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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Drive with Nick Wright episode one sixty
Speaker 2: three and back today is our regular summer co host
Speaker 2: de Youora. Before we even get to the show, doorra,
Speaker 2: you know, your little sister did quite the job in
Speaker 2: your stead and behind the scenes. She came to me
Speaker 2: and asked, if you know, throughout the summer, if you
Speaker 2: guys could do like an alternating.
Speaker 3: Have it No that no, she can have it.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's fine, I was about to say, and
Speaker 2: I told her no because you and I have developed
Speaker 2: quite the rapport here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: She However, I will say this, while due to your age,
Speaker 2: you're a more gifted and seasoned performer. She did have
Speaker 2: a better top five NBA players than I think you
Speaker 2: would have. I think her sports knowledge might actually supersede yours.
Speaker 3: I believe it.
Speaker 2: The even though you were just in your spare time
Speaker 2: this the day of the podcast, you were watching a
Speaker 2: big basketball game at one forty fifth in Linux. Oh
Speaker 2: And also before we get to the show, what happened
Speaker 2: on your way to that basketball game? For the first
Speaker 2: time ever?
Speaker 3: Oh, I was recognized.
Speaker 2: You were recognized. The poor fellow that recognized almost got
Speaker 2: pepper sprayed. But yeah, it was the DOORA was walking
Speaker 2: with a friend and go ahead, you can tell the story.
Speaker 3: Kept like we were in the deli getting like drinks
Speaker 3: because we're walking up the hill and I we were
Speaker 3: both like dying, and he keeps looking at the deli
Speaker 3: and my friend and y'alla was like, wow, did you
Speaker 3: see that?
Speaker 2: And I was like no.
Speaker 3: And then once we walked out of the deli, he
Speaker 3: was like waiting right there and like pretended like he
Speaker 3: was still walking, and y'all was like, that's the that's
Speaker 3: the guy. That's the guy. And as he's walking up,
Speaker 3: he keeps looking back and then he finally just stopped
Speaker 3: on the hill while and we were like, okay, we'll
Speaker 3: just walk past him. And he's like, excuse me, is
Speaker 3: your name Diora? And I'm like I was like no.
Speaker 3: He was like, yeah it is, Yeah, it is. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my name. He was like, aren't you on that
Speaker 3: podcast with Nick? Right? Aren't you Nick Wright's daughter. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: You were so excited you facetimeed me. He was great.
Speaker 2: What's his name? Xavier? Yeah, So shout out to Xavier
Speaker 2: if he's watching. We appreciate you. All right, here's so
Speaker 2: welcome back to Youra. Here's what missed the cut for
Speaker 2: today's show. Domingo Herman throws the twenty fourth perfect game
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball history. Connor Bedard selected number one
Speaker 2: overall in the NHL Draft. That I am finding out
Speaker 2: in real time was last night and Crumble Cookies wants
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris to stay in Philadelphia. I'm finding out in
Speaker 2: real time that Crumble Cookies are a big thing. I
Speaker 2: had no idea we had him actually on the set yesterday.
Speaker 2: Great job by Tobias Harris with his spot because he
Speaker 2: sponsors them actually in getting them a lot of free publicity.
Speaker 2: None of that, however, makes the actual show diora What
Speaker 2: are we starting.
Speaker 3: With the Lakers? GM says that the plan is to
Speaker 3: bring back the core, but not to go after big stars.
Speaker 3: But the rest of the West is the rest of
Speaker 3: the West? Yeah, is getting better this offseason. If you
Speaker 3: were the GM in LA, which moves would you make
Speaker 3: to get Lebron one last ring?
Speaker 2: So I actually think and I haven't you know, obviously
Speaker 2: been a huge Rob Blinka fan, but I think this
Speaker 2: is the right tact. Obviously, can you get Dame? That
Speaker 2: would be great? You can't. I know some people want
Speaker 2: Kyrie Irving that I don't particularly want Kyrie Irving, but yeah,
Speaker 2: if you could flip out D'Angelo Russell for Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 2: yeah that's a net positive, even with all the nonsense
Speaker 2: that comes along with Kyrie. But that's not a realistic option.
Speaker 2: So the Lakers are in a spot where aside from Lebron,
Speaker 2: every single guy on the roster should be improving because
Speaker 2: of their age, with the exception of Ad who's thirty,
Speaker 2: who at the very least should be maintaining of not
Speaker 2: improving a little bit. So they have a very good
Speaker 2: chance of being better without adding significant pieces. Now I
Speaker 2: read last night they might want to go after Bruce
Speaker 2: Brown at the mid level exception. That's fine, but Ruey Hachimura,
Speaker 2: because of his age and now opportunity, should improve. Austin
Speaker 2: Reeves he doesn't have to take the giant jump he
Speaker 2: took mid season, but he's just turned twenty five years old.
Speaker 2: He should still be improving. Jared Vanderbilt, whose option they
Speaker 2: just picked up, should spend all summer working on corner threes.
Speaker 2: He should improve. Now. I'm not a huge D'Angelo Russell fan.
Speaker 2: He's never been a playoff performer. However, at the right
Speaker 2: dollar amount, I don't mind him because he does have
Speaker 2: a utility in the regular season and could be a
Speaker 2: tradable contract at the deadline. The real question for the
Speaker 2: Lakers is the machinations of are we gonna pick up
Speaker 2: Malik Beasley and or Mobamba's options, even though at sixteen
Speaker 2: million and ten million, respectively, those players are not worth
Speaker 2: that money, just so we have those salaries in order
Speaker 2: to include them in a trade if at mid season
Speaker 2: someone comes available and you need to be able to
Speaker 2: make the salaries match. Those are the types of decisions
Speaker 2: the Lakers need to be considering and making but I don't.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna go after James Harden and they can't.
Speaker 2: There is not a big ticket free agent or an
Speaker 2: obvious trade piece to go get. It's going to be
Speaker 2: manicuring around the edges. And I don't know that I agree. Sorry,
Speaker 2: there was a gnat in my face. That's what we're
Speaker 2: going there. I don't know that I agree that the
Speaker 2: rest of the West is improving. So let's, you know,
Speaker 2: go down the list. Denver is basically going to likely
Speaker 2: be the same team minus Bruce Brown, but with Christian
Speaker 2: Brown being a year older, maybe a year better. We'll
Speaker 2: see what director Michael Porter Junior and Aaron Gordon go.
Speaker 2: But assume they maintain there is right now no holes
Speaker 2: to poke in Denver. It is just it is very
Speaker 2: hard to repeat. They are a team that had dealt
Speaker 2: with bad injury luck in years past, had basically no
Speaker 2: injuries to speak of this year, and then you see
Speaker 2: how next year goes. The other reason for the Lakers,
Speaker 2: in reference to the Nuggets, should I think feel better
Speaker 2: than a four to zero sweep would indicate is not
Speaker 2: necessarily just because those were close games, but because in
Speaker 2: that series Jamal Murray, who's a very good player but
Speaker 2: not an all time great player in that series had
Speaker 2: an all time great series. The guy averaged thirty two
Speaker 2: points per game in that series. If he averaged twenty
Speaker 2: five points per game, which is more in line with
Speaker 2: a realistic output, how does that change the series. And
Speaker 2: then you go down Memphis. I don't think Memphis got
Speaker 2: discernibly better. I don't think swapping out Tyas Jones from
Speaker 2: Marcus Smart and you're gonna have twenty five games without
Speaker 2: Jaw makes them better that the Warriors. I think Chris
Speaker 2: Paul's better than Jordan Poole, but you then have to
Speaker 2: build in that Staph is thirty five years old. Is
Speaker 2: he gonna be as good? Maybe a touch worse, But
Speaker 2: say he stays as good. Draymond's on the decline, Clays
Speaker 2: on the decline, and they still don't have the size.
Speaker 2: Phoenix is the team everyone's gonna say, oh, because they
Speaker 2: added Bradley Beal. I don't know that they got better
Speaker 2: at coach going from Monti Williams to Frank Vogel. I
Speaker 2: know they don't have enough defense, and I know they
Speaker 2: don't have enough depth. So I think Denver has clearly
Speaker 2: separated themselves from the rest of the West. But if
Speaker 2: the Lakers just run it back, they are to me
Speaker 2: they a clear number two compared to everyone else in
Speaker 2: the conference. And the one other thing about the Lakers,
Speaker 2: The biggest improvement the Lakers can make is Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: taking the way he played post injury this year, that
Speaker 2: length of time without being hurt, the way he played
Speaker 2: defensively in the postseason, building on that, and Anthony Davis
Speaker 2: taking personally that in the three years since he's won
Speaker 2: the title, all the other seven footers in the league,
Speaker 2: all the other frontline seven footers, superstar type guys, have
Speaker 2: made giant either leaps or massive accomplishments since AD won
Speaker 2: his title. Giannis has a ring and a finals MVP,
Speaker 2: Jokic has a ring, a finals MVP, and two league MVPs.
Speaker 2: Embiid has a league MVP. AD on the other hand,
Speaker 2: up until this postseason has kind of gone in the
Speaker 2: wrong direction. So does he take that personal and try
Speaker 2: to reclaim at least He's not going to reclaim the
Speaker 2: title of the best seven footer in the league, but
Speaker 2: does he get at least back in the conversation that's
Speaker 2: the bath for the Lakers. And then you hope Lebron
Speaker 2: who averaged twenty eight seven and eight last year twenty
Speaker 2: eight seven and six, maybe I might have it. You're
Speaker 2: eight and six whatever it was, twenty eight seven and seven.
Speaker 2: Call it that that Lebron continues to stave off father
Speaker 2: time better than any athlete ever. That's the path, all right?
Speaker 3: Next, Okay, Travis Kelce loves winning and his role in Case,
Speaker 3: but he knows that he's being underpaid. He says, quote,
Speaker 3: you see how much more more money you could be making?
Speaker 3: And yeah, it hits you in the gut a little bit.
Speaker 3: It makes you think you're being taken advantage of. Is
Speaker 3: Kelsey being passive aggressive with the Chiefs or just harmless
Speaker 3: harmlesslie sharing his feelings.
Speaker 2: So I know th he's being passive aggressive because the
Speaker 2: full quote talks about his post career plans, how it's
Speaker 2: never Yeah he saw that Tyreek got thirty million, and
Speaker 2: you know it raised his eyebrows. But that he's happy
Speaker 2: in Kansas City, I think, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's trying to start anything. I
Speaker 3: think he's genuinely just being like well, like it hurts.
Speaker 2: Like well, and I could be making more money. Yes,
Speaker 2: and so to me this is actually kind of a
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes story. But I want to stay on Kelsey firm.
Speaker 2: Well I'll explain why in a moment. But on Kelsey,
Speaker 2: Kelsey is wildly underpaid. I mean the I think people
Speaker 2: would be shocked to know what Kelsey has made over
Speaker 2: the last few years and what he's scheduled to make
Speaker 2: over the next few years. As far as cash money
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey has taken home.
Speaker 3: What are you laughing about?
Speaker 2: Well, the reason I say that in the NFL, there's
Speaker 2: your cap hit, there's a pro rated when you talk
Speaker 2: about each year, how much money did Elsie put in
Speaker 2: his pocket? Here is it year by year one million,
Speaker 2: half a million, seven hundred thousand. That was his rookie deal.
Speaker 2: Then ten million, three million, eight million, nine million. Now
Speaker 2: the last three years nine million, twelve million, ten million.
Speaker 2: As far as what he is scheduled to make over
Speaker 2: the next few years, eleven and a half, twelve and
Speaker 2: then sixteen. So yeah, he has been way underpaid, considering.
Speaker 3: He needs at least twenty at least.
Speaker 2: And so the reason he doesn't get as much is
Speaker 2: because the position he's at tight ends don't they they
Speaker 2: are one of the lower paid positions in the league,
Speaker 2: but he produces better than the top receivers in the league.
Speaker 2: He could reset the tight end market. Now. He has
Speaker 2: gotten his extensions early, which adds some security, but he
Speaker 2: also has not pushed the team to pay him more.
Speaker 2: The reason I said this is a Mahomes story is
Speaker 2: because Mahomes is about to be the eighth highest paid
Speaker 2: quarterback in football. There's gonna be seven quarterbacks that make more.
Speaker 2: Mahomes is clearly the best quarterback in football, and Mahomes
Speaker 2: hasn't gone to the team and said you have to
Speaker 2: raise my salary. So the fact that Patrick hasn't adds
Speaker 2: the precedent of guys we are trying to win as
Speaker 2: much as possible here and in a capped sport, that
Speaker 2: means we don't all always press our contractual advantage. Now
Speaker 2: you can say that's bad business, but I would argue
Speaker 2: that if Kelsey goes down as the greatest tight end,
Speaker 2: he's wildly charismatic. He now has a successful podcast that
Speaker 2: I'm sure doesn't make much money. He had his own
Speaker 2: dating TV show years ago before the Chiefs started winning. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like Chasing Kelsey. It was a dating show on VH
Speaker 2: one or something or E or one of those channels.
Speaker 2: He's just hosted Saturday Night Live. If he does have
Speaker 2: real post career aspirations, continuing to make sure he's on
Speaker 2: the best team in the league is very valuable for him.
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill was in a different situation. Tyreek Hill was
Speaker 2: never going to be incredibly marketable, was never going to
Speaker 2: have great post career opportunities because of all of his
Speaker 2: off the field baggage, and he's just not as charismatic
Speaker 2: as Travis Kelsey might be the most charismatic player in
Speaker 2: the whole league. So Tyreek wanted to get paid as
Speaker 2: much as possible with he had time left, you know,
Speaker 2: as a superstar, So he made that choice. But he
Speaker 2: went to Miami and he probably isn't gonna play in
Speaker 2: too many more super relevant games. So I don't think
Speaker 2: Kelsey wants to ever be in that position. He also,
Speaker 2: at this point, I mean he's turning thirty four, is
Speaker 2: the oldest great skill position player in the entire league.
Speaker 2: So I do think he's left some money on the table,
Speaker 2: but I don't think in the long run it's gonna
Speaker 2: cost him that much. He does seem fine with it,
Speaker 2: and he has become one of the most one of
Speaker 2: the biggest celebrities in the league. And when you do
Speaker 2: have the Mahomes standard of we are not pressing every
Speaker 2: edge possible contractually, as long as we are winning, Andy
Speaker 2: is here and we are competing at the highest level,
Speaker 2: it really really helps the Chiefs. There's just no way
Speaker 2: around it. Now. Chris Jones their best defensive player. He
Speaker 2: is pressing his contractual edge right now, and I don't
Speaker 2: blame him for I wouldn't blame Kelsey if he were
Speaker 2: doing it. But while he doesn't have the off field
Speaker 2: marketing opportunities Travis has, and as a pass rusher and
Speaker 2: dominant defensive lineman, he plays a position that just naturally
Speaker 2: gets paid more in the NFL.
Speaker 3: All right, next, okay show he Otani right yep is
Speaker 3: blowing everyone away. Earlier this week, he hit two home
Speaker 3: runs and got the win with ten strikeouts in the
Speaker 3: same game. This being a slow sports to day, we
Speaker 3: were wondering would there ever be a dominant two way
Speaker 3: player in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I think there could be, I don't think there will be,
Speaker 2: But the only spot that I think would make sense
Speaker 2: would be wide receiver corner and if that could translate,
Speaker 2: I maybe running back safety or running back linebacker. I
Speaker 2: don't think we're going to see it in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I think the Otani conversation is interesting because the conversation
Speaker 2: this week is is he the best baseball player ever?
Speaker 2: And it's a fascinating kind of thought exercise because he's
Speaker 2: an excellent pitcher, but no one would argue he's the
Speaker 2: best pitcher in baseball. Top five maybe, but I don't
Speaker 2: think many people would say he's the single best pitcher
Speaker 2: in baseball right now. He might be the best hitter
Speaker 2: in baseball. Some people would say Aaron Judge, but he's
Speaker 2: certainly in the argument, but it's not definitive, So he's
Speaker 2: not the best pitcher in baseball. He's not definitively the
Speaker 2: best hitter in baseball. Yet he's being discussed as the
Speaker 2: best player ever to play because he's the only guy
Speaker 2: that does both, and he's the only guy in one
Speaker 2: hundred years that has done both at a high level.
Speaker 2: I think you can make the argument he is adding
Speaker 2: more value to his team on a as a single
Speaker 2: person as any player ever, more than any player ever
Speaker 2: this season because he is a top five pitcher and
Speaker 2: a top two batter, and with Judge Hurt probably the
Speaker 2: number one batter. I think it gets tricky because the
Speaker 2: other all time greats did add two way value. They
Speaker 2: weren't pitchers, but they were great fielders. So Willie Mays, King,
Speaker 2: Griffy Jr. Barry Bonds were elite defensive outfielders and at
Speaker 2: various times in their career all of them the best
Speaker 2: hitter in the sport. So I don't think it's hands down.
Speaker 2: I do think he's in the discussion as far as
Speaker 2: not the greatest player ever, as far as who's had
Speaker 2: the greatest career, but who who has as the most
Speaker 2: impact in a singular season. You know, my answer for
Speaker 2: grace baseball player ever my whole life has been Willie Mays,
Speaker 2: with the caveat of it's clearly actually Barry Bonds. But
Speaker 2: if you want to disqualify him because of the steroids,
Speaker 2: so be it. And Griffy I think gets the short
Speaker 2: end of the stick, so to speak. But I'm also
Speaker 2: partially because my favorite player growing up. I do wonder more.
Speaker 2: I do think this we will see another Sho Hey
Speaker 2: o Tani way before we see someone in football try
Speaker 2: to pull off playing both ways, because anybody that knows
Speaker 2: anyone that made it to the majors, if you talk
Speaker 2: as a pitcher, if you talk to them about their
Speaker 2: high school baseball career, almost all of them were the
Speaker 2: best hitter on their team, and we're amazing hitters. And
Speaker 2: then started focusing exclusively on pitching because of the success
Speaker 2: of Otani. I do wonder if we will see another
Speaker 2: freak show athlete like this say that I can do both.
Speaker 3: Don't know a lot of people say that Jackie Robinson
Speaker 3: was like the best baseball player.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't. I think they say he's
Speaker 2: the most important and Jackie was. Jackie was an all
Speaker 2: time great, a World Series MVP, a League MVP, if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, and a great player. But he has
Speaker 2: outsized importance because he broke the color barrier. Yeah and
Speaker 2: he was. Yeah, I knew he won in l MVP.
Speaker 2: I just checked. But and I don't again, I don't
Speaker 2: want to short change what a great player he was.
Speaker 2: But if not for breaking he is a lot of
Speaker 2: people say he and they're correct, is the most important
Speaker 2: player ever. But when it comes to the best baseball
Speaker 2: player ever, the names that come up are Babe Ruth,
Speaker 2: Willie Mays, some people say Ted Williams, Barry Bonds, and
Speaker 2: lately some people have argued it could be Mike Trout.
Speaker 2: I don't believe. I don't agree with that. What makes
Speaker 2: show Hay so interesting is people talk about baseball as
Speaker 2: there's the greatest hitters ever, the greatest players ever, and
Speaker 2: then almost separate category, the greatest pitchers ever, like Bob
Speaker 2: Gibson and Satchel Page and Sandy Kovax, Roger Clemens, those guys.
Speaker 2: The fact that o'tani, if he had played his whole
Speaker 2: career in the majors, might end up in the top
Speaker 2: twenty of both categories when no one else is in either.
Speaker 2: You know he has any crossover is what makes him unique.
Speaker 3: All right, next, okay, so now it's time for the
Speaker 3: return of Nick's tennis corner.
Speaker 2: Okay, So all right, so we have a lot going
Speaker 2: on here. I'm very curious into how sound these questions.
Speaker 2: Wimbledon is done in England. If there was ever a time,
Speaker 2: now is the time? Do you go? Right ahead? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Wimbledon begins this weekend and we know it's full of traditions.
Speaker 3: So before we get into the question, I got us
Speaker 3: strawberries and cream.
Speaker 2: Oh you did, Oh, thank you so much? Next to me, Oh,
Speaker 2: here you go, delightful. Oh, strawberries and cream for everyone here. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll take some whip topping if I could take. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. Go ahead and go ahead and
Speaker 2: ask the question. Okay, yeah, back to you. Don't forget
Speaker 2: the accent.
Speaker 3: As I opened up, feel like I could you give
Speaker 3: notoriously bad tennis gambling advice, but give us some winners
Speaker 3: for this year's championships at Wimbledon. All right, so painful.
Speaker 2: You're right that I did give bad gambling advice on
Speaker 2: the French Open. Not as bad as producer Matt who
Speaker 2: is you know, hiding today and staying away in shame
Speaker 2: because he told us to bet on Nadal and Nadal
Speaker 2: ended up pulling out of the tournament. But I went
Speaker 2: with al Karez. I said, I thought Alcarez was gonna
Speaker 2: beat Djokovic, and then Djokovic whooped him, and Djokovic won
Speaker 2: the tournament. I'm gonna pick Alcarez again. Djokovic is minus
Speaker 2: one sixty, al Karez is plus three point forty. So
Speaker 2: if you were about one hundred and sixty dollars. On Djokovic,
Speaker 2: you win one hundred. If you were about one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty dollars. On al Karez, you win more than
Speaker 2: five hundred. I like those odds. If you wanted a
Speaker 2: long shot, my heart would be with Kurios, but I
Speaker 2: think Medvedev would be the right long shot pick. Here's
Speaker 2: the thing, my tennis corners, I am going to I
Speaker 2: am super into Wimbledon once it starts, so over the
Speaker 2: next few what's right we can discuss it. I'm not
Speaker 2: great at the previewing of it, as proven by my
Speaker 2: disastrous French Open gambling advice that I gave again, not
Speaker 2: as bad as producer Matts, but still disastrous all the same.
Speaker 2: All right, take a quick break, come back, play some game,
Speaker 2: likely maybe, and what if ant talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about Bronnie James. We'll do all that next What's Right?
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Speaker 3: Okay? So now we're gonna talk a little bit about Bronni.
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Speaker 2: get it. There you go.
Speaker 3: A mock draft has Bronni being selected to Atlanta. Apparently
Speaker 3: Lebron loved it because he's He's shared it on his
Speaker 3: ig story.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Was this his way of saying He'll go wherever Bronni goes.
Speaker 2: I'm not certain of that because that could be read
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Speaker 2: the whole family's going to be supporting him. Another way
Speaker 2: could have been saying that he's going to go where
Speaker 2: Bronni goes. It is going to be one of the
Speaker 2: most fascinating draft decisions ever. Where Let's say Lebron next
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Speaker 2: somewhere from the eight to twelve range as far as
Speaker 2: best players in the league this season. If it is
Speaker 2: made clear that whoever drafts Bronni, Lebron is gonna sign
Speaker 2: with them for the league minimum, what does that do
Speaker 2: for Bronni's draft stock. So let's say Bronni is the
Speaker 2: fortieth ranked player in the draft. He'd be worth us
Speaker 2: mid second round pick. If you have the fourteenth pick
Speaker 2: of the draft. Is it worth overdrafting Bronni if you
Speaker 2: are getting a top fifteen player to come along with
Speaker 2: them for the league minimum, you could almost even look
Speaker 2: at it. So like this year the Miami Heat took
Speaker 2: him Jack West Junior at number eighteen. Would they forget
Speaker 2: the brownie part of it? Would they have flat out
Speaker 2: traded the number eighteen pick for Lebron James on a
Speaker 2: minimum contract? Of course they would have. So I do
Speaker 2: find it fascinating. When we get closer to the draft,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of discussions on it. Is
Speaker 2: it right? Is it fair? I you know, it would
Speaker 2: be very awkward for me to say it is inappropriate
Speaker 2: for a parent with some influence or sway. It would
Speaker 2: be very inappropriate for me to say to say it
Speaker 2: is inappropriate for that parent to use it to help
Speaker 2: their kid. Considering I host this podcast with my kids,
Speaker 2: and it's not like we exactly held an audition process.
Speaker 2: I just did it because I thought it would be
Speaker 2: good for them, and good for me and good for
Speaker 2: the show, and it's what I wanted to do, so
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a hypocrite there. I also
Speaker 2: think there I understand there is some potential downside to
Speaker 2: this for Bronni, there's also some real upside, which is
Speaker 2: if he is a fringe NBA guy, if you're a
Speaker 2: second round pick, it's a non guaranteed contract that the
Speaker 2: team does not have a real investment in. But if
Speaker 2: they spend a first round pick on you, it's a
Speaker 2: guaranteed contract. But more so than the money mattering. What
Speaker 2: matters is the team is invested in developing you because
Speaker 2: they spend a real asset on you. So I get
Speaker 2: I find it fascinating. I also don't know if Bronni
Speaker 2: behind the scenes is told Lebron, I don't want to
Speaker 2: play on the same team as you. If I make
Speaker 2: it and all of it, it's going to be one
Speaker 2: of the most interesting, unique stories that we've seen in
Speaker 2: sports because we never thought this was possible. We knew
Speaker 2: brothers could play with brothers, and we've seen teams across
Speaker 2: the league, you know, give Giannis's brother's contracts in hopes
Speaker 2: of either acquiring Giannis or keeping Yiannis happy. We never
Speaker 2: thought it would have with father and son. So it's
Speaker 2: just it's a very fascinating angle, all right, dear, Or
Speaker 2: what's our game?
Speaker 3: So today we're playing? Likely? Maybe what if it's been
Speaker 3: a while since we've played. So here's a refresher for
Speaker 3: you and the audience. I will ask you a question
Speaker 3: and you will respond with three possibilities, each more far fetched.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the first one.
Speaker 3: James Harden is a wild card right now. He hasn't
Speaker 3: made a decision on his player option yet, so what
Speaker 3: do you see him doing.
Speaker 2: It's likely he resigns with the Sixers. That's the most
Speaker 2: likely outcome, not on a full max, but it's likely
Speaker 2: he resigns with the Sixers. Morey's there. He had two
Speaker 2: amazing playoff moments with them this year, and then he
Speaker 2: also had the last two games of the playoffs, which
Speaker 2: were old James Harden playoff stuff. They have the best
Speaker 2: chance to win, they need him, they can afford him.
Speaker 2: It's likely that maybe he does what has been speculated
Speaker 2: the last year, and he just goes back to Houston
Speaker 2: and goes back to his old stomping grounds. Even though
Speaker 2: their world's away from a championship. What if is what
Speaker 2: if the Los Angeles Clippers say what if James says
Speaker 2: I want to go back home to LA and the
Speaker 2: Clippers pull off a sign and trade for him. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's a real needle mover for them, but
Speaker 2: that is the unlikely but somewhat plausible outcome. The most
Speaker 2: likely though, is he stays in Philly, maybe he goes
Speaker 2: to Houston, with an outside chance that he ends up
Speaker 2: going to the Clippers.
Speaker 3: All right, next Okay. According to Woj, the market for
Speaker 3: Kyrie is almost non existent outside of Dallas. However, it
Speaker 3: seems Kyrie is more interested in the years than the money.
Speaker 3: How is this going to play out?
Speaker 2: It's likely Dallas overpays and folds their hand and gives
Speaker 2: him three years guaranteed, probably with a partial guarantee in
Speaker 2: year four, and he stays with the Mavericks. That's the
Speaker 2: most likely outcome, okay. Because the MAVs have boxed themselves
Speaker 2: in with the Kyrie trade, they don't want to alienate Luca. Further,
Speaker 2: I don't think getting in. I said it from the
Speaker 2: very beginning that I thought getting in the Kyrie business
Speaker 2: was a mistake. But they did it. Now they probably
Speaker 2: got to follow through. Maybe the MAVs are able to
Speaker 2: find a team that will execute a sign in trade
Speaker 2: for Kyrie where they get depth back and that team
Speaker 2: gives Kyrie a a significant contract. I think that is unlikely,
Speaker 2: but that is maybe that they do a sign in
Speaker 2: trade with Kyrie the and I threw out on TV
Speaker 2: not to bring up the Clippers again, but a sign
Speaker 2: and trade with the Clippers for Paul George would be
Speaker 2: a dream scenario for the Mavericks. I don't know why
Speaker 2: the clippers would do it, except for the fact that
Speaker 2: they're about to open a new stadium. They can't trust
Speaker 2: that Kawhi and Paul George. Either one of them can
Speaker 2: leave after next year. It's very difficult to trust Kawhai's health,
Speaker 2: and they might feel like we have to have a
Speaker 2: headliner in town when we open that new stadium. The
Speaker 2: what if is what if he just says screw the
Speaker 2: money and goes to the Lakers for the mid level exception.
Speaker 2: But that is not happening. Kyrie has left too much
Speaker 2: money on the table to sign up for one year
Speaker 2: twelve million day the Lakers. It's going much like the
Speaker 2: hardened thing. I think the most likely outcome is what's
Speaker 2: actually gonna happen here, which is he stays with Dallas.
Speaker 2: All right, don't even worry about the follow up question.
Speaker 2: Go on to Draymond.
Speaker 3: The Warriors got rid of their locker room problem, the
Speaker 3: guy who got punched. Now the runway is open for
Speaker 3: Draymond to return to Golden State. But will he?
Speaker 2: All right? It's like, yeah again, I'm sorry to go
Speaker 2: with the chalk answers here, he's gonna return to Golden State.
Speaker 2: It's likely that he returns to Golden State on like
Speaker 2: a three year deal that matches up Steph's contract. Maybe
Speaker 2: he goes to Dallas, as Bill Simmons has been speculating
Speaker 2: as is a possibility, and again I don't think that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. But the what if is what if he
Speaker 2: visits Sacramento just as as a negotiating ploy and is
Speaker 2: just taken aback by what they're trying to build there
Speaker 2: and likes the idea that he could stay in Northern California,
Speaker 2: spurn the Warriors front office, get a boatload of money
Speaker 2: from Sacramento, and then help build a winner there. That's
Speaker 2: not gonna happen. Sacramento open up the cap space and
Speaker 2: their speculation. But that's not gonna happen. Sidebar, is your.
Speaker 3: Sister getting whi cream?
Speaker 2: Annie stopped getting the whip cream. That's for Wimbledon. De
Speaker 2: Or's younger sisters here as well. I think she's really
Speaker 2: just hoping that at some point she could rush the
Speaker 2: stage and take over for you. But now she's eating then, Deanna,
Speaker 2: Now she's eating all the whip cream all right.
Speaker 3: Next, after reminding the world that he can still play basketball,
Speaker 3: Russ is back on the market. Maybe the Lakers could
Speaker 3: use him. You know where does he end up?
Speaker 2: This one's tough because it can be far fetched though. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but that the Clippers can only pay him three point
Speaker 2: eight million dollars, so I don't see that happening. I
Speaker 2: think it is likely he ends up with the Chicago
Speaker 2: Bulls because Lonzo's career appears to be over. Unfortunately, they
Speaker 2: can pay him more than the Clippers. He would get
Speaker 2: to play. He's a Jordan brand guy. I think maybe
Speaker 2: this would excite you. Diora well, I guess you're gonna
Speaker 2: be in college. You're not even gonna go with me
Speaker 2: to the games? Oh I just got said maybe he
Speaker 2: goes to the Nets.
Speaker 3: You can get me tickets out there. I'll be at
Speaker 3: the games out there.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no there's no basketball team in Santa Cruz.
Speaker 2: Well there is a league team, and there's also he's
Speaker 2: too far. I'm close, and maybe he goes to the Nets.
Speaker 2: And what if? What if is that he says I
Speaker 2: don't care about the money, and he takes three point
Speaker 2: eight million minimum from the Clippers. But I don't see
Speaker 2: that happening at all. I think it's the Bulls or
Speaker 2: the Nets are the two teams most likely to sign him.
Speaker 2: Both of the Nets are an interesting one because since
Speaker 2: they don't have their own draft picks, they are not
Speaker 2: incentivized at all to tank, and so they might want
Speaker 2: to stay competitive. He still is a draw, He's still
Speaker 2: a popular player, but I think he ends up with
Speaker 2: the Bulls. We answer your questions next, What's right? The
Speaker 2: Nathan's Hot Dog eating Contest is one day. Joey Chestnut
Speaker 2: is one of fourteen of the last fifteen Some say
Speaker 2: that he's the greatest athlete of all time. Defend them,
Speaker 2: one could argue, usein balt Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan. None
Speaker 2: of them could have survived, let alone thrived without the
Speaker 2: one skill my client has mastered, which is eating. Now,
Speaker 2: can you eat without being able to run? You can?
Speaker 2: Can you run without being able to eat? You cannot.
Speaker 2: There was never a period of time where people existed
Speaker 2: in eating, didn't He's the greatest ever. You know who
Speaker 2: could be a better athlete than my client? Bring me
Speaker 2: the greatest breather ever? Someone? If there are breathing competitions
Speaker 2: held worldwide and all of a sudden that guy is
Speaker 2: just kicking everyone's ass and breathing, I might say, you
Speaker 2: know what, Joey, you're now the second go that was.
Speaker 2: So that's the problem do you are with doing public defender?
Speaker 2: Is I do it so well that people then believe
Speaker 2: that's my sincere Take that Joey suss and that's the
Speaker 2: greatest eater ever. That was one year ago today. By
Speaker 2: the way that we did that, the I mean, I
Speaker 2: found myself watching that clip and being swayed by my
Speaker 2: own persuasiveness, in my own brilliance of argument. But that
Speaker 2: was a public defender where I defend seemingly the indefensible.
Speaker 2: So that's the little recap from a year ago. What's up?
Speaker 2: It also reminds me how much better our new studio
Speaker 2: is than our living room where we were doing it.
Speaker 2: All right, dear, or what are the fan questions today?
Speaker 3: Okay? Noah Rodriguez asked, The Calves are reportedly shopping Darius Garland.
Speaker 3: If the Spurs can get him, where does that put
Speaker 3: them in the Western Conference race for next year, assuming
Speaker 3: they trade Kelton and Picks?
Speaker 2: Well, then, listen, the Spurs are not competing in the
Speaker 2: West next year. I think that when I was saying
Speaker 2: they could be players in free agency, it's so they
Speaker 2: could maybe hope to get to forty wins, be around
Speaker 2: five hundred, But they're not competing in the West next year.
Speaker 2: So I but I like Garland, and I do think
Speaker 2: the Calves need to probably rework some things if they're
Speaker 2: going to try to take the leap to from nice
Speaker 2: story to at least fringe contender. All right, next, Jack
Speaker 2: Fisher asked, yep, No, you're right, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Which NBA team is most likely to take a huge
Speaker 3: leap next season like the Kings did last season.
Speaker 2: That's a really hard one. As far as you know
Speaker 2: the Kings, you could see it coming a bit because
Speaker 2: of the Sabonis trade. If you liked Sabonis. My answer,
Speaker 2: though I don't know if this will be as shocking
Speaker 2: as the Kings, My answer is gonna be okayc I
Speaker 2: like what they've built. If you believe in Chet, that's
Speaker 2: a top three pick they have coming back from last
Speaker 2: year never played for them. Shay was sensational this year.
Speaker 2: I like giddy. I like what they've built. Now the
Speaker 2: MAVs are gonna be way better. But that's a different
Speaker 2: thing because the MAVs were awesome a year ago then
Speaker 2: had a down year. So my answer would be okay,
Speaker 2: see that could go from and also ran to maybe
Speaker 2: a top five seed. My answers, okay, see, but again
Speaker 2: that's way too early and that's pre free agency, so
Speaker 2: all of that can change next okay.
Speaker 3: Scott Frazer asked Nick, where do you see d Hop
Speaker 3: going and does he make a difference in Casey or
Speaker 3: Buffalo or does he take the bag and go to
Speaker 3: Houston or New England.
Speaker 2: Listen, I d Hop clearly doesn't want to sign in
Speaker 2: New England, but he needs. I mean, they've made him
Speaker 2: an offer, he's done the visit, it's been weeks. He needs.
Speaker 2: He wants a team with an excellent quarterback to go
Speaker 2: after him. Thus far, it hasn't happened. I do think
Speaker 2: he would help Buffalo a lot. I think you can't
Speaker 2: City a little. But Buffalo doesn't have a number two receiver,
Speaker 2: sorry Gabe Davis, and their number one receiver is angry
Speaker 2: at their quarterback. So I think Buffalo he'd move the
Speaker 2: needle on the most. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
Speaker 2: They're in a tough salary cap situation, all right.
Speaker 3: Next Michael Thomas asks, how do you see the Wizards
Speaker 3: rebuild going? Do you see Pool staying long term? I
Speaker 3: think we're ten years too late, but curious about what
Speaker 3: you think our outcome will be in the next few years.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you're gonna be terrible the next few years.
Speaker 2: But I think that's the point. The point is to
Speaker 2: rip it down. You're right that it's ten years too late,
Speaker 2: but you had to start over. You finally did. Pool is,
Speaker 2: you know, is going to score a bunch of points
Speaker 2: and play no defense, and by the time you're ready
Speaker 2: to win, Pool won't be a piece of it. But
Speaker 2: you're now at least finally admitting the team is under
Speaker 2: Michael Winger, that you needed to start over. Next.
Speaker 3: Ryan Johnson asked, what's your favorite sports man?
Speaker 2: I can ask that all the time, and I don't
Speaker 2: really have one. I don't know. I mean Space Jam
Speaker 2: the original or the remake? The remake the original? I
Speaker 2: mean that was very good.
Speaker 3: I don't think it counts.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously, rock the whole Rocky slash Creed. You know,
Speaker 2: family of movies are the best ones. People love Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: I don't love Hoosiers. People love Field of Dreams. I
Speaker 2: don't love Field of Dreams. I did love ten Cup,
Speaker 2: but that's almost more of a romance than a sports movie.
Speaker 2: If Happy Gilmore install is a good movie, Hoop Dreams
Speaker 2: is a documentary.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: If Happy Gilmore accounts, Happy Gilmore is my answer, I
Speaker 2: mean that's yeah, that is my answer. Actually, Happy Gilmore
Speaker 2: is my answer. All right, go ahead, and Gabe's questions
Speaker 2: the last one.
Speaker 3: Wait, there's a bit of a follow up. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: Public Defense two.
Speaker 2: I don't need to do that.
Speaker 3: I think you might.
Speaker 2: I don't need to do that. I would have done
Speaker 2: it if you know my scenes hadn't been cut from
Speaker 2: the movie. But since they haven't, I don't see I
Speaker 2: was supposed to be in the movie. But you know
Speaker 2: we couldn't couldn't make that.
Speaker 3: I was supposed to be in the in the video.
Speaker 2: No, well, I'm I'm just telling you. You know, we
Speaker 2: don't have to get into it. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: The unlike the Jordan's sikaphants that need to necessarily defend
Speaker 2: each and everything he's ever done, I thought I'll let
Speaker 2: Space Jam two stand on its own. All right. What's
Speaker 2: Gabe's question?
Speaker 3: Has Deanna eaten all the whip cream and bear?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but that we got in the show
Speaker 2: because we got to see what she's doing in the
Speaker 2: back of this store. By the way, we are off
Speaker 2: next week. We're on TV. Podcast is off next week.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you guys one week from Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I have a great fourth of July. I know Diora
Speaker 2: will as she is doing what she does almost every
Speaker 2: weekend with her friends. And I've gone there Bogi Hampton's.
Speaker 2: You've gone to the Hamptons once for a vacation, arguing, Okay,
Speaker 2: you find your way out there quite a bit.
Speaker 3: You have a you have a I've been out there
Speaker 3: four times total.
Speaker 2: Okay, whatever you say. I think we counted up, it's
Speaker 2: probably closer to eight. All right, we'll see you guys
Speaker 2: a week from Tuesday. I'll see you on TV today
Speaker 2: at three. What's right, h.