WEBVTT - Will Luka Doncic & Lakers survive without LeBron? SGA vs. Jokic + NFL Free Agency 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.680 Welcome in. What's Right with Ni great episode three oh seven, 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.200 fresh off a whirlwind last twenty four hours. We'll get 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.080 to that in a moment. I know I say this 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.880 a lot, but today actually will be a quick show. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.520 We did two bonus shows since our last scheduled pod 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.079 with de monsday. Friday morning, we did a show right 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.480 after the Lakers beat. The next Sunday morning, we did 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:30.319 a show right after Lebron's injury. And I have been 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.279 in Vegas and back since that Sunday morning show and 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.400 there's ton to do. I do Colin today the TV show, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.519 And I don't want to say anything right here, but 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:46.839 a very important moment for my family today that hopefully 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.239 we can discuss on Thursday show. So we got a 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.840 very very busy schedule, so I'm going to try to 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.000 rapid fire through a bunch of stuff and also tell you, guys, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.920 is about the last twenty four hours in Vegas. Demonsey 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:07.559 welcome in. Also, congrats to demonse No thanks to any 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.959 LA based car dealerships. You guys missed out on an 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.760 amazing sponsorship opportunity, But Demonsey got a fresh, brand new vehicle. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.720 We don't need to tell it we no free ads 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.319 because nobody hooked you up the way I was hoping for. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.520 But you know, maybe maybe down the road, maybe when 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.480 this lease is up. By that at that point we'll 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.200 have an official You know, the great people at Dodge 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.600 ram have sponsored First Things First for eight years. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:33.880 Yeah you can. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.960 Yeah, you drive around LA in a big old pickup truck. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.360 That'd be sweet. But maybe that's down the road if 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.840 they join the What's Right team. But great to see you. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.680 Let's get right into it. Here's what missed the cut. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.480 The Jets signing Justin Fields two years, forty million a year, 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.559 which is literally the cheapest you can get a starting 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.280 quarterback who's on on a rookie deal. This Steeler. By 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.240 the time some of you guys hear this, Aaron Rodgers 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.400 might be a Steeler. I don't like that for them. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.800 I the reason we're not doing that heavily today is 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.200 because everything that's been said about the speculation about him 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.960 going there has been set already. We'll see it. Seems 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.680 like the Giants are a possibility, the Steelers are a possibility. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:22.400 Say that again. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.600 You said you don't like you don't like him for them, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.400 I'm saying what I know we're not gonna handle out. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.720 What else would the Jets do? Hi either, I mean 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.480 not the Jets, the Steelers. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.639 Yeah, I mean, you know, drafted quarterback is probably the 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.240 only way to get themselves out of this. Maybe use that. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:47.920 What I would do potentially is trade, just quickly George Pickens, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.920 because Pickens and DK Metcalf do not work as a duo, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.320 and Pickens is going to be super pissed if he 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.560 does not get paid this offseason, especially if he doesn't 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.120 get paid and his targets go down because DK's the 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.840 number one. And I would then try to use the 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.200 extra pick I get from Pickens and try see if 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.400 maybe I need to move up. I wouldn't mind one 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.000 more Bridge year with Russell Wilson. What I wouldn't do 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.200 is get in the Aaron Rodgers business. And so I 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.720 guess we did get to that. And Steph Curry named 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.640 the assistant GM at Davidson. Shout out to Steph. He 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.880 also at twenty five thousand points. A reminder to you 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:28.480 guys like rate subscribe review Man oh Man the poker 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.160 game I was in yesterday. There's somebody there who was 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:36.280 a YouTuber. He does the H three show. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:36.760 Or something. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.960 Listen. I didn't know who he was, but I did 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.880 know he had a YouTube show because they told me, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.600 and he was super nice guy, Ethan, So I went 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.000 to his YouTube channel, six million subscribers. I should have 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.440 buttered this guy. And then there was another guy, the 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.720 guy they called rip It, who has an investment YouTube 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.360 show that he does live every morning at five am 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.000 West Coast time from Vegas. This fellow with the six 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:06.600 million subscriber channel it no, no, no, no, it's a 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.360 comedy show. So shout out to him and his six 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.320 million subscribers. I should have tried to kind of ride 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 that wave a bit. But all right, so let's just 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.159 get into it before we get to the basketball. The 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.000 producers have convinced me that people are at least somewhat 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.560 interested in what I did yesterday, So I'll tell that 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.200 quick story before we get to the sports. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.400 So set me up to monsay. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.160 Yeah, so, not too long ago, you were in Vegas 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.760 playing poker. Shout out to all the folks that watched 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.800 on the channel, Yes, sir, or last night, should I say, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:35.960 tell us about the event. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.520 How did you go? How'd you like it? Yeah? 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.960 So the event went amazing, So here was the last 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.480 my last forty eight hours. I did the Instant Reaction 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.520 Lebron James pod. Your mom was with you in LA 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.320 and so right after the Lebron James Instant Reaction pod, 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.920 I then furiously cleaned the house because if your mom 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.560 came home to a dirty house and I'm in Vegas 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:09.440 playing cards, that's an abject disaster. And then flew to Vegas. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.560 Landed around nine to thirty Vegas time, met up with 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.080 poker and broadcasting legend, maybe the best all around poker 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.120 player in the world today, Nick Shulman, had some drinks 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.360 with him and a few interesting characters that I might 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:32.280 I might try to bring into the What's Right podcast 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.680 universe if that universe exists, Like I think there is 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:46.240 an appetite for a show by professional gamblers, not like 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:51.200 giving out picks so much, but just talking about their 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:57.599 lives as professional gamblers, professional poker player, sportsbetter just guys 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.120 who it's because it's kind of living for a lot 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.680 of us, part time gamblers living the dream like these 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.279 guys live in Vegas every day just try to find 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.360 an edge in something a card game, a golf match, 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:19.000 some fight, you know, a football or basketball game, and 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:24.040 every single day have five and six figure swings, and 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.200 I think that would be a hell of a would 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:31.039 be a real cabstrivating content if it's an insane way 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.320 to live. And it's so. I had. So. I had 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:40.760 dinner and drinks with Nick Shulman TVK guy named Taylor, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.480 who is one of the best poker players in the 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.000 world if you ask me, and another fella that they 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:53.440 call Jing Tao, who is just a legendary gambler. So 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.360 we talked kind of business, smoked cigars and drank and 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.840 then I had the brilliant, brilliant idea. It's now one 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:07.480 in the morning, Sunday night, Monday morning, Vegas time. I'm like, well, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.520 you know, I'm in a big televised poker game tomorrow. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.520 I probably should get some reps in now. And sat 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.240 in a private twenty five point fifty PLO Nolan at 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:25.560 Holdham game at the Aria with nothing. It was a 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:30.400 table of professionals and Colby Covington, the UFC fighter and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:37.640 me and I did not realize it was Colby Covington 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.160 at the table. I also have said this publicly and 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.720 made it somewhat clear at the table. Once I found 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.000 out who it was that I find Colby Covington to 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:55.000 be one of one of the more reprehensible people in 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.800 sports things. A bad guy with terrible takes and just 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:05.560 pretty really awful dude. But he's also a professionally, you know, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:11.800 a literal professional fighter, and so it's kind of a 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:17.200 weird spot. And you know, long story short, I got 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.640 my head kicked in not literally thankfully, in that game. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.720 I got absolutely annihilated in my warm up poker game 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.680 to where I was worried I was going to lose 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.480 the money that I had brought with me for the 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.920 real game in this game. So that wasn't I that 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.640 wasn't ideal. It's now three point thirty in the morning 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.840 and we have a seven am call for first Things First, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.200 so I'm like, well, it's probably time to go to bed. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:46.960 But again, you know, full disclosure here, I'm in Vegas, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:52.559 fully unsupervised. So from in to get from the poker 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:58.319 room to the hotel to the hotel elevators, that area, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:00.880 you know, you got to walk by that high limit 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.720 blackjack rom and I'm like, well, you know, if God 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.440 created blackjack for any reason, it's to try to get 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:13.160 even real quick before bet and in one of the 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:18.319 more unlikely turns of events, an all time fifteen minute 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:23.400 blackjack run, won seven consecutive hands to start. The shoe 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.559 ended up winning eleven of thirteen, and to the shock 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.440 of the dealer and the floor, I was like, you 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:37.840 know what, I'm done. Let's call that a night. Let's 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:43.120 call that a night. Let's not have the mortifying experience 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.840 tomorrow morning of having to call my people at Bank 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.640 of America and be like, Hey, you know how I 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.200 had you guys wire X amount of dollars to the 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.240 aria for this poker game on Monday. Well, the game 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.600 hasn't happened yet, and I'm gonna go ahead and need 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.080 you a that same amount again. Nope, I got even there, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.120 So we're good. Go to bed, Wake up do The 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.600 TV show was a great TV show. Even though I 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.000 was remote, I thought we did a great job. TV 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.120 show ends at two pm Pacific. Poker starts at two 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:23.439 thirty Pacific. Hop in an uber, go across the street 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.520 to the Poker Ghost studio. From the studio, I was 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.520 doing the TV show Change Clothes, which listen if you 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.319 watch the stream, you might be like, Nick, are those 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 of the clothes you wore on the stream. They are 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:42.920 did it? Played in the poker game. And in the 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.280 poker game, Phil Hellmuth shows up as a mystery guest. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.800 I have a big history with him. Jennifer Tilly shows 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.559 up as a mystery guest. Jennifer Tilly. So she's a legend. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.040 You might not know her name, Demanse, but you know 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.040 who she is. She is the voice of the Bride 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:07.960 of Chucky. She is the voice of the mom on 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:14.120 Family Guy. And you know she was an Oscar nominee 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.120 Oscar winner for Bullets over Broadway. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.120 Is she's huge and professional poker huge. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.080 So she's yeah. So she married. She was married to 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:29.000 the creator of the Simpsons, Sam Simon. They got divorced. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.560 I'm not really privy to that divorce settlement, but it's 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.000 you know, it probably is not a bad spot to 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.439 be divorced from the guy who created the Simpsons and 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.960 then married my buddy Phil Locke, who used to be 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.080 called the Unibomber. I guess still is a professional poker 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:50.200 player and she plays in all these high stakes televised games. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.000 But I'd never played with her. So now we're in 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.720 the game. The game is from two thirty to nine 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.360 thirty and it's a game where they said bring five. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.920 You know it's a five thousand dollars minimum buy in. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:10.080 I bought in for fifteen thousand. The guy to my left, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.400 the rip It fella, he bought in for forty some 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.240 Phil bought in for ten, A couple of the other 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:21.040 guys bought in for five. Jennifer bought in for one 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.960 hundred and fifty thousand, which then made rip It add 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.520 one hundred and twenty thousand. And then this professional player 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.679 at the end that they were what were they calling him? 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:37.400 He got crushed, poor guy, he got absolutely lightning Lightning. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.960 I think Lightning was in for fifty thousand. Is a 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.000 rough night for him. But I had won goal, and 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.120 really well, I had two goals. Goal number two was 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.280 to win money. Goal number one was to torture Phil 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:55.560 helm youth and check Check won some money, but truly 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.480 tortured Phil. And I posted some of the clips, but 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:06.360 it was I was really peak locked in on torturing Phil. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.199 And I'm not gonna give hand histories here because I 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.440 don't know if people care. You can watch the stream, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.600 it's still up on the channel. You watch some of 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.319 the clips, but but that was great. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:17.240 So then. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.199 So I end up I think second biggest winner. Oh, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.680 this dude named doctor Dad was I think the biggest winner. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.200 He just he was like a whit, like a just 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.200 a guy who plays some online poker in Wisconsin. Is 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.800 it Michigan? Maybe doesn't matter with Poker Stars. He got 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.560 the seat from Poker Stars for five grand. He has 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.079 a PhD in something. He said he was trying to 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.400 create a man made liver that people could use if 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.520 they're liver went back on them. I don't know. Dude 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.360 seems super smart and super nice, and he ended up 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.319 a huge winner. Joe Stapleton was a winner. I was 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.680 a pretty decent sized winner. Phil lost the Lightning fella 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.360 got buried the Ethan, the big YouTube guy got buried. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.920 But Jennifer I think did okay regardless ends at nine 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:15.720 p thirty go to the airport. Eleven thirty flight. Truly 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.640 miserable flight because that it seemed like the AC wasn't work. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.480 I don't know what was going on, but it was 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.240 so hot. It also might have had to say it again. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.320 It's warm on the plane. I don't think it was 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.040 on the plane. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.560 Okay, so here's the thing. It's possible that it was 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.480 hotter for me than for others, because if you watched 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.680 the stream, I drank a lot last night. I mean 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.400 once once the table starts doing tequila shots, and the 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.280 tequila shots came in rocks glasses. They weren't shots, they 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.600 were glasses. But so we ended up. I mean, we're 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.200 playing a big poker game. Jennifer Tilly's getting hammered, so 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.320 we're all so whatever. So I then, you know, I'm 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.960 on the plane kind of sweating it out out trying 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.120 to sleep, and got here, got to the house ninety 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.160 minutes ago. Found out your mom backed into the garage 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.640 while I was gone. That's twice, and now I'm talking. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.720 She's there for like one day while you were. 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:20.160 One day one day backed into the garage. She came 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.600 in twenty minutes ago. She came in the in this room, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.520 sat on my lap and said, I have something to 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.720 tell you. And I just knew. I just knew. I 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:31.800 was like, she messed the car. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.120 Check it out. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.720 Yeah, And I think I hear her walking by right now. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.280 If that's you, dam pooh, you're welcome to stop in. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.240 And now I'm talking to you guys. So that was it. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:50.600 So it was great. Uh Justin Cogan says this quick 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.200 show is going to be two hours. Uh. Stott in 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.320 the chat remember like rate, subscribe, review all that stuff, says, 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:01.240 when do you sleep? I know, I'm I mean I 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:06.000 slept on the plane, but it was not ideal sleep. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.520 But I'll get my sleep, Like, I'll be fine. These 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.960 are the things one has to do. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:11.920 You know. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.800 I don't do this often, but I'll be okay, and 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.720 I'll be you know, I'll be sharp enough. But the oh, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.960 the reason I'm wearing the same clothes is, hey, I 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.320 got here ninety minutes ago. I mean I went from 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.840 the game to the plane, from the plane to here 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.720 and then sat in, had my first things, first meeting, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.000 and then this So I won't you know, after this, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.280 I'll change and go to work. But yeah, so that 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.200 was great. That was a really fun experience. I owned 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:47.640 Helme youth always you know this is and really needled 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.600 him and it's worth watching if you're a poker fan. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.640 All right, let's get to the basket weekend. Say it again. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.720 Sounds like blackjack saved your weekend. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.000 Oh you know that's the thing. I mean, yeah, like 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:08.879 they're yeah, I mean, how does any of this go 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.280 If I don't have that really nice run before bed 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.399 Sunday night, Monday morning, and I walk into that game 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.919 feeling super stocked in everything. Yeah, no, it could go 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.439 totally different. I'm I'm well aware of this. It's also 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:30.240 why I never ever go to Vegas alone. I'm not 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.800 a I don't care that people be like, Nick, you're 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.160 a grown man, I know, but I know my own limitations. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.359 I cannot be left solo. It doesn't have to be 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.320 my wife. I just need a It's just I need 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.760 in Vegas. I need the buddy system. If Demons were there, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.720 or if Parkins were there, certainly if Danielle were there, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:53.640 if someoneould be like, hey, Nick, it's you really want 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.600 to sit in this poker game against nothing but pros 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.199 And as it turns out, a professional fighter who you 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.439 have talked shit about on the internet. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.800 He talked mess about him. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.000 Yeah, he's the guy that said he wanted he said 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.000 three days ago he wanted to fight Lebron. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.760 He's the guy like if you for what reason? 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:19.639 Because Lebron? Well really, because the guy everything Lebron represents, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.199 this guy represents the opposite. But also because it was 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.320 about the Stephen a thing. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.240 He's like, he's like on the beaff of step. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:32.000 Yeah exactly. He's like, he's like, I'll be his champion. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.600 All right, let's talk basketball. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.359 All right. So Luca finally got to run the show. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.399 That ended in a three point loss to the Nets 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.479 Lucas Stilgarnish twenty two to twelve and twelve. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.520 But they obviously lost. So does that game make you 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.679 nervous and this upcoming stretch without Lebron, Well. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.760 Yeah, I mean that game. The Lakers right now are 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:02.640 so shorthanded, so they the the reason I wasn't super concerned. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.520 I was actually a little encouraged about the Celtics game 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:11.160 absent Lebron's injury was the Celtics treated that game truly 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.720 like a play not only a playoff game of Game seven, 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.800 the only regulation game in Tatum's career he's ever played 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.080 more minutes than he played against the Lakers on over 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.920 the weekend was Game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.560 a couple of years ago. There has never been a 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:32.000 regulation regular season game Tatum and Brown combined for more minutes, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.359 and the Lakers were right there with five minutes left. 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.520 And that was despite playing essentially a six to eight 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.159 and underteam they're already you know, a week at the 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.200 center position. But Ruey was out and Jackson Hayes was out. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.520 You went into this game Lebron was out, Ruey's still out, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.760 Jackson Hayes out, still out, and Dorian Finney Smith out. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.680 You knew it was a losable game. What's frustrating about 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.439 the They're up twelve after the first I understand in 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.480 the NBA that really means nothing, but Austin Reeves I 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.119 was hoping with Lebron out might get going. But if 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:18.600 if you're that shorthanded and Luca and Austin Reeves combine 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:23.520 despite having decent counting stats to go eleven for forty 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:29.600 from the field, pardon me, and four of fifteen from three, 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.800 you're just gonna lose, and or at least got a 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.600 real good chance of losing, even if you're playing a 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.240 NETS team that had been, you know, on I think 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.800 a seven game losing streak going into the game, and 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:55.440 so worried is maybe too strong, resigned to the fact 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.920 that they now enter they have the next two days off, 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.960 they being the Lakers, and then they enter a six 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:07.440 game in eight day stretch, and four of those six 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:13.240 games are against Denver and Milwaukee, so they're gonna slide 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:19.040 in the standings. It is at Milwaukee Thursday, at Denver Friday, 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:24.840 home for Phoenix Sunday, home for the Spurs Monday, then 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:30.639 home for Denver Wednesday, home Milwaukee Thursday. So you have 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.879 Denver and Milwaukee, Denver on the second night of a 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.280 back to back, and then Milwaukee on the second night 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.200 of a back to back. Again, when it's Milwaukee Denver 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.840 and then Denver Milwaukee, and sandwiched in the middle is 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.720 a different back to back, which is Phoenix San Antonio. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.120 This is you might be like, why is the schedule 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.879 like that? This is part of the rescheduling because of 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.920 the wildfires, and they're just gonna have to deal with it. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.159 So they are going to slide in the standing the 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.480 fact they did. Technically they went into yesterday in second, 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.760 they're now in third, and the standings look like this. 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.040 Denver's got twenty three losses, the Lakers have twenty three losses, 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.240 the Grizzlies have twenty four, the Rockets of twenty five, 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.240 and Golden State is crept up to six, but they're 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:23.760 sitting at twenty eight. I still think it is very 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:30.840 unrealistic that the Lakers slide past the five, but sliding 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:37.080 to the five is certainly in play, and it is Lucas. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.480 Luca has to play better, and he will, but they 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.800 really what has to happen is they have to get healthy. 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.040 Uh say it again. 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.359 Luca has to play very twenty two, twelve and twelve. 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.320 It's just so good, like that's that's a pretty good 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:53.360 sate line was just. 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:57.080 Well, yeah, but the eight of twenty six from the field. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.520 Is probbs over the weekend. Yeah, right, and. 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.960 I can deal with the turnovers, but eight of twenty like, 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.560 he's just his shots just not really there for him 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:10.760 right now. And even in the Celtic game he ended up, 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.000 he ended with thirty four, but the first three quarters 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.320 they did a pretty good job on him. So listen, 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:19.680 assuming Lebron is back by the end of the month, 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:23.879 the Lakers will be fine. But they can they survive? 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:30.879 You know, survive is probably too strong. What shape are 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.080 they going to be in in the standings when Lebron 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.520 gets back. If Ruy and Jackson Hayes don't get back 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.159 soon because Alex Lynn can't be playing, I mean, they 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.960 are playing guys that you really can't be playing real 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:49.080 minutes like Alex Lynn. They're not trying to kill alex Lynn. 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.000 I mean, they have an NBA job a month ago. 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:53.919 All right, let's talk some MVP stuff. 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.160 Going Eiel Jones signed with the Colts for one year, 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:56.919 fourteen million. 0:23:56.920 --> 0:24:01.640 By the way, love really, Oh that is just real quick. 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:03.560 That is interesting because I wonder what it means for 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:08.159 the Vikings. So because I thought the Vikings were going 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.520 to bring him in to be like the veteran potential backup. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.320 But Daniel Jones won year fourteen million, so he'll compete. 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:19.359 With Anthony Richardson. Say it again, Rogers still out there. 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:25.560 Yeah, but that would be really weird if the Vikings 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:28.840 were like, we want to sign Daniel Jones to be 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.240 a veteran backup. Oh we missed out on him, so 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.240 we're going to sign Aaron Rodgers to be our starter, 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:37.560 you know what I mean? Like though, like that part, 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.080 I would some people think that's what's gonna happen. That 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:44.440 to me wouldn't be a cogent thought. But Daniel Jones, man, 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:46.520 it's good. It's good to be a quarterback in this 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:49.480 league if you just have a pulse and a chance 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:54.080 at being a starter, You're gonna be paid like the 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:58.040 fifth best corner in the NFL like that. I mean, 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.360 that's just I know that's guy, and now he gets 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:05.960 to compete with my guy, Anthony Richardson, the two great 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:09.800