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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode two seventeen, What's right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 2: Apologies on the front end for my voice. So here's
Speaker 2: the deal. This happens every year that the Chiefs have
Speaker 2: a parade. I for the better part of three hours,
Speaker 2: shake hands and take pictures with you know, a thousand
Speaker 2: people maybe, and then I get on an airplane, I
Speaker 2: come back to New York, and I'm a little sick,
Speaker 2: and so I typically would maybe not be doing the
Speaker 2: show today, but this is our first show since the Prey,
Speaker 2: and I want to talk about it, and so we
Speaker 2: talked about it some on the TV show. I then
Speaker 2: did a bit of a Kansas City media tour on
Speaker 2: Friday when we didn't have the TV show, and we're
Speaker 2: in the A bloc here, not going to really talk sports.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about my experience there in some
Speaker 2: ways to move forward and the ways to move forward.
Speaker 2: I'm going to steal from Jason Kandor, who was in
Speaker 2: the US military for very long time, ran for US
Speaker 2: Senate in Missouri, lost a very close election, then was
Speaker 2: running for mayor against my friend Quentin Lucas and dropped
Speaker 2: out of the mayoral race as he had to deal
Speaker 2: with some PTSD from his time in the military. And
Speaker 2: he went on my buddy Laslow's radio show and podcast
Speaker 2: and presented a way forward on the scourge of gun
Speaker 2: violence in America that does not involve passing new laws,
Speaker 2: but instead involves repealing one.
Speaker 3: Law we already have.
Speaker 2: And I think it's a really sharp and smart way
Speaker 2: to address it. And so we'll do that. But Demanse's
Speaker 2: here with us. Demanse's in la and Demonse, you feel
Speaker 2: free to jump in at any point, and we are.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a little anecdote from this weekend, and
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna go back to the parade and then
Speaker 2: we're gonna bounce around a bit. So this weekend I
Speaker 2: took Deanna, our youngest, to off Broadway show called The
Speaker 2: Play That Goes Wrong, and it's actually really well done.
Speaker 2: It's won a bunch of awards, and the concept behind
Speaker 2: it is it's supposed to be a regular play, but
Speaker 2: everything imaginable goes wrong, and that's intentional. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: explain the play to you, but it's funny and it's
Speaker 2: well done. And in the midst of it, about forty
Speaker 2: percent halfway through the play, thereabouts off screen or off stage,
Speaker 2: I should say, a murder takes place and there are
Speaker 2: three loud gunshots that you hear and I knew, I mean,
Speaker 2: the play that they're doing is called like the Murder
Speaker 2: at Whatever Place man or maversham manor or something, and
Speaker 2: you knew something like this was coming. And those three
Speaker 2: gunshots wrung out and I flinched in like a very
Speaker 2: defined way, and I was like, oh, that's the kind of,
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, shrapnel from what had
Speaker 2: happened Wednesday, Like the me that was somewhere in my
Speaker 2: brain the last time I had heard something like that
Speaker 2: was when we were scurrying off the stage at the
Speaker 2: parade and we heard a very distinct gunshot and the
Speaker 2: fox secure folks, who I can you know, I will
Speaker 2: continue to say what a brilliant job they did, said
Speaker 2: get down somewhere in my brain that like really impacted
Speaker 2: and affected me. And so when I heard it again,
Speaker 2: even though, like you know, I'm in a Broadway show
Speaker 2: and that's part of the show, I wasn't really expecting it,
Speaker 2: and my heart raced and I flinched, and it was weird.
Speaker 2: And I'm a near forty year old man who didn't
Speaker 2: see any of the actual shooting and didn't see any
Speaker 2: of the actual victims, and it had an impact on me.
Speaker 2: And so I have spent a lot of the time
Speaker 2: since the parade talking about us failing our kids and
Speaker 2: the young people who have had, you know, preparing for
Speaker 2: these events and knowing what to do in all of
Speaker 2: that just be part of how they grow up. And
Speaker 2: I apologize that I'm kind of taking a circuitous path here,
Speaker 2: but I promise I'll layd the plane that we we
Speaker 2: have a couple different types of reactions to these types
Speaker 2: of incidents. If it's like the one in Kansas City
Speaker 2: where it appears to be gang violence that spills out
Speaker 2: into what I would call the general population outside of
Speaker 2: where we as a society have accepted that gang violence
Speaker 2: will take place. The reaction is throw the book at them,
Speaker 2: police the streets, keep the criminals in jail, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And when it is.
Speaker 2: The type of shooting that is very unique to America.
Speaker 3: The lone.
Speaker 2: Wall usually seventeen to twenty eight year old loner guy
Speaker 2: who loses his mind or has been radicalized by the Internet,
Speaker 2: or you know, any of the above, we go to
Speaker 2: mental health. We say we need to do more on
Speaker 2: that front. And the mental health thing really really irritates me, because,
Speaker 2: while yes, I wish we had vastly more mental health resources,
Speaker 2: it is I find it wildly and offensively disingenuous to
Speaker 2: claim to care about mental health and want to prioritize
Speaker 2: that and not recognize the mental health damage we're doing
Speaker 2: to a generation of kids. If I, as a near
Speaker 2: forty year old man, was it a play five days
Speaker 2: later and heard a couple obviously cinematic gunshots, and my
Speaker 2: heart raised and I flinched. What about the thousands of
Speaker 2: kids at that parade? What about them and what does
Speaker 2: that do to their mental health? What does that do
Speaker 2: to their ability to be happy, healthy, well adjusted kids.
Speaker 2: And the answer is we it's now been a problem
Speaker 2: in America for long enough and enough people have been
Speaker 2: a party to some type of mass shooting incident that tragically,
Speaker 2: we might have the data to actually do a proper
Speaker 2: sample sized study to see the mental health damage that
Speaker 2: active shooter drills and that being on the periphery much
Speaker 2: less in the mix of a mass shooting incident what
Speaker 2: it does to people. But claiming to care about mental
Speaker 2: health and then sticking your fingers in your ear and
Speaker 2: failing to recognize the damage this uniquely American epidemic has
Speaker 2: to do with mental health or has impacts people's mental health,
Speaker 2: I find offensive, and so I will admit I have
Speaker 2: very extreme feelings. And this is where people will get mad,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. People are allowed to disagree. I have
Speaker 2: very very extreme feelings on guns in this country. I
Speaker 2: do not believe it to be a constitutional right. I
Speaker 2: do not believe that the way in my lifetime the
Speaker 2: Second Amendment has been understood and interpreted by the courts
Speaker 2: is correct. Flatly, I think it is. I think the
Speaker 2: fact that we have totally disregarded the fact that the
Speaker 2: first four words of the Second Amendment is a well
Speaker 2: regulated militia. It is not well regulated, and it is
Speaker 2: not a militia. The fact that we have just thrown
Speaker 2: that out, I think is a crime. Okay, so I
Speaker 2: will admit, though I am on the extremes there, I
Speaker 2: think it is a logical fallacy. I think that if
Speaker 2: we are really talking about if you believe the reason
Speaker 2: you have a right to an ar is because you
Speaker 2: must protect yourself against a tyrannical government, well then shouldn't
Speaker 2: you then also have the rights to any weapons you
Speaker 2: can afford fully automatic machine guns, uh, drones, smart bombs,
Speaker 2: that's what the government's working with, the government comes for you.
Speaker 2: They've got they've got suitcase nukes, guys. And so if
Speaker 2: we're going to take it to its furthest logical conclusion,
Speaker 2: and it is no, it is our inalienable rights to
Speaker 2: be able to be able to take on the first
Speaker 2: infantry if they come for us, Well then we then
Speaker 2: you know, nukes at trade shows to go along with
Speaker 2: tanks if you can afford it, right, And I don't
Speaker 2: think many people actually believe we have those rights. So
Speaker 2: I think the Second Amendment is consistently misinterpreted. But I've
Speaker 2: lost that argument. The courts have lost that decided. I've
Speaker 2: lost that argument. The politicians, even the politicians I support,
Speaker 2: have decided they don't want to have that argument. And
Speaker 2: the guns and the gun lobby and the gun owners
Speaker 2: have won that argument. So how do we move forward?
Speaker 2: And this is where I give Jason Candor and Laslow
Speaker 2: credit for starting this conversation, which is, instead of adding
Speaker 2: a law, repealing a law, because there was a law
Speaker 2: that was passed nearly twenty years ago, the PLCAA, the
Speaker 2: Protection of Lawful in Arms Act, And what that law
Speaker 2: did was make it illegal to sue gun manufacturers. It
Speaker 2: made it you, you do not have the rights in
Speaker 2: America now to sue a gun manufacturer unless the gun malfunctions.
Speaker 2: And what that law has, in my opinion, and again
Speaker 2: Jason Kandor wrote an article about this, did podcasts about it,
Speaker 2: and people should check it out. It has allowed the
Speaker 2: gun manufacturers to operate in an area somewhat outside of
Speaker 2: capitalism where they do not have to put in the
Speaker 2: protections or safeguards that every other industry does, because they
Speaker 2: don't have to be worried about being held to account
Speaker 2: in a multi billion dollar civil lawsuit. Now, removing this
Speaker 2: law would not guarantee anything. You wouldn't guarantee you would
Speaker 2: win your lawsuit. Wouldn't guarantee any of those things. But
Speaker 2: what it would do is guarantee that you would have
Speaker 2: a chance to find out, Okay, are they marketing these
Speaker 2: guns to children through the discovery process of a lawsuit.
Speaker 2: Do they have smart gun technology that they easily could
Speaker 2: be implemented that they're choosing not to because it would
Speaker 2: cost an extra twelve bucks a gun and they've decided
Speaker 2: not worth it. And so to use an analogous situation demonse,
Speaker 2: you're not old enough to remember this, But when I
Speaker 2: was around eighteen years old, anybody, and I'm very, very
Speaker 2: very fortunate that I didn't get hooked on this. Anybody
Speaker 2: who wanted oxy could get it. It was handed out
Speaker 2: like candy in at clubs parties. Yes, anybody that wanted
Speaker 2: oxy could get it. It was that ubiquitous. And the reason,
Speaker 2: and it's the cause of the opioid epidemic, or a big.
Speaker 3: Cause of it.
Speaker 2: The reason that changed was because the opioid makers got
Speaker 2: sued into oblivion. They lost billions and billions of dollars
Speaker 2: in lawsuits, and because of that they ran you related themselves.
Speaker 2: And because my dream of a proper interpretation of the
Speaker 2: Second Amendment, that ship seems to have sailed. We are
Speaker 2: just we are just gonna pretend that there is nothing
Speaker 2: you can do when you just need to look to
Speaker 2: any other country in the world to see, well, there's
Speaker 2: obvious things you can do. And my dream of a
Speaker 2: gun buy back program and it not being legal for
Speaker 2: individual citizens to possess these types of weapons, that's gone.
Speaker 2: But without this law, would these gun companies start to
Speaker 2: operate in their own financial best interests and create their
Speaker 2: own gun registry and to enforce their own background checks,
Speaker 2: And Candor speculated they might create their own insurance companies
Speaker 2: about having to purchase your own gun insurance. They might
Speaker 2: because the fear of being sued into oblivion because you
Speaker 2: knowingly and wantonly marketed these guns to kids, to people
Speaker 2: who you knew were mentally unstable, sold them to people
Speaker 2: with a history of domestic violence, all those things. If
Speaker 2: they just had to worry about being held to account,
Speaker 2: how much would that change things? How much would that
Speaker 2: change how they operate because what we know is that
Speaker 2: this will simply keep happening and we will simply continue
Speaker 2: on the path of everyone at this point having either
Speaker 2: been on the receiving end or the I guess giving
Speaker 2: end of a wellness check. And it's a tragic state
Speaker 2: of affairs. And I'm gonna tell one anecdote that I
Speaker 2: did not tell on the TV show, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell it now, and then we're gonna move on. When
Speaker 2: I talk about what this is doing to our kids,
Speaker 2: and I demands I apologize on the front end, I
Speaker 2: don't know how this is going to impact or affect you. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe should have told you this beforehand. So the Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So the parade happens Wednesday, and and just just put
Speaker 2: me on camera, please. The parade happens Wednesday. And again
Speaker 2: we were fine, right, we were fine. We literally had
Speaker 2: security with us. We we were fine.
Speaker 3: That I am.
Speaker 2: Of the eight hundred thousand people there, there were hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands, I would say, in more danger than I was. Okay,
Speaker 2: So this is not a woe is me.
Speaker 3: This is just.
Speaker 2: Despite that, this is the impact it has on our
Speaker 2: on our people, especially our young people. So Deanna was
Speaker 2: saying with my mom. And you know, I sent the
Speaker 2: text before they had even seen the news. Demante didn't
Speaker 2: even know yet. Diora didn't even.
Speaker 3: Know yet that it had happened.
Speaker 2: And I sent the text, were fine because I did
Speaker 2: not want you guys to see the news and not
Speaker 2: be able to, you know, not know what was going on.
Speaker 2: But your mom's phone hadn't been working great at the parade.
Speaker 2: And then when we got back to the hotel, your
Speaker 2: mom laid down taken nap and I called my mom
Speaker 2: and face timed her, and your little sister, who's ten
Speaker 2: years old, said, I was. I was outside of the hotel,
Speaker 2: I was walking around. I paced when I'm on the phone,
Speaker 2: and your little sister said, hey, can I talk to
Speaker 2: mommy And I said, na, she's taking a nap. She
Speaker 2: said no, let me talk to mommy. And I said,
Speaker 2: she's taking a nap. It's been a tough day, you know.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 2: She was like okay, and I was like, if she
Speaker 2: wakes up before you know, you go to bed, we'll call.
Speaker 2: And that was that. And then the next day, Deanna
Speaker 2: and I went to dinner and she told me that
Speaker 2: when we got off the phone, she was worried that
Speaker 2: I was lying to her that her mom had been shot,
Speaker 2: and I want to tell her and that while is
Speaker 2: irrational from an adult's perspective, I get it. It is
Speaker 2: for whatever. And again we were on the furthest periphery,
Speaker 2: but for kids, this is now something she carries. And
Speaker 2: if we are just okay that that is going to
Speaker 2: be the world in which we live, then I don't
Speaker 2: even want to say so be it, because I'm not.
Speaker 2: But don't you fucking dare ever tell me again you
Speaker 2: care about mental health or you care about you know,
Speaker 2: the youth of America. Because we are opting into living
Speaker 2: like this and acting as if there is no possible
Speaker 2: solution when every other developed country in the world has
Speaker 2: figured it out. Is not acceptable. All right, talk a
Speaker 2: little sports, come back with her? All right, welcome back
Speaker 2: in What's Try to Think Right, Episode two seventeen. So
Speaker 2: the major story from this weekend obviously was one of
Speaker 2: the worst All Star Games ever played. Uh And I
Speaker 2: I think that this is mostly the media's fault, And
Speaker 2: by that I mean people respond to incentives. We have
Speaker 2: changed NBA coverage in a way to where true we
Speaker 2: reward truly nothing nothing, pardon me other than postseason performance
Speaker 2: and success. There is nothing about the journey that we
Speaker 2: find cool that we talk about it being worthwhile, and
Speaker 2: so players have responded accordingly. Players initially responded with load management,
Speaker 2: and teams were obviously a big piece of that, which was, well,
Speaker 2: why would I care about playing seventy eight games if
Speaker 2: that's going to make me ten percent less fresh for
Speaker 2: the postseason when all that you guys are going to
Speaker 2: talk about my legacy? Where I rank, how good I
Speaker 2: am is based on how I do in the postseason.
Speaker 2: And so of course, a you know, a casualty of
Speaker 2: that is going to be the All Star Game. Once
Speaker 2: upon a time, NBA media rewarded guys who kicked ass
Speaker 2: in All Star Games. It was part of their legacy.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a huge part, but it was part of it.
Speaker 2: How you looked in the closing minutes of these All
Speaker 2: Star Games. It no longer is. It's now totally irrelevant.
Speaker 2: It's now not If I were to say out loud
Speaker 2: on TV, hey, guys, Lebron has more All Star Game
Speaker 2: points than anyone in history by a mile, I would
Speaker 2: be laughed at. People would say, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: How many rings does he have. If somebody said, hey,
Speaker 2: part of dame now his resume is he won an
Speaker 2: All Star Game MVP, people would say that's the most
Speaker 2: ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The guys never even won
Speaker 2: a game in the conference finals.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: I if they If you actually want to fix the
Speaker 2: All Star Game, Demanse, I think the answer is pretty simple.
Speaker 2: The winning conference gets home court advantage in the finals.
Speaker 2: It's what Baseball did with their All Star Game. You
Speaker 2: can say that's unfair, but I don't know how unfair
Speaker 2: it is, because here's the thing. The East and the
Speaker 2: West play unbalanced schedules as is, so having a fifty
Speaker 2: eight win Eastern Conference team have home court advantage over
Speaker 2: a fifty six win Western Conference team in a year.
Speaker 2: If the West is the deeper, tougher conference, that wasn't
Speaker 2: quote fair unquote to begin with. And folks can say, well, still,
Speaker 2: some guys won't care. Well, then those guys will don't play.
Speaker 2: The coaches will care because anyone who's coaching an All
Speaker 2: Star Game, he's coaching an All Star Game because his
Speaker 2: team has the best record at the breaker, one of
Speaker 2: the best records at the break. He thinks he has
Speaker 2: a real chance of playing in the final. Coaching in
Speaker 2: the finals exactly so, and you would be able to
Speaker 2: find even if it's twelve guys and a few of
Speaker 2: them don't care, those guys wouldn't play. The coach could
Speaker 2: then just pick the guys who are locked in. Now,
Speaker 2: if you don't want to do that, then I'm here
Speaker 2: to tell you there is no obvious fix the international
Speaker 2: versus the North America that could work for a year.
Speaker 2: My idea from yesterday of because right now, the winning
Speaker 2: players demonse get one hundred grand, the losing players get
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand. I think having that one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand being duffel bags in cash along the baseline,
Speaker 2: and the losing players have to present it to the
Speaker 2: winning players after they get all the money could again
Speaker 2: briefly temporarily impact competitiveness, but overall, guys respond to incentives,
Speaker 2: and what we reward in NBA coverage is postseason success
Speaker 2: and only postseason success. So as long as that is
Speaker 2: how the league is discussed, everything else is going to
Speaker 2: take a back seat to that. So those are my fixes.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, pal.
Speaker 3: So another focus on the weekend is the buddy Buddy stuff.
Speaker 3: Luca and yo kids seem to be having soap opera
Speaker 3: thing going on. The NBA in general seems to be
Speaker 3: a little bit too focused on the story these days
Speaker 3: and not the basketball. What do you think about that?
Speaker 2: Well, that's again, yeah, I mean that's again. I would
Speaker 2: argue a symptom of how the league is covered the league.
Speaker 2: I think that, And I can check the data on this.
Speaker 2: I think NBA television shows or my show when we
Speaker 2: talk NBA, the highest ratings are during the playoffs, and
Speaker 2: I think the second highest ratings are during free agency,
Speaker 2: not during the regular season. The drama and the free
Speaker 2: agency and the player movement has become yeah, exactly right,
Speaker 2: has become far more. I don't know if it's interesting
Speaker 2: or if it's just what we discussed, or maybe it
Speaker 2: is what the fans want.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That has become the second biggest part of an NBA's
Speaker 2: year is not the regular season. It is the off season.
Speaker 2: It's the playoffs one and the off season two.
Speaker 3: All right, Next, you think Luca and Jokic whatever team up.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Jokic said I love Denver, so Luca
Speaker 2: would have to come to me. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I think Luca would be more likely to go to
Speaker 2: a more international city. I want a coastal place. But
Speaker 2: I do think that it is more than on the
Speaker 2: board that Luca doesn't spend his whole career in Dallas again,
Speaker 2: because listen, the folks will come for Luca too. Let
Speaker 2: the MAVs go out in round one this year, and
Speaker 2: I don't care if he averages thirty four to nine
Speaker 2: and nine, folks are gonna be at his doorstep saying,
Speaker 2: where's the wins, where's the finals appearances, where's the champ
Speaker 2: I was not in.
Speaker 3: My head for something completely different, but yeah, fair enough on.
Speaker 2: Too, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Another huge story of the weekend was Lebron. Supposedly
Speaker 3: he could have ended up playing in Golden State with Steph,
Speaker 3: but he's claiming that he didn't know about it. I
Speaker 3: think he might have known about it, But the story
Speaker 3: here here is him not knowing about it, is if
Speaker 3: he were, if he would have gone. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: a little choked up.
Speaker 2: But you're right.
Speaker 3: Lebron obviously says that he wants to end his career
Speaker 3: with the Lakers. You're the Lebron whisperer. What do you think.
Speaker 2: Listen. I think he does want to end his career
Speaker 2: with the Lakers. I don't want him to. I think
Speaker 2: he does want to. I don't trust the Lakers front
Speaker 2: office or ownership at all at all. I think the
Speaker 2: Lakers ownership is bad, and I don't think Rob Polink
Speaker 2: has done a good job. And they when they do,
Speaker 2: when they make good moves that you know, the front
Speaker 2: office making these hard calls, and when they make the
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook trade, it's what do you want us to do?
Speaker 2: Lebron made us do it. I mean, this team has
Speaker 2: tried for three years to acquire Buddy Heald, couldn't find
Speaker 2: a way to do it. Daryl got him for cork
Speaker 2: Mas and three second round picks. So I don't think
Speaker 2: the Lakers are very well run. Lebron going to Golden
Speaker 2: State can't happen. He can't go to Steph's team. They
Speaker 2: would have to find a neutral site, if you will,
Speaker 2: they would have to find a third party team. And
Speaker 2: the Warriors are never trading Steph, so that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Let me hold on, I have apologize Dean.
Speaker 3: Go to Golden State because it's Steph's team, and it's like.
Speaker 2: Go to the deli and get me another one of
Speaker 2: these waters. Thank you, baby. Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead, I'm on still on the air, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Uh sorry, I need another water because I'm a little
Speaker 2: on the weather. So I'm sending Deanna go get it
Speaker 2: for me. Deanna is here today because she didn't have school.
Speaker 2: But uh, I just think it would look bad. I think,
Speaker 2: first of all, I think Lebron doesn't want to ever
Speaker 2: be traded, and so that's why the Golden State trade
Speaker 2: never got off the ground. I think if he wants
Speaker 2: to leave, he wants to do it on his own volition.
Speaker 2: But he is not gonna go join Steph's team. You
Speaker 2: can say, oh, he did it with d Wade, very different.
Speaker 2: D Wade, Yes, he had won the title, but he
Speaker 2: had won a title five years before Lebron got there,
Speaker 2: and that he had just missed the playoffs. And as
Speaker 2: great as d Wade was, nobody ever actually thought d
Speaker 2: Wade was better than Lebron.
Speaker 3: People have been Ron against Curry. I feel like throughout
Speaker 3: his career, exactly.
Speaker 2: Right, exactly right. And so even though Lebron and Steph
Speaker 2: are buddies now and I think them playing together I'd
Speaker 2: love the old man team Lebron, Stephen Durant, those three
Speaker 2: guys you know somewhere all playing together. I think it'd
Speaker 2: be super fun. The three of the oldest players in
Speaker 2: the league. Uh, that's still the standard bearers of the league.
Speaker 2: But Lebron can't go to Golden State, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: can't do it. So where would I listen? I think
Speaker 2: he's going to stay with the Lakers. His son is
Speaker 2: at USC, Bryce is his whole family's there.
Speaker 3: The tactics to get Golden State to try and get
Speaker 3: to draft Bronny.
Speaker 2: No, I see, here's the thing. I do not think
Speaker 2: this was a Lebron spurred thing. I think it was
Speaker 2: a Draymon spur thing. I think Draymond wanted it and
Speaker 2: Draymond pitched it.
Speaker 3: Didn't he go on and say something to oh, wait, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I think that's a no Draymond did. Draymond did go
Speaker 2: out and say like I had came across my desk
Speaker 2: and I told him we can't trade Kaminga.
Speaker 3: It was weird.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't fully buy what Draymond said, but
Speaker 2: set that aside. I think it was Draymond Uh was
Speaker 2: the impetus here, and Draymond and Lebron obviously have the
Speaker 2: same agent. Now here's what I'll tell you this off season.
Speaker 2: There are four places that I would love to see
Speaker 2: Lebron go. They're all in the Eastern Conference, and they
Speaker 2: all make sense, and they are all better run than
Speaker 2: the Lakers, and they all could win a title with
Speaker 2: Lebron at this level in my opinion, the first one,
Speaker 2: go ahead, and you go go, demonse if you want
Speaker 2: to guess, because you don't know who I'm going to.
Speaker 3: Say, I figured you'd have the Knicks on there.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe stop, hold on, hold on, So let's go no, no, no,
Speaker 2: because I want you to go one by one. The
Speaker 2: Knicks are on there. Now. Lebron understandably does not like
Speaker 2: James Dolan and has said he wouldn't play for him.
Speaker 2: Rich his agent has an old kind of I don't
Speaker 2: know if beef's the right word, but a history with
Speaker 2: Leon Rose and Worldwide West, who are running the Knicks.
Speaker 2: So that part of it makes it a little would
Speaker 2: make it a little awkward. But yes, the Knicks if
Speaker 2: Lebron came there this offseason. Because here's the thing. Lebron
Speaker 2: has the ability to do this offseason. If he wants
Speaker 2: to go somewhere and play for very little money, go
Speaker 2: to an already built team that doesn't have to carve
Speaker 2: out cap space. I don't know that he wants to
Speaker 2: do that. Lebron is notoriously cheap and wants to own
Speaker 2: a team one day, so he needs so he needs
Speaker 2: the money, Thank you, Deanna. It needs the money sounds weird,
Speaker 2: but I mean if he wants to be a primary
Speaker 2: owner of something that's gonna cost billions of dollars, leaving
Speaker 2: forty to fifty million on the table, doesn't sound like
Speaker 2: he wants to do it. But yes, the Knicks with
Speaker 2: Jalen there could win the title. I believe with this
Speaker 2: level Lebron, who's the next team you you were gonna.
Speaker 3: Say, I said Cleveland, that's correct, but copy.
Speaker 2: Cleveland's the next team. They don't have a small forward,
Speaker 2: they trust, they have two guards, they have big men,
Speaker 2: they don't know how to win. It would be an
Speaker 2: awesome third and final act for Lebron.
Speaker 3: I love that idea.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna do it, but that team
Speaker 2: would be good enough to win the East again with
Speaker 2: Lebron at this level, Mitchell, Garland, Mobley Allen. That team, yes,
Speaker 2: all right? Can you guess the last two?
Speaker 3: The Heat?
Speaker 2: The Heater? Absolutely the next team. I love the ownership,
Speaker 2: front office and coach playoff Jimmy, Lebron, Bam, He's been there,
Speaker 2: his family loved it there that you know they might
Speaker 2: go to the finals again. This year they haven't been
Speaker 2: able to quite get over the hump, the heat and
Speaker 2: then the last last year. Right, do you have a fourth?
Speaker 2: Do you know who the fourth one is?
Speaker 3: Fourth and final? I'm either gonna go. I feel like
Speaker 3: it's this. I mean, you said take little money, so
Speaker 3: maybe the Sixers, but I feel like it might be that.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's the Sixers.
Speaker 3: It's the Sixers.
Speaker 2: No, the Sixers. Yes, because while the Sixers are the
Speaker 2: only team that I listed of the Knicks Cavs, Heat,
Speaker 2: the Sixers are the one team that has a player
Speaker 2: that is clearly better than Lebron Jalen Brunson. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's better than Lebron. I it's close. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's better. Donovan's not better than Lebron. Jimmy's not
Speaker 2: better than Lebron. Even year twenty one old ass Lebron.
Speaker 3: I think if a little bit bigger, you'd think that
Speaker 3: maybe he was better than Lebron.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, if you were a little bit bigger, he'd
Speaker 2: be better. He's an excellent player. But in the NBA,
Speaker 2: there's real you know what I mean, Like, there's real limit.
Speaker 2: There's a reason in all of NBA history the only
Speaker 2: guys under six to six to be the best players
Speaker 2: on a champion are Isaiah Thomas and Steph Curry and
Speaker 2: Brunson's way under si you know what I mean, It's
Speaker 2: really hard, really really hard. And so but the reason
Speaker 2: why I think Philly would work for Bron is because
Speaker 2: while Embiid's better, that team has never won. That team
Speaker 2: forget winning a title, forget being in the finals, has
Speaker 2: never been in the conference finals. They've been the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: seventy six ers have been in the conference finals or
Speaker 2: further once since Doctor J was there, the one iverson team.
Speaker 2: Embiid's never been passed round two. So Lebron's showing up
Speaker 2: and that, yes, that would work. I don't think it's realistic,
Speaker 2: but that's where I would like him to go. I
Speaker 2: do not think he is going to go any of
Speaker 2: those places. I think He's probably gonna stay in LA,
Speaker 2: which you know is a Lebron guy I don't love,
Speaker 2: but I think it's what he wants. All right, let's
Speaker 2: go to Steph first, Sabrina.
Speaker 3: All Right, So All Star Weekend was a joke except
Speaker 3: for the three point contest between Steph and Sabrina. I
Speaker 3: think it was a really huge moment for sports and
Speaker 3: basketball in general. What was the story for you here?
Speaker 3: So the competition, the commentary around it, or anything else
Speaker 3: poke out to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what poked out to me is I think women's
Speaker 2: basketball is having a real moment right now, and it
Speaker 2: thrills me. I think Sabrina going toe to toe with
Speaker 2: Steph at the exact same time that Caitlin Clark is
Speaker 2: showing the world that women's basketball can get big time ratings,
Speaker 2: big big time ratings. Like she's awesome, man, she is awesome.
Speaker 2: And to circle back to what I was saying was wrong,
Speaker 2: demands with the All Star Game, Jay Williams, and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try and take a shot at Jay. He refused
Speaker 2: to call her great Caitlyn Clark, and his answer was
Speaker 2: she's never won a title, and this is what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: We've done to basketball. Caitlyn Clark is by any metric,
Speaker 2: one of the greatest female college basketball players ever, one
Speaker 2: of the greatest college basketball players ever. But because they
Speaker 2: you know, they lost in the nat they lost the
Speaker 2: national final last year instead of winning the national final,
Speaker 2: you can't call her a great. Now. If the conversation
Speaker 2: was is she the greatest female college player ever, that's
Speaker 2: a different discussion. Then if you want to say you
Speaker 2: have to at least win one title to be the
Speaker 2: greatest player ever at your thing, So forget a title.
Speaker 2: Of course, to not even be willing to call her
Speaker 2: a great is crazy. And so I loved what Sabrina did.
Speaker 2: And my suggestion for All Star Weekend next year is
Speaker 2: Steph Versus Sabrina Part two and Caitlin versus Dame in
Speaker 2: a super long range like logo for these competition. I
Speaker 2: think that would be all I think. I think Caitlin
Speaker 2: versus Dame on like essentially the four point competition and
Speaker 2: Steph first Sabrina in that. So, yeah, I loved you.
Speaker 2: I thought it was great. And I like how the
Speaker 2: NBA guys are embracing the women's hoopers because they're awesome.
Speaker 2: All Right, We've got to never a Doubt update, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna continue to take some cough drops quick break
Speaker 2: right back, What's right? All right? Welcome back in What's
Speaker 2: right with Nick?
Speaker 3: Right? All right?
Speaker 2: So we've got some never a Doubt updates for for you.
Speaker 2: So let's roll through some of them. Father and son.
Speaker 2: Look at that from Seth Warland. I mean that a
Speaker 2: baby with the never a Doubt tattoo and Jeff Willett
Speaker 2: with both kids with the never a Doubt tattoos. I
Speaker 2: love it though, and the never a Doubt tattoos are
Speaker 2: incredibly well produced, and the way they were able to
Speaker 2: kind of mimic the exact UH font that I have
Speaker 2: on my arm is unbelievable. All right, let's keep rolling
Speaker 2: through them, uh, because I didn't need to not talk
Speaker 2: for the next few hours for TV.
Speaker 3: UH.
Speaker 2: Scotty might know out in San Diego, San Diego, those
Speaker 2: folks Summer Campbell Collins UH has a great one with
Speaker 2: also with a category two take sign. I wonder if
Speaker 2: they were out at the parade. That's great, and I
Speaker 2: think we've got a we've got something to play you by.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That is really great. Those folks, I think
Speaker 2: back on the show for the second time. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get through a few more before I've got to go.
Speaker 2: Ryan Hodges and Tommy Spears with their tattoos watching the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Mark Hernandez he's got one along with the
Speaker 2: Lebron James action figure. Dallas says the tattoo didn't arrive
Speaker 2: in time, so he just wrote a NAD on his arm.
Speaker 2: Maybe not the greatest idea, but I understand. And then,
Speaker 2: of course Mahomes is never a doubt, which was super dope.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, demand's a great job today. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: answer one listener question real quick. Matt Gronkey says, Nick
Speaker 2: is Harrison Bucker a lot Hall of Famer? No no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no. I love Bucker, but Kickers are making the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame incredibly, incredible difficult. He is building a resume,
Speaker 2: but right now, the only the only Lock Hall of
Speaker 2: famers involved in the Chiefs Dynasty or Mahomes, Kelsey Hill
Speaker 2: and Chris Jones. Those are the Andy Obviously there are
Speaker 2: no other Lock Hall of Famers. Bucker is building the
Speaker 2: postseason resume, but he's gonna have to do it far longer.
Speaker 2: He is unbelievable, and I got to spend some nice
Speaker 2: time with him at the parade. All right, programming update,
Speaker 2: we are off. Go ahead, Demansey, nothing, I was fed
Speaker 2: Tony and yeah, there's the producers always setting you up
Speaker 2: to fail. We are off Thursday and then all of
Speaker 2: next week off TV and podcast next week, so we
Speaker 2: will be back two weeks from today for the next
Speaker 2: episode of What's Right Again. I apologize for my voice,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to be on the air with you
Speaker 2: guys today. Thank you for watching, Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: Great job, Demanse, and we will see you guys two
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