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Speaker 2: Welcome in. We'll drive with Nick Wright episode ton to
Speaker 2: do massive week in our household. I have some important
Speaker 2: family business to handle at the end of the show.
Speaker 3: Before we before we do the listener.
Speaker 2: Question, do that at the end of the show. But
Speaker 2: we got to get right into it today. Diora is here.
Speaker 2: She's my seventeen soon to be eighteen year old daughter.
Speaker 2: Some of her family business will be discussed at the
Speaker 2: end of the show as well as This is a
Speaker 2: wild week and a very important day in the right
Speaker 2: family household. But we had play in games last night.
Speaker 2: We have fourteen sixteenths of the playoff set.
Speaker 3: We're gonna play a confidence game.
Speaker 2: Today is an anniversary in the NBA as well as
Speaker 2: a personal anniversary. I'll get to that in a moment,
Speaker 2: But first, what did not make the show? Not on
Speaker 2: the show today? Sakwan Barkley doesn't sign his franchise tag.
Speaker 2: That's not surprising. I think he'll play, but I don't
Speaker 2: think he's gonna show up for a while. Jake Paul
Speaker 2: and Nate DZ boxing match booked. I it's not possible
Speaker 2: for me to be less interested in anything, Jacob, do
Speaker 2: you like Jake Paul. I used to be, you know,
Speaker 2: a Jake Paul.
Speaker 4: I used to watch the Team ten videos.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know what that is. You know he's
Speaker 2: now a professional boxer.
Speaker 4: I'm not alm a professional, but I do know that
Speaker 4: he boxes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I mean he's but he is a
Speaker 2: professional boxer. He fights in professional fights. But then he
Speaker 2: got into it with my buddy Bimani. He seems like
Speaker 2: a jerk. I'm not a Jake Paul. Guy USC hiring
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury and Bonus missed the show. Doora got me
Speaker 2: to finally take the TikTok plunge. So if you want
Speaker 2: to follow me there.
Speaker 4: What Let's also mention that you've had tiktoksince November. I'm
Speaker 4: just saying that you were going to do things on
Speaker 4: it and have not.
Speaker 2: I have not done anything on it, but I will
Speaker 2: start now. You can follow me on there at get
Speaker 2: Nick Wright funny moment? Do Youora? And I signed up
Speaker 2: for TikTok? Who She signed me up for TikTok in
Speaker 2: November on the way to.
Speaker 3: A NETS game.
Speaker 4: On the way back from it.
Speaker 2: On the way back from.
Speaker 3: A NETS game, thank you for that important clarification for the.
Speaker 2: Audience and the and I said, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna really post my until I get verified, and
Speaker 2: Diora said.
Speaker 4: Wow, it took him a week.
Speaker 2: You're not going to get verified until you have this
Speaker 2: many videos and do this. And I was like, eh,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. She's like, I know how TikTok
Speaker 2: works since I was making and then you know within
Speaker 2: a few months that all happened all right. By the way,
Speaker 2: speaking of important anniversaries, today is the seven year anniversary
Speaker 2: of Kobe Bryant's final game in the NBA. We're going
Speaker 2: to get to the actual show in just a moment,
Speaker 2: But I didn't realize that game was today until I
Speaker 2: was scrolling Twitter and I saw the highlights from it.
Speaker 2: And when you go back and look at what Kobe
Speaker 2: did in that game, it is actually, I think underrated
Speaker 2: how crazy that was. He was having a really good game,
Speaker 2: but his team was. It was seventy five sixty six
Speaker 2: Jazz at the end of three quarters and Kobe again
Speaker 2: he had up to that point because he had I
Speaker 2: think thirty seven points, so it was really impressive, but
Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, they're gonna lose. He's gonna have somewhere
Speaker 2: in the forties. And then Kobe Bryant, in his final
Speaker 2: game ever, not only scored twenty three in the fourth
Speaker 2: to finish with sixty, but the way the game ended,
Speaker 2: it's ninety four eighty four Jazz with three minutes left,
Speaker 2: and then Kobe gets a layup, Kobe gets two free throws,
Speaker 2: Kobe gets a layup, Kobe hits a jumper, and they're
Speaker 2: down four with a minute left. Kobe hits a three,
Speaker 2: hits a jumper, hit some free throws, and they he
Speaker 2: gets sixty and they win. It was that was a
Speaker 2: sports movie scene, and I remember it vividly. I had
Speaker 2: just moved to Los Angeles. I was starting my job
Speaker 2: with Fox that week, and it it was unbelievable what
Speaker 2: we were seeing. It was also the night the Warriors
Speaker 2: got their seventy third win how that season and four
Speaker 2: with Lebron sending them home and Draymond crying. More on
Speaker 2: that later, But it was seven years ago today, and
Speaker 2: then a few years ago obviously we lost Kobe. But
Speaker 2: what an unbelievable moment.
Speaker 3: That does not feel like it was seven years ago.
Speaker 2: All right, Diorra, let's get to the actual show, starting
Speaker 2: with last night's playing.
Speaker 4: Okay, the play in tournament is almost wrapped up. In
Speaker 4: the early game, you had the Bulls versus the Raptors,
Speaker 4: headlining dir De Rozan's free throw defense.
Speaker 2: Okay, so so Dr, by the way, that's the first
Speaker 2: person I've never met another Diora. This is the closest
Speaker 2: I've come too. I've met I've met Diors, but I've
Speaker 2: never heard Dr met Diors. Yeah, you've never met someone
Speaker 2: named Dior. Yeah, like the Christian Dior, like that type
Speaker 2: of is the first name. But set that aside. If
Speaker 2: you didn't watch Demarta Rosen's daughter screamed every time the
Speaker 2: Raptors shot a free throw. Now we go to nets
Speaker 2: games and there's that old man, the mister Whammy, who
Speaker 2: does the tries to jinx the opposing team, and statistically
Speaker 2: it actually seems to have a tiny effect. This appeared
Speaker 2: to have a massive effect. The Raptors missed eighteen free
Speaker 2: throws of their thirty six, half of them. And so
Speaker 2: now before we get to the other game, the more
Speaker 2: interesting game, this is where I'm gonna give the controversial opinion.
Speaker 2: You guys can start the clock and throw the rundown
Speaker 2: up there because we're going, We're off and running.
Speaker 3: Uh, this is.
Speaker 2: Where I'm gonna give an unpopular take. The NBA's got
Speaker 2: to step in. You can't let this happen again. What
Speaker 2: do you mean you can't have little kids screen? Okay,
Speaker 2: so here's the thing again. I said it's gonna be unpopular.
Speaker 2: I'm going to use what's gonna sound like an odd analogy.
Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Eagles this year, en route to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: kind of hacked the quarterback sneak. They put the the
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts their quarterback in the backfield. They then get
Speaker 2: two guys behind him and they all push him in
Speaker 2: a rugby scrum. The NFL had the opportunity to outlaw
Speaker 2: that this offseason, they didn't. They're like, ah, the Eagles
Speaker 2: are good at it. Other teams can catch up. Why outlaw.
Speaker 2: Here's why you outlawed, Because if any team gets good
Speaker 2: enough at that to where instead of getting two yards
Speaker 2: every time, they get four yards every time, the sport
Speaker 2: is ruined. You just run the most boring, aesthetically unpleasing
Speaker 2: play imaginable a rugby scrum all the way down the field.
Speaker 2: You obviously can't have that. That's obviously bad for business.
Speaker 2: So the NFL, in my opinion, should jump in one
Speaker 2: little girl at one playoff game, one time, screaming at
Speaker 2: every free throw. No problem, but it worked. If all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, now every NBA broadcast, every NBA game
Speaker 2: you go to, whenever the opposing team is shooting free throws,
Speaker 2: all the children in the crowd are screaming at the
Speaker 2: top of their lungs, that ain't good for business.
Speaker 4: That's a sports game, though, a sports.
Speaker 2: Game, I understand say, And.
Speaker 4: That's what happens at sports games. Like you can't just
Speaker 4: decide that like nah, the free speech is over, Like
Speaker 4: oh you can't know.
Speaker 2: You can't. It's it is entertainment enterprise, and it's bad
Speaker 2: for television.
Speaker 4: It's bad for the paying entertaining for the people that
Speaker 4: are at the game.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing I don't think it would be. I
Speaker 2: think it would be maddening.
Speaker 4: So like at high school games, like I know, it's
Speaker 4: like not even close to the same level. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: everyone screams on free things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's maddening.
Speaker 2: This is actually the example I'm using the high school
Speaker 2: people that students that.
Speaker 4: Are totally disgos.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I said, It was gonna be
Speaker 2: an unpopular opinion. It is one of those unpopular opinions
Speaker 2: I have that I know is right. Today, everyone is
Speaker 2: going to be applauding Dearda Rosen, and they should. She
Speaker 2: helped her dad. She's adorable. It was a great job
Speaker 2: by her, I'm telling you. And I don't usually like
Speaker 2: the slippery slope argument, but if this turns into a trend.
Speaker 4: It already is a trend.
Speaker 2: But not again, I think you've got to like see
Speaker 2: the actual video from the game. It's not regular yelling
Speaker 2: or trying to distract the opponent. It is a shrill
Speaker 2: childlike scream I'm gonna use another child example that I was.
Speaker 2: It was an unpopular opinion involving children of NBA players,
Speaker 2: and I did it eight years ago and I was
Speaker 2: proven correct. So Steph Curry kind of started this trend.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring my adorable children. At the time, it
Speaker 2: was just child one kid, Riley to my press conferences.
Speaker 2: Everyone loved it. Steph was the face of the league.
Speaker 2: He was always winning. He had this amazing little girl
Speaker 2: sitting with him at press conferences. We all thought, or
Speaker 2: everyone seemed to think, this is great. And I had
Speaker 2: the brave, unpopular opinion, Yeah, you're at work, Probably not
Speaker 2: the time to have your little kid at the podium, Nick,
Speaker 2: Why do you think that? Well, after you win a championship,
Speaker 2: no problem. Even after you win a game and everyone's
Speaker 2: applauding you, no problem. But I saw the train coming
Speaker 2: down the tracks of guys who team had just lost
Speaker 2: or were embroiled in a slight controversy or had played
Speaker 2: poorly bringing their children to their press conferences and there
Speaker 2: being a chilling effect from the media on what questions
Speaker 2: are can I ask the guy about the game exactly?
Speaker 2: That's why they did it. Which is it was exactly
Speaker 2: using this as a shield. It is not fine. I
Speaker 2: can't now I actually did this as a gag once,
Speaker 2: but I can't. Uh. Nick doesn't like kids anywhere. I like,
Speaker 2: I love children, but I'm telling you I can't the
Speaker 2: day after. Let's say the Warriors were to win the
Speaker 2: title this year, and I look like a fool. I
Speaker 2: can't show up at first things first with Deanna on
Speaker 2: my lap, like, oh, guys, you can't make fun of me.
Speaker 3: My kids are here now.
Speaker 2: When the Chiefs lost the Super Bowl, I actually did
Speaker 2: start the TV show exactly like that as a gag,
Speaker 2: like I called it pulling the Steph Curry. Uh. But
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, just guys, everyone right now is
Speaker 2: gonna say this is a terrible opinion. Let's just wait
Speaker 2: and see how the rest of these playoffs play out.
Speaker 2: And if all of a sudden you're watching a game,
Speaker 2: you're like, god, dog it, they won't stop screaming.
Speaker 3: Just remember who was first on it?
Speaker 2: All right, what's the other game that we the more
Speaker 2: interestant game we have to talk about? Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Okay, and Josh Gitty who I'm supposed to say, Timothy
Speaker 4: shallow May but he looks nothing like to Timothy shallow.
Speaker 2: See, I thought he did look like Timothy shallow May
Speaker 2: but that's fine. But go ahead anyways, Josh Gitty nearly
Speaker 2: a triple double was my life. Oh okay, I apologize.
Speaker 2: I didn't know if you knew where we were in
Speaker 2: the script. Go ahead. I know what's your question.
Speaker 4: Which of these teams has the best chance at making
Speaker 4: the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think the Thunder. I think the Heater gonna
Speaker 2: beat the Bulls. I like the Thunders team. I mean,
Speaker 2: Shay was excellent, Shae's been all NBA caliber all year.
Speaker 2: Giddy's a good player. Now the neither None of these
Speaker 2: teams have a great chance in the eight versus one
Speaker 2: against Milwaukee or Denver. But I do think Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: could cause some problems for Denver that Minnesota couldn't. And
Speaker 2: I gotta give Oklahoma City credit. Everyone killed Sam Presty
Speaker 2: for tanking and all of it. Man, they made the
Speaker 2: playoffs a few years ago with Chris Paul. They are now,
Speaker 2: I mean in the bubble. They made the playoffs. They
Speaker 2: then had two two years in the wilderness, and now
Speaker 2: they are a game away from being back in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: They have all these future picks. They will have Chet,
Speaker 2: who I'm not a believer, but they will have Check
Speaker 2: coming back. And Shay is a legit top twelve player
Speaker 2: in the league now legit, and Giddy's really good.
Speaker 3: So I like you look at their team. They actually, oddly.
Speaker 2: Viewer, have two rookies named Jalen Williams. One is the
Speaker 2: same exact name, The good Jalen Williams is really good. Well,
Speaker 2: the other one's fine. But they have either It's like.
Speaker 4: How I have Steph Curry and the baby Curry.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, except those they're not except they have different names.
Speaker 2: These two guys have the exact same name. They believe
Speaker 2: the team name Stephan Seth. Yeah, but at least they
Speaker 2: play for different teams. And but you're right, there's one
Speaker 2: is awesome and the others just a fine player. But
Speaker 2: the good Jalen Williams, Jalen Williams would know why is
Speaker 2: gonna finish top three and Rookie of the Year. They
Speaker 2: have Check coming back. I like lou Dort. I like
Speaker 2: what they're building in OKAC. I would like to to
Speaker 2: see them beat the Timberwolves and see where they can
Speaker 2: go from there.
Speaker 4: All right, next, Okay, you, Lebron and the Lakers are
Speaker 4: officially in the playoffs after an ugly win. The Lakers
Speaker 4: are lucky Minnesota didn't have Gobert, and be honest, you
Speaker 4: can't be confidence in your Lakers championship pick after that game.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing that seems to be the general consensus.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Lakers look shaky, Lakers got lucky.
Speaker 3: Here's the counterpoint to that.
Speaker 2: What we saw that even though he did wear down
Speaker 2: significantly at the end, Lebron played forty five minutes at
Speaker 2: age thirty eight, year twenty and was the best player
Speaker 2: on his team. Now, the final five minutes he looked exhausted,
Speaker 2: but he's not gonna have to play forty five minutes
Speaker 2: maybe one more time. I'm the entire postseason. So I
Speaker 2: felt good about that. The Lakers' ability to get to
Speaker 2: the free throw line, which they did at a better
Speaker 2: rate than any team in the league all regular season,
Speaker 2: that translated to a playoff atmosphere. Felt good about that.
Speaker 2: The Lakers need oddly important guy for this playoff run
Speaker 2: is Ruey Hachimura, because he's their only backup big that
Speaker 2: I don't trust Winning Gabriel at all. Ruey hot chamurrow
Speaker 2: is playing crunch time for them, Liked that ad was
Speaker 2: super aggressive. Liked that so was it perfect? No, does
Speaker 2: Darvin Haham's playoff rotations concern me a bit? Sure, But
Speaker 2: now they get almost a week arrest, they get a
Speaker 2: Memphis team that I think they match up incredibly well with.
Speaker 2: For no other reason then because Steven Adams is out,
Speaker 2: because Brandon Clark is out. Memphis has won great defensive
Speaker 2: big Jaron Jackson Junior, but he fouls more per minute
Speaker 2: than any player in the league. The Lakers draw fouls more,
Speaker 2: so he will be in the same type of foul
Speaker 2: trouble Karl Anthony Towns is so I actually it was
Speaker 2: not like an overwhelming twenty five point victory, but the
Speaker 2: fact that they came back from fifteen down. Lebron was
Speaker 2: able to play forty five minutes and still again in overtime.
Speaker 2: He was worn out, but at forty minutes he made
Speaker 2: the three to tie the game with two minutes left,
Speaker 2: made the play that should have been to win the game,
Speaker 2: hitting Shrewder in the corner.
Speaker 3: I actually feel good about where they are.
Speaker 2: Had they lost that game and had to play again
Speaker 2: Friday and then start the playoffs Sunday in Denver. It's
Speaker 2: a different story. Now. With all that said, I would
Speaker 2: expect them to lose Sunday A. Memphis is totally rested,
Speaker 2: and Lebron treats game ones of playoff series is what
Speaker 2: he calls feel out games. See what the events is
Speaker 2: going to try to do, not totally exert his himself. Now.
Speaker 3: If they do win, however, on Sunday against.
Speaker 2: The Grizzlies, the series is over. Here's an unbelievable stat
Speaker 2: for you. Lebron James has played thirty nine no He's
Speaker 2: won thirty nine series in his career. He's thirty nine
Speaker 2: and eleven in playoff series. When they lose game one,
Speaker 2: he's twelve and nine. So he has a winning record
Speaker 2: in the playoffs when losing game one. When his team
Speaker 2: wins game one, they are twenty seven and two, almost unbeatable.
Speaker 2: The two losses, by the way, are probably the two
Speaker 2: worst series of Lebron's career. His final series with the
Speaker 2: Cavs the first time around against the Celtics where people
Speaker 2: said Game five he quit, and the finals against the MAVs,
Speaker 2: which was the worst series of his career where he
Speaker 2: seemed to have some type of mint short circuit. Those
Speaker 2: are the only two series of his career where his
Speaker 2: team won Game one and they didn't and they didn't
Speaker 2: win the series. So Memphis has to win Game one.
Speaker 2: I don't feel the Lakers have to to three point line.
Speaker 2: Memphis probably should win that game. I like the Lakers
Speaker 2: chances in that series.
Speaker 4: All right, next, Okay, you asked us to remind you
Speaker 4: to do a Lebron best case worst case debate today? Yeah,
Speaker 4: even though, like I'm sure you wouldn't have forgot to
Speaker 4: talk about Lebron on this show. But now that the
Speaker 4: goat has escaped, the play in what are his best
Speaker 4: and worst case scenarios postseason?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're fine. So here's why I wanted to
Speaker 2: do it, because we are so illogical when it comes
Speaker 2: to certain sports things, most notably when it comes a
Speaker 2: lot of it has to do with Lebron, but it
Speaker 2: has to do with what we reward and what we penalize.
Speaker 2: So does everyone agree rhetorical question that the best case
Speaker 2: for Lebron is to win the championship? Of course, what
Speaker 2: is the second best case? If you don't win the title?
Speaker 2: What is the best thing you can do? Other than
Speaker 2: win the title. You're not a diehard sportsman. What do
Speaker 2: you think the answer would be? If you don't win
Speaker 2: the championship, what's the next best thing you could do?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, just give it a guess. You don't even
Speaker 2: want to give it against no problem, I mean, just
Speaker 2: go ahead. They don't want to do it.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, it's obvious.
Speaker 2: The answer is make it to the championship and then
Speaker 2: fall short.
Speaker 3: That would be the second best.
Speaker 2: The third best would be make it to the conference
Speaker 2: finals and fall short. Like, win as much as you
Speaker 2: can is and win it at all is the best,
Speaker 2: when the second most is second best, so and so forth.
Speaker 2: But that's not how we do the basketball discussion. The
Speaker 2: basketball discussion that we constantly have when it comes to
Speaker 2: Lebron is losing record in the finals, four and six
Speaker 2: in the finals, and for many people they believe somehow
Speaker 2: it would be better if Lebron were four and zero
Speaker 2: in the finals. Why well, Jordan was six and oh
Speaker 2: in the finals, and so because for some reason we
Speaker 2: have changed the math on stuff that if you're not
Speaker 2: going to win the championship, you are better off losing
Speaker 2: early than losing late. You are better off being eliminated
Speaker 2: in round one or two or three, than winning those
Speaker 2: rounds and then being eliminated in the finals. And that's
Speaker 2: all in service of Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan played fifteen
Speaker 2: seasons in the league. Six of those he won the championship,
Speaker 2: two of those he lost in the conference finals. Two
Speaker 2: of those he lost, I'm sorry, three of those he
Speaker 2: lost in round two, three of those he lost in
Speaker 2: round one. Two of those he didn't even make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But folks somehow have convinced themselves that it was good
Speaker 2: for Jordan to lose to the Pistons in the conference
Speaker 2: finals rather than beat the Pistons and then lose to
Speaker 2: the Lakers in the NBA finals, that it was good
Speaker 2: for Jordan to lose to the Magic in round two
Speaker 2: rather than beat the Magic and then lose to the
Speaker 2: Rockets in the NBA Finals, which then means, you know
Speaker 2: what was bad for Lebron in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: scoring forty eight points and carrying the the Cavs, one
Speaker 2: of the worst teams ever make the championship past the
Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons, because if he had lost that game, he
Speaker 2: wouldn't be four and six in the finals. He'd be
Speaker 2: four and five in the finals, and you know what
Speaker 2: was bad because they wouldn't have made the finals. You
Speaker 2: know what was bad for Lebron when he scored eighty
Speaker 2: points in consecutive games in twenty eighteen with no Kyrie
Speaker 2: with Kevin Love hurt, including a Game seven on the
Speaker 2: road where he's played all forty eight minutes to come
Speaker 2: back from three to two down against the Celtics. That
Speaker 2: was bad for his legacy because if he had just
Speaker 2: lost one of those games, he wouldn't have then played
Speaker 2: the twenty eighteen Warriors in the NBA finals and he'd
Speaker 2: have won fewer finals. Law. So if you are a
Speaker 2: four and six in the finals, Dufus, then you've got
Speaker 2: to say it is better for Lebron to lose in
Speaker 2: round one to the Grizzlies, then beat the Grizzlies, and
Speaker 2: then beat the Warriors of the Kings, and then beat
Speaker 2: the Suns and then lose to Giannis in the finals
Speaker 2: because they ain't be four and seven. It's idiotic on
Speaker 2: its face, but people truly believe it. And the reason
Speaker 2: they believe it is because folks don't want to have
Speaker 2: this discussion career. Round one of the playoffs Lebron is
Speaker 2: fourteen and one Michael Jordan career Round one. I'll give
Speaker 2: it to you right now. I had it earlier, and
Speaker 2: I I don't want to be wrong on this because
Speaker 2: I'm so strident. Lebron fourteen to one in round one.
Speaker 2: Jordan ten and three. Career Round two of the playoffs
Speaker 2: Lebron eleven and three, Jordan eight and two career Conference
Speaker 2: finals record the round you gotta play to make the
Speaker 2: championship Lebron in Conference finals ten and one. It should
Speaker 2: be noted the one conference finals he ever lost, he
Speaker 2: had a buzzer beater to win one of their games,
Speaker 2: and he averaged for the series thirty eight points, nine rebounds,
Speaker 2: nine assists, and they lost to Dwight Howard and the
Speaker 2: Magic in twenty ten. But in the conference finals ten
Speaker 2: and one, Jordan six and two, it would be real easy.
Speaker 2: It would have been easier for Lebron to just we
Speaker 2: can go through it in seven, lose in the conference finals,
Speaker 2: play worse and not make those finals and twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: lose in the second round of Boston. In twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: lose in who would they have had to lose to
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, lose to Toronto in the conference finals
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, pardon me, lose to the
Speaker 2: sixty win Hawks. In twenty eighteen, lose to the or
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. Pardon me lose to the twenty seventeen would
Speaker 2: have been sorry, I'm sure. Oh do you you just
Speaker 2: lost your earpiece? We'll get that in a second. Lose
Speaker 2: to the Celtics in twenty eighteen, lose all those and
Speaker 2: before and oh in the NBA Finals, lose. So the
Speaker 2: reason I wanted to bring this up was if you
Speaker 2: believe that FO and O in the finals would be
Speaker 2: better than four and six in the finals, A, I
Speaker 2: don't think you understand any basic elementary level logic test.
Speaker 2: And B you've got to say to yourself, if let's
Speaker 2: say the Lakers beat the Grizzlies and then winning Round two,
Speaker 2: and then they're playing they have a Game seven against
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant in the Western Commorgz Finals, and on the
Speaker 2: other side of the bracket is the Milwaukee Bucks and
Speaker 2: Giannis looks unstoppable. That there is a scenario where what
Speaker 2: you are arguing is for Lebron's legacy, he would be
Speaker 2: better off losing a game seven Western COMMERDG Finals than
Speaker 2: winning it if that then prevents him from getting another
Speaker 2: finals loss. A loss should never be rewarded more than
Speaker 2: a victory. You want to argue six and oh in
Speaker 2: the finals is more impressive than four and six in
Speaker 2: the finals, or listen to it. It makes a lot
Speaker 2: of sense. But you want to argue four and oh
Speaker 2: in the finals would be better than four and six
Speaker 2: in the finals. You're a dope? All right, do you? Or?
Speaker 2: What's our last topic?
Speaker 4: Okay? The four or five matchup in the in the
Speaker 4: West is juicy, even if Russ says him and Katie
Speaker 4: don't have beef. Both Kawhi and Katie once had a
Speaker 4: claim as the best player in basketball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know the Kai either one of them
Speaker 2: actually ever have had that claim. K closer than Kawi
Speaker 2: guy was the best player for one playoff series, the
Speaker 2: wy thing. I was proven correct on the kd thing.
Speaker 2: Maybe he had a claim. I I disagree with it,
Speaker 2: but go ahead.
Speaker 4: Could either of them get back to the level that
Speaker 4: level to that level by taking the other out?
Speaker 2: No? You, neither one of them can become the best
Speaker 2: player in basketball by winning this first round series, Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: I believe can the title of best player in basketball.
Speaker 2: If round one, well, Lebron's not the best player anymore.
Speaker 2: Lebron's best player ever. But right now the best player
Speaker 2: in basketball is Jianna's the I mean, Lebron's in your
Speaker 2: twenties older. He's still a top ten guy, but he's
Speaker 2: not that. Giannis has been the best player in basketball
Speaker 2: in my opinion, for the last four years, three years
Speaker 2: at least. If Durant does this, beat Kawhi and the Clippers,
Speaker 2: then beach Jokichen round two, then beats in round three
Speaker 2: either Lebron's team or STEP's team, and then in the
Speaker 2: NBA Finals beats Giannis, he can claim it. I think
Speaker 2: it would have been two years without Giannis winning a title,
Speaker 2: three years without Giannis winning an MVP. Durant played him
Speaker 2: to a draw that series we went to against the
Speaker 2: Nets a couple of years ago. You saw in person
Speaker 2: the greatest game Kevin Durant's ever played in his life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Game five, twenty twenty one, Playoffs eight, seventeen and ten
Speaker 2: out of this world. Uh. If he does that.
Speaker 3: I think Durant can claim it. Brussard disagreed with me
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 2: He said it's gian and I think it's Giannis right
Speaker 2: now without a doubt. But if Durant does all that,
Speaker 2: after the season he's had of shooting fifty five percent
Speaker 2: from the field from three to ninety percent from the line,
Speaker 2: they haven't lost yet with the Suns. If he does that,
Speaker 2: I can claim best player a lot. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in What's Right? With Nick? Right?
Speaker 2: I forgot to brush my hair today, so I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna keep doing this. I have not yet figured out
Speaker 2: how to comb my own hair. It's really a disaster,
Speaker 2: yea from having a shaved head my whole life. I
Speaker 2: still know how to do my hair.
Speaker 4: That hair for a few years now, I.
Speaker 3: Know, and I've never learned. I haven't figured it out last.
Speaker 2: You know, your mom kind of wants me to go
Speaker 2: back to the shaved head.
Speaker 4: I refuse to.
Speaker 2: Anti Yeah, door, which kind of you know, transitive property.
Speaker 2: What you're saying here is you think I look good
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 4: I think you look better like this, better better.
Speaker 2: Like this than the shaved head.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a pain in the assid I don't love it.
Speaker 2: Uh. By the way your questions and comments in the
Speaker 2: Sea block also is a very important week for the
Speaker 2: right family.
Speaker 4: How many times you will say that it's.
Speaker 2: Called a tease, it's it's it's to create sticky listening
Speaker 2: and viewing habits, sticky Yeah, people stick around. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: you'll learn this, you know what I mean as you
Speaker 2: get further into the business. It's to get make sure
Speaker 2: people stick around through the show. Like right now, they
Speaker 2: might be like, gosh, I'm gonna tune it out because
Speaker 2: you won't stop sniffling in the microphone.
Speaker 4: I'm really sorry. My allergies are so bad.
Speaker 2: It's so frustrating, but I don't want to miss Nick's
Speaker 2: big announcement, So like, that's why I'm doing it. We're
Speaker 2: also playing a game in about three minutes, but before that,
Speaker 2: we got some storylines to discuss.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, do you wor Okay?
Speaker 4: So there's been a lot of great storylines coming into
Speaker 4: these playoffs. Besides Lebron YEP, you have Donovan Mitchell versus
Speaker 4: the Knicks. You have John Marat Marant redemption arc and
Speaker 4: Luca facing facing off against his couch.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was unnecessary, but that's.
Speaker 4: The most tantalizing story in round one.
Speaker 3: So for the playoffs as a whole, there's so many.
Speaker 2: You know, Lebron chasing Ring five in year twenty, steph
Speaker 2: chasing Ring five to pass lebron Ty, Kobe the Durant
Speaker 2: getting his only non Warriors, ring Jokids trying to validate
Speaker 2: his MVPs, and all the analytics hype, the John Muran
Speaker 2: Redempson stuff you mentioned, that's those are big picture. In
Speaker 2: the East, can embiid Who's never been to Round three,
Speaker 2: but is going to win the MVP, make round four,
Speaker 2: win a title. The Sixers franchise has only been to
Speaker 2: one conference finals or NBA Finals since Doctor J was there.
Speaker 2: Can Yannis win the title this year? Show? Last year
Speaker 2: was about Middleton's injury and really solidify himself as one
Speaker 2: of the twelve thirteen greatest players ever. The Celtics and
Speaker 2: they finally get over the hump. Those are the big
Speaker 2: picture storylines round one. In the East, there really is
Speaker 2: only one, and that is Donovan Mitchell could have signed
Speaker 2: with the Knicks. People thought he was gonna sign with
Speaker 2: the Knicks or trade. The Knicks were gonna trade for him.
Speaker 2: I should say they didn't want to give up R J.
Speaker 2: Barrett and other stuff. He ends up signing with the Calves.
Speaker 2: The Calves end up a trading for him, and now
Speaker 2: you have the situation where the Calves are playing the
Speaker 2: Knicks in round one. That's really the other The Eastern
Speaker 2: Playoffs is gonna be unbelievable starting in round two Round one.
Speaker 2: That's the only series that to me's really interesting. Out West,
Speaker 2: totally different story. Grizzlies Lakers storyline there, to be honest,
Speaker 2: involves my colleague Shannon Sharp, MI guy. Shannon almost got
Speaker 2: into it with the Grizzlies in a regular season game.
Speaker 3: Now he's gonna be court side.
Speaker 2: I would imagine wearing beautiful LOUISVI Tom sweaters and other things,
Speaker 2: mixing it up with the Grizzlies. Dylan Brooks said he
Speaker 2: wants Lebron in Round one. John Moran said, we're good
Speaker 2: in the West, meaning like nobody in the West scares us.
Speaker 2: That's an unbelievable storyline, Katie and Kawhi. The Clippers could
Speaker 2: have ducked the Suns, they in my opinion, idiotically opted
Speaker 2: into playing the Suns. Okay, good luck, But it also
Speaker 2: means Russ against Kevin Durant, So that's a fun one.
Speaker 2: But the best storyline in Round one is the Sacramento
Speaker 2: Kings and the Golden State Warriors, two franchises, both of
Speaker 2: which for thirty some years seemed to just be snake
Speaker 2: bitten bad franchises. They both had moments the Kings with
Speaker 2: and C web and Bibby and got screwed. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of devots Chris Webber and Mike Bibbie in the
Speaker 2: early two thousands going up against the Lakers getting screwed
Speaker 2: by the refs in that game six. Page them airballs
Speaker 2: the three in game seven, and they missed their moment.
Speaker 2: The Warriors, Baron Davis, we believe Warriors in eight beats
Speaker 2: a one, but that was it. They were not serious franchises.
Speaker 2: And then the Warriors drafted Steph Curry turn into a
Speaker 2: dynasty and the Kings stay the Kings. And now the
Speaker 2: Kings are in the playoffs for the first time in
Speaker 2: sixteen years. The Warriors are trying to make their sixth
Speaker 2: finals in nine years, trying to win the title for
Speaker 2: the fifth time. I'm sorry, the Warriors are trying to
Speaker 2: make their seventh finals in nine years and trying to
Speaker 2: win the title for the fifth time. The Warriors are
Speaker 2: the favorites, even though the Kings are the home team.
Speaker 2: The Warriors are the favorites, even though they've been terrible
Speaker 2: on the road all year. I think that is to me,
Speaker 2: the must watch series of Round one Warriors Kings. I've
Speaker 2: got the Kings and seven, I've got the home team
Speaker 2: winning every single game of that series.
Speaker 3: All right, next you we're playing the confidence game. Explain
Speaker 3: it to the audience.
Speaker 4: So we have a new game for you and the
Speaker 4: audience to play along with. It's called out Picknick. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you will rank the sixteen teams in order of how
Speaker 4: confident you are in them. For every team they.
Speaker 2: Win, every game they win.
Speaker 4: Every game they win, they get that amount of points.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So every game your number sixteen wins, you get sixteen points.
Speaker 2: So the number sixteen is the team I'm most confident in.
Speaker 2: Number one is the team I'm least confident in, and
Speaker 2: we go from there. Correct. Yeah, all right, So we
Speaker 2: are going to for the purpose of this just call
Speaker 2: because we don't yet know who the eight seeds are.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna it's thunder slash Timberwolves and Heat slash Bulls.
Speaker 2: But it won't.
Speaker 3: Change my opinion. We're gonna go least to greatest here.
Speaker 2: Okay. The team that I think is most likely to
Speaker 2: win zero games in these playoffs is the Atlanta Hawks. Sorry, Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I think as a bad matchup for you against Boston.
Speaker 2: I think Boston should sweep you. Maybe you get one game.
Speaker 2: We are slating you in to the one spot. The
Speaker 2: number two team is whoever wins the Heat Bulls play
Speaker 2: in game. We are going to slate you in the
Speaker 2: East eight seed.
Speaker 3: Maybe you get one game. I think the Heat.
Speaker 2: The thing is this, I think the Heat could a game,
Speaker 2: maybe even two. I think the Bulls could not. We
Speaker 2: don't know who it's gonna be, so we're gonna put
Speaker 2: them there. The number three team that I'm gonna throw
Speaker 2: in there, I gotta think on this one for a moment,
Speaker 2: is going to be the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 3: I think the Nets.
Speaker 2: I think that's a team, but I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I think that's a five game series. They're playing the Sixers.
Speaker 2: I think it's sixers and five. So we're putting the
Speaker 2: Nets there.
Speaker 3: The number four team is gonna be.
Speaker 2: This is tough.
Speaker 4: So hearing the Knicks above the nets.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll get to the just not behind, not much above.
Speaker 2: But it has to do with who you're playing. So
Speaker 2: here's the tricky part of this, because there is like,
Speaker 2: let me give you an example. I think the Clippers
Speaker 2: the Suns are just a horrific matchup for the Clippers.
Speaker 2: I think the Clippers are gonna lose in five. However,
Speaker 2: if the Suns were to get hurt or something weird happens,
Speaker 2: if the Clippers somehow were to get past the Suns,
Speaker 2: they could go on a real run because that Paul.
Speaker 3: George could be back by then.
Speaker 2: So I think they're only gonna win one game, but
Speaker 2: they also they have a chance of going on a
Speaker 2: real run that the Western Conference eight seed does not,
Speaker 2: even if I think the Western Armends eighth seed might
Speaker 2: be able to take two games off of Denver. So
Speaker 2: that's where the strategy comes into this game. With that said,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead and throw the Western Conference eight
Speaker 2: seed as our number four, as the team I'm next
Speaker 2: least most confident. Now we've got to think for a moment.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put the Clippers at five because I think
Speaker 2: they lose four to one. I'm gonna put the Knicks
Speaker 2: at six. I think they lose either four to one
Speaker 2: or four to two. Now, it's really tricky because all
Speaker 2: the other teams left are good teams, and this is
Speaker 2: where I'm either gonna win or lose. The competition is
Speaker 2: am I right on? Warriors Grizzlies. I'm sorry Warriors, Kings
Speaker 2: and Lakers Grizzlies. I'm going to put the Grizzlies at
Speaker 2: seven because I think they are only going to win
Speaker 2: two games in this series. I am going to put
Speaker 2: the Warriors at eight, because I think they are only
Speaker 2: going to win three games and then be eliminated. Now,
Speaker 2: we really have to be strategical this because I think,
Speaker 2: for example, Kings Lakers is going to be a long series.
Speaker 2: But I also recognize there is a chance the Kings
Speaker 2: get bounced by the Warriors. I don't think it will happen,
Speaker 2: but that they get bounced by the Warriors. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to have them too high. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put the Kings at nine. I am going to put
Speaker 2: the Calves at eight. I'm sorry, at ten. Pardon me.
Speaker 2: We're doing this. You know, the more the higher the number,
Speaker 2: the more confident I am in the team. I don't
Speaker 2: think the Calves match up well with Milwaukee, but I
Speaker 2: do expect them to get past the Knicks. I am
Speaker 2: going to put the Denver Nuggets at eleven and the
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics at twelve. I think Denver loses to Phoenix
Speaker 2: in six. I think the Celtic lose to the Sixers
Speaker 2: in seven of home game seven loss for Boston. So
Speaker 2: my final four is Milwaukee, Philly, Phoenix, and the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put the Phoenix Suns at number thirteen.
Speaker 2: I am going to put the Milwaukee Bucks at number fourteen.
Speaker 2: My finals is Lakers Sixers. I have the Lakers winning it,
Speaker 2: so I will put the Philadelphia seventy six ers at
Speaker 2: number fifteen and the Lakers at number sixteen.
Speaker 3: So there it is.
Speaker 2: There are my sixteen to one most to least confident.
Speaker 2: It goes Lakers, Sixers, Bucks, Sun, Celtics, Nuggets, Calves, Kings, Warriors, Grizzlies, Nicks, Clippers,
Speaker 2: whoever comes out of the West for the eight seed,
Speaker 2: the Nets, whoever comes out of the East for the
Speaker 2: eight seed, and then the Atlanta Hawks. Sorry Trey Young
Speaker 2: in company, but congrats on beating the heat. There is
Speaker 2: the confidence game. We answer listener questions and I have
Speaker 2: my important family announcement. That's all next. What's right? All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in What's Right with Nick? Right? All right?
Speaker 2: So before we get to your questions and comments, this
Speaker 2: is a crazy week in our our household. Do you mind?
Speaker 2: Can I say what you're We don't have to say
Speaker 2: where if you don't want. But the big event in
Speaker 2: your life from two days ago shame So Doora officially
Speaker 2: committed to a college on Tuesday, So that was Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: She does the podcast with me and commits to college,
Speaker 2: still waiting to hear back from one. Can we say
Speaker 2: the one you're waiting to hear back from, or no,
Speaker 2: she's waiting to hear back from UC Berkeley. She gets
Speaker 2: into UC Berkeley, I think that's where she's gonna go.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime, she's been accepted to another school
Speaker 2: in California that she likes a lot, that she is
Speaker 2: enrolled for. If anyone listening, by the way, is in
Speaker 2: charge of the you know, UC Berkeley, you know admissions process,
Speaker 2: do you are rights? One hell of a candidate sent
Speaker 2: a great audition real I thought the personal essay was
Speaker 2: touching and wonderful, But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 3: Uh So that was Tuesday, tomorrow.
Speaker 4: What about today?
Speaker 2: Wait a moment, please tomorrow? Demands moves to La Gone,
Speaker 2: got the apartment, is figuring out how he's going to
Speaker 2: buy a car there.
Speaker 3: So last night we had a big family dinner.
Speaker 2: We did a thing that we used to do a
Speaker 2: lot in our household, and then we kind of hadn't
Speaker 2: done it in a while, and your mom said we
Speaker 2: should bring it back, which is we go around as
Speaker 2: a group and we all say a one year goal,
Speaker 2: a five year goal, and a ten year goal for ourselves.
Speaker 2: And what then we also add like a tangible item
Speaker 2: a present, something that if we reach our one year
Speaker 2: goal a year from now, I then buy for the person.
Speaker 4: I give the car. Guys, I just thought, yeah, Doora
Speaker 4: really shot for the moon there, uh.
Speaker 2: Diora said, my one year goal is to quote be
Speaker 2: doing well in college, and my one year present is
Speaker 2: a car, so you know.
Speaker 4: Well, guys, let's also point out though that, huh. I
Speaker 4: wasn't gonna get a car freshman year anyway. We said
Speaker 4: like I could get a car sophomore year, so it
Speaker 4: was kind of already in the cards. So I don't
Speaker 4: want everyone to think I'm just some like spoiled brat.
Speaker 2: No, it's no. And listen, you're gonna look amazing driving
Speaker 2: around California in a oh four Civic.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great.
Speaker 4: I don't care what car it is.
Speaker 2: No, I know you. Uh. And so we all did
Speaker 2: that yesterday and then today as it happened, And this
Speaker 2: is the part that I need you guys to go
Speaker 2: ahead and send to me please. Today as it happens
Speaker 2: is my ten year anniversary, and this morning I was
Speaker 2: going through thousands of old pictures to try to do
Speaker 2: what is like obligatory at this point a social media
Speaker 2: post of me and my wife over the years.
Speaker 4: If he doesn't count it.
Speaker 2: Right, it's like a big thing, and like people get
Speaker 2: offiniti if you don't do it. But I'm terrible at
Speaker 2: picking pictures and I'm oddly bad at writing captions.
Speaker 3: So instead I want to do this.
Speaker 2: Here it and I've told this story before, so I
Speaker 2: will tell it quickly, and I'm sure my wife is
Speaker 2: sick of hearing it to it. Agree, But it cannot
Speaker 2: be overstated how much meeting Danielle and getting together with
Speaker 2: Danielle changed the course of my life. I was kind
Speaker 2: of a disaster. Like talented, hard working, good at my job.
Speaker 2: Everything else in my life was a disaster. And getting
Speaker 2: with my wife is what straightened me out, is what
Speaker 2: gave me purpose. And you then add to that the
Speaker 2: bonus of And this is just an objective opinion. This
Speaker 2: isn't you know through a husband's eyes, she's gotta be
Speaker 2: one of the single most beautiful people in the entire world,
Speaker 2: and her unwavering faith in me. I don't have the
Speaker 2: Fox job if not for the fact that I got
Speaker 2: a phone call eight years ago when we were on
Speaker 2: vacation and Sacramento, saying, the new president of FS one
Speaker 2: has agreed to meet with you if you'll come there
Speaker 2: on your own dime for one fifteen minute meeting. And
Speaker 2: the meeting was about me potentially getting a job with
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. And the only reason I was meeting
Speaker 2: with the head of FS one was because, uh, Fox.
Speaker 3: Sports Radio and FS one working there. There's about a
Speaker 3: radio job.
Speaker 2: And I was on vacation with Danielle and I was like, ah,
Speaker 2: She's like, so what's going on. I'm like, well, my
Speaker 2: agent just said the new president, Jamie Horowitz, would meet
Speaker 2: with me, but I got to get there on my own.
Speaker 2: He said the meeting would not be a minute longer
Speaker 2: than fifteen minutes. I don't even know if it's worth it.
Speaker 2: She said, what are you talking about. He'll love you,
Speaker 2: You'll kill it. Let's go tomorrow. We can drive down.
Speaker 2: And that's what's set my entire career on this course.
Speaker 2: The first time I auditioned for FS one, I called
Speaker 2: her after because it was on TV. And I'll ever
Speaker 2: forget it my whole life. I'll never forget it. She said,
Speaker 2: you're built for this shit, baby, and has always believed
Speaker 2: in me and always supported me. And I can be
Speaker 2: a handful and a lot to deal with. Yeah, And
Speaker 2: she has been simply the greatest partner imaginable and she's
Speaker 2: the greatest vacation partner. She is the greatest mom. That
Speaker 2: was one of the cool one of the best things.
Speaker 2: One of the reasons I so quickly was sure she
Speaker 2: was the person I wanted to marry was because usually,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously you and your brother were around when
Speaker 2: your mom and.
Speaker 3: I got together fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2: Usually when you fall in love with someone, there is
Speaker 2: still kind of the question of like, ah, will they
Speaker 2: be a good mom. But I already knew it. I
Speaker 2: had seen it firsthand. And she's just the most remarkable
Speaker 2: woman I've ever met. And the fact that we do
Speaker 2: this podcast from her boutique that she built from the
Speaker 2: ground up that is now just a diamond in this community,
Speaker 2: and she is a Harlem superstar. It's wonderful. And in
Speaker 2: a lot of places she is not Nick Wright's wife.
Speaker 2: I am Danielle or Bird's husband. And it's great. And
Speaker 2: I love you so much, baby, and happy anniversary. And
Speaker 2: this is my Instagram post. Oh how sweet, thank you scoot.
Speaker 2: All right, let's read the DIORA. All right, let's read
Speaker 2: some fan questions. Uh. Ziko Ramos says, question for DIORA
Speaker 2: on a scale from one to ten, how athletic is Nick?
Speaker 4: Hey give him a four?
Speaker 2: Okay? But what about in my prime? What about in
Speaker 2: my heyday?
Speaker 4: How would I know about that at all?
Speaker 2: I mean, you've heard stories from only you, no, no
Speaker 2: great basketball player to a four? Yeah, I think that's unfair,
Speaker 2: but whatever I knew. I'm surprised you didn't give me
Speaker 2: a one. Next, Nick, if Lebron and Pat Mahomes both
Speaker 2: of my I'm not reading that super question. Sorry? Uh
Speaker 2: he said, if Lebron and Mahomes both invited me to
Speaker 2: a party, which one would I go to?
Speaker 4: The ASO said, love to show it. A big fan
Speaker 4: of all your work. You you didn't want to include
Speaker 4: that to be nice.
Speaker 2: I know it was being nice. I shouldn't have said
Speaker 2: that was dumb question. I just feel like that's a
Speaker 2: little I don't know, I don't know the answer. I
Speaker 2: should have read the question before I actually thought about
Speaker 2: the question. But I appreciate the question.
Speaker 4: Uh question, Hey, did you answer the question.
Speaker 3: I guess the answer is Lebron.
Speaker 2: N No, because I I've.
Speaker 3: Had drinks and partied with Mahomes after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't claim that. Guys, this is not.
Speaker 2: True and I've never I I guess I had a
Speaker 2: drink with Lebron once a few years ago, but.
Speaker 3: I've never liked Does he remember that?
Speaker 2: You know what? I guess you'd have to ask him.
Speaker 2: But uh, I think the answer there's Lebron. Uh. Jaegunter says,
Speaker 2: question for Deora, what is the dream acting role for you? Oh?
Speaker 4: I've answered this before on the show.
Speaker 2: Well what is it?
Speaker 4: I said? I said marine from.
Speaker 2: Rent Oh, yeah you did, You're right. I forgot about that,
Speaker 2: my bad. Uh Nick, what's the ceiling for this Brooklyn
Speaker 2: Nets team? I think they're a sleeper? No, I disagree.
Speaker 2: I think that they listen. They have they have been
Speaker 2: fine post trade, They've treaded water, but they're The ceiling
Speaker 2: is Game six against the Sixers. They need a little
Speaker 2: more talent. Mikhale Bridges has been one hell of it.
Speaker 2: He's been excellent for them. I got to give him credit,
Speaker 2: but that's their ceiling. Renton repeats said Diora, Who are
Speaker 2: your favorite actors and act actresses.
Speaker 4: That's a really good question. I really like Jenna Ortega,
Speaker 4: I really like Leonardo DiCaprio.
Speaker 2: Who's Jenna Ortego? What do I know her from?
Speaker 4: Uh? She played Wednesday?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, Oh, I didn't know Wednesday. She's Hispanic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know the girl who
Speaker 2: played Wednesday was Hispanic. Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Uh. I can't think of anyone else right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Ortega.
Speaker 2: Uh, Christopher Jenna Ortica. Sorry, Christopher Rodriguez, says Nick. What
Speaker 2: does a Philly early loss in the playoffs stupid the
Speaker 2: legacy even beade Harden and Doc rivers an early loss. Well,
Speaker 2: a round one loss is a disaster for all. A
Speaker 2: tough Round two loss to Boston it doesn't really move
Speaker 2: their legacies. But that's a problem for him because Harden's
Speaker 2: playoff legacy is disastrous. Docs playoff legacy post Celtics is
Speaker 2: not great at all. It's quite bad, and Embiid's about
Speaker 2: to become the first MVP in league history to have
Speaker 2: never made Round three unless they make Round three this year,
Speaker 2: so their legacy won't go backwards if they lose in
Speaker 2: round two, But all of those guys need it to
Speaker 2: go forwards.
Speaker 3: Coach Mystique, says Nick.
Speaker 2: With b I coming into his own and the Pelicans
Speaker 2: seemingly having a solid corps, is there any chance New
Speaker 2: Orleans shop Zion this offseason? Man? That is one of
Speaker 2: the most intriguing questions of the offseason. What is going
Speaker 2: on with Zion? What is he going to be able
Speaker 2: to have an embiid like trajectory of injuries ruining the
Speaker 2: beginning of his career and then being mostly healthy after
Speaker 2: he gave some really scary quotes about his mental state
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: It was weird before the game.
Speaker 2: He was dunked in pregame, which he hasn't been doing
Speaker 2: and similar to what we saw last year.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can. I don't think you can
Speaker 2: trade Zion at his His value is the lowest it's
Speaker 2: ever been right now, so I don't think now would
Speaker 2: be the time to trade him. Uh. But that is
Speaker 2: an interesting one because this team was a game out
Speaker 2: of the one seed and then he got hurt and
Speaker 2: now they're not even gonna be in the playoffs. Uh,
Speaker 2: all right. By the way, on Twitter, we're gonna post
Speaker 2: my confidence game. You guys submit yours one through sixteen
Speaker 2: like we did with the World Cup, and we'll update
Speaker 2: the winners. Uh, do you or you did a great
Speaker 2: job in your first week allergies notwithstanding.
Speaker 4: Uh, guys, it's not my fault.
Speaker 2: It's a little we fully didn't take your allergy pill.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, it's part of you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: No, but it's never been this bad. None degrees to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, you did great. I'm very proud of you
Speaker 2: this week. You did a wonderful job on a TV shows. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not you did a wonderful job. TV show off
Speaker 2: tomorrow because of Nascar, I think. But I'll see you
Speaker 2: guys on TV today at three. Happy anniversary, baby, I
Speaker 2: love you so much. Talk to you guys today at
Speaker 2: three Plots