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Speaker 2: Welcome into Part two of the podcast with Nick Right.
Speaker 2: I think the NFL views the sports world differently. So
Speaker 2: we all know that big eat small, right, They're just
Speaker 2: in business big eat small. Like at some point Fox
Speaker 2: is like, we can't build the scale to compete with
Speaker 2: Disney and Netflix. We're going to sell a big chunk
Speaker 2: of our business off. By the way, they took Disney
Speaker 2: for a ride. They got about eighty billion dollars for
Speaker 2: a movie business that wasn't worth anything, and the twenty
Speaker 2: billion dollars for the regional sports network that was worth
Speaker 2: a nickel about a.
Speaker 1: Year later, but.
Speaker 2: The NFL has now scheduled another Christmas Day game. So
Speaker 2: there was always sort of a gentleman's agreement in sports.
Speaker 2: You know, you get Opening Day in baseball and the
Speaker 2: NBA gets Christmas Day, and then you know the NFL
Speaker 2: is going to dominate certain things in the fall. Now,
Speaker 2: I for the record, I've always believed, and I've thought
Speaker 2: this forever, that the NBA would be much better served
Speaker 2: starting two days after the Monday after Thanksgiving, the Wednesday
Speaker 2: after Thanksgiving. Monday Tuesday is football talk from the weekend.
Speaker 2: Then Wednesday's a dead day, and that sports calendar NBA
Speaker 2: starts a month later plays into early July because those
Speaker 2: it's wide open and then so I've always thought the
Speaker 2: NBA's got their schedule, they should just move it a
Speaker 2: month later on both ends beginning and end. But it
Speaker 2: is interesting now kind of the pitbull attack mantra of
Speaker 2: the NFL. I think they see weakness, see I think
Speaker 2: they see Steph and Lebron getting older. And I think
Speaker 2: that marketing Day on Christmas was a real thing. It
Speaker 2: was an introduction, as we're all home to the NBA.
Speaker 2: They put the biggest games, the biggest Stars and it
Speaker 2: was sort of their free marketing day and I think
Speaker 2: the NFL had not that they were getting huge ratings,
Speaker 2: but they were the biggest regular season game, and I
Speaker 2: think the NFL sees weakness. I think they watched the
Speaker 2: NBA during BLM and COVID, you know, lose some viewers
Speaker 2: for you know, maybe positioning marketing on that stumble a little.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you can see some ratings erosion there. And then
Speaker 2: Lebron and Steph are getting older, the game's getting more
Speaker 2: a little bit more European, and it's it's interest like
Speaker 2: the gloves are off. It feels like to me, the
Speaker 2: NFL said we're going to squeeze you, and.
Speaker 1: I I think, go ahead.
Speaker 2: And I do believe that's a tipping point. That Christmas
Speaker 2: Day mattered a lot to the NBA, and those NFL
Speaker 2: games put a blanket over it.
Speaker 1: So there's there's two angles of this. One is what
Speaker 1: it means for the NBA, and it's terrible for the NBA.
Speaker 1: The opening day in the NBA is fine, but it
Speaker 1: used to then have it used to have Christmas Day
Speaker 1: is a big day that's going away. The All Star
Speaker 1: Game Now it's like a nobody gives a shit about
Speaker 1: that joke. And then and now the NBA, both professional
Speaker 1: and collegiate basketball, at this point in this country, seemed
Speaker 1: to be moving towards we really love your postseason and
Speaker 1: the rest of it, take it or leave it. Yep.
Speaker 1: So I think it is bad for the NBA in
Speaker 1: that regard. I also think, and this is where we
Speaker 1: might disagree long term, I think this is a massive
Speaker 1: strategic error by the NFL. And here's why. I think
Speaker 1: one of the secrets to the NFL's success it is
Speaker 1: all of us, and I don't mean media just we
Speaker 1: are in a different spot because it's literally our job.
Speaker 1: But everyone that loves football has convinced all of their
Speaker 1: loved ones, spouses, children, whatever, who don't love football that
Speaker 1: the games are unmissible like it is. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you. I think most of your listeners at this
Speaker 1: point they don't even get shipped from their significant others.
Speaker 1: When my team is playing a NFL game, they know
Speaker 1: I am out of commission. I am watching. It is mandatory.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to a weddit correct? We will. We
Speaker 1: won't schedule our own events. We won't, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? No one's gonna ask me to take my
Speaker 1: kid to the birthday party. That no the okay. So
Speaker 1: here's why I think it's a mistake. It's the same
Speaker 1: reason I thought that putting on Christmas Eve that Bill's
Speaker 1: Chargers game on an app was a mistake, because it's
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and it's on an app, and people are
Speaker 1: just gonna miss it, and the moment it starts being
Speaker 1: and Christmas Day, they put a Raiders game at one
Speaker 1: pm Christmas. Those fans are on the West Coast. That's
Speaker 1: ten am, that's Christmas morning. So there were a lot
Speaker 1: of Raider fans who just missed the game. Here's why
Speaker 1: it matters. Now your significant other or your kid, or
Speaker 1: whomever says you can miss you missed the other. It
Speaker 1: was fine, you watched it later, you caught up. As
Speaker 1: soon as it becomes the if the inventory becomes so
Speaker 1: ubiquitous and that you put it on days where people
Speaker 1: are going to miss, and Christmas people are gonna miss
Speaker 1: some Thursday, right, then all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't have to watch every game. You thought you did,
Speaker 1: but you don't. And even if you still think you do,
Speaker 1: your wife or your significant other, it's like you do
Speaker 1: not have to watch every game. I know it because
Speaker 1: we were at Aunt Margaret's house on Christmas. Even you
Speaker 1: didn't watch it and you were fine. So I think
Speaker 1: long term, I think it's a mistake. I'm the only
Speaker 1: person that thinks this. I understand the ratings are going
Speaker 1: to be massive, but I think there has been a
Speaker 1: I think all of us, especially as they've added a
Speaker 1: seventeenth game, like I whisper, I don't want my kids
Speaker 1: to hear it, so I don't I have to hear it.
Speaker 1: Like I cover the sport. I could probably miss a
Speaker 1: game or two and be okay. But they don't think that.
Speaker 1: They're like, no, it's daddy's watching football. Don't bother them.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, it's worked. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you put games on Christmas, they're gonna be missed. Like now,
Speaker 1: I watched the Chiefs. It was my team played at
Speaker 1: one BM on Christmas. And that's the other thing that
Speaker 1: was also the worst dude, that was the Raiders game.
Speaker 1: Just a disaster. I mean, we haven't didn't lose sense,
Speaker 1: by the way, super Bowl champions, but uh, I didn't
Speaker 1: like I didn't love it because here's the difference. NBA
Speaker 1: is watched passively. Yes, even on Christmas, Like even the
Speaker 1: Christmas Day games, it's in the background, it's on and
Speaker 1: then oh it's close with five minutes of them sit
Speaker 1: down and watch. I don't know how to watch football passively.
Speaker 1: I can't come in and out of the room and
Speaker 1: be like, that's just not how my brain works with football.
Speaker 1: So I just don't. I don't. And it's on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't love the Christmas Day thing.
Speaker 1: I like the rule changes the NFL did I'm not
Speaker 1: just trying to bang on the league. I think the
Speaker 1: Christmas Day thing's a little greedy. I don't love it,
Speaker 1: and I think it's short sighted.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I don't disagree. I you know, it's I
Speaker 2: tend to I don't know if this is selfish or not.
Speaker 2: I tend to look at the sports calendar and I
Speaker 2: see everything through the eyes of what does it do
Speaker 2: for the production of my show and my staff. So
Speaker 2: when they talked about eighteen games and that's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: they'll add a second bye week, Well, the season will end,
Speaker 2: the staff will go dark for a week, everybody gets vacation.
Speaker 2: We'll come back, we'll be right into free agency in
Speaker 2: the final twenty games of the NBA season. So for me,
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, I get rid of two dead weeks
Speaker 2: of sports talk. But you know, one of the things, like,
Speaker 2: for instance, college basketball is a prime example. I can
Speaker 2: absolutely be fascinated with something for three weeks and nothing more.
Speaker 2: And I think it's it's the sports brain. Like college basketball.
Speaker 2: This next weekend, Gonzaga Perdue will not miss it. These
Speaker 2: big games this weekend will not miss it. I don't
Speaker 2: think the of college basketball is great, but I like
Speaker 2: the Mardi Gras field, that the annual party.
Speaker 1: Listen every It's cliche and it's the only time anyone
Speaker 1: ever uses this specific word is with college sports. But
Speaker 1: it's the right word. The pageantry of it is something, yes,
Speaker 1: like the students and the band and all of it.
Speaker 1: It is it. It overcomes the fact that I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this team shoots thirty six percent on
Speaker 1: open shots. Like I'm like, I am pretty like this
Speaker 1: is not good. No, but it is entertaining. But you're right,
Speaker 1: I feel totally fine parachuting in Yes, like the I
Speaker 1: don't pretend to act like I'm a college basketball expert.
Speaker 1: I'm not and I came into the tournament, I'm like, eh,
Speaker 1: I used to live in Houston. I like the coach,
Speaker 1: I'll root for them, and other than that, I'll root
Speaker 1: for underdogs because it's fun. I'll root against Yukon because
Speaker 1: it'll cause Wild's pain, and then that'll just be it,
Speaker 1: like you know, and then I'm into it. And the
Speaker 1: women's game has stars that I that I'm into. But
Speaker 1: I don't need to have a year long investment, That's right,
Speaker 1: I just don't well.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is I had a four team
Speaker 2: parlay in college basketball last week, my first one of
Speaker 2: the year, and people are like, you don't you don't
Speaker 2: really follow the sport, and I'm like, it's math. Just
Speaker 2: look at certain numbers in the bat like I just
Speaker 2: made another four team. Or today Billy Bean didn't watch
Speaker 2: the A's play. Jerry West would not watch all the
Speaker 2: Lakers play. You start watching too much of anything, you
Speaker 2: get so viscerally emotionally distraught and connected, you make bad bets.
Speaker 2: I've said this about the NFL. The red zone is perfect.
Speaker 2: The red zone gives me the great moments. I don't
Speaker 2: overthink football. Then I can go look at stuff when
Speaker 2: I make my blazing five picks. I can just look
Speaker 2: at numbers that are important, third down numbers that I
Speaker 2: worry about. How do you close, how do you start?
Speaker 2: How much do you run the weather, And it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't need to me. There is no proof that
Speaker 2: watching every Oregon game make me a better Oregon better.
Speaker 2: It's like saying, Oh, it's like saying, you know, the
Speaker 2: more you drive, the better driver you are. I could argue,
Speaker 2: the more I drive, the more fatigued I am, the
Speaker 2: more numb I am, and the less alert I am.
Speaker 1: So I think that's so. The I think that is
Speaker 1: on a general gambling perspective. I think that if you
Speaker 1: had a team the generic you, if anyone had a
Speaker 1: team that they watched and followed like it were their
Speaker 1: favorite team. Yeah, but that they did not give a
Speaker 1: damn about. Yes, that I actually think would okay, give
Speaker 1: them real insight on it.
Speaker 2: So this is interesting. So Lem Banker, the late Lem Banker,
Speaker 2: was a gambler in Las Vegas, and I started gambling
Speaker 2: on sports in Las Vegas, and Lem Banker said, it's
Speaker 2: not a volume game. He goes find a team or
Speaker 2: a college conference, and within that conference, frying three or
Speaker 2: four teams and just watch them and bet them.
Speaker 1: So that so that, so that's my So that's what
Speaker 1: I was getting to, like, I think, I No, I
Speaker 1: do not think it is gonna sound arrogant. I don't
Speaker 1: mean it too. I do not think Brett Veach, the
Speaker 1: GM of the Chiefs, knows more about the Chiefs roster
Speaker 1: than I do. I did, and that is only because
Speaker 1: I think I am maximum I know. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's possible to know more. I think I've reached maximum
Speaker 1: knowledge level of that roster. But I am not a
Speaker 1: good Chiefs gambler because I'm so emotionally invested in it,
Speaker 1: and it leads to high high's low low. Like it's
Speaker 1: not it's not that you always overrate your favorite team.
Speaker 1: Sometimes as you underrate them, they're like they suck. What
Speaker 1: the hell? You know what I mean? But I I've
Speaker 1: watched everything and I consume everything. So if you did
Speaker 1: that with a team you don't care about just you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. From a pure knowledge perspective, I
Speaker 1: do think you would be like, oh, nobody's talking about it,
Speaker 1: but our left guard, who wasn't that good, you know,
Speaker 1: is at fifty percent and his backup's terrible, and we
Speaker 1: got Jeffrey Simmons coming up that in and of itself
Speaker 1: is worth a point and half, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think you would have that. So I think
Speaker 1: that there is in theory, the more you watch, the
Speaker 1: more knowledgeable you are. In practice, the thing you watch
Speaker 1: the most is the thing that you are going to
Speaker 1: care about the most, and then the emotion is going
Speaker 1: to pervert your logic on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I really don't want to know about
Speaker 2: all my wife's relationship.
Speaker 1: I don't want to add an interesting therapy.
Speaker 2: I don't want to know about what my kids are doing.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make me a better parent or a husband
Speaker 2: all that knowledge. So my take has always been I
Speaker 2: like to watch things like a judge watches a case
Speaker 2: without emotion. I can go look up the data give me.
Speaker 2: My wife always says this. She says, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: always watching a game for an angle. I'm like, when
Speaker 2: I went to the Bulls Celtics, the first thing I
Speaker 2: noticed the first four minutes of the game. The Celtics
Speaker 2: didn't start Jalen Brown, Poor Zingis or Drew Holliday, and
Speaker 2: the first thing that was obvious is Billy Donovan told
Speaker 2: his team, clearly, they're not as athletic.
Speaker 3: Push the ball.
Speaker 1: Horford's on the floor, old guy.
Speaker 2: So Chicago came out going a thousand miles an hour,
Speaker 2: getting some easy buckets. And then later in the game,
Speaker 2: you could watch Boston, they've played together, older players, did
Speaker 2: a much better job. You could tell that Boston's coach
Speaker 2: had told them, don't io, We've only got Tatum. They're
Speaker 2: taking him out, and some say pass move the ball.
Speaker 2: We're we're a smarter team than they are.
Speaker 1: Move the ball.
Speaker 2: Boston at the end of the game was like it
Speaker 2: was a symphonic it was beautiful ball movement. So it's
Speaker 2: like that I was watching the game for angles, and
Speaker 2: I think you do the same thing. I don't need
Speaker 2: to watch entire games. I can go like I watch
Speaker 2: Yukon twice this year and I'm like, oh, nobody's gonna
Speaker 2: beat this team in college basketball, defense, scoring, coaching.
Speaker 1: They're just too good.
Speaker 2: They're too long, they're too And then I watched Carolina
Speaker 2: three games and I'm like, that's the only team that
Speaker 2: could give you con trouble and I don't. And I
Speaker 2: probably watched twelve college games this year. I watched Gonzaga,
Speaker 2: and I said they're good, they're not good enough to
Speaker 2: win the title. I watched, you know, I watched the
Speaker 2: series of teams. So and again it's not like I
Speaker 2: do chalk mostly on the college tournament. And I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm not Alan Boston, one of these legendary gamblers in
Speaker 2: college basketball. But the truth of the matter is the
Speaker 2: more you do anything, the more emotional you get. And
Speaker 2: that's not always make you a better husband, a better parent,
Speaker 2: a better better a better boss.
Speaker 1: In theory, if you could acquire the expertise without any
Speaker 1: of the like it's I'll use an analogy. Then I
Speaker 1: have a basketball take for you. You made me think
Speaker 1: of it when you're talking the NBA. If you're running
Speaker 1: a business and you are there every single day, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you have employees, yes, so you actually so
Speaker 1: this is you are the expert act. But it is
Speaker 1: also very human to then develop relationships, yes, and so
Speaker 1: the what is best for the business versus I really
Speaker 1: like this person? All this, you know, those things all
Speaker 1: intermix in your brain if you could, if you were,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably why. And I'm totally talking out
Speaker 1: of my ass here because I know nothing about running
Speaker 1: a business. And I just thought of this in the second,
Speaker 1: but I think, I think I'm right. It's probably why
Speaker 1: people bring in outside consultants. They're like, Hey, you don't
Speaker 1: know any You don't know this guy went through a divorce.
Speaker 1: You don't know this is my godparent. You don't know anything.
Speaker 1: Come look at this place and tell me what works
Speaker 1: and want. Doesn't give me a cold calculated reading of it,
Speaker 1: because I am as the saying goes too close to
Speaker 1: it right like that is that is how human beings work,
Speaker 1: in that they can get too close to things they
Speaker 1: can know so much. I guess that's where the phrase
Speaker 1: can't see the forest for the trees, you know what
Speaker 1: I meaning comes from. So I do think there's something
Speaker 1: to it. Can I throw a pretty ridiculous sure, But
Speaker 1: I believe it's correct. NBA take aut absolutely.
Speaker 2: I love these.
Speaker 1: Okay, so right now, if you had to pick a
Speaker 1: team to win the West, you would pick who.
Speaker 2: I think the Lakers match up with Denver physically, now
Speaker 2: that Karl Anthony Towns is hurt, they don't. Okayse's too young,
Speaker 2: Phoenix to mid range too. They duplicate too many of
Speaker 2: their skills. I think Denver will eventually healthy win. I
Speaker 2: think Boston's deeper but will lose out west Yahn.
Speaker 1: Denver is the heavy favorite by everyone. Right. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, even though they're the nine seed. The Lakers
Speaker 1: appear to me to have the most upside. Every everyone's healthy,
Speaker 1: everything clicks, all of it. But they can't beat Denver.
Speaker 1: They got swept by him last year, they got swepting
Speaker 1: in the regular season, games are closed, but they just
Speaker 1: can't beat them. Okay, So here is the gallic. Here
Speaker 1: is the take that's gonna sound ridiculous, but I truly
Speaker 1: believe the Lakers should want Denver and round one. And
Speaker 1: here's why. If you have to beat them, no matter what.
Speaker 1: If the assumption is no one's gonna beat them for you, okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to beat them. You want them in
Speaker 1: round two when you just went six or seven with
Speaker 1: Minnesota or OKC and they swept whoever they were playing.
Speaker 1: You want them in round three when the games are
Speaker 1: every other day, or you want them in round one
Speaker 1: when there's two or three days between games. At times, yep,
Speaker 1: Lebron and ad can both play forty four minutes. You
Speaker 1: are as fresh as you're going to be at any
Speaker 1: point and try to knock them off when they you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, right before they have really hit
Speaker 1: their stride. So again, I think the Lakers in a
Speaker 1: series against Denver are like fifteen percent. And it's not
Speaker 1: like if they got them in round one they'd be fifty.
Speaker 1: But I think that fifteen percent might go up to
Speaker 1: a round two. I truly believe, Listen. I don't think
Speaker 1: they could beat them in the guy every other day
Speaker 1: because you need Lebron to play too much, Adida play
Speaker 1: too much. But round one would be an intriguing spot
Speaker 1: where you could just play Lebron and ad like the
Speaker 1: whole game, like you have two days off.
Speaker 2: This has been my theory on the Lakers. If it
Speaker 2: was March Madness style like the in season title, Di'd
Speaker 2: win the title. And if I was Adam Silver and
Speaker 2: I wanted to extend KD Lebron in Steph's efficiency and greatness,
Speaker 2: I would make the first round, three, the second two rounds,
Speaker 2: five games in the final seven. If Steph loses in
Speaker 2: the finals Lebron or KD, that's fine, I won. But
Speaker 2: asking older players, even if you're a dominant favorite, you
Speaker 2: lose games in a series because nobody sweeps anybody, I
Speaker 2: mean outside of Lebron in the first round. Nobody sweeps anybody.
Speaker 2: So what's happening is you're making revenue, but you really
Speaker 2: lessen the chances of the Warriors. Instead, Steph is carrying
Speaker 2: the Warriors. Now he has to go six games in
Speaker 2: the first two playoffs. If it was three and they
Speaker 2: steal what Steph takes two. So I always said, forget
Speaker 2: the greed. Shorten the playoff series until the finals, and
Speaker 2: it allows older players to remain viable in those last
Speaker 2: two to three years of their contract or career, like KD,
Speaker 2: Lebron and Steph right now, Well, so that's and the
Speaker 2: age thing.
Speaker 1: This is what everybody, what nobody realizes is how old
Speaker 1: these guys are in NBA years. Kobe Bryant won the
Speaker 1: final playoff game. Kobe Bryant ever won he was thirty three.
Speaker 1: The final playoff game Michael Jordan ever won he was
Speaker 1: thirty five. Steph is thirty six. KD is either thirty
Speaker 1: six right nor about to be. I'm gonna check. Lebron
Speaker 1: obviously is thirty seven. We are already on KD is
Speaker 1: thirty five, turns thirty six in a few months. We're
Speaker 1: on borrowed time with these guys. Historic we've been on
Speaker 1: borrow time with Lebron, but we are on borrowed time
Speaker 1: with these guys, and folks don't realize it, Like because
Speaker 1: Lebron has won a title at and finals MVP at
Speaker 1: thirty five and then was in the conference finals at
Speaker 1: thirty eight, that's not the history. That's not There is
Speaker 1: no precedent for that. Those guys are not supposed to
Speaker 1: still be carrying their rosters. And by the Durant thing man,
Speaker 1: this is an unbelievable stat. Durant's first eleven years in
Speaker 1: the league gulling, he played forty nine conference finals or
Speaker 1: NBA Finals games one nine ninety nine minutes in the
Speaker 1: conference finals of the NBA finals. So in Durant's first
Speaker 1: eleven seasons, six years he was in the second to
Speaker 1: last you know, series of the year, and three years
Speaker 1: he was in the line one. In the six years
Speaker 1: he has played since then, he has played eleven minutes
Speaker 1: in the conference finals. In RNBA finals, Kevin Durant, in
Speaker 1: his thirties has played eleven minutes passed round two. Hey,
Speaker 1: which is a damn shame, but it is wild that
Speaker 1: it has happened.
Speaker 2: I said it when it happened. I know I'm giving
Speaker 2: myself credit, But when he left Golden State for Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: I said, this is the equivalent of Mahomes saying I
Speaker 2: have a friend playing for the Jets, I want to
Speaker 2: go to the Jets. We would go the fuck you
Speaker 2: talking about you're out of your mind, Andy Reid, Steve Kerr,
Speaker 2: Steph Clay Draymond. That is the difference between Lebron and KD.
Speaker 2: Lebron may have had a difference with teammates. Lebron will
Speaker 2: be like, this is a cash cow, I'm not going
Speaker 2: any Lebron has left old d Wade, crazy Kyrie. He's
Speaker 2: left untalented Cleveland. If Kyrie would have stayed and Kevin
Speaker 2: Love he.
Speaker 1: Would have stayed in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Lebron has left because of a His exit strategies were
Speaker 2: usually I can't win.
Speaker 1: Bron has left because he thought that this is over.
Speaker 1: I need to be able to win.
Speaker 3: Else steps and he did me.
Speaker 1: And listen, KD, this is where you and I do
Speaker 1: someone disagree. I totally get why Katie left because we
Speaker 1: all said those rings don't count, loser, don't care. Everybody
Speaker 1: yelled at him, said, you're ruining the sport. The rings
Speaker 1: don't count. It wasn't the leaving, just the leaving. It
Speaker 1: was the leaving plus being like, I'm going to go
Speaker 1: from the lowest maintenance, most reliable wingman superstar in Steph
Speaker 1: Curry to the highest maintenance, least reliable one in Steph
Speaker 1: Kurry in Kyrie, or like going from that to that
Speaker 1: is what the And then the Phoenix thing, like Phoenix
Speaker 1: built poorly. They just they you know, the roster never
Speaker 1: made sense. But it is. Listen, Katie's no longer a
Speaker 1: true MVP candidate. He's closer to the tenth best player
Speaker 1: in the league than the best player in fair you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, which is but for him too
Speaker 1: in the last six years, not make it out around
Speaker 1: two is one of the wildest things ever for a
Speaker 1: player of his caliber to not get those his whole
Speaker 1: twenties NBA postseason Great Series moments. He was a part
Speaker 1: of it. He was a part of the tapestry. And
Speaker 1: now he hasn't played you know, a really big he's played,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, in the last six years, one huge game,
Speaker 1: Game seven against Giannis round and that was round two
Speaker 1: and that was the game where he stepped on the
Speaker 1: line where he hit what he thought was the game
Speaker 1: winner and stepped on the line and then losing overtime.
Speaker 1: And that's it. Other than that, it's getting worked in
Speaker 1: round one or going out and round it's it sucks.
Speaker 1: It's not what I and I'm not like killing him
Speaker 1: for it. I don't think it's because he's like not
Speaker 1: a great player, but it is a I don't have that,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have it in front of me.
Speaker 1: But it feels a little like the last you know,
Speaker 1: half decade of Marino, or maybe eight years of Marino,
Speaker 1: where it's like it's not like there were a bunch
Speaker 1: of deep you know, I know, you didn't win a ring,
Speaker 1: but you had deep playoff runs. It's like, no, there's,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, a lot of years where
Speaker 1: it's just like you lost in the wild card round,
Speaker 1: you lost in round two, you missed the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: lost in the wild card round. So that's it's what
Speaker 1: Because I think the reason I'm bringing up is I
Speaker 1: think Phoenix is going to fall to the stay in
Speaker 1: the nine ten area. I think, you know what I mean, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: you lose to San Antonio without Wimby and Phoenix has
Speaker 1: have you seen Colin Phoenix's last ten.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's brutal.
Speaker 1: It's the hardest. I'm just gonna tell you what it
Speaker 1: is to the audience, because it is the hardest schedule
Speaker 1: left in the NBA by a mile. This is what
Speaker 1: Phoenix has the rest of the way at Denver, at OKC,
Speaker 1: at the Pelicans, home for the Calves. That's the easiest game.
Speaker 1: Home for the Timberwolves, home for the Pelicans, home for
Speaker 1: the Clippers, at the Clippers, at the Kings, at the Timberwolves.
Speaker 1: Every game they plays against a team with a better
Speaker 1: record than them. Six are on the road, four against
Speaker 1: the top three seeds in the West. Like it is,
Speaker 1: there is no gimmis in there. And they've fallen already
Speaker 1: to the Have they fallen to the nine? I don't
Speaker 1: know if they've fallen to the nine or they're going.
Speaker 2: I think the Suns are eight, Lakers, nine Warriors, right.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and the Rockets are nipping at everybody's
Speaker 1: heels at eleven. Ye, the Suns are the eight, you're correct,
Speaker 1: and the Lakers are two behind them. And the Lakers
Speaker 1: are gonna by the time people hear this, the Lakers
Speaker 1: will have I would imagine lost to the Bucks. But
Speaker 1: the there's the thing for the Lakers not to do. Schedule,
Speaker 1: you know radio. The Lakers play the Bucks tonight and
Speaker 1: they're getting rolled as we record it. After this, Grizzlies, Pacers,
Speaker 1: Nets are the next three, and then I think they
Speaker 1: have two easy ones. After that they go Grizzly Pacers, Nets, Raptors, Wizards.
Speaker 1: So yes, they have it. They're gonna lose tonight, and
Speaker 1: then they have five of the worst teams in basketball
Speaker 1: the next five. That's a tough spot for the Suns.
Speaker 1: Tough spot.
Speaker 2: Nick Right, always love it, talk about it best.
Speaker 1: Thank you for drinking with me.
Speaker 2: I finished it at a perfect time.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing, so I have, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody does podcasts differently, And this last thing I'll say,
Speaker 1: you and I I would say, whether it's the volume
Speaker 1: con coward podcast or what's right with Nick Right? You
Speaker 1: and I treat our podcasts like a you know, kind
Speaker 1: of more relaxed version of what we do in our
Speaker 1: regular lives, Like our regular shows. I know that there
Speaker 1: are other strategies that are far more aggressive or audacious
Speaker 1: or whatever it is right. So maybe the happy medium,
Speaker 1: since we can't stop talking about them, is one time
Speaker 1: doing a four person pod, you, me and Danielle, and
Speaker 1: we just see how that thing goes. And if it's
Speaker 1: you know, there's a forty percent chance it's unairable for
Speaker 1: our sakes, then it just goes in the archives. But
Speaker 1: if not, it could be a viral bonanza. So think
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: I told Anne we had a disagreement recently, and I said,
Speaker 2: I'm willing to do a fifteen minute pod on this
Speaker 2: disagreement and the audience decides who's right.
Speaker 1: She was not down with it. How did that work out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would imagined she doesn't like any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: She hates me, I know. So here's the thing my say.
Speaker 1: I think our I think we need to get Anne
Speaker 1: and Danielle together and then maybe we could do it
Speaker 1: because I think that they will have enough commonalities between
Speaker 1: being married to us, living with us in their own stuff,
Speaker 1: then maybe we can do it one day. But this
Speaker 1: is fun as always. I'll talk to you next week,
Speaker 1: my friend. All right, buddy.
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