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Speaker 3: our last fifty years will come out, and no matter
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Speaker 3: must discuss what we always do, which is what we
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Speaker 3: We are not going to discuss Richard Jefferson's refereing career
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Speaker 3: anything about the Paul brothers. However, what we will be
Speaker 3: discussing today is some family dynamics, and let me explain it.
Speaker 3: Today happens to be our regular co host Demansey's twenty
Speaker 3: fourth birthday. Happy Birthday to Monse. I asked him what
Speaker 3: he would like for his birthday. He said two things, money,
Speaker 3: which is typical, and to let him pick who would
Speaker 3: sit in for him. He's like, ooh, that's risky. I
Speaker 3: was like, you can have the day off from work.
Speaker 3: He's like, deal, I'll take it, but can I pick
Speaker 3: my replacement? I was like, who's he gonna pick? And
Speaker 3: he said, I want you to let Deanna do it. Deanna,
Speaker 3: you have heard her voice on this show. You have
Speaker 3: not seen her on the show until right now. That
Speaker 3: is his eight year old sister, one of my three
Speaker 3: favorite children. Deanna not a sports fan, but is going
Speaker 3: to pretend to be one for the next couple of
Speaker 3: the next hour.
Speaker 4: So Anna bear you ready to rock? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, you're ready? All right, Deanna? Are you ready? What
Speaker 3: are we starting with?
Speaker 5: He said, Rashid Wallace would be a top five player
Speaker 5: and better than Yuns.
Speaker 6: What use it?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad you started with that. Good decision by you.
Speaker 3: Let me say some nice things about Rashid Wallace. Rashid
Speaker 3: Wallace maybe a little historically underrated. That four Pistons team
Speaker 3: does not win the title without Rashid Wallace. Everyone says, oh,
Speaker 3: what if they had drafted Carmelo, Well, if they had
Speaker 3: drafted Carmelo instead of Darko. Yes, that would have been
Speaker 3: good long term, but if they had drafted Carmelo, they
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't have traded for Rashid, and then maybe they
Speaker 3: don't win the title. Rashid is known for the unbreakable record.
Speaker 3: I think he had a round fifty technicals in one season.
Speaker 3: That is more than Joe Demaggio's hit streak, more than
Speaker 3: will one hundred point game, the most unbreakable record in sports,
Speaker 3: because now you get suspended after sixteen technicals. Rashid was
Speaker 3: an awesome three point shooter ahead of his time for
Speaker 3: his size, great defender, excellent player. I say all that
Speaker 3: to say this, This might be the most batch and
Speaker 3: se sorry any sports take of the year.
Speaker 4: If you are I want everyone to understand what Andre
Speaker 4: gu what Aala is saying.
Speaker 3: He is saying Rashid Wallace would be far and away
Speaker 3: the best player in the NBA right now, because that's
Speaker 3: what better than Yannis means. Better than Yannis does not
Speaker 3: just mean you're all NBA. It doesn't just mean you're
Speaker 3: top five. It means you are clearly and unequivocally the
Speaker 3: best player in the league. Because Jannis is clearly and
Speaker 3: unequivocally the best player in the league, and he's saying
Speaker 3: he'd be better than him, Which is why I actually
Speaker 3: wanted to start the show with this because it is
Speaker 3: another example that I think kind of low key Yiannis
Speaker 3: is still underrated. I think we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 3: more later when we talk about skill versus impact. Because
Speaker 3: Jannis doesn't have a feathery jump shot.
Speaker 4: There are certain camps.
Speaker 3: Of peace that want to act like the obvious isn't true,
Speaker 3: and the obvious is he is the most impactful, most dominant,
Speaker 3: and therefore the best player in the league.
Speaker 4: Is he the most skilled player in the league. I
Speaker 4: don't know. Does he have the biggest bag in the league?
Speaker 4: Certainly not.
Speaker 3: Does any of that matter when he's the best defensive
Speaker 3: player in the league, when he is the most efficient
Speaker 3: scorer in the league.
Speaker 4: Oh, but can he gets you fifty?
Speaker 3: I don't know he can get your fifty to win
Speaker 3: the title, to win the NBA Finals, we were on.
Speaker 4: The top fifty players last fifty years list.
Speaker 3: I was going through what were the single best finals
Speaker 3: performances ever, and the one that I think jumps out
Speaker 3: to most people is Jordan in ninety three against the
Speaker 3: Suns when he had a fifty five point game or
Speaker 3: a fifty four point game. I think it was fifty
Speaker 3: five point game when he averaged forty one per game
Speaker 3: when he beat Barkley. If it's not that performance and
Speaker 3: it's not Lebron in twenty sixteen, it might be one
Speaker 3: of those two. But the only other candidate is not Wade.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 3: Six is not pick your favorite Kareem Finals. That maybe
Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty finals when he didn't even win finals, MVP,
Speaker 3: pick your favorite Magic Final.
Speaker 4: It's none of those.
Speaker 3: It would be Yannis in twenty twenty one, when he
Speaker 3: was coming off the hyper extended knee and after Game
Speaker 3: one was thirty five plus every single night, essentially won
Speaker 3: a game with a block, won a game with an
Speaker 3: alley oop, and then hung a fifty piece to win
Speaker 3: the title, coming back from two to zero down. So
Speaker 3: somehow Yannis is still, by some of his peers a
Speaker 3: little underrated. Again, there's nothing against Rashid Wallace, but there
Speaker 3: is no era in which Rashid.
Speaker 4: Wallace would be the best player in basketball.
Speaker 3: Are there eras where that would fit his game more
Speaker 3: than the one he played? Yeah, this era with the
Speaker 3: stretch fives and stretch fours. His three point shooting would
Speaker 3: be even more valuable. That's all fair, and that's all true.
Speaker 3: But what's also true in fair is Rashid was a
Speaker 3: bit of a at times. Call him, I don't say knucklehead,
Speaker 3: but he is the guy that forgot to guard or
Speaker 3: or maybe calls the Pistons the second straight title in
Speaker 3: the series they lost to the Spurs in seven and five.
Speaker 3: And let's just be honest about Rashid Wallas great player,
Speaker 3: would never have been one of the best player in basketball,
Speaker 3: would never have been a top three player in basketball,
Speaker 3: no matter the era. All Right, I heard you huff
Speaker 3: there before we get the next question? Was that boring
Speaker 3: to you? Did you think I went on too long there?
Speaker 6: Yeah? And what did they say about the nicknames?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: You didn't want you? So can I call you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Okay? All right, I'm sorry we bleep that out guy,
Speaker 4: So America doesn't hear it? All right, but get go ahead.
Speaker 4: What what's next?
Speaker 6: The Jazz?
Speaker 5: By trade Donovan, Donvan Mitchell, she could come to New York.
Speaker 4: What's gonna app Okay? So that's another really good question.
Speaker 3: So the Jazz are you know, as Brian Windwurs let
Speaker 3: us all know in his very cagy manner a few
Speaker 3: weeks ago the Jazz are holding a fire sale. The
Speaker 3: Donovan Mitchell thing, though, is intriguing for two reasons. First
Speaker 3: of all, is this they got such a hole for Gobert.
Speaker 3: Trading any player that's a star player is going to
Speaker 3: be difficult for any team, much less than Jazz because
Speaker 3: they are not going to get five first round picks
Speaker 3: for Donovan Mitchell. They're gonna need to get players and
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to fill out their roster. The other
Speaker 3: point that I think is noteworthy is the following Donovan
Speaker 3: Mitchell has had less playoff success than John Wall had
Speaker 3: in Washington. The furthest Donovan Mitchell has ever gotten is
Speaker 3: a game six of round two. John Wall and those
Speaker 3: Wizards got to a game seven of round two. The
Speaker 3: idea that if.
Speaker 4: Donovan's your best player, can you win a title? Unequivocally know?
Speaker 3: If Donovan's your best player, can you make the finals?
Speaker 3: Unequivocally No, If Donovan's your best player, can you make
Speaker 3: the conference finals?
Speaker 4: Well, we haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: We have seen Donovan of his last six series lose
Speaker 3: five of them, and the one that he won was
Speaker 3: against the eight seed Grizzlies after they had won the
Speaker 3: playing game against the Warriors, and Job was a rookie.
Speaker 4: So point is.
Speaker 3: This, Donovan Mitchell is a really nice score, one of
Speaker 3: the twenty two best players in the league, and on
Speaker 3: the right team could put you over the top. So
Speaker 3: if Miami could get Donovan Mitchell and keep Bam and Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Butler, is that a perfect fit? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: And there are people connecting him to Miami. Do I
Speaker 3: think they have enough if they can't trade. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: trade Bam if I'm Miami. Bam is so wildly valuable
Speaker 3: to me because I have to go through Giannis every year,
Speaker 3: So I'm not trading Bam. So Miami Tyler hero. Plus
Speaker 3: they don't have all their picks. I think that's a
Speaker 3: hard trade to make. Everyone's connecting him to the Knicks.
Speaker 3: He might end up going to the Knicks. But then again,
Speaker 3: I hope that's fine. But Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson, Julius Randall,
Speaker 3: you have a round two ceiling. If you even get
Speaker 3: to a round two, I don't think my opinion, Donovan
Speaker 3: Mitchell added to the Knicks, you got to make round two.
Speaker 3: You gotta be one of the four best teams. Does
Speaker 3: it make better than Milwaukee?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: Does it make them better than Boston?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Does it make them better than Philly?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Does it make them better than Miami? I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe what about what Cleveland's gonna be, Atlanta's gonna be?
Speaker 3: Not even mentioning Brooklyn. So I'm gonna give you two
Speaker 3: teams that I think make perfect sense for Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 3: if they want to consider it. The Philadelphia seventy six ers.
Speaker 3: They would trade Tobias Harris and Tyres Maxi plus a
Speaker 3: a pick, and I'm giving you multiple picks if I'm
Speaker 3: including Maxie in that deal.
Speaker 4: But for Philly that makes sense.
Speaker 3: And Utah, if you value you Maxie and his upside,
Speaker 3: I think that's a trade I would consider. The other
Speaker 3: one that I came up with this morning is Memphis
Speaker 3: Jaron Jackson Junior and picks for Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 4: Again, you need to go to a team where you.
Speaker 3: Have a clear number one phil Miami as Jimmy, Philly
Speaker 3: as EMBIID. Memphis has Jah Jah plus Donovan plus they
Speaker 3: keep Dylan Brooks. You have Brandon Clark, You've got Steven
Speaker 3: Adams there. I actually think that would be a really
Speaker 3: interesting one. I hate losing Jaron Jackson, but you're probably
Speaker 3: not gonna get free agents. If you're Memphis, You've got
Speaker 3: to at least consider that. So the Knicks are the
Speaker 3: team that's been tied to him ever since they hired
Speaker 3: West and Leon Rose, and you know he's from the area.
Speaker 3: He keeps showing up at Mets games. Maybe they get him.
Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't think that makes them anything
Speaker 3: close to a Eastern Conference champion contender versus, let alone
Speaker 3: an overall championship contender. All Right, get Deanna, My apologies,
Speaker 3: Deanna Marie Right, what is next?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 6: First of all, I was yawning because this is boring.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: Second of all, you've taengered QB Pyarman on TV. You've
Speaker 5: got Herbert top three.
Speaker 6: If you have, I'd bet on someone other than Mahomes.
Speaker 4: It's quite the dramatic other.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to be MVP, who is it?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: So, as far as from an odds perspective, I do
Speaker 3: really like justin Herbert's chances. I listen, I am the
Speaker 3: QB pyramid is I have Mahomes at the top. Josh
Speaker 3: Allen and Justin Herbert on the level beneath him, and
Speaker 3: then we have Brady, Burrow and Stafford on the next tier.
Speaker 3: So I think what jumps out to people I answer
Speaker 3: the question in the moment is I don't have Rogers
Speaker 3: top six. If my goal is to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: How can I put Rogers out of Mahomes, Alan, Brady,
Speaker 3: Burrow or Stafford. How now you can say you can
Speaker 3: put him ahead of Herbert. Herbert's been in the league
Speaker 3: two years, has never been to the playoffs. Amazingly though,
Speaker 3: despite never being to the playoffs in the last two years,
Speaker 3: two years where Aaron Rodgers won league in VP, he
Speaker 3: only has one fewer playoff victory than Aaron Rodgers Rogers.
Speaker 3: To me, Rogers should be getting the treatment the Meat
Speaker 3: gives Lamar. We know how great he is in the
Speaker 3: regular season. In the postseason, there's a real question marks.
Speaker 3: That's a fair criticism of Lamar. That is now also
Speaker 3: a fair criticism of Rogers. Rogers not gonna win the.
Speaker 4: Third straight MVP.
Speaker 3: Brady I think knows the Bucks aren't good enough for
Speaker 3: him to win MVP.
Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons he walked away.
Speaker 3: Mahomes is a smart bet because all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it's like his Mahomes an underdog with no Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: toughest division ever.
Speaker 4: But you said it in the Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen would be a great bet, but there's no
Speaker 3: value there. I don't know if Burrow's gonna have the numbers,
Speaker 3: So my answer is justin Herbert. I think Herbert's numbers
Speaker 3: are gonna be unbelievable. I think the Chargers are going
Speaker 3: to be the second best team in that division. I
Speaker 3: think that people have underrated how great Herbert has met.
Speaker 3: He has the most yards through two years in NFL history,
Speaker 3: he has the most touchdowns through two years in NFL history.
Speaker 3: He has the most three hundred yard games through two
Speaker 3: years in NFL history.
Speaker 4: And I like his coach.
Speaker 3: I know some people don't like his coach, but Herbert
Speaker 3: to me is a good one. The other one, and
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can throw that pyramid back
Speaker 3: on the screen. The other one that to me as
Speaker 3: far as more of a flyer long shot bet. Well,
Speaker 3: none of these A Dack's not gonna win league MVP.
Speaker 3: But I'm trying to think of you know what, I'll
Speaker 3: give you a long long shot that I don't think
Speaker 3: is gonna happen.
Speaker 4: But I could see them having a really good record.
Speaker 4: I could see him having.
Speaker 3: A Oh everyone forgot about how good he is here
Speaker 3: Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan with the Colts.
Speaker 4: Do I think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: No, but a guy that's better than like forty to one,
Speaker 3: do I think that would be decent value?
Speaker 4: I do? All right, Deanna? What's last?
Speaker 5: Bobby Mark said Steph is the second best player ever,
Speaker 5: ahead of Lebron.
Speaker 4: I can use it, all right. Here's what I say.
Speaker 4: Me fix your chair for you. Uh listen, Bobby mars.
Speaker 3: Some folks would come here and start taking shots and
Speaker 3: be like, isn't Bobby Mark's the guy that traded, you know,
Speaker 3: the picks that turned into Jail and Brown and Jason
Speaker 3: Tatum for a year of Paul Pearson KG.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3: Some people would say, you know, Bobby Marx, you're just
Speaker 3: being a little too prisoner of the moment. Y. I
Speaker 3: might do that, but here is the other. I will
Speaker 3: address the stepf versus other greats in a moment, but
Speaker 3: first I want to have I'm going to do my
Speaker 3: best Draymond Green here and I'm going to talk about
Speaker 3: the modern media, and I'm going to be a little
Speaker 3: bit before vacation, a little self congratulatory.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you mocking me right now, Deanna? Yeah?
Speaker 6: And your foot is on my knee.
Speaker 4: Okay, I apologize.
Speaker 3: Were you mocking my hand movements earlier? Either, I'd move
Speaker 3: my hands too much when I'm talking. This is you, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's how I talk. We're Italian, this is I'm not Italian. Now, Okay,
Speaker 3: all right here, let me let me answer the question.
Speaker 3: Despite you you not being interested. I'm gonna do my best.
Speaker 3: Draymond Green critique of modern media. Not everyone is built
Speaker 3: for the take game. And I say that with understanding
Speaker 3: how absurd it sounds, but it is also true. Bobby
Speaker 3: Marx is out here to explain how the CBA works,
Speaker 3: to talk about contracts, to talk about, you know it,
Speaker 3: long term cap ramifications. Bobby Marx, though, as a couple
Speaker 3: of times, dipped his toes into the take water and
Speaker 3: they've been a little too hot for him.
Speaker 4: The day James Harden was traded. Nobody remembers these things.
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 3: I have a whole catalog of bad takes from other
Speaker 3: media members, especially media members that may have taken a
Speaker 3: few shots at.
Speaker 4: Me on Twitter once upon a time.
Speaker 3: I don't forget Bobby Bobo the day James Harden was
Speaker 3: traded on television said this summer, James Harden is going
Speaker 3: to sign the worst contract in NBA history, And he
Speaker 3: explained how the Sixers are gonna give him a quarter
Speaker 3: of a billion dollars, how was gonna be crippling to
Speaker 3: them long term, and why that was one of the
Speaker 3: reasons why I was a beat trade for them. And
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden this summer, James Harden opted
Speaker 3: out of his forty seven million and actually took a
Speaker 3: pay cut to thirty two million to help the team.
Speaker 3: And then Bobby Martzolvzuden gets on TV and they're asking
Speaker 3: I think the question was Lebron versus Jordan. He was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: let me throw a curveball at you, Jordan versus Steph
Speaker 3: because Steph's the second best player ever. I don't even
Speaker 3: want to talk about Steph's resume compared to Lebron's. It
Speaker 3: is clear and obvious and it is inarguable. But the
Speaker 3: people this is disrespectful to are Tim Duncan and Magic
Speaker 3: Johnson and Kobe Bryant and other guys who's Steph is
Speaker 3: clearly behind on any legitimate all time ranking that he
Speaker 3: is then jumping him ahead of. And we talked about
Speaker 3: Magic a lot on the latest Top fifty of All
Speaker 3: Time video. But Magic's career again, I just want to
Speaker 3: reiterate the bold points he had twelve years before he
Speaker 3: had to retire due to HIV. It was during one
Speaker 3: of the most competitive eras in NBA history of the
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties, an era where now obviously Magic's younger than
Speaker 3: Michael came or older than Michael, pardon me, he came
Speaker 3: in before Michael, but where Michael couldn't sniff a championship
Speaker 3: and Magic Johnson won five. He went to the finals
Speaker 3: nine times. He played nine or twelve years. Those nine years,
Speaker 3: he won League MVP three times, he finished second in
Speaker 3: League MVP voting three times, and he came in third
Speaker 3: three times, So seventy five percent of his healthy years
Speaker 3: he was a top three player in the sport. Putting
Speaker 3: anyone other than Kareem, Michael, and Lebron ahead of Magic
Speaker 3: is so wantonly disrespectful and insane.
Speaker 4: If Magic hadn't been diagnosed with.
Speaker 3: HIV, he would have I think finished his career with
Speaker 3: a legitimate goat case. Instead, he sat out three years
Speaker 3: and came back and was eighty pounds heavier and was
Speaker 3: still good, and that brief time he came back in
Speaker 3: ninety six. So that's what, Diana, What are you pointing at?
Speaker 6: Zero? Zero?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 6: Zero?
Speaker 4: The time?
Speaker 6: Zero?
Speaker 4: You mean I went too long?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we'll be right back.
Speaker 7: We're so done with New Year, new you. This year,
Speaker 7: it's more you on bumbo. More of you shamelessly sending playlists,
Speaker 7: especially that one filled with show tunes. More of you
Speaker 7: finding geminis because you know you always liked them. More
Speaker 7: of you dating with intention because you know what you
Speaker 7: want and you know what we love that for you.
Speaker 7: Someone knows we'll too be more you this year and
Speaker 7: find them on bumbo.
Speaker 6: Well, sitting down, she's j was talking. The dork was talking.
Speaker 5: Should be in kid, Why because you're a wimpy kid.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 6: Should be a dorg diary, Oh diary.
Speaker 5: You're a dor.
Speaker 4: Do you have someone feeding you these lines? Do you
Speaker 4: have an earpiece?
Speaker 6: No? I owe these lines for myself and my mom.
Speaker 5: I thought you were a door, but I never got
Speaker 5: to say it because I thought I would get in trouble,
Speaker 5: but Sissy said it to you, So now I can
Speaker 5: say what.
Speaker 4: What makes you think I'm a dor?
Speaker 6: Because you are?
Speaker 4: But there's what evidence? Give me an example?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Okay, are you ready to do this next? Secure? Did
Speaker 4: you need the practice?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 6: Yes? Okay? Can you?
Speaker 4: Can you try to at least pretend to be interested
Speaker 4: in what I'm saying?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 3: Me, me?
Speaker 6: Not being interested is funny?
Speaker 7: Daddy?
Speaker 4: Do you think so?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Nobody cut this out?
Speaker 4: All right? Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright?
Speaker 3: A special episode, special because it's our last episode for
Speaker 3: about a week as we are about to go on
Speaker 3: our first vacation since the show really started, and also
Speaker 3: a special episode because one of my three favorite children
Speaker 3: is here, none other than Deanna. How do you think
Speaker 3: that first segment went?
Speaker 5: Eh?
Speaker 4: How do you think I did? How do you think
Speaker 4: you did? Okay? That's what I figured?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Are you ready to start the second segment? Can you
Speaker 4: sit up straight?
Speaker 1: Can you?
Speaker 4: Can?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: Can you speak with authority? What are we starting with?
Speaker 5: You were doing the strangers on Twitter again yesterday?
Speaker 6: What happened?
Speaker 4: Okay? So here's what happened.
Speaker 3: So yesterday we're at none other than I can say
Speaker 3: where we were, correct though, none other than the wildly
Speaker 3: talented Danielle Monet Truitt's house. You know her as the
Speaker 3: sergeant bales On Orbells on Law and Order organized crime,
Speaker 3: a friend of my wife's from Sacramento days when they
Speaker 3: were little kids at our house. And I see a
Speaker 3: tweet and it's from one of these supposed real basketball accounts.
Speaker 3: They you know, they look past the numbers and the
Speaker 3: narrative and they break down the game. And they were
Speaker 3: explaining how listen, there's a reason that Lebron is not
Speaker 3: respected the way Michael and Kobe are. And he went
Speaker 3: on a thread about it. But then this was his
Speaker 3: final flourish and this is one of the most hilarious
Speaker 3: tweets I've ever seen. And then he had a funnier
Speaker 3: one later said for the impact on winning thing, it's simple.
Speaker 3: Michael's resume is unmatched. He didn't see a seventh game
Speaker 3: in his light. They stepped on that floor full of fear,
Speaker 3: Kobe's five titles in a ten year span, and that
Speaker 3: brutal West with Shaq being the only superstar he played with.
Speaker 4: Different before we get to my tweet.
Speaker 3: First of all, someone YadA YadA ying with Shaq being
Speaker 3: the only superstar he played with is one of the
Speaker 3: most asinine things I've ever heard. It's like, you know,
Speaker 3: you won the war with nukes being the only weapon
Speaker 3: you used. You had peak Shakill O'Neil for three of
Speaker 3: those five titles to gloss over that, like.
Speaker 4: That is just a yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, who yeah, I mean, it's just a guy.
Speaker 3: Is the guy who played center is just objectively dumb.
Speaker 3: But he said something there that a lot of Jordan
Speaker 3: people say, never played in the Game seven, never faced
Speaker 3: the Game seven. So I responded with this, which is
Speaker 3: my favorite thing about some of these supposed real basketball
Speaker 3: accounts is the wanton line. MJ played in three Game sevens,
Speaker 3: and two of them are very famous. The Pip and
Speaker 3: Migraine game, which was Game seven of these Renuments finals
Speaker 3: the lot in nineteen ninety and then the Game seven
Speaker 3: against Indiana the last Dance season, which we saw them
Speaker 3: talking about. That was the game after Reggie hit the
Speaker 3: famous shot when on the bad ankle and then Birds
Speaker 3: walking Away, doesn't you know? Totally non plus also played
Speaker 3: in the Game seven against the Knicks played multiple game
Speaker 3: fives in round one when Round one.
Speaker 4: Was only five game series, but he either here or
Speaker 4: there so and.
Speaker 3: Then I expanded by the way before he showed the
Speaker 3: next week that for Jordan's got an obviously great goat
Speaker 3: case on the merits. But some of the Jordans Sikaphans
Speaker 3: demand to create a history. They're like, oh, he won
Speaker 3: six titles, and he would have won eight titles if
Speaker 3: he hadn't retired, even though one of those years he
Speaker 3: came back and lost to the team that then lost
Speaker 3: to the Rockets. They also say, oh, if he wanted
Speaker 3: to be good at three pointers, he would have been
Speaker 3: good at three points. Like, no, he wanted to be
Speaker 3: great at everything, and the only time he was above
Speaker 3: league average in three point shooting was when they moved
Speaker 3: the line in.
Speaker 4: You don't Lebron fans.
Speaker 3: Don't say, yeah, he's only mediocre and free throws because
Speaker 3: he doesn't care about him. We're like, no, it's great player,
Speaker 3: greatest player, or some of us say, but not a
Speaker 3: good free throw shooter. And the lying about the game
Speaker 3: seven thing, that's just not even an opinion, that's a fact.
Speaker 3: So I sent that tweet and then this guy is
Speaker 3: the audacity to respond to it, among other things, is
Speaker 3: he just finded a few things and said, suckers can't
Speaker 3: counter a statement, so they rage over a dissect a
Speaker 3: spelling mistake.
Speaker 4: He called that a spelling mistake. Hey, so what he's saying.
Speaker 3: He wanted to say was MJ didn't see a game
Speaker 3: seven in the finals, but he misspelled it and wrote instead,
Speaker 3: MJ didn't see a game seven.
Speaker 4: In his life.
Speaker 3: I hate that when my iPhone auto corrects in the
Speaker 3: finals to in his life a common spelling mistake. But
Speaker 3: I told you the first tweet wasn't the most hilarious.
Speaker 3: This tweet was the one that was most hilarious because
Speaker 3: don't show it just yet. He says he would love
Speaker 3: to play me one on one, which this is not
Speaker 3: a question of who is the better basketball player. However,
Speaker 3: spoiler alert, neither me or mister Ball don't stop or
Speaker 3: great basketball players. You know how I know because neither
Speaker 3: one of us has any video of us playing that
Speaker 3: isn't recorded on an iPhone. You know what great basketball
Speaker 3: players have. Hey, here's my televised games in college or
Speaker 3: the pros. But that didn't stop him from sending out
Speaker 3: this tweet, which I might frame and put on my wall.
Speaker 3: If I come in my peak form, Nick's not getting
Speaker 3: a shot off on three dribble Max.
Speaker 4: Who are these people think they have a peak form? Buddy,
Speaker 4: you're a basketball blogger.
Speaker 3: You don't have a peak form. You might have a
Speaker 3: I looked pretty good at open gym today form.
Speaker 4: You might have a hey they saw me.
Speaker 3: Warming up and they picked me to be on their
Speaker 3: team on the blacktop form.
Speaker 4: There is no peak form for any of us.
Speaker 3: We are all guys that as little kids wanted to
Speaker 3: play in the NBA. Recognize at some point, some of
Speaker 3: us sooner than others, well that Shane happening, and instead
Speaker 3: we went to talking about it. My peak form that
Speaker 3: is Al Bundy esque, my peak form. Let me fix
Speaker 3: your microphone, Danna. If you're a little worried about that,
Speaker 3: I got that. I'm done with that rant. By the way,
Speaker 3: do you do you think I'm If I were to
Speaker 3: play that guy in one on one, then I would
Speaker 3: win in basketball?
Speaker 6: I haven't seen you play.
Speaker 4: What's your gut? Do you think I'm good?
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: What a shocker? I appreciate that than you you would
Speaker 4: beat that guy? Good call? I agree with that. I
Speaker 4: would take you in that game. Okay, I'm told we're
Speaker 4: now playing a game that won't tell me what game
Speaker 4: it is. What game are we playing? Or this or that?
Speaker 3: Okay, sit up and tell me the first one. Oh
Speaker 3: you like that graphic? Okay, go ahead?
Speaker 6: That a summerly Paolo or check.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So they shut down Paolo early because he tweaked the ankle,
Speaker 3: and Chet did have some spectacular moments and also some
Speaker 3: rough moments, most notably when Kenny Lofton Junior was bullying throughout.
Speaker 4: Even though Kenny Lofton Junior will never play a second
Speaker 4: in the NBA, my answer is Palo.
Speaker 3: I thought Palo looked sensational in his two Summer League games.
Speaker 3: I think Polo looked ready. I think that if I
Speaker 3: were to bet on a Rookie of the Year based
Speaker 3: on those Summer League games alone, plus the duke pedigree,
Speaker 3: Polo would have my bet. I thought Palo looked like
Speaker 3: the real deal. Chat showed you the upside and the downside.
Speaker 3: Chet's gonna be a work in progress throughout. He's gonna
Speaker 3: have some great moments and also gonna get pushed around
Speaker 3: quite a bit.
Speaker 4: My ANSWER's Palo. Al Right, what's next, Dianna?
Speaker 6: First of all, you wrote one twice.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry about that on this and I did what
Speaker 3: spelled I spelled palo that way so you could pronounce
Speaker 3: it easier. I was trying to help you out, baby, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's called phonetic spelling.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, alright, what's We're gonna go a little.
Speaker 5: Bit faster because we have three Okay, go ahead, more
Speaker 5: more interesting QB story. Jimmy G might go to Seattle
Speaker 5: or Baker being done with progressed.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think it's far and away, Jimmy G. And
Speaker 3: I think the Seahawks going into a year with Drew
Speaker 3: Locke as their quarterback and Gino is the backup. That
Speaker 3: can only mean one thing. You want to be the
Speaker 3: worst team in the league. You want to have the
Speaker 3: number one pick, And that would make sense if Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll wasn't seventy plus years old. I don't think Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll wants to tank. I don't think Pete Carroll wants
Speaker 3: his final years in the NFL to be awful. And
Speaker 3: I don't think people Pete Carroll wants people to be like,
Speaker 3: ah eh, pretty mediocre. Wants, you know, before Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: and after Russell Wilson. So I think Jimmy g going
Speaker 3: to Seattle makes a lot of sense. Baker and the
Speaker 3: progressive commercials listen, Baker is not. I mean, he's so famous,
Speaker 3: but he's no longer a marquee guy, so progressive is
Speaker 3: going to go elsewhere.
Speaker 4: That makes sense. All right, Dan, that was that fast
Speaker 4: enough for you? I guess, Okay, what's next?
Speaker 6: First of all?
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, but speaking of that Twitter guy, Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 5: you should actually play him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. There's no webside for that
Speaker 3: for me. So there's a good lesson for you. There
Speaker 3: are certain things that you got to look at and recognize.
Speaker 3: It's only downside. If I win, nobody's like, oh wow, Nick,
Speaker 3: beat the ball, don't stop guy in one on one.
Speaker 3: Nobody's impressed by that. If I lose, then people are like,
Speaker 3: you let the ball, don't stop guy beat you. It
Speaker 3: would be like a It would be the same reason
Speaker 3: why a guy in the NBA would never want to
Speaker 3: play one on one against.
Speaker 4: Someone not in the NBA.
Speaker 3: If you beat them, nobody cares, and if you lose,
Speaker 3: it's mortifying. Okay, now, can we go to number three please?
Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, this.
Speaker 5: One's called kids, don't look look away? Okay, Yeah, what's funnier?
Speaker 5: Eric Techer's shower po or jokis playing shirtless and Serbia.
Speaker 3: Okay, so here's you haven't seen it yet? Do you
Speaker 3: want to see the Eric Decker shower photo? His son
Speaker 3: posted a picture on Instagram and look in the background.
Speaker 3: See this is why you're not allowed to use Instagram
Speaker 3: on me or your mom's phone. You might think you're
Speaker 3: posting a selfie and all of a sudden you see
Speaker 3: somebody's butt cheek in the background. It's one of us. I, however,
Speaker 3: am gonna say it's the not the funnier moment was
Speaker 3: obviously Decker's kid.
Speaker 4: I want to give Jokics credit, and I hope you
Speaker 4: will be surprised to hear this.
Speaker 3: Jokic used to be a bad body guy, and Jokic
Speaker 3: lost weight and got himself in shape and is able
Speaker 3: to play bigger minutes and has better stamina because of it.
Speaker 4: So that's him. That's the guy.
Speaker 3: That guy right there, Deanna two years in a row,
Speaker 3: has won NBA MVP. No, he's playing the no oh dancing.
Speaker 4: You're right. Oh, we're out of time. Can we do
Speaker 4: the last one? Do you care if we go over? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I said you're right, Dana. I wrote on your script
Speaker 4: playing shirtless in Serbia, but he was dancing shirtless. That
Speaker 4: is correct? This factor by me?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What's last best.
Speaker 6: Part about Hawaii?
Speaker 4: Know?
Speaker 5: Work?
Speaker 6: Demande?
Speaker 5: If you say no Demanza, I'm gonna tell Demanze and
Speaker 5: he's gonna get really mad.
Speaker 4: At I don't think you have to him. Don't you
Speaker 4: think he's gonna watch. Don't you think he's gonna want
Speaker 4: to see how you do?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 4: What? So you think it's that you gotta say no work.
Speaker 5: If you say no demand, I'm gonna gonna be mad.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna chill you after this.
Speaker 4: Oh kill seems a little strong. Maybe maybe dial that back.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I'm a little sad demand is not coming. He's got
Speaker 4: other things going on. He's gotta work. He doesn't get
Speaker 4: the vacation I get. He's got you know, his girlfriend
Speaker 4: in town. So he's got some things. But I'm a
Speaker 4: little sad demands not coming.
Speaker 3: So yes, the best part about Hawaii is going to
Speaker 3: be the week off from work before we get to
Speaker 3: the big push of football season.
Speaker 4: We you know, we almost went to Hawaii without you,
Speaker 4: We almost left you with demanse would I would be
Speaker 4: okay with saying that with oh you would?
Speaker 3: Okay, so do you want to do that? Okay, so
Speaker 3: you want to go to Hawaii? Okay, we'll be right
Speaker 3: back for this.
Speaker 5: For one day of those two weeks. I would stay
Speaker 5: with Demand Okay, goods before camp.
Speaker 4: Okay, well we have one more segment. Are you done talking?
Speaker 6: I'm done for now.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, welcome back. In final segment, What's Right?
Speaker 6: Nick?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Rate, subscribe, review again. They samely tell me to tell
Speaker 3: you to like and review. I don't actually care that
Speaker 3: much about that. I would really like if you'd subscribe, though,
Speaker 3: And again, as is always the case, you don't have
Speaker 3: to listen every time. Just subscribe and it's there for you.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, your phone has no service. You're like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I can't listen to the podcast I
Speaker 3: actually really like. Luckily I have some What's Rights downloaded
Speaker 3: you can listen to them there. All right, Deanna, I
Speaker 3: gotta tell you something I thought you did outstand it.
Speaker 4: I really I knew you would do at least. Okay,
Speaker 4: I thought you did great.
Speaker 3: So as a reward to you, I'm going to give
Speaker 3: you you Let you use my platform that I've spent
Speaker 3: twenty five years building and cultivating in order to promote
Speaker 3: yourself when you grow up. You want to do what
Speaker 3: for a living? You want to be an actor? And
Speaker 3: what is the what is what the thing you have
Speaker 3: asked mommy to do for your acting career?
Speaker 4: Right now? To help get it off the ground, you
Speaker 4: want to hire an agent? You have it.
Speaker 3: I do have an agent. Again, I've been doing this
Speaker 3: for a very long time. I would like to consider
Speaker 3: myself pretty successful. I went to college for it.
Speaker 5: I will have three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have a lot of time for this.
Speaker 3: So this is so that here's your moment. Because I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's agents watching, but they have a side ad.
Speaker 4: Does she have the chops?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw some scenarios at you and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to This is called improvisational acting.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to own a lot. Okay, all right, sorry,
Speaker 4: my apologies. All right? Are you ready?
Speaker 6: Yes? All right?
Speaker 3: You are seventeen years old. It is the summer before
Speaker 3: your senior year. Your grade card has come in. You
Speaker 3: have c's and d's with an F, and your parents
Speaker 3: have grounded you for the summer, cannot leave the house,
Speaker 3: cannot be on your phone, grounded for the summer. You
Speaker 3: are trying to convince them to reconsider.
Speaker 4: And go, Mom, please, I didn't mean it mean you
Speaker 4: didn't mean to what you get? Bad grades? What does
Speaker 4: that even mean?
Speaker 6: I try my best?
Speaker 4: Did you really? Because it seemed like you were on
Speaker 4: your phone a lot.
Speaker 6: I wasn't on my.
Speaker 5: Phone during okay?
Speaker 4: Okay, but what about at what about at home? At
Speaker 4: home when you should have been studying and instead you
Speaker 4: were gabbing on the phone.
Speaker 6: My friends were helping me. I was helping, my friends
Speaker 6: were working to get.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right. New scenario.
Speaker 3: You are driving, you're speeding, You get pulled over by
Speaker 3: a police officer, and you know that you don't have
Speaker 3: the money to pay for a ticket, and you're trying
Speaker 3: to convince them not to give you one and go.
Speaker 4: He's not giving me a ticket.
Speaker 6: Now I'll run back home and grab my money.
Speaker 4: Oh no, let me you know.
Speaker 3: I don't mean you don't have the money on you.
Speaker 3: I mean because you can't pay them directly. I mean
Speaker 3: if they give you the ticket at all. You're not
Speaker 3: going to be able to pay it long term, so
Speaker 3: you're trying to convince them not to give you a
Speaker 3: ticket ever, and.
Speaker 6: Go, please don't give me the ticket?
Speaker 4: What everybody asked not to give the ticket? Why are
Speaker 4: you special? Yes?
Speaker 6: I don't have my money?
Speaker 4: Oh so you so?
Speaker 5: What? So what do you?
Speaker 4: How are you going to convince them? You're not going
Speaker 4: to speed anymore? You can't think of it. You can't
Speaker 4: think of it, so your answer is not speed?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: One last one? Okay, you have just found out what's
Speaker 4: your dream college? Do you have one? Okay, let's just
Speaker 4: make one up Stanford.
Speaker 3: Okay, you've just found out you got into you know what,
Speaker 3: let's call it USC, where Sissy wants to go. You've
Speaker 3: just found out you've gotten into USC. But you have
Speaker 3: to move all the way across the country because you
Speaker 3: live in New York and your mom doesn't want you
Speaker 3: to move to LA. She wants you to stay in
Speaker 3: New York. How do you tell her you got in
Speaker 3: and make her believe that you can go there and
Speaker 3: be across the country?
Speaker 4: And does mom?
Speaker 5: I'm eighteen, I'm an adult, and I think I can
Speaker 5: handle myself there, my friends are going there.
Speaker 6: I can handle.
Speaker 4: What are you going to do if something bad happens
Speaker 4: and you need help?
Speaker 6: All be okay, I'm eighteen.
Speaker 4: What does that mean? Eighteen?
Speaker 6: An adult?
Speaker 4: Okay? And scene?
Speaker 5: How do you think you did?
Speaker 6: Good? Good?
Speaker 4: You're taking the mic off? You're done? All right, she's done.
Speaker 4: We'll be back in a week and a half. See
Speaker 4: you guys. What's right?
Speaker 7: Great job,