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Speaker 2: Welcome. In episode one thirty seven, What's Right with Nick Wright,
Speaker 2: my reliable co host Demons still in Los Angeles, having meetings,
Speaker 2: finding apartments, calling me, Sorry, I'm gonna area you out here.
Speaker 2: Kid calling me to find out Hey, the guy is
Speaker 2: trying to tell me I need to get insurance on
Speaker 2: my matt Don't get insurance on the mattress. Kid, don't
Speaker 2: do that. You would have recommended he do that?
Speaker 3: No, I recommend you not tell everybody's business.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's part of the show. It's part of that.
Speaker 2: He's doing great. He's crushing it out in La sitting
Speaker 2: in for him is his mom my wife, Miss Danielle, Right, dampoo,
Speaker 2: you ready for today's show?
Speaker 3: Sure, let's get this.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here's what missed the cut. Here's what's
Speaker 2: not on today's show. Cam Newton throwing at Auburns pro
Speaker 2: day Odell and the Jets having mutual interest. I'm not
Speaker 2: so sure about that one. And Jaw returning coming off
Speaker 2: the bench against the Rockets. You know what, I know
Speaker 2: we said that missed the cut before we even get
Speaker 2: to what's actually on the show. Uh, you clamped for
Speaker 2: Jaw to.
Speaker 3: A great player. You know.
Speaker 4: I don't go about the outside life stuff. I just
Speaker 4: played the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you don't really care about off the courts now,
Speaker 2: I don't. Can I show you? However, the shirt Jaw's
Speaker 2: dad war to the game, So that's Jaw's dad. That
Speaker 2: shirt says redemption is a picture of Jaw I think
Speaker 2: dapping up his dad like dislike, don't care.
Speaker 4: I don't care, don't care, just play ball?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 3: Wearing his daddy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Team or Ant has become part of this story.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly what the Redemption arc, how exactly
Speaker 2: how it works, but Jow's back and I think the
Speaker 2: Grizzlies might win the West. All right, speaking of the
Speaker 2: Western Conference, there were some games last night, Dampoo, Why
Speaker 2: don't you get us started.
Speaker 3: The Lakers once again? Well you think we shouldn't start
Speaker 3: with I mean that's what's here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: The Lakers got a huge win over the Suns last night.
Speaker 2: Yeah they did.
Speaker 4: Why while we're in Aruba, they'll play the Thunder and
Speaker 4: the Bills twice Bulls, the Bulls, my bad sol Gills
Speaker 4: a football team. Yeah, that's when we get back.
Speaker 3: Are they going to be closer to the sixth seed
Speaker 3: or the eleven seed?
Speaker 2: All right, so this is very interesting. So last night's
Speaker 2: win was massive for them. Yeah, last night in the
Speaker 2: NBA went kind of good for the Lakers, kind of bad.
Speaker 2: So here's what went bad. The Timberwolves, who they're chasing,
Speaker 2: beat the Hawks by one. At the end of now,
Speaker 2: shout out to Karl Anthony Towns. He's been out since October.
Speaker 2: He also has dealt with a ton of personal tragedy
Speaker 2: over the last few years. Lost multiple family members due
Speaker 2: to COVID, got injured very early this year. Three seconds left,
Speaker 2: he gets fouled down one hits both free throws shout
Speaker 2: out to him. The Hawks, though then get the ball,
Speaker 2: get obviously fouled on their final shot. The refs don't
Speaker 2: call it. Timberwolves win by one, so that's a team
Speaker 2: the Lakers are chasing. The Timberwolves win. What went well
Speaker 2: for the Lakers last night is the Blazers finally got
Speaker 2: a win. They beat the Jazz, so the Jazz drop
Speaker 2: a bit in the standings. And then the Warriors MAVs game,
Speaker 2: which we're gonna get into later. The Lakers are chasing
Speaker 2: both of those teams. Obviously one of them had to lose,
Speaker 2: ended up being the Mavericks. So the Lakers sit here
Speaker 2: right now in the ten spot, but it is so congested.
Speaker 2: The Sons are the four seed, and we count losses.
Speaker 2: This is an important thing. I say it on the
Speaker 2: TV show all the time. At this point in the year,
Speaker 2: all you need to do is look at the lost column.
Speaker 2: You can make up wins because you all play eighty
Speaker 2: two games. You can't make up losses. Once you have
Speaker 2: X amount of losses, you can't go backwards from that.
Speaker 2: So the Suns are the four seed. They have thirty
Speaker 2: four losses. The Clippers are the five seed. They have
Speaker 2: thirty five losses. Then you have the Warriors and the
Speaker 2: Thunder both with thirty six losses, and in the Timberwolves, MAVs, Lakers, Jazz,
Speaker 2: and Pelicans all with thirty seven losses. So the Lakers
Speaker 2: play the Thunder on Friday. That is a great spot
Speaker 2: for Los Angeles and it is the newest, latest, most
Speaker 2: important game of the year. Why well, for a number
Speaker 2: of reasons. One is they're chasing them. The other one
Speaker 2: is and they might really not even be chasing them
Speaker 2: after tonight, because the Thunder play the Clippers tonight, but
Speaker 2: the Thunder beat the Lakers the night Lebron broke the record.
Speaker 2: The Lakers then beat the Thunder without Lebron or ad
Speaker 2: in a night Shay wasn't playing. Now they play Friday
Speaker 2: their final game of the year, so it's a huge
Speaker 2: game in the standings. It also will determine the tiebreaker,
Speaker 2: so where if the Thunder and the Lakers finished with
Speaker 2: the same record, who gets the higher seed. It would
Speaker 2: be the winner of Friday night's game. It is a
Speaker 2: great time to play the Thunder because the Thunder played
Speaker 2: the Clippers in a war night before last. They then
Speaker 2: play the Clippers tonight and the very next night, second
Speaker 2: night of a back to get back, third game in
Speaker 2: three days or in four days, pardon me, they play
Speaker 2: the Lakers, so the Lakers will have some rest, the Thunder,
Speaker 2: won't I think the Lakers will win that game. Thunder
Speaker 2: then drop Lakers move up. You then get two games
Speaker 2: against the Chicago Bulls. And there was some weird I
Speaker 2: didn't let me check see if there's been an update
Speaker 2: this moment, but Demarta Rosen got dinged yester last night
Speaker 2: and Demarta Rosan aggravates quad injury and lopsided Bulls loss.
Speaker 2: So Demarta Rosen exiting with seven minutes and forty eight
Speaker 2: seconds left in the third quarter, and it was in
Speaker 2: a game that he had already been playing poorly, clearly
Speaker 2: wasn't right. So the Bulls might be without DeRozan, plus
Speaker 2: they're not very good. Plus it's a chance to get
Speaker 2: revenge on Pack Beverley. Here's my point. I think the Lakers,
Speaker 2: who haven't been five hundred all year long and are
Speaker 2: sitting at thirty six and thirty seven when we get
Speaker 2: back from our trip the next time that we that
Speaker 2: I'm on the air for What's Right show a week
Speaker 2: from today. I think the Lakers are gonna be thirty
Speaker 2: nine and thirty seven. I think they're gonna win their
Speaker 2: next three. If that happens, there's a real chance that
Speaker 2: when we get here on Thursday, they are the sixth seed.
Speaker 2: Last night's win was critical. And here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: The Suns are holding on for dear life to avoid
Speaker 2: the play in themselves. The Clippers, who we're gonna get to,
Speaker 2: are holding on for dear life to avoid the play in.
Speaker 2: The Warriors, all of a sudden have won back to
Speaker 2: back road games, but they play the Sixers on Sunday.
Speaker 2: On Friday, I should say the next couple days in
Speaker 2: the NBA are gonna go a long ways to determining
Speaker 2: what's what in the Western Conference. What are you laughing about?
Speaker 3: Nothing? Tell me nothing?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay. So the tomorrow night, the Thunder, I'm sorry, Tonight,
Speaker 2: the Thunder play the Clippers. That's again from a Lakers perspective,
Speaker 2: that's one of those. It's one of the teams you're chasing,
Speaker 2: gets to win, one gets a loss. That's really the
Speaker 2: only relevant game to the Lakers. Tonight, then tomorrow massive.
Speaker 2: As we mentioned, the Lakers play the Thunder also Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the Jazz host the Bucks. The Bucks should win that
Speaker 2: game and put the Jazz at thirty eight losses and
Speaker 2: the Sixers go to Golden State. If the Sixers and
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid can win that game and Joel aggravated a
Speaker 2: bit of an injury, hardens, we got to see what
Speaker 2: their health is for that game. But they're fighting for seeding.
Speaker 2: If they can win that game, and then we have
Speaker 2: the Kings hosting the Suns. The Lakers could by Saturday
Speaker 2: be a half game out of the sixty. All right,
Speaker 2: what's next?
Speaker 3: Look like the Warriors are going to embarrass you again.
Speaker 3: You said they're dead. Embarrass me, embarrass you? Okay, you
Speaker 3: said they're dead.
Speaker 4: Last night they beat your guy Luca in the MAVs.
Speaker 4: You scared yet?
Speaker 2: No, I'm not scared of the Warriors.
Speaker 3: You should be, But why do you.
Speaker 2: Think I should be just because of Stephen Clay? See?
Speaker 3: That is dangerous.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's my thing, and I really really because I
Speaker 2: know I here's the thing, and I hope you don't
Speaker 2: take this the wrong way, but your analysis there is
Speaker 2: exactly what the people who get paid millions of dollars
Speaker 2: to watch all the games and talk about this on TV.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what they say. Oh then where's my millions?
Speaker 2: Well no, but here's my point. It is such a
Speaker 2: fast style point, like, ah, they're the Warriors, You've got
Speaker 2: to be afraid of them.
Speaker 3: It is what the that's what you would say about Lebron.
Speaker 2: The Warriors don't have Lebron.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. They don't need Lebron. They're freaking the Warriors.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, you're correct to a degree that that is
Speaker 2: what I would say about Lebron. However, the Warriors do not,
Speaker 2: in my estimation this year, have the cohesion, have any type,
Speaker 2: that the depth, any of the things they need to
Speaker 2: be a truly scary team. Now, last night there was
Speaker 2: a lot of hijinks in the game, and that's actually
Speaker 2: what I want to talk about before before I get
Speaker 2: to the Warrior's side of it, because the MAVs are
Speaker 2: filing a protest because if you don't watch last night's game,
Speaker 2: this is what happened. Late in the third quarter, the
Speaker 2: ref the ball goes out of bounds, the MAVs didn't
Speaker 2: call timeout. The ref does initially signal Warriors ball. He
Speaker 2: then signals towards the MAVs the MAVs think he's saying
Speaker 2: it's their ball, they call timeout. He was saying they
Speaker 2: called time, that they called timeout, not that it was
Speaker 2: their ball. Go to commercial, come back. All the MAVs
Speaker 2: are lined up on the other end of the court
Speaker 2: like it's their ball. One of the refs is also
Speaker 2: down there. The Warriors are lined up by the basket
Speaker 2: they're trying to score on like it's their ball. The
Speaker 2: refs just hand the Warriors the ball. There's no one
Speaker 2: down there. They getna lay up. They end up winning
Speaker 2: the game by two points. So the MAVs are furious
Speaker 2: about this. Mark Cuban's furious about this. They're gonna file
Speaker 2: a protest. They're not gonna win the protest. So why
Speaker 2: did this happen? Well, there was an odd thing going
Speaker 2: on in yesterday's game, and Luca's gotta own this. So
Speaker 2: look the NBA, if you get sixteen technicals over the
Speaker 2: course of a season, you get suspended for a game.
Speaker 2: Draymond just got suspended for a game because he's on sixteen.
Speaker 2: Now then for him, you get then suspended every other game.
Speaker 2: Luca is sitting on fifteen and the MAVs obviously have
Speaker 2: to win every game. The ref last night, we're clearly
Speaker 2: afraid to give Draymond or Luca attack when they clearly
Speaker 2: deserved them multiple times because they didn't want the suspension
Speaker 2: to happen. Draymond and Luca then took advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Luca went further and whenever the refs missed a call
Speaker 2: started doing this, the money signed like the refs were
Speaker 2: paid off. I think he's gonna get fined fifty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars for it. I love Luca, you can't do that,
Speaker 2: and it gives the refs incentive to stick it to you,
Speaker 2: which I think they were doing. So. The MAVs right
Speaker 2: now are in a spot where they have to hold
Speaker 2: on for dear life just to make the play in.
Speaker 2: They're very fortunate they won that game last Friday against
Speaker 2: the Lakers. The Lakers Blue and for the MAVs now,
Speaker 2: I'll say this, if they end up the eight seed,
Speaker 2: I think they absolutely can beat Dallas. But their defense
Speaker 2: at them is an abomination. There is no resistance at
Speaker 2: the rim, and it was a layup line for the
Speaker 2: Warriors yesterday. Now to the Warriors that again, I'm told
Speaker 2: I have to be scared of a Warriors team that
Speaker 2: has been the fourth worst road team on the year
Speaker 2: this season, a Warriors team that last night did not
Speaker 2: even have Jordan Poole, their newly minted hundred million dollar man,
Speaker 2: in their closing lineup. Instead, they went with Dante DiVincenzo
Speaker 2: because Pool has been so bad defensively and making bad decisions.
Speaker 2: I have massive respect for Steph, and Steph has been
Speaker 2: great all year long. With that said, the Warriors have
Speaker 2: been a five hundred team at every stretch of the season,
Speaker 2: and unlike the Lakers, who have been around five hundred
Speaker 2: after the two Lakers started to intend and then trying
Speaker 2: to get back to five hundred, they haven't gotten there. Ye,
Speaker 2: the Lakers can say, well a d missed a month.
Speaker 2: Lebron is in the midst of missing a month. The
Speaker 2: Warriors were a five hundred team in games Steph plays
Speaker 2: in games he doesn't now. They do have San Antonio
Speaker 2: still on their schedule. They do have Portland in the
Speaker 2: final game of the year, in a game that I
Speaker 2: think will mean nothing for Portland, but the idea the
Speaker 2: Warriors are no more of a lock right now to
Speaker 2: make the postseason than the Lakers. I understand there are
Speaker 2: a loss ahead of them in the standings. Also, if
Speaker 2: those two teams finished with the same record, the Lakers,
Speaker 2: because they've won the season series, have the tiebreaker there.
Speaker 2: I do not believe that this Warriors team has the
Speaker 2: juice this season, and I will go a step further
Speaker 2: on that. I think there was such an emotional toll
Speaker 2: in a positive way taken by them winning a title
Speaker 2: without Durant that they then understandably, we're already this year.
Speaker 3: Gonna let their foot off the gas a bit.
Speaker 2: You then combine it with the fact that Draymond cold
Speaker 2: cocked one of the players and the kind of long
Speaker 2: tale of that all year. I don't think they have it.
Speaker 2: It's a good win for them last night against Dallas.
Speaker 2: I've been wrong on the Warriors before, but I would
Speaker 2: expect when they play Philly on Friday night, assuming Embiid plays,
Speaker 2: they have no answer for Embiid and they're right, and
Speaker 2: they're then once again fighting just to stay out of
Speaker 2: the plan. All right, next time will tell you you
Speaker 2: believe in them. I believe, and you also like watching them.
Speaker 3: I love watching them. The good team to watch. They're enjoyable.
Speaker 3: You know, that's like the only sauce.
Speaker 2: It's not hate sauce, and I've had to eat it
Speaker 2: when I've been wrong about.
Speaker 3: Okay, what nothing?
Speaker 2: Okay, great to eat Okay.
Speaker 4: The Curse Clippers lost Paul George for the last three weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 4: could they miss the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Entirely said they could?
Speaker 2: Will they fall out of the play in?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But in the if they don't have Paul George for
Speaker 2: the play in, they could lose play into elimination games.
Speaker 2: They could lose any of those games and just be done.
Speaker 2: And so there's a Kaui angle to this. And then
Speaker 2: there's a trade angle to this, which is also kind
Speaker 2: of a Kauai angle. The Qui angle is I have
Speaker 2: I had to listen for the better part of a
Speaker 2: year that this guy was the best player in the
Speaker 2: league after what he did in Toronto. Then he goes
Speaker 2: to La best player in LA. I had to listen
Speaker 2: to all of that. Kawhi, it is now incumbent upon
Speaker 2: It is not fair to ask why if Paul George
Speaker 2: is done for the year to lead them to a championship.
Speaker 2: It is absolutely fair to say, Kawhi, make sure they
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. You are as load managed as any
Speaker 2: player in the league should be. The freshest superstar in
Speaker 2: the league. Right now, you have a bit of a
Speaker 2: cushion in the standings at the moment due to what
Speaker 2: the team has done over the bulk of the season.
Speaker 2: You're the five seed right now, you're at thirty five losses.
Speaker 2: You can't fall out of the playoffs altogether.
Speaker 3: Just can't.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the Clippers schedule is not easy.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned, they host Oklahoma City tonight Saturday, they
Speaker 2: host New Orleans Monday, they host Chicago, that's the softest part.
Speaker 2: Then their final six games at Memphis, at Memphis again,
Speaker 2: at New Orleans home for the Lakers, home for the
Speaker 2: Blazers again. The Blazers at that point might have packed
Speaker 2: it in, and then at Phoenix in the final game
Speaker 2: of the year that theoretically Kevin Durant could be back
Speaker 2: for big spots here for Kawhi Leonard. Now to the Clippers,
Speaker 2: the other angler. They are man they have gotten since
Speaker 2: they got Kawhi and Paul George. Their first year together,
Speaker 2: they're up three to one on the Nuggets. They fall
Speaker 2: apart entirely. Their second year together, they look like they
Speaker 2: have a real chance of making the finals. Kawhi blows
Speaker 2: out his knee in around two of the playoffs. They
Speaker 2: end up winning that round anyway, but they lose obviously
Speaker 2: to the Suns in the conference finals. Then next year,
Speaker 2: Kawhi misses all year, Paul George keeps them afloat they
Speaker 2: get to the play in, Paul George is ruled out
Speaker 2: for the play in due to COVID health and safety protocols,
Speaker 2: and their season ends. And now this year, when they
Speaker 2: look like one of the scariest teams in the West,
Speaker 2: they end up having to They're not gonna have Paul
Speaker 2: George for at least the rest of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Now we get back to how this whole thing started
Speaker 2: with them that Paul George trade. I understand I argued
Speaker 2: with Broussard about this, like any team would make it.
Speaker 2: You traded for Paul George, you ended up getting. That
Speaker 2: was how you got Kawhi Leonard got. But again, not
Speaker 2: to reference Lebron for the third time in the show,
Speaker 2: but I have had to listen for Lebron's entire career,
Speaker 2: and certainly is Lakers tenure that it is on him
Speaker 2: that he forced the Lakers to trade for us. It
Speaker 2: didn't work, and Lebron did it. Well, let's revisit this fact.
Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard. The Clippers had the opportunity to sign Kawhi
Speaker 2: Leonard and give up no one. He told them, in
Speaker 2: order to get me, you must trade for Paul George.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about what they gave up for Paul George,
Speaker 2: because it is quite the hall now that we know
Speaker 2: this has not worked out at all. They traded for
Speaker 2: Paul George Shay Gilgess Alexander, who is in all NBA
Speaker 2: level player right now plays for the Thunder averaging thirty
Speaker 2: two points per game, and the Thunder have been as
Speaker 2: good as the Clippers all year based on his play.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say alone, but he's been the
Speaker 2: driving force Danilo Gallinari, so be it. And five first
Speaker 2: round picks they traded them a twenty twenty one pick, first,
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty three first, a twenty twenty two first,
Speaker 2: a first in twenty four, a first in twenty six,
Speaker 2: and the rights to swap picks in twenty three and
Speaker 2: twenty five. So five first round picks, two swaps and
Speaker 2: the best player in the trade. Why so the Clippers
Speaker 2: if Kawhi when he went there had said no I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna come here, keep shay, keep all those picks,
Speaker 2: and wait and see how we can improve. The team
Speaker 2: wouldn't do that, and now they looked what for the
Speaker 2: fourth year of this to have no championship hopes and
Speaker 2: for their next four seasons they either have to give
Speaker 2: up their first round pick or swap with the thunder
Speaker 2: who they thunder might swap with them this year because
Speaker 2: the thunder might in him with a better record than
Speaker 2: them this year. It's a disaster of a trade.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Last thing, Danielle, you.
Speaker 4: Said the Kings have the best offense in NBA history. Yep,
Speaker 4: five of the top nine all time or this year?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 3: What is happening?
Speaker 2: Okay? So when I so you do points per one
Speaker 2: hundred possessions? The Kings literally do as I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: You have to explain it, okay.
Speaker 2: So the so, there's two ways to measure offense, right,
Speaker 2: how many points do you score in a game or
Speaker 2: points per possession. The reason it's better to do points
Speaker 2: per possession is how many points you score in a
Speaker 2: game can be influenced greatly by how fast you play.
Speaker 2: If you run up and down the court, you get
Speaker 2: more possessions. You know what I mean. And so the
Speaker 2: best way to normalize it against all of history is
Speaker 2: points per possession. You do points per one hundred possessions,
Speaker 2: because that's usually about how many there is in a game.
Speaker 2: The Kings have the best offense in NBA history by
Speaker 2: that metric. The third best offense in NBA history is
Speaker 2: the Nuggets this year, the fourth best offense in NBA histories,
Speaker 2: the Celtics this year, the sixth best offense in NBA histories,
Speaker 2: the Sixers this year. So four of the top six
Speaker 2: aer this year. So what's happening? Old school folks are
Speaker 2: gonna say nobody plays defense. That is flatly not true. Again,
Speaker 2: the NBA just announced that over the next few days,
Speaker 2: if you sign up for yours an unpaid ad, if
Speaker 2: you sign up for nbaid, you have access to all
Speaker 2: of the finals games. You can watch them in full
Speaker 2: from the nineties through now. Go watch some of those
Speaker 2: mid nineties finals games and you tell me, was it
Speaker 2: great defense or was it compact did offense and and
Speaker 2: bad shot making. It's I promise you it's the latter,
Speaker 2: not the former. It's not about guys not playing defense.
Speaker 2: It's about clearly and unquestionably two things. What with three things?
Speaker 2: One is the prevalence of the three point shot is
Speaker 2: the biggest reason for this of anything. The threes are
Speaker 2: worth fifty percent more than twos. Teams shoot more threes
Speaker 2: now than ever before. It is as simple as that.
Speaker 2: That's the biggest reason. The second reason is the overall
Speaker 2: talent level in the league has never been higher due
Speaker 2: to the ubiquitousness of the foreign players. And how we
Speaker 2: talk about when we talk about this later, the best
Speaker 2: players in the sport. Four of the top six are
Speaker 2: not American born. You have so you have more talent
Speaker 2: to draw from than ever four. And the last thing
Speaker 2: is this, the league probably needs to expand. In the nineties,
Speaker 2: you add six teams added from the late eighties to
Speaker 2: the early nineties. They added the Heat, the Magic, the Timberwolves,
Speaker 2: the Raptors, the Grizzlies, and one other team I'm forgetting.
Speaker 2: They added six teams to the league in a short
Speaker 2: period of time. They didn't have enough talent, so all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, instead of teams having three superstars per team,
Speaker 2: it was two, sometimes even one. Now the league has
Speaker 2: not expanded since then. In the nineties, there's enough talent
Speaker 2: for thirty two or thirty four teams and because of that,
Speaker 2: scoring his way up. And really it's because teams are smarter.
Speaker 2: They're taking smarter shots. Instead of taking mid range jump shots,
Speaker 2: they're taking three pointers. So do I think the Kings
Speaker 2: are actually the best offense ever? No? I think they
Speaker 2: are the best offense this year. And much like damn
Speaker 2: climate change, the hottest year right now is going to
Speaker 2: be the hottest year ever because it's just getting hotter
Speaker 2: and hotter the defenses, I'm sorry, scoring is going to
Speaker 2: continue to go up until we reach something of an
Speaker 2: equilibrium when it comes to the diminishing returns on threes
Speaker 2: and when it comes to teams kind of figured defensively
Speaker 2: figuring out a counter to the modern offense, because the
Speaker 2: modern offense is way ahead?
Speaker 4: What oh?
Speaker 3: You just what? Too much? What do you mean I'm
Speaker 3: talking too much? You lost me once again?
Speaker 2: All Right, that might have been a little convoluted, But
Speaker 2: the point I'm making is teams are taking shots that
Speaker 2: are worth more than more of those shots than they
Speaker 2: ever have before. Teams are smarter than they ever have
Speaker 2: been before as far as taking the most efficient shots,
Speaker 2: and we have the most talent, rich pool of players
Speaker 2: to draw from. All of that has led to an
Speaker 2: increase in office.
Speaker 4: Right when somebody says I can't understand, explain that to me.
Speaker 4: You can't give them too much because they just told
Speaker 4: you they don't understand.
Speaker 3: So I means you got to give them a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying was that the point was that little
Speaker 3: explanation better.
Speaker 2: That was better? All right, appreciate that. Thank you, damn food,
Speaker 2: that's why you're here. What'd you say for you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, now, just full of roasting me? What do you so?
Speaker 2: I have a pimple on my forehead that Danielle has
Speaker 2: been rocking. Danielle has been mocking me for all day. Said, oh,
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick Wright Episode one
Speaker 2: thirty seven, my wonderful wife Danielle filling in for my
Speaker 2: wonderful son, Demons.
Speaker 3: How do you think this wonderful?
Speaker 2: How do you think that first segment went?
Speaker 3: I think it went good. Boss.
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm just the host.
Speaker 3: What's Right with Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean my name's on the show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is true.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Danielle was adamant. Danielle behind the scenes is kind of
Speaker 2: my biggest advocate, even though in front of the camera
Speaker 2: sometimes she seems to just want to crush me.
Speaker 3: Uh that.
Speaker 2: When we were gonna start this podcast for Fox, Danielle
Speaker 2: was adamant that it has to be called What's Right
Speaker 2: because that's what the show my radio show in college,
Speaker 2: Kansas City and Houston, and even on Mad Dog Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: I guess in Houston it wasn't called what's Right, because
Speaker 2: it was because I had a coast because with John
Speaker 2: Lopez called in the Loop. But then the national show
Speaker 2: I did on the weekends was called What's Right, and
Speaker 2: all of these have been called What's Right. So daniel
Speaker 2: was an adamant that I keep the name and maybe, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe one day it'll be what's right with Nick Wright
Speaker 2: and family?
Speaker 3: Or what's right with the rights.
Speaker 2: What's right with the rights? Oh, that would work. But
Speaker 2: my regular you know, Demons, was so damn attached to
Speaker 2: that bird last name.
Speaker 3: I mean, who wouldn't be I dump my middle name
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: That's true, That is true. When Danielle and I got married, Uh,
Speaker 2: Danielle took my last name, but then just moved her
Speaker 2: maiden name, which is bird, just demand's last name to
Speaker 2: the middle. But yeah, no, it's it's a it's a
Speaker 2: good though. Yeah, I know, but it doesn't. He doesn't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't doesn't quite have you know, it doesn't have
Speaker 2: the with the I think with right and family, with
Speaker 2: right and friends. I'm not sure we can figure it out.
Speaker 3: Oh no, that sounds kind of lame.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let's get to the show. What are
Speaker 2: we doing here?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, your part.
Speaker 4: Yesterday when you should have been helping me pack for
Speaker 4: our trip. Yeah, you came up with a fake basketball game?
Speaker 2: Yeah I did.
Speaker 3: Who's your dumb fake basketball game?
Speaker 2: Okay? So the World Baseball Classic was a huge success,
Speaker 2: and it was because the players were invested. So I said,
Speaker 2: how can we recreate this on other levels? And the
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game was a travesty this year because
Speaker 2: none of the players cared. So here was the idea.
Speaker 2: Tell me before I even show it to you if
Speaker 2: you like this idea. The NBA All Star Game, it's
Speaker 2: just like the best thirty players you know in the
Speaker 2: East versus West it used to be, and now they
Speaker 2: pick sides. The US the best players, American born players
Speaker 2: on one team for the All Star Game against the
Speaker 2: best international players, the best foreign born players. I thought
Speaker 2: that would raise the stakes a bit as far as
Speaker 2: guys having pride, caring about it before I show you
Speaker 2: the rosters. Do you think that would work?
Speaker 3: No? Why, I just don't like it.
Speaker 2: Why, I mean, we're all one just I understand. But
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, it was country. It's like the
Speaker 2: Olympics if you.
Speaker 4: Play for a bunch of people from one country. When
Speaker 4: it comes to the other countries.
Speaker 2: For basketball, right, that's why you have to do international.
Speaker 3: That's not fair.
Speaker 4: All the US get to be together and then there's
Speaker 4: all these different guys from different countries over here.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: Okay, whatever you say.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well let me show it to you. Okay, guy,
Speaker 2: I mean we are gonna discuss this here. I think
Speaker 2: we can show it to you. If not, I can
Speaker 2: just tell everybody what the teams looked like. Uh so,
Speaker 2: here's what here. Here is where what I had it at.
Speaker 2: I guess we don't have the graphic for you. My apologies,
Speaker 2: but I can so Team USA would be here's their
Speaker 2: twelve Lebron, Steph Durant, Tatum, Jah, Anthony Davis, Donovan, Mitchell,
Speaker 2: Devin Booker, James Harden, Kawhi Leonard and Diaron Fox.
Speaker 3: They already won.
Speaker 2: Well, listen to the other side. The other side has
Speaker 2: Giannis Embiid, Luca Jokic, Sga Shay, the guy we were
Speaker 2: talking about earlier. The world starting five is better than
Speaker 2: the US's starting five. Giannis Embiid, Luca Jokic, and Shay
Speaker 2: versus Lebron Steph, Katie Tatum, and Jah. They have a
Speaker 2: better starting five where they get hurt as their depth.
Speaker 2: After Shay, you have DeMont Sabonis who was born in
Speaker 2: the States but as Lithuanian citizenship through his dad, Pascal Siakam,
Speaker 2: Laurie Markinen, Jamal Murray og Annoby, Franz Wagner, and Chris Stabs.
Speaker 2: The US has more depth. But if we were right now,
Speaker 2: the top four in MVP candidates for this year are
Speaker 2: probably all on the World team. Right now, I think
Speaker 2: the MVP voting would go Embiid, Yannis Jokic, Luka and
Speaker 2: Shay might get some MVP votes, So I think the
Speaker 2: guys would have enough pride and they would play harder.
Speaker 2: The thing with the All Star Game is you need
Speaker 2: them to play harder. So let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: If you don't like my idea, I'm putting you on
Speaker 2: the spot here. If you don't mind, how would you
Speaker 2: make the NBA All Star Game? How would you incentivize
Speaker 2: the guys to care about an exhibition game that doesn't
Speaker 2: count for the standings or a championship so they play
Speaker 2: hard the way they did once upon a time.
Speaker 3: What do they get paid you to play. They don't.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's as simple as money, simple as money.
Speaker 2: How much are you gonna pay them?
Speaker 3: Though, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Just pay them money where it's worth it, where I'm
Speaker 4: gonna play like I'm supposed to play.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of money. There's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you sell the tickets more, you do
Speaker 3: everything more. You know what I'm saying. You figure out
Speaker 3: a way to pay the players.
Speaker 2: All right. Daniel's idea is pay the players more. I
Speaker 2: like my idea us.
Speaker 3: Versus the world. Of course you do?
Speaker 2: Well, well, yeah, I mean it's my of course I'm
Speaker 2: gonna like it. All right. What are we doing next?
Speaker 3: Oh? New game? Yeah? Nick? Nick fix?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You get three moves per team. Okay, we've got five
Speaker 4: teams here. We're starting with the Panthers.
Speaker 2: All right. So how would I fix the Carolina Panthers. Well,
Speaker 2: they put themselves in a brutal spot. The first thing
Speaker 2: I would do, if I could, is undo the trade
Speaker 2: I just did. But they can't do that. Okay, So
Speaker 2: since they can't undo the trade they just did, which
Speaker 2: they traded, they treated this year's draft like Caleb Williams
Speaker 2: is in it, like I can't miss gotta have number
Speaker 2: one quarterbacks there. That's not the case. But because of that,
Speaker 2: you gotta deal with where you're at. So the first
Speaker 2: thing I would do is I would draft CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 2: That's the first thing I would do because Bryce Young's
Speaker 2: too small. Anthony Richardson maybe has the highest ceiling, but
Speaker 2: they want a guy who can play immediately because they
Speaker 2: don't have their pick next year. The next thing that
Speaker 2: I would do if I were them after drafting CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud is this one's tough because you gotta somehow recoup
Speaker 2: offensively the loss of DJ Moore to help CJ. Stroud out.
Speaker 2: I would call, yeah, what I'm thinking, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: do this right. I would call Tampa about Mike Evans
Speaker 2: and see and I I'd be hesitant to lay out
Speaker 2: more draft capital, but I want you have no incentive
Speaker 2: to be bad next year. I want to give my
Speaker 2: team a chance to or CJ. Stroud the best chance
Speaker 2: to be good immediately. I need a receiver. I'd see
Speaker 2: if I can give up a fourth round pick for
Speaker 2: Mike Evans. And the last thing that I would do
Speaker 2: if I were the Carolina Panthers, gosh darn it is
Speaker 2: in this year's draft. I would try to trade back
Speaker 2: as much as I can to recoup some picks. This
Speaker 2: is a tough one to fix because I think they
Speaker 2: made a big mistake laying out all, laying out all
Speaker 2: that draft capital move from nine to one. But that
Speaker 2: is that's what I would do if I were them.
Speaker 2: All Right, what's next, Danielle?
Speaker 3: The Cowboys.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys I don't think need a ton of fixing.
Speaker 2: I like their addition of Brandon Cooks. I like what
Speaker 2: they have done obviously defensively, and I understand that this
Speaker 2: is probably gonna be an unpopular thing. But you can't
Speaker 2: let the sunk cost fallacy kill you. You can't be like, ah,
Speaker 2: we made a mistake on Zeke, we paid Zeke. What
Speaker 2: do we do?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Here's what I would do if I were the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I would draft b Jon Robinson in the first round,
Speaker 2: the running back out of Tech, out of Texas. I
Speaker 2: would ask Dak to go back to what he does best,
Speaker 2: which is be an over as Brusard says a lot,
Speaker 2: and he's right, be an overqualified game manager. So I'd
Speaker 2: scale back the offense. I'd draft Bjon Robinson and on
Speaker 2: the defensive side of the ball. I would tell Micah
Speaker 2: Parsons that he is so. Step one is draft of
Speaker 2: Jean Robinson. Step two is get Dak Prescott back to
Speaker 2: game manager Dak Prescott, and step three is I understand
Speaker 2: Michah Parsons can do a little bit of everything, and
Speaker 2: that's what makes him so great. Micah Parsons is a
Speaker 2: is a permanent pass rusher. Doesn't mean we're taking him
Speaker 2: off the field of non pass rushing situations, but this
Speaker 2: whole have Micah sometimes drop into coverage. Micah Parsons has
Speaker 2: the ability to be the most dominant edge rusher in football.
Speaker 2: Let him be that and let him try to tee
Speaker 2: off on quarterbacks. That's what I would do. Whire the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys. The real thing I would have done is
Speaker 2: fire Mike McCarthy, but they're not gonna do that before
Speaker 2: the year. They had their opportunity, and so they move
Speaker 2: on from Kellen Moore.
Speaker 3: Next the Commanders.
Speaker 2: Well, this one's simple that I would sign Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: to an offersheet immediately. I mean that one. They have
Speaker 2: the sixteenth pick this year, I would wait until after
Speaker 2: the draft. In the draft, I would if he's there
Speaker 2: I would draft Quintin Johnston, the kid from TCU. If
Speaker 2: he's not there, Jackson, Smith and Jigba would be my
Speaker 2: draft pick as I draft a top flight wide receiver.
Speaker 2: That's I guess step one, but we can leave it
Speaker 2: at step two. I would sign Lamar Jackson, giving up
Speaker 2: my two future first round picks, and I would use
Speaker 2: the rest of the draft that I can on. I
Speaker 2: would try to find It's not a great, not gonna
Speaker 2: mean a great position to do this, but I would
Speaker 2: try to find a legitimate tackle, and I would believe
Speaker 2: that Chase Young's gonna bounce back, and I would try
Speaker 2: to go win the NFC East with arguably the best
Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFC and Lamar. The Commanders are in
Speaker 2: a weird spot because they're selling their team, but signing Lamar,
Speaker 2: drafting a receiver, using the rest of the draft to
Speaker 2: supplement your offensive line, your secondary, that's what I would do.
Speaker 2: That to me is the easiest, most obvious fix.
Speaker 3: Next the Ravens.
Speaker 2: All right, this is assuming they lose Lamar. So assuming
Speaker 2: if you are the Ravens, assuming you lose Lamar, the
Speaker 2: first thing I would do is call San Francisco and
Speaker 2: see if they have soured on Trey Lance. Trey Lance,
Speaker 2: if they want to roll with brock Purty, they want
Speaker 2: to cut their losses there, I would call San Francisco
Speaker 2: about Trey Lance. That's the first thing I would do.
Speaker 2: The second thing I would do with my increased draft
Speaker 2: capital is trade, because you're getting draft picks for because
Speaker 2: you're letting Lamar go. Trade for DeAndre Hopkins. You can
Speaker 2: get him for your second round pick, and now you
Speaker 2: have extra picks. And the last thing that I would
Speaker 2: do if I were Baltimore is really just hope and
Speaker 2: pray the Steelers stick with Kenny Pickett, because if they do,
Speaker 2: they are going to be, oh, you know what, I
Speaker 2: actually I don't. I'm yeah. Just hope and pray the
Speaker 2: Steeler stick with Kenny Pickett. That's what I would do.
Speaker 2: That's what I would do for the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Last one, Danielle the Bills.
Speaker 2: Bills are in a weird spot where they've got to
Speaker 2: decide are we going to go further all in on
Speaker 2: this moment or are we gonna take a momentary step back.
Speaker 2: I don't think they can afford to take a momentary
Speaker 2: step back. They gave von Miller all that money. If
Speaker 2: I were the Bills, I would sign Frank Clark, great chief,
Speaker 2: two time Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs. Give Frank
Speaker 2: all the credit in the world, but he's gone now.
Speaker 2: He has not been great in the regular season. He
Speaker 2: absolutely has been dominant in the postseason. The first thing
Speaker 2: I would do is sign Frank Clark. They are another
Speaker 2: team that if he's available. If the Cowboys don't draft him,
Speaker 2: I fire them. I would draft b Gen Robinson so
Speaker 2: you can have a legitimate pass rush, and I would
Speaker 2: show Josh Allen. I would make a super cut so
Speaker 2: step would be draft b Jehen Robinson, and then I
Speaker 2: would make a supercut of Josh Allen's most ridiculous mistakes
Speaker 2: from last last year and make him watch them every day.
Speaker 2: Be like, Buddy, we know you have a rocket arm.
Speaker 2: You've got to you've got to reel it into a
Speaker 2: degree because your mistakes killed us. He doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be a game manager. He's too talented for that. But
Speaker 2: you can't have him being as reckless as he was
Speaker 2: last year. And you've got to You've got to real
Speaker 2: and the I tell Ken Dorsey, we can't have our
Speaker 2: This is one of the reasons draft of Jehen Robinson.
Speaker 2: You can't have our running game just be putting our
Speaker 2: under back in jeopardy time after time after time. He's
Speaker 2: got to reel back the running a bit and reel
Speaker 2: end the mistakes a bit. All right, dam poop, you
Speaker 2: don't really love football and that was a very football
Speaker 2: heavy segment. Yeah, so I would like to know what
Speaker 2: would you like to fix nonsports world. Oh you had
Speaker 2: an idea early communication?
Speaker 4: Okay, explain that how you Communication has gotten awful lot.
Speaker 4: I think the text messaging and the dating online and
Speaker 4: all that stuff is messed up a lot of the world.
Speaker 4: I think people aren't actually having conversations to actually figure
Speaker 4: out what somebody really means when they're saying something, or
Speaker 4: even if you actually like this person, because you can
Speaker 4: you can fake type shit all day, act like you're.
Speaker 3: Somebody that you're not. My bad I said, that's okay, But.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think communication is really bad right now. I
Speaker 4: think the pandemic also made it worse and we need
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 3: Back to it.
Speaker 2: So when you say so, there's the dating part of it,
Speaker 2: then there's the text messaging part of it. You think
Speaker 2: that there should be nothing serious for something that takes
Speaker 2: more than one screen of words. Should ever be communicated
Speaker 2: be a text exactly.
Speaker 4: It's like if you text somebody and say, hey, can
Speaker 4: we have a conversation and somebody you know, takes a
Speaker 4: further about what you say a little bit, but we're
Speaker 4: not going to text about it. It's like people are
Speaker 4: now I like sending you whole books, like, bro, give
Speaker 4: me a phone call about this. This is crazy. I'm
Speaker 4: not going to respond. Can I text you in a minute?
Speaker 4: I mean, can I call you in a minute. It's
Speaker 4: just I think the communication SUTs. We need to start
Speaker 4: talking to each other again. And it's also making these
Speaker 4: men and women go on these dates and meeting up
Speaker 4: with people that just doesn't mazing.
Speaker 2: Aren't you glad we don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: I'm very glad. I don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad.
Speaker 4: But I rather have if I was a single woman.
Speaker 4: I want a man to approach me face to face.
Speaker 2: I think guys are afraid to do that something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's the reason why men are getting weaker.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, well now we might be men are
Speaker 2: getting weaker over yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh women, And you know, women are playing more of
Speaker 4: a part of the man these days. It's just like
Speaker 4: it's because we we're trying to do the things that
Speaker 4: we want them to do when we shouldn't be doing
Speaker 4: it at all.
Speaker 2: All right, that's a preview of birds thoughts of podcasts
Speaker 2: coming from Blue Duck Media in the summer of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Be on the lookout for it. Danielle and
Speaker 2: I both answer viewer questions next What's right, all Right?
Speaker 2: Episode one thirty seven, What's right with the right Reminder,
Speaker 2: we are not on on Tuesday. TV show is off
Speaker 2: Monday and Tuesday due to I think the Euros the
Speaker 2: soccer tournament, which is a great tournament, second best tournament
Speaker 2: in the world by the World Cup. I actually like
Speaker 2: it more than Champions League even pardon me, I got
Speaker 2: my little excuse me. No, I'm good, I got my
Speaker 2: coffee right here. Thank you though, so uh so, we're
Speaker 2: off Tuesday Thursday. Demanse will be back in the seat Thursday.
Speaker 2: Demanse it will be back from his trip from LA
Speaker 2: before he officially moves to LA and right now and
Speaker 2: you can still submit them to the questions in the
Speaker 2: chat if you're watching live on YouTube, and we'll answer
Speaker 2: some of them. By the way, speaking of Demonse, I'm
Speaker 2: told the Blue Docks squad found Demanse in La again.
Speaker 2: Remember the first time they found him, they saw him
Speaker 2: put him on the Hollywood sign. Here he's in front
Speaker 2: of is that the Chinese theater. He's got some in
Speaker 2: and out burger, He's got an oscar.
Speaker 3: I know the man.
Speaker 2: I don't eat. The only thing I don't eat. The
Speaker 2: only thing I don't eat is cheeseburgers and uh in
Speaker 2: and out burger is the one except and I make.
Speaker 2: And Demonzi's hat says avocado toast he found. So speaking
Speaker 2: of that, Sam Dunderdale says, question for both of you,
Speaker 2: what will you missed most? Miss most with Demonse moving
Speaker 2: to La, Oh.
Speaker 3: My gosh, so much. She has been my right hand man.
Speaker 4: Nick is always busy, so Demanse has been helping me
Speaker 4: if we need to pick the girls up or shoot babysit,
Speaker 4: any of that. Like, Demanse has been the help of
Speaker 4: the house, right.
Speaker 2: I think he's been great, and he obviously helps with
Speaker 2: this podcast. I'm gonna you know it's been because Demanse
Speaker 2: when we first moved to New York, was in college
Speaker 2: in California, Almornia, and then he came back, and then
Speaker 2: he was in Houston and Kansas City for the first
Speaker 2: for two years during the pandemic essentially, and then came
Speaker 2: back a little over a year ago opened up the store.
Speaker 2: It's been nice to have another guy in the house
Speaker 2: and so and I really have really enjoyed watching football
Speaker 2: with him because he and I that when he was
Speaker 2: growing up, he didn't care about the NFL at all. No,
Speaker 2: and so he and I never got to do that
Speaker 2: when he was little. But this year it's been nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna miss him, but he's doing great. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm happy for him. Noah Rodriguez asked Danielle, what is
Speaker 2: it like being married to someone who loves gambling and
Speaker 2: what are some rules you guys have established in terms
Speaker 2: of how much gambling is too much.
Speaker 4: Well, at the beginning of our relationship, Nick gambled so
Speaker 4: much that I would have to go to sleep in
Speaker 4: the car.
Speaker 3: I mean that's a fact.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I would. Danielle would come with me to
Speaker 2: the casino where I would play poker.
Speaker 4: Now I would play blackjack for like an hour, and
Speaker 4: then you would not be done. I would wait around
Speaker 4: for like an hour and he still wasn't done. And
Speaker 4: then it's like the third hour comes around. Was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going to go in the car and wait for you,
Speaker 4: and you're like, okay, go ahead. Then I noticed I've
Speaker 4: been sleep in the car for two hours. Yeah, so yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: it's not as bad as it used to be.
Speaker 3: I think we kind of like have it under control now.
Speaker 3: You don't do it like you used to.
Speaker 2: During the pandemic. During the beginning of the pandemic, I
Speaker 2: was playing a lot of online poker. Yeah, and that
Speaker 2: irritated That irritated me. So I don't think tell me
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. You're less concerned. The dollars part of
Speaker 2: it has never really been an issue.
Speaker 3: It's time.
Speaker 4: It's the time, Yeah, the dollars because you don't I don't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't with you when you would let the stuff
Speaker 4: get out of control. I don't think. I think as
Speaker 4: you know, like you're kind of smart enough. I have
Speaker 4: a family, you have to I can't lose all of
Speaker 4: our money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the I don't when it's not football season.
Speaker 2: I don't really bet sports.
Speaker 4: And you don't have many hobbies and like do with it.
Speaker 4: So I guess I'll let you have that. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't gamble, but I spend a lot of money
Speaker 4: on clothes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that is it is.
Speaker 3: I spend a lot of money on and that is all.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Danielle doesn't you know, she doesn't
Speaker 2: give me a hard time about playing cards. She doesn't
Speaker 2: you know, Like she said, it's my it's one of
Speaker 2: my passion things. She supported me when I went out
Speaker 2: to Vegas and gambled for a lot of money in
Speaker 2: those televised poker things. But she does keep it right
Speaker 2: in her back pocket.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Whenever there is any instance of any it is a
Speaker 2: card that is played, no pun intended. Anytime there's any
Speaker 2: question like oh is that new? I I when did
Speaker 2: you get that? There's it's always very close to the
Speaker 2: tip of the tongue of oh, you spend five thousand
Speaker 2: dollars on poker and I you give me a hard.
Speaker 4: At least when I'm what I spend my money on
Speaker 4: is on my back.
Speaker 2: All right, Next question Capri Johnson for me, Nick, why
Speaker 2: do you feel like you should be a voter for
Speaker 2: NBA awards? Folks might feel like you're just gonna be
Speaker 2: biased towards Lebron. I feel like I should be a
Speaker 2: voter for the NBA awards because there are one hundred
Speaker 2: plus people who have votes, and you cannot tell me.
Speaker 2: You cannot convince me that there are one hundred plus
Speaker 2: media members who watch more NBA than me, who know
Speaker 2: more about the NBA than me, who care more about
Speaker 2: the NBA than me. It's obviously not true. I am
Speaker 2: obviously one of the one hundred most qualified people to
Speaker 2: vote on these awards. And when it comes to contracts, incentives,
Speaker 2: being eligible for supermacs, those things being tied to the awards,
Speaker 2: you should have the most qualified, dedicated voters possible. Instead,
Speaker 2: I feel like I think it's kind of outrageous when
Speaker 2: I hear some of the new people who have gotten
Speaker 2: votes that the NBA has not approached me about it.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what more I could do
Speaker 2: to demonstrate my knowledge and to demonstrate my passion for
Speaker 2: the league. And so we joke about it on the
Speaker 2: TV show. But it does, it does, yeah, and it
Speaker 2: does bother me. I just I you should want the
Speaker 2: most qualified electorate, if you will, possible, and I'm clearly
Speaker 2: in that, And so why do I think I don't
Speaker 2: have a vote. Well, I've never been a writer and
Speaker 2: writer there's been a Historically it was just writers, but
Speaker 2: now it's not just writers. Broadcasters have gotten votes.
Speaker 4: Podcasters have gotten longer or what has a.
Speaker 2: Lot of them? You know, like Bruceard's got a vote,
Speaker 2: he deserves a vote.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, so it And would I be biased? I
Speaker 2: wouldn't towards Lebron? I know I would. I would take
Speaker 2: it very seriously. Now here's the benefit, speaking of the
Speaker 2: gambling to not having a vote. Because I don't have
Speaker 2: a vote, I can gamble on these awards. And when
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid wins MVP, I'm gonna make a lot of
Speaker 2: money because he was plus three point fifty ten days
Speaker 2: ago and I saw this train coming down the tracks
Speaker 2: and bet it. Then oh sorry, and that's the paper parking.
Speaker 2: And now he's a minus money favorite, all right. Gabe
Speaker 2: Alvarez says Danielle, when did you realize you fell in
Speaker 2: love with Nick? For me, it was when he called
Speaker 2: Lebron the goat? That's funny. Good job, Gabe.
Speaker 4: I fell in love with Nick on our first date.
Speaker 4: It took me a little bit over a year to
Speaker 4: go on a date with Nick. And on our first date,
Speaker 4: well the first date, it wasn't all in the same day.
Speaker 4: Beginning was when you met my children. And then later
Speaker 4: on that evening we went to his godfather's restaurant, Anthony's
Speaker 4: in Kansas City, and when we got there, they were
Speaker 4: treating us like gold, like he was like.
Speaker 3: Part owner of the restaurant, and.
Speaker 4: We sat in the corner where like nobody can see us,
Speaker 4: so we kind of like had our own private area.
Speaker 4: And it was kind of like the communication, like I
Speaker 4: was saying, like when people are slacking on these days,
Speaker 4: you basically wanted to know all about me, and we
Speaker 4: like made out the whole night yea, and talked and
Speaker 4: talked and talked for a few hours and then and
Speaker 4: then you were very uh persistent on getting me after
Speaker 4: then when I kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what'd you do for the next four months after
Speaker 2: that date where you fell inLove?
Speaker 3: I didn't talk to you.
Speaker 2: She ran for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. It was I'm like, like I told you guys
Speaker 3: last yow.
Speaker 4: Nick was my first white guy I dated, and he
Speaker 4: was younger than me and he had a lot going
Speaker 4: on for his future.
Speaker 3: I didn't there was like so many flags that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you had seen my you had seen my apartment.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was disgusting. Was like, this definitely is
Speaker 4: not gonna be my man. It's nasty. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: fell in love with you on our first date.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think I probably fell in love with
Speaker 2: you a little before that. All right, Danielle, who do
Speaker 2: you think the NBA goat is.
Speaker 3: Lebron? Oh?
Speaker 2: What you know what? I just fell in love with
Speaker 2: you all over it? All right? Last one, Danielle, does
Speaker 2: Nick always have to have the last word?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's surprising answer.
Speaker 3: I think I do. I mean I think you do
Speaker 3: with everybody else.
Speaker 4: You try with me, but I don't allow it because
Speaker 4: I have to had the last word.
Speaker 2: Man. That is self awareness, and I appreciate that answer.
Speaker 3: That's why you go to therapy.
Speaker 4: Oh, this lady can I three sessions about to.
Speaker 2: Say I'm proud of you and I'm happy for you. Well,
Speaker 2: I was kind of, and I'm glad you're doing it.
Speaker 2: But this lady has been to three therapy sessions and
Speaker 2: now though, Well, that's why everyone should be in therapy.
Speaker 4: Well, everybody should go. That's probably the other things I
Speaker 4: would fix. People should go to therapy. It's very important.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: It opens your eyes about yourself and people need to
Speaker 4: do that because people are stuck in their own I
Speaker 4: know everything, I'm right zone and need to.
Speaker 2: Get stuff together.
Speaker 3: Stuff together.
Speaker 2: Great show, great job. Dampo will be back at some
Speaker 2: date in the future. We are off Tuesday. Back on Thursday,
Speaker 2: a week from today. What's right