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Speaker 2: Welcome in episode one twenty eight, What's right with Nick
Speaker 2: right now? Our first show without Demons is also our
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Speaker 3: We go to Arizona.
Speaker 2: We're out of the Super Bowl, and we've got you know,
Speaker 2: one of America's greatest companies sponsoring the show. So shout
Speaker 2: out to Visa. So we are live at the super Bowl.
Speaker 2: My team is in the super Bowl. It's you know,
Speaker 2: not only my team, but you know, the most talented
Speaker 2: player we've ever seen a team that's about to start
Speaker 2: a dynasty, and yet despite all of that, somehow the
Speaker 2: NBA found a way to make themselves the lead of
Speaker 2: the show. We will get to that in a moment.
Speaker 2: We'll get to what we're not talking about in the moment.
Speaker 2: If you're new to the show, keep in mind, jump
Speaker 2: into the chat. You can ask questions, you can vote
Speaker 2: in our polls, and in the third block of the show,
Speaker 2: the third segment, I will answer those questions of yours.
Speaker 2: And also, I'm told Demonse is active in the chat
Speaker 2: right now, and I think he's mixing some things up
Speaker 2: with our listeners and viewers. I'm not sure if that's
Speaker 2: a good idea or not, but it's fine. So here's
Speaker 2: what's not on today's show. Kyrie makes his MAVs debut,
Speaker 2: scores twenty four points, they win, not in the show.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown elbowed by Jason Tatum it's gonna miss some
Speaker 2: time with a facial frackure that's not in the show.
Speaker 2: And Aaron Rodgers doing four days and four nights in
Speaker 2: total darkness so he can make the decision spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: He knows what the decision is. He's going to decide
Speaker 2: to accept the sixty million dollars that he gets by
Speaker 2: playing next season.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what's not in the show. Here's what is
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 2: Somehow, as I mentioned, the Chiefs are in the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: yet it is not the top story. Somehow, the Lakers
Speaker 2: finally traded Russell Westbrook and Lebron passed Kareem since we
Speaker 2: last talked, and that is not the top story.
Speaker 3: Because late last night, I'd.
Speaker 2: Love to be able to tell you this happened while
Speaker 2: I was sleeping, But this happened while I was in
Speaker 2: a very juicy plo game at Casino Arizona, just twenty
Speaker 2: minutes from the hotel.
Speaker 3: I had to pull me away from it.
Speaker 2: But while I was playing in that game, round eleven pm,
Speaker 2: Arizona time, Kevin Durant was traded to the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 2: So Bill Barnwell this point, and it's a good point.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about every angle of this, which was Kevin Durant.
Speaker 3: This last four days.
Speaker 2: Were the first four days of Durant's career since he
Speaker 2: was a Seattle Supersonic as a rookie, that he was
Speaker 2: on a team without another future first ballot Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer and my guy just couldn't stand it. Get me
Speaker 2: out of here. What do you you expect me to carry?
Speaker 2: These bumps? Not happening? He gets traded, He's now a
Speaker 2: Phoenix Sun. I actually do not think the biggest story here,
Speaker 2: for my purpose is the most interesting story I should say,
Speaker 2: is what it means for the Suns.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about what this means for the
Speaker 2: Nets and what this means for Durant. So for the Nets,
Speaker 2: they have shown no consistency in their moves, and that
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about over the last three years. I'm
Speaker 2: literally talking about over the last three days. And that
Speaker 2: is because as I get a coffee delivered to me,
Speaker 2: see this is great. This stuff never happens when we're
Speaker 2: live in the studio in New York City. I got
Speaker 2: to go to the bodega next door. I got to
Speaker 2: make sure the door still locks and no one breaks
Speaker 2: into the boutiqu while we're recording the show. Now I
Speaker 2: have Fox executives like Angie Modterrazzi, sorry if I'm mispronounced
Speaker 2: your last name, and bringing me coffee, but you know,
Speaker 2: just waiting on me hand. And but it's unbelievable Okay,
Speaker 2: Now to the point the Nets traded Kyrie, fine, no problem.
Speaker 2: He was burning it down there, like he burnt it
Speaker 2: down in Boston, like he burnt it down with the Calves,
Speaker 2: and like he probably unfortunately eventually burn it down with
Speaker 2: the Mavericks. But they traded him for pieces that help you.
Speaker 2: Right now, Dorian Finney Smith is a super useful player
Speaker 2: if you're trying to win playoff games. Knockdown threes, guard
Speaker 2: the other team's best wing. Makes sense. Spener Dinwiddie limited,
Speaker 2: but can get you buckets. And they only got one
Speaker 2: draft pick out of that, one first round pick. The
Speaker 2: reason you trade Kyrie for that and not for a
Speaker 2: draft pick laden package or a young Blue Chipper is
Speaker 2: because you're like, well, we're rolling with Durant. We're gonna
Speaker 2: see what Durant can do, see if we can maybe
Speaker 2: flip Dinwitty for something additionally.
Speaker 3: But now three days later you trade Durant and you're
Speaker 3: ripping the whole thing down to the studs. So there
Speaker 3: is no consistency.
Speaker 2: In your moves. If you were ripping it down to
Speaker 2: the studs. If that is what you want to do,
Speaker 2: so be it. But if that's what you want to do.
Speaker 3: Then you've got it.
Speaker 2: Then the better trade for Kyrie, honestly, was probably the
Speaker 2: Lakers trade that would have gotten you two first round picks.
Speaker 2: You can maybe argue the Sun trade if you really
Speaker 2: wanted to then be able to flip Chris Paul somewhere
Speaker 2: else and get.
Speaker 3: Picks for that.
Speaker 2: But the Nets, they owe their own draft pick. Here's
Speaker 2: what their draft capital as far as their own draft
Speaker 2: picks are. Twenty three, that's this year. It won't matter.
Speaker 2: Twenty five and twenty seven, the Rockets can swap with them.
Speaker 2: Twenty four and twenty six, they just give their first
Speaker 2: round pick to the Rockets, so for the next five
Speaker 2: seasons it does not behoove them to be terrible. So
Speaker 2: how do you trade Kevin Durant and not get a
Speaker 2: blue chip or back or great draft capital a nick
Speaker 2: They got four first rounders for the Suns. The Suns
Speaker 2: for the entirety of the time that those first round
Speaker 2: picks are conveying, will have Devin Booker. Forget how much
Speaker 2: of the time they have Durant because he is thirty
Speaker 2: four and he's.
Speaker 3: Fickle, he could leave.
Speaker 2: But with eighton, who's a flawed player, but fine and
Speaker 2: Booker locked up long term, those.
Speaker 3: Picks are not going to be great picks.
Speaker 2: So the too long, didn't read version of this is
Speaker 2: I don't think Sean Marx knows what the hell he's doing.
Speaker 2: And this experiment in Brooklyn is one of the most
Speaker 2: just never even got off the ground. You can't even
Speaker 2: call it an era, just utter failures. And now we
Speaker 2: move to what it means for the Suns on paper
Speaker 2: this moment, are they the favorites in the West? Probably?
Speaker 2: On paper right now? Is Durant in a good position
Speaker 2: to win another title?
Speaker 3: Probably?
Speaker 2: Does this, however, raise the stakes for Durant in ways
Speaker 2: that I don't think they have been raised for him
Speaker 2: since Oklahoma City unequivocally.
Speaker 3: And here's what I mean.
Speaker 2: This Sun seemed two years ago, made the finals last year,
Speaker 2: they were the number one seed before Luca knocked him out. Now,
Speaker 2: the way the Suns people will tell you they had
Speaker 2: a COVID outbreak within the team or some other issues
Speaker 2: and that's what happened. But whatever, this is a team
Speaker 2: that has a top fifteen guy in Booker, that has
Speaker 2: Chris Paul, who is at a different place of his career,
Speaker 2: one of the best leaders in the Sport and now
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant, and you add DeAndre Ayden to it. I
Speaker 2: like Monti Williams, the West is wide open. I totally
Speaker 2: understand why Kevin Durant, why the Sons would do this.
Speaker 2: It's a no brainer for them. For Durant, however, he
Speaker 2: is now in a position he was not in in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: Maybe he would have been. But if we go through
Speaker 2: the timeline in Brooklyn, first year out with an achilles,
Speaker 2: second year, they trade for Harden, everyone expects them to win. However,
Speaker 2: then Harden gets hurt, Kyrie gets hurt. Durant gets knocked
Speaker 2: out in round two and got credit for that. People
Speaker 2: loved what Kevin Durant did in that series against the Bucks.
Speaker 2: I was one of them. I thought Game five against
Speaker 2: the Bucks two years ago was the single best performance
Speaker 2: of Kevin Durant's career. And then Game seven, he goes
Speaker 2: toe to toe with Giannis, toe to toe, literally toe
Speaker 2: on the line.
Speaker 3: They don't win the game.
Speaker 2: Last year, they get dog walked in round one, but
Speaker 2: not a lot of smoke for Durant. Yeah, he didn't
Speaker 2: play well in that series, but everyone understandably was putting
Speaker 2: all the blame on Kyrie, because Kyrie blew the team
Speaker 2: up this year. This team was eighteen and three over
Speaker 2: a twenty one game stretch, then Kyrie blew the team
Speaker 2: up again. If Katie had just stood Pat, he was
Speaker 2: in a position.
Speaker 3: With some good defenders, some good shooters.
Speaker 2: If he can go Pantheon for a playoff run, like
Speaker 2: we know he can, but we've never seen him do
Speaker 2: without Steph Curry alongside him, without being the massive favorite
Speaker 2: he could have to me added a notch in his
Speaker 2: legacy belt. Now he's in a position where anything short
Speaker 2: of winning the championship, people are gonna come for him.
Speaker 2: Maybe don't care, maybe they'll win the title. But and
Speaker 2: if they do, you know what, if Chris Paul gets
Speaker 2: a championship, I think everyone's gonna be happy to a agree,
Speaker 2: except for the half dozen people he's elbowed or punched
Speaker 2: in the growing throughout his career. So those people will
Speaker 2: be angry. Julius Hodge holds that meeting every first Tuesday
Speaker 2: of every month, the Chris Paul Haters Club.
Speaker 3: It's a rapidly expanding group.
Speaker 2: But uh, it's an odd It's an odd spot for
Speaker 2: Durant basketball wise.
Speaker 3: I like the fit.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why they And last thing point on this,
Speaker 2: you cannot convince me the Nets couldn't have gotten a bigger,
Speaker 2: a better return if they had traded him this past
Speaker 2: summer or next summer. I don't understand how they didn't
Speaker 2: get a better return. Right now, you're telling me New Orleans,
Speaker 2: which has way more valuable draft picks than Phoenix. They
Speaker 2: have two Laker picks they can do things with. They
Speaker 2: have all types of picks. You're telling me New Orleans
Speaker 2: wouldn't have given you brandon ingram and a peace or
Speaker 2: two plus a bunch of picks for Kevin Durant and said,
Speaker 2: when Zion gets healthy, we have Durant Zion.
Speaker 3: CJ. McCollum. I don't understand how this is the best
Speaker 3: move the Suns could have made.
Speaker 2: Now we move on to the greatest basketball player anyone's
Speaker 2: ever seen and the scoring title and the Russell Westbrook trade.
Speaker 3: Okay, so.
Speaker 2: Lebron breaking the scoring record, it's we've talked about it
Speaker 2: on this show, I talked about on the TV show.
Speaker 2: And we're live out here at the super Bowl. What's
Speaker 2: right with the great presented by our friends at Visa.
Speaker 2: So I don't we don't have to belabor the scoring
Speaker 2: record point too much. However, I do just want to
Speaker 2: give some context to it, which is, will this record
Speaker 2: ever be broken? So here's all you need to know.
Speaker 2: No one in league history has ever averaged more than
Speaker 2: thirty points a game. It's Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain
Speaker 2: to the guys to average thirty. So let's just say
Speaker 2: someone comes into the league and can score like Jordan
Speaker 2: thirty a game. And let's also recognize that Lebron is
Speaker 2: not done scoring. He's at thirty eight thousand and change, right,
Speaker 2: So let's say, just for simple math, here he plays
Speaker 2: a couple more years and finishes at forty two thousand.
Speaker 2: Even so at thirty points a game, how many games
Speaker 2: do you need to play to get to forty two
Speaker 2: thousand points? That's easy math. Forty two thousand and five.
Speaker 2: By thirty, we're at fourteen hundred games. What's that mean? Well,
Speaker 2: if you played for twenty years and average seventy games
Speaker 2: a year and average thirty points a game for your career,
Speaker 2: that is forty two thousand points. And I understand some
Speaker 2: people say, oh, well people score more now, yeah, but
Speaker 2: they also play they play fewer games. So I say
Speaker 2: all that to say this, this record ain't being broken
Speaker 2: while I'm alive, And oh, Nick could like, what about
Speaker 2: current players?
Speaker 3: How close is Steph? Context?
Speaker 2: Take all of Steph's career points, add to it all
Speaker 2: of Damian Lillard's career points, and you barely pass Lebron.
Speaker 2: What about Luca? What would Luca have to do? All
Speaker 2: Luca would have to do to break this record is
Speaker 2: play fourteen more years and average thirty a game, playing
Speaker 2: seventy two games a year. He's never played seventy two.
Speaker 2: What about Giannis? Jiannis needs twelve more years of thirty points? Again,
Speaker 2: what about Durant? Durant needs six more full seasons at
Speaker 2: thirty points a game. So no active player is going
Speaker 2: to come within snipping distance of it. And I don't
Speaker 2: think this record's going to be broken. And it really
Speaker 2: is going to put the Jordan acolytes in a logical
Speaker 2: vice when you break down the fact, well, who was
Speaker 2: better younger?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: When Lebron was twenty one, he finished second in league
Speaker 2: MVP voting. Michael Jordan at that age was getting bounced
Speaker 2: in the sweet sixteen. When Lebron was twenty two, he
Speaker 2: was taking Sasha Pavlovitch to the NBA finals. Jordan was
Speaker 2: getting beaten round one by Sidney Moncreek. Well, when Lebron
Speaker 2: was in his late thirties, he was averaging thirty a
Speaker 2: game for a sub five hundred team. Jordan was averaging
Speaker 2: twenty a game for a sub five hundred team. Well,
Speaker 2: what about the peaks of their career. Well, Lebron had
Speaker 2: a ten year stretch where he went to nine finals,
Speaker 2: won four rings. Jordan, Yes, he won six in an
Speaker 2: eight year stretch. Lebron in those finals beat a top
Speaker 2: fifteen all time player in Tim Duncan, beat a top
Speaker 2: fifteen all time player in Steph Curry, beat a top
Speaker 2: fifteen all time player in Kevin Durant. Jordan in those
Speaker 2: finals beat one top twenty all time player in Magic Johnson.
Speaker 2: When Magic Johnson was he was still great, but not
Speaker 2: at the peak of his powers. There we are running
Speaker 2: out of excuses as to why the guy who played
Speaker 2: the longest at the highest level against the toughest competition,
Speaker 2: with the most media scrutiny with doing everything just right.
Speaker 2: And one other note here, Well, what about what the
Speaker 2: help he had? The teammate who played the most games
Speaker 2: ever with Michael Jordan was Scottie Pippen. The teammate who
Speaker 2: played the most games ever with Lebron James is a
Speaker 2: drunasogowskis Second place, by the way is Anderson Bereja. The
Speaker 2: coach Michael Jordan played under the most games was Phil Jackson.
Speaker 2: The coach Lebron James played under the most games is
Speaker 2: Mike Brown. And so I'm gonna go ahead and say
Speaker 2: that the guy who's gonna finish with ten thousand more
Speaker 2: career points than Jordan when the only argument for Jordan
Speaker 2: is he was a better scorer. And when you ask
Speaker 2: people to explain that, they start saying things like you
Speaker 2: had to be there and just trust me. This Lebron
Speaker 2: Jordan debate is going to look like a foolish one,
Speaker 2: which then brings us to the context in which he
Speaker 2: broke the record, which was his teammates not being bothered
Speaker 2: to try, which is why the Lakers had to make
Speaker 2: the move that they made yesterday trading Russ. And I
Speaker 2: do like the pieces they got back, I also think
Speaker 2: they have another move to make. So here's a nuance
Speaker 2: of the trade. The first round pick they traded is
Speaker 2: top four protected that there is. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 2: get real nerdy here for a moment. There is usually
Speaker 2: a detriment to protecting your draft picks, which is it
Speaker 2: encumbers the future picks you can trade, so you're not
Speaker 2: allowed to trade back to back picks in the in
Speaker 2: the NBA, So if you have if you trade your
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven pick, you can't trade your twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight pick. You can't trade another pick to your twenty
Speaker 2: twenty nine pick. With that said, if you protect that
Speaker 2: pick and then it's like top four protected, and in
Speaker 2: the next year it's unprotected, you then the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight pick becomes encumbered because it theoretically could be the
Speaker 2: pick you trade, which then means you can't trade the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine It gets complicated. I know that's probably
Speaker 2: not that interesting, but this is what matters. The Lakers
Speaker 2: protected the twenty twenty seven pick one through four. If
Speaker 2: it ends up falling one through four, it just turns
Speaker 2: into a second round pick. That matters because it means
Speaker 2: they can still this moment cleanly trade the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: nine first round pick, and by three pm today I
Speaker 2: think it's on the board. They will have traded Patrick
Speaker 2: Beverley for Boyan Bogdanovitch, including that twenty twenty nine first
Speaker 2: round pick. You do that, and you're cooking with gas
Speaker 2: if you're the Lakers, if you figure out what's going
Speaker 2: on with Anthony Davis. Because the other odd thing about
Speaker 2: that record was every single person in that arena was
Speaker 2: standing except for ad. He seemed disengaged and disinterested. I
Speaker 2: have a theory this is backed up by no reporting
Speaker 2: is back I am personally reporting this based on vibes.
Speaker 2: I think Anthony Davis got wind that when the Lakers
Speaker 2: were calling about Kyrie, they also said, all right, just
Speaker 2: curious you move in Durant. Anthony Davis for Durant. Any
Speaker 2: interest there I think he got. I think he got winned.
Speaker 2: His name was in trade rumors and he detached from
Speaker 2: the team on that night. If Anthony Davis reconnects with
Speaker 2: the level Lebron's playing at and now some legitimate shooting, listen,
Speaker 2: I don't love D'Angelo Russell. I do like Malik Beasley,
Speaker 2: and we'll see if they make another move. The Lakers
Speaker 2: could be interesting championship level, probably not, but interesting. So
Speaker 2: I don't I said on TV yesterday that if the
Speaker 2: Lakers make no moves, Lebron should never play another game
Speaker 2: for them.
Speaker 3: He broke the record with them, he brought them a championship.
Speaker 3: He did his job.
Speaker 2: The Lakers are now at least attempting to feel a
Speaker 2: competitive roster. There's only twenty seven games left, though it's unbelievable,
Speaker 2: only twenty seven games left. If we think you got
Speaker 2: to be five hundred to make the play in they're
Speaker 2: twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 3: Do they have a sixteen and eleven stretching them?
Speaker 2: We'll find out now as we do what's right with
Speaker 2: Nick Great presented by Visa, we get to the stadium
Speaker 2: behind me and the reason we're.
Speaker 3: Here, which is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So what our wonderful producers at Blue Duck here have said,
Speaker 2: we should talk about his legacies? They right, The legacies
Speaker 2: of the Chiefs, coach and quarterback Combo will change this weekend.
Speaker 2: Who has more to gain? Who has more to lose?
Speaker 2: Between Mahomes and Reed? All right, let me talk about
Speaker 2: this more to lose nonsense, And this is so much
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry to once again bring a basketball, but
Speaker 2: so much of how the modern sports fan consumes content
Speaker 2: is actually some It is media reverse engineering to explain
Speaker 2: the endpoint of the story being Michael Jordan's the greatest
Speaker 2: athlete ever.
Speaker 3: So what do I mean? What I mean is.
Speaker 2: Folks decided ten to fifteen years ago in ways that
Speaker 2: never stand up to even the smallest logical push that
Speaker 2: losing in the playoffs is fine unless you get all
Speaker 2: the way to the final game of the season and
Speaker 2: lose that one, in which case you stink it was
Speaker 2: a failure.
Speaker 3: And that is the context with which we could talk.
Speaker 2: About Mahomes or Andy Reid's legacy taking a hit.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: The reason that is an absurdity is because had Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes in a game, he was an underdog at home.
Speaker 2: Had Patrick Mahomes, they actually went off as a slight
Speaker 2: favor But they are under most of the week on
Speaker 2: one leg lost to the Bengals last year. Last week,
Speaker 2: no one would be saying his legacy took a hit
Speaker 2: because you're allowed to lose pre Super Bowl or pre
Speaker 2: NBA finals and nobody cares.
Speaker 3: But it's idiotic. It makes no sense.
Speaker 2: It should always be good to win, and you should
Speaker 2: never get credit for losing earlier.
Speaker 3: And because around along.
Speaker 2: That same logic, Mahomes has had one playoff melt down
Speaker 2: his entire career, the AFC Championship game last season, and
Speaker 2: nobody kills him for it. And it makes no sense
Speaker 2: because what I know is had Mahomes not had that meltdown,
Speaker 2: played well in that game and then lost the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: all we'd be hearing this week is ah the guys
Speaker 2: wanted to do in Super Bowls And it.
Speaker 3: Doesn't. It makes no sense on any level.
Speaker 2: But that's where this is coming from, right, So, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: what he has to lose is I would argue nothing.
Speaker 2: And similarly with Andy Reid, these are both made men
Speaker 2: and they're playing an excellent team overall team. And Mahomes
Speaker 2: already has elevated himself to a place faster than any
Speaker 2: athlete I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: And the place is this.
Speaker 2: He has not started five full seasons yet, and he
Speaker 2: already is in a spot where his only competition or
Speaker 2: ghosts and legends, nobody can have the Mahomes versus Allen
Speaker 2: or Burrow or Trevor or Herbert or Hurts conversations. All
Speaker 2: the only people he's competing with are Tom Brady, Peyton Manning,
Speaker 2: Joe Montana. Now that eventually, like so For Lebron, that
Speaker 2: eventually happened, but first it was Lebron versus Kobe, Then
Speaker 2: it was Lebron versus Durant, then Lebron versus Steph and
Speaker 2: only sixteen years into his career did it become Lebron
Speaker 2: versus Ghosts.
Speaker 3: For Tom Brady, for.
Speaker 2: Twelve years it was Brady versus Manning, and then eventually
Speaker 2: it became fifteen years Brady versus Ghosts, and then then
Speaker 2: it became Brady versus No.
Speaker 3: One. Mahomes already has elevated himself to that place.
Speaker 2: If he wins, you can make a very strong argument
Speaker 2: he's the second greatest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 3: There is no argument that he is not top four
Speaker 3: all time. If he wins.
Speaker 2: The full list of quarterbacks in NFL history that have
Speaker 2: two Super Bowls and two League MVPs, Tom Brady, Joe Montana,
Speaker 2: Peyton Manning with a when Mahomes joins it. The full
Speaker 2: list of quarterbacks in NFL history that have two Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: two Super Bowl MVPs, and two League MVPs.
Speaker 3: Joe Montana, Tom Brady. That's the list.
Speaker 2: Mahomes can join that group. For Andy, it is a
Speaker 2: very interesting spot. So the the Andy reid resume is
Speaker 2: I think far better than people think. So. Andy Reid
Speaker 2: right now is fifth on the all time wins list.
Speaker 2: Next year he will become fourth. He is three behind
Speaker 2: Tom Landry. Tom Landry's at two fifty, Belichicks at two
Speaker 2: ninety eight, George Hallis three eighteen, Don Schulett three twenty eight.
Speaker 2: All time playoff wins, Andy Reid has the second most
Speaker 2: of all time. Andy Reid has been to let me
Speaker 2: count him off, one, two, three, four five.
Speaker 3: He has been to ten conference championship games.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid has been to the playoffs eighteen times.
Speaker 3: He has been to the Super Bowl four times.
Speaker 2: If he wins, you start having the discussion is he
Speaker 2: a top five coach?
Speaker 3: Ever?
Speaker 2: I would argue he already is a top ten coach. Ever,
Speaker 2: but he starts getting in the true upper crest with
Speaker 2: a victory, and if he loses it, I'm absolutely not
Speaker 2: gonna be someone that kills a guy who all all
Speaker 2: he has done is have average to slightly above average
Speaker 2: quarterbacks for the entirety of his career and had them
Speaker 2: have career years and then finally got a great quarterback
Speaker 2: and they host the AFC Championship Game every single year
Speaker 2: and make the Super Bowl sixty percent of the time.
Speaker 2: All right. Lastly, the other side of this game, the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles is what my producer's right here. Philly's been
Speaker 2: the one seed all year in their favorite Sunday, Yet
Speaker 2: they keep saying they're being disrespected. As a believer in
Speaker 2: bulletin board material, does this scare you? The thing is
Speaker 2: they're not being disrespected by the Chiefs, by the media,
Speaker 2: maybe by me, sure, but neither of these teams for
Speaker 2: this game can effectively play.
Speaker 3: The No one believes in us car.
Speaker 2: The reason people have some yab butts about the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Are totally legitimate.
Speaker 2: Yes, they have a dominant pass rush and their defensive
Speaker 2: numbers look great. They also have played one of the
Speaker 2: worst collections of quarterbacks you'll ever see. And when you
Speaker 2: look at the only quality, true quality quarterbacks they have
Speaker 2: played all year, you say Dak you say Rogers, you
Speaker 2: say the Prince that was promised, you say Jared Goff.
Speaker 2: Every single one of those quarterbacks, aside from the Prince
Speaker 2: that was promised, scored at least thirty three points on Philly.
Speaker 2: Prince that was promised started that game up fourteen to nothing.
Speaker 2: There was then a torrential downpour and he started just
Speaker 2: fumbling the ball. I mean, he had five turnovers in
Speaker 2: that game. They still scored twenty one the Eagles. Since
Speaker 2: let me get the exact date on this, since Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: Here the entire list of quarterbacks that they have faced,
Speaker 2: Andy Dalton, Davis Webb, Daniel Jones, and then the Brock Purty,
Speaker 2: Josh Johnson, combo. So you take that, you then also
Speaker 2: take the fact that while everyone likes Jalen Hurts, he
Speaker 2: has not been the same player since he hurt his shoulder.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts was having an unbelievable season and then in
Speaker 2: the Bears game, he hurt his shoulder. Since then, he
Speaker 2: threw two hundred and twenty nine yards, zero touchdowns, one
Speaker 2: pick against the Giants backups. He threw one fifty four
Speaker 2: against the Giants in the playoff game and ran the
Speaker 2: and threw for one twenty one against the Niners, forty
Speaker 2: yards of which were on an incompletion. He has in
Speaker 2: the three games since he hurt his shoulder run the
Speaker 2: ball for a total of eighty six yards on twenty
Speaker 2: nine carries. He has not been the same guy. And
Speaker 2: you can say, well, the Eagles offense hasn't struggled, and
Speaker 2: if you look at points scored, that's true. But in
Speaker 2: that Niner game, they didn't have two hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: yards of offense. It was the Niners fumbling the ball,
Speaker 2: it was defensive penalties extending drives. It was the Niners
Speaker 2: eventually having all motivations sapped because they were running the
Speaker 2: veer and the winging t offense. So if Jalen hurts,
Speaker 2: he doesn't even have to play Mahomes to a draw.
Speaker 2: If he can play Mahomes to ten nine rounds instead
Speaker 2: of ten eight rounds, the Eagles should win the game.
Speaker 2: I do not think he can, and I think the
Speaker 2: Kansaity Chiefs win this game. Now, the producers want me
Speaker 2: to give you a score prediction. I'm not ready to
Speaker 2: do that yet. What I will tell you is this,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have either won or lost by four or
Speaker 2: fewer points for thirty two games in a row. Blowing
Speaker 2: this team out is not available. You add to it
Speaker 2: that the Chiefs have played far tougher competition to get here,
Speaker 2: and that they are healthier right now than they have
Speaker 2: been at any point all year. McCole Hardman being out
Speaker 2: for this game, notwithstanding he was out for the last.
Speaker 3: Three months of the regular season.
Speaker 2: There is a script where the Kansaity Chiefs start this
Speaker 2: game out fourteen to nothing and the Eagles are in real,
Speaker 2: real trouble. There's also a script for the Eagles keep
Speaker 2: it close. The keeping it close part. However, the Chiefs
Speaker 2: have played a bunch of four quarter nip and tuck
Speaker 2: games all year, including both of their playoff games.
Speaker 3: The Eagles have not. I don't know they're ready for it.
Speaker 2: Sirianni's first Super Bowl, Jalen Hurts his first Super Bowl
Speaker 2: versus Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. Give me the Chiefs
Speaker 2: and give me the beginnings of a dynasty, and by
Speaker 2: the beginnings of I mean were full on into it.
Speaker 2: Five years the worst you ever did if they win
Speaker 2: on Sunday. The worst season they had under Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: would have been his first season as a starter, hosting
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship Game and losing in overtime. The second
Speaker 2: worst season would have been last year, hosting the AFC
Speaker 2: Championship Game and losing in overtime. Patrick Mahomes has lost
Speaker 2: three playoff games, ever, two of them were overtime. Field
Speaker 2: goals in the AFC title game, and one was a
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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Episode one twenty eight. What's Right with
Speaker 2: the Right Live from the Super Bowl. Today's show presented
Speaker 2: by Visa. And you know what, thanks to our friends
Speaker 2: and Visa, we have a brand new segment called Change Makers.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl Change Makers. Let's talk change makers in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Everyone's right rightfully focused on Mahomes verse Hearts.
Speaker 2: But the game, of course, is gonna be a little
Speaker 2: bigger than that. The question I'm being asked is outside
Speaker 2: of the quarterbacks, who will be the biggest change.
Speaker 3: Maker in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So I think folks would expect me to say Travis
Speaker 2: kelce Travis Kelcey, who comes into this game with the
Speaker 2: second most yards, second most touchdowns, and second most catches
Speaker 2: in playoff history, not amongst tight ends, amongst all players, Travis.
Speaker 2: It is Jerry Rice number one on every list, Travis
Speaker 2: Kelcey number two on every list.
Speaker 3: One list. Travis Kelcey actually is number one on is.
Speaker 2: Playoff yards per game as a receiver all time leader,
Speaker 2: But he is not my answer. It is someone else
Speaker 2: who is top three all time historically in the playoffs,
Speaker 2: who plays for the Chiefs. So who could I be
Speaker 2: talking about? Because you guys said other than the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Would you believe me if I told you all time
Speaker 2: NFL history playoff sack leaders list goes like this. Number
Speaker 2: one Willie McGinnis at sixteen, Number two Bruce Smith at
Speaker 2: fourteen and a half.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna skip.
Speaker 2: Three for a moment. Number four is Drell Suggs at
Speaker 2: twelve and a half. Number five is Reggie White at twelve.
Speaker 2: Number three with thirteen and a half career playoff sacks,
Speaker 2: one sack out of second place and two and a
Speaker 2: half sacks out of the most all time is Frank Clark,
Speaker 2: Chiefs defensive end. One of the first major acquisitions Brett
Speaker 2: Beach Chiefs GM made trading a first round pick for
Speaker 2: Frank Clark. If we're being honest, Frank has been underwhelming
Speaker 2: in every regular season of his career with the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: and then has turned into a different player each and
Speaker 2: every postseason. Frank Clark the year the Chiefs won the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl had five se that run. The next year
Speaker 2: when they made the Super Bowl, he had three, and
Speaker 2: this year he already.
Speaker 3: Has two and a half.
Speaker 2: Whether it's on Lane Johnson side who's dealing with a
Speaker 2: torn groin, or whether it's on the other side, left tackle,
Speaker 2: I think Frank Clark is going to make a splash
Speaker 2: play in this game or two. I think Frank Clark
Speaker 2: is going to move into second place on the all
Speaker 2: time playoff sack list, And I think wild Everyone is
Speaker 2: focused on Chris Jones, who arguably was the best defensive
Speaker 2: player in the entire league this year. Frank Clark could
Speaker 2: make a big player two. So I'm gonna say he's
Speaker 2: our change maker, presented by our friends at Visa time.
Speaker 2: Now for a game we call it right or Wrong,
Speaker 2: Vegas has Jalen Hurds his rushing total at forty eight
Speaker 2: and a half. Right or wrong, Hurts will be a
Speaker 2: more lethal runner than passer in this game.
Speaker 3: I think that is right.
Speaker 2: I think that the Chiefs, while they have listen, they've
Speaker 2: played Josh Allen, They've played Joe Burrow twice. They have
Speaker 2: a lot of experience against good quarterbacks. They played the Prince.
Speaker 2: They don't have a ton of experience against the league's
Speaker 2: most mobile quarterbacks. And I'm very interested this year. That is,
Speaker 2: I'm very interested to see how they do on the
Speaker 2: Reid option. I'm very interested to see how they defend it.
Speaker 2: I just mentioned Frank Clark if he keeps his lain integrity,
Speaker 2: if you will, and I think Jalen's going to struggle
Speaker 2: throwing the football. So I am more worried about Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts as a runner, particularly in that third and one
Speaker 2: and fourth and one where they've kind of hacked the
Speaker 2: system on how to get those.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say that is right.
Speaker 2: Next report surface this week than in twenty eleven, during
Speaker 2: the NBA's lockout, Lebron considered trying out for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Right or wrong, Lebron would have been an all pro
Speaker 2: all right, Demanse Mike, And by the way, I am
Speaker 2: now learning a lot of people who watch this show,
Speaker 2: some of whom work for the company, are unaware that
Speaker 2: Demonse's my son. And I said to two people in
Speaker 2: the last week host the podcast with my son and
Speaker 2: it's people that watch the show, and said, that's your kid.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you thought he got the gig based
Speaker 2: on No, I'm kidding, Demonse, You've done a great job.
Speaker 2: And I know he's in the chat, and I also
Speaker 2: know he's gonna kill me for this take here. But
Speaker 2: of course Lebron would have been an unstoppable tight end.
Speaker 2: The guy is the greatest athletic specimen the world has
Speaker 2: ever produced. Yeah, I think he could have been an
Speaker 2: all pro tight end for the Cowboys. Jimmy Graham was
Speaker 2: an all pro. Of course Lebron could have been. That's
Speaker 2: not even worth debating. Next Trey talks from Derek Carr
Speaker 2: begun right or wrong, the Saint to the right match
Speaker 2: for Derek Carr wrong. I the Saints need to admit
Speaker 2: that it is time to tear it down. I don't
Speaker 2: think people because the Saints keep putting it no pun
Speaker 2: intended for our friends at Visa, putting it all on
Speaker 2: the credit card. I want people to understand something here. Okay,
Speaker 2: the Saints at this moment are sixty two million dollars
Speaker 2: over next year's salary cap. They are incomprehensibly fifty seven
Speaker 2: million over the following year's salary cap. So and I
Speaker 2: know that they're just gonna keep doing these funny contracts
Speaker 2: with void years and dead money. But eventually that shell
Speaker 2: game ends, and so they are. They are in a position,
Speaker 2: dead money wise, setting themselves up for pain we've never seen.
Speaker 2: I understood them doing it when Drew was there and
Speaker 2: they were like, let's try to peel one.
Speaker 3: More super Bowl.
Speaker 2: But it's now over for them and they need to
Speaker 2: take their medicine and tear it down.
Speaker 3: They refuse to do it.
Speaker 2: I think it would be not wishful thinking, it would
Speaker 2: be delusional thinking to act as if bringing in Derek
Speaker 2: Carr is going to make you a real contender. It's
Speaker 2: just gonna avoid the inevitable reality. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: a team that traded away this year's first round pick
Speaker 2: because they thought they were close.
Speaker 3: They're not close. Next, people are excited for this year's
Speaker 3: halftime show.
Speaker 2: Damn straight, right or wrong, Rihanna is the best possible
Speaker 2: halftime performer in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: You know what I am. I am not going listen.
Speaker 2: I think Rihanna is brilliant performer and somehow an even
Speaker 2: more brilliant business woman. With that said, this question, I'm
Speaker 2: too smart to answer this question.
Speaker 3: This question is just setting me up for failure.
Speaker 2: No matter what is, I'm either gonna insult Beyonce or
Speaker 2: the late Great Prince or get people mad. And I
Speaker 2: don't need rihanna fans upset with me. I you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Steven a walk so other of us
Speaker 2: can run. I'm not falling into that trap.
Speaker 3: You guys.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited for Rihanna. I think it's gonna be great.
Speaker 2: She hasn't performed in like a decade. It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 2: I'm not answering that question. Next, everybody knows I'm not
Speaker 2: big on fancy football, and I don't like what we
Speaker 2: would call non traditional gamble, right or wrong?
Speaker 3: I hate Super Bowl squares. No, you nailed it, guys.
Speaker 2: Can can I know it's the Super Bowl, but can
Speaker 2: we still gamble with some dignity? Can we please be
Speaker 2: grown ups? You want to go, just have random? If
Speaker 2: a random square hits, win money. Every city in America's
Speaker 2: got a bingo parlor.
Speaker 3: Go there.
Speaker 2: This is the And I wish demons were here because
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm guessing he doesn't even isn't familiar with squares,
Speaker 2: but once he becomes familiar with it, he's gonna love it.
Speaker 2: And you have four chances to win the quarters, the half,
Speaker 2: the end of the game. There is no skill to
Speaker 2: it whatsoever. No, I'm not into super Bowl squares. I'm
Speaker 2: not into gimmicky gambling. Same reason I I'm not into
Speaker 2: I know, bet the games, study the games, make educated guesses,
Speaker 2: put your money in, don't hedge. These are all things
Speaker 2: just like you know what, people say we need to
Speaker 2: remake the educational system in America, and I agree with them,
Speaker 2: like spending time like teaching our kids cursive when we
Speaker 2: should be teaching them like how to type spending time.
Speaker 2: There are certain things. It's like you graduate from high
Speaker 2: school and you have the periodic table memorized, but you
Speaker 2: don't know how you know how to balance it. Well,
Speaker 2: I guess bouncing a check book is kind of archaic
Speaker 2: at this time as well. But you don't know how
Speaker 2: to apply for an apartment or a car loan and
Speaker 2: things like that. And I'm sure, by the way, our
Speaker 2: friends of visa can probably help you with all those things.
Speaker 3: But uh, but.
Speaker 2: I would like now the gambling is legal and in
Speaker 2: the mainstream, there to be, you know, an entry level
Speaker 2: optional course at colleges of how to gamble with some
Speaker 2: dignity and self respect and how to and how to
Speaker 2: do it properly, responsibly and not sound like a child
Speaker 2: demands types in I don't know what they are indeed yet.
Speaker 2: The shortthand of Super Bowl squares is this. You have
Speaker 2: a grid of zero to nine, zero to nine, so
Speaker 2: one hundred possible outcomes, and you randomly get assigned and
Speaker 2: so the X access would be the Chiefs, the Y
Speaker 2: access would be the Eagles. And let's say the square
Speaker 2: you get is four six in the it's a four
Speaker 2: for the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: And a six for the Eagles. That'd kind of be
Speaker 3: a bad square.
Speaker 2: But if any quarter ends where the single digit number
Speaker 2: for either team's score hits both of yours, you win
Speaker 2: the pot for that quarter. So if you had four
Speaker 2: Chiefs six Eagles, your possible outcomes would be a fourteen
Speaker 2: to six Chiefs lead, fourteen to sixteen Eagles lead. So obviously,
Speaker 2: on squares, the most valuable spots of the zeros, the threes,
Speaker 2: the sevens, and the fours, what you don't want is
Speaker 2: a nine to five square.
Speaker 3: You just rip your square off. What are you gonna
Speaker 3: do with that? It was gonna get.
Speaker 2: A nineteen or a nine to fifteen game. No, But again,
Speaker 2: I can play scratch off tickets too.
Speaker 3: I'm not into it.
Speaker 2: Last, Demanse has unmonitored access to Fox Bet back in
Speaker 2: New York while I'm here, right or wrong, Demanse's gonna
Speaker 2: bet ridiculous props without me stopping him. Demanse has been,
Speaker 2: with one exception, a responsible gambler. Now he's not been
Speaker 2: a winning gambler, but he has been a responsible gambler.
Speaker 2: And I you know, I am not going to this
Speaker 2: game because I can't watch the Super Bowl that my
Speaker 2: team's in around other people. I can watch it with
Speaker 2: Demn's at my house by ourselves. I get back to
Speaker 2: New York about one pm Sunday.
Speaker 3: Son.
Speaker 2: That gives us five hours to study these props and
Speaker 2: do them correctly. So I hope you can hold off
Speaker 2: until I get there. But I think he's gonna He's
Speaker 2: been good on this, he's been relatively speaking. You know,
Speaker 2: my dad, my dad was from Kansas City and was
Speaker 2: in New York this past weekend for my niece's birthday.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Pops, I got three kids, don't
Speaker 2: you know they all have birthdays too.
Speaker 3: Oh, but your favorite child, your daughter's kid has birthday.
Speaker 3: You gotta come to down, sorry.
Speaker 2: Dad, And he and I went out to dinner, and
Speaker 2: he tried to give me like a stern talking to
Speaker 2: about my gambling.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'm worried about it. My Dad, stop it.
Speaker 2: And eventually I was like, Pops, it's in our blood.
Speaker 2: And he had the audacity to look me in mind
Speaker 2: and say, what are you talking about? And sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: now it's past statute of limitations.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 2: You're seventy years old. You're fine, lived a great life,
Speaker 2: wonderful career. No one, come get you for it, Like dad,
Speaker 2: we both know you used to make your living as
Speaker 2: a gambler. We know that when you and my mom
Speaker 2: got married, she made you quick. And you're like sheepishly
Speaker 2: and he's like, how do you know that? I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, because I'm as I'm cotton it. So
Speaker 2: it's in our blood, it's into Wanta's blood. You just
Speaker 2: gotta do it responsibly. I'm not gonna tell him not
Speaker 2: to gamble. His mom might I'm not.
Speaker 3: All right. Here's the deal. I'm now gonna jump into
Speaker 3: the chat.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a very quick break here, guys, technically,
Speaker 2: if we can do it, let's try to do a
Speaker 2: sixty second break and come back and read your guys
Speaker 2: questions for the people in the YouTube chat, and then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna head right over to that building right behind
Speaker 2: me to do the television show quick break, right back,
Speaker 2: What's Right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Welcome back in episode one twenty eight, What's Right with
Speaker 2: Nick Wright? What's Right with Nick Wright? Episode one twenty eight,
Speaker 2: presented by our friends at Visa Live from the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: We now jump into the YouTube comments to read your
Speaker 2: guys comments and questions. Omayer Klein from Tel Aviv rites
Speaker 2: in when winning the title would probably be semi impressive
Speaker 2: at best. Can a failure with the Sun's hurt Katie's
Speaker 2: legacy guy says he's the number one fan in the
Speaker 2: Middle East. So, first of all, om Er, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for watching from Tel Aviv.
Speaker 3: My mom used to actually.
Speaker 2: Work with a company, a telecom company that was based
Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv, so she spent one week a month
Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv for a few years. I've never been,
Speaker 2: I hear it's absolutely a gorgeous, gorgeous city. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: watching from there. So yeah, I think the Anti just
Speaker 2: got upped massively for Durant because if while they absolutely
Speaker 2: can win the title, they also absolutely can get bounced
Speaker 2: in round two depending on the matchups, and I think
Speaker 2: that would be He was in a bit of a
Speaker 2: legacy free role in Brooklyn. Once Kyrie asked out, he
Speaker 2: would get credit for however far he took him, and
Speaker 2: if they lost early, they'd say, well, what do you
Speaker 2: want from me? He's the only start on the team.
Speaker 2: Now the Antie's been up. But what I will say
Speaker 2: about Durant is, I mean, the dude just loves playing ball.
Speaker 2: And is obviously great now, the health he and so
Speaker 2: Booker's already been hurt this year, Durant is repeatedly hurt
Speaker 2: over the last few years, and obviously Chris Paul's a
Speaker 2: major health concern. So all those things are concerning to me,
Speaker 2: and that is I just want to make one point
Speaker 2: real quick.
Speaker 3: So the one of the.
Speaker 2: Things I hear about, you know, whether or not the
Speaker 2: Lakers should have gone all in, whether or not the
Speaker 2: Lakers can win, you know, compete with Lebron at this
Speaker 2: point in his career at the championship level, is I
Speaker 2: hear all the time? Well, the injury concern. There are
Speaker 2: three all time legendary players right now in the NBA
Speaker 2: who are older, Steph Durrant and Lebron, and Lebron is
Speaker 2: obviously far older, four years older than all of them.
Speaker 2: Yet despite that, Durant, I'm sorry, Lebron is consistently, even
Speaker 2: at the most injured portion of his.
Speaker 3: Career, healthier than all of them.
Speaker 2: This year, Lebron has played forty four games, Durant has
Speaker 2: played thirty nine, and Steph has played thirty eight. All right, well,
Speaker 2: what about just take Lebron suffered his first significant injury
Speaker 2: of his career when he got to the Lakers. That's
Speaker 2: the last five years. In the last five years, Lebron
Speaker 2: has played two hundred and sixty seven games. Steph Curry
Speaker 2: in that same timeline has played two hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: nine games. Kevin Durant in that same timeline has played
Speaker 2: two hundred and seven games. Oh well, Nick, that's unfair
Speaker 2: because Durant missed the whole season.
Speaker 3: Okay, in just the.
Speaker 2: Last three years, just the last three years, Durant has
Speaker 2: played one hundred and twenty nine games, And in just
Speaker 2: the last three years, Lebron has played one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five games.
Speaker 3: And in just the last.
Speaker 2: Three years, Steph Curry has played I think slightly more
Speaker 2: than Lebron, but right in line with it.
Speaker 3: Let me give you the.
Speaker 2: Exact number, one hundred and sixty five games. So, unless
Speaker 2: you're going to argue that Durant and Steph are too
Speaker 2: big of a health risk to try to win right now,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you can argue that with Lebron. Next,
Speaker 2: anders Olsen asks Nick, do you see any of the
Speaker 2: other top contending teams making a roster move now? In
Speaker 2: response to Kadie and Phoenix, well, Memphis needs to make
Speaker 2: a move, Denver's gonna stand pat Milwaukee and Boston could
Speaker 2: make moves around the margins. The one big move that
Speaker 2: could be coming would be Philly. They still have that
Speaker 2: Tobias contract and Maxie.
Speaker 3: If they want to move, if they want to.
Speaker 2: Add a player plus Tobias' contract to try to make
Speaker 2: a major, major move. I don't think that's gonna happen,
Speaker 2: but that would be on the board. But the biggest
Speaker 2: moves probably already got made. Justin Rimpy says Nick is
Speaker 2: a Net season ticket older as the Nets stirring it
Speaker 2: down make.
Speaker 3: You feel listen.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's obviously not great for my viewing pleasure
Speaker 2: of watching the Nets, but one of the great things
Speaker 2: about NBA season tickets is you go there to watch.
Speaker 2: Unless you're a diehard fan of the team you're going to,
Speaker 2: you go there to watch the other players as much
Speaker 2: as anything like Saturday. Obviously, you know it's the day before
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, but Saturday the Sixers are coming to Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Seeing Embiiden Harden will be great. Now.
Speaker 2: The big bummer for me as a next season ticket
Speaker 2: holder is with Durant and Kyrie gone, the best things
Speaker 2: are the playoff games, and now even if they sneak
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, it won't be for long and so
Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean it's not ideal, but I got
Speaker 2: those season tickets, and six days later was when Durant
Speaker 2: demanded a trade this summer, and so there was a
Speaker 2: chance that it was going to be no Durant, no
Speaker 2: Kyrie all year, all right next Thomas pre Day rights
Speaker 2: or Joe Pinfield says, Hey, Nick, if Kareem had gone
Speaker 2: straight from high school to the pros, do you think
Speaker 2: the scoring title would be unbreakable? Absolutely? Absolutely. Kareem was
Speaker 2: the best basketball player alive by the time he was
Speaker 2: nineteen years old. It's why I think he's the second
Speaker 2: greatest player ever. It's why, well, you know what, I
Speaker 2: shouldn't say unbreakable, because I don't know how much longer
Speaker 2: Lebron's gonna play, but it would be, you know, in
Speaker 2: the forties as far as thousands go. And Kareem's basketball
Speaker 2: life lost once in high school, lost twice in college,
Speaker 2: National Player of the Year every year, champion every year,
Speaker 2: six championships, ten finals trips, six league MVPs. His basketball
Speaker 2: life is unimpeachable. Now Times fre Day rights very wrong
Speaker 2: on Lebron. There's so much goes that goes into being
Speaker 2: an NFL caliber player, and we have no idea if
Speaker 2: Lebron possessed those tools, but we do he was an
Speaker 2: all state high school player. Oh, Nick, what does that matter?
Speaker 2: It matters a little bit. We also know a lot
Speaker 2: of the tools are How durable are you well, he's
Speaker 2: been the most durable athlete NBA history. How big and
Speaker 2: strong are you well, he's six eight, two seventy. I listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he'd be an all time great soccer player.
Speaker 2: I do think he'd be a hell of a goalie
Speaker 2: if you taught him that though, the leaping ability length
Speaker 2: like an octopus back there. But no, it's not complicated.
Speaker 2: Some of these guys. You see that there's a lot
Speaker 2: goes into being a great golfer. Yet Steph Curry and
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes are scratch golfers. You know why, they're just
Speaker 2: great natural athletes. Of course, Lebron could have been a
Speaker 2: tight end. Give me a break. Gabe Goodman says, Nope,
Speaker 2: not reading that question, Gabe, trying to get me canceled.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen. Uh, Visa, We appreciate you and
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Speaker 2: we got a monster TV show scheduled for you guys today,
Speaker 2: so ipe you check it out. And I'm gonna little
Speaker 2: little teaser for the TV show. I'm gonna really really
Speaker 2: try to WWE heel style the Eagles fans in the crowd, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what our security setup is, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna push the boundaries on with these Eagles fans since
Speaker 2: we have a live studio audience for a couple of days.
Speaker 2: And one of them attacks me, I'll just throw Kevin
Speaker 2: Wilds in front of him. Talk to you guys on Monday.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the Super Bowl. Go Chief, see you on TV
Speaker 2: in a few hours.
Speaker 3: What's Right