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Speaker 6: Welcome in episode fourteen of the What's Right with Nick
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Speaker 6: YouTube feeds, we're continuing every Sunday we release the latest
Speaker 6: and the fifty greatest players will last fifty years in
Speaker 6: NBA history, something I am oddly passionate about, as you
Speaker 6: will find out in just a moment. This week, one
Speaker 6: of the most polarizing players on the entire list comes out,
Speaker 6: So check that out this Sunday. Catch up over the
Speaker 6: weekend because we've already done players fifty through forty. But
Speaker 6: as we always do on the show, first we talk
Speaker 6: about what we are not actually talking about.
Speaker 3: So here's what is not on today's show. What is
Speaker 3: not on today's show is Jerry West being mad at HBO,
Speaker 3: Jay Wright eyeing the NBA or j R. Smith's four
Speaker 3: point zero gpa. But shout out to my buddy j R. Smith.
Speaker 3: I think that is such an awesome story.
Speaker 6: Also not on today's show is the ongoing to me
Speaker 6: non debate about is Kevin Durant a top ten all
Speaker 6: time player.
Speaker 3: That's not in today's show.
Speaker 6: However, I have been so enraged by so many of
Speaker 6: my colleagues flippantly calling him a top ten all time
Speaker 6: player when you simply it's an impossibility to make it.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to do it again.
Speaker 6: I'm going to do it just for a second right
Speaker 6: here on the top of my head, just real quick,
Speaker 6: of all time. So you have Lebron, you have Fream,
Speaker 6: you have Michael, you have Magic, you have Wilt, you
Speaker 6: have Russell. That's six names. You have Duncan, you have Bird,
Speaker 6: you have Kobe. That's nine names. So to have Kevin
Speaker 6: Durant is top ten. That means no one else is
Speaker 6: on the list. Oh but wait, I haven't said Shaquille O'Neil,
Speaker 6: a Quima LaJuan. Oh my goodness. I haven't said doctor j.
Speaker 6: I haven't said Steph. I haven't said Yiannest. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: what am I gonna do here? So here's the here's
Speaker 6: the problem, guys. I gave fourteen names, and I say
Speaker 6: Katie's got to be ahead of five of them to
Speaker 6: be top ten, And twenty percent of the responses are
Speaker 6: some snarky version of dude. At least do the math right.
Speaker 6: If there's fourteen names for him to be top ten.
Speaker 6: He's only got to be ahead of four of them.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, these people can't even do single digit subtraction.
Speaker 3: What's fourteen minus four? It's ten? And then you add
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant. How many do you have?
Speaker 6: Oh, these people are so dumb. Ultimately, there is no
Speaker 6: away there. It does not exist. There's no way to
Speaker 6: put Durant in the top ten without removing.
Speaker 3: At a minimum.
Speaker 6: A Keem, Shack Bird, Kobe. You got to remove a
Speaker 6: doctor J. You have to remove three of those guys.
Speaker 6: Of those five guys, pick three to put Kevin Durant
Speaker 6: ahead of That's what you've got to do.
Speaker 3: Everyone will say doctor J immediately, Fine, give me the
Speaker 3: other two. You're gonna say a Keen.
Speaker 6: You'll be wrong, but fine, tell me the other one, Shaq, Kobe,
Speaker 6: Larry Bird, tell me nobody can do you.
Speaker 3: Know why this is not top ten? And then I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say something else.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna read your tweet I got from and I
Speaker 6: don't dislike this guy, Ben Dowset who has a verified
Speaker 6: check mark, And I'm going to read you as Twitter
Speaker 6: bio because it's relevant to the discussion. Bendl said, NBA
Speaker 6: words mostly at ESPN or five thirty eight. He tweets
Speaker 6: to me, I honestly stand in awe of your ability
Speaker 6: to constantly find the energy to care so much about
Speaker 6: such arbitrary irrelevant The guy is a writer about sports.
Speaker 6: All of this is irrelevant, arbitrary shit. So I responded
Speaker 6: to him, you're smart enough to see the irony in
Speaker 6: this tweet considering what we both do for a living.
Speaker 6: I mean, arbitrary irrelevant is literally what both of our
Speaker 6: careers are based on writing about. And he responds, Sure,
Speaker 6: but I think you're smart enough to realize there are
Speaker 6: degrees to this. Whether Katie is the ninth or fourteenth
Speaker 6: best player of all time is.
Speaker 3: Irrelevant, even in a world of irrelevant. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you something.
Speaker 6: You know, the very specific scenario in which someone is
Speaker 6: the ninth best or fourteenth best at something. If we
Speaker 6: if the question is are they in the top ten?
Speaker 6: That is the one situation where not only is it
Speaker 6: not irrelevant, it's actually the only relevant thing. If it
Speaker 6: is this person top ten, Oh, well they're ninth or
Speaker 6: their fourteenth.
Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you who cares the person who asked the
Speaker 6: questions the top ten. Okay, now we can start the
Speaker 6: actual show. Demonse, when's the last time you heard me
Speaker 6: curse that much? Have you ever heard me curse that
Speaker 6: much during a Chiefs playoff loss? Maybe I've definitely heard
Speaker 6: you curse that much. It might not have been sports related,
Speaker 6: sports related, oh probably at you probably Demonse, high school related.
Speaker 3: Maybe. Okay, so what are we starting with today?
Speaker 4: Suns tate Game five against New Orleans. Yep, Mickel Bridges
Speaker 4: at Aden, have a big night.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: You've gone with Dallas to win the West Cows times
Speaker 4: five more times than you go with yok, it's.
Speaker 3: Not being the MVP.
Speaker 4: Do you realize that's how lucky they are to be
Speaker 4: playing the banged up Suns instead of the Grizzlies of
Speaker 4: the Warriors.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, they're not playing the Suns yet, and I
Speaker 6: want to talk about the Grizzlies in just second. But
Speaker 6: I do assume the Sons are going to beat the Pelicans.
Speaker 6: But folks, I went out on a limb and picked
Speaker 6: Dallas when Luca was already declared out for the beginning
Speaker 6: of the series with an injury. We knew the bracket,
Speaker 6: and I knew that Grizzlies Warriors were on the other side.
Speaker 3: Of the bracket.
Speaker 6: That's one of the reasons I picked Dallas. Another one
Speaker 6: of the reasons I picked Dallas and wasn't afraid of
Speaker 6: Phoenix was because of all the best teams in basketball,
Speaker 6: the one with the biggest injury risk is the one
Speaker 6: who's best players thirty six years old and Chris Paul.
Speaker 6: Now he's not the one who got hurt. Devin Booker
Speaker 6: is the one who got hurt. But Chris Paul is
Speaker 6: always an injury risk. So no, I'm not going to
Speaker 6: have any shame in the fact that I had the
Speaker 6: courage to stick with Dallas from six weeks ago, even
Speaker 6: after Luca got hurt. And what we are seeing is
Speaker 6: as I told you, Luke is an all time playoff performer. Tonight,
Speaker 6: when you guys see the game when they beat you all,
Speaker 6: what's an average Luca game, Well, he literally averages thirty
Speaker 6: four to nine and nine for his playoff career. So
Speaker 6: I think I don't know tonight close out game, probably
Speaker 6: thirty six, eleven and eight is about what I would
Speaker 6: anticipate for him. He's the best player on his side
Speaker 6: of the bracket. He is the best player in the
Speaker 6: Western Conference playoffs. He's better than step. He's better than Jaw.
Speaker 6: But I do want to say something about Jaw because
Speaker 6: I believe the Grizzlies are going to close out the Timberwolves.
Speaker 6: Job was obviously unbelievable in the closing minutes against the
Speaker 6: Timberwolves on Tuesday night, scored thirteen straight points, had one
Speaker 6: of the greatest dunks we've ever seen. I before the
Speaker 6: playoffs picked the Grizzlies to beat the Warriors in that series.
Speaker 6: I would be lying if I said I feel better
Speaker 6: about Memphis today than beforehand, because they have looked shaky
Speaker 6: against the Timberwolves and the Warriors have looked phenomenal. With
Speaker 6: that said, the Warriors are playing a team that is
Speaker 6: drawing dead in Denver. That's not about Yokics. They are
Speaker 6: just flatly drawing dead. And the other piece of that is,
Speaker 6: in my estimation that the Warriors maybe I underrated them a.
Speaker 3: Bit because they hadn't been healthy all year.
Speaker 6: There is a chance the Warriors are the best team
Speaker 6: in the West, even though Dallas has the best player
Speaker 6: in the West. But I think Memphis is going to
Speaker 6: present some issues for Golden State because of their youth
Speaker 6: and their athleticism and just the kind of frenetic style
Speaker 6: they play, So I think that series is going to
Speaker 6: be a war. I think Dallas is going to beat Phoenix. No,
Speaker 6: I'm not backing down at all, and I'm not at
Speaker 6: all going to apologize that I had the foresight to
Speaker 6: believe in Luka Doncic when no one else wanted to.
Speaker 3: Again, by the way, I told you this. I think
Speaker 3: I told you this.
Speaker 6: I bet before the playoffs at sixty five to one,
Speaker 6: Bucks over mAbs in the finals and exact NBA finals
Speaker 6: of the Buckser champions they beat the Mavericks. I right now,
Speaker 6: if you ask me what I think the finals, what's
Speaker 6: going to happen? I would say Bucks over MAVs. Okay,
Speaker 6: all right, what's next month?
Speaker 4: Philly in danger of blown a three to zero lead
Speaker 4: to Toronto in Game six on Thursday. They got a
Speaker 4: lot of decisions to make. With hard enough for an
Speaker 4: extension yep, and bid is now injured for a second playoff,
Speaker 4: playoff season or whatever playoff.
Speaker 3: Run in a row.
Speaker 4: What does Philly need to do to prove that Harden
Speaker 4: Maxi and Embiid is worth building around.
Speaker 6: Okay, first of all, let me talk about the stakes
Speaker 6: in Game six for a moment, because everybody knows no
Speaker 6: one has ever blown a three to zero lead in
Speaker 6: NBA playoff history. Doc Rivers blown three separate three one leads,
Speaker 6: but no one's ever blown a three oh league. But
Speaker 6: it's more dramatically, there have only been three teams ever
Speaker 6: up three to zero that they even had to play
Speaker 6: a game separate, and one of them is the nineteen
Speaker 6: fifty one Rochester Royals. It happened once in nineteen fifty
Speaker 6: and once in the mid nineties, and once in the
Speaker 6: early two thousands. So down oh three, not only does
Speaker 6: no one ever win, typically you don't ever even get
Speaker 6: to a game seven. So the fact that Philly is
Speaker 6: now on the road in Toronto for a Game six
Speaker 6: with no Maxi within this is.
Speaker 5: Scary, legit scary.
Speaker 6: Like I expected Philly to potentially lose Game four, they
Speaker 6: go three to zero, they relax, they have a couple
Speaker 6: of days off, they're partying in Canada. But then Game
Speaker 6: five is when you in the series. You're back home,
Speaker 6: you're incentivized to make sure you'll off to get another plane,
Speaker 6: take another trip. And not only they lose, they got
Speaker 6: blown out. So yeah, if they were to lose this series.
Speaker 3: Then it is. The shock waves of it will be
Speaker 3: felt for years. Like Doc will obviously lose his job.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they do with Hard, and.
Speaker 6: Like the whole thing if they lose Game six, I
Speaker 6: would argue the game seven in Philly Become was the
Speaker 6: single most pressurized Round one game in NBA.
Speaker 5: History for Rivers, especially.
Speaker 3: For everyone involved. You will never get over the stink
Speaker 3: of an three blowing three zero leads, especially when you
Speaker 3: have arguably the MVP on your team and the other
Speaker 3: team it's Scotty Barnes as a rookie, Fredman Bleeds who
Speaker 3: didn't even play in game five.
Speaker 6: The whole thing is a mess. Sorry, my phone's broken.
Speaker 6: It's making noise. I don't know if the MIC's pick
Speaker 6: that up. But to answer the direct question, I don't
Speaker 6: I think Phillies have. Let's just assume they don't have
Speaker 6: the most catastrophic collapse.
Speaker 3: In NBA history.
Speaker 6: Embiids obviously locked up max Is on his rookie deal,
Speaker 6: and you didn't trade all that stuff for Harden to
Speaker 6: not re sign Hard, so like that is going to be.
Speaker 3: Their trio moving forward. There are real questions about what
Speaker 3: level of player Harden is anymore.
Speaker 6: You just can't seem to get past people anymore. And
Speaker 6: that's concerning. But the idea that Daryl Morey Hardens, one
Speaker 6: of his all time favorite players, was with him in Houston,
Speaker 6: Darryl Moore is going to sign hard in whatever contract
Speaker 6: Harden demands this offseason.
Speaker 3: Is that going to be a good contract in four years? No?
Speaker 3: Will it be a good contract next year?
Speaker 6: Philly would be banking on it, but they got to
Speaker 6: get through Toronto. But they're not showing me right now.
Speaker 6: I picked them to beat Miami in round two. Miami
Speaker 6: the other night just beat Atlanta with no Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 6: They handled Atlanta in five. All right, what's next? Nope,
Speaker 6: we're taking before a game five of Bugs Bulls. Yep,
Speaker 6: assuming they win the series. Yeah, Milwaukee's got Boston next. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and I'm feeling pretty good about it. I think we
Speaker 6: can make that beneficial now, by the way, Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: especially with Middleton being banged up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So let's just hold on. So let's just
Speaker 3: stop here.
Speaker 6: So you want to make a buck Celtics banc Demonde's
Speaker 6: a Celtics fan.
Speaker 3: Celtics and six Celtics and six That's what.
Speaker 4: I'm going with if it goes to a game seven,
Speaker 4: I do give you if it goes to game seven.
Speaker 5: I want to make that like a little side barkway.
Speaker 3: Those the game seven. I give it to mok if
Speaker 3: but you know, well that's what Game seven would be
Speaker 3: in Boston.
Speaker 6: So you're saying that the Celtics win win in six.
Speaker 6: We again, you're trying to you want to gamble with
Speaker 6: me on this. I don't think it's a good idea.
Speaker 6: I understand Middleton's out. I also, so what do you
Speaker 6: want to bet? Let's let's figure out the bet. Then
Speaker 6: I'll tell give my opinion on the series, because there
Speaker 6: need to be real stakes in.
Speaker 5: Celtics and six. So I give you one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty bucks. See can I actually you know what? I
Speaker 5: give you one fifty, you give me five.
Speaker 6: I'm not giving you three to one odds on what
Speaker 6: is a coin flip series in Vegas.
Speaker 3: See here's the deal, buddy.
Speaker 6: We don't need betting money between us is not a
Speaker 6: good idea because it's just naturally going to be more
Speaker 6: painful for you than for me. There needs to be
Speaker 6: some reputational thing involved. There needs to be something either
Speaker 6: that we do on the show something the viewers and
Speaker 6: listeners some embarrassment for me or embarrassment for you.
Speaker 3: That's what the bet needs to be about.
Speaker 6: So I I have some ideas on what we could
Speaker 6: do here, because you're a Celtics fan and I've said
Speaker 6: you honest and the Bucks are going to win the title.
Speaker 6: Money is not the right answer, Okay, it's not a
Speaker 6: financial wager that.
Speaker 3: We need to make. What we need to make is
Speaker 3: a reputational wager. Okay.
Speaker 6: If Boston wins the series, I will let you run
Speaker 6: my Twitter account for a day. Okay, okay if the
Speaker 6: cel If the Bucks win the series, I get to
Speaker 6: pick five.
Speaker 3: Pictures of you with no say from you, to put
Speaker 3: on this show.
Speaker 5: Is that a bet?
Speaker 3: Is that a bet? Oh? God? Yeah? That's locked in there.
Speaker 6: We go, all right, I've got the Bucks, You've got
Speaker 6: the Celtics. I think Giannis is good. You know who's
Speaker 6: going to be a low key loser of Bucks Celtics
Speaker 6: if the Bucks win, Kevin Duran Because if the Celtics defense,
Speaker 6: that's Steiny kd for four games and swept them.
Speaker 3: If Jiannis has his way with them.
Speaker 6: Right, that's a problem. All right, we have a clock
Speaker 6: if you're watching on YouTube. We only have thirty seconds left,
Speaker 6: but we're gonna almost hit the clock.
Speaker 3: Give me the last question.
Speaker 5: Shams reported.
Speaker 4: Ben Simmons told the Nets he has a mental block
Speaker 4: after the last postseason. Ye says the mental block stress
Speaker 4: affected his back injury. Yes, mental health is obviously a
Speaker 4: very serious issue. We don't know what's up for Ben Simmons, obviously,
Speaker 4: But is it okay to criticize him anymore?
Speaker 6: Okay, So I don't need a lot of time here.
Speaker 6: I need maybe we'll go over time by one minute.
Speaker 6: So I set on this show on other platforms that
Speaker 6: I thought Ben's back injury was. I think the term
Speaker 6: is psychosomatic, and that doesn't mean it's not real. It's
Speaker 6: the same way stress can cause ulcers, stress can cause
Speaker 6: back Then I believed his back was hurting without ever
Speaker 6: suffering a physical back injury. I think it was the
Speaker 6: stress of the moment. Here is why you can empathize
Speaker 6: with Ben Simmons but also be critical of Ben Simmons.
Speaker 6: The basketball part of being a performer, whether it's sports, theater, acting,
Speaker 6: stand up comic, is the stress and anxiety of performing
Speaker 6: in front of crowds and being able to perform despite
Speaker 6: the right. So it is yes, you can, you can
Speaker 6: empathize with someone who is dealing with legitimate mental health
Speaker 6: or stress and anxiety struggles, but also recognize that in
Speaker 6: we always like to say, you know, we need to
Speaker 6: do a better job of treating you know, mental injury
Speaker 6: or mental trauma the way we do trauma to the body.
Speaker 6: But that correct the same way we give guys in
Speaker 6: sports more credit if they can, if they are can
Speaker 6: play through an ankle injury that someone else couldn't. A
Speaker 6: lot of these guys are under massive pressure. A lot
Speaker 6: of these guys are in their massive stress. And when
Speaker 6: it comes to Ben Simmons the basketball player, his inability
Speaker 6: it would appear to handle that makes him a worse
Speaker 6: basketball player. It's not an indictment on him as a
Speaker 6: human being, but it is absolutely fair to say part
Speaker 6: of being a professional athlete is being able to deal
Speaker 6: with the expectations, the pressure, the crowds, all of it
Speaker 6: and still perform your best. If you can't do that,
Speaker 6: that makes you a lesser professional athlete. That is not
Speaker 6: attacking someone for going through mental health struggles. That is
Speaker 6: recognizing what any type of live performance is.
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of time.
Speaker 6: He's gotten a lot of time, and at this point
Speaker 6: I do worry he's his own worst enemy on it,
Speaker 6: and I feel badly for Ben Simmons the person, But
Speaker 6: Ben Simmons the basketball player is it's absolutely fair to say,
Speaker 6: just like I feel like in the Celtics Nets series,
Speaker 6: at some point the pressure got to KD a bit.
Speaker 3: That's a mental thing. The in the MAVs.
Speaker 6: Heat series, when Lebron melted it down, clearly the pressure
Speaker 6: got to it. Part of being great is overcoming that.
Speaker 6: Right now, Ben is having issues with that. That's about
Speaker 6: him the basketball player, not him the human being.
Speaker 3: We'll be right.
Speaker 6: There, all right, Welcome back in What's Right with Nick
Speaker 6: Wright Podcast segment number two of episode number fourteen. For
Speaker 6: those of you charting the show segment by segment, episode
Speaker 6: by episode, which is absolutely no one. All right, Demon's
Speaker 6: now time for two rowng's in one. Right, We're gonna
Speaker 6: get right into it.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 4: Most likely been traded the far next show, Deebo, Samuel Yeah,
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield or Darren Waller.
Speaker 6: Okay, so Darren Waller is the outstanding Raiders tight end
Speaker 6: who all of a sudden popped up in some trade rumors.
Speaker 3: We've already talked about Debo.
Speaker 6: So the draft is by the time you guys are
Speaker 6: hearing or seeing this, the draft is today. It's Thursday.
Speaker 6: I guess maybe it's yesterday opening when you're watching it,
Speaker 6: but the draft is today. The draft is going to
Speaker 6: determine Baker's destiny. So my guess is none of these
Speaker 6: guys are traded in the next ninety six hours. But
Speaker 6: if one of them is, my answers Baker because somebody
Speaker 6: is going to end up targeting a quarterback, not getting it,
Speaker 6: and then deciding, Okay, we need you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield's our best option.
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 6: The Niners are gonna flinch on Deebo and the Darren
Speaker 6: Waller things seemed to kind of come out out of
Speaker 6: whole claw, Like I'm not certain that the Raiders are.
Speaker 6: They just added Devonte Adams, they are trying to compete
Speaker 6: with Kansas City that I don't think all of a
Speaker 6: sudden they're gonna get rid of one of their the
Speaker 6: guy who last year I felt was their most dynamic
Speaker 6: offensive weapon. And the Niners, I think they and Deebo
Speaker 6: will end up coming to terms on something. Maybe I'm wrong, Listen,
Speaker 6: maybe Deevo's trade a draft day, but I don't think
Speaker 6: the Niners are in the right now in the business
Speaker 6: when they're going to be starting not a rookie quarterback
Speaker 6: but essentially a rookie quarterback, and Trey Lance getting rid
Speaker 6: of their most dynamic offensive weapon. Baker, we know is
Speaker 6: not going to be a Brown, So to me, he's
Speaker 6: the best, the best answer, the most likely answer.
Speaker 3: All right, what's an ex sense we draft strategy? You
Speaker 3: agree with?
Speaker 4: Yeah, always trade down, yep, don't draft a running back
Speaker 4: in round one or never drafting a mid round quarterback.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 6: The way quarterbacks are drafted is so patently illogical, and
Speaker 6: I'm this is gonna We're gonna spend half the segment
Speaker 6: on this question. Okay, So here's the deal. Go back
Speaker 6: in every draft that we've had for thirty years, and
Speaker 6: here is what is true. If you went and redid
Speaker 6: the draft, every single quarterback that worked out, no matter
Speaker 6: where they were drafted, would be the first pick, the
Speaker 6: second pick, the third pick. How if you went if
Speaker 6: ten years after a draft there were three franchise quarterbacks
Speaker 6: from the draft and you're like, hey, go redraft it
Speaker 6: doesn't matter if a Hall of Fame left tackle for
Speaker 6: Jalen Ramsey or who is in that draft you went
Speaker 6: to redraft it with hindsight being twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: First, the best.
Speaker 6: Quarterback can go first, the second best quarterback go second,
Speaker 6: the third best quarterback go third, and.
Speaker 3: Then you'd get to everyone else.
Speaker 6: So that brings that is just a pure fact of
Speaker 6: the matter. You go to Patrick Mahomes's draft, it's quite simple.
Speaker 6: Patrick Mahomes would go one, Deshaun Watson would go too,
Speaker 6: and then we would get to the non quarterbacks. If
Speaker 6: you went to Baker Mayfield draft, for instance, Josh Allen
Speaker 6: would go one. Lamar Jackson would go to Baker Mayfield
Speaker 6: for all his flaws would go three, and then we
Speaker 6: would get to all the other players. Because a franchise
Speaker 6: quarterback is so much more valuable than everybody else. So
Speaker 6: why do I bring that up? Because this time of
Speaker 6: year you hear teams or reports from teams say this,
Speaker 6: which makes no sense when it comes to quarterback. Oh, well,
Speaker 6: they wouldn't draft him in the top five, but if
Speaker 6: he falls to twenty, they might want They might trade
Speaker 6: back into get him if he's a success. If he's
Speaker 6: the right pick at twenty. He would have been the
Speaker 6: right pick at one unless there was another quarterback better
Speaker 6: than him. So that's first point, like the idea that
Speaker 6: there is such a thing as a quarterback that five
Speaker 6: years after the draft, it's going to be like, oh,
Speaker 6: glad we didn't spend the fourth pick on him. But
Speaker 6: it's real, we spent the fourteenth pick on him. That
Speaker 6: player has never existed.
Speaker 3: It's a myth.
Speaker 6: Okay, So there's that. Then there's the mid round quarterback party.
Speaker 6: I can be like, oh, Russell Wilson's a mid round quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I understand people missed on him. He went back and
Speaker 6: redid Russell Wilson draft. He would go number one overall,
Speaker 6: Andrew Luck would go number two overall.
Speaker 3: But set that aside.
Speaker 6: These teams that spin picks in the second and third round,
Speaker 6: where you can get starters, you expect to get starters
Speaker 6: at every position on the field, except for quarterback, where
Speaker 6: it's like, oh no, no, we're drafting him as a project.
Speaker 6: We think maybe he can be a backup. That is
Speaker 6: a wasted pick. If I was running a team, here's
Speaker 6: my rule for the GM. There are only two spots
Speaker 6: that you're allowed to draft a quarterback in the top
Speaker 6: ten or sixth round or later flyer picks.
Speaker 3: Another draft rule I would have by the way, people
Speaker 3: might say, oh, so you wouldn't have drafted Lamar at
Speaker 3: thirty two. No, if I weren't, No, what I would
Speaker 3: have said is, guys, let's be honest, Baltimore missed on
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson too.
Speaker 6: You know why because they waited until the thirty second
Speaker 6: pick to trade up and get up. Didn't They had
Speaker 6: no idea.
Speaker 3: You can be like, oh, it's less risky. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: if they know what they knew now, if they were
Speaker 3: that much confidence in their convictions, they'd have ensured they
Speaker 3: got him by moving up earlier. But here's another draft
Speaker 3: rule I have.
Speaker 6: Sixth and seventh round picks are exclusively for the following things,
Speaker 6: the single best specialists in the draft. So kickers and
Speaker 6: punters are to meet undervalue in the draft. Punters sometimes
Speaker 6: we have whole drafts no punters get drafted. Punting's wildly valuable.
Speaker 3: So it's for that.
Speaker 6: Flyers on quarterbacks and guys who've been arrested or in so,
Speaker 6: guys who you should save all of your end of
Speaker 6: the draft picks for guys with a plus upside that
Speaker 6: might never make it in the league, or specialists. So
Speaker 6: a guy who's been arrested, a guy who popped his
Speaker 6: achilles and hadn't been helpy in two years. That's how
Speaker 6: you do the end of the draft, the beginning of
Speaker 6: the draft. I explained it again. Nobody's gonna let me
Speaker 6: run a team. I don't even really want to run anything.
Speaker 6: Doesn't sound that I'd love to runn an NBA team,
Speaker 6: NFL team doesn't sound that fun. But I could help
Speaker 6: half the league in the draft room. All right, what's next?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Ky Irving said a lot of things in his end
Speaker 4: of the season press conference. Which statement of his is true.
Speaker 4: He'll resign with Brooklyn, he'll help manage the franchise, or
Speaker 4: he's not focused on individual achievements and advocates.
Speaker 6: Oh, I actually believe the first, And you know what,
Speaker 6: I think these are all true. I think he is
Speaker 6: resigning with Brooklyn. I think they are gonna let him
Speaker 6: help manage the franchise. And I don't think he's worried
Speaker 6: about his individual.
Speaker 5: Achievements on the show.
Speaker 3: I actually believe Kyrie on all those things. But it
Speaker 3: is that shit crazy of the Nets to let him
Speaker 3: help manage the franchise. Kyrie Irving just had the worst
Speaker 3: year of his professional career. He was barely available.
Speaker 6: To play much less than anything else, and he surveyed
Speaker 6: the landscape after the worst year's professional career, was like,
Speaker 6: I've decided I.
Speaker 3: Deserve a raise and a promotion. It's insane. Man.
Speaker 6: Keep in mind, when he got to Brooklyn, they had
Speaker 6: a good head coach in Kenny Atkinson. He and Katie
Speaker 6: didn't like him, even though Katie wasn't even playing that year.
Speaker 6: They forced Atkinson out. One of the reasons they didn't
Speaker 6: like him was because Atkinson had the audacity to want
Speaker 6: to play Jared Allen over fossilized DeAndre Jordan. They're like, oh,
Speaker 6: you listen, you gotta roll with DeAndre. So they get
Speaker 6: Atkinson out. They then hire Nash and Kate. Kyrie was
Speaker 6: on that podcast with Kadi and says, uh, we don't
Speaker 6: really have a head I can be the coach.
Speaker 3: You can be the coach.
Speaker 6: So Kyrie one year into his tenure elevated himself to
Speaker 6: assistant head coach. Three years into his tenure, after one
Speaker 6: of the main reasons Harden soured on the team, was
Speaker 6: Kyrie not being there and that nonsense. Kyrie's on my
Speaker 6: lack of continuity within the roster, like he's not the
Speaker 6: biggest reason for it. And then he's like, you know what,
Speaker 6: I've decided I should help build the ross. It's insane, man,
Speaker 6: these these it's just totally insane behavior.
Speaker 3: And I think the nets are gonna let him do it.
Speaker 3: I think the nets are gonna let him do it.
Speaker 3: All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: There's so many shows about the eighties Lakers, either on
Speaker 4: TV or coming out soon. Pick a current team that
Speaker 4: deserves their own winning time.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's great, and I'm really glad that happened because
Speaker 6: so that's not what the rundown says here. And that's
Speaker 6: because Demonse just made a grievous error and Demons, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: keep that class going.
Speaker 3: We're gonna keep rolling, guys. No no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6: This is how we learn. And I told Demonse this
Speaker 6: moment what happened. You know, he and I used to
Speaker 6: have a little routine before the show. We'd go over
Speaker 6: the rundown together whatever it is. Tomansie. Now a few
Speaker 6: weeks in he's like, don't even need to rehearse it.
Speaker 6: I'm right, I'm rolling, let's go, And he didn't recognize
Speaker 6: we made a little adjustment, a minor rundown adjustment, buddy,
Speaker 6: And so we took that question out and we replaced
Speaker 6: it with who wins an all time dunk contest? Vince Carter,
Speaker 6: Dominique Wilkins or Jah Morant. You can put that in
Speaker 6: there and.
Speaker 3: I'll give the answer.
Speaker 5: What's so?
Speaker 4: Did I not ask you if there were any tweaks
Speaker 4: when I was up here? While I was writing the rundown?
Speaker 5: I was like, is there anything? And You're like, no,
Speaker 5: it's all as is?
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I thought, yes, you did ask me that
Speaker 6: it was all as is. It was in that moment,
Speaker 6: all this I didn't know the last time you had
Speaker 6: seen it. This tweak was made four hours ago, Pale,
Speaker 6: So you lit'st okay?
Speaker 5: So maybe I take my phone up.
Speaker 3: Your phone My phone did refresh.
Speaker 6: Oh well, blame the technology, Steve Jobs, Damn you and
Speaker 6: I phone. But the answers men's Carter, Ben's Carter had
Speaker 6: the single greatest dunk contest ever.
Speaker 3: He's the greatest dunker ever. This is not up for debate, Okay,
Speaker 3: last one assuming we're on the same pageret.
Speaker 5: I believe it's the La Rams the winning.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, good to know.
Speaker 4: This is the first time in seventeen years Durant and
Speaker 4: Lebron haven't been in the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. What about it?
Speaker 3: Okay, no, nothing, just you're going to ask the question though,
Speaker 3: so again, there you go, that's the question. Yeah, Rundown.
Speaker 6: The best thing about two thousand and five was LimeWire
Speaker 6: Larry Johnson or my youth.
Speaker 3: Do you know what LimeWire is?
Speaker 5: It's like it's like a software, right, do you know what?
Speaker 3: Do you know back in my day? What was used
Speaker 3: for the No, this is how we had to download music. Okay,
Speaker 3: it was like napster. Do you know what napster is?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: See, he's so young, so young and dumb. The the
Speaker 3: the we.
Speaker 6: Used to have to get pirated music via LimeWire or napster.
Speaker 6: I wasn't a big music guy. He is listening to
Speaker 6: sports talk radio. Larry Johnson was the Chiefs running back
Speaker 6: in five. Larry Johnson was awesome for a few years.
Speaker 3: He is now.
Speaker 6: You want to see a crazy twitter feed? Check Larry
Speaker 6: Johnson's Twitter feed. Oh boy, he got toxic Internet, bring bad.
Speaker 6: And then the best thing about five my youth. So
Speaker 6: five was my sophomore year at Syracuse. That was good times, Hughes, Well, yeah,
Speaker 6: you were seven. I was sophomore at Syracuse.
Speaker 3: Those are good times.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say the best thing about two thousand and
Speaker 6: five was my youth. And the best thing about this
Speaker 6: segment was Demons realizing maybe I got over my skis
Speaker 6: a bit in the pre show prep.
Speaker 3: Maybe I need to dial it back to how we
Speaker 3: had been doing it.
Speaker 5: Hey, listen, that question's actually on the rundown. What questions?
Speaker 4: Actually y the last thing about two thousand and five.
Speaker 4: But I was assuming this is the first time, and
Speaker 4: you were gonna like go off about that.
Speaker 5: You know, I have like a little brand.
Speaker 3: Keep your excuses to yourself. We'll be right back. Are
Speaker 3: you ready to go? Pal? How are you feeling? Oh jeez,
Speaker 3: how are you feeling? Feeling a bit.
Speaker 5: Block?
Speaker 3: Yeah? All right?
Speaker 6: Well, welcome back in What's Right with Nick Right podcast
Speaker 6: YouTube show listen. A lot of people have said the
Speaker 6: breakout star of this show has been Young Demonse, and
Speaker 6: like as many people are learning like Trey Young this
Speaker 6: year's playoffs sometimes after your greatest highs come your lowest lows.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh damn, I got a ways to go.
Speaker 6: So you're learning here and now you're going to learn
Speaker 6: a little more because you also off the air become
Speaker 6: more active on Twitter, which I have endorsed until I
Speaker 6: saw this tweet from very recently from one Demnse at
Speaker 6: Demonse Bird if you would like to follow him. That
Speaker 6: reads people are saying job dunk is the best in
Speaker 6: playoff history. I say it's Kevin Johnson baseline over a
Speaker 6: team that's from Jimmy Baker.
Speaker 3: Demanse writes.
Speaker 6: I'm assuming you're saying that because it was over a
Speaker 6: Keeme having no prior knowledge to who a cheme is.
Speaker 6: Just looking at the two dunks, John Morants is better.
Speaker 3: Demanza, what's the problem we lived in?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 4: No, exactly, I knew people were going to think that
Speaker 4: I was saying that I had no prior knowledge to
Speaker 4: a Kim Elijah on is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's what's You're wrong.
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm saying like, if you're a person that
Speaker 4: has no prior knowledge to who Akeem Olaijauan is, you
Speaker 4: look at Ja Moran's dunk and you look at the
Speaker 4: Larry Johnson one and you're like, Ja Morance is way better.
Speaker 4: But am Olajuan was known for being that guy in
Speaker 4: the post defensively and all that stuff. But if you
Speaker 4: don't know that and you look at the Ja Morant dunk,
Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, like this one looks much better.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: That's not saying that I don't know who Akeem Elijahan is.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, that defense, that defense is semi believable.
Speaker 6: It's undercut a bit by the fact that.
Speaker 4: Would pull up to lifetime when I was at the
Speaker 4: gym practice.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's one of the reasons I was so dismayed
Speaker 6: by your lack of knowledge about him. However, a few
Speaker 6: few things we got to dig in on. First of all,
Speaker 6: it was not the Larry Johnson dunk. It was the
Speaker 6: Kevin Johnson. Kevin Johnson, Larry Johnson, Schmary Johnson. Okay, that's fine,
Speaker 6: I know who you want, Okay, So that I do
Speaker 6: feel better because I was. I was, you know, I
Speaker 6: wasn't even mad at you. I was disappointed in myself.
Speaker 6: If you didn't know who Akiem Olaje is, you know,
Speaker 6: the greatest defensive player in NBA.
Speaker 3: History, all time leader in blocks, all time all time leader,
Speaker 3: and steals by a big man, all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But however, this is another lesson, not just in broadcasting,
Speaker 6: but in social media.
Speaker 3: It is the job. If someone misinterprets a tweet, that
Speaker 3: is the fault of the tweeter. If someone missed, if
Speaker 3: if if you, if anyone writes something, or if I
Speaker 3: say something on elevision and afterwards, I'm like, man, everyone
Speaker 3: is misunderstanding what I said.
Speaker 5: I didn't see it.
Speaker 6: So your tweet did appear as if you were saying
Speaker 6: having no idea, who the hell of chemolage one is?
Speaker 3: I like the job morandom? And so maybe again, this
Speaker 3: is all learning.
Speaker 6: This is learning on the fly in front of you know,
Speaker 6: a big national audience, you know, alongside America's most beloved sportscaster.
Speaker 6: So there's a lot. There's a lot here. But okay,
Speaker 6: I'm I'm glad. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3: Do you know who this personal my shirt is?
Speaker 5: Uh? That's okay, thank god?
Speaker 6: All right, we were gonna buy the way we were
Speaker 6: a one more pause of the hesitation away from posting
Speaker 6: this position for afters.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next week.