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Speaker 2: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Grit Episode two forty eight.
Speaker 2: Hope everyone had a lovely Juneteenth Holiday? It demands it
Speaker 2: was an unbelievable celebration right here in front of your
Speaker 2: mother's store in Harlem. Her friend Maria uh Through had another.
Speaker 2: Uh she does these. You've maybe seen them. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you were living here when she was doing them.
Speaker 2: She calls it soapbox presents and their block parties, and
Speaker 2: she does them every couple of months or maybe every month.
Speaker 2: But the one last night on one hundred and nineteenth
Speaker 2: Street was a full blown concert. It was a joyous occasion.
Speaker 2: It was a really good cops weren't mess with anybody.
Speaker 2: Everybody was having a good time. Trin did stayed open
Speaker 2: until midnight. Till midnight, yeah, I mean because there were
Speaker 2: so many people around coming in absolutely and then I
Speaker 2: get home and I'm like, oh, seems like the real
Speaker 2: party was in La. You should have gone, Buddy you
Speaker 2: Oh you haven't been on Okay. I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: are you not aware of the Kendrick concert? But I
Speaker 2: assume you are there concert.
Speaker 3: I haven't been on social media. What it was. It
Speaker 3: was a big thing.
Speaker 2: Behind Buddy.
Speaker 3: Crypt.
Speaker 2: I think it was at the Forum, but the too long,
Speaker 2: didn't read version is Kendrick. I mean. Bamani Jones did
Speaker 2: a great recap of this. You know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do something. It's I don't even know if from a
Speaker 2: technical standpoint, this is going to work. This might be
Speaker 2: a disaster, but we're gonna try something. It's not gonna work.
Speaker 2: I was gonna FaceTime Bamani and then try to hold
Speaker 2: the phone up to the microphone so people could hear him.
Speaker 2: If people want a good recap of it, check Bamani's
Speaker 2: uh social media account. But Kendrick united Los Angeles, truly
Speaker 2: united Los Angeles Bloods and Crips on stage together dancing
Speaker 2: and you know what they were united in one caused
Speaker 2: demons hating d yes that is buddy. He had Russell
Speaker 2: Westbrook and demart De Rosen on stage dancing to not
Speaker 2: like us. I mean Demarto Rosen played for the Raptors,
Speaker 2: used to wear Ovo gear. I mean it was a
Speaker 2: hell of an event. Bron was there, I mean it
Speaker 2: was he didn't go on stage, but everybody else did.
Speaker 2: And so again this is I can appreciate the music
Speaker 2: and the moment, but also have the self awareness to
Speaker 2: know you're not coming to me for you know, the
Speaker 2: analysis of what that means and what that was. But
Speaker 2: it was something else, man, And I didn't know it
Speaker 2: was going because the whole it was I was out
Speaker 2: and not, you know, trying to be present and in
Speaker 2: the moment, and so I wasn't on my phone at all.
Speaker 2: And then I got home around one last night after
Speaker 2: we shut down the store, got done with everything, and
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling Twitter. I'm like, oh boy, we missed quite
Speaker 2: the event on the other side of the country. But
Speaker 2: so it really seemed like a really cool Juneteenth. And
Speaker 2: I think it was I think it was Wesley Lowry
Speaker 2: that made this point. I'm not sure, but the Kendrick
Speaker 2: thing was so I mean, it's so seismic. And because
Speaker 2: Juneteenth is a newly recognized federal holiday, this is Lowry's
Speaker 2: point that there isn't like, like on the fourth of
Speaker 2: July you set off fireworks, right like we know on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving we watch football in eat turkey. It's long established
Speaker 2: traditions June teenth being a day people even though people
Speaker 2: have celebrated for a long time being a day people
Speaker 2: have off work and all of it, there's not yet
Speaker 2: an established precedent of oh, so like what is the
Speaker 2: go to celebration? And Lowry's point was, did Kendrick just
Speaker 2: set it as it's a concert live music day today
Speaker 2: where people listen to music and celebrate that way, And
Speaker 2: he might have. It might have been a legitimately a
Speaker 2: legitimate cultural touchstone. And the fact that it was, you know,
Speaker 2: the crescendo of it was this, these folks hating Drake
Speaker 2: is really a really hard for a remarkable thing. And
Speaker 2: so so all of that is so that was the night.
Speaker 2: One other note that I need to tell you. So
Speaker 2: this is sorry if you guys heard, I'm gonna again.
Speaker 2: Sports are kind of you know, we're in the slow zone.
Speaker 2: So I don't mind starting the show like this. Sorry
Speaker 2: for the ding you just heard. I'm glad I can
Speaker 2: tell them this. It's a fun time in a parent's
Speaker 2: life when he has a kid old enough that he
Speaker 2: can say these things too about his siblings. I I
Speaker 2: just got a text, and that's what you guys heard,
Speaker 2: the ding. And the text was from you're older, not
Speaker 2: older than you, but your oldest sister. And it was
Speaker 2: just a screenshot of an email. And parents with teenage
Speaker 2: kids can relate the most every time I get an
Speaker 2: contextless like you need to look at this email. I
Speaker 2: just got text. My heart just drops, like, oh Jesus,
Speaker 2: like what is this? Like you owe? Like is this
Speaker 2: like the you you owe six thousand dollars for damage
Speaker 2: to a dorm? Is this you know what I mean? Like, oh,
Speaker 2: actually you you missed a midterm? It just it and
Speaker 2: so I just glanced at It's actually fine, It's it's
Speaker 2: a positive email, but there is an element of like,
Speaker 2: oh no, it's the same feeling you get if you
Speaker 2: have teenage kids that text all the time and never
Speaker 2: call when they When you see that they are the
Speaker 2: one calling you, you want to be excited about it,
Speaker 2: but you're actually terrified, Like oh Jesus, you're just like gripping.
Speaker 2: You're like, all right, I hope this is Hey, how's
Speaker 2: it going? And I still I'm gonna. I'm gonna I
Speaker 2: I will without giving details. And even though I Demonse
Speaker 2: turns twenty six in three weeks, hasn't been in any
Speaker 2: what I would call real trouble in four years. It's
Speaker 2: been a long time, three years, like you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, and real trouble is too extreme, but any
Speaker 2: like where it's like, oh man, this is a stressful,
Speaker 2: crummy situation. He's never actually been in any real trouble
Speaker 2: in his whole life. And even yesterday Demonse called me
Speaker 2: with great news, but I misheard the word conversation as confrontation.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh Jesus, because I knew the person's abodes.
Speaker 2: And the answer was, I had an amazing conversation with
Speaker 2: so and so today. And I heard I had an
Speaker 2: amazing confrontation with so and so. I'm like, Jesus, what happened? So, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's maybe that's no, it's not you. It's just the
Speaker 2: neuroses of being a parent. Also, one other thing before
Speaker 2: we get to the actual show. If you subscribe to
Speaker 2: the print edition of arguably the greatest magazine cultural magazine
Speaker 2: that's ever existed, The New Yorker, the one that, amazingly
Speaker 2: this is an unbelievable turn of events. On the cover
Speaker 2: has a white dad wearing an Olivia Rodrigo t shirt,
Speaker 2: vaping black mom, and a tennish year old daughter walking
Speaker 2: in front of them, annoyed with her parents. That's the
Speaker 2: cover of the prededition of this week's New Yorker. If
Speaker 2: you have it, go to page seven and look on
Speaker 2: the right hand column in the three things I'm interested
Speaker 2: in this week, and number two is the author's favorite
Speaker 2: television show. First things first, it is so dope. He
Speaker 2: calls it like Letterman for sports fans. Now, I was
Speaker 2: aware that this existed on the New Yorker website like
Speaker 2: that it last weeks. It was sent to me and
Speaker 2: then I saw the who wrote it, and I was
Speaker 2: taken aback, and I tweeted about it. But because I'm old.
Speaker 2: It's one thing to have something be on the website.
Speaker 2: It's another thing to have it in the print edition
Speaker 2: of the magazine, not of the New Yorker magazine. And
Speaker 2: the fact that the cover might as well have been me,
Speaker 2: your mom, and Deanna. I don't have an Olivia Rodrigo
Speaker 2: T shirt, but if I did, I would wear it.
Speaker 2: Is pretty, is pretty unbelievable. It might be the greatest
Speaker 2: press the television show's ever gotten. To get blurbed in
Speaker 2: the New Yorker is unfathomable, and shout out to the author.
Speaker 2: And it's really cool. And if you subscribe to New
Speaker 2: Yorker again, page seven, right hand column. Okay, I said
Speaker 2: we were gonna go fast today. We have now gone
Speaker 2: ten minutes and the show hasn't really even started.
Speaker 3: My apologies anything we've ever gone before.
Speaker 2: I know, and I usually make fun of podcasts for
Speaker 2: doing that exact thing where it's like it, but it
Speaker 2: is that time, and I think all of that, and
Speaker 2: I do think the Kendrick thing was the zeitgeist, and
Speaker 2: I think people relate to the parenting. And if I'm
Speaker 2: in the New Yorker, I'm gonna talk about it all right,
Speaker 2: Here's what missed the cut. Travis Kelcey on the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl Ring Typo. He says he doesn't give ah and
Speaker 2: he shouldn't. Of all the things that could be a typo,
Speaker 2: this is the least meaningful. If they've gotten the score
Speaker 2: of one of the games wrong, that's unfortunate. If they
Speaker 2: had gotten the team they played wrong, that's almost we
Speaker 2: have to remake the ring. But calling the Dolphins the
Speaker 2: seventh seed when they were the sixth seed doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Pascal Siakam's gonna sign a Max and Andy and Willie Mays.
Speaker 2: I believe the great baseball player to ever live passed
Speaker 2: away at ninety three. We I don't like to do
Speaker 2: brief obituaries, and but there's not a lot of sports
Speaker 2: memorabilia that I still have. But and demon'sa you might
Speaker 2: not even realize it's Willie Mays, but in my office,
Speaker 2: think about when you were sitting in my office watching football.
Speaker 2: On the wall where the door is the exactly the
Speaker 2: box that has the baseball in it. Yes, is a
Speaker 2: picture of Willie Mays making the most famous catching baseball
Speaker 2: history and assigned Willy Mays Baseball. I've had that for
Speaker 2: on it close to thirty years now. The greatest aside
Speaker 2: from Barry Bond, who has the weird kind of I
Speaker 2: don't know if asterisk but cloud hanging over him. The
Speaker 2: greatest baseball player of my lifetime all around, hitting, fielding,
Speaker 2: all around was King Griffy Due, and Willy Mays was,
Speaker 2: quite literally in a lot of statistical categories, twice the player,
Speaker 2: and Griffy's one of the fifteen greatest players ever. It's
Speaker 2: unfathomable what a great player he was. And as a
Speaker 2: reminder that history is what we are currently living, we
Speaker 2: try to pretend it was a long time ago. Willy Mays,
Speaker 2: who passed away two days ago. Remember a couple weeks
Speaker 2: ago when Major League Baseball added the Negro league stats
Speaker 2: to the official Major League Baseball stats, Willy Mays, who
Speaker 2: has passed away at ninety three two days ago, career
Speaker 2: hit number went up by eight because he played in
Speaker 2: the Negro leagues. And then he played twenty four years
Speaker 2: in professional baseball with a year and a half stolen
Speaker 2: from him because he was in the Korean War. An unbelievable,
Speaker 2: legendary player and one of the most universally popular players
Speaker 2: of all time. And all right, so, demonse, let's get
Speaker 2: to the actual show and talk to Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yes, shay On your show, you talked about
Speaker 4: the different levels that Tatum could reach, and the Twitter
Speaker 4: aggregators picked that and ran with it. So here's your
Speaker 4: chance to set the record straight. Where do you think
Speaker 4: that Tatum's ceiling is?
Speaker 2: So I I think his ceiling is probably I think
Speaker 2: he's very close to his ceiling. I disagree with Bill
Speaker 2: Simmons that there's another level he's going to get to.
Speaker 2: I understand he's just twenty six, but he's a weird
Speaker 2: twenty six because he's twenty six with one hundred and
Speaker 2: ten playoff games under his belt, so he's played so
Speaker 2: much in high levered spots. I like Shay is Shay
Speaker 2: is only a few months younger than Tatum. I think
Speaker 2: it's more realistic to believe Shay has more levels because
Speaker 2: Shay just hasn't been in these types of spots as all.
Speaker 2: And maybe I'm wrong about that, but my frustration is
Speaker 2: twofold one is I'm gonna read you a tweet. Someone
Speaker 2: clipped what Bruce said Jason Tatum about his contract. Jason
Speaker 2: Tatum deserves the money, no question, but yes he has
Speaker 2: something to prove. Can he play his best in the finals?
Speaker 2: Because the question we were asked was does Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: have anything more to prove? And this person quote tweeted
Speaker 2: it saying the fing goalpost moving is hilarious and then
Speaker 2: quotes Kobe Bryant stats over his first two finals, which
Speaker 2: is a little unfair to Kobe because Kobe was not
Speaker 2: good at all in his first finals and then very
Speaker 2: good in his second finals. But that then made the
Speaker 2: overall numbers just look mediocre. But it wasn't like he was.
Speaker 2: He was bad in won and then quite good in
Speaker 2: the next one. The overall numbers look mediocre. Then they
Speaker 2: show Lebron's first two finals finals. Lebron wasn't good in
Speaker 2: either one of those, and then Tatum's that tweet proves
Speaker 2: my point or Bru's point. You know what, Lebron James
Speaker 2: had to prove after his first two finals that he
Speaker 2: could play well in the finals. Did he have something
Speaker 2: less to prove? Absolutely? Now Lebron didn't have a championship,
Speaker 2: and Tatum does. Kobe had two. With that point, Tatum
Speaker 2: has won. But it's not people. This would be goalpost moving. Okay,
Speaker 2: if folks wouldn't give Jason, if folks were like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm not impressed by Jason Tatum. If folks said,
Speaker 2: let me rephrase it. If folks going into it said,
Speaker 2: like I did, I question whether or not you can
Speaker 2: win the championship with Jason Tatum as your best player.
Speaker 2: And then the Celtics win the championship with Jason Tatum
Speaker 2: as one A, one B but their best player over
Speaker 2: the course of the year, even if he wasn't their
Speaker 2: best player in the finals, but it was arguable at least,
Speaker 2: And then they say, don't care that he did it,
Speaker 2: he wasn't that good, and then take shots at him.
Speaker 2: That's goal post moving. It is not goal post moving.
Speaker 2: To say, okay, that level of the video game is completed,
Speaker 2: how high can you rise? That to me is complimentary
Speaker 2: me saying so I was asked, the thing that got
Speaker 2: aggregated from me was I was asked, same question, was
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum I have left to prove? And my answer was, well,
Speaker 2: it depends on what he's trying to prove. And I
Speaker 2: used wild as a career as an example, but I'll
Speaker 2: use my own instead. If my goal professionally was I
Speaker 2: want to one day host a national television show in
Speaker 2: the sports room, then if you were like, hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: what more do you have to prove. If that was
Speaker 2: my peak goal, then the answer is nothing. I've proven it.
Speaker 2: If my goal was what it actually is to one
Speaker 2: day be the biggest sports personality in America, then I
Speaker 2: have a lot more to prove because I'm not there.
Speaker 2: So the point that I made about Jason Tatum, what
Speaker 2: more does he have to prove? It's actually a question
Speaker 2: of what is he trying to prove. If his goal
Speaker 2: was to be in the conversation as the best Celtic
Speaker 2: since Larry Bird, then he doesn't have anything left to prove.
Speaker 2: He is not only in that conversation. It's him or
Speaker 2: Paul Pierce, and right now he is, to me trending
Speaker 2: better than Pierce. Piers did win that Finals MVP, but
Speaker 2: just like this one, it was very close to Pierce
Speaker 2: never made first team All NBA. Tatum's done it three times.
Speaker 2: So if Tatum's goal capped out at be a champion,
Speaker 2: be the best Celtics since Paul Pierce, which you kind
Speaker 2: of can't do one without the other, then he has
Speaker 2: nothing left to prove. But if Tatum's goal is what
Speaker 2: he has stated, to be the best player in the world,
Speaker 2: or I'll take that down a degree legitimately in the
Speaker 2: conversation for best player in the world, which he is
Speaker 2: not currently, then he has a lot more to prove.
Speaker 2: That's not unfair. That's not moving the goalposts. That is
Speaker 2: recognizing that the more you achieve unless you have reached satisfaction,
Speaker 2: so to speak. Like I'll give you an example. I
Speaker 2: don't think Anthony Davis is trying to prove anything else.
Speaker 2: I don't think Anthony Davis has a goal. Maybe I'm
Speaker 2: being unfair and this will probably be clipped as well.
Speaker 2: I would prefer it not, but I don't think Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis is like obsessed with I want to be the
Speaker 2: best player in the world. I think Anthony Davis came
Speaker 2: to LA to prove I can be a part of
Speaker 2: a championship team and I can play great basketball in
Speaker 2: big games when I didn't have that opportunity in New Orleans,
Speaker 2: and he proved it. And now he is, now what
Speaker 2: does he have to prove? I think right now he's
Speaker 2: trying to prove I can stay healthy, and he did
Speaker 2: that this year. But I don't think he has I
Speaker 2: don't think Anthony Davis is out there right now being
Speaker 2: like I'm going to win MVPs. I don't think that.
Speaker 2: So I think that so in a weird way, I
Speaker 2: don't think he has more to prove because he's not
Speaker 2: trying to prove anything else. Tatum is on the record
Speaker 2: saying I think I can be the best player in
Speaker 2: the world. If that truly is his goal, then he
Speaker 2: has more to prove. He's proved a ton already. But
Speaker 2: now it's that kind of final boss last step. So
Speaker 2: demon's as a Tatum guy and as a Celtic guy
Speaker 2: when I explain and feel free to say you think
Speaker 2: I'm full of s But do you think what I
Speaker 2: said there a makes sense and be as fair or
Speaker 2: am I doing what the Internet's accusing me of doing,
Speaker 2: which is moving the goalposts?
Speaker 3: Well? I do think there is something off.
Speaker 4: I get, Like, I get I get that Luca is
Speaker 4: on that, but like you're saying that Tatum is not
Speaker 4: even in the talks of being the best player in
Speaker 4: the world right now, but like Luca was going to
Speaker 4: be crowned the best player if he won that finals.
Speaker 3: I get, because like he didn't have help.
Speaker 4: I feel like it still sounds a little weird, but uh,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean I don't I think I think
Speaker 4: it is fair Tatum does have.
Speaker 3: More to prove.
Speaker 4: He didn't perform in the finals to the level that
Speaker 4: you will probably I thought he should have.
Speaker 3: I guess thought he would have. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: think it's.
Speaker 2: A It's like so all right, So let me address
Speaker 2: that in reverse order again that the finals thing, to
Speaker 2: me is just objective guys who have been to the
Speaker 2: finals and didn't play their best basketball. Gosh darn. Steph
Speaker 2: Curry on pre twenty twenty two had to prove he
Speaker 2: could play his best basketball in the finals. He did.
Speaker 2: It was the only level left on the video game
Speaker 2: for him. Could he be the best player on a
Speaker 2: champion YEP in twenty fifteen. Could he play well in
Speaker 2: the finals YEP did in twenty eighteen. Really well, I
Speaker 2: should say there, But in twenty the reason steat that
Speaker 2: championship in twenty twenty two was so important was not
Speaker 2: only it was without KD, but it was we were
Speaker 2: down two one backs against the wall. It was all
Speaker 2: on me. I dropped forty on Boston one Finals MVP,
Speaker 2: and yet so he even Steph had something left to prove.
Speaker 2: Lebron when he left Miami as a four time MVP
Speaker 2: two time champion, five finals appearances, had something left to prove?
Speaker 2: Can I win without this the Heatles super Team pat
Speaker 2: Riley right, So there was something left. Kobe was a
Speaker 2: three time champion and league MVP and was still trying
Speaker 2: to prove he could win without Shaquille O'Neill like, and
Speaker 2: then he did it there there, So that is not
Speaker 2: my frustration. Is it's not an insult, it's a compliment.
Speaker 2: If it is a compliment to say you are, you know,
Speaker 2: a consensus top ten player, you were just the throughout
Speaker 2: the course of the season, the best player throughout the
Speaker 2: course of the playoffs, the best or the second best
Speaker 2: player on the champions and there's still more to do.
Speaker 2: That's a compliment. Now if it comes with while trying
Speaker 2: to rip the guy, then it's not. But that's not
Speaker 2: what I've been doing. The Luca thing is just to
Speaker 2: me an objective reality of the fact. And I shouldn't
Speaker 2: say objective reality. I believe, and I think I have
Speaker 2: a lot of reason to believe that Luca is a
Speaker 2: better player than Jason Tatum, even though Jason Tatum's team
Speaker 2: just beat Luca's team. Now, that might be if you
Speaker 2: wanted to argue the other side of it, I think
Speaker 2: what you would have needed was in these finals for
Speaker 2: Tatum to put up Luca's stat line, or at the
Speaker 2: very least Luca to put up tatum stat line. If
Speaker 2: Luca in these finals had played really poorly, then it's
Speaker 2: a and Tatum had played really well, then it's even
Speaker 2: though it's a team sport, it's a harder argument to make.
Speaker 2: And so I just I right now, and this is
Speaker 2: the question that I had right now. To me, it
Speaker 2: is a pretty clear top three players in the league.
Speaker 2: Yo Get's, Luca and Yannis. It's not clear how to
Speaker 2: order those three. That's how I would order them yo
Speaker 2: Ki's Luca Yannis. But if someone wants say they want
Speaker 2: Giannis over Luca, it's pretty hard right now to not
Speaker 2: have Jokis number one. But you can argue about it.
Speaker 2: That next group. There's Tatum, there's Shay, there's Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what we do with EMBIID. It's
Speaker 2: like embiid's got MVPs and runner ups and but no
Speaker 2: good playoff runs and always gets you know, so, uh,
Speaker 2: I think an honest question and a tough question, is
Speaker 2: what's more likely that Tatum jumps into that next group,
Speaker 2: or shae An Aunt jump past Tatum. I think that,
Speaker 2: like I think that is, I don't know which direction
Speaker 2: that's going to go.
Speaker 4: I guess think it's less likely because I think Boston
Speaker 4: is more likely to end up back in the finals.
Speaker 3: I think they'll have that chance. I think that.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess Boston'd be in the finals against
Speaker 4: those teams.
Speaker 3: But no, that's fair.
Speaker 4: I think Taylor's gonna have a lot more time to
Speaker 4: prove himself and beat that extra game level that you're
Speaker 4: talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, so there is a there is another element, which
Speaker 2: is as far as not getting complacent but getting the
Speaker 2: monkey off your back, there is an element of this
Speaker 2: being the perfect result for Tatum, meaning he no longer
Speaker 2: has the pressure of can you win with this guy
Speaker 2: at the highest level, no one can ever make the
Speaker 2: argument again, Okay, you're capped out, you can't win a
Speaker 2: championship if he's your best player, because they literally just
Speaker 2: won the championship, right, But it also has a real
Speaker 2: legitimate motivating factor to try to get a touch better,
Speaker 2: which is, I didn't win the finals, MVP, and I
Speaker 2: didn't play my best basketball in the finals, So maybe
Speaker 2: they're you know, as far as Tatum's career trajectory, maybe
Speaker 2: this is the best case scenario where it let's say
Speaker 2: he had played great in the finals and they won
Speaker 2: the Tier wins Finals MVP. I don't think he would,
Speaker 2: but maybe you take your foot off the gas a bit,
Speaker 2: and if they lose the finals because he plays poorly,
Speaker 2: maybe that gets in your head and you know it
Speaker 2: in the next time you're a big moments.
Speaker 4: Also, I want to like, I feel like I've said
Speaker 4: this before, but at the same time, like we've obviously
Speaker 4: like this is the finals, I get it, but we've
Speaker 4: we've seen Tatum put up numbers when it was necessary,
Speaker 4: like in the times where it was called for. He's
Speaker 4: he's had fifty points against the Bucks in a game seven,
Speaker 4: Like he does it when he when he needs to.
Speaker 4: He never at any point, I don't he didn't need
Speaker 4: to be thirty five and eight or whatever you want
Speaker 4: to call it, like it's it's it was Finn. That's
Speaker 4: sounds part of it, like they'll never really test it.
Speaker 2: So okay, so you make two good points I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make I'm gonna add one little yeah butt to it.
Speaker 2: Down three to two to Milwaukee, Yanni's playing out of
Speaker 2: his mind. Tatum drops forty six points on the road,
Speaker 2: keep the season alive. They then win the series in seven.
Speaker 2: That's a real moment, the defending champs on the road,
Speaker 2: and in that game, Tatum outplayed Giannis. And it wasn't
Speaker 2: because Gianna's played poorly. The game you're referring to Game
Speaker 2: seven last year against Philly, Tatum drops fifty points. Right,
Speaker 2: those things happened. So there's so and those are You
Speaker 2: could argue that both of those games, because they were
Speaker 2: elimination games, were in a weird way higher pressure than
Speaker 2: any of these finals games because that they were in
Speaker 2: control from start to finish of the series. Right, So
Speaker 2: that's fair the one. Yeah, but I'm gonna add when
Speaker 2: people are like, well they he you're asking him to
Speaker 2: put up numbers when maybe that wasn't you know, what
Speaker 2: the team needed or what was best for the team,
Speaker 2: that rings a touch hollow because he did take shots
Speaker 2: than Yeah, exactly, it wasn't a I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 2: and so it was he was trying to score. He
Speaker 2: just his shot was off, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like the there's just that that is just what it was.
Speaker 2: And by the way his shot was off. It was
Speaker 2: weird this whole playoffs. Somebody, uh Second Spectrum stats, they
Speaker 2: tweeted Second Spectrum didn't tweet it, but somebody tweeted this
Speaker 2: yesterday that Yannis this year on jumpers was twenty nine
Speaker 2: point eight percent and Tatum in the playoffs was twenty
Speaker 2: nine point nine percent. His jumper just wasn't falling, like
Speaker 2: throughout the playoffs's jumper wasn't falling. It was, and so
Speaker 2: that might just be a simple thing like, ah, his
Speaker 2: jumper just wasn't falling. So I think, here is my
Speaker 2: frustration with the Internet, and this I just I guess
Speaker 2: I'm chemically unable to do a quick show. I don't
Speaker 2: know what's wrong with the I think that these are smart,
Speaker 2: interesting sports conversations, and I'm not acting like I'm not
Speaker 2: someone that can go out there and give a take
Speaker 2: as hot as the next guy. But I get frustrated
Speaker 2: when what I think is a smart, nuanced conversation is
Speaker 2: being packaged as a hot take. I like a hot take.
Speaker 2: I think the I think hot takes have been disrespected
Speaker 2: and unfairly maligned. I think hot takes are great for
Speaker 2: the sports media culture. Actually not bad, but I don't
Speaker 2: like I don't like the cross categorization. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean and where and And I also get frustrated
Speaker 2: by folks who it's a two minute Twitter clip and
Speaker 2: they get so angry about it without I'm not asking
Speaker 2: you to go back and watch the little segment, but
Speaker 2: so many people clearly are not even watching the clip.
Speaker 2: They're just seeing the alleged quote from it and responding
Speaker 2: to it. Okay, well we're thirty minutes in and we've
Speaker 2: done one topic. Next.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So in a mediocre NBA draft, there's talks
Speaker 4: that Bronni could go high to, you know, early to
Speaker 4: mid first round. Rich Paul came out and staid that
Speaker 4: Bronni and Lebron are not a package deal, and the
Speaker 4: Lebron won't take a small max or a small amount
Speaker 4: of money to play with Bronnie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, won't take miss some won't take them minut him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: So should at random team just draft Bronnie early and
Speaker 4: call Bron's bluff.
Speaker 2: I don't so that this was a real thought that
Speaker 2: I had a couple of years ago that this could happen.
Speaker 2: If Lebron was like I'm signing with wherever whoever drafts Bronni.
Speaker 2: But that's not going it is. I think it's clear
Speaker 2: enough right now that Bronni it is not super important
Speaker 2: to Bronni that he and bron play together that if
Speaker 2: a team were to use a first round pick on Bronnie,
Speaker 2: lebron would just be like, all right, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, that's go do it. And I think Rich
Speaker 2: Paul has made that pretty clear, and so I I
Speaker 2: don't think that is on the list of realistic outcomes.
Speaker 2: I do think it makes all of a sudden the
Speaker 2: second round of this year's draft compelling because it's going
Speaker 2: the storyline, right or wrong, is going to be about Bronni.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, ask the follow ups.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, So if the Lakers signed the le Bron's
Speaker 4: guy jj A and draft his son, wouldn't it be
Speaker 4: pretty shady for the Goat to leave them?
Speaker 2: All right? So I don't know. Listen, he's a free
Speaker 2: agent and to do what he wants. Nobody thinks he's
Speaker 2: leaving the Lakers, even though I hope he leaves the Lakers.
Speaker 2: What I will tell you is, I Demonse, I love
Speaker 2: doing this podcast with you, but I would not be
Speaker 2: happy if they were like, Hey, guess who's the new
Speaker 2: showrunner of First Things First Nick's podcast partner Demonse, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, you know what, I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: the vision we need for this show. I don't know
Speaker 2: that he is necessarily up to the job. The idea
Speaker 2: that because Lebron enjoys podcasting with JJ, that he definitively
Speaker 2: wants JJ to be as head coach. I don't have
Speaker 2: any evidence of that. I do know that when the
Speaker 2: Lakers were pursuing Dan Hurley, Lebron reached out to Dan
Speaker 2: and they were talking. I do know Lebron was all
Speaker 2: in on the idea of Dan Hurley coaching the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say all in, but excited about the idea
Speaker 2: of Dan Hurley coaching the Lakers. And the Lakers front
Speaker 2: office is gonna do Lakers front office things. All right,
Speaker 2: Let's talk Bronnie real quick, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Lakers and the Suns have shown the
Speaker 4: most interest in Bronnie, and Rich Paul is now saying
Speaker 4: the Mavericks, Timberwolves, and the Raptors are also in on him.
Speaker 4: Out of all these teams with ties with Bronnie, which
Speaker 4: do you think would be the most likely to draft him.
Speaker 4: Which do you think will be the best landing spot
Speaker 4: for his development, and which would you think will be
Speaker 4: the most fun.
Speaker 2: I think the most fun would be the maps. I
Speaker 2: think that would be the most fun because I think
Speaker 2: it would be really cool to see. And again, Bronnie's
Speaker 2: gonna be a second round pick that's probably gonna spend
Speaker 2: most of the year in the G League, right, But
Speaker 2: I think it would be really cool and a nice
Speaker 2: kind of final chapter to Kyrie getting to do the
Speaker 2: mentorship teach you how to win stuff for Bronni that
Speaker 2: lebron tried to do for Kyrie that Kyrie pushed back
Speaker 2: against at the end, because I think Kyrie, I want
Speaker 2: to say something about Kyrie here. I know it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be about Bronni. Listen, He's probably gonna go to
Speaker 2: the Lakers at fifty five. It just seems like that's
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. And I don't think he is yet
Speaker 2: a good enough prospect to where we should spend a
Speaker 2: ton of time talking about the best thing for his development.
Speaker 2: He is a wildly impressive young man. As someone who
Speaker 2: has a daughter his exact age, he is the way
Speaker 2: he has handled all of this, this level of fame,
Speaker 2: this level of money, and I don't just mean his
Speaker 2: dad's money, I mean now his own money, because he's
Speaker 2: got the Caleb Williams level in il deal at you, like,
Speaker 2: his own money as an adult that he can do
Speaker 2: anything with. Like, I don't think it is demons. You're
Speaker 2: gonna laugh here and you're gonna say I'm being unfair.
Speaker 2: I don't think it is ridiculous to say he has,
Speaker 2: in three months out of college, shown more maturity than
Speaker 2: I've seen from LaMelo Ball at any moment of his career.
Speaker 2: Like I am the I knew you so right, I
Speaker 2: knew you were gonna say that. I just can't. I
Speaker 2: can't watch any more of these videos Lamello peeling. Somebody
Speaker 2: tweeted once LaMelo acts like a twelve year old who
Speaker 2: got one hundred million dollars, and it's like, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: exactly right. You guy's got a go karts on his roof.
Speaker 2: He's got every like every car you would see. I
Speaker 2: think Lamello picked his vehicles by the cars that are
Speaker 2: available in Grand Theft Auto. It's like, oh that one,
Speaker 2: I want that one, and then that one and then
Speaker 2: that one. So again, maybe I'm being unfair, just I
Speaker 2: think I am impressed by Bronnie the young man. And
Speaker 2: I also think that we people need to remember when
Speaker 2: you look at his college stats, that the guy had
Speaker 2: cardiac arrest and wasn't able to train for months, and
Speaker 2: then the whole thing was thrown off. And so I
Speaker 2: think he's better than his college stats suggest, but it does.
Speaker 2: But he's six to two. So that's the biggest concern
Speaker 2: I have with Bronnie is his height. And so, but
Speaker 2: to go back to the Kyrie thing, I was trying
Speaker 2: to say, and then we're not going to do the
Speaker 2: quarterback contracts thing because I just don't know how to
Speaker 2: stay on the time when Kyrie was playing great basketball
Speaker 2: a large part and you'll like this, de Monsa, because
Speaker 2: you all always thought I was too hard on Kyrie.
Speaker 2: When Kyrie was playing really good basketball, maybe not great,
Speaker 2: but really good basketball. When he was with Brooklyn, a
Speaker 2: large part of the conversation around him was negative, non
Speaker 2: basketball related right that the off the court stuff, no
Speaker 2: matter how well he played, the off the court stuff
Speaker 2: pulled down the discussion around him. I believe fairly some
Speaker 2: people believe unfairly but it is what it is. What
Speaker 2: is only fair is if that can work in the
Speaker 2: other direction as well. Kyrie just had a really rough finals,
Speaker 2: and the off the court stuff was so mature and
Speaker 2: so self aware and showed a real leadership that it
Speaker 2: should pull up the conversation a bit as well. If
Speaker 2: when he was playing excellent, the off the court nonsense
Speaker 2: could pull down how we looked at him. Then when
Speaker 2: he's when he struggled in the finals, which he just did.
Speaker 2: He had one excellent game, one okay game in three
Speaker 2: really tough games, but he handled it all. And if
Speaker 2: some of the quotes, if you read them about what
Speaker 2: he was saying about Boston during the series, they read weird.
Speaker 2: But if you watched the press conference, it was so
Speaker 2: thoughtful and mature and all of it. Credit must be given.
Speaker 2: And so to a point to where now I the
Speaker 2: reason I'm saying Dallas for Bronni is because I think
Speaker 2: Kyrie would be a cool, you know, uncle figure with
Speaker 2: Bronni is like, hey, here's how to go about it, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, don't have your dad telling you what to do,
Speaker 2: but have a guy you've known since you were a
Speaker 2: little kid, who Now, I think that would be to me,
Speaker 2: that would be the coolest thing. And obviously Nico Harrison,
Speaker 2: who runs the team, has a great relationship with the family.
Speaker 2: All Right, I we do not have a show on
Speaker 2: two day because I'm gonna be in Vegas for the
Speaker 2: World Series of Poker. We discuss that and play Nick
Speaker 2: Stramas next. What's Right? All right, welcome back in What's
Speaker 2: Right with Nick? Right real quick, before we get to
Speaker 2: the poker stuff. I've talked a lot about how I think.
Speaker 2: Have I talked to Monday on this pod about the
Speaker 2: Twitter monetization and the money you get I think the
Speaker 2: bit yes, okay, that's what I thought. So that has
Speaker 2: created a lot of oh yeah, because we talked about
Speaker 2: the fake videos of like look this racist ash on
Speaker 2: an airplane and it's like those are bad. Those are
Speaker 2: literally just that's a skit, and the yeah, like right exactly.
Speaker 2: There is a harmless version of that same grift, and
Speaker 2: that is is the anonymous football and basketball aggregator accounts
Speaker 2: who put out intentionally awful takes just to get dunked
Speaker 2: on for the interaction so mL for underscore mL Football,
Speaker 2: which has, let me check, two hundred thousand followers. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's fine. I don't care. Just tweeted this out all
Speaker 2: Caps Hall of Famer vikings dB. Harrison Smith is one
Speaker 2: of the greatest safeties of all time and a surefire
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. And it's just a totally intentionally wrong take,
Speaker 2: so people will dunk on it to make money. It
Speaker 2: is such a harmless grift. Now it does make the
Speaker 2: Twitter less usable because so many people are onto the
Speaker 2: same grift. But and again, Harrison Smith is a good
Speaker 2: player and has been a good player for a long time. No,
Speaker 2: I won't, I I not if you know, I just can't.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean there is or anything like that.
Speaker 2: No, I understand you don't mean like actually harming society.
Speaker 2: But if you if you just started tweeting the worst takes,
Speaker 2: there has to be a picture associated with it. For
Speaker 2: the algorithm. The thing people love more than anything on
Speaker 2: these is to pick a mediocre player who's hitting free
Speaker 2: agency and call it a sweepstakes, just so that people
Speaker 2: dunk on it. That nobody loves the oh Man the
Speaker 2: Winyon Gabriel sweep Steaks starts July one at midnight, and
Speaker 2: people are like, oh, this guy gets on sweepstakes. Uh.
Speaker 2: The and so I I just this is It's not
Speaker 2: the worst thing Elon Musk has ever done, but it's
Speaker 2: it's on the first page of them, just him incentivizing
Speaker 2: people to use Twitter for the dumbest takes possible because
Speaker 2: they want to get dunked on uh, and then also
Speaker 2: monetizing like I didn't even totally follow it, but that
Speaker 2: I don't know that. I guess kind of cute white
Speaker 2: girl that was cooking and said the N word and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden is just now doing like
Speaker 2: first person videos like hey, let me tell you what's
Speaker 2: wrong with liberals. I mean, no, she exactly, she doesn't.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have it. Lady, you don't have the juice.
Speaker 2: You think you have the juice. You don't have the juice.
Speaker 2: And but she's like, oh, I just made three hundred bucks,
Speaker 2: let me post another one from my CRV. It's like, lady,
Speaker 2: get out of here. I know, I know a Southern
Speaker 2: sorority racist died in the wall when I see one,
Speaker 2: and you're not her. You might be friends with them,
Speaker 2: but you don't have it. You're you're you don't have
Speaker 2: it coursing through your veins the way you need. But
Speaker 2: she thinks she's gonna I think she thinks she's gonna
Speaker 2: get a job. Uh you know, it's like Whitlock's co
Speaker 2: host or something like. She is really trying to I
Speaker 2: just made that up. The I mean, I think she
Speaker 2: thinks it's gonna be a career and instead it's just
Speaker 2: going to be oh you remember that girl and briefly
Speaker 2: like But so it's all right, it's all fruit of
Speaker 2: the same poisonous tree. All right, let's talk poker, go ahead.
Speaker 4: All right, So you are heading back to the World
Speaker 4: Series of Poker next week, So that means that we
Speaker 4: won't have a pod and you'll get to.
Speaker 3: Play a poker.
Speaker 4: So, without giving away too much of your strategy, what
Speaker 4: is what's your playing for this time?
Speaker 3: Are you going to do anything differently?
Speaker 2: Well, so I'm gonna play. So I fly to Vegas
Speaker 2: Friday night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. There are three day ones
Speaker 2: of the Millionaire Maker Tournament. It's fifteen hundred dollars buy in.
Speaker 2: You can buy in a second time if you bust
Speaker 2: out on any individual flight of day one, and then
Speaker 2: Day two is Monday three, Tuesday four, Wednesday. It would
Speaker 2: be a very long tournament. If I were at a
Speaker 2: final table at that's Thursday, in which case I'm not
Speaker 2: doing the pod and I'm not doing the TV show.
Speaker 2: But that means I've already locked up like a couple
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. If I make the final table of this,
Speaker 2: what will be a massive, like probably five six thousand
Speaker 2: person tournament. So that'd be one of those good problems.
Speaker 2: So I have a pretty I don't have like a
Speaker 2: unique strategy. It's a tournament poker is different than cash
Speaker 2: game poker. But what I will say is, like I
Speaker 2: think most people, the unique thing about tournaments where there's
Speaker 2: multiple day ones and there's a rebuy is if you
Speaker 2: have the money to afford multiple entries, you're incentivized to
Speaker 2: play very aggressive on your first buy in of the
Speaker 2: day because if you bust out, you can buy in again,
Speaker 2: and if you don't, then you can create a big
Speaker 2: chip stack and kind of leverage people. I So here
Speaker 2: is what I think I'm going to do and the
Speaker 2: reason I want. And then if I don't do well
Speaker 2: on Saturday and Sunday of that, there's another tournament. There's
Speaker 2: a three thousand dollars no limit tournament that I might
Speaker 2: play on one or I might do what I really
Speaker 2: want to do, which I think there's a twenty five
Speaker 2: hundred dollars mixed game tournament where it's a round of
Speaker 2: Omaha eight or better and stud eight or better, and
Speaker 2: it'll be me and a bunch of old guys, mostly
Speaker 2: old guys because that's more old people play those games.
Speaker 2: But I love that game. I play that. There's that
Speaker 2: exact game exists at parks and right outside Philly, and
Speaker 2: I play it. So I'm gonna do that. I have
Speaker 2: a set goal that I want to play craft with
Speaker 2: my buddy Nick Shulman. I also probably will see how
Speaker 2: muth he just came in fourth. He should have won
Speaker 2: this tournament. He should have got Embracelet eighteen. The other day
Speaker 2: he came in fourth. I was up till two in
Speaker 2: the morning while sweating him. And I also should hopefully
Speaker 2: be a part, if you're a poker Go subscriber, be
Speaker 2: a part of some of the broadcasts of one of
Speaker 2: the tournaments when I'm not playing. It also demands a
Speaker 2: is getting to Vegas on Friday night and planning to
Speaker 2: leave on Wednesday is too long in Vegas. Objectively speaking,
Speaker 2: it's too long to be in Vegas. And so I am,
Speaker 2: I am going to have to I. When I let me,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you something funny that you'll laugh about. Your
Speaker 2: mom is gonna join me, okay, and the maybe I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say in a surprise to no one, as is
Speaker 2: your auntie Nicole. Just they were just a package deal
Speaker 2: and so, uh, but I didn't know that initially. Okay.
Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna be out there alone for
Speaker 2: five days. But Joe Black uh is out there all
Speaker 2: World Series playing in these tournaments. And so when Joe
Speaker 2: had been trying to get me to come out to
Speaker 2: play in some tournaments, and I looked at the TV
Speaker 2: schedule and I was like, oh, if there's not game
Speaker 2: seven of the finals were off TV Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Speaker 2: because the Euros are on FS one one.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I was like, I could come out and I think
Speaker 2: your mom was coming. He's like, all right, perfect. I
Speaker 2: was like, I this is so embarrassing, but it's true.
Speaker 2: I said to Joe. I was like, all right, if
Speaker 2: I go, I was like, you're I want you to
Speaker 2: hold my money and He's like, huh, I'm like, if
Speaker 2: I go and I'm by myself, I want you to
Speaker 2: hold on to my money, and he's like, what are
Speaker 2: you talking about? I was like, man, life's about knowing
Speaker 2: your strengths and weaknesses. And me alone in the area
Speaker 2: for five days is not a recipe for financial success.
Speaker 2: I need to have the added barrier of embarrassment.
Speaker 3: Of buddy, you need more money.
Speaker 2: What do you?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 2: What do you? Exactly right? I need the added the
Speaker 2: the the, because I don't. Here's the thing. I I
Speaker 2: don't gamble. I want to say this bell sound like
Speaker 2: a jerk, but I just be honest. I gamble. I
Speaker 2: don't gamble big enough dollars for it to be like
Speaker 2: problematic given the amount of dollars I have access to. Okay,
Speaker 2: but I do gamble. You know, a few thousand dollars
Speaker 2: here and there, right, But I'm not one of those people.
Speaker 2: There are people who make the exact amount of money
Speaker 2: I make that are playing ten thousand dollars hands of blackjack,
Speaker 2: and that can get I don't that can get away
Speaker 2: from you real fast, Like even if you have you know,
Speaker 2: I can't get away from you real fast to where
Speaker 2: you're in. Like all of a sudden, I took out
Speaker 2: a marker from the Aria for eighty thousand dollars that
Speaker 2: I owe the like. That's I don't care how much
Speaker 2: money you have. That's that can be a problem. I
Speaker 2: don't gamble like that, but I do gamble in a
Speaker 2: way that it's in play that whatever I had mentally
Speaker 2: budgeted for these five days could be gone in the
Speaker 2: first five hours. If I don't have some guardrails, I
Speaker 2: can tilt it off in either direction. So your mom
Speaker 2: has always been the guardrails for me since we've been together.
Speaker 2: But when I thought she wasn't coming, I had to
Speaker 2: ask my buddy if he would be willing to hold
Speaker 2: my money. I don't think he was comfortable with it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, pal, you just have to happen.
Speaker 2: I don't think he loved the idea of it. All right,
Speaker 2: I'll keep everyone updated on social media how I'm doing.
Speaker 2: And if you're a Poker Go subscriber, you should be
Speaker 2: able to hear me on some of the broadcasts. All right,
Speaker 2: let's do the game.
Speaker 4: All right, it's time for Nixtra Damis. I think we're
Speaker 4: probably gonna have some music that's gonna kick in here
Speaker 4: in a second. Oh beautiful, Oh wise, Nixtra Damis the
Speaker 4: common folk are starting to doubt your prophetic powers after
Speaker 4: you predicted a MAVs title by them that you were
Speaker 4: the soussayer sport and sway the non believers with that graphic.
Speaker 4: Your astronomy talents have been compared to Galileo. Uh, Galileo, Galileo,
Speaker 4: he was nearly Galileo. Yeah, he was burned at the steak,
Speaker 4: and you have burning hot jokes. Yeah, nearly nearly burned
Speaker 4: at the steak. All right, you're an expert at you're
Speaker 4: an expert at tracking star movement in the NBA off
Speaker 4: scene is here, Nick stredamis which star will be it
Speaker 4: will shift in the NBA skuys Jesus Christ, that's hard, Jesus.
Speaker 2: There's a long one. That's all right.
Speaker 3: I read it like fifteen times.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, that's okay. So the Calves in the
Speaker 2: heat both have two stars ish, neither of whom I think.
Speaker 2: I think both teams the stars don't want to be
Speaker 2: together anymore so. Donovan Mitchell or Darius Garland one of
Speaker 2: them is on the move, I think, and Trey Young
Speaker 2: or de Jonte Murray one of them is on the move.
Speaker 2: I think both of those duos are getting split up
Speaker 2: this offseason. That's what I think, and I just so,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure which, but I think both of those
Speaker 2: teams one of those guys is on the move.
Speaker 4: Next, the ancient calendars dictate the NBA drafts first round
Speaker 4: will have occurred by our next show. There is no
Speaker 4: clear star in the class, or is there? Nick sha Damis,
Speaker 4: look into the cosmos and find me one real star.
Speaker 2: I don't listen. I don't think there's a star. I don't.
Speaker 2: I can't do that, but I like, I know that
Speaker 2: people like Reed Shepherd, the Kentucky kid. His height scares me.
Speaker 2: He's an unbelievable shooter and unbelievable shooter, but he's six
Speaker 2: to one, so that worries me. I like Dalton Connect
Speaker 2: and almost as good shooter, the kid from Tennis, but
Speaker 2: he's six ' five. So I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 2: get you know, you might get a random, you know,
Speaker 2: foreign star in this draft, but this is not a
Speaker 2: top heavy draft at all. But I think Dalton Connect
Speaker 2: could be a rotation player on an excellent team.
Speaker 4: Next, the tea leaves are saying that NBA coach and
Speaker 4: noted film critic Joe Missoula has gone from the hot
Speaker 4: seat to extension talks, but not so fast. Let's not
Speaker 4: forget the championship. Coaches don't last. Just ask Frank Vogel
Speaker 4: Bud and Nick Nurse, Nick Sha Damis well, extending Joe
Speaker 4: Mizzoula proved to be a mistake.
Speaker 2: No, it won't be. I gotta give him credit. Man,
Speaker 2: his team loves him. They were so dialed in defensively,
Speaker 2: and as often happens in sports, all your idiosyncrasies and
Speaker 2: out of these become charming when you win. So now
Speaker 2: all the weirdness about him is just like, oh, that's
Speaker 2: what makes him great. And so no, I give the
Speaker 2: guy credit. I was a critic of his I was
Speaker 2: skeptic of his. The that team was connected, dialed in great, defensively,
Speaker 2: took smart shots. So no, I think he's a good coach.
Speaker 2: I was wrong on Joe Missoula, and so I give
Speaker 2: him a lot of credit, A lot of credit.
Speaker 4: All right, next, h nick Ster Damas, our show is
Speaker 4: abided by one immutable law, no baseball. But some have
Speaker 4: observed hearsay in your recent interest in Kansas City Royals. Uh,
Speaker 4: Knickster Damas, will Dick right uphold his own rules.
Speaker 2: Well, the Royals are making it easier for me. Lose
Speaker 2: too straight to the damn Oakland A's. What are you doing?
Speaker 2: I get it. You lose the series to the Yankees. Fine,
Speaker 2: you lose the series to the Dodgers. Whatever, You're playing
Speaker 2: the two best teams in baseball. You lose too straight
Speaker 2: to the Oakland A's. They need to get it together.
Speaker 2: I'm very disappointed in the royals last two games, last one.
Speaker 4: The next time we meet, the Stanley Cup Final will
Speaker 4: be settled. At the start of the championship. I correctly
Speaker 4: named one team, netting me half of the reward money. Uh, Nick, sure, damas,
Speaker 4: When will Nick Wright send me my fifty bucks?
Speaker 3: How'd you guys know you didn't send it?
Speaker 2: I mean they were right, though they actually were right
Speaker 2: that I didn't send it. Uh, they're correct. I forgot
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: What I should do is just overnight you those same
Speaker 2: exact five ten dollars bills you sent me. That's what
Speaker 2: I should do. That's that's what I should do. But
Speaker 2: I would I wouldn't. You're right, I do know. I'm
Speaker 2: being serious?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: We have demanse, we have an unbelievable f one minute,
Speaker 2: And by unbelievable, I mean it. My goddaughter Cec might
Speaker 2: take after me a bit in the inability to stay
Speaker 2: on the clock. Because the f one minute this week
Speaker 2: I think might be five minutes. So we have that.
Speaker 2: Oh and sorry, I know you guys. There was one
Speaker 2: other hockey question.
Speaker 4: Sorry, so did you did you catch that save by
Speaker 4: Matthew Kuldchuck and the uh yeah that did you?
Speaker 3: Did you see any of that yesterday?
Speaker 2: I did. I actually was watching that game at a
Speaker 2: poker game. I was at a poker game Tuesday and
Speaker 2: the and the hockey game was on, and I did
Speaker 2: see that. What was unbelievable about this save was then
Speaker 2: they immediately scored anyway, but it was a hell of
Speaker 2: a job. And Matthew kuld Chuck, I actually I have
Speaker 2: a little familiarity with him because when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: His dad, I hope it's his dad. Keith Kuldchuck was
Speaker 2: a big time hockey player. Someone who knows hockey, tell
Speaker 2: me is Matthew kuld Chuck and Keith Kachuck related? I
Speaker 2: have to think they are all right? The F one
Speaker 2: minute next? What's right? Get the Pulitzer prize? Ready? Oh?
Speaker 2: My goodness, Tom Haverstrow, Yeahoo's sports a six thousand word
Speaker 2: opus with first hand video evidence of something we've all
Speaker 2: always suspected. But Tom has blown the lid off it.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's nineteen eighty eight Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 2: award fougayse fraudulent inflated stats. How about this from Haverstraw
Speaker 2: and Yeah who sports just dropped? So Michael Jordan recorded
Speaker 2: the largest home road splits in Defensive Player of the
Speaker 2: Year history. So what does that mean? So Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: that year that he was chasing the Defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year award on the road when there was seemingly,
Speaker 2: you know, a neutral scorekeeper, he averaged three steals and
Speaker 2: blocks a game or per thirty six minute stocks. But
Speaker 2: at home those numbers jumped to five and a half.
Speaker 2: Now was he just better at home than on the road?
Speaker 2: Is that common? I don't know. It's a difference of
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty two percent. Say it again to Monse.
Speaker 3: How many asstoks was he getting?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know how many asstocs. But his just
Speaker 2: defensive Player of the Year, So it's just the stocks,
Speaker 2: just steals and blocks. Tom Aberstrow got full game footage.
Speaker 2: How about this full game footage where he could watch
Speaker 2: and track every single play of six Jordan home games
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty eight the game film. In those six games,
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan had twelve steals the home box score did
Speaker 2: he have? How many extra steals could they have given him? Two? Three?
Speaker 2: He had twelve the box score twenty eight. There was
Speaker 2: a game where they credited Michael Jordan with more steals
Speaker 2: than the other team had turnovers. Hmmm, hmmm. Might put
Speaker 2: a little different hue on the old goat conversation. Everyone
Speaker 2: should read it. It just drops at his sports pulat
Speaker 2: or Tom Haberstrow. This this is, this is really you
Speaker 2: know what I call this real journalism? What a legend
Speaker 2: Haberstrow is. I haven't read it, but you know, you
Speaker 2: might say, Nick, if you haven't read it and it
Speaker 2: just dropped a few minutes ago, how do you have
Speaker 2: all this this info? I might have been aware that
Speaker 2: something like this was coming. I might have been behind
Speaker 2: the scenes consulting on the project. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: just here for a fair and accurate reading of NBA history.
Speaker 2: That's all I want. That's all I've ever wanted. All right,
Speaker 2: so demands Sierra. Well, you'll see it our F one
Speaker 2: respond it. She is now official because she has gear,
Speaker 2: she has a real camera and Mike set up the
Speaker 2: whole nine, and I think because of that, she was
Speaker 2: very excited about the F one minute this week. So
Speaker 2: the F one minute is an F one segment. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and hit it. Let's go to Sierra.
Speaker 5: Indeed from the one is back, which means your host
Speaker 5: of the F one minute, Ci Fidel is back as well.
Speaker 5: But before we get into that, can we appreciate the shirt?
Speaker 5: Can we also appreciate the hat? But most importantly, can
Speaker 5: we appreciate the fact that I miked up shout out
Speaker 5: to everyone who bullied nick in to buy me a microphone?
Speaker 5: We have officially made it, but I'll just aside. We
Speaker 5: are kicking off the tenth round of the Spoon twenty
Speaker 5: four from the One season in Barcelona, Spain. Just give
Speaker 5: a little background of the circuit. The first from the
Speaker 5: One race was actually held here in nineteen ninety one. However,
Speaker 5: there's a really rich history surrounding racing in this area,
Speaker 5: so the first race was actually in nineteen thirteen, which
Speaker 5: is pretty impressive. We had a nasty crash between Lewis
Speaker 5: Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in twenty sixteen for Max firstapping.
Speaker 5: This led to his first victory in his Formula One career.
Speaker 5: We have some other victories one of Fernado Alonzo, pretty
Speaker 5: emotional ones in twenty six and twenty thirteen. Considering this
Speaker 5: is his home race as well as Nick's favorite Carlos
Speaker 5: Science is also his home race as well. Some more
Speaker 5: important information that you guys might need to know coming
Speaker 5: into the twenty twenty four Spanish Grand Prix is that
Speaker 5: big teams, well pretty much the Entigrid, but big teams
Speaker 5: like Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren and Ferrari are all bringing
Speaker 5: forth significant updates to the car. I know Red Bull
Speaker 5: has mentioned their suspension problem, you know, the fact that
Speaker 5: they're hitting those curves on the track super aggressively is
Speaker 5: causing problems for them. I know Ferrari has mentioned the
Speaker 5: fact that they would like to become more competitive in
Speaker 5: the slow speed areas on the track. Mercedes actually just
Speaker 5: updated their front wing in Montreal, which is amazing for them,
Speaker 5: and now they're looking to upgrade the floor of the car.
Speaker 5: Just different updates that could make big changes or could not.
Speaker 5: We just don't know yet. A couple of teams that
Speaker 5: were really looking out for one being Ferrari Iin the
Speaker 5: fact that they had such a terrible weekend in Montreal.
Speaker 5: The Ferrari haters are wishing or hoping that it's kind
Speaker 5: of a deep rooted issue that they have in their
Speaker 5: car that causes more issues down the road, But in reality,
Speaker 5: it was probably just a bad off. It was just
Speaker 5: off weekend for them. But that's why we're kind of
Speaker 5: watching to see if this is like a bigger problem
Speaker 5: or if they can bounce back super quickly. Another team
Speaker 5: that we're watching is Mercedes. They've been riding this wave
Speaker 5: of optimism off of the Montreal weekend. We just want
Speaker 5: to see if these high level accomplishments can be maintained. Basically,
Speaker 5: you want to see if they can make it to
Speaker 5: the podium.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 5: I don't know, we'll see, but that's why we're watching
Speaker 5: those teams. As far as my predictions go, One, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be Max first happens week whoa who would guess
Speaker 5: Maxi Stappens. Two I'm Lando, I'm gonna go Lando. Three
Speaker 5: I'm this may be wishful thinking may not, but just
Speaker 5: the fact that it's his home race, I would just
Speaker 5: like him to see him on the podium. So I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go Carlo signs yeah, and then for I'm gonna
Speaker 5: go Louis Hamilton. I have faith. I have faith in
Speaker 5: the Mercedes, I have faith in their updates, I have
Speaker 5: faith in the drivers and closing. This weekend actually kicks
Speaker 5: off the tripleheader, which basically means we have Barcelona, Austria
Speaker 5: and then the British Grand Prix happening back to back
Speaker 5: to back, so we'll be pretty busy the next three weeks.
Speaker 5: But will Mercedes initiate a revival for this team? Does
Speaker 5: Ferrari have actual problems or will they just bounce back
Speaker 5: on the podium like nothing ever happened. Well, we'll see
Speaker 5: tune in for the race this weekend so that next
Speaker 5: week we have a lot to talk about. But this
Speaker 5: has been your f one minute and I'll see you
Speaker 5: next week.
Speaker 2: Man. So here's the deal that is, I'm still hearing Sierra.
Speaker 2: There we go. Uh, you know, look good, play good
Speaker 2: type of thing. I think the uniform instilled CC with
Speaker 2: some real confidence. That was great. That was her best.
Speaker 3: And she still called at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she didn't call the f one minute. That's fine. Listen,
Speaker 2: we I today's show is gonna be super fast because
Speaker 2: we know we've gone an hour and ten minutes. Let's
Speaker 2: get to some questions quickly.
Speaker 4: Producers asked bass basketball season is over, and with only
Speaker 4: baseball left to watch, it's time to look elsewhere for entertainment.
Speaker 4: Are you Are you interested in any of the big
Speaker 4: summer TV shows coming out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so House of the Dragon, Yes, the Bear. Yes.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the Boys is. I've never seen
Speaker 2: it like this. I don't know what the acolyte. Oh really,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the acolyte. That sounds like something
Speaker 2: I might be interested in. And Love Island absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not a I'm not trying to act
Speaker 2: like I'm too good for it. But I don't watch
Speaker 2: reality TV. I again, it sounded condescending. I don't care
Speaker 2: if you do. I don't judge you. It's just not
Speaker 2: my it's just not my cup of tea, so to speak.
Speaker 2: But House of the Dragon, I'm already watching. In the Bear,
Speaker 2: I'm super excited for Go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, Curtis Matthews, Love the Thursday Day show. I wonder
Speaker 4: what's in store for the podcast during the summer. I'm
Speaker 4: here for it all year round. This is my number
Speaker 4: one podcast show. Thanks dude, Well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, to be honest. What's in store over
Speaker 2: the next month is we are gonna you know, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna miss some time next week for to go to Vegas. Uh,
Speaker 2: we're not gonna do a show on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: We then have a family vacation, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: more intermittent in July. But then starting in August then
Speaker 2: so we're not gonna be off the air entirely, but
Speaker 2: we're gonna be, you know, have some downtime and that
Speaker 2: in August, we have one week off, but the rest
Speaker 2: were rolling and then it's football again and we're just rolling.
Speaker 2: So we'll try to do more kind of creative fun things,
Speaker 2: but it won't be quite as regular as a schedule
Speaker 2: as we normally have.
Speaker 4: All right, next, He also asked last show I mentioned
Speaker 4: should the Lakers trade for money Williams? Now that he's available,
Speaker 4: what should the Lakers do? Is he a better option
Speaker 4: than JJ Reddick.
Speaker 2: Well, he's certainly more you know, season of a coach,
Speaker 2: he's been to the finals. I don't think they're gonna.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I guess maybe they don't have to pay money a
Speaker 2: lot because he's getting all that money from Detroit. But
Speaker 2: Monny might want to take some time off, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, Scott Murphy said, now that Horford finally won a ring,
Speaker 4: who is most likely to win one next year?
Speaker 3: Harden or not?
Speaker 4: Next year? Next Harden? CP three Westbrook, Jimmy Butler, Jay Crowder,
Speaker 4: Paul George all have plus one hundred and fourteen plus
Speaker 4: career playoff games.
Speaker 2: I mean shout out to Jay Crowder for making that list.
Speaker 2: I Paul George because he Paul George because he might
Speaker 2: change teams like Paul George if he were to go
Speaker 2: to Philly, I think they would be a real viable contender.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the last one. Noah Rodriguez Demanse.
Speaker 3: No what Roriguez said?
Speaker 4: Nick, I'm getting married today, obviously I had to start
Speaker 4: off my big day with some what's right? Do you
Speaker 4: have any wedding day advice for me? H? And do
Speaker 4: you have any tips.
Speaker 3: For married men who are addicted to sports?
Speaker 2: Well, let me just give wedding day advice. First, we
Speaker 2: can maybe do you know tips for you know how
Speaker 2: to watch sports and keep the family life together. Another time,
Speaker 2: wedding day advice is this, and it's sincere real advice.
Speaker 2: If you drink, pace yourself significantly on the alcohol. Not
Speaker 2: because you're necessarily gonna act a fool, but you don't.
Speaker 2: You want to vividly remember the evening and you have
Speaker 2: a few beers with your buddies, you know, as everyone's
Speaker 2: getting dressed. Then after the ceremony there's a cocktail hour,
Speaker 2: then all of us you do, there's toast, this, there's
Speaker 2: all that. You don't want to be legit drunk at
Speaker 2: the end of the night. And then it's like wait,
Speaker 2: not because yes, you could embarrass yourself or something, but
Speaker 2: you want to be able to remember those moments. And
Speaker 2: the other thing that I would say is take do
Speaker 2: My biggest piece of wedding advice is for the people
Speaker 2: getting married. Everyone that is there for you, and anyone
Speaker 2: there that makes their own wants, needs, priorities, hurt feelings,
Speaker 2: anything like raise to the level of where you hear
Speaker 2: about it. That's not only not on you that make
Speaker 2: a little mental note of who those people would be
Speaker 2: because those people aren't there for you when they need
Speaker 2: to be like that, you should not have to worry
Speaker 2: about ah man, this person's upset about where they're sitting.
Speaker 2: That's not your job on your wedding day. Your job
Speaker 2: is to be in the moment. Take a few mental snapshots,
Speaker 2: drink water along with the alcohol, and make sure you
Speaker 2: know what I mean that. Try to have your best
Speaker 2: man or groomsmen on alert for any problems that could
Speaker 2: arise so they don't get to you, and certainly so
Speaker 2: they don't get to your wife. And make sure your
Speaker 2: other than your wife. The only person you need to
Speaker 2: make sure is all good is your wife's mother. You
Speaker 2: handle those things, You'll have a great time. Deman's a
Speaker 2: great job. Today is a hell of a pod. Appreciate
Speaker 2: everyone listening. I'll keep everyone posted on the World Series
Speaker 2: of Poker over the weekend, and I'll see you guys
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