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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right? Episode two twenty six.
Speaker 2: What a night of college hoops last night? All the
Speaker 2: women's side of things we have. I'm the great statistician
Speaker 2: from First Things First. Dusty is about to text me
Speaker 2: the exact number. But there is a chance that both
Speaker 2: the men's and the women's all time single tournament scoring
Speaker 2: record goes down in this tournament. Zach Edy for Purdue,
Speaker 2: fresh off his forty point performance, has scored one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty points through four tournament games. The all time
Speaker 2: record for a single tournament is NBA jam Legend Flame
Speaker 2: thrower Glenn Rice, who had one hundred and eighty four
Speaker 2: points for Michigan thirty five years ago in a NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: So Edie needs to average thirty two and a half points.
Speaker 2: He needs to obviously make the final and score sixty
Speaker 2: five total points in his next two games. Caitlan Clark,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the women's record is. That's what
Speaker 2: Dusty's looking up for me right now. Caitlin Clark has
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty six through four tournament games. She
Speaker 2: is averaging and incomprehensible thirty four, seven and ten through
Speaker 2: the tournament. And so if she can get past Yukon
Speaker 2: and get to the final against South Carolina, I've got
Speaker 2: to imagine she's got a great chance at setting that record.
Speaker 2: So a wonderful night in women's basketball yesterday, a wonderful
Speaker 2: night in basketball in general. We will discuss that I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give young people some advice in relation to what
Speaker 2: Angel Rees said after the game. Also, folks really were
Speaker 2: mad at me, it would appear, for not discussing the
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice situation on television yesterday. That is not a
Speaker 2: great television topic because there's not much to say with
Speaker 2: the information we have, but I'll discuss it here. We'll
Speaker 2: do all that talk some NBA play a game of
Speaker 2: likely maybe what if. But first, here's what missed the
Speaker 2: cut for today's show. A UFL kicker that reportedly hadn't
Speaker 2: kicked the field goals in high school hit a sixty
Speaker 2: four yard game winner. Beyonce releasing a country album pretty
Speaker 2: good actually, and the Chiefs signed Carson Wentz Demons welcome
Speaker 2: in shades. Look great. You're gonna get your new designer
Speaker 2: shades when I see you in a week and a half.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime, I like the rotation you're going
Speaker 2: through the chief sneakily. I think might be listening to
Speaker 2: my old Cam Newton advice, which was I said they
Speaker 2: need to sign Cam specifically for goal line and QB
Speaker 2: sneak situations. Carson Wentz, great at those things. That might
Speaker 2: be what my guy Brett Veach is doing. And so
Speaker 2: Carson Wentz coming in to be a backup quarterback for
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. But of course the new was last night.
Speaker 2: Demons are the lead eight games on the women's side
Speaker 2: of the bracket, So you go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Kaylin Clark put on a clinic versus LSU.
Speaker 3: Last night got their revenge from last year. Juju Watkins
Speaker 3: dropped twenty nine, but USC came up short and couldn't go.
Speaker 3: Couldn't killed cage buckets in Yukon. You predicted that last
Speaker 3: night will be the greatest night in women's history or
Speaker 3: women's hoop history. Sorry about that women's history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure what night that would be,
Speaker 2: but in women's basketball history. So here's the deal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: lived up to my expectations. Yukon's better than USC. I
Speaker 2: understand USC. I shouldn't say that USC had the higher seed.
Speaker 2: I'm not shocked at Yukon won. And people should remember
Speaker 2: that Page was the best player in the sport, arguably
Speaker 2: as a freshman, like Juju has the argument at least
Speaker 2: aside from Caitlyn Clark. And then Paige missed time because
Speaker 2: she got hurt, and now Page is reminding everyone who
Speaker 2: she is now. Juju is maybe has the highest upside
Speaker 2: of any female player I've ever seen, and at her
Speaker 2: age and her skill set and her size, We'll see
Speaker 2: what she continues to do. Demanda, you got to see
Speaker 2: her in person. We didn't talk about it on the show.
Speaker 4: But I mean she is.
Speaker 2: An amazing defendermates seems like right, I mean, she's exceptional,
Speaker 2: but she'll have her time, and I'm glad that we're
Speaker 2: gonna get Caitlyn. It would have been awesome to get
Speaker 2: Caitlyn against Juju, but Caitlyn against Page is pretty dope.
Speaker 2: And then sitting on the other side of the bracket
Speaker 2: is South Carolina, which is gonna win the whole thing.
Speaker 4: They're undefeated.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, they've got the best coach in college basketball,
Speaker 2: They're the best roster in college basketball. They the I mean,
Speaker 2: South Carolina is the best team. It would take a
Speaker 2: more than what Caitlyn did last night against LSU by
Speaker 2: Caitlin or Page to beat South Carolina. But either way,
Speaker 2: it's an unbelievable run for both these programs. But I
Speaker 2: want to talk about Caitlin first. I do think and
Speaker 2: I hate to start negative, but I will do it. Agree.
Speaker 2: I thought Kim Mulkie's game plan was perplexing. I thought
Speaker 2: just asking Haley van Lyt deer up was a curious
Speaker 2: decision that she didn't go away from. They didn't start
Speaker 2: blitzing her or put flage on her until the game
Speaker 2: was out of hand. With four minutes left, and it'd
Speaker 2: be like Haley was yes, and Haley would struggling massively
Speaker 2: on the offensive end. So in theory and Haley had
Speaker 2: a brutal tournament. I feel badly for her. She's the
Speaker 2: young lady that was at Louisville last year, had the
Speaker 2: little back and forth with Caitlyn and then transferred Lsu
Speaker 2: to be with a better team, and she listened. She
Speaker 2: shot twenty one percent from the field in the tournament,
Speaker 2: in twenty one percent from three. It was a brutal
Speaker 2: tournament for but she. You can't ask anybody to just
Speaker 2: play one on one man defense on Caitlyn Clark. That's
Speaker 2: what Mulki asked Hailey van Litt to do, and it
Speaker 2: was when you watched how she was playing offensively, the
Speaker 2: only way that made sense was, Okay, you're dealing with
Speaker 2: that because of what she's giving you defensively. But the
Speaker 2: poor lady was getting cooked defensively. There's nothing anybody who
Speaker 2: was going to be able to do against Kaitlyn last night.
Speaker 2: And that was a legendary performance by a legendary player.
Speaker 2: This is the team that beat you in the national
Speaker 2: championship game. That you have had circled all year long
Speaker 2: that for some people, nothing that you do this year.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of those people, but for some people
Speaker 2: was going to matter if you lose to them. And
Speaker 2: she had one of the best games of her career
Speaker 2: forty one, seven and twelve with an impossible degree of
Speaker 2: difficulty on those shots, just absolutely impossible degree of difficulty.
Speaker 2: And so when you saw what she did now last
Speaker 2: year against South Carolina in the national semifinal, she had
Speaker 2: and maybe even a more impressive uh shooting performance the
Speaker 2: where she no no, actually the no, it wasn't a
Speaker 2: more impressive shooting performance in that game. She acs has
Speaker 2: struggled from three, but she had forty one in that
Speaker 2: game as well, but not as many assists. You could
Speaker 2: argue South Carolina was better I don't know last year
Speaker 2: than LSU. This year. Probably was, but I didn't Given
Speaker 2: the opponent, given the stakes, and given the attention, it
Speaker 2: was the most impressive game of her career. And you
Speaker 2: can say it wasn't the biggest game of her career
Speaker 2: because she played for a national championship last year, and
Speaker 2: I understand that argument, but the revenge factor and last
Speaker 2: year in the National championship, it was kind of a
Speaker 2: house money game. They weren't expected to be there. Caitlin
Speaker 2: didn't have these type of expectations. LSU was considered the
Speaker 2: better team this year. You're the favorite, you are expected
Speaker 2: to be there, You're the one all of those things.
Speaker 2: You gotta win that game or a lot of people
Speaker 2: are gonna find ways to be like, oh, how good
Speaker 2: is Caitlin Clark really? And she responded with arguably the
Speaker 2: greatest performance of her career. And those shots were just impossible. Man.
Speaker 2: They're off balanced on the move, off the dribble with
Speaker 2: some of them with good defense where you saw Angel
Speaker 2: and Haley both do the Michael Jordan shrug, like what
Speaker 2: the hell do you want me to do? Like? What
Speaker 2: do you want me to do in this spot? And
Speaker 2: so I know there's gonna be a discussion on is
Speaker 2: she the greatest female basketball player ever? Here's my issue
Speaker 2: with that discussion. When it comes to talking about the
Speaker 2: greatest NBA players ever. I feel like I am able
Speaker 2: to accurately and intelligently discuss players that I never watched
Speaker 2: live because I've the ability to go back and watch
Speaker 2: almost anything from the eighties on, and so maybe I
Speaker 2: can't fairly evaluate Wilton Russell. But I can fairly evaluate
Speaker 2: you know more about half of Kareem's career, all of Magic,
Speaker 2: all of Byrd, all of Michael, all of that. I
Speaker 2: Cheryl Miller is probably the leading contender historically for the
Speaker 2: greatest female player ever. All I can do is watch
Speaker 2: clips and reader Wikipedia like I can't. I can't go
Speaker 2: back and watch her the way I could watch men's
Speaker 2: pro basketball of the same era. So and obviously the
Speaker 2: greatest players at Tennessee in the nineties and a long
Speaker 2: list of Yukon women's Huskies over the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: from Tarazi to Brianna Stewart, all have a credible case.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. If Caitlyn Clark's the greatest female
Speaker 2: basketball player ever, my money would be on Juju getting there.
Speaker 2: I do know this, Caitlyn Clark is revolutionary in the
Speaker 2: attention she has brought to the sport, the eyeballs she
Speaker 2: has brought to the sport, and the way she has
Speaker 2: risen to the occasion every time the spotlight's been on her.
Speaker 4: And people like three pointers.
Speaker 2: Well yes, and she plays a She has a lot
Speaker 2: of stylistic similarities to Steph All of these men's players
Speaker 2: who have come up trying to emulate Steph, she has
Speaker 2: succeeded more than any of them. Like Trey Young takes
Speaker 2: a lot of the same shots Steph does, but you'll
Speaker 2: look at a shooting percentages, you look at his efficiency,
Speaker 2: it's not there. Her passing, plus her off the bounce,
Speaker 2: off balance, rain shooting, she is the closest to step
Speaker 2: off ball. Oh that's a great point. What she does
Speaker 2: when she doesn't have the ball right, the constant movement,
Speaker 2: all of it, the relocating. So I do think last
Speaker 2: night was a transcendent moment in women's sports history, and
Speaker 2: it brings me to what I wonder is going to
Speaker 2: happen with Caitlin Clark and the Stars and the WNBA.
Speaker 2: Because I sent Demand a text yesterday that seems seems
Speaker 2: make believe what I sent him, But I'm gonna read
Speaker 2: it to you directly from USA today, which is right
Speaker 2: now if you're listening. Give it a guess what Caitlin
Speaker 2: Clark as the number one pick of next year's WNBA
Speaker 2: draft will make. So just you know, if you're just
Speaker 2: come up with a number in your head. And this
Speaker 2: is not a conversation about that. The WNBA players should
Speaker 2: make as much as NBA players. That is a facile
Speaker 2: conversation that nobody actually thinks is true, and people who
Speaker 2: are on the other side of the argument prop it
Speaker 2: up as a straw man as if that is what
Speaker 2: you're arguing against. But when I tell you how much
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark's going to make from the Indiana Fever next year,
Speaker 2: when she's the number one pick, I promise you whatever
Speaker 2: number you're guessing, you're far too high. So the number
Speaker 2: one pick of last year's WNBA draft, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: so it was a Leah Boston. I'm gonna read you
Speaker 2: her exact salary, so again this will go up by
Speaker 2: a tick. Aliah Boston got a three year, two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty thousand dollars contract that is not per season,
Speaker 2: that is total the number one pick of last year's
Speaker 2: WNBA draft. Her salaries are as follows, seventy four grand,
Speaker 2: seventy six grand, eighty three grand, and then a team
Speaker 2: option for ninety four thousand dollars. So that's what Caitlin
Speaker 2: Clark is gonna make from the Indiana Fever next year.
Speaker 2: So there are a lot of elements to that and
Speaker 2: Echino to it. And how profitable is the league, should
Speaker 2: the players get a larger share of the revenue pie
Speaker 2: as they do in the NBA, all of it. I
Speaker 2: don't actually care to have that conversation right now. The
Speaker 2: conversation I do care to have is this, if the
Speaker 2: NBA and the WNBA care about ensuring that they continue
Speaker 2: the momentum from the women's college game and don't have
Speaker 2: their stars going overseas to play as so many have,
Speaker 2: most famously obviously Britney Griner, who then got locked up
Speaker 2: for a year plus while playing in Russia, but so
Speaker 2: many of the great play overseas. They have to find
Speaker 2: a way to make this make sense because people say, well,
Speaker 2: Caitlyn's gonna make so much money off endorsements. She's gonna make.
Speaker 2: However much she's gonna make off endorsements is going to exist,
Speaker 2: whether the whether she makes seventy five grand or seven
Speaker 2: hundred fifty grand in the WNBA. But the individual's player
Speaker 2: max for the the WNBA is a quarter of a
Speaker 2: million bucks, and Caitlin Clerk averaging eighty grand a year
Speaker 2: for the first three years of her career. That's not
Speaker 2: a sustainable business model. And there somebody is gonna see
Speaker 2: that and create a competing all star league that is
Speaker 2: going to pay the actual stars that get developed in
Speaker 2: college basketball real money, and then the WNBA is cooked
Speaker 2: that if the WNBA has a chance to use this, right,
Speaker 2: I exactly right what ice Cube talked about, or somebody
Speaker 2: like the America loves stars and we now have a
Speaker 2: bunch of female college stars. And I'm not saying you
Speaker 2: got they have to all make millions of dollars, but
Speaker 2: eighty grand a year for Caitlin Clark ain't gonna cut it, guys,
Speaker 2: just not. And it also will create situations where if
Speaker 2: your team is paying you eighty and Nike's paying you
Speaker 2: a million, who do you work for? You don't work
Speaker 2: for your team, you work for Nike. There are there
Speaker 2: there will be if your if your team is paying
Speaker 2: you eighty and you're offered fifty to give a speech,
Speaker 2: team's paying you eighty for the year and you're offered
Speaker 2: fifty grand to give a speech that conflicts with something
Speaker 2: your team needs to do, well, sorry, guys, like they're
Speaker 2: real things that happen here. And so that that is
Speaker 2: something that the NBA and the WNBA need to figure out,
Speaker 2: because you can't squander this moment. And we have seen
Speaker 2: in men's sports, when the NBA was not financially what
Speaker 2: it is now, the ABA takes advantage and gets stars.
Speaker 2: When the NFL was not financially what it is now,
Speaker 2: the USFL Steve Young, Reggie Whites, Doug Fluteie warn moon
Speaker 2: stars you can't have the league's talent pool diluted. So
Speaker 2: I really really hope that on the professional level they
Speaker 2: take advantage of the fact that you are going to
Speaker 2: have over the next few years names coming into your league, Caitlin, Angel, Page,
Speaker 2: Juju all coming into your league that people will want
Speaker 2: to see. All Right, With all that said, I think
Speaker 2: USC is gonna win the whole thing. I'm sorry us.
Speaker 2: South Carolina is gonna win the whole thing. They were
Speaker 2: also USC oddly University of South Carolina, but South Carolina's
Speaker 2: the best team. I also really like doing Staley, but
Speaker 2: that I if Caitlin can pull this off, it'll be remarkable.
Speaker 2: But I I think South Carolina is too good, and
Speaker 2: Gabe is reminding us that is a fake USC. Well,
Speaker 2: they're votes University of Southern California, University of South Carolina.
Speaker 2: You guys hash that out in court. All right, demanse uh,
Speaker 2: let's go to Angel Rees.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So after the game, Angel Rees had had this to say,
Speaker 3: enterpressor for those watching on YouTube, I'm gonna show up, yeah,
Speaker 3: a little small videos.
Speaker 5: I just try to stand strong. Like I've been through
Speaker 5: so much. I've seen so much. I've been attacked so
Speaker 5: many times, death threats, I've been sexualized, I've been threat
Speaker 5: and I've been so many things and I've stitched strong
Speaker 5: every single time. And I just try to stand strong
Speaker 5: for my teammates because I don't want them to see
Speaker 5: me down and like not be there for them. So
Speaker 5: I just want to always just know like I'm still
Speaker 5: a human, Like all this has happened since I won
Speaker 5: the National championship, and I said the other day, I
Speaker 5: haven't happy since then, and it sucks, and but I
Speaker 5: still wouldn't change.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's heartbreaking. And listen, there's a lot that
Speaker 2: goes into that. A lot of the Angel Rees hate
Speaker 2: from a year ago was steeped in racism. There's obviously
Speaker 2: Kim Maulki, who I'm not a fan of at all,
Speaker 2: but she was right in this regard. Some of a
Speaker 2: lot of this has been misogynistic, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: factors that have led to that, but that's actually not
Speaker 2: the discussion that I want to have here. The discussion
Speaker 2: I want to have here is a different one, and
Speaker 2: that is too particularly young people, but really people my
Speaker 2: age as well, but particularly people age fifteen to twenty
Speaker 2: five are the ones I am speaking to most specifically here,
Speaker 2: but I think there are grown ass people my age
Speaker 2: and older that could use this lesson as well. Everybody, everybody.
Speaker 2: You gotta stop reading the comments you have to People
Speaker 2: are not human beings, are not psychologically equipped to deal
Speaker 2: with a constant inflow of attacks. I do not know
Speaker 2: how many instances we have to show we have to
Speaker 2: have to show you there is real psychological damage done
Speaker 2: to people, particularly young people, if they are constantly reading,
Speaker 2: even if it is anonymous strangers tearing them down. And
Speaker 2: I am in a unique place to talk about this
Speaker 2: because I, because of my media career and because of
Speaker 2: my exact time joining the media and the age I was,
Speaker 2: and then the like the twenty years since, got a
Speaker 2: small taste of being a public figure pre social media,
Speaker 2: and then a large taste during the birth of social media,
Speaker 2: the ubiquitousness of it, and now a large sample of
Speaker 2: sense I have essentially logged off not from my own comments,
Speaker 2: but from reading any of yours. And I am here
Speaker 2: to tell you it will absolutely impact and affect your
Speaker 2: real life relationships, how you view yourself, the way you
Speaker 2: carry yourself, all of these things because of what you
Speaker 2: are reading and seeing that is set about you. There
Speaker 2: is almost no way to become inoculated against it other
Speaker 2: than avoiding it and what angel reades experience. So when
Speaker 2: you think about what she said there, death threats, sexualized,
Speaker 2: all of those things, honest question, how many of those
Speaker 2: things do you think happened in person? How many of
Speaker 2: those things do you think was someone coming up to
Speaker 2: her on the street and saying that to her. I
Speaker 2: understand you get heckled in person as an athlete, but
Speaker 2: athletes are great at dealing with that and sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: using that as fuel. I don't think that's what she's
Speaker 2: talking about. I think she's talking about through her goddamn phone.
Speaker 2: And I'm and I am here to tell you that
Speaker 2: there is no way you're not going to age out
Speaker 2: of that impacting you. You're not going to mature out
Speaker 2: of that impacting you. The only way to not allow
Speaker 2: that to be a sore on your soul is to
Speaker 2: not read it. And I know that is kind of
Speaker 2: counterintuitive to what ideally social media is there for. It's
Speaker 2: so you can interact with people, it's so people can
Speaker 2: leave comments, it's so I get all of that. But
Speaker 2: that is not what it is in practicality today, especially
Speaker 2: if you are a public figure. And I we're not
Speaker 2: through the other side of this yet, we're still in
Speaker 2: the midst of it. But for young people out there
Speaker 2: that have any type of following, even if the following
Speaker 2: is just a lot of people at your high school
Speaker 2: or college follow you on Instagram or TikTok or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, I am here to tell you that that
Speaker 2: shit is toxic. Angel Reeths reached the pinnacle, led her
Speaker 2: team to the national championship, was one of the best
Speaker 2: players in her sport. Was on talk shows Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 2: the swimsuit edition, the regular edition, made money, had got
Speaker 2: rich by certainly by college standards and maybe by anybody's standards.
Speaker 2: And she just said that in that timeframe, she hasn't
Speaker 2: been happy because you can't run from that shit if
Speaker 2: you read it. And I'm here to tell you that
Speaker 2: one of the best decisions I ever made was stopping
Speaker 2: reading that stuff like this is and it is, And
Speaker 2: I get sometimes annoyed by people who I actually interact
Speaker 2: with that then come to me and tell me, oh, man,
Speaker 2: folks are killing you for X. No, they're fucking not.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe they are on on your phone, but
Speaker 2: in real life you better find me walking my dog,
Speaker 2: or have my phone number or know me personally otherwise
Speaker 2: I'm not hearing it. And that does make me a
Speaker 2: little sad, because it means there are there's good There
Speaker 2: are people that I probably would like to connect with
Speaker 2: or you know, a big fans or whatever it is
Speaker 2: that I'm missing. There them reaching out of their common
Speaker 2: but I I can't wade through the toxicity to find
Speaker 2: those without having the toxicity pull me down. And so
Speaker 2: Angel Reese like I empathize with her and with every
Speaker 2: young person that becomes famous, every single one. But I'm
Speaker 2: here to tell you the only way through is to
Speaker 2: decide that the dopamine kicks you get from the good
Speaker 2: comments will not outweigh the being dragged down by the
Speaker 2: bat And I've seen folks in my field wreck their
Speaker 2: careers by being so captivated by their online audience and
Speaker 2: curating their content to that or changing what they will
Speaker 2: or won't say, or being afraid all of it. It's
Speaker 2: too many people. You're not gonna please them all. And
Speaker 2: the more successful you get, the more people that will
Speaker 2: be there to try to ruin your day. And so
Speaker 2: I I really really wish that we did a better
Speaker 2: job preparing. I used to say you should be able
Speaker 2: to major in pro athlete when you went to college, Like, hey,
Speaker 2: people major in things all the time that they're not
Speaker 2: gonna end up being and people let them. It's like
Speaker 2: people majored in broadcast journalism at Syracuse that I think
Speaker 2: was pretty clear early on You're not gonna be a broadcaster.
Speaker 2: Nobody said you're not allowed to do it. People major
Speaker 2: in art history. You know, you can major anything you want,
Speaker 2: and you should be able to major in pro athlete
Speaker 2: and the classes would be things like contract law, public speaking,
Speaker 2: money management, the things you would need if you become
Speaker 2: a pro athlete. One of those things should be dealing
Speaker 2: with celebrity and how to deal with it and keep
Speaker 2: even keel because we're not helping our folks out on that,
Speaker 2: and that dealing with celebrity thing is maybe something we
Speaker 2: could teach in high school to everyone because everyone is
Speaker 2: a different in today's day and age, almost everyone's some
Speaker 2: form of celebrity, just different levels of it. Anybody that
Speaker 2: dips their toe into the content creation or social media
Speaker 2: or semi public figure waters is going to be susceptible
Speaker 2: to this stuff. And it is It makes me sick
Speaker 2: that Angel Reaves basically just said this last year, which
Speaker 2: should have been the best year of her life, has
Speaker 2: been the worst. But that is that is not like
Speaker 2: right now, if you go, I'm certain to Angel Reese's
Speaker 2: social media, what people are doing some people are doing
Speaker 2: is putting up pictures from her in the swimsuit issue
Speaker 2: and saying, oh, you're gonna cry about being sexualized and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden put that on her. Twist it.
Speaker 2: They're gonna put that on her and somewhere in her
Speaker 2: brain as a kid is a twenty seven year olds,
Speaker 2: there's something and there's gonna be like, oh, did I
Speaker 2: do that? Am I a fault? Should I not have
Speaker 2: done that?
Speaker 4: Should I?
Speaker 2: And it's it's just not good for your mental health, y'all, flatly,
Speaker 2: And it's one of the reasons demands that I especially
Speaker 2: right when we started, and to a degree now and
Speaker 2: try to be protect when you're twenty five, You're you're older,
Speaker 2: but it's still like I try to be I I
Speaker 2: had to and I still have to kind of walk
Speaker 2: a fine line of how like big do I want
Speaker 2: your Twitter following to be? And I understand I really should.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to live your life for you. I apologize.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds patronizing. I don't mean it too,
Speaker 2: but you're but you You're in this public figure world
Speaker 2: because of me, and so I feel, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, There is a the there is a real
Speaker 2: like I just don't think it's good for people, like
Speaker 2: do you think let me ask you, if we're going
Speaker 2: to move on, do you think when people because I
Speaker 2: know you see some of them, or at least when
Speaker 2: we first started, you would read a lot of the comments.
Speaker 2: Did you feel it having an impact on you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I definitely felt like, uh, it added
Speaker 3: to me question a couple of things, But it was
Speaker 3: I think that I think that with most of the him,
Speaker 3: I could just like kind of look at him and
Speaker 3: and laugh, maybe like I was thinking something else on
Speaker 3: my head. But there are definitely a couple of comments
Speaker 3: that I can remember that. It just made me sit
Speaker 3: there and like kind of think for a second and
Speaker 3: like maybe you still remember exactly, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2: It did last outside of it because you still remember it.
Speaker 2: It's still somewhere burrowed in your brain. Because and this
Speaker 2: is the last point, and I know I'm going along
Speaker 2: on this, this last point I'll make Human beings are
Speaker 2: not wired to be under constant attack because in person
Speaker 2: people aren't. Right, Like, like, pre social media, the amount
Speaker 2: of times someone was cursed out by somebody in a
Speaker 2: year for most people would be around zero, Like how
Speaker 2: many times? Like and even post social media, ask yourself,
Speaker 2: how many any awful interactions have I had with another
Speaker 2: human being this year in person? Don't count spouse, kids, brother, sister, mom, dad, family, separate,
Speaker 2: how many awful? Like I hope you die? Like has
Speaker 2: anyone ever said that to you in person? Probably not?
Speaker 2: And so we're just psychologically we're not. Maybe we'll go
Speaker 2: to a place to where work social media Well, there's
Speaker 2: just so there's just too many, just too many and
Speaker 2: the and so all right, we can move on now.
Speaker 2: Apolog I was on the wrong side, but no, the
Speaker 2: who was on the wrong side of things?
Speaker 3: Nothing I think that I thought a certain way about
Speaker 3: the angel rease topic as well, and I further understand
Speaker 3: now And.
Speaker 2: Oh you thought that it was like crocodile tears.
Speaker 3: No, I like it, Like you basically you kind of
Speaker 3: called me out without not even call me out. But
Speaker 3: like she said something about her being sexualized, and I
Speaker 3: was like, she did the whole swimsuit thing and that
Speaker 3: was the wrong side of it. Like I was just
Speaker 3: like it was very surface level. Oh she felt sexualized,
Speaker 3: but she did a shoot. But I get it, I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 4: I was on the wrong side.
Speaker 2: Well, no, so like that is I think that's where
Speaker 2: a lot of people's heads went, like what are you
Speaker 2: talking about? But yeah, that the next level to it
Speaker 2: is like you can be proud of your body with
Speaker 2: a sexualized I don't think maybe I'm wrong. I don't
Speaker 2: think she means like people being like you're hot, my
Speaker 2: gas is right people have I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 2: she had been sent like a deep fake picture of
Speaker 2: herself in a sex scene, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like or you know what I mean, a photoshot picture
Speaker 2: of her naked or the I mean again, like I'm
Speaker 2: think about Deman's just think this is I'm a guy,
Speaker 2: and I'm old, and I again, I've kind of been
Speaker 2: through the social media wars, so to speak, so I
Speaker 2: built up a bit of an armor. But think about
Speaker 2: the most offensive and it funniest might be one way
Speaker 2: to put it, but most offensive or most vulgar photoshops
Speaker 2: of me that I have shown you, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, the things that were sent about me with
Speaker 2: me sometimes Shannon Sharp's in them, Lebron's you know what.
Speaker 2: Those things, those things that people on the internet create.
Speaker 2: Then imagine you're a young woman who they have the
Speaker 2: you know, the pictures to choose from our your swimsuit pictures,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, that's the type of
Speaker 2: shit she's talking about, and and so yeah, I just
Speaker 2: it's a real thing that we don't yet have a
Speaker 2: full grasp on the real impact of it.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: By the way, the LSU IOWA rating, I'm being told
Speaker 2: twelve point two million people. What a number? The National
Speaker 2: Championship last year did ten million? Twelve point two million?
Speaker 2: Hold on, let me just check something real quick. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three NBA Finals ratings. I think the NBA Finals
Speaker 2: last year averaged eleven point.
Speaker 4: Six holy crap.
Speaker 2: Okay, we wait, hold on, Oh yeah, it averaged eleven
Speaker 2: point six. Last year that lsu Iowa Elle eight game
Speaker 2: did twelve point two. At least that's what I'm being told.
Speaker 2: That's a great, great number. All right, take quick break,
Speaker 2: come back, talk little Lebron, Rashi Rice, my way to
Speaker 2: fix playoffs across sports? Do all that next? What's right?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright, Episode to
Speaker 2: twenty six. All right, let's get back to hoops. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Lebron broke the record for most thirty point
Speaker 3: games in a row or actually no, not in euro
Speaker 3: it's just thirty point games, sorry, and tidy his career
Speaker 3: his career high in threes. After the game, he said
Speaker 3: that he doesn't have much time left. And you once
Speaker 3: said that Lebron wouldn't stick around in the league long
Speaker 3: enough to be a bad player, So, oh wait, what'd
Speaker 3: you mean by that? And how far can this version
Speaker 3: of Lebron take the Lakers?
Speaker 2: All right, So what I mean by Lebron won't ever
Speaker 2: be a bad player is so he had forty points
Speaker 2: on seventeen shots and only took six free throws. So
Speaker 2: that's never been done before in the history of the league,
Speaker 2: his true shooting percentage was over one hundred percent. He's
Speaker 2: right now. This season he has his fifth highest career
Speaker 2: field goal percentage, his highest career three point percentage, and
Speaker 2: his sixth highest career assists per game. So is he
Speaker 2: peak Lebron obviously not. Is he better than he was
Speaker 2: last year? Yes?
Speaker 4: Is he it? I guess?
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: I think Lebron is probably working on threes way more
Speaker 3: than he's ever.
Speaker 4: Worked on him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that would be the smart thing, right
Speaker 2: as his athleticism is declining and as the game is changing,
Speaker 2: try to improve in that area. I mean, right now,
Speaker 2: he's shooting better from three than Kyrie Stepford Clay Like,
Speaker 2: that's what he is for this season, He's at almost
Speaker 2: forty two from three.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I understand those guys are taking more threes and tougher threes.
Speaker 2: I get that, But the number is the number. And
Speaker 2: so if there was this idea that Lebron was going
Speaker 2: to be on this slow, you know, decline, but that
Speaker 2: isn't what's happened. He he has rebounded a bit from
Speaker 2: last year. And if in year twenty one, he's what
Speaker 2: the eighth best player in the league. What's he gonna
Speaker 2: be at year twenty five if you were to keep
Speaker 2: playing the twentieth best player like I just I because
Speaker 2: of his IQ commitment to his body and all around game,
Speaker 2: We're never gonna see a significant drop off and on
Speaker 2: the passing Jordan for twenty five point game or for
Speaker 2: thirty point games. Yes, Lebron's obviously played way, way, way
Speaker 2: more games, but he's also had way fewer games than
Speaker 2: Jordan with high field goal attempts. So like career games
Speaker 2: with twenty five plus field goal attempts, I think Jordan's
Speaker 2: got a few hundred more than Lebron. So the I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to have a Jordan Lebron thing. But this
Speaker 2: is this is just another thing where when we look
Speaker 2: at the record books, you're gonna see Lebron's name at
Speaker 2: the top of everything, and Jordan's name either right behind
Speaker 2: Lebron or for a lot of the other records, like
Speaker 2: all time points, you know, six seventh, eighth on the list.
Speaker 2: But as far as how far can he take these Lakers?
Speaker 2: I so, demons, let's do this healthy Lebron. Okay, let's
Speaker 2: assume he doesn't suffer an injury. Right, give me the
Speaker 2: list of players that you would rather have for a
Speaker 2: playoff series starting right now. Nicole yos Yo Kich is
Speaker 2: a clear one.
Speaker 4: Are you not.
Speaker 3: With the fully I guess, like you said, fully healthy,
Speaker 3: fully healthy? Gi honest, I'm assuming yeah, and I almost
Speaker 3: ty Curry in Lebron, But like I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I think Steph has shown more signs of aging this
Speaker 2: year than Lebron. I'll put Luca ahead of him. Lucas
Speaker 2: playing out of his mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another one after that.
Speaker 2: I don't know people ready to say Sga and his
Speaker 2: almost non existent playoff experience, you rather have him than Lebron.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I think Lebron's still better than Durant, He's
Speaker 2: better than Booker. I know Booker scored fifty the other night.
Speaker 2: So the how far can Lebron take the Lakers? The
Speaker 2: answer is probably until they play the Nuggets. But what
Speaker 2: I will also say is this, on the flip side
Speaker 2: of that, I think for the Lakers to have any
Speaker 2: real chance of a deep playoff run, they've got to
Speaker 2: get out of that nine seed. You can't play back
Speaker 2: to back elimination games just to get the opportunity to
Speaker 2: play the one seed, you just can't do it. And
Speaker 2: getting out of that nine seed. They're running out of time.
Speaker 2: They have thirty three losses, the Pelicans of thirty the
Speaker 2: Sons of thirty one, the Kings of thirty one. There's
Speaker 2: only seven games left, so the Lakers probably gotta go
Speaker 2: six and one the rest of the way to have
Speaker 2: a realistic shot of catching one of those teams.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I think they don't have the tiebreaker with Sacramento, so
Speaker 2: they're essentially three losses behind Sacramento. They do have the
Speaker 2: tiebreaker with Phoenix, so they're two losses behind Phoenix. I
Speaker 2: if they get up to the eight line, can they
Speaker 2: make the conference finals against Sure? I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: think the Lakers have a well enough, well enough rounded
Speaker 2: roster in today's NBA to go, you know, even with
Speaker 2: Lebron playing at this level and ad playing at this
Speaker 2: level to beat Denver or.
Speaker 4: Are you coming over there? I don't know.
Speaker 2: If it's like I hate that idea, I hate that idea.
Speaker 2: I just don't think three star. First of all, I
Speaker 2: don't think trays a winning player, But I don't think
Speaker 2: three stars is the I think the NBA right now
Speaker 2: is too deep with talent. I think you need a
Speaker 2: team that makes sense. I think you need a team
Speaker 2: that you know. Everybody knows has Okac, has Minnesota, to
Speaker 2: their credit, has Boston. Has those teams everybody is fits
Speaker 2: a very specific role.
Speaker 3: All right, next, all right, so you pitched a pretty
Speaker 3: crazy idea on TV yesterday, and that would be the
Speaker 3: top seeds in the playoffs picking their opponents. So pretend
Speaker 3: Adam Silver is listening and make your pitch.
Speaker 2: Well, it's the simplest idea ever. First of all, it
Speaker 2: would be a can't miss television night the night that
Speaker 2: you do pick your opponents. Second of all, it would
Speaker 2: totally eliminate this unique situation we have in the NBA
Speaker 2: right now, where let's say that going into the final
Speaker 2: day of the season, the Sacramento Kings with no Malik
Speaker 2: Monk are locked into the sixth line and in the seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 2: ten are Pelicans, Suns, Lakers, Warriors, meaning two of those
Speaker 2: teams are going to be the seven in the eight
Speaker 2: and the Kings, a battered, bruised Kings team is the
Speaker 2: six line. And let's also say going into that final
Speaker 2: day of the season, Oklahoma City, Denver, and Minnesota are
Speaker 2: all tied as they essentially are right now, a game
Speaker 2: between them for the one seed. You really want a
Speaker 2: scenario where all three of those teams would rather lose
Speaker 2: than win, would rather be the three seed than the
Speaker 2: one seed, because you're getting Sacramento in round one as
Speaker 2: opposed to potentially having to go with Lebron and ad
Speaker 2: or Katie and Booker or who like, that's an absurdity
Speaker 2: where teams are tanked, would potentially try to lose games
Speaker 2: to game the opponent system. So there's that piece of it,
Speaker 2: and then there's in the East. Hey, congratulations Boston, you
Speaker 2: won sixty five games, you won the conference by thirteen games.
Speaker 2: Guess what Joel embiids your opponent in round one because
Speaker 2: Philly was such a disaster without him that they fell
Speaker 2: all the way to the play in And now you
Speaker 2: get embied in round one as opposed to the Orlando
Speaker 2: Magic or the Indiana Pacers. Is that fair or should
Speaker 2: it be as simple as this? The one seed picks
Speaker 2: of all the teams that made the playoffs who they
Speaker 2: want to play, The two seed picks who's left, and
Speaker 2: then three and four, you know, three and.
Speaker 3: Four seed at a hint of I don't want to
Speaker 3: say disrespect, but like, I think that would add a
Speaker 3: little beef to it, you know, but like healthy.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. It would add real beef. Right you
Speaker 2: you wanted us, you wanted us, now you've got us.
Speaker 2: Of course that would be a thing. And to a
Speaker 2: point to where I think certain teams would be like
Speaker 2: to try to avoid it, would like send their guy
Speaker 2: up there and be like, we're just gonna draw a
Speaker 2: name out of the hat. But every name in the
Speaker 2: hat is the Sacramento Kings, just like, ah, we drew
Speaker 2: the Kings. Ah damn, Like I guess that's who we're
Speaker 2: gonna play, and yes, uh and and so of course
Speaker 2: that should be a thing, just like the And I
Speaker 2: also think this should be a thing in the NFL.
Speaker 2: In the NFL, the team that gets the bye as
Speaker 2: the one seed after the wildcard round should be able
Speaker 2: to look and say who they want, we want them
Speaker 2: like we need to. But in the NBA more because
Speaker 2: people are like, ah, the regular season doesn't matter. We
Speaker 2: should really incentivize teams going for it in the regular season.
Speaker 2: And so I so that to me is an obvious one.
Speaker 2: All Right. The last thing I need to talk about
Speaker 2: here is is Rashi Rice. So people are like, Nick,
Speaker 2: are you gonna tweet about this? Nick? Why aren't you
Speaker 2: talked about this? Okay, which I guess proves I do
Speaker 2: see some of the comments because I saw that. So
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice, the allegations are and it appears to have
Speaker 2: compelling video that supports it that I think the story
Speaker 2: is owns a Corvette least the Lamborghini suv and he
Speaker 2: and his buddies were racing those two cars. Uh Saturday,
Speaker 2: like not even late night. It was daylight Saturday, around
Speaker 2: six pm in Dallas on the highway. There was a wreck,
Speaker 2: four other cars got involved, and then seemingly the drivers
Speaker 2: and passengers of the Lamborghini and the Corvette fled on foot.
Speaker 2: It sure looks like at least one of the people
Speaker 2: in the car in the Lamborghini was Rashi Rice. It
Speaker 2: has been reported the Corvette is leased in his name
Speaker 2: or he owns it, and the Lamborghini was rented in
Speaker 2: his name, which then creates a whole bit because the
Speaker 2: video shows for everyone getting out of the Lamborghini on
Speaker 2: the passenger side. Now there's a couple explanations for that.
Speaker 2: One is because of the wreck, the driver's side door
Speaker 2: didn't open. The other one is even in real time.
Speaker 2: The folks in the car were like, Eh, we want
Speaker 2: to be able to say none of us were driving,
Speaker 2: even though some of us had to be driving. Let's
Speaker 2: all get out on that side. Who knows what the
Speaker 2: rationale behind it is. Rashi Rice in potentially a bunch
Speaker 2: of trouble kansaity television station reported yesterday that the Lamborghini
Speaker 2: was rented in his name, which means whatever insurance there is,
Speaker 2: he's the only one that's covered when he has it.
Speaker 2: So then you're in like a weird spot where it's
Speaker 2: like legally from a getting an actual trouble standard. It's
Speaker 2: really helpful if I wasn't the driver from not being
Speaker 2: tied up in lawsuits for the next you know, until
Speaker 2: I'm on my third NFL contract. I kind of need
Speaker 2: to be the driver. So the whole thing is a mess.
Speaker 2: Folks are like, on, Nick, what are you gonna what
Speaker 2: are you gonna say? I'm going to say what I
Speaker 2: have always said about this type of thing. For the
Speaker 2: vast majority of us, the single most dangerous thing we
Speaker 2: do is drive. Most of us are not getting in fights.
Speaker 2: Most of us are not running with the bulls ice,
Speaker 2: you know what deep sea fishing, you know the what
Speaker 2: was that show called Deadliest Catch? We're not loggers. We're
Speaker 2: not for most of us. We are in the most
Speaker 2: jeopardy when we're behind the wheel of a car, either
Speaker 2: because of how we're driving or how other people are driving.
Speaker 2: And being a foolish twenty something year old driving way
Speaker 2: too fast is about as reckless behavior as one can
Speaker 2: engage in. I don't know if he was under the
Speaker 2: influence or not. Because of the time of day, I'm
Speaker 2: going to assume not, but regardless, that obviously adds to it.
Speaker 2: But here is and the reason I and I think
Speaker 2: I made this point when the Henry Ruggs situation happened,
Speaker 2: where obviously he was not the victim. Someone died, but
Speaker 2: I felt terribly for him, and we talked about it
Speaker 2: on this show about how sick to my stomach, I
Speaker 2: felt like, this guy got drunk and was driving one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty miles an hour, so anything can happen.
Speaker 2: The worst possible thing happened, really the worst thing, which
Speaker 2: is he lived, someone else died, and now he's got
Speaker 2: that to live with. Deal with the repercussions. But I
Speaker 2: felt sick for him because I aink majority of us,
Speaker 2: while maybe haven't done that exact thing when we were young,
Speaker 2: we ever race a guy on the street. Maybe any
Speaker 2: of us ever had too much to drink and still
Speaker 2: got behind the wheel for if you drink. The answer
Speaker 2: to that question is probably at some point like we
Speaker 2: are all, you know, kind of dancing through the rain drops,
Speaker 2: particularly in our twenties of potential disaster. And here is
Speaker 2: the unfairness of the reality of how we as a
Speaker 2: society have decided to punish these cases. We do not
Speaker 2: penalize based on action. We penalize based on result. So
Speaker 2: Rashid Rice, if he did what he is accused of doing,
Speaker 2: absolutely could have killed somebody, could have incredibly injured people,
Speaker 2: could have killed himself, all of these things. Because the
Speaker 2: reporting is now there were no quote significant injuries. What
Speaker 2: do I expect will happen? Not much. You could say
Speaker 2: that is probably like unfair. Whatever it is, we we
Speaker 2: have collectively as a society decided we do not penalize
Speaker 2: reckless or drunk or race car driving any like race
Speaker 2: not actual race card, you know what I mean? Based
Speaker 2: on the action We penalize based on the impact. You
Speaker 2: can say that's right or that's wrong, but that's what
Speaker 2: it is. And so this would appear to me like
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice might have gotten incredibly lucky here that the
Speaker 2: doing making all of the exact same choices, all of
Speaker 2: them could be as simple as like how it impact
Speaker 2: the rest of his life. The deciding factor could be
Speaker 2: did someone I've never met twenty minutes before I got
Speaker 2: into my car put their seat belt on or not?
Speaker 2: Oh they did? Well, Now, this is going to end
Speaker 2: up being a misdemeanor, you know, community service situation versus
Speaker 2: I'm looking at prison. This is going to end up
Speaker 2: being a maybe one game league suspension versus I'm kicked
Speaker 2: out of the NFL. This is going to be, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, what a scary moment versus the thing that
Speaker 2: you think about every night before you fall asleep and
Speaker 2: every morning when you wake up. All of your decisions
Speaker 2: the exact same, and the difference is whether someone you'd
Speaker 2: never met put on a seatbelt, whether someone you'd never
Speaker 2: met you know, got on the highway at that exact
Speaker 2: moment or two seconds earlier. All of it is just
Speaker 2: left to chance, and that is a terrifying reality of life.
Speaker 2: But it also is when it comes to this specific
Speaker 2: type of incident, how we as a society have decided
Speaker 2: to punish it. We we don't punish anything related to
Speaker 2: driving intoxicated or not reckless driving based on decision making.
Speaker 2: We do it based on impact. And like if Henry
Speaker 2: Ruggs in his situation, everything was the exact same, but
Speaker 2: the person whose car he hit, they were totally fine.
Speaker 2: He's I don't even know if he spends a night
Speaker 2: in jail. Instead it's years in jail that person's like,
Speaker 2: And so it is. That's where we're at on Like
Speaker 2: you want my opinion on the Rashi Rice thing, that's
Speaker 2: where it is. I think he.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 2: You know, if the videos and stories are true. He
Speaker 2: made an incredibly reckless decision that put obviously a ton
Speaker 2: of people who he never met in jeopardy. And I
Speaker 2: think probably, I don't want to say, gonna get away
Speaker 2: with it, but like it's probably gonna be pretty minor.
Speaker 2: That's why I think it's gonna happen. Should that be
Speaker 2: how we do it? Probably not. But then we have
Speaker 2: a real weird thing where if we don't do those
Speaker 2: things based on impact, then what do we want the
Speaker 2: penalty for drunk driving to be? Do we want the
Speaker 2: penalty for drunk driving to be Well, you could have
Speaker 2: killed someone, So a DUI is mandatory five years. And
Speaker 2: by the way, I don't even think she was drunk,
Speaker 2: but just using that it's a weird That's like a
Speaker 2: whole different thought exercise here of how we want to
Speaker 2: handle those types of things. Should it be based on
Speaker 2: impact or based on action? When it comes to things
Speaker 2: with our cars, we have kind of decided it's based
Speaker 2: on impact. And because of that, I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be okay. I hope he
Speaker 2: learns from it. And this is why driving is, like
Speaker 2: I said, the single scariest and most dangerous thing any
Speaker 2: of us. Do quick break, comeback play likely maybe what if?
Speaker 2: And try to answer some of your questions. What's right?
Speaker 2: Demon's I got some bad news. I think our producers
Speaker 2: might have got got that twelve point two million number
Speaker 2: that I said that I was told was the rating
Speaker 2: for the women's game. I think they either misread something
Speaker 2: or fake news or something. I was surprised that rating
Speaker 2: would be out already, so so I apologize to the audience.
Speaker 2: If you think the twelve million, I think is in play.
Speaker 2: It seemed high, but I think it's in play. But
Speaker 2: we'll see. But for the audience out there, if you
Speaker 2: texted your friends that it was twelve million, you tried
Speaker 2: to cash in your bets on the rating. We gave
Speaker 2: you bad news. We gave you fake news. I apologize
Speaker 2: so that that number is not in yet. I do
Speaker 2: have from a more reliable source. I do have the
Speaker 2: rating number for the men's game on Easter. The men's
Speaker 2: games on Easter Tennessee, Perdue did ten point four million.
Speaker 2: NC State Duke did fifteen million. And Colorado, Iowa was
Speaker 2: that the hold on Colorado Iowa? Oh? That was the
Speaker 2: Iowa women's game did seven million. If Colorado, Ohiowa did
Speaker 2: seven million, then I then I think it's uh.
Speaker 4: Then I think it's yeah.
Speaker 2: I think twelve million might be in play. All right,
Speaker 2: let's play. Let's quickly do this and then answer some
Speaker 2: listener questions. Play a game of likely maybe, what if?
Speaker 4: Yes? All right, so we're starting off. Something is not
Speaker 4: adding up.
Speaker 3: In Cleveland, Calves owner Dan Gilbert said he thinks Donovan
Speaker 3: Mitchell sign an extension, but Mitchell isn't talking like a
Speaker 3: player that's about the sign an extension. After a blowout
Speaker 3: in Denver, he said, it's effing April. We've got to
Speaker 3: figure it out. What is Donovan Mitchell's future?
Speaker 2: He's likely traded this summer, Maybe he signs that extension
Speaker 2: or I guess the what if is what if the
Speaker 2: Calves just hold on to him and then he potentially
Speaker 2: walks in a year. But I think he is the
Speaker 2: big ticket guy that gets traded this summer, potentially to Philly.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'd love to go to Miami.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 2: I think the Knicks are happy where they're at. Next.
Speaker 3: Okay, Michael Pennocks junior Wow, did his Pro day running
Speaker 3: a four four six forty and he has already been
Speaker 3: connected with half a dozen teams. What will Michael Pennock's
Speaker 3: future or draft day look like?
Speaker 2: Likely? I think he's gonna be, unfortunately the sixth quarterback
Speaker 2: off the board. Caleb Drake, Jase J McCarthy, Jayden Daniels,
Speaker 2: and weirdly bow Nicks I think are gonna go ahead
Speaker 2: of him. Maybe if Pennix is there at thirteen, which
Speaker 2: he should be, the Raiders take him, and then the
Speaker 2: what if is what if the Patriots trade out of
Speaker 2: three to acquire extra picks and then draft him with
Speaker 2: at the very top of round two. If the Patriots
Speaker 2: right out of three for something that wants JJ, I
Speaker 2: think that's what if. I think more likely he is
Speaker 2: the sixth quarterback taken, which still could make him a
Speaker 2: first round pick in this year's draft.
Speaker 3: All right, next, All right, so Zach and He's draft
Speaker 3: stock has been skyrocketing, but many still question if his size,
Speaker 3: his size and limitations will translate to the NBA. But
Speaker 3: the NBA still has a referee, so he's probably got
Speaker 3: a chance. What will Edie's career look like?
Speaker 2: I mean, a career backup is likely like a better
Speaker 2: version of Bobon And that's not a knock like Boban's
Speaker 2: a great offensive player. I think Edie's a better offensive player.
Speaker 2: The problem for Boban is he just can't move, so
Speaker 2: he's just a terrible defender despite being how big he is.
Speaker 2: I think that's what Edie will be. I think he'll
Speaker 2: be a backup center in the NBA. Maybe there is
Speaker 2: a team that wants to just go super like I
Speaker 2: saw Kevin O'Connor project that the Thunder could raft him
Speaker 2: and use chet like as his defensive backstop and just
Speaker 2: have like this super giant team maybe, And then the
Speaker 2: what if is unfortunately, what if is Zach Edy's career is,
Speaker 2: you know, owning the most popular string of car dealerships
Speaker 2: in the greater Purdue area. Like that's possible too, Like
Speaker 2: that he's a collegiate legend that it just doesn't train
Speaker 2: like a perdue legend forever, but it just doesn't translate
Speaker 2: to the NBA. Like that's on the board. Uh, And
Speaker 2: so that you can be a great college player and
Speaker 2: not a great pro, particularly as the NBA is changing.
Speaker 4: All right, next, I'd get a car from Zach Edy.
Speaker 3: So NC State big man DJ Burns has got the
Speaker 3: town talking.
Speaker 4: Even Yoga said he likes his.
Speaker 3: Game, of course, and now Schrager is reporting there could
Speaker 3: be NFL interest due to his size and footwork.
Speaker 4: What is Burn's professional future?
Speaker 2: I think he'll try I think he'll I try out
Speaker 2: for the end. I think it's likely he tries out
Speaker 2: for the NFL and maybe gets invited to a camp,
Speaker 2: uh and then ends up playing professional basketball overseas. That's
Speaker 2: the likely maybe. Uh. He just says no, I have
Speaker 2: no interest. In playing football and basketball player and he
Speaker 2: just goes overseas. What if he's awesome at football six ' eight,
Speaker 2: can move his feet, put on some weight, and go
Speaker 2: kick ass in the NFL, that would be great. I
Speaker 2: think that's unlikely, but I think it's on the board.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the listener questions. Uh, Dylan
Speaker 2: Mayle says, uh uh for Demanse's diner shades, are we
Speaker 2: thinking Gucci, Louis Vutan or Dior? Uh? I just you
Speaker 2: gotta reference everybody there their name brand, but not get it.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably have to go goot. Actually no, I
Speaker 3: have to go leave Aiton. I think Gucci's got something
Speaker 3: going on with it right now.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Okay, I'll look into that. Uh, we might
Speaker 2: have an in at Versace, so the answer might.
Speaker 4: Right Versachi, Yeah, we might have that wasn't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care. I mean, they'd be a.
Speaker 4: Gift, so do I. Thomas Washington? How much?
Speaker 3: How much did Magic Johnson get paid his first deal?
Speaker 3: She's oh, he's talking Aboutkayln Clark.
Speaker 4: Magic.
Speaker 3: She's the Magic Johnson, the w NBA. It's her job
Speaker 3: to build the brand, not the NBA. To subsidize it.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's Thomas Washington. I understand that. But when Magic
Speaker 2: got drafted, the ABA had already folded. Magic wasn't making
Speaker 2: the equivalent of seventy grand in today's dollars. First of all,
Speaker 2: and second of all, you can it is not about
Speaker 2: the NBA subsidizing it. It is about whether or not
Speaker 2: the NBA and the WNBA collectively want a risk someone
Speaker 2: else parachuting in and stealing this moment by acquiring the
Speaker 2: star power that College Basco's built up for him. It's
Speaker 2: not a charity. It's about business, and I think right
Speaker 2: now the WNBA is in a position and the NBA's
Speaker 2: partners with it to capitalize on the millions of people
Speaker 2: that are into these athletes that they got. You know,
Speaker 2: there were stars absent of the leagues. Go ahead, let's
Speaker 2: do Tay Jones.
Speaker 3: Ty Jones, the question for Nick what team should should
Speaker 3: the Spurs look at.
Speaker 4: As the blueprint on how to build around Limby.
Speaker 2: Probably the Spurs on how they built around Duncan. Now,
Speaker 2: Duncan obviously had Robinson right when he got there. Just
Speaker 2: don't try to microwave it. Don't do what the pell
Speaker 2: dial with Anthony Davis and what the Calves did with
Speaker 2: Lebron which is recognized. Oh my god, he's so good
Speaker 2: as a rookie. Let's just go all in right now,
Speaker 2: take the long view. There's a reason the Calves and
Speaker 2: Pelicans were never able to build contenders around those great players.
Speaker 2: All right, last one, he's freaking crazy.
Speaker 3: Roan Sherrington says, Demand knows he's indoors right.
Speaker 2: It's his new look. Demand's going for a look. I
Speaker 2: encouraged it. Demanse was unsure about wearing it today. But
Speaker 2: the problem was this if that if you didn't stick
Speaker 2: with it, then people were gonna think that it wasn't
Speaker 2: a look. It was just that you were covering up
Speaker 2: a black eye or something you've got in a fight.
Speaker 2: So he got to stay committed to it. And I
Speaker 2: also think that's a good point, exactly right. I also
Speaker 2: think it's a good look. He's tried out a bunch
Speaker 2: of different sunglasses that you get in the little spinny
Speaker 2: thing at Walgreens for acebox, and he's gonna get some
Speaker 2: nice ones when I see him in a week. Good
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