Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by all State. Some
Speaker 1: people just know they could save hundreds on car insurance
Speaker 1: by checking all State first. Like you know to check
Speaker 1: the date of the Big Game first before you accidentally
Speaker 1: buy tickets on your twentieth wedding anniversary and have to
Speaker 1: spend the next twenty years of your marriage making up
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, checking first is smart, So check all
Speaker 1: State first for a quote that could save you hundreds.
Speaker 1: You're in good hands with all State Savings. Ferry terms
Speaker 1: apply all State Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.
Speaker 2: This episode is brought to you by Unstoppable. Discover the
Speaker 2: inspiring true story about Anthony Roebliss, who defined every expectation
Speaker 2: to become a national wrestling champion and Unstoppable, a new
Speaker 2: original movie from Amazon MGM Studios and director William Goldenberg.
Speaker 2: Evoking the excitement and camaraderie of classic sports dramas and
Speaker 2: thrilling wrestling matches. Unstoppable features an all star ensemble cast
Speaker 2: including Jirelle Jerome, Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Michael Panya, and
Speaker 2: Bobby Knavali. Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 3: Welcome in episode sixty four of What's Right with Nick Wright,
Speaker 3: the podcast and YouTube show. And before we even get
Speaker 3: into today's show, before we get into what we're not
Speaker 3: discussing on today's show, I want to discuss what's happening
Speaker 3: on the television side of things. As was announced yesterday morning,
Speaker 3: we have a new FS one lineup. First Things First
Speaker 3: is now moving to the afternoons. You might say it's
Speaker 3: still called First Things First. Your damn straight, it's still
Speaker 3: called First Things First. Have to help build that brain
Speaker 3: for five years or not changed the damn name and
Speaker 3: it still works. Yeah, it doesn't work time wise, But
Speaker 3: you know how people start arguments a lot, they say
Speaker 3: First Things First. Let me tell you something. Even hip
Speaker 3: hop songs have it a lot, So it doesn't have
Speaker 3: to be in the morning. Was Biggie only wrapping in
Speaker 3: the mornings when he did? No, he wasn't, So the
Speaker 3: name is staying in the mornings. However, Craig Carton is
Speaker 3: coming to FS one. Listen. If you're not in the
Speaker 3: New York area, you're not familiar with Craig, or you're
Speaker 3: only familiar with Craig because of the controversy that he
Speaker 3: was involved in a few years ago. I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 3: Craig Carton is as talented a broadcaster as exists in
Speaker 3: the nation on the sports side of things. He's a
Speaker 3: Syracuse guy like I am, so I'm also partial to him.
Speaker 3: He also used to have me on his radio show,
Speaker 3: so I go a long way back with Craig. I
Speaker 3: could not be happier that he is the one taking
Speaker 3: over mornings on FS one. Then there's undisputed unchanged the
Speaker 3: Herd changed in this regard. Joey Taylor no longer gonna
Speaker 3: be alongside Colin and said, is Jason McIntyre more on
Speaker 3: Joy in a moment?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: And I've had great partners on First Things First over
Speaker 3: the five years one two hundred and fifty eight shows
Speaker 3: that we've done, of which I've been a part of
Speaker 3: one thousand, two hundred and probably forty of them. But
Speaker 3: my two best partners ever are Kevin Wilds and Chris Brussard.
Speaker 3: That is First Things First, moving forward three pm Eastern
Speaker 3: every day three pm to four thirty, me Brew Wilds.
Speaker 3: That then leads to Emmanuel Acho Joy Taylor. That's why
Speaker 3: she's leaving the Herd. She's joining Acho and LaShaun McCoy
Speaker 3: Shady McCoy, former great NFL running back. So that's the end.
Speaker 3: Then NASCAR Race Hub for our racing fans. So seven
Speaker 3: am to seven pm Eastern we are live. I am
Speaker 3: thrilled for a million different reasons. There's an emotional side
Speaker 3: of it for me, which is I get to now
Speaker 3: take the baton from Colin Cowhard, which is a dream
Speaker 3: come true. There's a personal side of it for me.
Speaker 3: For ten years in a row, I've had pre five
Speaker 3: am wake up calls that's now gone. I have not
Speaker 3: been able to take my kids to school for a
Speaker 3: single day. For the entirety of your little sister's life,
Speaker 3: I've never taken her to school. I now could take
Speaker 3: them to school, and because of the schedule, I get
Speaker 3: to pick her up from school every day. The last
Speaker 3: time I took anyone to school to monsday was when
Speaker 3: you were in junior high school. Our entirety of the
Speaker 3: time living in Houston, I was doing mornings. Entirety of
Speaker 3: the time living in New York, I was doing mornings.
Speaker 3: So from a personal standpoint, it's great and sleep. If
Speaker 3: I'm going to be totally candid, I also think the
Speaker 3: sports media landscape in that time frame that we're on,
Speaker 3: there's an opening to make some noise. So for all
Speaker 3: those reasons, I'm excited. I'm excited. Oh and we're in
Speaker 3: a brand new studio. So all that's coming Tuesday. This
Speaker 3: coming Tuesday, the new FS one lineup. That's the television
Speaker 3: promo portion of the podcast. Now to the podcast portion
Speaker 3: of the podcast, before we get to our topics here,
Speaker 3: as we always do, is what did not make the show?
Speaker 3: What did not make the show is cam Smith, the
Speaker 3: number two rank golfer in the world, going to the
Speaker 3: Live Tour for one hundred million dollars. When I saw
Speaker 3: this news is the first time I was like, ooh,
Speaker 3: PGA Tours gotta start being nervous now. Now the if
Speaker 3: they offered Tiger eight hundred million, he said no, if
Speaker 3: Tiger or Rory left, I don't know if the PGA
Speaker 3: Tour could withstand it. Now. I don't think they will,
Speaker 3: but they lost, can't they now have? The Live Tour
Speaker 3: is making serious inroads now, Julian Edelman teases is on retirement.
Speaker 3: Nobody cares Julian, and a question of an over under
Speaker 3: four and a half honey deuces that I consumed at
Speaker 3: the US Open last yesterday when I was there all day.
Speaker 3: The answers under The answer is under, sir, I'm a
Speaker 3: responsible man. It's not under by a lot, but it's under.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we're saving that. I think that
Speaker 4: might come up later.
Speaker 3: It might come up later in the show. Okay, listen,
Speaker 3: I'm now before we get to the show, since you've
Speaker 3: decided to use the word schmizz before I even have
Speaker 3: introduced you, I'm going to say on the air, but
Speaker 3: I keep telling you off the air you have gotten
Speaker 3: too comfortable, not too comfortable in what you're saying, but
Speaker 3: in how you're delivering it. You see my excitement, you
Speaker 3: see my energy. You're just like you seemed pretty schmiz bro.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna play. Need I need a little more
Speaker 3: energy from you, my partner in our brand new studio.
Speaker 3: All right, demanse, what are we starting the show with today?
Speaker 5: Jimmy g is officially returning to the forty nine Ers YEP.
Speaker 5: Is the highest paid backup quarterback YEP. Forty nine Ers
Speaker 5: couldn't find a trade partner all off season.
Speaker 3: YEP.
Speaker 5: Does this mean that nobody wanted Jimmy or the forty
Speaker 5: nine Ers aren't quite in on Trey Lance yet.
Speaker 3: Oh see, this is not about Trey Lance. This is
Speaker 3: about the fact that Jimmy Garoppolo and his agent and
Speaker 3: the Niners, they surveyed the landscape and they said, will
Speaker 3: anyone in football give up even a sixth round pick
Speaker 3: to have Jimmy Garoppolo for more than twenty million dollars?
Speaker 3: The answer was no. Then the question was, okay, if
Speaker 3: Jimmy were to take eight million dollar pay cut and
Speaker 3: gonna instead of making around twenty four million, if he
Speaker 3: was gonna make sixteen million, will anyone give us a
Speaker 3: fourth round pick if he's cheaper? The answer was no.
Speaker 3: So the Niners then had to make this decision. Should
Speaker 3: we just release him and get no value for him whatsoever?
Speaker 3: Or is there an amount of money that is in
Speaker 3: line with top flight backup quarterbacks that he will accept
Speaker 3: that he will be in on that. Obviously, for the Niners,
Speaker 3: who is the best possible backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. The
Speaker 3: guy who knows the system, who's been there, who knows
Speaker 3: the players, knows the personnel. So if you want to say, well,
Speaker 3: Tyrod Taylor is a great backup quarterback Finer Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 3: Those guys are great backup quarterbacks, and some people would
Speaker 3: say I'd rather have those guys. If you were on
Speaker 3: the Seahawks, would you rather have those guys as your
Speaker 3: backup quarterback?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 3: But on the nine, Jimmy Garoppolo is the best backup
Speaker 3: quarterback by a mile because he knows the system, He's
Speaker 3: familiar with everybody. This is not about people that don't
Speaker 3: want either they don't want Trey Lance to succeed, or
Speaker 3: more accurately, they are emotionally or take wise invested in
Speaker 3: Jimmy Garoppolo being more than he was. Are trying to
Speaker 3: turn this into an indictment on Trey Lance. It is
Speaker 3: not an indictment on Trey Lance. It is the Niners,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, taking advantage of the fact that nobody
Speaker 3: wanted Jimmy Garoppolo, and that's why he was willing to
Speaker 3: accept six million dollars as his salary. And I'll add this,
Speaker 3: I know he has a quote no trade clause unquote
Speaker 3: not really what that means is they won't trade him
Speaker 3: anywhere he doesn't want to go. But no team would
Speaker 3: trade for jim Garoppolo if he doesn't want to be there,
Speaker 3: because nobody wants their quarterback to not want to be there.
Speaker 3: So what the Niners did here in getting him to
Speaker 3: agree to this lower salary that he can make, you know,
Speaker 3: an extra ten million with playtime incentives, is it made
Speaker 3: him exponentially more trade a bull. Why because if somebody's
Speaker 3: quarterback goes down in the first couple months.
Speaker 4: Of the seasons, contract.
Speaker 3: Exactly right, and then you go to Jimmy and say, hey,
Speaker 3: there's this team they would like to trade for you.
Speaker 3: We couldn't get a sixth round pick for you. They're
Speaker 3: desperate right now, They'll give us a third round pick
Speaker 3: for you? Or do you want to go there and
Speaker 3: become the starter? So I think this is a win
Speaker 3: for the Niners. I think this is a way to
Speaker 3: save face a bit. If you're Jimmy Garoppolo, I do
Speaker 3: not look at this as an indictment on Trey Lance whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Not at all. Is this an indictment on Trey Lance?
Speaker 3: All right? What's next?
Speaker 5: The Eagles trading for a new defensive back yesterday and
Speaker 5: suddenly everyone is in on them.
Speaker 4: They had a good we had a good draft and
Speaker 4: got aj Brown.
Speaker 5: Dallas is already down Tyron Smith and Washington and Giants
Speaker 5: aren't very good. The Eagles are now plus one forty
Speaker 5: to win the division. Yeah, are you in on that?
Speaker 3: No, I listen Tyrone Smith's injury for Dallas's massive right, it's,
Speaker 3: in my opinion, the biggest injury that has happened this offseason. Okay,
Speaker 3: there's there's no question about it. I think, though, there
Speaker 3: has been a little too big of an overreaction, and
Speaker 3: I think the Eagles became like the out of nowhere
Speaker 3: the in team. Right. My buddy Adam Lefgo, who does
Speaker 3: a great job on inside the NBA. He and I
Speaker 3: went to college together. He used to have an amazing
Speaker 3: football podcast. He's still a great NFL guy, but people
Speaker 3: know him for the NBA, so he's a diehard Eagles fan.
Speaker 3: He texted me when I was in Italy saying he
Speaker 3: was crushed. I wasn't picking the Eagles to win the division.
Speaker 3: I understand the Eagles have an excellent roster, and I
Speaker 3: understand the Eagles, or at least I believe they have
Speaker 3: a better coach than Dallas because their coach is at
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy. I get all of this. I think people
Speaker 3: are glossing over too quickly the deficited quarterback between Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott and Jalen Hurts. I would like to believe in
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts. I like the people that represent him. I
Speaker 3: like the way he handled himself in college. I think
Speaker 3: he has been a tremendous young man, and I think
Speaker 3: he has conducted himself at every stage of his career
Speaker 3: with class and grace. H I think he's probably the
Speaker 3: twenty fifth best starting quarterback in football. I'm doing that
Speaker 3: off the top of my head. And listen, this is
Speaker 3: one of them. This is could be the Andrew Wiggins moment.
Speaker 3: This could be the time that someone says, oh you
Speaker 3: doubted this guy. May be and I'll be happy to
Speaker 3: be wrong about it. But and maybe I'm a little
Speaker 3: too scarred from that playoff game against Tampa where he
Speaker 3: looked so in over his head. But the Eagles to me,
Speaker 3: Chauncey Gardner Johnson's a nice player. He's a good slot corner.
Speaker 3: It looks like the Eagles are gonna play him at safety.
Speaker 3: And they got him for I mean, getting him for
Speaker 3: a fifth round pick is great value. I understand that.
Speaker 3: But he is not a good enough player that. I
Speaker 3: feel like the reaction to this trade was as if
Speaker 3: they had just traded for for what's a good example
Speaker 3: of someone who's been traded recently. It was a reaction
Speaker 3: like when it was similar to the Chargers acquiring Khalil Mack. Now,
Speaker 3: Khalil's been banged up the last couple of years, but
Speaker 3: it's like, oh my god, look this guy could transform
Speaker 3: their defense. I don't look at it that way at all.
Speaker 3: I look at this as a nice addition. And I
Speaker 3: like the Eagles offensive line. I love the Jordan Davis kid.
Speaker 3: I wanted the Chiefs to draft him. The A lot
Speaker 3: of things about the Eagles I like, and I understand
Speaker 3: the cow The left tackle injury with Tyron Smith is
Speaker 3: a major one. But I looked at the Cowboys as
Speaker 3: being three games better than the Eagles going into the season,
Speaker 3: or you know, a month ago. Does Tyron Smith's injury
Speaker 3: and Chauncey Gardner Johnson's edition is that a three game jump?
Speaker 6: To me?
Speaker 3: It is not. It is not a three game jump.
Speaker 3: And so the if the when the Eagles were right
Speaker 3: now you said plus one forty, they're dead even with Dallas,
Speaker 3: depending on where you get it, they're both plus one
Speaker 3: forty five or one team plus one forty one teams
Speaker 3: plus one thirty five. They are almost identical. Do I
Speaker 3: think the Eagles are as good as the Cowboys? I don't.
Speaker 3: I flatly don't. And so no, I'm not I'm gonna
Speaker 3: beat They've become like the hipster pick. I listened to
Speaker 3: Bill Simmons talk about could they be the one seed,
Speaker 3: what their props on them going to the Super Bowl are.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, it's still to me
Speaker 3: is a coach and quarterback league, and I have major
Speaker 3: questions about their quarterback and significant questions about their coach.
Speaker 3: And so no, I'm still gonna go with Dallas. Not
Speaker 3: I think it's a mediocre division, but I soldink Dallas
Speaker 3: the best team in the division, all right.
Speaker 4: Next A Genie Buss said it christ yeah.
Speaker 5: The set in an interview with the athletic Russell Westbrook
Speaker 5: was the Lakers' best player last season.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's delightful.
Speaker 5: She eventually walked it back and said that the word
Speaker 5: that she should have used was consistent, and she said
Speaker 5: it's really tough to when when Anthony Davis isn't on
Speaker 5: the court and Lebron was actually hurt a lot of
Speaker 5: the season, but Russ showed up every game and played
Speaker 5: as hard as he could every night. Yeah, she actually
Speaker 5: backing Russ or is she trying to increase his trade value?
Speaker 3: I listen with Genie Buss, you never know. I honestly
Speaker 3: don't know what she's doing. There is no Uni averse
Speaker 3: where Here's what Russell Westbrook was for the Lakers. He
Speaker 3: was the most available player. He was at and played
Speaker 3: eighty games. He was the most available player.
Speaker 4: Does available not full hand in hand with like consistent?
Speaker 3: Well, listen if and I I am using this just
Speaker 3: simply as a metaphor. Because you are not late for work,
Speaker 3: you are great at this. But if you were late
Speaker 3: for work every single day, that is consistent, you are
Speaker 3: consistently late. So in this regard, Russ was consistent. He
Speaker 3: was consistently terrible. Every night you knew it. Russ was
Speaker 3: going to show up, play thirty plus minutes and be back.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So I don't think that's what she was meaning, though,
Speaker 3: And when calling him their best he was here and back.
Speaker 3: Calling him their best player is an absurdity. Look, Lebron
Speaker 3: was sensation last year. Yeah, Lebron was thirty eight and
Speaker 3: six on better than fifty percent from the field. Now,
Speaker 3: he missed twenty games, missed the quarter of the season.
Speaker 3: That's a problem, and that's why Lebron wasn't the best
Speaker 3: forward or this. If Lebron had put up those numbers
Speaker 3: and played seventy five games, he would have been the
Speaker 3: second best forward in the league last year, behind Gianni's
Speaker 3: It would have been Giannis and Lebron. Because he did
Speaker 3: miss those games, one could argue Tatum was better some
Speaker 3: are you know Durant missed a bunch of games too.
Speaker 3: Durant's numbers were similar, like because he missed those games.
Speaker 3: That's why you knock him down a pick. But Russ
Speaker 3: was below. Russ was a hindrance to winning when he
Speaker 3: was on the court. You would have been better off
Speaker 3: with just a random bench player. And so the last year,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's who he's gonna be for the
Speaker 3: rest of his career, but that's what he was last year.
Speaker 3: That is what he was. It didn't fit, it didn't work.
Speaker 3: He also seemed to get worse at the things that
Speaker 3: he hadn't been good at before, like his I mean
Speaker 3: some of it. I mean, there's a long highlight reel
Speaker 3: of this obviously of the stuff yes, yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: shots by four feet yeah, and the no. I think
Speaker 3: he got in his own head and that was a
Speaker 3: problem for him. Like I don't think Russ is done
Speaker 3: as an NBA player. I'm not arguing that, but it
Speaker 3: shouldn't be debatable what he was last year. So why
Speaker 3: would Genie Bus say this? Either because she's being irrational
Speaker 3: or because they are trying to find a way to
Speaker 3: build up his trade value a bit. Now, I don't
Speaker 3: think think Bus's quotes build up much. Go ahead, what
Speaker 3: do you think?
Speaker 5: I think it's like, hey, man, he's gonna be here
Speaker 5: next year. You might as well give him a little
Speaker 5: bit of confidence.
Speaker 3: You know, he can't be there next year. They can't
Speaker 3: actually be they have to.
Speaker 5: When you're speaking from like an emotional standpoint, I feel.
Speaker 4: Like to a agree, yeah, I think he's gonna be there.
Speaker 3: Now, you think he's gonna be there all year? I
Speaker 3: mean I don't. You'll just be punting on this season.
Speaker 3: You just you can't win. Now if Russ would, it.
Speaker 4: All depends on how the start of the season goes.
Speaker 5: Like the I feel like the only knowledge that we
Speaker 5: have is of what Rust did last year.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 5: I have no idea how I feel like these players
Speaker 5: are gonna mesh this coming year what they've done during
Speaker 5: the offseason.
Speaker 3: But no, that's fair. I just don't Rust doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like he's gonna change. And Russ needs to be on
Speaker 3: a team that he is the focal point of that
Speaker 3: he has the ball in his hands, because when when
Speaker 3: he is that, you get the good of him. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the good of him is the energy, the intensity, the
Speaker 3: freedom for him to drive to the basket. And you
Speaker 3: still deal with the bad, but at least you get
Speaker 3: the good. When Russ is your third option, you get
Speaker 3: the bad, the lackadaisical defense, the lack of spacing, all
Speaker 3: that stuff without the good, right, And that was the problem,
Speaker 3: which is why I argued all year. Have him be
Speaker 3: the super sixth man, lead the bench unit. When you
Speaker 3: take eighty and Lebron out, put Russ in. Let him
Speaker 3: run with that, I thought, But he didn't want to
Speaker 3: do that. We'll see what Darvinham can do. Also, we'll
Speaker 3: probably see Russ in Indiana. I don't think Indiana the Lakers.
Speaker 3: All right, what's next?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: So Lebron said on Sports illustrated that he wants to
Speaker 5: play in the NBA, but not one, but both of
Speaker 5: his sons. Yeah, he said he's been paying attention to
Speaker 5: as the twenty year, twenty twenty four, and twenty twenty
Speaker 5: seven first round picks, the.
Speaker 3: Whole twenty twenty four, twenty five, six twelve.
Speaker 4: Okay, twenty twenty four through twenty seven. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 4: dashes means.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there, but could be a lot of the Lakers
Speaker 5: haven't trade any picks after twenty twenty five. Yeah, to
Speaker 5: play with Bryce, Lebron will be well into his forties,
Speaker 5: which is a crazy thing to think about. He says
Speaker 5: he thinks he could play for a while. Who knows
Speaker 5: if his sons will even be good enough to play
Speaker 5: in the NBA. Yeah, do you think he's serious about this?
Speaker 3: Okay, here's what I think Lebron is doing. People get
Speaker 3: caught up in, Oh, is bronni really an NBA player? Oh,
Speaker 3: now they're talking about Bryce? Is Bryce really an NBA player? Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to be very clear because I think
Speaker 3: it's so obvious what Lebron is doing, and you can
Speaker 3: say it's bad. It is exactly what I would do
Speaker 3: if I were in his position, and in a very
Speaker 3: different version, it's what I have done in his position
Speaker 3: in my field, leverage his own power to try to
Speaker 3: get his kid foot in the door somewhere he otherwise
Speaker 3: wouldn't have the chance. So Bronni is undersized. Bryce. I
Speaker 3: don't think anyone's ever thought of as an NBA prospect.
Speaker 3: Maybe he will be. I mean, he's very young, all right,
Speaker 3: but I think Lebron recognize that as long as he
Speaker 3: is performing at a high enough level, there will be
Speaker 3: incentive for a team to take a flyer on his kid.
Speaker 3: And if you believe your kid is gonna work hard enough,
Speaker 3: train hard, have high enough character, all those things that
Speaker 3: if he gets his foot in the door, can Seth
Speaker 3: curry this thing? Because that's what happened with Seth. Seth
Speaker 3: kept getting chances because of Steph, just like Yannis's brothers
Speaker 3: keep getting chances because of Yanni's and Yannas's brothers haven't
Speaker 3: proven to be have enough talent to be able to
Speaker 3: fully take advantage of those chances, right Seth. As Seth
Speaker 3: was cut from G League teams, Seth got cut by
Speaker 3: multiple teams, and now he's gonna make eighty million dollars
Speaker 3: playing pro basketball. But if it wasn't for Steph, he'd
Speaker 3: have been in Europe five years ago. Teams kept giving
Speaker 3: him a chance. So what Lebron is clearly doing is
Speaker 3: trying to set up a scenario where if Lebron is
Speaker 3: an A plus player or even an a minus player, Bud,
Speaker 3: he's Lebron, so he brings all the attention, ticket sales, revenue. Right,
Speaker 3: you want to be in the Lebron business, you've got
Speaker 3: to also be in the Bronni business. Let's start with
Speaker 3: I don't think it's because he thinks Bronni is a
Speaker 3: one and done caliber player. I don't think it's because
Speaker 3: he thinks Bronni is worthy of And that's the time.
Speaker 3: I'll be very quick to finish this. You know, a
Speaker 3: first round pick, it's I am, I'm Lebron James. If
Speaker 3: I were in the draft, or do you spend the
Speaker 3: twenty seventh pick on me, We'll all come play with you.
Speaker 3: I'll come play with you. Would you just trade the
Speaker 3: twenty seventh pick of the draft for me? Okay, bonus,
Speaker 3: you also get my kid. That's the trade. Now you
Speaker 3: have an investment in my kid. He gets to train
Speaker 3: with me. He gets to be around me every day,
Speaker 3: he gets to play in the G League. He might
Speaker 3: have his first round pick guaranteed contract, So you haven't
Speaker 3: you haven't sent it for at least two years to
Speaker 3: get the most out of it. And I believe at
Speaker 3: the end of that he's gonna show I can be
Speaker 3: Gary Payton the second I can be a valuable role player.
Speaker 3: That's the idea here, and the reason I think people
Speaker 3: are missing it is maybe because they For me, it
Speaker 3: is like a very personal thing, not because of Lebron
Speaker 3: but because of this. Listen. The fact of the matter is,
Speaker 3: and I'm not taking a shot at you at all.
Speaker 3: If you you you didn't have the resume or the
Speaker 3: experience because you have you do this with me, but
Speaker 3: you also have a job with Fox. I knew that
Speaker 3: if you got in the door, you distinguish yourself with
Speaker 3: your incredibly charming people like you. You're hard working and
Speaker 3: you're sharp. So I leveraged it. I said, hey, take
Speaker 3: the interview, knowing listen that that you were gonna really
Speaker 3: have to blow that interview for them to not hire.
Speaker 3: They were doing it because I have earned the respect
Speaker 3: of the company over the course of six plus years
Speaker 3: of employment that they're like, Okay, worst case scenario is
Speaker 3: in six months we tell him it's not working out. Listen,
Speaker 3: he's late every day, he doesn't do this whatever. But
Speaker 3: I knew that wouldn't happen. And so now people will say, oh,
Speaker 3: that's nepotism. Of course it's nepotism. Of course that's what
Speaker 3: it means. But well, listen, there have been a lot
Speaker 3: of companies for forever. Who runs it, the kid of
Speaker 3: the guy who started it? Who are those things like that?
Speaker 3: It doesn't always work in sports, and it's not always
Speaker 3: people that look like you or Bronni that are getting
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it. But I have no shame
Speaker 3: in that, and so I totally get what Lebron's doing.
Speaker 3: I support what he's doing, and it's absolutely what I
Speaker 3: would do if I were in his position. We'll be
Speaker 3: right back.
Speaker 4: When it comes to towing, Seeing is believing.
Speaker 6: That's why Chevy Truck's advanced camera technology offers up to
Speaker 6: eight available cameras for fourteen unique views, so you can
Speaker 6: focus on the view that really matters. Chevrolet Together, let's drive.
Speaker 6: Learn more about Chevy Truck's at Chevy dot com. Safety
Speaker 6: Your driver assistance features are no substitute for the driver's
Speaker 6: responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner with
Speaker 6: the vehicle owners manual for important future limitations and information.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in episode sixty four of What's
Speaker 3: Right with Nick Wright, Live from our brand new studio
Speaker 3: this Tuesday, First Things First comes to you starting at
Speaker 3: three pm Eastern every day, live from that new studio
Speaker 3: that is not in Harlem, that's in Midtown Manhattan. We're
Speaker 3: here in Harlem, inside trinage demanse. What are we starting
Speaker 3: with for our second segment?
Speaker 4: We are starting with a little bit of tennis.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you missed it yesterday, buddy.
Speaker 4: I missed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was kind of sad that you guys went without me.
Speaker 3: But okay, well don't worry. It's going on for another
Speaker 3: eleven days.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we.
Speaker 3: Got plenty of times you will be in attendant to
Speaker 3: the US Open, don't you worry.
Speaker 4: Go ahead?
Speaker 5: Uh So, tough beat for Simona Hallip after you predicted
Speaker 5: she'd win it, What were you?
Speaker 3: No? I just you're gonna say I predicted she'd win
Speaker 3: the title. Listen, I said, I am picking Nadal and
Speaker 3: Cocoa golf. I said, those are my picks. I said
Speaker 3: it my head, gunder my head. If I had to,
Speaker 3: I would have picked Medvedev and Hallip, but those I
Speaker 3: those weren't my picks. My picks were Nadal and Goco Golf.
Speaker 3: And I also told you guys that I was in
Speaker 3: attendance at the US Open a few years ago when
Speaker 3: Hallip is the one seed lost in round one, which
Speaker 3: should have been a little a warning sign it could
Speaker 3: happen again. So I don't try to throw shade at me.
Speaker 5: But Fairy did go ahead, uh take Before Serena's next
Speaker 5: match she won round one, you said that she was
Speaker 5: gonna fail.
Speaker 3: No, hold on a second, I said she can't win
Speaker 3: the tournament. I didn't say she's gonna lose in round one. Now,
Speaker 3: the US Open thought she was gonna lose in round one,
Speaker 3: which is why this whole ceremony like it was gonna
Speaker 3: be your last match, right when it's not her last match.
Speaker 4: She still got it. I really think. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: say I think she's gonna win, but I really want
Speaker 4: her to win.
Speaker 3: I would love for her to win. Unfortunately, by the
Speaker 3: time people will hear this, she will have already lost.
Speaker 3: She's gonna lose.
Speaker 4: Remember that.
Speaker 3: I hope it's wrong. I hope that's not true. But
Speaker 3: she's gonna lose tonight. Which is you guys are hearing
Speaker 3: this Thursday. We're doing it Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: You went yesterday to the US Oh yeah? Is the
Speaker 5: US Open the most fun sporting event to a ten
Speaker 5: in America?
Speaker 3: Oh? What a question?
Speaker 4: What a question.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a great event. It's a great event because
Speaker 3: you go early in the day, demanse. There's twenty courts, right,
Speaker 3: so you have ASH, which is the huge stadium. Okay,
Speaker 3: and you have to have specific If you buy a
Speaker 3: ticket for ASH, you can then go to any court
Speaker 3: you one. But you have actual seats for ASH. I,
Speaker 3: by the way, and section fifty four, row B that's
Speaker 3: center court, almost as close as you can get. It
Speaker 3: was elite watch. It was elite seats. They were elite
Speaker 3: seats and the entire I had section fifty four, row B,
Speaker 3: seats five and six. But there's there's eight seats per section. Okay,
Speaker 3: Your mom and I had been there like an hour.
Speaker 3: No one else was in the other six seats in
Speaker 3: our section. Our buddy Mark Carmon was in you know he.
Speaker 4: Didn't with you guys.
Speaker 3: Well, he didn't have the seats that I had, but
Speaker 3: so but I got him down with us. He had
Speaker 3: met two girls on the plane that he brought them down,
Speaker 3: so we had this whole section because there was no
Speaker 3: one there. Yeah, he met these two girls from Chicago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: So what's up with that situation? He met them and they.
Speaker 3: He met them on the plane. They were all going
Speaker 3: into the US Open and they exchange numbers and then like,
Speaker 3: by the way, hold on, I'm gonna mouse them to you. Wow,
Speaker 3: I know, surprising, right, Yeah, I know. And so they
Speaker 3: so they all sat with us and watched. But so
Speaker 3: here's the If you have tickets to ASH, you can
Speaker 3: then go anywhere you want. If you have tickets to
Speaker 3: Louis Armstrong, which is the second big stadium, okay, you
Speaker 3: can go into Louis Armstrong or anywhere you want except ASH.
Speaker 3: Or you can get grounds passes, which lets you go
Speaker 3: to any of the games except the ones in uh ASH.
Speaker 3: So Louis Armstrong there's open seating and then there's actual
Speaker 3: assigned seating. So if you buy a ticket to ASH,
Speaker 3: you can go to everything. But in the beginning of
Speaker 3: the tournament. There's so many matches going on. You can
Speaker 3: see the ninth rinked player in the world playing on
Speaker 3: a small court over on the side. You can sit
Speaker 3: front row right, and it's all day long. It's a
Speaker 3: great drinking of it's a great day drinking. Walk around,
Speaker 3: feel bougie. People are dressed fancy. There's a little polo store.
Speaker 3: It's nice, man, it's nice. You've been there.
Speaker 4: It is nice. It's definite. Is nice?
Speaker 3: Is it so? I don't know if it's the best.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing. It's the best single location, multi day
Speaker 3: event in America. Yeah, because it's over two weeks. You
Speaker 3: can go in the evening, you can go in the morning,
Speaker 3: and go whenever you want. It's right off a train stop.
Speaker 3: It's so good. Now, little little knowledge, little tennis knowledge
Speaker 3: for so Venus or Serena is probably gonna lose tonight.
Speaker 3: If she wins tonight, it's an unbelievable She's playing the
Speaker 3: number two player in the world. She's gonna lose. I
Speaker 3: hope I'm wrong. She's gonna lose. Spicy Man Nadal played
Speaker 3: this kid i'd never heard of. Last night, which was
Speaker 3: Tuesday night again, We're a day behind when you guys
Speaker 3: are hearing this. Lost the first set and then crushed
Speaker 3: in the rest.
Speaker 4: Of the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, I am so excited. I will spend a lot
Speaker 3: of money to go watching the doll front right.
Speaker 4: I saw n the Doll last night. I actually was
Speaker 4: watching the US Open from the location that I was at.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I thought you you saw him out on
Speaker 3: the town in New York. No, no, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, I sat last year.
Speaker 3: I sat front row with Daryl Morey GM of the Sixers.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he took me and we sat front row
Speaker 3: to watch Djokovic. I'm gonna sit first three rows to
Speaker 3: watching the Doll at some point this tournament. That's happening.
Speaker 3: That's the tennis corner. More on that on Tuesday. Okay,
Speaker 3: what's next?
Speaker 5: Waituh, it's time for this that Yeah, this is the
Speaker 5: old game. The Knicks extended RJ. Barrett complicating a deal
Speaker 5: for Donovan Mitchell. Nick fans still hope it gets done.
Speaker 5: It gets done. Who would Knicks be better off with
Speaker 5: Donovan Mitchell or RJ Barrett?
Speaker 3: Well, one for one Donovan Mitchell, but RJ. Barrett plus
Speaker 3: Quentin Grimes plus a bunch of picks. I'd I'd rather
Speaker 3: have the players than Donovan. You know what I mean,
Speaker 3: say it again, young, I mean RJ Barrett young guys.
Speaker 3: Of course they're young, and the draft picks are important.
Speaker 3: Like I I think Donovan Mitchell is a good but
Speaker 3: very flawed player, and I would be hesitant to give
Speaker 3: up if you have a Donovan Mitchell, Jalen brunts and backward,
Speaker 3: you have two six two guards that are defensive liabilities.
Speaker 3: Like there's a clear ceiling there. I still think the
Speaker 3: Knicks are gonna get Donovan. By the way, pardon me.
Speaker 3: I know the RJ deal complicates it, but I still
Speaker 3: think they're gonna get Donovan, all right.
Speaker 5: Next, Baker Mayfield is ready for his Week one matchup
Speaker 5: with his former team.
Speaker 4: He told NFL Network he's gonna the Browns up.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: I really wanted to say that Carolina minus two point
Speaker 5: five or Cleveland plus two point five, or.
Speaker 3: Just so you know, when we're doing this you're new
Speaker 3: to the game, things say half half, two and a half,
Speaker 3: and yeah, two point five is acceptable. But it's a
Speaker 3: little note to the listener, like, ah, this guy doesn't
Speaker 3: bet Carolina. Okay, Carolina no, no, no, I think Baker is
Speaker 3: going to come up. By the way of things up
Speaker 3: Sorry our text step. You know what I learned and
Speaker 3: Laurie are great social media manager is here in studio today.
Speaker 3: My mahomes Top one hundred take did like better numbers
Speaker 3: than ninety percent, which said the Mahomes. Remember I was
Speaker 3: eighth on the top o. Yes, did better numbers on
Speaker 3: social the nine of the clips we do, and I
Speaker 3: was like, why it wasn't even that interesting of a clip.
Speaker 3: But you know why because I said fucking in the
Speaker 3: caption and people like cursing. That's what I've determined. People
Speaker 3: were like, oh, this really is a non TV nick.
Speaker 3: He's dropping f bombs like they were thrown off by it.
Speaker 3: And Laurie because she's a social media maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 3: include the F bomb in the caption. People are gonna
Speaker 3: see it. And it did numbers. So not gonna today
Speaker 3: because we've already you know, I think now we've dropped
Speaker 3: four f bombs in about ninety seconds. But moving forward
Speaker 3: each show, there's gonna be one one clip that I
Speaker 3: think if I think something's gonna do particularly well on social,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna drop a bomb in there. But I
Speaker 3: like Carolina. I like Carolina to be Cleveland. I like
Speaker 3: Baker to play well, and as long as McCaffrey's healthy,
Speaker 3: which we don't know how long that'll be, I think
Speaker 3: Caroline is a frisky team, all right.
Speaker 4: Next, for what it's worth, folks, I'm definitely with Carolina
Speaker 4: as well, thank you.
Speaker 5: But before a Slovenian basketball game, Luca donci is reportedly
Speaker 5: drinking soda and smoking a cigarette. Good pregame routine or
Speaker 5: the best pregame routine?
Speaker 3: Oh god, I'm gonna call it a good pregame routine.
Speaker 3: Holy crap, I'll tell you why. Okay, Luca's got to
Speaker 3: know better than to drink soda. Listen, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: knock him for a delicious cigarette every once in a while.
Speaker 3: You just need a delicious cigarette, you just do.
Speaker 4: I gotta know not to drink soda.
Speaker 3: SODA's toxic. Soda is no good for you. Like like Luca,
Speaker 3: I can look the other way on the cigarette. Let
Speaker 3: let's put healthier things into our body than cola. Though
Speaker 3: that I'm gonna turn the other way.
Speaker 4: Are we being serious right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Of course I'm being serious. Of course. I listen
Speaker 3: to guy, the guy's clearly addicted to smoking. Like, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna knock him for it. I I've been with
Speaker 3: your mother for fifteen years. On our first trip together,
Speaker 3: I put on nicotine patches because we were traveling. I
Speaker 3: was like, she hates smoking, I'm gonna wear nicotine patches. Wrong, arm,
Speaker 3: I'm still wearing them. It's been fifteen years of nicotine patches.
Speaker 3: Cigarettes are a hard habit to kick. And the fact
Speaker 3: that Luca is out here kicking ass and taking names
Speaker 3: while dragging a few heaters, it just adds to his legend. Uh.
Speaker 3: A great story of Lott of Devots. Lott of Devots
Speaker 3: who now runs the Kings. He was a great center
Speaker 3: for the Lakers and the Kings for a long time,
Speaker 3: a very good center. People didn't know why he fell
Speaker 3: in the draft, and it was because when teams went
Speaker 3: to go scout him in Serbia.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think it was Serbia. I apologize if I have
Speaker 3: his native land wrong. Uh. When they went to go
Speaker 3: scout him during timeouts, he was smoking cigarettes and they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: that ain't gonna work. The guy was just just killing eaters,
Speaker 3: and Luke is just keeping the legend going. I love
Speaker 3: him so much, guy, I love him all right.
Speaker 4: Next rookie receivers. Sky Moore was pranked by the Chiefs
Speaker 4: receiving corpse. Uh core.
Speaker 3: That's a weird word. The P and the S are
Speaker 3: silent core. Wait, but when you say marine corps, he
Speaker 3: spelled like that. It's not never corpse.
Speaker 4: Corpse incorporated corporate.
Speaker 3: Yes, but corpse with an e. It's like a dead body. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but this one, it's just core. Odd word. No worries,
Speaker 3: Go ahead, all right?
Speaker 5: At his rig the restaurant and bottom of bill for
Speaker 5: nearly twenty three thousand dollars. Turns out it was a
Speaker 5: fake bill. But this is a common practice. Is rookie
Speaker 5: hazing a part of the job or is it not?
Speaker 3: Okay, it's part of the job as long as it's not.
Speaker 4: This twenty three thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not right to make it, to put a
Speaker 3: guy in a position to spend that type of money
Speaker 3: on a meal when because you got have real wealth exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean I was like, his family gonna
Speaker 4: look at that type of situation.
Speaker 3: One hundred to him and it's gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 3: you can spend that money on this? Why can't you
Speaker 3: buy me a car my house payment. So the fact
Speaker 3: that this was a joke, I'm fine with it. I'm
Speaker 3: fine with the prank of making him think he has
Speaker 3: to pay, right. But the days of twenty thousand dollars dinners,
Speaker 3: because guys are ordering bottles of Louis the fourteenth, which
Speaker 3: are like four grand at the you know, at Capitol Grill.
Speaker 3: Those gotta go. It's it's one of the particularly in
Speaker 3: the NFL, when guys have short care and non guaranteed contracts. Right, So,
Speaker 3: I'm good at the ricky hazing. I'm good to a
Speaker 3: lot of things guys do. The shaved heads, the fashion shows,
Speaker 3: all that stuff. The talent shows. Don't make these guys
Speaker 3: spend five figures on some nonsense for a laugh when
Speaker 3: that you know, you don't know how long their career
Speaker 3: is going to go. Making them think though they spend
Speaker 3: five figures and then being like Noah, no, that ain't it,
Speaker 3: or the veterans are paying for it. That I'm all
Speaker 3: good with. We'll be right back, all right, Final Block,
Speaker 3: Episode sixty four, What's right with Nick? Great? By the way,
Speaker 3: the next time folks see me on this pod and
Speaker 3: on television, not only are we going to be in
Speaker 3: a new studio on TV and we have the new
Speaker 3: studio here, but uh, I'm doing a very bold haircut.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Deanna is gonna have like a major Like,
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a thing.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, like, I don't know. I just
Speaker 4: feel like.
Speaker 3: You're worried about how Deanna is going to react to
Speaker 3: the haircut.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mom, it's probably not gonna be great with Mom either.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm worried about how America is going to react
Speaker 3: to it. But I'm trying it. I'm I'm going for it.
Speaker 3: I showed the haircut. I'm getting to Wild's. Wild's so funny.
Speaker 3: He's so funny. Wild said you didn't score enough goals
Speaker 3: last year, just saying I'm getting the haircut of a
Speaker 3: European soccer player. But we'll see, we'll see how it
Speaker 3: works out. The worst case scenario, just shave the head. Okay,
Speaker 3: what are we doing for the final block?
Speaker 4: All right? Man?
Speaker 5: Last episode, you had to take about Mahomes being ranked
Speaker 5: number eight in the NFL Top one hundred. Yep even
Speaker 5: said the ranking the ranking invalidated the whole list. Uh huh,
Speaker 5: I know you don't re replies, but I've got a
Speaker 5: few for you.
Speaker 3: Oh so you're gonna show him to me? Yeah, we're
Speaker 3: gonna apply y to the mahomes thing. I agree. Just
Speaker 3: like ranking Luca in your fifty invalidated your list. See
Speaker 3: how it works, all right, macnzials will do with you
Speaker 3: in a moment. What's the next one? Let me then
Speaker 3: that's Matt Goun with a bunch of numbers, Just like
Speaker 3: putting MJ. Thurd on your top fifty list in validated
Speaker 3: that list. A little shrugging guy emoji Damien.
Speaker 4: I's got android, all right, what's next? Love you?
Speaker 3: Nick? But Alyssa as MJ at three and lebron at
Speaker 3: one also cannot be taken seriously, and then another laughing
Speaker 3: emoji from hey Tao, are there any more? Are we
Speaker 3: done here? Okay, so here's the thing. First guy, it
Speaker 3: was first name, last name, bunch of numbers. Those replies
Speaker 3: are meaningless. Anyone who's handle is first name, last name,
Speaker 3: bunch of numbers is a bot or is acting like
Speaker 3: a bot, not interested in what they have to say.
Speaker 3: And I explained the precedent for the Luca ranking. How
Speaker 3: many times do I have to tell people this? Now?
Speaker 3: The other two people, I will take them. I will
Speaker 3: at least respond to them in kind. I don't know
Speaker 3: how many times I have to explain to you that
Speaker 3: a arguing that Michael Jordan cannot ever be third is
Speaker 3: not about Michael Jordan, and it's not about Lebron James.
Speaker 3: It is directly about Kareem. And I will not stand
Speaker 3: for the constant disrespect for the captain. I won't do it.
Speaker 3: How many MVPs does Michael Jordan have the answers? Five?
Speaker 3: I get choked up to talking about it. How many
Speaker 3: does Cream have they answer six? Is Michael Jordan even
Speaker 3: one of the four all time leading scorers in the NBA?
Speaker 3: He is not. He's barely had a Dirk Novitzky. Kareem's
Speaker 3: the all time leader. Yep, Kareem play again. I'm not
Speaker 3: doing the Jordan Kareem thing once again. However, these folks
Speaker 3: that are always insistent that Jordan can't be ranked third, they,
Speaker 3: whether they understand it or not, they're really arguing. What
Speaker 3: they are arguing is that Kareem doesn't have a case
Speaker 3: to be the goat. He does. Three guys do, so
Speaker 3: a guy who might be the goat is third. That's
Speaker 3: how this works.
Speaker 4: Right, everybody can't be number one.
Speaker 3: No, And if let me trying to find another great example. Okay,
Speaker 3: you know what, We'll wrap the show with a little
Speaker 3: miniature Nick's tennis corner. Most people would agree the three
Speaker 3: greatest tennis players ever are the three guys crushing it
Speaker 3: right now. Feers obviously not playing much anymore. But Federer, Nadal, Djokovic.
Speaker 3: If you asked one hundred dieard tennis fans who the
Speaker 3: greatest tennis player of all time are, you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: get at least twenty five that say Federer, twenty five
Speaker 3: that's saying it all, twenty five that say Djokovic. What
Speaker 3: that means is, if there were ever a perfect unimpeachable list,
Speaker 3: someone that a lot of people, a big percentage of
Speaker 3: people think is the greatest ever would come in third.
Speaker 3: You now, when it comes to basketball, happen to be
Speaker 3: lucky enough to live in a world where you do
Speaker 3: have a perfect, unimpeachable list. It's my fifty greatest players
Speaker 3: last fifty years, And after crunching all the numbers and
Speaker 3: doing all the analogy, we have Michael Jordan and third,
Speaker 3: I'm not taking any more questions on this I will
Speaker 3: talk to you all next week from our new podcast studio,
Speaker 3: from our new television studio, and with my brand new haircut.
Speaker 3: That's today's show. Oh wait, wait, I won't talk to
Speaker 3: you guys next week, though I will, but you guys
Speaker 3: are gonna hear from me again before next week because
Speaker 3: all right, first NFL gambling show comes out Friday. We
Speaker 3: recorded it earlier in the week, so the next time
Speaker 3: you'll actually see me doing new stuff is next week.
Speaker 3: But you have one more pod and YouTube show coming
Speaker 3: out this week that's on Friday. And now the show's open.
Speaker 4: Hey guys, by the way, I didn't get the Byron
Speaker 4: Scott thing. All right.
Speaker 5: I don't know if we can put this on so
Speaker 5: that everybody keeps asking, you know, what's happening with the
Speaker 5: Byron Scott thing. Nothing's coming of it. I didn't get
Speaker 5: the job. You guys didn't do enough.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was a sad way to end the show.
Speaker 4: But I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get the last word on all these shows.
Speaker 3: So now it was like a little like feel bad
Speaker 3: for me moment. Oh hey, guys, get the Alright, talk
Speaker 3: to you guys next week,