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Speaker 2: Danielle just said from downstairs, I'd like to know which
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Speaker 4: Welcome in.
Speaker 2: It is episode ten of the What's Right podcast and
Speaker 2: YouTube show Demansey. We made it to double digits. Well done, sir.
Speaker 2: We have a ton to do today. You should like subscribe,
Speaker 2: rate review. But before we get to what we are
Speaker 2: going to do today, let's discuss what we are not
Speaker 2: going to discuss today, which sounds like an oxymoron or
Speaker 2: a contradiction.
Speaker 4: What We'll do it anyway.
Speaker 2: Wednesday night's playing games are not going to make today's
Speaker 2: show because we are taping this show a few hours
Speaker 2: before they actually take place. We are coming to you
Speaker 2: from the past. No timetable for Luka Doncic's return. That
Speaker 2: is not in the show today because it is too
Speaker 2: sad for me to discuss the possibility of my Western
Speaker 2: Conference champion pick Mavericks being out in round one to
Speaker 2: the damn Jazz because Luca gets hurt and Patrick Beverly,
Speaker 2: one of the dirtiest players in all of basketball, a
Speaker 2: mediocre guy who's been on mediocre teams but sucks up
Speaker 2: more oxygen than Jalen Brown or legitimate All stars do
Speaker 2: because he's tricked people into thinking he is some force multiplayer.
Speaker 2: He's still jumping on tables celebrating what will be a
Speaker 2: very brief playoff life for the TIMBERLF. So it looks
Speaker 2: like I did discuss Patrick Beverly a bit. Also not
Speaker 2: in the show, Derek Carr just got forty plus million
Speaker 2: dollars a.
Speaker 4: Year by the Raiders. I'm sure they won't regret that, Demanse.
Speaker 4: Where are we starting?
Speaker 5: The Nets are officially in the playoffs, have been beating
Speaker 5: the Cavs Wednesday for Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Tuesday. Yep.
Speaker 5: They say Ben Simmons might come back, and Milwaukee definitely
Speaker 5: made the right call on dodge to these guys. Kyrie
Speaker 5: does end up having a great postseason, will that mean
Speaker 5: that he was worth all the headache?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: First of all, a little editorializing that Milwaukee definitely made
Speaker 2: the right call dodging them. I'm not even sure Milwaukee
Speaker 2: was dodging them as much as Milwaukee was trying to
Speaker 2: play the Bulls, who they'll be able to deal with
Speaker 2: in four games as opposed to a maybe five or
Speaker 2: six game series with Brooklyn. The Kyrie question is interesting
Speaker 2: that listen, if the Nets win the title, then of
Speaker 2: course Kyrie's worth a headache, and but I think the
Speaker 2: most more likely outcome is somewhere in the gray area.
Speaker 4: Right. If the Nets win the title, then yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: All worth it and Kyrie gets a MAX extension and
Speaker 2: the Kadie and Kyrie thing ends up being a success.
Speaker 2: If they go out in Round one, as I think
Speaker 2: they will to Boston, then I think a lot of
Speaker 2: this is going to fall on Kyrie. A lot of
Speaker 2: the blame is going to fall on Kyrie because people
Speaker 2: are going to justifiably say they wouldn't be playing a
Speaker 2: team as good as Boston in Round one if Kyrie
Speaker 2: had been available throughout the beginning portion of the season.
Speaker 2: And so the question is to me, if they are
Speaker 2: better than I expect them to be, meaning they can
Speaker 2: get out a Round one, but worse than Vegas expects
Speaker 2: them to be, meaning they lose before the NBA Finals,
Speaker 2: what does that mean for Kyrie's future? Because let's just
Speaker 2: say they beat the Celtics in a hard fought series
Speaker 2: and then Milwaukee dispatches them in six. What do you
Speaker 2: do if Kyrie opts out and then asks for the
Speaker 2: MAX extension.
Speaker 4: I think you have to give it to him.
Speaker 2: Because you can't worry about losing the and sorry to
Speaker 2: use these cold terms, but the asset for nothing. However,
Speaker 2: should anyone feel comfortable Kyrie on the other side of
Speaker 2: thirty with his own let's call them idiosyncrasies about committing
Speaker 2: long term MAX money to them, I wouldn't. I also
Speaker 2: think that you saw in the Tuesday night play in
Speaker 2: game the good and the bad of the Nets. They
Speaker 2: were up forty to twenty after the first quarter. Demanza,
Speaker 2: you came to me the in the middle of the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter and said, this is actually still a game.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Cavs have been awful for two months,
Speaker 2: nine and eighteen in their last twenty seven and they
Speaker 2: clawed back into that. Kyrie was eighty percent from the field,
Speaker 2: kat was excellent on both ends, and you're playing a
Speaker 2: mediocre team at best, because without Jared Allen, that team's
Speaker 2: been mediocre. And it's a close game late. I just
Speaker 2: don't know how anyone can believe in the Nets. But
Speaker 2: to answer the question, yeah, if they win the title,
Speaker 2: then I was wrong, Kyrie and Kati were right, and
Speaker 2: Kye Kyrie will get his MAX money. I don't think
Speaker 2: they're winning the title all right, was sticking with the
Speaker 2: play and what's next?
Speaker 5: So we're two years into the playing experiment. Yep, A
Speaker 5: pro is there seems to be less taking. Yeah, a
Speaker 5: con is a team that went around thirty five games
Speaker 5: could make it into the playoffs?
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: So is it working or do you want them to
Speaker 5: expand it? So maybe Lebron makes it next you?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what there's no reason to bring up
Speaker 2: on here. No, I definitely don't want them to expand it.
Speaker 2: Your point about a thirty five ish win team making
Speaker 2: the playoffs is a good one because a few hours
Speaker 2: once after we're done recording, by the time you're listening tomorrow,
Speaker 2: either New Orleans or San Antonio, which won thirty six
Speaker 2: and thirty four games, respectively, one of those two teams
Speaker 2: is going to be one win away for making the
Speaker 2: postseason and could send the Clippers home Thursday night.
Speaker 4: That's not ideal. I like the plan.
Speaker 2: I think it's been a smart addition. I do think
Speaker 2: it has eliminated some tanking. Not all tanking, but some tanking.
Speaker 2: I would be okay with the prerequisite of you you
Speaker 2: are not play ineligible if you're sub five hundred that
Speaker 2: we're not doing this to reward really bad teams or
Speaker 2: you know what, we could even give them a game
Speaker 2: below five hundred. If you don't get to forty wins,
Speaker 2: you're not play ineligible. But I don't think they're going
Speaker 2: to do that. What they could do, and sorry to
Speaker 2: bring this up the second straight show, but what they
Speaker 2: could and what they should do is let the top
Speaker 2: seeded pick who they play in the first round. Then
Speaker 2: it is a real reward for Phoenix to be the
Speaker 2: one seed because I know that the Clippers lost to
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves on Tuesday night and Patrick Beverly, as we mentioned,
Speaker 2: celebrated like you want a national championship. But if the clip,
Speaker 2: if you're the Suns, say that Clippers end up winning
Speaker 2: their second play in there, you get them with the
Speaker 2: potential of why coming back. I think you'd rather play Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I think you'd rather opt into that Minnesota matchup, And
Speaker 2: so I just I would be fine with leaving the
Speaker 2: plane exactly as is, if you let guys pick their
Speaker 2: Round one opponents. I don't love the fact that you
Speaker 2: could have this great regular season, a team could punt
Speaker 2: on the entirety of the regular season, just you.
Speaker 4: Know, kind of the way.
Speaker 2: They didn't do it on purpose, but Brooklyn did and
Speaker 2: then could end up getting having a better path to
Speaker 2: the finals in some scenarios than the one seed would.
Speaker 2: So I do think it needs some tweaking, but I
Speaker 2: think the plane has been a smart addition.
Speaker 5: All right, what's next? Okay, the Lakers need a coach, Sarruber.
Speaker 5: Names are Nick Nurse, Doc Rivers, Juwan Howard. Lebron, of course,
Speaker 5: has already made his decision clear, and he wants Mark Jackson.
Speaker 5: Why would anyone want to be Lebron's next fall guy?
Speaker 5: And do you think maybe Lebron.
Speaker 3: Should just coach the Lakers?
Speaker 4: Now? Okay, Lebron's not going to coach the Lakers. He's
Speaker 4: not going to run the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Everyone said, all Lebron's in charge of everything, but there's
Speaker 2: also If he's in charge of everything, then I guess
Speaker 2: they've already hired Mark Jackson, because then I'm going to
Speaker 2: do a coaching search because Lebron asked for Mark Jackson.
Speaker 4: You said, why would anyone want to coach Lebron? Well,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's fun to coach in the finals, and everyone that's
Speaker 2: ever coached Lebron except for Paul Silas, who coached him
Speaker 2: as a rookie, and Luke Walton, who coached him for
Speaker 2: one year, has coached in the finals when they had
Speaker 2: never previously coached in the finals, So that part seems good.
Speaker 4: Nick is a very interesting option.
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse, by the way, also a clutch client, which
Speaker 2: is I guess some relevance here. He's obviously a great coach.
Speaker 2: The problem for the Lakers is, I don't know that
Speaker 2: the Lakers are going to pay the top dollar it
Speaker 2: requires to get a great coach. They could have gotten
Speaker 2: Tylou a few years ago after they fired Luke Walton,
Speaker 2: they scoffed at paying him real money. One of the
Speaker 2: reasons they end up settling on Frank Vogel was because
Speaker 2: nobody else was offering Frank Vogel a head coaching job
Speaker 2: after his disastrous run in Orlando, after it went so
Speaker 2: terribly for him. Orlando what totally his fault. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the Magic, but the Lakers. The Lakers are in
Speaker 2: a weird spot because they are the most valuable team
Speaker 2: in the NBA by a mile, but their owners, as
Speaker 2: far as NBA ownership goes, are not that wealthy. Because
Speaker 2: the Bus family business is the Lakers at this point.
Speaker 2: It's not a situation where they have these billions of
Speaker 2: outside dollars like a lot of these owners do, and
Speaker 2: basketball is the hobby. This is how they make their money.
Speaker 2: That's why the Lakers, you know, blinked instead of paying
Speaker 2: Caruso because they didn't want to pay a luxury tax.
Speaker 4: Crusoe wasn't traded this offseason.
Speaker 2: They just didn't match what the Bulls offered him because
Speaker 2: they don't want to pay the luxury tax. So they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to pay Frank Bogel a few million dollars
Speaker 2: that pay.
Speaker 4: Him out the rest of his contract.
Speaker 2: Are they going to offer ten to twelve million a
Speaker 2: year like it would take to get Nick Nurse if
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse were even to come available, which I have
Speaker 2: no reason to believe necessarily he would.
Speaker 4: I don't know. So.
Speaker 2: I think one of the sneaky things about the Lakers
Speaker 2: is they're a little cheap around the margins, as you know,
Speaker 2: over the last decade, and I think that would hurt
Speaker 2: them in this coaching search.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't think Mark Jackson be super expensive because I
Speaker 2: don't think many teams are lining up to hire Mark
Speaker 2: Jackson but I also wouldn't love the idea of Mark Jackson.
Speaker 2: Juwan Howard's interesting to me. He's done a great job
Speaker 2: at Michigan, but obviously would be risky for a first
Speaker 2: time in NBA head coach. But he's been on NBA benches,
Speaker 2: been with Lebron in Miami. So Juwan of those names,
Speaker 2: is the most interesting. I'm not I don't want to
Speaker 2: get into Doc Rivers business again. Doc Rivers has had.
Speaker 4: A great career.
Speaker 2: They named him one of the NBA's seventy five greatest coaches,
Speaker 2: but I don't know that we have a lot of
Speaker 2: evidence over the last decade that Doc Rivers is a
Speaker 2: championship level coach. So if those names Nick Nurse obviously
Speaker 2: jumps out, I think Juwan Howard would work. But I
Speaker 2: think the Lakers issue is not that people don't want
Speaker 2: to coach Lebron. It's are they going to pony up
Speaker 2: for the best candidate possible? All right, what's last?
Speaker 3: You could always hire me if they hire you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'd be a great idea. Yeah, it's smart. Take it.
Speaker 4: Sit in your resume.
Speaker 3: I'm here, Okay, Steph might return this week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Draymond is looking healthier, and Clay's dropped forty one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Jordan Poole has been excellent all year.
Speaker 4: Mbe most grew player in the in the league this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: Are you telling me this team can't make a title
Speaker 5: run if everybody's healthy.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying that. I would not kick the Warriors,
Speaker 4: and in.
Speaker 2: The West, I would pick the MAVs. If Luca is healthy,
Speaker 2: then the Suns the Warriors I would have them ahead
Speaker 2: of the Grizzlies at this point, probably because the jaw
Speaker 2: health thing scares me. I know they didn't rush him
Speaker 2: back and he should be fresh, but he's missed so
Speaker 2: much time that is a bit of a concern. But
Speaker 2: the Warriors cannot be written off because they are at
Speaker 2: this point so deep, because Minga's been good for them,
Speaker 2: Pool's been excellent. Clay seems to be rounding into form
Speaker 2: in a way that I was skeptical if you'd be
Speaker 2: able to do that. The concern is they just need
Speaker 2: so many things to fall right. They need Step to
Speaker 2: be healthy and hit the ground running in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They need Draymond's back, and back injuries scare me. To
Speaker 2: stay where it is. They need fooling Tominga that not
Speaker 2: have the moment be too big for him. They need
Speaker 2: all of those things. And I'm gonna we almost hit
Speaker 2: the clock. Clock just expired for watching on YouTube. I'm
Speaker 2: going to take another thirty seconds here. Here's the one
Speaker 2: thing about the Warriors playoff run that feels very nostalgia,
Speaker 2: which maybe is in their favor. Steph Curry, the built
Speaker 2: in comes into the playoffs, is one of the most
Speaker 2: dangerous guys, but also dealing with a nagging injury. So
Speaker 2: when Steph doesn't play well, he's hurt, and when he
Speaker 2: does play well, he's the greatest. Like I read that
Speaker 2: warms the cockles of my heart, remembering twenty sixteen, the
Speaker 2: seventy three win year, when Steph was injured, but then
Speaker 2: he wasn't that he had the most points ever in
Speaker 2: an overtime in his first game back, but then when
Speaker 2: he struggled against Lebron in the finals, like, oh, you
Speaker 2: can't hold it against him, He's hurt. This all is
Speaker 2: very reminiscent of that. Can't be unfair to Steph Curry,
Speaker 2: can't be but no, to answer the question, the Warriors
Speaker 2: can't be written off, but they also would be my
Speaker 2: third choice at this moment to come out of the West.
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: podcast and YouTube show. We've got a ton to do.
Speaker 2: We're going to play a game this segment two wrongs
Speaker 2: and a right. But before that, one more major topic
Speaker 2: to get into. Demanse kick us off.
Speaker 5: Deebo Samuel is up for an extension next year. Reportedly,
Speaker 5: the Niners would at least listen to a trade offer
Speaker 5: YEP or trade offers. Sorry, Hill and Adams were traded.
Speaker 5: There's rumors around DK and Terry mcglory.
Speaker 4: Oh there you go. Nailed it, Terry mclaur and go ahead.
Speaker 5: Is the throw a fit on social media and force
Speaker 5: a trade effected.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing. I don't so.
Speaker 2: Davante and Tyreek didn't throw any fits. They just asked
Speaker 2: for a bunch of money, more money than their teams
Speaker 2: are willing to pay and team and they both those
Speaker 2: teams got excellent trade packages for them. Now, obviously you
Speaker 2: did have guys Odell threw a fit or via his
Speaker 2: father through a fit on social media and he got moved.
Speaker 4: Here's what I think is proving effective.
Speaker 2: I think we have There once was a time where
Speaker 2: you could be a great player in the NFL be
Speaker 2: disgruntled because you were underpaid, and teams were not afraid
Speaker 2: of that at all. Teams were like, Okay, that's your problem.
Speaker 2: You're not holding out, You're we believe you're gonna show up,
Speaker 2: You're gonna play hard, So who gives a damn. It
Speaker 2: seems like that is bending in the other direction to
Speaker 2: where the Packers absolutely they had franchise Tag Davante. They
Speaker 2: could have just kept him for at least one more
Speaker 2: year and then dealt with it. Next year, Davante made
Speaker 2: a little noise that he wouldn't play under the franchise tag,
Speaker 2: and they moved it. Tyreek was still under contract, but
Speaker 2: he wanted more money after the DeVante deal. He made
Speaker 2: it very clear he was going to be unhappy if
Speaker 2: they didn't give him more money. The Chiefs flatly could
Speaker 2: have just kept him for another year and traded him
Speaker 2: next year or figured out something next year. Rather than
Speaker 2: dealing with the potential distraction, they moved it. The Bills
Speaker 2: had Stefan Diggs under contract for I think two more seasons.
Speaker 4: It was clear he felt he was underpaid. They immediately
Speaker 4: gave him a new deal.
Speaker 2: So what I do think is starting to happen in
Speaker 2: the NFL is now, before I interrupt myself for a moment,
Speaker 2: there Nikhil Harry, who you've never heard of. He's a
Speaker 2: a bad first round pick from the Patriots few years ago,
Speaker 2: wide receiver before last year. Harry's agent He's like, listen,
Speaker 2: time here is run its course. He wants to go
Speaker 2: somewhere else, and the Patriots are like, good for him.
Speaker 2: Shut up, We're not doing anything about it. So that
Speaker 2: might be something about the Patriots. It also might be
Speaker 2: something more about the caliber of player. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much the throwing fits on social media thing matters,
Speaker 2: but I do think rightly or wrongly, teams are afraid
Speaker 2: of star players being unhappy in the locker room and
Speaker 2: because of that, they would rather trade that player than
Speaker 2: deal with potential upheebill. During the year, we always knew
Speaker 2: quarterbacks had that type of juice. It's very interesting to
Speaker 2: see other star players have that type of juice to
Speaker 2: how Jalen Ramsey got out of Jacksonville, how Jamal Adams
Speaker 2: got out of New York with the Jets. We have
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins. He didn't even make noise. He just wanted
Speaker 2: more money. It's how he got out of Houston a
Speaker 2: few years ago.
Speaker 4: And then we mentioned these other receivers.
Speaker 2: So I do think it is something to take note
Speaker 2: of your Deebo Samuel and they kind of use you
Speaker 2: like a running back where your career is probably not
Speaker 2: going to be as long as these other receivers.
Speaker 4: You want to get paid right now.
Speaker 2: I think rattling the cage but making some noise is
Speaker 2: effective because it would appear the team will either if
Speaker 2: you're a great player, the team will either pay you
Speaker 2: or move you to a team that will pay you
Speaker 2: all right time now for a game. Two wrongs and
Speaker 2: all right, Demonse kick it off.
Speaker 5: The worst Philly story third baseman Alec Bohm saying I
Speaker 5: hate it here yep, Tyble missing road games, or Katie
Speaker 5: saying Harden was out of shape.
Speaker 4: Okay, my worst Philly story. I'm going to take that
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: My favorite Philly story, and it's the Katie one saying
Speaker 2: Harden was out of shape. I don't really care about
Speaker 2: Alec Bohm. He said I hate it here. In the
Speaker 2: next day he had a big hit.
Speaker 4: That's fine.
Speaker 2: Tyble is not eligible play against Toronto. I would recommend
Speaker 2: everyone read tibles commentary about the vaccine, about how he
Speaker 2: grew up with homeopathic and what he called I think
Speaker 2: Chinese medicine, about how he took the first he got
Speaker 2: one dose of the vaccine, and why he chose not
Speaker 2: to get a second dose. I've been as pro vaccine
Speaker 2: as anyone on television.
Speaker 4: If there is.
Speaker 2: A tible legitimately and totally fits the bill of someone
Speaker 2: who has lived a certain way his entire life is
Speaker 2: trying to be consistent with that has been had well thought.
Speaker 4: Out reasoning explained.
Speaker 2: The reasoning talked about how the reason he got the
Speaker 2: first vaccine the first shot, was because he thought by
Speaker 2: getting the vaccine, even though he didn't believe in vaccines,
Speaker 2: essentially because of the way he was raised medicine wise,
Speaker 2: he thought he was doing it as part of a
Speaker 2: society because then he couldn't infect other people. Then, when
Speaker 2: it became clear that you could still infect other people
Speaker 2: even with the vaccine, that's why he chose not to
Speaker 2: get it again. I would recommend everybody get the vaccine.
Speaker 2: But if people are wondering why guy like Tyble is
Speaker 2: not getting raped over the calls the way Kyrie did, well,
Speaker 2: Kyrie refused to ever talk about it. Doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 2: appear to be in line with any logical, lifelong commitment
Speaker 2: to something, so Tyble to me, I understand it more
Speaker 2: so than I've understood it with many of the other
Speaker 2: athletes that are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. The Katie Harden
Speaker 2: thing is the most interesting story, and it's because it
Speaker 2: is a bit.
Speaker 4: Of a Canarian.
Speaker 2: The coal mine potentially or at least a warning sign
Speaker 2: for Philly that if Philly does not win the championship
Speaker 2: next year and their plan is all right, well, embiedd
Speaker 2: You know, we now have Harden. We're resigning him. He's
Speaker 2: going to come in, We're going to have the whole
Speaker 2: season together. James Harden after getting hurt for the first
Speaker 2: time in his career last year, being on a team
Speaker 2: where he has the best chance of his career to
Speaker 2: win a title, and then finding out, Oh, they're gonna
Speaker 2: need a little more out.
Speaker 4: Of me because of Kyrie's backstatus.
Speaker 3: Out of shape, out of yeah.
Speaker 2: The fact that that didn't motivate him exactly right to
Speaker 2: get in shape, that would concern me a bit if
Speaker 2: I were the Sixers, particularly the Sixers, who I think
Speaker 2: if he opts out and asks for it, they're gonna
Speaker 2: give him a four year, two hundred plus million dollar
Speaker 2: contract extension.
Speaker 4: All right, what's next?
Speaker 5: Bet one long shot NBA title future. Yeah, Boston at
Speaker 5: nine to one, Philly at ten to one, or Miami
Speaker 5: at ten to one.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: I think of these three teams, Boston clearly has looked
Speaker 2: the best over the last few months. But Boston is
Speaker 2: playing Milwaukee in Round two, so they're out. Philly, of
Speaker 2: these three teams is the one that is most in
Speaker 2: danger of losing in Round one. Because we mentioned the
Speaker 2: title thing. Toronto's been good. I don't think they'll lose
Speaker 2: in round one.
Speaker 4: But they could.
Speaker 2: So they're out Miami at ten to one as the
Speaker 2: one seed when they are going to be playing in
Speaker 2: round one either Cleveland or the winner of Hawk's Hornets,
Speaker 2: which has already taking place when you guys hear this,
Speaker 2: but it hasn't taken place yet when we're recording it.
Speaker 2: Miami's going to roll in round one, and then in
Speaker 2: round two is playing either Toronto, which doesn't have enough talent,
Speaker 2: or Philly with two guys that have very very light
Speaker 2: postseason resumes. Miami has excellent depth, excellent defense, excellent continuity,
Speaker 2: and maybe the best coach currently in the playoffs. So
Speaker 2: I think Miami as the one seed home court throughout.
Speaker 2: They're finally healthy at the right time.
Speaker 4: They're not my pick.
Speaker 2: I think Milwaukee's rolling everybody, but if I had to
Speaker 2: pick one team in the East other than Milwaukee, I
Speaker 2: think Miami would be my pick. I also liked that
Speaker 2: Milwaukee's on the other side of the bracket from them,
Speaker 2: so they won't have to deal with Milwaukee until the
Speaker 2: conference finals. So my answer there is definitely Miami. All right,
Speaker 2: what's next.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the game league, Yeah, you've lost the Tiger bet.
Speaker 4: Yeah I did.
Speaker 3: We've already bet a ton of the playoff matchups.
Speaker 4: Yeah right.
Speaker 5: Yourself is a better above average, really good, or too
Speaker 5: good to discuss on air.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the thing. I'm ann above average sports better.
Speaker 2: I am an elite games picker. So here's the distinction.
Speaker 2: So I am, and it's documented every year with my
Speaker 2: NFL picks. I do five a week. We'll do it
Speaker 2: as part of the show once NFL season starts. Every year,
Speaker 2: with the exception of the twenty twenty NFL season, since
Speaker 2: I've been on television, I have a documented, you know,
Speaker 2: top five percent amongst all sports prognosticators record against the script.
Speaker 2: That would lead you to believe I would be an
Speaker 2: incredibly profitable sports gambling but I'm not because part of gambling,
Speaker 2: the biggest part of gambling, is not getting on tilt,
Speaker 2: not pressing the dealing with the fact that you're going
Speaker 2: to lose two out of five bets, been in your
Speaker 2: best years, not pressing your luck, not all of a
Speaker 2: sudden tripling your bet size for the Sunday night game
Speaker 2: to try to get even to all of these things
Speaker 2: that I am terrible that I am just awful at.
Speaker 2: So because of that, I am not a great sports gambler.
Speaker 2: I am a very very good prognosticator picker, but as
Speaker 2: far as it actually resulting in money in my pocket,
Speaker 2: not great.
Speaker 4: With that said, I.
Speaker 2: Got forty nine to one on a thousand bucks of
Speaker 2: Bucks MAVs Bucks over MAVs exact finals man. So if
Speaker 2: the Bucks beat the MAVs in the finals, it pays
Speaker 2: almost fifty thousand dollars. I bet that about ninety six
Speaker 2: hours before Luke adntwas maybe tourist Caffins maybe out and
Speaker 2: that things may be dead. So that's again, that's a
Speaker 2: savvy bet by me. I think a great bet by me.
Speaker 2: And then I got a little unlucky. And if it
Speaker 2: is now ruled out that Luke is out, instead of
Speaker 2: just losing that bet, I will then chase, chase, chase
Speaker 2: and lose a lot of money.
Speaker 4: That's how it works. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, it says we're out of time, we're
Speaker 2: at zero's, but the last thing on there is his
Speaker 2: father of hers son.
Speaker 4: I'm not letting us skip it. What are we doing?
Speaker 3: You gotta be like super honest about this question. I'm
Speaker 3: this isn't for your career, Like you know, it's not
Speaker 3: an argument. It's not, you know, defending Lebron.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, I don't even know what the question is yet,
Speaker 2: but the implication there is I'm not.
Speaker 4: Do you think I'm not super honest?
Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel like you just have to you have
Speaker 5: to stand on your opinions, and this one I just
Speaker 5: need you to.
Speaker 3: It's all good, all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Tom Brady posted a video of him beating his son
Speaker 5: in hoops.
Speaker 4: So here's the video. All right, go ahead, what's the question?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we played, would you win? Or would I
Speaker 3: win but it's close? Or I win in a blowout?
Speaker 4: Oh boy?
Speaker 3: Question is key?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: Do you remember the last time we played with a
Speaker 2: score with steaks?
Speaker 4: Yeah? In Houston? Do you remember? I didn't.
Speaker 3: Remember?
Speaker 4: You remember? All right?
Speaker 2: Let me just give the audience a little bit of
Speaker 2: context here. I'm a shade over six feet tall. Whether
Speaker 2: people believe it or not. You know, at my athletic apex,
Speaker 2: I once upon time could dunk a basketball.
Speaker 4: Again. There's a video of it from high school of me.
Speaker 4: It's fine. Nobody believed one time and broke his risk.
Speaker 2: No, I okay, I tried to dunk in college and
Speaker 2: did break my risk because I so you were already.
Speaker 3: Dunking in high school and then you try to dunk
Speaker 3: in college.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm going to answer the question in
Speaker 2: a moment, but let's just spend time here because people
Speaker 2: always use the nick you broke your risk trying to
Speaker 2: dunk the ball as evidence against the fact that I
Speaker 2: could dunk the basketball when it's obviously evidence that I could,
Speaker 2: because nobody will listen to me here, listen to me here. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know somebody who, at the end of a college
Speaker 2: intramural game tries to throw down a definitive bleep, You guys,
Speaker 2: get off the court, dunk somebody who's dunk before. Not
Speaker 2: somebody who's like, this is gonna be my first dunk ever. Now,
Speaker 2: on that one, I didn't time the steps right, and
Speaker 2: what happened was I held the rim a little long
Speaker 2: legs came out r underneath me, tried to hold it longer, didn't,
Speaker 2: fell snapped the wrist.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 2: The point point is I was, once upon a time,
Speaker 2: I would say, a decent basketball player, good act. Demanse
Speaker 2: is six ' four once upon a time, had a
Speaker 2: measured forty inch vertical at that AU tournament and played
Speaker 2: college basketball. So the answer is, of course Demanse by
Speaker 2: a lot, and I have no shame in that. The
Speaker 2: reason I referenced the last time we played is, Demanse,
Speaker 2: what happened right the last time we played? Where I
Speaker 2: threw up right after the game. I was playing so hard,
Speaker 2: but you crushed me. What happened about three hours after that?
Speaker 4: Do you remember? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just the best game of your high school life.
Speaker 2: Just just a thirty in ten game.
Speaker 4: No, it was.
Speaker 2: It was Kidner, a thirty and ten game against a guy,
Speaker 2: the starting backcourt player, that was a D one guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was against high tower, exactly right.
Speaker 2: I got, I got Demanse, all motivated, worked up anyone
Speaker 2: out there, and crushed it. So yeah, I would lose.
Speaker 2: You were You're a better athlete than me, but I would.
Speaker 2: I would do it with dignity. I would not be
Speaker 2: ashamed of it. There's no shame in losing to you.
Speaker 2: The only question I have about that Tom Brady video
Speaker 2: is this, did his son Jack, immediately after that game,
Speaker 2: uh fake, retire from his school high school, from his
Speaker 2: basketball team. So he could then try to play for
Speaker 2: a different basketball team or is that just what his
Speaker 2: dad does.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back. I didn't say I was a
Speaker 4: silky smooth three point shooter.
Speaker 2: The question was did I have enough athleticism?
Speaker 4: Okay, not athleticism, leaping ability.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the question.
Speaker 2: I was still grabbing rim in dress shoes at your practices.
Speaker 4: All right? Are you ready to finish up the show?
Speaker 3: I'm ready.
Speaker 4: You don't even know what we're doing here.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in We'll drive with Nick Right
Speaker 2: podcast YouTube shoe again. By the way, reminder of players
Speaker 2: forty seven through forty four, I believe on the fifty
Speaker 2: best Players of the last fifty years list that is
Speaker 2: going to be revealed this weekend. Unveiled, so subscribe. It's
Speaker 2: the same feed as this one that you're either watching
Speaker 2: or listening to it on. But we're going to be
Speaker 2: doing that weekly and it comes out this weekend. Okay,
Speaker 2: the C block. Typically you surprised me with it. I instead,
Speaker 2: I'm going to surprise you with a topic because you
Speaker 2: were surprised by something else today and that was the
Speaker 2: fact that today is me and your mom's anim ursery.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to tell you that Demanse I
Speaker 2: forgot it was our anniversary. He thought I was upset
Speaker 2: about that. I'm not upset about that. Not his job
Speaker 2: to remember the anniversary. You didn't get married. Here's the
Speaker 2: question I have though, because you and I have never
Speaker 2: talked about this.
Speaker 4: So let me just tell the audience.
Speaker 3: Wasn't invited to the wedding.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I forgot the anniversary. But I also wasn't
Speaker 5: invited to the wedding.
Speaker 4: Okay. So now we're where I thought this was going
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: So let me defend that because people hear that it
Speaker 2: doesn't sound great.
Speaker 3: That's so great.
Speaker 2: So this is my wife and my our nine year
Speaker 2: wedding anniversary. I've been together for fourteen just under fourteen years.
Speaker 2: So we had set money aside for a wedding and
Speaker 2: to have a big wedding. Then I got the job
Speaker 2: in Houston and in Kansas City. Remember we were living
Speaker 2: in that like townhouse apartment things apartment I received. It
Speaker 2: was it was a good size apartment, but it was
Speaker 2: also in a retirement. Remember they didn't want to let
Speaker 2: us move in. And our neighbors Bob and Benny, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were like a thousand years old and I'm in
Speaker 2: there with my three kids. Okay, so then is it
Speaker 2: fair to say our home in Houston was a significant.
Speaker 4: Upgrade from how we had been living before.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So right around the time Danielle and I were deciding
Speaker 2: we were going to get married, I got the job
Speaker 2: in Houston, so all the money I had saved for
Speaker 2: the wedding went to the down payment for the house.
Speaker 2: So we didn't realize we were going to have to
Speaker 2: postpone the wedding entirely a year, which we were considering doing.
Speaker 4: But then there was a reason.
Speaker 3: We wonder how long that considering process was.
Speaker 4: What the postponing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well do.
Speaker 2: You do you remember why we ended up not postponing
Speaker 2: the wedding. I mean, there's an interesting timeline on how
Speaker 2: our wedding date and Deanna's birthdate that if you do
Speaker 2: a little mat there, you'll realize why the wedding was
Speaker 2: not postponed.
Speaker 4: However, it's not the point pointed.
Speaker 2: As we decided we were going to get married as
Speaker 2: we had said April thirteenth, twenty thirteen, nine years ago today,
Speaker 2: and we wanted to stick with it. But I now
Speaker 2: had no money left. Okay, so we were like, we
Speaker 2: can go into debt over this, we can ask to
Speaker 2: borrow money, we can ask fan, or we can try.
Speaker 4: To do it on our own.
Speaker 2: So we decided we were going to have a very
Speaker 2: very small wedding and and hopefully on our ten year
Speaker 2: anniversary or at some point, do a big wedding, but
Speaker 2: have a small wedding. The small wedding necessitated that your
Speaker 2: mother and I both only get to invite one person.
Speaker 2: So how how are we supposed to pick between you
Speaker 2: and your sister? We couldn't do it, so you could.
Speaker 2: Your mom invited her grandparents.
Speaker 3: Really is the favorite child? Why she's been for a while.
Speaker 4: Why do you say that, You say, my sister, You
Speaker 4: think we didn't We didn't pick either. She didn't go.
Speaker 4: You thought she went for.
Speaker 3: A second, No, she didn't go.
Speaker 4: This whole time, you go, the whole time was there
Speaker 4: and you weren't there.
Speaker 3: That's true betrayal. Yeah, but it was it was grandparents.
Speaker 2: It was it was your mom's grandparents of my mom.
Speaker 2: My sister didn't go. Your mom's sisters didn't go. This is,
Speaker 2: by the way. It caused a lot of drama within
Speaker 2: the family, a lot of rips.
Speaker 4: But hey, here's the thing. Nobody was throwing money.
Speaker 2: In the hat to set the thing up, so we
Speaker 2: had to.
Speaker 4: Make the choices we had to make.
Speaker 2: So you will never be accountable for not remembering the anniversary,
Speaker 2: because I still have a little regret and guilt that
Speaker 2: you were not at the ceremony. But such as life.
Speaker 2: When you know what I mean, you're getting out starting
Speaker 2: on your own. By the way, I will use the
Speaker 2: final thirty seconds of the show to say it was
Speaker 2: nine years ago today, that it was the greatest day
Speaker 2: of my life. I love you so much, Danielle. Even
Speaker 2: though our producers off the air take vicious personal shots
Speaker 2: at your professional ability as a stylist, mocking my.
Speaker 4: Clothes on the show.
Speaker 2: Off the show, it's really I mean, I look at
Speaker 2: this group of idiots.
Speaker 4: And what they're wearing.
Speaker 2: We got Matt, who was I think, wearing long john
Speaker 2: We have Gabe who is wearing long sleeved shirt and
Speaker 2: shorts for the ninth straight day, which even though Demanse's
Speaker 2: trying to popularize.
Speaker 4: That look, it's not a good look.
Speaker 2: The young lady in the back looks fine, it looks
Speaker 2: is dressed well, but she has to work around these
Speaker 2: dupases all the time, but they you know, if they
Speaker 2: had shopped at Trentage, my Wife Story Earn Harlem or
Speaker 2: a hired Freebird Incorporated do some styling, maybe they wouldn't
Speaker 2: look like such dupasses. I've done both, so I look
Speaker 2: great every episode. I will talk to you guys next week. Hey,
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