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Very terms 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:40.680 apply All State Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.520 Welcome in episode one thirty six, What's Right with Nick 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.199 Wright the podcast and YouTube show. Like rate Reviews, subscribe, 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.800 you're watching live right now. Today's a very special show. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.760 As if you're a regular viewer listener, you know Demands 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.720 is out for the next little bit of time. He's 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.039 currently in Los Angeles trying to find an apartment for 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.480 his soon move to Los Angeles. So I know many 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.759 of you are wondering who would be sitting in Demon's seat. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.800 We have done the show solo once before. We had 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.880 lo Wayne on the show once before, we had my 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.720 youngest daughter host once and one time ever, my wife, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.320 the owner of the location where we now do the show, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:34.480 trinted to the women's boutique here in Harlem. Danielle Bird, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.039 as the city calls her, hosted the show, and after 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.280 much plotting and pleading, prodding and pleating, I should say 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.920 Danielle has agreed to host once again and the next 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.200 few shows. I don't know if you know this, but 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.880 you are hosting today Thursday and next Thursday. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:55.040 No. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.720 I did not a. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:03.680 Little three show series for your feeling. You were a 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.200 star last time. Everyone. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:05.960 Thank you. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.120 I'm feeling okay. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:09.320 Yeah. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.080 Didn't expect to be here today, Otherwise I would have 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.480 got my lashes done. Oh I don't think the. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.359 Audience is gonna notice nor care. You look wonderful. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:18.839 Thank you. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.000 I've got to say I was, and I'm not gonna 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.359 talk too much family business on the show. We'll get 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.480 right to the sports. But about five six days ago, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.640 when I knew the plane was for you to host, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.160 I was a little worried about how that would go. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 I wish you would have told me six times six 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:41.560 days ago. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.440 Uh, Danielle wasn't the biggest fan of mine, but because 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.880 I am such a wonderful husband, and partner. We have 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.480 since turned things around. We're doing great. Can I get 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.840 a little high five and get the show going? 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:54.799 Let's chill out? 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.560 Okay, all right out, here's what missed the cut for 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:02.520 today's show. Adam Feeling says the Carolina Panthers can win 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.360 the Super Bowl. No, they cannot. Michael Jordan may sell 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.840 the Hornets. Honest question here for in the Jordan Lebron debate, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.359 because I have had to hear people for years when 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.320 I talk Jordan versus Lebron, bring up all well, and 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.280 when you go off the court, look at shoe sales, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.440 look at iconography, look at how big of a cultural 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.520 impact Michael Jordan has had. Is that not demon demonstrate 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.240 that he's the greatest player ever? Okay, so if we're 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.280 gonna incorporate that as a small percentage of the goat debate, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.440 when Lebron ends up owning a team and is not 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.640 an utter failure as an owner for twenty years, the 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.760 way Michael Jordan has been drafting Adam Morrison, drafting Michael Kidd, 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.760 Gilchris number two, having the worst team in the league 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.080 for twenty years, when Lebron's team is actually good, is 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.000 that going to be a check mark in his column 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.640 in the Goat Debate. These are question be people. Thank 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.280 you Arch it should be I agree, Danielle. I agree 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.320 because I'm the one saying it. And uh oh, would 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.520 Lebron be a better owner than MJ. I didn't even 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.360 know that was on there. In my script it says 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.120 that what missed the cut is good Roger Gonnell to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.800 be extended next week. The Lebron thing was there, Okay, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.400 so that's what's not on the show. Even though Lebron 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.560 wasn't in the Jordan thing, we kind of touched on it. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.560 I have a feeling we are kind of starting with 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.040 Lebron even though he's out injured. Danielle the floor as 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:28.800 yours my love. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.320 Hmm, big shocker. We are starting with the Lakers. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.120 Okay, Yeah, they're. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.960 Currently the eleven seed, but you still believe in them? Yeah, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.479 Lebron is still out. What's the best case, the worst case, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.560 or most likely to happen with the Lakers? 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.160 Okay, so quick recap of the last few days for 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:52.120 the Lakers. Friday night was as bad of a loss 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.279 as you can have. They're playing the MAVs. The MAVs 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.239 obviously don't have Luca. It is a wildly important game. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.680 Had they won that game, they would be very well 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.520 positioned for the sixth seed. They have a four point 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.840 lead with seven seconds left. I was watching this actually 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.320 right next to you. You were dead to the world, asleep, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:16.040 and I was watching its fist clenched because this was 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.839 a critical game for the Lakers. They're up four with 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:24.560 eight seconds left and Anthony Davis fowls Maxi Kleva on 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.880 a terrible play. Anthony Davis then misses a free throw. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.599 Anthony Davis then falls asleep on defense in Maxi Kleba 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:37.039 hits a three and the Lakers lose devastating ones. It 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.640 puts them in real jeopardy of missing the play in. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.680 I don't think they will, but in real jeopardy. So 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.920 to answer that part of the question, the worst case 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.120 scenario is the Lakers go five and five the rest 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.200 of the way, miss the play in entirely, and Lebron 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.800 comes back for nothing. That is on the board now. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:59.000 But what was so much more, pardon me, what was 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:03.279 so much more frush strading than Friday was Anthony Davis 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:10.400 responding to his critical errors in Friday's game, costing them 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.520 the game by sleep walking through Sunday's game, and they 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.560 ended up winning it thanks to Austin Reeves, but it 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.800 was not because Anthony Davis was like, all right, I'm 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.920 gonna make up for it. And that is the paradox 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.520 is the wrong word, but that is the situation with 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:34.640 Anthony Davis. When he's good, he's unbelievable. He has more 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:39.280 thirty five and ten games this century than any other player, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.800 including Shaquille O'Neill in Yannis and Yo Kitchen and Bid. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.800 He is defensively brilliant almost every night. I'll give him 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.600 credit for that, but he is at times so passive 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.520 on offense you can't just pencil in that any night. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.000 The Lakers can't lose while Lebron's out because even against 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:05.280 the Magic, he might know show offensively. So their worst 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.280 case is that they because here's what they have over 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.400 their final ten games, home for Phoenix, home for ok 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.960 See in a game they absolutely should win, not because 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.239 Okac is not good, but because that's Oklahoma City's third 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.520 game and four nights. They're play the Clippers on Tuesday, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.480 the Clippers on Thursday, and then the Lakers on Friday, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.679 so it's a back to back, third game of four nights, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.520 then home against Chicago, where Anthony Davis is from, then 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:37.280 at Chicago, then at Minnesota, at Houston. That's a six 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.320 game stretch that other than the Phoenix game, they will 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.720 be favored. They should be favored in all the games 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.440 except for at Minnesota, and then the final four games 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.280 of the year could be tough at Utah, at the Clippers, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.240 home for Phoenix, home for Utah. So best case, worst case, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.840 most likely case, best case is they go five to 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.760 one in this six game stretch. Lebron One then comes 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.080 back for the final week of the season, Utah has 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.040 packed it in and they end up going I think 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.360 they would have to go probably seven to three, at 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.200 a minimum, maybe eight and two in their final ten. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.360 They get the sixth seed, they get Sacramento in round one. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.680 We send your grandparents to one of those games. Kings 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.760 Lakers in the playoffs? Is that how unbelievable? The Kings 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.400 have the longest playoff drought in the NBA, and the 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.440 Lakers may do real damage in the postseason. The worst 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:40.000 case scenarios they miss entirely. The most likely scenario is 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.600 they end up the eight or the nine seed, but 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.840 there is a massive difference between the eight and the 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.600 nine seed because of the play in the way the 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:54.359 play in works seven through ten are not in the playoffs. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.199 They have to do the play in seven plays eight 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.840 in a one game set and the winner gets the 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.840 seventh seed. Nine plays ten and the winner of nine 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.160 ten plays the loser of seven eight, and the winner 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.320 of that gets the eight seed. So why is there 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.880 a huge difference between the eight and the nine. Well, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.760 if you're the ninth seed, you have to win twice. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.120 You have to win the nine ten game and the 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.839 next game, and you're on the road for that second game. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.439 If you're the eight seed, you only got to win once. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.120 You play the seven eight game if you if you 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.440 win it, you move you're the seventh seed. If you 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.480 lose it, you get another chance at home against the 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.480 nine ten. So it's a huge difference. Is a rest difference, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:40.040 massive difference. So I yes, last night in the NBA 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.880 went very poorly for the Lakers, even though they didn't play. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.720 Why did it go poorly? Well, the Timberwolves, who they're chasing, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.120 were in New York against the Lakers as an eight 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:56.040 point dog. Damn Julius Randalls scores fifty seven for the Knicks, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.040 and the Knicks lose anyway, Timberwolves get a win. What 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.000 else happened yesterday? The Warriors finally got a road win 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:08.280 in Houston. Now, Houston's terrible, but the Warriors won, and 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.000 the Jazz at home beat the Kings in a game. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.960 The Kings were six point favorites. So two significant underdogs 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.840 that the Lakers are fighting with for playoff positioning, the 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.520 Jazz and the Timbrels, who the Lakers have to catch 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.199 and pass, both won games. There were underdogs yesterday. Now 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.520 the good thing for the Lakers yesterday was the Mavericks 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.720 did lose, and they're chasing the Mavericks. But the standings 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.800 are right now insane. In the Western Conference, the Warriors 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.920 are the sixth seed, the Pelicans are the twelve seed, 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.240 Golden State Dallas, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Utah, Lakers, Pelicans. That's 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.439 six through twelve. Every single one of those teams has 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.080 thirty six or thirty seven losses. So the difference between 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.040 the sixth seed and the twelve seed right now is 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.160 two games. So it's these final few weeks of the 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.679 season are going to be insane. Anthony Davis has to 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.560 play great over the next three weeks, and they gotta 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.040 get lower the next two weeks, and they got to 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.240 get Lebron back. That all makes sense to you. What 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.680 do you think? What do you think is gonna happen? 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:15.040 Well, no, you just all those explanations, you know over talks. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.440 I think you lost me somewhere. I'm rooting for the Lakers. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:20.880 I'm hoping that they're gonna. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.160 They're gonna get in if we get Lakers Kings in 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:24.480 round one? Who you're rooting for? 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:25.920 The King's sorry, Lakers. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:32.440 Yeah, the King's been great. So if the Lakers were 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.640 to get to the sixth seed, or even if they 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.000 were in up the seventh seed, they would be playing 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.760 either the Kings in round one or Memphis in round one. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.120 If it were Memphis Lakers. Who are Lakers? Oh okay, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 I know them. I want the Lakers to be the 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.800 eight seed so they can get Denver in round one. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.400 But the problem with being the eight seed is that 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.080 means you're in the play in and you lose a 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.960 play in game, or you're the nine seed. It's just 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.760 it's not you don't want to be in a position 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.720 where you could be the eight seed. But that's actually 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.040 the seed. I want them to get what what's the 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:07.800 confusion there? 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:08.280 Nothing? 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.439 Okay, all right, next, Danielle. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.120 The Warriors finally won on the road. Yeah, but you 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.160 still don't believe in them? 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:15.400 Uh? 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.840 Why has this year gone so terribly? 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:25.000 So I'm amazed that people are still trying to pretend 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.480 that the Warriors can turn this around. There's nine games left, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.800 they are a game over five hundred. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.559 So the Lakers can turn around, but the Warriors can't. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:41.319 Yes, because here's why. The Lakers have had very different iterations. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.680 So everybody brings up this exact question of like, why 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.840 would you believe in the Lakers and not the Warriors. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.160 It's very simple. The Lakers started the year to and 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.959 ten with a broken roster. Since that moment, they have 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.319 been a good team. Since to and ten, they're thirty 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.440 five and thirty seven, So that means they are thirty 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.080 three and twenty seven since the opening twelve games. That's 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.400 a sixty game sample of them being a good team. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.160 That's despite the fact that Lebron is obviously miss significant 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.920 time over the last month. You add to it that 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.040 the Lakers remade their team. Our guy Russ is a 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:28.079 broken basketball player that was killing them and killing their spacing. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.400 It makes you sad, but it's true. Patrick Beverly is 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.640 a useless basketball player and he was getting He was 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:39.520 their starting point guard. They have remade the roster. The 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.080 Warriors are the same group, and after twenty games they 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.920 were ten and ten. After forty games, they were twenty 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.200 and twenty. After sixty games they were thirty and thirty, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.120 and prior to last night, after seventy two games, they 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.320 were thirty six and thirty six. I get credit to 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.480 them for finally breaking their eleven game road losing streak, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.160 but they still lead the league in road losses. They're 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.320 eight and twenty nine on the road. And the fact 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.240 of the matter is this. The Warriors tried to thread 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:19.000 the needle of continuing to contend for championships while developing 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.480 their young players, and to their credit, they won the 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.760 damn title last year. But they won that despite the 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.640 fact that none of their young guys made significant impacts. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.000 Moses Moody has done nothing for them since he's been drafted. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.400 Kaminga's had a couple fine moments, but he has not 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.960 left the way you would have hoped. And Wiseman, their 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.720 number two pick of the draft room a few years 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.600 ago is not even on the team anymore. Those were 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.160 their three young guys. They expected Jordan Poole to continue 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.040 to improve. They paid him like he would. He has 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.320 gone in the other direction, and Draymond is more interested 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.160 in podcasting than playing good basketball. He punched Jordan pull 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:05.320 in the face. So for all those reasons, this team's broken. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.480 What what do you have. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.560 Nothing to do with him turning things around him punching 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:10.440 this guy in the face. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.240 You don't think that right before the start of the season, 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:20.480 the emotional leader of the team, damn near breaking a 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:25.040 teammate's jaw doesn't have an impact on that team being 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.880 comp not like that. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.800 I know, but I'm sure you know. I'm hoping you 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:31.560 know they But. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.080 We now haven't blogged. We now have a lot of 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.240 evidence that you're hoping wrong, that they haven't gotten together. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.640 I'm sorry, I'm rooming for everybody on the West Coast. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.200 I'm hoping, all right. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.680 Do you do you think that it would Let's say 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:50.080 it wasn't the Warriors with the championship pedigree, and it 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.560 was any other team that had super high expectations going 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.240 into a year, and right before the start of the year. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.480 They're veteran leader who wants a new but didn't get one, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.280 punches in the jaw and then it gets released on 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.240 video for us all to see him punch out the 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.880 young kid who did get the contract. And then that 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.120 team whenever they have to travel, when you need an 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.960 emotional lift because you're on the road, and where teams 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.200 that are really together, they go out to dinner together, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.800 they hang out in each other's hotel rooms, play video 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.880 games to whatever it is. This team seems to be 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.800 a disaster on the road, wouldn't we say, Oh, it 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.080 might be that the team doesn't get along great because 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.320 you have this crew of older guys Steph Clay and Draymond, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.440 these younger guys, and it's hard for them to coalesce 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.680 because one of the guys punched the other guy. Yeah, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.360 it's a great point. I just means it's the same. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.280 This is a good point. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.320 I don't like you, know, I don't want to agree 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:53.800 with you. You don't want to agree with you, But that's 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:54.520 what's happened. 0:16:54.880 --> 0:17:00.720 So I think the Warriors are drawing dead to win 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:06.080 the title, and right now, in my opinion, they're the 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.399 worst team in California. The Clippers are better, the Kings 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.479 are better. I think the Lakers are better, and the 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.320 Warriors are fourth out of four in California. So no, 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:21.160 they're not turning it around. And they they had an 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.199 opportunity at the deadline to admit that this was a 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.600 missed opportunity and try to package those young players into 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:35.120 getting an impact piece. They didn't. Now this offseason they're 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.480 gonna have some real decisions because Draymond wants a new contract. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.800 I don't know how you give it to him. Clay. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:47.000 Would they ever trade Clay? You probably can't knife Clay 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.840 like that, but it might be your only chance. Steph 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.320 is playing so well. Steph just turned thirty five. He's 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.439 still one of the five house players as well. He's unbelievable. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:57.200 Hebelievable. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.200 He's he's unbelievable. She's got a little. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.719 You always hated on the Warriors even when they were 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.400 doing good. Well, yeah, that's a fact. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.680 Hated me and they you know, they Lebron beat him 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.480 in sixteen, and we were supposed to get this long 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.160 standing rivalry of Warriors versus Lebron and then they had 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.439 to go get Kevin Durant to kind of break the NBA. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.399 I wasn't a big fan of that. We were supposed 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.639 to get Steph versus Lebron, but then Steph had to 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.399 go recruit Kevin Durant probably cost Lebron a couple of titles. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.640 I don't like that. But the Warriors got big decisions 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.200 this offseason. And the other thing is that Andrew Wiggins, 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.880 who's been key to them, has been gone now weeks 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.520 with an undisclosed personal matter. And yes, he's wildly important 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.200 for them, but it doesn't from listening to what Staph 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.880 has said and Steve Kerr said, they seem to think 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.600 he might not be coming back this year. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:52.399 All right, next, Okay, you call the MAVs, and you 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.440 call the MAVs Sons the NBA's worst rivalry, best best best. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.040 I think that it's the Grizzly Warriors thet a playoff matchup. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:10.240 So MAVs Sun that's a really good question, Danielle. So 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:17.720 MAVs Sons we get? Oh man, these are I somehow 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.919 we could get both of these. So MAVs Sons. The 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.080 background is they played in Round two last year. The 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.960 Sons were up three to two. Devin Booker was talking 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:32.760 that trash and then Luca eviscerated them, and the game 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:38.720 seven in Phoenix. The halftime score was fifty seven twenty seven. 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.840 Luca had more points at halftime than the Sons team did, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.320 and Luke had thirty and the sorry and the Sons 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.879 had twenty seven. Devin Booker and Luca are a real rivalry. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.919 You then also have the MAVs now have Kyrie and 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.639 the Sons now have KD. So that's not like a rivalry, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.200 but that's an interesting one. It was also in thing 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.920 when they played earlier this year, before Durank got hurt again. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:07.439 Katie and Kyrie didn't exactly seem super close. They for 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.960 guys that could you know, claims they're super close friends. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.439 Doesn't really seem like that. And Katie maybe got wise 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.919 on Kyrie's nonsense and got sick of it. Yeah, what 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.720 do you? You don't think that's what it was like Kyrie? 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:28.480 You like Kyrie, that is, Daniels always liked Kyrie. Danielle 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.239 also doesn't have as big of a problem with some 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.840 of Kyrie's eccentricity. 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.080 Yeah that's yeah, you're right, because you just, I don't know, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.359 you just get too involved, I don't you know, I 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.920 think he's a great player, so I don't really Yeah, exactly. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.879 He's a good player. I don't know I'm a great player. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.760 He's not that available. He's not great defensively. I don't 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.879 care about that. But like, you didn't like when I 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.320 mocked him for saging the Celtics arena, No, I didn't. 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.960 You thought that was a cool thing that he did. Yeah, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:05.200 walking around basketball arena with lit sage? What's it called? 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.600 When you see the was he dabbing the what? What? 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:08.960 What was it? 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.160 The you're talking about his stage and then yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:12.680 that's wrong. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.440 You like that? Yeah? I thought that was lunacy. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:17.880 Yeah, I do it. I do it sometimes. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.520 Not yeah, you do it in our house. You don't 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:20.760 do it. 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.000 He's like, I'm playing there. Let me get that. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.680 You don't show up at someone else's job and start 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:26.840 saging the error. 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.159 Oh that's bad juju. You gotta think that's what he 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:31.080 was trying to do. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.560 So that's what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.240 fix the Yeah you know the juju of Yeah, exactly. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.879 So MAV's sons, to get back on topic, would be 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:50.359 great Grizzlies Warriors, though, is a legit awesome rivalry that 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.400 the Warriors refuse to acknowledge his rivalry. 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:54.159 Because they don't want it. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.680 Well, Draymond also said, you know, we've won championships, they've 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:03.080 won nothing. How's that arrivalry. Well, here's the facts. Last year, 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:07.280 you guys played in the playoffs. The first three games 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.280 it was two to one Warriors, and one of the 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.840 Warriors wins, John missed the lay up at the end, 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:14.760 so one of the games total coin flip game. You 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.919 split the other two as close could be, and then 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:20.119 John got hurt and the Warriors ended up winning in six. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.520 The previous year they played in the play in everyone 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.439 forgets this. The Warriors two years ago were in the 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:29.919 play and they were in the seven eight games playing 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:33.760 the Lakers, and Lebron dotted Steph's eye with a three 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.040 to win that game. When Lebron remember famously you couldn't 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:38.480 see out of one eye, he shot it with one 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.000 eye closed. Unbelievable play, right in Steph's face. And then 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.240 the next game the Warriors played the Grizzlies. Everyone said 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.520 the Warriors are gonna win, and the Grizzlies sent them home. 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.320