demonse,
Speaker 2: Let's get to the actual show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So teams are trying to get it together over
Speaker 4: there in the East to combat the Celtics. You got
Speaker 4: the seventy six ers. They just signed Paul George the
Speaker 4: big Fisher free agency, and they re signed Maxie. The
Speaker 4: Knicks reunited that twenty sixteen NCAA championship Lenova.
Speaker 3: Team and they held onto og.
Speaker 4: Milwaukee should be finally getting healthy, but Boston already has
Speaker 4: everybody locked up. So who do you think did the
Speaker 4: best job of closing that gap on the Celtics in
Speaker 4: the East?
Speaker 2: What's your end? I mean, so Milwaukee didn't do anything,
Speaker 2: so they're not really elmtible for Miami. He hasn't done anything.
Speaker 2: And I know you're you feel Boston is still probably
Speaker 2: heading shoulders above. But who do you think right now
Speaker 2: the Knicks or the Sixers have the best claim for
Speaker 2: biggest contender for Boston.
Speaker 4: Between those two, I'd give it to the Knicks. I
Speaker 4: don't really have too much faith in the seventy six Ers.
Speaker 4: That Paul George thing doesn't really move me that much.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Joel Evan bid is gonna be
Speaker 4: healthy come like next postseason.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 2: The Okay, So here's the here's the reason my answer
Speaker 2: would be the Sixers. I get what the Knicks are doing,
Speaker 2: and I love what they've done, adding Bridges, going all
Speaker 2: in on chemistry, trying to have a legitimate five person,
Speaker 2: five man starting lineup where everyone is a threat a
Speaker 2: lah what the Celtics did being excellent defensively, Having Og
Speaker 2: and McHale Bridges as your wing defenders is going to
Speaker 2: put teams in hell. Okay, So I really like what
Speaker 2: the Knicks have done. However, it feels a bit to
Speaker 2: me like, all right, I get it, you are duplicating
Speaker 2: what the Celtics did, but you're doing it with just
Speaker 2: slightly worse players. That to me is not a great path. Now,
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson might be the best player on either team.
Speaker 2: Might be. I'm not saying he's definitively better than Brown
Speaker 2: and Tatum, but he might be. But oh, if you
Speaker 2: just go through the rest of it. The Celtics, when
Speaker 2: Chris STAPs comes back from the surgery, he's at center,
Speaker 2: and the Knicks now of Mitchell Robinson. Your wings are
Speaker 2: McHale and og their wings are Tatum and Brown. You
Speaker 2: know your backcourt again, give it to Brunson, but against
Speaker 2: Drew if that's what you want to do. But then
Speaker 2: Derek White against Josh Harder Dante goes to the Celtics.
Speaker 2: That to me is not the cleanest path, but I
Speaker 2: love what the Knicks have done. The Sixers, on the
Speaker 2: other hand, are going more traditional in the know kind
Speaker 2: of modern NBA, which is three stars and importantly three
Speaker 2: stars who have very distinct roles athletic point guard, do
Speaker 2: it all, wing, dominant big. It's not three stars where
Speaker 2: there's a ton of redundancy to it. It's a point guard,
Speaker 2: a wing, and a big. And Daryl will be able
Speaker 2: to fill out the rest of the roster. So my
Speaker 2: answer would be Philly. But my answer, yes, of course,
Speaker 2: if Embiid's hurt again, then it all goes by the wayside.
Speaker 2: The hope is twofold demands. A one is with Paul George.
Speaker 2: There when Embiid suffers his inevitable regular season ding, you
Speaker 2: can give him more time to recover and the team
Speaker 2: doesn't fall off a cliff because you have Maxi and
Speaker 2: Paul George. That's first point. Second point is this, and
Speaker 2: this is where I want your take on it. Maxie
Speaker 2: thirty a game in the playoffs this year. I think
Speaker 2: in order for the Sixers to reach their full postseason potential,
Speaker 2: Maxi's gotta be the postseason closer. I think that Maxy
Speaker 2: has to be the guy. The ball is in his hands.
Speaker 2: He's out there making the decisions. Because Paul George is
Speaker 2: gonna float and knock down threes, play good defense. Embiid
Speaker 2: is gonna have some monster knights, but then also some
Speaker 2: nights where he looks a little shaken. Maxy is not scared.
Speaker 2: So I think for the Sixers it's actually about Maxie
Speaker 2: getting to that level we saw him scratching the surface
Speaker 2: of in the postseason. That's why I like them this year.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on that before I say one other Embiid thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say that's I'd say that's fair.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say, like the torches Maxi's because
Speaker 4: it's obviously got to share the ball, But I do
Speaker 4: trust the ball and Maxi's hand at the end of
Speaker 4: games the most. Yeah, No, that's that's that's true.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna so and I'm gonna add one other thing
Speaker 2: about Embiid. Embiid shouldn't be playing in the Olympics. I
Speaker 2: it's he's right now, the plane is he's going to
Speaker 2: I think that is foolish. I think if there's anybody
Speaker 2: who needs less wear and terror and more recovery time,
Speaker 2: it's Embiid. And if I were the Sixers, I would
Speaker 2: just be holding my breath the entire Olympic run. If
Speaker 2: Embiid is in fact playing, all right, what are some
Speaker 2: follow ups?
Speaker 4: Do you see any other teams in the East climbing
Speaker 4: climbing up to that top.
Speaker 2: Tier right now? I mean, listen, I don't think we
Speaker 2: can discount the Bucks. I think the Bucks have to
Speaker 2: be included in that tier. Because of Giannis and Doc Rivers,
Speaker 2: this kind of got under I don't want to say
Speaker 2: he went under the radar because he said it Bill
Speaker 2: Simmons podcast, and Bill's got the biggest sports podcast in
Speaker 2: the world, but it didn't get a ton of pickup.
Speaker 2: Doc said, And I don't by the way, I don't
Speaker 2: think Doc should have said this. I thought it was
Speaker 2: kind of shy. But Doc said that when he got
Speaker 2: to Milwaukee, Dame told him that he was the most
Speaker 2: out of shape he had ever been coming into a
Speaker 2: year because Dame was afraid to get injured while working
Speaker 2: out waiting for the trade. Okay, so I don't think
Speaker 2: that was very nice to Dame to share publicly with
Speaker 2: that said, that is oddly the reason for optimism for
Speaker 2: the Bucks, which is because Dame didn't look like the
Speaker 2: same player. The hope is, oh, Dame was just out
Speaker 2: of shape and Dame never was, you know, and that
Speaker 2: there is a bit of a Dame revenge season component,
Speaker 2: plus Jannis trying to remind everyone who he is, and
Speaker 2: in fairness to honest, back to back postseasons when Yannis
Speaker 2: hasn't been healthy. Uh so, to me, they're on that
Speaker 2: top tier as well. But no, Miami's not doing anything. Cleveland,
Speaker 2: they just re signed Donovan Mitchell. By the way, I
Speaker 2: kind of have a feeling on how that's gonna go.
Speaker 2: Donovan got his money from Cleveland, three year, one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty million dollar extension. It's like, okay, he's not
Speaker 2: going to demand a trade. Well maybe in a year go.
Speaker 2: That's the new NBA free agency is get your contract
Speaker 2: extension and then demand a trade in a year. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I could see that happening and the Magic. While I
Speaker 2: do like the addition of KCP, the magic or not
Speaker 2: to me of that caliber at the moment. All right,
Speaker 2: last follow up here before he gets to Klay Thompson.
Speaker 3: Do you think that Paul George made a mistake going
Speaker 3: from one injured co star to another.
Speaker 2: Well, I just don't think he had a lot of options.
Speaker 2: I get the you know, Kawhy is never healthy and
Speaker 2: now you have Embiid to deal with, But as far
Speaker 2: as team's cap space, contending teams that could give him
Speaker 2: the max, it was just Philly and so it's a risk.
Speaker 2: But it's a risk that to me if I were him,
Speaker 2: I think they're in better shape than the Clippers for sure,
Speaker 2: So it made sense. All right.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, so Klay Thompson's heading over to Dallas
Speaker 4: to play with your large Slovenian son the Warriors. No,
Speaker 4: so Klay Thompson even got a deal from the Lakers
Speaker 4: that he turned down. I was pretty surprising.
Speaker 3: What does that say the most about the Mavericks, the
Speaker 3: Warriors of the Lakers.
Speaker 2: All right, so we'll talk more about the Lakers in
Speaker 2: a moment. It is being reported the Lakers offered Clay
Speaker 2: four for eighty That's impossible. They literally did not have
Speaker 2: the capability to offer him that. Now, maybe they were like, oh,
Speaker 2: we'll be able to make these moves, we'll do these things,
Speaker 2: but they were not in a position where they were
Speaker 2: able to slide across a contract to Klay Thompson saying
Speaker 2: sign and it's ready for it. Even though Lebron was
Speaker 2: willing to take a pay cut. The Lakers total inability
Speaker 2: to land their guy. It's just it's historic and all
Speaker 2: of us and folks are like, oh the state taxes.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: A couple things. First, of all, NBA players pay tax
Speaker 2: per game. So this idea of all these Texas teams
Speaker 2: have such a massive edge, well for half of their games, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is a real amount of money. I understand, But
Speaker 2: when you play a game in California, you're paying taxes,
Speaker 2: California taxes when you play a game in Dallas playing
Speaker 2: Texas Texas. I get that part of it. But the
Speaker 2: other part of that media narrative that's so maddening is
Speaker 2: Texas didn't just change their state tax law. It's been
Speaker 2: like that and the Mavericks have been striking out on
Speaker 2: free agents for a decade. The Lakers front office targeted
Speaker 2: Danny Hurley, couldn't get the job done. The Lakers' front office,
Speaker 2: who's fought, targeted Klay Thompson, whose dad is a franchise
Speaker 2: legend and works for the team and he loves being
Speaker 2: on the water and he lives from southern California, and
Speaker 2: Lebron recruited him, and they couldn't get it done. It's
Speaker 2: almost like the Lakers' front office doesn't have a god
Speaker 2: forsake and clue what they're doing. Now for the MAVs
Speaker 2: side of it, I like this a lot. Listen, you're
Speaker 2: gonna take a slight step back defensively? What demands They go?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, definitely, like you you hit it on the nose.
Speaker 4: The slightest step back defensively definitely isn't gonna help with
Speaker 4: the perimeter defense. But they could have used a shooter
Speaker 4: in that series for sure.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: And like they have now added uh, Naji Marshall, Quentin Grimes.
Speaker 2: You saw that they.
Speaker 4: Got your yeah.
Speaker 2: And Clay. So Quinton will defend, Quentin will defend and
Speaker 2: hit threes. Clay is just gonna hit spot up threes
Speaker 2: all day and and Luca is gonna spoon feed them
Speaker 2: those spot up threes. So I yes, I do think
Speaker 2: they take a slight step back defensively, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: But to lose Derek Jones Junior and Tim Hardaway and
Speaker 2: to add Naji Marshall Quinton Grimes, who again I'm partial
Speaker 2: too because he and Demonsee were teammates in for basketball
Speaker 2: university in Houston, and that team to was on in
Speaker 2: Houston had eight guys go d one. Quinton was the
Speaker 2: youngest by two years, and do you think it was
Speaker 2: fair to say he was the best then the best
Speaker 2: when he was fifteen and the rest of you guys
Speaker 2: were seventeen, he was the best, uh and so he
Speaker 2: and so again I'm partial to it because I've watched
Speaker 2: him since he was a kid, watched him play with
Speaker 2: demonse and he's such a nice kid. So I'm really
Speaker 2: like he's in a good basketball spot for him, and
Speaker 2: so I like this for Clay a lot I also
Speaker 2: find and now we'll get to the Warriors piece of it, Demonse,
Speaker 2: three for fifty is not a lot. It's not And
Speaker 2: I mean Malik Monk just got four for seventy eight
Speaker 2: from the Kings. So this tell the fact that the
Speaker 2: Warriors and Clay it'd be one thing of a team
Speaker 2: gave him, you know, four for one twenty that it's like,
Speaker 2: all right, this doesn't make sense for us. But the
Speaker 2: fact that the Warriors couldn't find a way to bridge
Speaker 2: the gap tells me they were ready to move on,
Speaker 2: and maybe Clay was ready to move on in this regard.
Speaker 2: Tell me if you buy this, I think that for
Speaker 2: Clay to fully accept he's in a different place in
Speaker 2: his career, he might literally need to be in a
Speaker 2: different place in his career. Does that make sense? Like that,
Speaker 2: as long as he's with Stephen dre and wearing that uniform,
Speaker 2: it's going to be more painful for him that he's
Speaker 2: not what he once was.
Speaker 4: I guarantee, if he's on a different team, he's probably
Speaker 4: not throwing up the force on the sideline. I think
Speaker 4: that was like a weird psychological thing with him.
Speaker 2: I think you're exactly right. I think that is exactly right.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy for Clay. Now, what does this mean
Speaker 2: for the Warriors? I am going to keep so what
Speaker 2: it means for them this year? In the short term,
Speaker 2: with or without Clay, they're not contenders. They will be
Speaker 2: lucky to make the playoffs. Okay, that's just where they're at.
Speaker 2: What does it mean for Steph? And what does it
Speaker 2: mean for Steph's ability to contend with what's left of
Speaker 2: the end of his prime and be a lifelong Warrior?
Speaker 2: Because I think those two things are now contradictory, and
Speaker 2: I think that, but it had the Warriors a year
Speaker 2: ago when they re signed Raymond also resigned Clay, that
Speaker 2: to me would have guaranteed that Steph chose loyalty over contention,
Speaker 2: because it's like, all right, we came in together, we're
Speaker 2: all going to retire together. But the Warriors organization broke
Speaker 2: the band up. So don't then be upset if the
Speaker 2: lead singer says I want to go elsewhere. The label
Speaker 2: broke up the band. You can't then ask the front
Speaker 2: man to stay loyal to the label. Well, what about
Speaker 2: my partner, Well, what about my splash brother? So it's
Speaker 2: not a story right now, but a bubbling NBA story,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is when the Warriors this year missed
Speaker 2: the play in entirely and Steph has another very good
Speaker 2: year this offseason, does Steph say, hmm hmmm. Do I
Speaker 2: want to spend the end of my career playing basketball
Speaker 2: with a part time player, full time podcaster, a bunch
Speaker 2: of kids, and not playing in games that matter? I
Speaker 2: don't know. I think that is a I think that
Speaker 2: is a real question and something to monitor. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to the Lakers side of it to.
Speaker 3: Mort stuck with you.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, so the Lakers may not have landed Clay,
Speaker 4: but they did land JJ Reddick, and they got they
Speaker 4: drafted Bronnie. I didn't think they were going to do that,
Speaker 4: but they ended up doing it. Lebron even opted out
Speaker 4: of some open to open up some money for a
Speaker 4: I think it was about twenty million to make a move,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't seem like they've made that move yet.
Speaker 2: So, oh, we have a phone. Oh that's Zach Morris.
Speaker 4: Finn, it's Janie Buss calling, and she wants you to
Speaker 4: give an honest State of the Lakers report.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, why is it still ringing? Guys? That's not
Speaker 2: Demands's fault, the tech side. The tech side had it
Speaker 2: still ring after Demansia answered it the honest take. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Demanse Genie can listen on the on the YouTube stream. Uh.
Speaker 2: The Lakers are just a good brand, that's it. They're
Speaker 2: not well run. They they have so many built in
Speaker 2: advantages and they consistently squander them. Whether it's because of ownership, frugality,
Speaker 2: or front office incompetence, I don't really care. The fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is that the only thing standing between
Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Lakers and fifteen years in the Wilderness
Speaker 2: is the fact that Lebron James decided, you know what,
Speaker 2: I want to play for that franchise and I have
Speaker 2: the juice to get Anthony Davis to come along. What significant? Wow,
Speaker 2: What a move move have they made since Paulenka's been
Speaker 2: there that was not done by either Lebron picking them
Speaker 2: or Lebron and Rich helping them get Anthony Davis. There
Speaker 2: is none. Now, I did like the kid they drafted,
Speaker 2: Dalton Connect. I do like that pick, and I will
Speaker 2: give credit for that pick. But you openly target Danny Hurley,
Speaker 2: you can't land him. You openly target Klay Thompson, you
Speaker 2: can't land him. They're going to Lebron says, I'll take
Speaker 2: a pay cut if you can land any of these guys.
Speaker 2: They're gonna whiff on all of those guys, and Lebron's
Speaker 2: gonna end up being taking the max, would be my guess.
Speaker 2: Maybe they get Tomarto Rosen, but I doubt it. Also,
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of basketball consistency to we want
Speaker 2: to add spot up three point shooter Klay Thompson, Oh,
Speaker 2: we missed him. Let's add pull up two point shooter
Speaker 2: Demarta Rosen. They are very drastically different players. Luckily, I'm
Speaker 2: sure JJ Reddick has a plan for all of this.
Speaker 2: So I find the whole thing to be an embarrassing
Speaker 2: way to run a franchise. I've talked about this plenty,
Speaker 2: and I wish Lebron would leave, but he's not going to.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk Celtics before we move on.
Speaker 4: So fresh off the title, my Celtics are looking to
Speaker 4: sell the team. I got to play for those players somehow,
Speaker 4: So first the Mavericks and now this with the expansion
Speaker 4: on the horizon and owners being paid money for doing nothing.
Speaker 4: Why would they be backing out and trying to sell
Speaker 4: the team at this point?
Speaker 2: So I think this listen. Chris Mannix tweeted that he
Speaker 2: thinks there's a lot of concern amongst NBA ownership about
Speaker 2: the future of RSN deals, the Regional Sports network money.
Speaker 2: I also think if you're the like, if you're the Celtics,
Speaker 2: the Clippers go for two billion, then Jordan sells the
Speaker 2: Hornets for three billion, allegedly as he got short squeezed
Speaker 2: in game stop and needed the cash. But god knows,
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan never make a bad, you know, multi billion
Speaker 2: dollar bet. And then what team just sold for four?
Speaker 2: The Sun's just sold for four? So what are the
Speaker 2: Celtics worth six? You know? So I understand it. The
Speaker 2: other piece of it that I find fascinating is this demanse.
Speaker 2: The Nuggets won the title and then because of all
Speaker 2: the punitive luxury tax stuff started losing guys. Jeff Green gone, okay,
Speaker 2: you'll do with it. Bruce Brown gone, oh that hurts,
Speaker 2: but we should be okay, Actually no, you weren't, and
Speaker 2: then cacp out the door. The Celtics win the title,
Speaker 2: re sign everyone, but then are gonna leave the bill
Speaker 2: with somebody else the owners. It was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: We're not gonna lose everybody, but we're actually not gonna
Speaker 2: have to pay this check either someone else's. The the
Speaker 2: the the refusal to pay, not refusal, but the hesitancy
Speaker 2: to pay, the luxury tax in the new NBA and
Speaker 2: the second Apron stuff is going to make keeping some
Speaker 2: of these teams long term together so incredibly expensive. Bobby
Speaker 2: Martz wrote that not this coming year, but the year
Speaker 2: after this, the Celtics are slated to have a two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five million dollar payroll with an additional
Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty five million dollar tax bill, so
Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty million dollars to field a roster,
Speaker 2: which the previous record was three to eighty by the
Speaker 2: Warriors a few years ago. Yeah, so I think that
Speaker 2: I do find it fascinating though, Cuban selling, now the
Speaker 2: Celtics selling. The guy who was owned the Timbrels was
Speaker 2: trying to sell them, trying.
Speaker 4: To back out, says the Hornets were sold for like
Speaker 4: three billion, The Commanders sold for six billion. So could
Speaker 4: you see the Celtics or an NBA team going higher
Speaker 4: than in ANFL team.
Speaker 2: Well, I think, listen, if the Suns are worth four
Speaker 2: what are the Celtics worth? I mean, I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm just basing it on that, like the new TV deal,
Speaker 2: Like what who the Lakers, Nicks, Warriors, Celtics, those are
Speaker 2: your foremost valuable franchises. If the Suns are worth four billion,
Speaker 2: is there a team worth fifty percent more than Phoenix?
Speaker 2: I think. Now some of this has to do like
Speaker 2: do you own your own arena and stuff that admittedly
Speaker 2: I don't understand, but the Celtics are, without a doubt
Speaker 2: one of the foremost valuable brands in the league. And
Speaker 2: that was before they just won this title. Also, by
Speaker 2: the way, don't forget oh go ahead de monse.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I mean, so with all the money stuff with Boston,
Speaker 4: Tatum is now the highest played NBA player, do you
Speaker 4: think that he will get a boost and you know,
Speaker 4: his stats or whatever want to play harder like Jalen
Speaker 4: Brown did when he got his highest played player.
Speaker 2: So I think it'll be less about the money and
Speaker 2: more about that he now has the monkey off his
Speaker 2: back of being a champion and now that didn't. It
Speaker 2: went the other way for Anthony Davis. A lot of
Speaker 2: people thought that would happen with Ad and the best
Speaker 2: AD's ever played was on that title run and he
Speaker 2: hasn't really recaptured that. For Tatum, it's like, I think
Speaker 2: maybe it's the best of both worlds, which is he
Speaker 2: is the monkey office back of being a champion, but
Speaker 2: he also at the same time has something to prove
Speaker 2: because he wasn't Finals MVP. All right, reminder for the
Speaker 2: live audience, you can ask your questions in the chat.
Speaker 2: I spent last week playing poker. We'll discuss that and
Speaker 2: play a game of writings. That's all next. What's Right?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: All right, Demon's so I was off last week. We
Speaker 2: had some shows off of TV because of the Euros,
Speaker 2: and I went out to Vegas. So go ahead and
Speaker 2: set us up and we'll get into all of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you were in Vegas last week for the
Speaker 4: World Series of Poker and you stop by the Poker
Speaker 4: Go booth apparently, and you made some new fans. Well,
Speaker 4: we spent a lot of time talking about football and basketball.
Speaker 4: We know you're not about both of those your nerdiness
Speaker 4: for poker might take the cake. So you want to
Speaker 4: tell us about your week in Vegas?
Speaker 2: Sure? And do we have a SoundBite we want to play?
Speaker 2: Tell me my ear, Daniel, we got a SoundBite we
Speaker 2: can play? All right, So let's play this. This is
Speaker 2: me calling the final table of the two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars buy in World Series of Poker event.
Speaker 2: Will play this and then I'll explain my week.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm so numb to meeting athletes. But I was walking
Speaker 2: through the lobby and I saw Brian Rast and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is amazing. I walked over to Rin Lynn and
Speaker 2: I and I was like, why are you playing Halem
Speaker 2: when everyone knows you're the world's greatest Rast? I am
Speaker 2: such a poker nerd, and so yeah, this is thrilling
Speaker 2: to me. So all right, So here's the deal. The
Speaker 2: actual tournaments, I didn't play well, well, that's not fair
Speaker 2: to myself. I played very poorly in one. I played
Speaker 2: in three tournaments. I didn't cash any of them. I
Speaker 2: played very poorly in one of them. One of them,
Speaker 2: I it was just the old the old cl classic
Speaker 2: poker flip ace king versus queens for heaps of chips,
Speaker 2: and I was on the wrong side of it. And
Speaker 2: the other one the Omaha eighth Stud eight Tournament mixed game.
Speaker 2: I actually think I played really well. I was really
Speaker 2: happy with how I played and made Day two and thought,
Speaker 2: I again thought I played really well, but kind of
Speaker 2: got unlucky a couple of times cold decked a bit
Speaker 2: and didn't cash. But that is not really the story here.
Speaker 2: To me. The story is twofold. One is about what's
Speaker 2: happening at the World Series of Poker right now, and
Speaker 2: the other is the broadcasting stuff. So let's start with
Speaker 2: what's having the World Series of Poker. So that tweet
Speaker 2: we showed you was Daniel Nogranu shouting me out for
Speaker 2: the commentary in the booth. Granu shortly after sending this tweet. One,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, and I think many people's opinion, the
Speaker 2: most prestigious bracelet at the World Series two thousand dollars
Speaker 2: buy in Poker Players Championship, and it's called that because
Speaker 2: it's nine separate variants of poker that you play in
Speaker 2: a rotation. The setup is to minimize luck as much
Speaker 2: as possible. It is real. It is the crowning jewel
Speaker 2: of the world series. And for Daniel, who's been either
Speaker 2: the biggest, second or third biggest face in poker, Ham
Speaker 2: Ivy and Helm Youth obviously are the three kind of
Speaker 2: royalties of poker, along with my dear departed friend Doyle Brunton,
Speaker 2: that would be the poker mount Rushmore. From a fame
Speaker 2: and notoriety standpoint, Daniel hadn't won a bracelet in a decade.
Speaker 2: And again, if you're not a poker person, give me
Speaker 2: another five minutes here. If you're listening to it on
Speaker 2: the pod, you can skip forward like five minutes because
Speaker 2: I'm not going to explain this is for poker people.
Speaker 2: I understand people like want to bracelet different variants. I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm talking to the poker audience right now. So
Speaker 2: for Daniel to win and get that monkey off his
Speaker 2: back was exceptional, absolutely exceptional, and it goes in line
Speaker 2: with what has been arguably the greatest world series of
Speaker 2: poker up to this point. Ever so, in no particular order,
Speaker 2: Scott sever who has a legitimate claim as one not
Speaker 2: just a legitimate claim, he definitively is one of the
Speaker 2: best all around players in the world. Some would argue
Speaker 2: he is the best all around player in the world.
Speaker 2: Scott sever said before this year's World Series of Poker,
Speaker 2: I'm calling my shot. I'm doing bracelet bets on the side.
Speaker 2: I'm basically gonna go run this tournament. He just became
Speaker 2: the second or the first person in nearly twenty years
Speaker 2: to win not one, not two, but three bracelets in
Speaker 2: one World Series of Poker. And I was up to
Speaker 2: one in the morning a couple of nights ago watching
Speaker 2: his deuced to seven single draw final table, and even
Speaker 2: for poker folks, now we're getting really in the weeds.
Speaker 2: But he made two of the most brilliant plays one
Speaker 2: can possibly make in that game to win this tournament.
Speaker 2: He removed any luck one can remove from the the
Speaker 2: event and just made great play after great play to
Speaker 2: win his third bracelet. So that is happening. Phil Ivy,
Speaker 2: playing a full series, seemingly for the first time in forever,
Speaker 2: is back. Bubbled the final table of the two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty K that I was supposed to call, or
Speaker 2: that I did call, but I was supposed to call
Speaker 2: his performance there, but he had already won a different bracelet.
Speaker 2: My good friend Nick Showman, who I do think is
Speaker 2: the best all around player in the world. He want
Speaker 2: to break Chris Honiken won the hundred k and then
Speaker 2: came in third in the two hundred and fifty k.
Speaker 2: That this has been just a historic world series. Oh,
Speaker 2: Jeremy Austmas has I think final tabled six events. He
Speaker 2: has a seventh, a fifth, a fifth, a fourth, a third,
Speaker 2: a second, and Severs probably run away with the Player
Speaker 2: of the Year because of his third bracelet. But we'll
Speaker 2: see if someone else can run him down. And so
Speaker 2: it has just been an all and I'm leaving people out.
Speaker 2: I'm sure an all time world series of poker. The
Speaker 2: only downside now I will tell an embarrassing anecdote. So
Speaker 2: the cool thing for me is these guys know me
Speaker 2: because so many of them bet sports and are into sports.
Speaker 2: So like Scott sever I'm not gonna yeah, I'll reveal this.
Speaker 2: I guess Scott Sever DMed me, uh, I DMed him
Speaker 2: congratulations about his third bracelet. He DM me like, hey,
Speaker 2: I saw you at the eight table and I didn't
Speaker 2: want to bother you, and I was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I wrote him back. I was like, man, I saw
Speaker 2: you at the other eight table. I didn't want to
Speaker 2: bother you. So it's really cool to me that these
Speaker 2: guys who are the best in the world, that I'm
Speaker 2: able to have like a relationship with them. And Ivy
Speaker 2: is kind of in this world by himself. He's almost
Speaker 2: a mythical figure in that everyone acknowledges he's the greatest
Speaker 2: ever do it. He took some time away, he's back now,
Speaker 2: and he still just carries himself with this this historic presence.
Speaker 2: And I when I was doing some research getting ready
Speaker 2: for the two hundred and fifty K, when it looked
Speaker 2: like he was going to be on the final table,
Speaker 2: I realized I'm like, oh, oh my god, phil Ivy
Speaker 2: follows me on Twitter. I'm like, so, phil Ivy Demanse
Speaker 2: knows me, and this is this is as thrilling as
Speaker 2: it gets. I'm like, oh my god, he follows me
Speaker 2: on Twitter, Like we're gonna like he knows me. So
Speaker 2: if I get to see him, like, it's not gonna
Speaker 2: be like, oh, I'm like some fan, Like we're gonna
Speaker 2: have some commonality. Two days later, I'm walking into the
Speaker 2: tournament area and walking right next to me is phil
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, this is perfect. So I turned
Speaker 2: him like, hey, Phil, how's it going? Stick my hand
Speaker 2: out man? When I tell you he Stone did not
Speaker 2: know me. For anyone, I would be under selling it.
Speaker 2: And I was so thrown off and tilted by Demanse
Speaker 2: that I started like spitting my resume at him. I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, Phil, I broadcast the two hundred fifty
Speaker 2: K last night, Like no, like no, We're supposed to
Speaker 2: be friends. It was so embarrassing and.
Speaker 3: Around No.
Speaker 2: I mean there was one other guy walking with him
Speaker 2: that I couldn't I couldn't tell if that guy who's
Speaker 2: like security or another player doesn't matter. But someone else
Speaker 2: saw it and it was mortified. So but everything else
Speaker 2: went great. Now. I will say one other thing, the
Speaker 2: Poker Hall of Fame as of right now in ducks
Speaker 2: one person a year, one player a year, and you're
Speaker 2: not eligible until you're forty a year from now. They
Speaker 2: have a problem on their hands, which yours that arguably
Speaker 2: in their prime right now that you could make the
Speaker 2: argument the two best all around poker players in the
Speaker 2: world right now are Nick Shulman and Scott sever I
Speaker 2: mentioned them both as far as what they've done this
Speaker 2: World Series. They both won bracelet Scott's one three. Nick
Speaker 2: keeps crushing. They both turn forty this year, and they
Speaker 2: both are first time eligible next year. It would be
Speaker 2: shameful for either one of them to have to wait
Speaker 2: and if the the Poker Hall of Fame has a
Speaker 2: year to prepare for what they need to do. But
Speaker 2: both of them must be first ballot guys, both of
Speaker 2: those players, it would be disrespectful to either one of
Speaker 2: them for them not to get in on the first ballot.
Speaker 2: They are two of the all time greatest who right
Speaker 2: now appear to both be at the peaks of their powers.
Speaker 2: Nick has the added bonus of he is the best
Speaker 2: poker broadcaster in the world. Scott has the added bone
Speaker 2: he's in the midst of maybe the greatest World Series run,
Speaker 2: maybe of all time, certainly of the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2: They both must be first ballot a year from now,
Speaker 2: and the Poker Hall of Fame is a year to
Speaker 2: figure it out, all right, Demanse, you can ask me
Speaker 2: a follow up and then we'll move on to right ends.
Speaker 3: Uh so, Yeah, where is poker commentator on your list
Speaker 3: of dream jobs?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't this is gonna make you laugh. I
Speaker 2: don't look at it as a dream job. It's it's
Speaker 2: just gonna be a job that I have. I'm going
Speaker 2: to do that. It's it won't be my full time job,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to do it like. That's not a
Speaker 2: that's a non negotiable thing for me. There are certain
Speaker 2: things like I would like to be the third guy
Speaker 2: in an NFL booth, like the way they have the
Speaker 2: the referee expert come in the like fourth down analytics expert.
Speaker 2: That's like a fuzzy dream. Like dreams might be too strong.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if I will be able to
Speaker 2: land that plane. Poker commentator I can do. I've done it.
Speaker 2: I've had a lot of how do I put this properly?
Speaker 2: I've had opportunities to do it more consistently. I will
Speaker 2: continue that. My problem right now is it's hard to
Speaker 2: get to and from Vegas, New York to Vegas, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, And you want to be on
Speaker 2: the ground there to do it. But I'm going to
Speaker 2: find a way to have that be a bigger part
Speaker 2: of what I do because I love it so much.
Speaker 2: I get so much enjoyment out of it, and there
Speaker 2: is a part of my brain that is just activated
Speaker 2: in thinking about poker and games and the strategy of
Speaker 2: it that it's like an itch that has to be scratched.
Speaker 2: So that's why I like playing, because of the competition
Speaker 2: of it. But I also like watching the best in
Speaker 2: the world play to think about what they were thinking
Speaker 2: about and why moves are made. And so yeah, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to do it, and I'll do it more.
Speaker 2: And shout out to Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt for
Speaker 2: allowing me, giving me the platform to share with them
Speaker 2: for the two hundred and fifty K, which was just
Speaker 2: a remarkable final table to watch and the whole thing
Speaker 2: was great. All right, let's play the game. Let's play
Speaker 2: right INDs.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So the Spurs made some noise and they
Speaker 4: finally got wmba point guard he's a little outside of
Speaker 4: his prime, and Chris Paul. They also drafted Stefan Castle
Speaker 4: at number four. The reports are that they are interested
Speaker 4: in Laurie markten, but are they ready to compete.
Speaker 3: The Spurs ceiling is.
Speaker 2: Now, oh, be a five hundred team this year. Now
Speaker 2: if they get marketing, maybe a touch higher. I like
Speaker 2: marking in a ton, but their ceiling is be a
Speaker 2: five hundred team. Compete for the playoffs in year three.
Speaker 2: I didn't love the Chris Paul to the Spurs thing.
Speaker 2: I didn't totally understand. Brew then mentioned kind of being
Speaker 2: a mentor to Castle, which made a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: But be a five hundred team, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Donovan Mitchell agreed to an extension with the Cast
Speaker 4: for three years, one hundred and fifty million. However, that
Speaker 4: doesn't mean he can't ask out in a year. Like
Speaker 4: you just said, Donovan Mitchell will be in Cleveland for
Speaker 4: a blank more years.
Speaker 2: I think one more year. I listen, Calves fans might
Speaker 2: be mad at me. I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 2: I understand if they're frustrated. It's like, man, he just
Speaker 2: re signed, and you guys are already you're you're already
Speaker 2: talking about when he could leave. But to me, it
Speaker 2: just felt like a grab the money and worry about
Speaker 2: the rest later. So I so I think one more
Speaker 2: year is probably what makes the most sense, all right.
Speaker 3: Next, The Thunder have been busy this offseason.
Speaker 4: First they traded for Alix Cruso, and now they've signed
Speaker 4: Isaiah Hartenstein to shore up their biggest weakness, the Thunder's
Speaker 4: title chances.
Speaker 3: Are now blank percent.
Speaker 2: Oh well, gosh, I don't know what are they one
Speaker 2: in five, twenty percent? Like the Thunder in real good shape, man.
Speaker 2: I think Hartenstein feels a real need for them. Shay's excellent.
Speaker 2: They have a smart coach, well built roster. They also
Speaker 2: still have all those draft picks in store, so they
Speaker 2: can make a trade at the deadline more easily than
Speaker 2: most teams. So I think the Thunder, if you were
Speaker 2: to come to me and be like the Thunder of
Speaker 2: the favorites in the West, I got at least listen
Speaker 2: to it. Dallas obviously right there, Denver. I think the
Speaker 2: KCP loss is significant. Minnesota can't be forgotten. I'm just
Speaker 2: listing the top four teams. I know that's kind of silly,
Speaker 2: but OKC is positioned incredibly well.
Speaker 4: All right, next, Yeah, it wasn't the most stacked NBA
Speaker 4: draft ever, but that doesn't mean the excitement was lacking.
Speaker 3: Your favorite pick in the NBA draft this year was.
Speaker 2: Well, the excitement actually was lacking. I did really listen.
Speaker 2: I was. I think I said it on this show
Speaker 2: a couple months ago, how much I like Dalton Connect
Speaker 2: For him to fall to seventeen to the Lakers. That
Speaker 2: is a really good pick. I give the front office
Speaker 2: credit where it's due. They had something fall into their
Speaker 2: lap and they were smart enough to pick it up.
Speaker 2: But so I guess that. But I'm interested to see
Speaker 2: Castle with Wimby over the years, and I didn't Red
Speaker 2: Shepherd's really good. But I don't know much about the
Speaker 2: foreign guys. I'm just not gonna lie to you about
Speaker 2: the number one pick. And sorry, I wasn't scouring that film.
Speaker 4: Next there's no there's no time for a full soccer
Speaker 4: corner today, but catch us up on the Euros in
Speaker 4: Copa America and make your predictions. The Euros in Copo
Speaker 4: America champions will be.
Speaker 2: Oh listen, Spain's got a brutal quarterfinal match against Germany,
Speaker 2: but I like Spain in that spot, and so I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with Spain. Is I think they've been the
Speaker 2: best team thus far this tournament. So I'll go with
Speaker 2: Spain in the Euros and in Copa I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: go with Chalk and I'll just go with Argentina. You
Speaker 2: guys know, I tend to always root for Brazil, but
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Argentina. And I know
Speaker 2: that there right now is a fourth of July and
Speaker 2: Joey Chestnut question. However, I just don't you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not feeling the last twenty four hours or so quite
Speaker 2: as patriotic as I normally do on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna skip that one. Quick break right back,
Speaker 2: What's right? Welcome back in What's right with Nick? Right? Demanse,
Speaker 2: Let's get some listener questions where we move on.
Speaker 4: Austin Tapp asked, what were the better experience? What was
Speaker 4: the better experience beating fell Helme Youth and poker on
Speaker 4: TV or Chief Super Bowl party?
Speaker 2: Oh, listen, winning that sit and go tournament where ended
Speaker 2: up being me and Helm Youth heads up and then
Speaker 2: winning is like that, I actually did that the Chief
Speaker 2: super Bowl. While I'm an unofficial member of the team,
Speaker 2: I don't actually get to really claim much credit for that.
Speaker 2: So it's the Helme Youth thing definitely.
Speaker 3: Next, Jacob Bim said, Nick, if you had to bet
Speaker 3: the Warriors or Spurs to make the playoffs, who do
Speaker 3: you take?
Speaker 2: Oh? I would take the Warriors. I mean, the Warriors
Speaker 2: won forty six games last year. The Spurs won twenty two.
Speaker 2: I understand Whimby will be better. I get that, I might.
Speaker 2: I don't think either will make it, but the better
Speaker 2: bet is definitely the Warriors.
Speaker 3: Next, uh a Vetus Bodakian asked Nick, where do you
Speaker 3: think Wimby will rank by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Twelve thirteen? Somewhere like that all NBA level but not
Speaker 2: not MVP level, like not yet. But he was way
Speaker 2: way better offensively last year than I thought he'd be
Speaker 2: as a rookie. The defense I think everybody saw coming. Offensively,
Speaker 2: he was more refined, So I think twelve thirteenth is
Speaker 2: a legitimate landing spot for him.
Speaker 3: Next, Tyler asked Nick, who is your Wimbledon pick?
Speaker 2: Oh? That's a great So what are the I'm gonna
Speaker 2: look at the odds real quick, just to oh my god,
Speaker 2: I have a major announcement. Did I? I forgot to
Speaker 2: tell you guys this hold on producers. Do you guys
Speaker 2: know what I'm about to tell you here?
Speaker 4: Have I?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so I I did share it in the
Speaker 2: group chat. All right. In a couple of weeks, I
Speaker 2: am going to be auditioning to be an official US
Speaker 2: Open ball boy. That's happening. I this is this is
Speaker 2: my buddy Mark Carmon, who this is his lifelong dream,
Speaker 2: is flying in from Chicago to Allsoul audition. They're gonna
Speaker 2: put me through all the drills, all of it. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be wearing the whole outfit. I'm a little old,
Speaker 2: I will admit, but I I well, that's the that's
Speaker 2: the concern, I'll be honest. The concern is you know
Speaker 2: that we're gonna be the father son Popped Achilles duo.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie that is that. That's that's the concern.
Speaker 2: But I yeah, so, I I'm so. I might be
Speaker 2: a ball boy at the US Open. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: wearing the full polo regalia out there, crushing. I was
Speaker 2: just checking to see if there were any crazy odds
Speaker 2: but for the win for Wimbledon real quick. But it's
Speaker 2: Center is the slight favorite, which is interesting. He's two
Speaker 2: to one. Alcarez plus two, ten, Joker plus three twenty,
Speaker 2: nobody else better than fifteen to one. I told you guys,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick Alcaz to win every major for probably
Speaker 2: the next five years, and I'll be right more often
Speaker 2: than I'm wrong. It's just I'm just gonna pick Alcarez
Speaker 2: every time he's healthy, and I'll be right more often
Speaker 2: than I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: Uh, quickly back here, your ball boy, at your ball
Speaker 4: boy antics will you be Will you be doing any
Speaker 4: training between now and then to get into shape or
Speaker 4: you're just gonna no, no wing it.
Speaker 2: I'm a natural athlete the and for short bursts like
Speaker 2: and so I'm not worried about that. Uh and so no, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna wing it. I mean I watched Wimbledon
Speaker 2: and maybe try to pick up on, you know, some
Speaker 2: tendencies of the ball boys. But no, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to train. All right, Demonse, Let's go to Curtis Matthew's
Speaker 2: question is the last question.
Speaker 3: Curtis Matthews said, question for Demonse, will you be picking
Speaker 3: up the n C Double A football game in July? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll probably get it.
Speaker 2: But you've never played the n C Double A.
Speaker 3: For Hey, don't. I've been alive for long enough. I played.
Speaker 4: I definitely I played NCAA football game like a long
Speaker 4: long time ago, long.
Speaker 2: Decade ago. Maybe no, but I just my point was
Speaker 2: I wasn't taking a shot. My point was like, as
Speaker 2: an adult, the game hasn't for you. The game hasn't existed.
Speaker 3: I have not played it recently at all. It's been
Speaker 3: like years and years, but I've played it.
Speaker 2: But it was when I was your age man, like
Speaker 2: you and like you know me, like seven buddies would
Speaker 2: have an online dynasty, all trying to recruit the same kids,
Speaker 2: scheduled games like it was. The NCAA thing. Is a
Speaker 2: question for Demon's a question for Nick. Yes, I'll be
Speaker 2: playing it, and I might. I might try to set
Speaker 2: up a invite only sports media league with publicly posted
Speaker 2: results where everybody picks the school, we're all recruiting the kids,
Speaker 2: and then we play a full season. I've already talked
Speaker 2: with Kevin Clark about the potential viability of setting this up.
Speaker 3: So, uh, that's not locked.
Speaker 2: Sports media, of course, But you can't listen the problem
Speaker 2: with these these these leagues is people. It's like, Hey,
Speaker 2: our game is scheduled Tuesday at eight pm. You better
Speaker 2: be there. You can't have everybody waiting. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to set that up. All right, Uh, great show.
Speaker 2: I gotta get to work because we got it potentially
Speaker 2: an early show, maybe a two o'clock start for first
Speaker 2: things first, and I'll see you guys there, what's right? Hey,
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