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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.440 Welcome in episode one thirty one, What's Right with Nick Right? 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.280 The podcast and the YouTube show you can watch us 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:21.520 live on YouTube. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.959 If you are doing that right now, we appreciate it. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:24.759 Today's show is a. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.399 Bunch of graphical stuff that'll be cool for the people 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.640 who are watching instead of just listening to the show. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.039 You can also obviously check us out on the YouTube page. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.600 By the way, I've been meaning to bring this up 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.640 off the air. I will now bring it up on 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.280 the air. But if the folks at YouTube or the 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.000 folks at Fox, whoever's in charge here, we need that 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.440 damn plaque. We got to one hundred thousand subscribers. I 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.120 have not yet given Demons as cash bonus because I 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.720 want to present it to him along with the plaque. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.600 But the clock is ticking on that we need that 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.240 plaque forgetting to one hundred thousand subscribers, you know what, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:01:59.520 And so. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.720 Let's get I'm getting worried that we ordered it. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.680 We ordered it. It shouldn't have had to order it. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.359 It should be sent to us as an honor. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.760 I think they sent in an order, did. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.440 Like a request, like, hey, we've gotten there, and send 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:14.480 us our damn plaque. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:14.960 All right. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.840 By the way, speaking of, let's. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.800 Just do this here, because the show's schedule is gonna 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.480 be a little off the next ten days or so, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:30.000 and so I am doing the show, and I'm going 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:35.280 doing TV today, and then I am shortly thereafter flying 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.320 to Brazil. If you guys, remember I said Brazil's gonna 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.720 win the World Cup. I was gonna spend the money 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.440 I made betting on Brazil to win the World Cup 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.880 on a trip to Brazil. Brazil did not win the 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.480 World Cup and I lost money betting on Brazil in 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.960 the World Cup. But the trip is happening nonetheless, So 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.000 I am out all of next week and then back 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:03.120 on TV a week from Monday. This podcast might be 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.360 back on a week from Monday, or it might be 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.200 back two weeks from today, so we're definitely off next week. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.640 Demanse will be with us next week, and then Demanse 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.040 is gonna be in and out for a bit because 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.000 he's taking a trip to Los Angeles to find an apartment, 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.880 figure get his life set up out there, and then 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.520 eventually he's moving out there. Our plan as of now 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:36.400 is as follows that, starting mid March ish, Demanse is 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.560 going to be on leave from the podcast as he 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.840 gets set up in Los Angeles. The podcast will still 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.800 be going two or three times a week as it 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.040 has you know, for the better part of the year 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.040 now and it is a family business. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.760 And sitting in for Demanse will be his. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.840 Mother, his little sister you guys haven't seen on the show, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.920 the senior in high school, and maybe occasionally the youngest 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.040 sister who you have seen on the show, Deanna. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:06.960 Uh. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.760 And so that that'll be the process for call it 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.000 the next few months, a couple months, and then come 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:21.960 in you know, conference finals, NBA playoffs, NBA finals, demone 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.080 will pop back in and then post finals, pre football 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.680 we take usually some vacation, not sure exactly what the 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.360 schedule is going to be like there, and then in August, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.000 when we are turning the page fully to football, Demons 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.840 will be back. Is our playing in a full time 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.240 capacity from Los Angeles, so like a split screen thing 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.040 similar to I think we've done one pod like that 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.200 with me in La Well yeah, but it was when 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:51.880 we were at home. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.880 Yes, it was for a different setup, but we've done 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:55.400 it before. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:55.800 Yeah. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.640 And so because after this year of betting on football 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.200 and talking football and. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.679 So much of sports media, as much as we both 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.400 love the NBA, is football with this shows at its 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.440 best with me and him together, and so prior to 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.200 football season, he'll be back in the co host chair 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.160 full time. And then when football season's over, you know, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.960 we'll reevaluate and we'll see and see and see everything 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:26.479 that's going. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.320 But that is the play in tentatively moving forward. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.320 So we're going this is not like Demanday's last show 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.560 here sitting with me, but pretty soon he's moving to 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.800 Los Angeles and he has a real job with Fox 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.760 in addition to this that he's got to be in 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.280 person for and all of that. So we're gonna be 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.599 off next week, and that's the plan. Demonsey and I 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.960 had a good dinner talking about that and talking about 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.520 life and everything as he's getting ready to move cross coast, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.880 and then also his little sister, Diora, pretty soon's getting 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.440 ready to move. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.160 Somewhere for college. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.760 We don't yet nowhere, and so so a lot of 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.880 changes in the right household. But this show will keep 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.160 going with again a week off coming up and then 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.240 some time off. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:10.640 After the NBA Finals. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.040 So now that that has been dealt with, we can 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.640 get into today's show, which is a very NBA heavy show. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.520 We must start with what missed the cut for today's show. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.080 Here's what is not on today's show. Aaron Rodgers emerges 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.040 from Darkness. I have now seen pictures of the place. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:27.760 Have you that? 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.120 Aaron Rodgers was like, I'm spending four days in a 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.000 darkness retreat and it seemed all weird. Let me just 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.200 show you real quick the place he stayed at, because 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.960 it's actually pretty dope. It's called a skycave in Oregon. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.960 There are some of the pictures. Kevin Wilds had a 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.680 great tweet saying, I went from this is incredibly weird 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.680 to do you have any availability after three days? On 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.400 the website Now it doesn't look like he made it 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.920 the full four days, but such as life, Hi, there's 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.480 a lot of stuff going on. The room he was 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.920 in was evan three hundred square feet with a meditation area, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.080 a queen size bed, a bathroom when they brought him food, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.040 but it was total, complete darkness. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.400 To be with your own thoughts, all right. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.160 Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota gonna be in 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:19.360 a Netflix show And this picture a photoshop thanks to 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.200 points bet of Luka Doncic. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.760 With long hair and a beard. 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:31.600 That I gotta say, does make him look a lot 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:37.040 like me, a lot like me. Yeah, I mean, it's 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.880 just the hair and the beard they gave him is 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.400 my hair and beard. So I don't know if points 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.720 Bet did that on purpose, but that is what happened here, 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:50.080 my large adult Slovenian son. He unfortunately, his schedule will 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.960 not allow him to fill in for you, as we 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.840 keep this a family operation. All right, let's get to 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.560 the actual show, demonse, Go ahead. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:57.920 All right. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.400 So we obviously talked a lot of NFL yesterday. Yeah, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.080 let's take a break from the riveting Derek Carr sweepstakes 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.480 to finally get to some NBA. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:04.800 Yeah. 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.760 Magic Johnson said that nobody wants to see the Lakers 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.240 in the playoffs, including the Lakers, to be honest. Okay, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.560 a few days ago, Lebron said the next twenty three 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.880 games are the most important of his career, of. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.840 His regular season career, that is what he said. He's 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.320 not including the playoffs, and we're here to start the pot. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.600 Go ahead, Yeah, go ahead. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.040 He got banged up in the All Star Game, but 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.520 as we know, he's indestructible. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:27.280 He's gonna be fine. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.600 Yeah, are we about to see the best Lebron? We've 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.600 ever seen or is his team. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.920 Toast, Well, we're definitely not suit pardon me, seeing the 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.600 best Lebron we've ever seen. That ship is sale. There 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.640 was and we can start the clock. There was a 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:50.040 point in time that the twenty what would it have 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.679 been thirteen Miami Heat, the team that won their second 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.440 straight title, the Ray Allen year, the team that had 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.520 twenty seven game winning streak, the year that Lebron was 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.360 one vote away from being unanimous MVP and also should 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.200 have won Defensive Player of the Year. That was This 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.040 is one of those things that just kills me because 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.240 the guys who have won MVP and Defensive Player of 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.520 the Year, it's Jordan Akeem Giannis, Lebron not on that list. 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.079 And the guy who won Defensive Player of the Year 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:25.160 that year, Mark Gasol, was not even first team All Defense, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.360 so he won Defensive Player of the Year, but when 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.040 they voted for the all defensive teams, he wasn't the 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.800 starting center, and in fact, he tied for second team 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:35.360 All Defense. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.720 He almost was third team, which doesn't even exist. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.840 But so it'd be crazy. 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:41.720 It's bizarre. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.960 It's almost like voters some of them had a little, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.480 you know, grudge against Lebron, But that's neither here or there. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.160 That year, not only was Lebron basically sixty percent from 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.520 the field as a perimeter player, Zach Low had an 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:00.840 amazing article about how some NBA team had developed a 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.719 computer program that. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.640 Could overlay. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:11.360 On the court and have instead of like so you 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.920 would be watching the game and then they would have 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.839 ghost avatars essentially playing defense, and it would show you 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.200 where the perfect defensive positioning was, where you should go 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.640 when the ball moves, so you could judge how good 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.560 your defenders are. Okay, and that that team, the person 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.520 who ran that program set for him said, when we 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.040 do it with Miami Heat games, Lebron beats the ghost 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.920 to the spot. That whatever program they had made, Lebron 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:46.400 got there faster than what the algorithm said the perfect 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:47.480 defender could get there. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.960 That was peak Lebron. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.520 Peak Lebron was the best athlete in the league, the 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.400 most unstopable offensive force in the league, and the most 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:00.760 destructive defensive player in the league. That player is long gone. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:06.959 Now what we get from Lebron is a top eight 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.839 ish guy in the league who can still control a 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.800 game offensively and has to really pick his spots defensively, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.560 like four minutes left in a close game. I still 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.240 think he's one of the best defenders in basketball. Over 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.480 the course of an entire game, he's an average defender. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.040 That's where age is caught up to him. Okay, so 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.920 that's the Lebron part of it. Now, are the Lakers 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.120 topes They might be. A lot of that has to 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:38.400 do with Anthony Davis. Lebron can't suffer another injury. But 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.040 here's what is so frustrating, and here's what I talked 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:42.280 about on TV yesterday. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:42.600 A bit. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.280 Lebron has played forty five games this year. Okay, he's 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.360 played about seventy five percent of his team's games. The 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:57.719 Lakers are five games under five hundred. Steph Curry has 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.400 played thirty nine games. The Warriors are at five hundred. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.800 Durant has played thirty eight games. The Nets are ten 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.360 over five hundred. Kawhi has and I know he's on 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 the Nets anymore, but that's the team he was with. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.559 Kawhi has played thirty thirty four games. The Clippers are 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.400 five or six games above five hundred. The fact that 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:24.119 the Lakers have not been able to field a competent 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:29.000 team when Lebron's either sits or misses a game is 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.480 all on the front office, and the concern a lot 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.520 of us had when they went into the season with 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.200 Russ was you might dig yourself too big of a hole. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.760 First twelve games, the Lakers were two to ten. Since 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.840 then they're twenty five and twenty two, which that win 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.439 percentage would. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.600 Be the five seed. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.880 But you started off so terribly that you are now 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.559 you have to dig yourself out of a hole and 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.920 then play single elimination play so they have. It is 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.280 a massive uphill climb and it starts tonight with a 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:11.400 game against the Warriors. With that said, I don't think 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.440 Denver wants to see him in Round one. If the 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:20.120 Lakers end up the nine seed and get into the 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.880 playing get into the playoffs as the eight seed, they 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.480 win a couple playing games. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:26.760 Denver win. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.079 Denver the best they've ever done in the postseason with 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:34.240 Yokic just make a conference finals and Anthony Davis severely 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.800 outplayed him. And that was a Denver team that was 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.800 fully healthy. That is a team that I so. I 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.040 think it's a weird spot because the Lakers and I 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.319 got to see them play with Lebron and all these 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.000 new pieces, they could be dangerous. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.000 And I suppose this all a ploy to come at Jokic. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.000 No, it's just Denver's the one seed and if you're 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.199 the Niner the ten the highest you can get is 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:57.840 the eight seed. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.760 Well, who's the two seed right now? 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.239 I don't think Memphis would be thrilled with the Lakers 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.920 making the postseason. I like, let's just look at who 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.560 the other teams could be and let's just be honest here. So, yeah, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.920 Memphis is going to be the two, Sacramentos the three. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:24.320 So right now, seven through thirteen is the following New Orleans, Minnesota, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:30.680 Golden State, ok See, and then eleven through thirteen Utah, Portland. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:37.640 The Lakers, Denver, and Memphis are rooting to play anyone 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.600 in the first round other than the Lakers or the Warriors. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.600 The Warriors with Steph back would be terrifying in round one, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.400 and the Lakers because the Lebron and ad I don't 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:52.200 care what Minnesota's record is. You would way rather play Minnesota. Yeah, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.600 New Orleans because it looks like Zion's done for the year. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.720 Maybe New Orleans with Zion would be petrifying, but without him, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.880 they ca can't win games. So for Memphis or Denver, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.280 neither of Boom have won anything. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:07.400 You are not. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.040 Rooting to play the Lakers or the Warriors in round one? 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.080 All right, go ahead, next? 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:12.000 All right? 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.840 Everyone is talking about the other Lebron James this week. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.120 This is crazy what whereabouts possibility? Yeah, because in ESPN 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.720 mock draft had Bronni going into the top ten in 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.240 twenty twenty four. Ron has already said he wants to 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.840 finish his career playing with Bronnie. What does this mean 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.680 for the twenty twenty four Lebron's Bronnie Sweepstakes? 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.440 Okay, so this is fascinating on a million levels. The 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:39.360 first one is this Jonathan Gavoni wrote this, and Jonathan Gavoni. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:43.600 Is great at this specific thing, like. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.520 Is analysis of the high school player, the young college 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.840 player and where they fit in the draft. When I 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.920 saw they had Bronnie at ten, I was like, Oh, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.320 they're saying he's saying he's gonna get way overdrafted because 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.800 Lebron's going to sign up to play with him. That 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:07.400 was not the analysis. The analysis was that Bronnie, independent 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.560 of Lebron, could be the tenth pick of this draft, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.200 of the. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.640 A draft a year from now. That's wild. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.600 That is a testament to what the young man's done. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.200 And at six to two, it's crazy. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.040 It seems like the best defender. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.480 They said, his defense is amazing. His instincts are amazing. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.840 That part's not surprising. The way his body is filled out, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.320 and his athleticism. It's not a good shooter, you know, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.480 on the on at on that level as far as 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.520 you know, be a top ten pick. That's as big 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:45.480 as weakness. I think this is put is so fascinating 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:51.120 because I truly believe Lebron's initial I'm gonna sign with 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:56.280 whoever drafts Bron was Lebron's attempt to make sure Bronni 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.320 got drafted at all. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.880 And we've talked about this before that. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.640 The Knicks once upon a time signed j R. Smith's brother. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.240 It's a you know, as a solid to JR. Now 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.160 he didn't work out in the NBA, Chris, I'm sorry, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:14.760 that was Chris Smith. Seth Curry kept getting chances because 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:21.800 of staph eventually turned himself into a really good player. Hell, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.840 how many Onpo brothers are in the league, you know. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:30.400 And so the my thought process was Lebron was feeling 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.840 his feeling was, Bronni might not be right out of 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.560 college an NBA guy. But if I get a team 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.240 to invest a first round pick and a guaranteed contract 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.639 in him, and then he gets to watch me work, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.359 get that development, they the team has a vested interest, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.000 and in succeeding three four years into it, he'll be 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.520 an NBA guy. But if Bronnie is a lottery pick 0:17:54.560 --> 0:18:01.760 on his own merits, that then also changes this. What 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:07.680 if a terrible team takes it? What if Detroit drafts 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:12.760 Bronnie with the ninth pick, not because they want Lebron, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.639 but because Bronni they want Bronni? Does Lebron want to 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.720 then spend the last two years of his career on 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.840 an awful team. It's a really weird spot. It's a 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:33.520 really weird spot. It would be fascinating. And let me 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:34.040 ask you this. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.440 If you were Bronni Okay. 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.280 And you were a lottery pick on your own merit, 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.640 now this is not I'm getting drafted because of my dad. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.879 Would you want your dad to come play with you 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.440 or would you not want it? Again, keep in mind, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.160 in this situation, your dad's the most famous player ever. 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.520 I think i'd want the chance to play against him. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:11.720 Yeah, or even not only that, like to not have 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.560 it seem like you're here because of it. Now, if 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:21.120 you are here because of him, it's different. And so 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.800 I think it's a fascinating thing. I also think I 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:32.159 gotta tell you, man, I am really really impressed with 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.080 how this kid has worked and how he's conducted himself. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:44.120 That rich, that famous, that much attention in LA has 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.480 never and again he's young, and a lot can happen. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:50.920 But and I hate to sound. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.240 Cliche in the social media world, but in a social 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.639 media world doesn't have any like oh boy, you know 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:58.680 what I mean, like the. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.120 I I think it is. I know we listen, we talked. 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:06.600 A couple of years ago. People were saying that like 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:07.720 Ronnie wouldn't. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:13.400 Was not even close brother over him. Well now, yeah, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.040 but because his brother grew so much. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.480 But six ' two in the NBA is a tough 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:23.760 putt and it is. It's wild. Said something really funny 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.720 on the TV show when we talking about the dunk contest, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.280 which was Isaiah Ryder won a dunk contest in the 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.520 early nineties for the between the Like Legs dunk the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.120 East Bay Funk and that when that happened. We said 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.880 that was the greatest dunk that's ever happened, and now 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:46.600 Lebron James Junior is doing it. But I I find 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.879 this to be really fascinating. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.040 And I do. 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.560 I I also don't want to overlook as you know, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.080 this is a family enterprise and this you know, we 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.040 talk a lot about family on this show. That part 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:07.359 of the story of Lebron James, the not basketball player, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:16.680 but like American dream story is, man, this guy got 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:21.680 with Savannah when they were both kids. They have stayed 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.560 together and they have raised what appears to be three 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:32.560 super well adjusted, hard working, sharp kids. And I mean 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.840 the littlest, the girl, Zuri, is a baby baby, which 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.240 just five. But my point is like, and that would 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:45.440 be really really hard, man, really hard that that level 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:49.560 of fame and the kid who didn't earn the fame 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.119 and and has all the money, has all of that 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.359 to work hard is would be difficult, you know what 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.440 I mean, to be like why you know what I mean, 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:06.040 Like I am I'm a billionaire with doing nothing. 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:08.359 Hey, you know what I mean? But you know the 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:10.320 and it is. 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.120 It's a testament to them. It's something I'm really curious 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:14.840 to watch. 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.880 Yeah, no, I mean it's it's a story no matter what. 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:18.720 All right next? Uh? 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.040 So Katie is now in Phoenix with part time Devin 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:26.399 Booker and declining aging c P three ok Kyrie and 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:28.560 Luca have played two games together in the MAVs let 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.239 up one hundred and twenty and a half points per 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:31.080 game in those losses. 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:31.760 Yah. 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.000 Did those big trades blow up in the faces of 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:35.200 the Suns and the MAVs? 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:36.680 Oh? They absolutely could. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.719 The weird thing about KD is we found out today 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.760 he's playing to make his debut on Wednesday. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.560 So he's not ready to play yet. 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.000 What's it's been three two weeks? No three? 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.600