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You are urgeoning gambling problem. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.039 Oh oh, I've made two bets in the last two days. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:12.399 Listen. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.640 There are very few things in your life that I've 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.640 said learn from my mistakes on and I've been wrong about. 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:26.400 Take it from me on this one. This is a 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:32.120 dangerous path you are walking. You're only betting with your friends, right. Yeah, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.640 Let's say you're great at it, it's gonna cost your 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:42.360 friendship because eventually someone's not gonna pay. Let's say you're 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.080 bad at it, It's gonna cost you a bunch of money. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.320 Let's say you're break even at it. That's probably the 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.120 best case scenario. But then what's the point of doing 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.560 it if you're just breaking even? 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:56.160 Whoa? 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.080 I mean, I'm far from breaking even at this point. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.240 I'm like three hundred ninety dollars U s. Yeah, I 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.080 haven't lost a bet. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:08.720 Okay, Well, mark this tape, boys and girls, you know. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.239 With all that give it information you just give to Listen, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:13.160 why do you still bet? 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:14.800 Do I have a gambling program? 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.680 Welcome in episode fourteen of the What's Right with Nick 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.600 Right podcast and YouTube show like rate, subscribeer, review, Please 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.440 do all of those things or YouTube subscribers are growing. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.600 I don't get to see the podcast subscribers. I hope 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.079 they're growing. Please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Also, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.120 by the way, on the podcast and. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.920 YouTube feeds, we're continuing every Sunday we release the latest 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.440 and the fifty greatest players will last fifty years in 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.080 NBA history, something I am oddly passionate about, as you 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.000 will find out in just a moment. This week, one 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.000 of the most polarizing players on the entire list comes out, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.920 So check that out this Sunday. Catch up over the 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.040 weekend because we've already done players fifty through forty. But 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.880 as we always do on the show, first we talk 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.760 about what we are not actually talking about. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.800 So here's what is not on today's show. What is 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.000 not on today's show is Jerry West being mad at HBO, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.919 Jay Wright eyeing the NBA or j R. Smith's four 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.880 point zero gpa. But shout out to my buddy j R. Smith. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.400 I think that is such an awesome story. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:31.160 Also not on today's show is the ongoing to me 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.000 non debate about is Kevin Durant a top ten all 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:35.720 time player. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.360 That's not in today's show. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.000 However, I have been so enraged by so many of 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.760 my colleagues flippantly calling him a top ten all time 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:48.480 player when you simply it's an impossibility to make it. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.640 I'm not going to do it again. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:50.960 I'm going to do it just for a second right 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.320 here on the top of my head, just real quick, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.920 of all time. So you have Lebron, you have Fream, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.120 you have Michael, you have Magic, you have Wilt, you 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.120 have Russell. That's six names. You have Duncan, you have Bird, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.320 you have Kobe. That's nine names. So to have Kevin 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.800 Durant is top ten. That means no one else is 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.280 on the list. Oh but wait, I haven't said Shaquille O'Neil, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.440 a Quima LaJuan. Oh my goodness. I haven't said doctor j. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.480 I haven't said Steph. I haven't said Yiannest. Oh my god, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.160 what am I gonna do here? So here's the here's 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.960 the problem, guys. I gave fourteen names, and I say 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.919 Katie's got to be ahead of five of them to 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.039 be top ten, And twenty percent of the responses are 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.840 some snarky version of dude. At least do the math right. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.000 If there's fourteen names for him to be top ten. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:40.800 He's only got to be ahead of four of them. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:48.560 And I'm like, these people can't even do single digit subtraction. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.200 What's fourteen minus four? It's ten? And then you add 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.719 Kevin Durant. How many do you have? 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.960 Oh, these people are so dumb. Ultimately, there is no 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.120 away there. It does not exist. There's no way to 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.320 put Durant in the top ten without removing. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.000 At a minimum. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:18.719 A Keem, Shack Bird, Kobe. You got to remove a 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.760 doctor J. You have to remove three of those guys. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.440 Of those five guys, pick three to put Kevin Durant 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.279 ahead of That's what you've got to do. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.279 Everyone will say doctor J immediately, Fine, give me the 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.320 other two. You're gonna say a Keen. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.960 You'll be wrong, but fine, tell me the other one, Shaq, Kobe, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:46.120 Larry Bird, tell me nobody can do you. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:52.040 Know why this is not top ten? And then I'm 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:52.920 gonna say something else. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.240 I'm gonna read your tweet I got from and I 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.960 don't dislike this guy, Ben Dowset who has a verified 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.119 check mark, And I'm going to read you as Twitter 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:10.920 bio because it's relevant to the discussion. Bendl said, NBA 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.200 words mostly at ESPN or five thirty eight. He tweets 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.159 to me, I honestly stand in awe of your ability 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.400 to constantly find the energy to care so much about 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:31.000 such arbitrary irrelevant The guy is a writer about sports. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.440 All of this is irrelevant, arbitrary shit. So I responded 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.240 to him, you're smart enough to see the irony in 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.880 this tweet considering what we both do for a living. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.640 I mean, arbitrary irrelevant is literally what both of our 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.960 careers are based on writing about. And he responds, Sure, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.400 but I think you're smart enough to realize there are 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.720 degrees to this. Whether Katie is the ninth or fourteenth 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.440 best player of all time is. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.400 Irrelevant, even in a world of irrelevant. Let me tell 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:01.920 you something. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.680 You know, the very specific scenario in which someone is 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.080 the ninth best or fourteenth best at something. If we 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.760 if the question is are they in the top ten? 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.960 That is the one situation where not only is it 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.880 not irrelevant, it's actually the only relevant thing. If it 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.680 is this person top ten, Oh, well they're ninth or 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:24.320 their fourteenth. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:24.840 Who cares? 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.720 I'll tell you who cares the person who asked the 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.560 questions the top ten. Okay, now we can start the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.760 actual show. Demonse, when's the last time you heard me 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.840 curse that much? Have you ever heard me curse that 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.600 much during a Chiefs playoff loss? Maybe I've definitely heard 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.800 you curse that much. It might not have been sports related, 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:45.280 sports related, oh probably at you probably Demonse, high school related. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.200 Maybe. Okay, so what are we starting with today? 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.440 Suns tate Game five against New Orleans. Yep, Mickel Bridges 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:51.840 at Aden, have a big night. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.280 Yep. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.280 You've gone with Dallas to win the West Cows times 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.400 five more times than you go with yok, it's. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:58.000 Not being the MVP. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.520 Do you realize that's how lucky they are to be 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.160 playing the banged up Suns instead of the Grizzlies of 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:04.760 the Warriors. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.480 Okay, well, they're not playing the Suns yet, and I 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.240 want to talk about the Grizzlies in just second. But 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.960 I do assume the Sons are going to beat the Pelicans. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.520 But folks, I went out on a limb and picked 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.440 Dallas when Luca was already declared out for the beginning 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.240 of the series with an injury. We knew the bracket, 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.880 and I knew that Grizzlies Warriors were on the other side. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:24.440 Of the bracket. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.320 That's one of the reasons I picked Dallas. Another one 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.280 of the reasons I picked Dallas and wasn't afraid of 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.559 Phoenix was because of all the best teams in basketball, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.400 the one with the biggest injury risk is the one 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.080 who's best players thirty six years old and Chris Paul. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.640 Now he's not the one who got hurt. Devin Booker 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.400 is the one who got hurt. But Chris Paul is 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.199 always an injury risk. So no, I'm not going to 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.840 have any shame in the fact that I had the 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.440 courage to stick with Dallas from six weeks ago, even 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.960 after Luca got hurt. And what we are seeing is 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:57.840 as I told you, Luke is an all time playoff performer. Tonight, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.280 when you guys see the game when they beat you all, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.960 what's an average Luca game, Well, he literally averages thirty 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.480 four to nine and nine for his playoff career. So 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.160 I think I don't know tonight close out game, probably 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.600 thirty six, eleven and eight is about what I would 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.160 anticipate for him. He's the best player on his side 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.360 of the bracket. He is the best player in the 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.000 Western Conference playoffs. He's better than step. He's better than Jaw. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.880 But I do want to say something about Jaw because 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.920 I believe the Grizzlies are going to close out the Timberwolves. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.720 Job was obviously unbelievable in the closing minutes against the 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.320 Timberwolves on Tuesday night, scored thirteen straight points, had one 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.520 of the greatest dunks we've ever seen. I before the 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.840 playoffs picked the Grizzlies to beat the Warriors in that series. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.520 I would be lying if I said I feel better 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.439 about Memphis today than beforehand, because they have looked shaky 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.440 against the Timberwolves and the Warriors have looked phenomenal. With 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.520 that said, the Warriors are playing a team that is 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.760 drawing dead in Denver. That's not about Yokics. They are 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.160 just flatly drawing dead. And the other piece of that is, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.400 in my estimation that the Warriors maybe I underrated them a. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.840 Bit because they hadn't been healthy all year. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.240 There is a chance the Warriors are the best team 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.760 in the West, even though Dallas has the best player 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.840 in the West. But I think Memphis is going to 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.959 present some issues for Golden State because of their youth 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.440 and their athleticism and just the kind of frenetic style 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.880 they play, So I think that series is going to 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.199 be a war. I think Dallas is going to beat Phoenix. No, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.679 I'm not backing down at all, and I'm not at 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.720 all going to apologize that I had the foresight to 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.200 believe in Luka Doncic when no one else wanted to. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.719 Again, by the way, I told you this. I think 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:46.360 I told you this. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.960 I bet before the playoffs at sixty five to one, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.520 Bucks over mAbs in the finals and exact NBA finals 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.160 of the Buckser champions they beat the Mavericks. I right now, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.040 if you ask me what I think the finals, what's 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.360 going to happen? I would say Bucks over MAVs. Okay, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:07.439 all right, what's next month? 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.240 Philly in danger of blown a three to zero lead 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.800 to Toronto in Game six on Thursday. They got a 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.680 lot of decisions to make. With hard enough for an 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.040 extension yep, and bid is now injured for a second playoff, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.839 playoff season or whatever playoff. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:22.319 Run in a row. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.439 What does Philly need to do to prove that Harden 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.640 Maxi and Embiid is worth building around. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.720 Okay, first of all, let me talk about the stakes 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:35.160 in Game six for a moment, because everybody knows no 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.520 one has ever blown a three to zero lead in 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.920 NBA playoff history. Doc Rivers blown three separate three one leads, 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.040 but no one's ever blown a three oh league. But 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:49.079 it's more dramatically, there have only been three teams ever 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.000 up three to zero that they even had to play 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.640 a game separate, and one of them is the nineteen 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:00.239 fifty one Rochester Royals. It happened once in nineteen fifty 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.120 and once in the mid nineties, and once in the 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.960 early two thousands. So down oh three, not only does 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.600 no one ever win, typically you don't ever even get 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.520 to a game seven. So the fact that Philly is 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.959 now on the road in Toronto for a Game six 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.680 with no Maxi within this is. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.160 Scary, legit scary. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.080 Like I expected Philly to potentially lose Game four, they 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.280 go three to zero, they relax, they have a couple 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.760 of days off, they're partying in Canada. But then Game 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.040 five is when you in the series. You're back home, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.400 you're incentivized to make sure you'll off to get another plane, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 take another trip. And not only they lose, they got 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.000 blown out. So yeah, if they were to lose this series. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.440 Then it is. The shock waves of it will be 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.120 felt for years. Like Doc will obviously lose his job. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.160 I don't know what they do with Hard, and. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.320 Like the whole thing if they lose Game six, I 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.360 would argue the game seven in Philly Become was the 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.480 single most pressurized Round one game in NBA. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.440 History for Rivers, especially. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.440 For everyone involved. You will never get over the stink 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.960 of an three blowing three zero leads, especially when you 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.520 have arguably the MVP on your team and the other 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.679 team it's Scotty Barnes as a rookie, Fredman Bleeds who 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.000 didn't even play in game five. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.360 The whole thing is a mess. Sorry, my phone's broken. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.880 It's making noise. I don't know if the MIC's pick 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.080 that up. But to answer the direct question, I don't 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.520 I think Phillies have. Let's just assume they don't have 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.880 the most catastrophic collapse. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.280 In NBA history. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.600 Embiids obviously locked up max Is on his rookie deal, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.040 and you didn't trade all that stuff for Harden to 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.000 not re sign Hard, so like that is going to be. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.640 Their trio moving forward. There are real questions about what 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.240 level of player Harden is anymore. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.160 You just can't seem to get past people anymore. And 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.440 that's concerning. But the idea that Daryl Morey Hardens, one 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.880 of his all time favorite players, was with him in Houston, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.520 Darryl Moore is going to sign hard in whatever contract 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.199 Harden demands this offseason. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.559 Is that going to be a good contract in four years? No? 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.959 Will it be a good contract next year? 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.040 Philly would be banking on it, but they got to 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.360 get through Toronto. But they're not showing me right now. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.520 I picked them to beat Miami in round two. Miami 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.080 the other night just beat Atlanta with no Jimmy Butler. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.680 They handled Atlanta in five. All right, what's next? Nope, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.800 we're taking before a game five of Bugs Bulls. Yep, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.600 assuming they win the series. Yeah, Milwaukee's got Boston next. Yeah, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.720 and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I think we 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.160 can make that beneficial now, by the way, Oh okay, yeah, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.160 especially with Middleton being banged up. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.600 Yeah. Yeah, So let's just hold on. So let's just 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:43.120 stop here. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.080 So you want to make a buck Celtics banc Demonde's 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:47.880 a Celtics fan. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.960 Celtics and six Celtics and six That's what. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.560 I'm going with if it goes to a game seven, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.320 I do give you if it goes to game seven. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 I want to make that like a little side barkway. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.640 Those the game seven. I give it to mok if 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.280 but you know, well that's what Game seven would be 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.080 in Boston. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.960 So you're saying that the Celtics win win in six. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.480 We again, you're trying to you want to gamble with 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.640 me on this. I don't think it's a good idea. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.040 I understand Middleton's out. I also, so what do you 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:19.840 want to bet? Let's let's figure out the bet. Then 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.320 I'll tell give my opinion on the series, because there 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.400 need to be real stakes in. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.600 Celtics and six. So I give you one hundred and 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.600 fifty bucks. See can I actually you know what? I 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.480 give you one fifty, you give me five. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.320 I'm not giving you three to one odds on what 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.120 is a coin flip series in Vegas. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.600 See here's the deal, buddy. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.560 We don't need betting money between us is not a 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.320 good idea because it's just naturally going to be more 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.600 painful for you than for me. There needs to be 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:51.960 some reputational thing involved. There needs to be something either 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.960 that we do on the show something the viewers and 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.600 listeners some embarrassment for me or embarrassment for you. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.160 That's what the bet needs to be about. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:06.480 So I I have some ideas on what we could 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.800 do here, because you're a Celtics fan and I've said 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.720 you honest and the Bucks are going to win the title. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.640 Money is not the right answer, Okay, it's not a 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:15.840 financial wager that. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.440 We need to make. What we need to make is 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.240 a reputational wager. Okay. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:30.600 If Boston wins the series, I will let you run 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:38.280 my Twitter account for a day. Okay, okay if the 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.360 cel If the Bucks win the series, I get to 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.240 pick five. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:50.440 Pictures of you with no say from you, to put 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:51.080 on this show. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.479 Is that a bet? 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:01.120 Is that a bet? Oh? God? Yeah? That's locked in there. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.520 We go, all right, I've got the Bucks, You've got 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.040 the Celtics. I think Giannis is good. You know who's 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.840 going to be a low key loser of Bucks Celtics 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:15.640 if the Bucks win, Kevin Duran Because if the Celtics defense, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.440 that's Steiny kd for four games and swept them. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.720 If Jiannis has his way with them. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.920 Right, that's a problem. All right, we have a clock 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.359 if you're watching on YouTube. We only have thirty seconds left, 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:29.280 but we're gonna almost hit the clock. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:30.280 Give me the last question. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:31.280 Shams reported. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.639 Ben Simmons told the Nets he has a mental block 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.800 after the last postseason. Ye says the mental block stress 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.800 affected his back injury. Yes, mental health is obviously a 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.320 very serious issue. We don't know what's up for Ben Simmons, obviously, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.560 But is it okay to criticize him anymore? 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.600 Okay, So I don't need a lot of time here. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.040 I need maybe we'll go over time by one minute. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.879 So I set on this show on other platforms that 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.480 I thought Ben's back injury was. I think the term 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.440 is psychosomatic, and that doesn't mean it's not real. It's 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.480 the same way stress can cause ulcers, stress can cause 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.400 back Then I believed his back was hurting without ever 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.159 suffering a physical back injury. I think it was the 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.760 stress of the moment. Here is why you can empathize 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.120 with Ben Simmons but also be critical of Ben Simmons. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:28.360 The basketball part of being a performer, whether it's sports, theater, acting, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:34.919 stand up comic, is the stress and anxiety of performing 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.000 in front of crowds and being able to perform despite 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:43.119 the right. So it is yes, you can, you can 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.679 empathize with someone who is dealing with legitimate mental health 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:52.439 or stress and anxiety struggles, but also recognize that in 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.399 we always like to say, you know, we need to 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.000 do a better job of treating you know, mental injury 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.359 or mental trauma the way we do trauma to the body. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:09.040 But that correct the same way we give guys in 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.560 sports more credit if they can, if they are can 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.719 play through an ankle injury that someone else couldn't. A 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.280 lot of these guys are under massive pressure. A lot 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.120 of these guys are in their massive stress. And when 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:26.520 it comes to Ben Simmons the basketball player, his inability 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.440 it would appear to handle that makes him a worse 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.000 basketball player. It's not an indictment on him as a 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.600 human being, but it is absolutely fair to say part 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.480 of being a professional athlete is being able to deal 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:45.120 with the expectations, the pressure, the crowds, all of it 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.400 and still perform your best. If you can't do that, 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.199 that makes you a lesser professional athlete. That is not 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.320 attacking someone for going through mental health struggles. That is 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.639 recognizing what any type of live performance is. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.920 He's got a lot of time. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.359 He's gotten a lot of time, and at this point 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.239 I do worry he's his own worst enemy on it, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.240 and I feel badly for Ben Simmons the person, But 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.720 Ben Simmons the basketball player is it's absolutely fair to say, 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.080 just like I feel like in the Celtics Nets series, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.240 at some point the pressure got to KD a bit. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.719 That's a mental thing. The in the MAVs. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.120 Heat series, when Lebron melted it down, clearly the pressure 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.520 got to it. Part of being great is overcoming that. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.080 Right now, Ben is having issues with that. That's about 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.520 him the basketball player, not him the human being. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:40.639 We'll be right. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:48.640 There, all right, Welcome back in What's Right with Nick 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.240 Wright Podcast segment number two of episode number fourteen. For 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.080 those of you charting the show segment by segment, episode 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.280 by episode, which is absolutely no one. All right, Demon's 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.600 now time for two rowng's in one. Right, We're gonna 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:02.280 get right into it. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:02.679 Let's go. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.600 Most likely been traded the far next show, Deebo, Samuel Yeah, 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.360 Baker Mayfield or Darren Waller. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.160 Okay, so Darren Waller is the outstanding Raiders tight end 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.600 who all of a sudden popped up in some trade rumors. 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:17.879 We've already talked about Debo. 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.760 So the draft is by the time you guys are 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.119 hearing or seeing this, the draft is today. It's Thursday. 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.719 I guess maybe it's yesterday opening when you're watching it, 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.600 but the draft is today. The draft is going to 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:36.720