Speaker 1: Welcome to the best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show.
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Speaker 1: We have to lead this morning with just a huge bummer,
Speaker 1: which is a young woman who I truly and I
Speaker 1: said this last year, I think, well, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to use past tints, but I had said this
Speaker 1: in the past, and I still believe it has a
Speaker 1: chance to be the greatest women's basketball player ever. I
Speaker 1: truly believe that. I believe that. When everyone was talking
Speaker 1: about and I obviously was a huge part of the
Speaker 1: talk as well, about the phenomenon that is Caitlyn Clark,
Speaker 1: I think you guys heard me say a couple times
Speaker 1: on the show that I thought Juju Watkins at USC
Speaker 1: might end up being even better than Caitlin and even
Speaker 1: better than everybody her size, her athleticism, her basketball IQ.
Speaker 1: It is elite of the elite, and a player that
Speaker 1: can do everything, a player that recently put up a
Speaker 1: stat line that had not been put up in men's
Speaker 1: or women's professional or college basketball this century. When I
Speaker 1: think she had thirty eight points, eleven rebounds, five assists,
Speaker 1: eight blocks, and again a forty minute college game. She
Speaker 1: tore ACL last night, and it's just devastating for a
Speaker 1: bunch of reasons. It puts it I would imagine on
Speaker 1: the board that she doesn't play college basketball again. Now
Speaker 1: I would think she does. I would think that the
Speaker 1: plan is for her to miss all of next season
Speaker 1: and then come back for what would be her senior year.
Speaker 1: I guess red shirt junior year and continue to play.
Speaker 1: And with NIL and the WNBA salary structure, I would
Speaker 1: have to imagine Juju can potentially make far more money
Speaker 1: at USC than she would at the beginning of her
Speaker 1: WNBA career, unless something drastically changes with the rookie salary
Speaker 1: scale there. But this is just an ultimate bummer because
Speaker 1: getting we got in the final four last year Page
Speaker 1: versus Caitlin, and we were basically assured that we were
Speaker 1: going to get Page versus Juju in the Elite eight,
Speaker 1: and it was I talked about how I didn't love
Speaker 1: that they put USC in Yukon in the same region
Speaker 1: because that felt like it should be a final four
Speaker 1: and national championship potential matchup, And it ends up that
Speaker 1: it's going to be, and USC should still get they
Speaker 1: should be able to win next round without Juju, but
Speaker 1: not past that. They absolutely can't beat Yukon without Juju.
Speaker 1: And you just feel sick for this young lady who
Speaker 1: is has the real potential to be a true superstar,
Speaker 1: a true crossovers not just great player. She's obviously going
Speaker 1: to be well, she already is a great player, and
Speaker 1: she and a torn ACL you know, is not career
Speaker 1: altering the way.
Speaker 2: It once was, but.
Speaker 1: She needs a great NCAA tournament run just to catapult
Speaker 1: her celebrity the way Caitlin had and the way honestly
Speaker 1: Angel Reese, who no disrespect to Angel Reese, but Angel
Speaker 1: Reese is not nearly the caliber of player of or
Speaker 1: of Juju, or of Page for that matter, and they
Speaker 1: have all had these great tournament runs.
Speaker 2: Juju.
Speaker 1: This was going to be that this year, and if
Speaker 1: not this year, next year and now out for I
Speaker 1: would imagine all of next season, which is just such
Speaker 1: an absolute bummer. And here is the thing about acls
Speaker 1: the way I have seen them over the last decade.
Speaker 1: Acls are different in that they used to truly be
Speaker 1: career altering, and these days they are not. Meaning people
Speaker 1: typically come back one hundred percent to their pre ACL
Speaker 1: tear ability strength, speed, quickness, all of that, but they
Speaker 1: are not quick injuries. It usually is a minimum of
Speaker 1: a calendar year that you are out, and usually a
Speaker 1: little more than that until you look like your old self.
Speaker 1: So a huge bummer. Not really, this is put this
Speaker 1: in the huge story not a great topic category, and
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of what it is. There's not
Speaker 1: much to say. It's massive news, but it just sucks.
Speaker 1: There's no real take to have. And so Juju Watkins
Speaker 1: out and I have to you know, Yukons Now, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look it up on DraftKings.
Speaker 2: I just can't.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys can put in the dock for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know they're the favorite, but I just
Speaker 1: wonder what they are now is Yukon women to win
Speaker 1: that region, to win the region, I have to imagine
Speaker 1: they are minus huge money. I'm not able to pull
Speaker 1: it up right now. If you guys can road in
Speaker 1: the dock whenever you can find it, just put what
Speaker 1: they are to win the championship and what they are
Speaker 1: to win the region, because I do not see who
Speaker 1: possibly could stop them. Certainly now, listen UCLA South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Those are legitimate championship level teams, but I Yukon's in
Speaker 1: the final four and they're now plus one sixty to
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. We can't find them to win
Speaker 1: the region. But it's not gonna be I mean they
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be much of a question. I saw,
Speaker 1: I got the I had the privilege of watching the
Speaker 1: Yukon women in person from court side seats thanks to Fox.
Speaker 1: The game was on Fox beginning of the year, and
Speaker 1: I left that game saying, I don't know how anyone's
Speaker 1: beating them. Now, UCLA and South Carolina is obviously a juggernaut,
Speaker 1: and usc had shown oh no, they're they're off that
Speaker 1: and Yukon lost a few times. But I feel like
Speaker 1: you can put probably in pen A Yukon UCLA final
Speaker 1: four on your left side of the bracket, and you know,
Speaker 1: thoughts with Juju. It absolutely sucks, just absolutely sucks that
Speaker 1: she's done for the year and potentially done for next year.
Speaker 1: One note, and I'm sure this will happen because Page
Speaker 1: is such an awesome athlete and awesome person. From all accounts,
Speaker 1: Page dealt with an ACL and missed a year, and
Speaker 1: so I would imagine if she has not already, Paige
Speaker 1: is going to reach out to Juju and try to
Speaker 1: help her through it, but really really sucks for basketball fans,
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Speaker 1: Bronnie James thirty nine, seven, four and four for the
Speaker 1: South Bay Lakers last night against Santa Cruz. He was
Speaker 1: a plus nineteen in his thirty eight minutes. It was
Speaker 1: far and away his best game at the professional level.
Speaker 1: And this is where I will as I have remind
Speaker 1: everyone that twenty months ago, July twenty fifth or twenty
Speaker 1: fourth of twenty twenty three, this kid suffered cardiac arrest.
Speaker 1: It totally derailed his collegiate season. And that is evidenced
Speaker 1: by the fact that he has now had ten professional games,
Speaker 1: one at the NBA level and nine at the G
Speaker 1: League level that are better than anything he ever did
Speaker 1: at in college. And so when people pointed out, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at his college statline and that's
Speaker 1: a player that you're drafting, it, there had to be
Speaker 1: some math done on. Yes, his collegiate numbers were that
Speaker 1: of a player that typically would not be drafted, even
Speaker 1: late in the second round. But if you throw the
Speaker 1: season away and say those numbers were due to the
Speaker 1: fact that he never got his legs or his wind
Speaker 1: underneath them because of the months he had to stay
Speaker 1: away from the court because they thought he might not
Speaker 1: be able to play basketball ever again due to a
Speaker 1: congenital heart defect, then maybe, just maybe you saw some
Speaker 1: traits that could be a successful player. And Kevin O'Connor,
Speaker 1: who knows a hell of a lot more about the
Speaker 1: draft and about college basketball than I do, tweeted to
Speaker 1: me this morning that if they did a redraft today,
Speaker 1: he thought Bronni would be a first round pick, and
Speaker 1: that if Bronnie can keep up this shooting, then he's
Speaker 1: a legitimate NBA player. And again, I am not trying
Speaker 1: to make too much of the G League, which is
Speaker 1: something we never talked about previously. However, because Bronni is
Speaker 1: a star and because he has been the subject of scrutiny,
Speaker 1: we have to be fair in that the expectation was
Speaker 1: that in the G League with grown men, with a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who were former first round picks trying
Speaker 1: to make a career for themselves with a lot of
Speaker 1: guys who had a lot more experience than him, with
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who were much more highly drafted
Speaker 1: than him, that he was going to it certainly in
Speaker 1: his first year in the G League, really have his
Speaker 1: work cutout for him now and more than his work
Speaker 1: cutout for him potentially really strung. And instead he now
Speaker 1: after not playing well in Summer League and not playing
Speaker 1: well in the G League's kind of preseason I don't
Speaker 1: even tip off tournament or whatever they call it, in
Speaker 1: the G League regular season, he is now averaging twenty
Speaker 1: two five and five on forty six thirty eight eighty splits.
Speaker 1: That is a great value for your fifty fifth overall pick,
Speaker 1: and shout out and credit to Brownie. And so we're
Speaker 1: not gonna spend more time on that. But that was
Speaker 1: in what missed the Cup, But he didn't actually miss
Speaker 1: the cut.
Speaker 2: We did a nice few minutes on it. Also.
Speaker 1: SVP my guy after Maryland finally gets on the right
Speaker 1: side of a buzzer beater, tweets you know he's a
Speaker 1: Dieyard Terrapin fan, and he tweets out never a doubt
Speaker 1: as a wise man says, shout out Scott Van Pelt,
Speaker 1: Ernie Johnson, Kevin Wilds the only three people in sports
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Speaker 1: of Scott to include. You know, obviously my trademark tattooed
Speaker 1: came up with first person ever use a phrase, never
Speaker 1: a doubt. Very nice of him to use that in
Speaker 1: celebrating an all time Marilynd moment. More on the tournament
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Speaker 2: All right, some.
Speaker 1: Quick listener questions. Noah says, do you see Dan Hurley
Speaker 1: as the rich Man's Nick? Sirianni, that's listen. I think
Speaker 1: that's on the board. Yeah, I mean I think that's
Speaker 1: a good a good potential comp and Syrians champion now too.
Speaker 1: But Syrian doesn't seem to think the media treats him unfairly. Oh,
Speaker 1: the our producers say, maybe they're changing parts and pit stops.
Speaker 1: That's maybe that's it. Maybe the cars are good pre
Speaker 1: race than during the race. There are some shenanigans. Taylor asks,
Speaker 1: why is achilles or an acls sometimes considered a two
Speaker 1: year injuries consistently, but a literal heart attack isn't taking
Speaker 1: the same understanding. That's about Bronnie. I think it's because
Speaker 1: we look at things that aren't like physical injuries is
Speaker 1: like binary, like is he okay? Is he allowed to
Speaker 1: play again? Okay, then he should be the same when
Speaker 1: in reality it's the time off that I think really
Speaker 1: hurts these guys at times. Sixness says, what would it
Speaker 1: take for you to get into hockey? How much skew
Speaker 1: would you need to see in the Vegas books for
Speaker 1: betting to be a thing for you during the NHL season?
Speaker 1: I for the sake of my marriage, I don't think
Speaker 1: I can pick up another sport that I'm into right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe at some point in life, but I just know
Speaker 1: so little about hockey. Can't see, didn't have a team.
Speaker 1: I've never been into it, So I nothing against the sport.
Speaker 1: I just I it's very very it'd be very, very
Speaker 1: tough for me to tell my wife now, by the way,
Speaker 1: also watching hockey, especially because I've kind of refallen in
Speaker 1: love with baseball thanks to Bobby Witt Junior and the
Speaker 1: Royals being legit again. Uh all right, Alex, is there
Speaker 1: a single anything the Rockets can do? Our last tea
Speaker 1: games make you believe that they can win a single round? Yeah,
Speaker 1: to win a single round?
Speaker 2: For sure?
Speaker 1: There is stuff they can do. So because the Rockets
Speaker 1: have a tough schedule, tough ish schedule, I should say
Speaker 1: down the stretch, So the Atlanta Utah is their next two,
Speaker 1: but then it's Phoenix who's on a four game winning streak,
Speaker 1: Lakers Utah again, Oklahoma City, Golden State Clippers, Lakers Denver.
Speaker 1: The Rockets play well during that stretch and hold their positioning.
Speaker 1: I certainly could see them winning around. My fear for
Speaker 1: them is they're gonna drop from the two to like
Speaker 1: the four, and unless they are playing an injured Memphis team,
Speaker 1: I don't think they could again. I think the Rockets
Speaker 1: have had an unbelievable season as it is. They're gonna
Speaker 1: win around fifty games. But for me to believe in
Speaker 1: them to win around in the playoffs, they have to
Speaker 1: show me more. And Scott says, what would it take
Speaker 1: for tom En on the hot seat? They haven't been
Speaker 1: a true contender since they lost to Jacksonville in twenty seventeen. Listen,
Speaker 1: he's just got a contracts sension. I think the Steelers
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Speaker 1: what could be best for the Steelers and for Tomlin
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Speaker 1: slash b ball. This is where I think stephen A
Speaker 1: has made a grievous error. He just today he said, quote,
Speaker 1: He'll smile on your face and stab you in the back.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't like him. He's bringing up Wade's
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame induction, Kobe's memorial. He's saying, quote, he
Speaker 1: literally circumitted meritocracy in the NBA. Here's the problem, man,
Speaker 1: and this is where by continuing to talk about this
Speaker 1: and not allowing yourself to take the l you are
Speaker 1: really putting yourself in a bad spot. You always claimed
Speaker 1: you had no problem with Lebron. You always claimed he
Speaker 1: only had a problem with you. Up until six weeks ago,
Speaker 1: the stance was, oh, nothing but love with Lebron James. I,
Speaker 1: you know, at a great person in the community, a
Speaker 1: great this, a great that. I just I just think
Speaker 1: he's not the greatest basketball player ever. I just think
Speaker 1: he's only the second greatest player ever. And because of that,
Speaker 1: he has a problem with me. That's been the public stance.
Speaker 1: And now the guy makes fun of you on Instagram
Speaker 1: and takes a couple jokes at your spense on McAfee,
Speaker 1: and you're letting everyone know, actually, no, never liked him.
Speaker 1: And so if the if, if we are going to
Speaker 1: do a full, real telling of it. It then the
Speaker 1: honest answer is, so why what's been the problem? Was
Speaker 1: there something personal before? And the answer is no, Lebron
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to him.
Speaker 2: That was the problem.
Speaker 1: Lebron wouldn't talk to him or acknowledge him. And Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan texts with him. That's it. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: That's the start of it. And so I it is.
Speaker 1: People ask me all the time, man, do you believe
Speaker 1: what you say? And my answer always is, now do
Speaker 1: I say it louder or more emphatically, or add some
Speaker 1: spice to it or whatever? Do I dress it up?
Speaker 1: Sure of course? But the reason and this is not
Speaker 1: my quote, uh, but this quote is correct. If you
Speaker 1: never lie, you don't ever have to remember anything when
Speaker 1: you do as And I'm not acting like I'm someone
Speaker 1: that never lies. I probably have a bit of a
Speaker 1: I'm probably true character flaw of mine is I am
Speaker 1: my most honest talking to you guys, friends and family.
Speaker 2: I might you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I might be like, you know what, I can dance
Speaker 1: through the rain drops here a bit and clean this
Speaker 1: up later. And that's not be honestly, it's self serving.
Speaker 1: It's not out of some Woodrow and Burnstein, Woodward Woodrow,
Speaker 1: Jesus Woodward and Burnstein journalism ethic. It's because I don't
Speaker 1: want to have to. It is too difficult to do
Speaker 1: this much content if you're having to remember, oh shit,
Speaker 1: I said that, and if your stance forever, forever has
Speaker 1: been I have no problem with that person, he has
Speaker 1: a problem with me. And then the first time you
Speaker 1: get pressed, you empty the clip about everything you've always
Speaker 1: had a problem with. People are gonna say you're fucking
Speaker 1: lying to us. You were lying to us, and I don't.
Speaker 2: And here is the.
Speaker 1: Problem with people in general who don't have the ability
Speaker 1: to take an l and who are very online, and
Speaker 1: who are public figures. This applies to I guess some
Speaker 1: of our actual politicians and some of our potentially would
Speaker 1: be or want to be politicians. All you can do
Speaker 1: is keep doubling, tripling and quadrupling down because you don't
Speaker 1: have the ability to be like I was wrong. You
Speaker 1: constantly are reminded of the in in and at hand,
Speaker 1: and you are constantly reading people make fun of you
Speaker 1: or rip you. So again, I am not trying to
Speaker 1: act like I am some.
Speaker 2: I am. You know the silver bullet on this stuff. However,
Speaker 2: I do have.
Speaker 1: One kind of just natural superpower, I guess, and another
Speaker 1: decision I've made. The natural superpower is this, I am
Speaker 1: totally fine being wrong, like, oh shit, got that one wrong.
Speaker 1: My bad, not a problem. And the other one is
Speaker 1: I don't read my mentions, so people are like, I'm
Speaker 1: i am not finding my And at a third thing
Speaker 1: I'm very good at I'm I'm on the right side
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 2: Great athletes conversation.
Speaker 1: Like the other thing is like I you know, I
Speaker 1: in the hey Lebron James good or overrated. I had
Speaker 1: the foresight to be like, I'll go with good, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think I'll plant my flag
Speaker 1: on good and see how it plays out over the
Speaker 1: next fifteen years. And so that's been help that's been helpful.
Speaker 2: But I I.
Speaker 1: Can't believe that this is how these last few weeks
Speaker 1: have gone. And the fact that so here's the other
Speaker 1: piece of it that's important demands on one one party
Speaker 1: in this is fighting a war of war work. I
Speaker 1: can never say that war of words, reminders reminder of
Speaker 1: new people in the audience and young people. I as
Speaker 1: someone who my only skill is speaking and arguing. Had
Speaker 1: a really bad speech impediment growing up and couldn't say
Speaker 1: my rs are my l's And now I do it
Speaker 1: for a living. So I this is kind of a sidebar,
Speaker 1: but just for you know, young people out there or whatever,
Speaker 1: like you can get over anything. I shouldn't say anything,
Speaker 1: but you can work on stuff and.
Speaker 2: It won't hold you back. Go ahead, No, I was
Speaker 2: just flexing on you. No.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and we're world and girl. Anything that has
Speaker 1: the R L next to each other like that. I
Speaker 1: still struggle with a bit. And I've told this story
Speaker 1: of nothing worse and not being able to say your
Speaker 1: rs and your last name starts with a hard R,
Speaker 1: and when it's not an R, it sounds like a
Speaker 1: different word. You don't know how many times I went
Speaker 1: to basketball camp as a kid, they're like, what's your name?
Speaker 2: Nick? White? They're like, no, white, white, no white. It
Speaker 2: was brutal.
Speaker 1: Maybe that only happened once, but it.
Speaker 2: It seared me. It scarred me.
Speaker 1: The guy wrote down on my jersey right, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not white, it's white. Brutal doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Now, here's the point I was making in
Speaker 2: a war. Stephen A. Is fighting a war of words.
Speaker 1: Lebron gets actually go out and play the games, and
Speaker 1: he's still awesome. So think about it. In the couple
Speaker 1: weeks since this all happened, Lakers had a winning streak,
Speaker 1: Bronni drops thirty nine drops, a career high in the NBA,
Speaker 1: has another good game the other night, bron last night
Speaker 1: hits a game winner, And you have positioned yourself. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine being this box stend. You have now positioned
Speaker 1: yourself where any time you give fair analysis about a
Speaker 1: good Laker game or Bronni or whatever, you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna get ripped for that too. Like you are all.
Speaker 2: You are so boxed.
Speaker 1: In and the guy, honest to God, So much of this,
Speaker 1: as I've said before, so much of the toxicity of
Speaker 1: sports media, across all sports and all our debates, is
Speaker 1: actually about Michael Jordan and that era and that era
Speaker 1: of people who came up in that era being like, man,
Speaker 1: my childhood was the best, I promise like and not
Speaker 1: seeing that every single human being ever, it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite type of music? And for everyone it
Speaker 1: just happens to be the exact type of music they
Speaker 1: were listening to when they first got their car and
Speaker 1: first were able to drive. Who are the best athletes?
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, it just happens to be for everyone,
Speaker 1: myself included the athletes like we watched in our formative
Speaker 1: years and then into a dulthood and not being able
Speaker 1: to see that it's not special. It's just how human beings,
Speaker 1: brains are constructed. But point is, this whole thing really
Speaker 1: generates from MJ's my buddy. This guy won't talk to me.
Speaker 1: I must, against all odds, support MJ's legacy.
Speaker 2: But MJ ain't playing anymore.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna be able to go on.
Speaker 3: The show and be like, ah, look what Michael did.
Speaker 3: But this other guy won't fucking quit. He's he is.
Speaker 1: We are in a span of ten days, his son
Speaker 1: almost drops forty in the G League and scores are
Speaker 1: leads the Lakers in points in the NBA, and he
Speaker 1: has a buzzer beater, And so it's just a war
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win. And it's a war you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win because I think because of your popularity and
Speaker 1: success and talent, people of what enough people have watched
Speaker 1: you for long enough that we know what the record says,
Speaker 1: and we know you have always claimed you have.
Speaker 2: No problem with Lebron. He has a problem with.
Speaker 1: You, and then today you say he will smile on
Speaker 1: your face then stab you in the back. That's why
Speaker 1: I don't like him. Is that just in the last
Speaker 1: two weeks literally circumvented the meritocracy in the NBA. That
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks