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Speaker 3: Welcome into episode to eleven of the What's Right with
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Speaker 3: be on the lookout for every Sunday the latest edition
Speaker 3: of our Top fifty Players of the Last fifty Years list,
Speaker 3: which is kind of a standalone series we are doing.
Speaker 3: We just released the episode that has players forty eight
Speaker 3: through forty four. Some great names on that list, Dennis
Speaker 3: Rodmen on the list, Tiny Day Archibald on the list,
Speaker 3: so check that out as well. But before we get
Speaker 3: to what we are talking about today, which will be
Speaker 3: a lot of the NBA playoffs, here is what we
Speaker 3: are not talking about today. What did not make the
Speaker 3: show today is some dude on the Reds who threw
Speaker 3: one hundred and two miles per hour Green Bay, replacing
Speaker 3: DeVante Adams with Super Bowl champion Sammy Watkins. And Brady's
Speaker 3: last touchdown ball, which wasn't the last touchdown ball because
Speaker 3: that was a sham retirement just to get to the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: That guy who paid the five hundred and eighteen thousand
Speaker 3: he ended up actually not having the five hundred and
Speaker 3: eighteen thousand dollars. Right now, I was win though, I
Speaker 3: pivot to Demons and he typically tells me what we
Speaker 3: are talking about. But first we have some explaining to do.
Speaker 3: Demanse is a Celtics fan. Why are you a Celtics fan?
Speaker 3: What's the what's the genesis of your Celtics fandom?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: I just love doing the ray Allen Rondo and Kevin Garnett,
Speaker 6: Paul Pierce.
Speaker 3: I love that love that team. Rondo was your favorite player.
Speaker 3: Now you're not. As we will discuss in a moment,
Speaker 3: a big Kyrie Irving theme. People are gonna think that
Speaker 3: is a Kyrie Irving Celtics jersey.
Speaker 2: It is not.
Speaker 3: However, that is a Nick Right Celtics jersey. You don't know, however,
Speaker 3: how I got this. I was given this jersey by
Speaker 3: none other than total charlatan, politically disingenuous former NBA player
Speaker 3: in this cant in his canton once upon a time,
Speaker 3: came on my television show, rubbed my head to see
Speaker 3: if my hair was real ala a Donald Trump, and
Speaker 3: then gave me this jersey. So it actually says right
Speaker 3: on the back, but we are going to call it
Speaker 3: a Peyton Pritchard jersey because Peyton is number one eleven
Speaker 3: for the Celtics. So you are a Celtics fan, You
Speaker 3: are not a Kyrie fan. I think we're probably starting
Speaker 3: with the Celtics, so good morning, good to see you.
Speaker 2: What are we starting with.
Speaker 6: Let's start with the Nets and the Celtics. Yep, are Celtics.
Speaker 6: My guys hate him and a buzzer beater in Game
Speaker 6: one yep.
Speaker 2: I know you want to kill Brooklyn but you know,
Speaker 2: it's just one game, and Katie isn't going to be
Speaker 2: that bad again.
Speaker 6: Okay, they might get Simmons back, and they only lost
Speaker 6: fout one with Katie having a really bad game, So
Speaker 6: they actually shouldn't They actually feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's that's similar to what Chris Brussard said
Speaker 3: this morning, not the on Monday morning I should say,
Speaker 3: which is, hey, they should feel good. Katie is not
Speaker 3: going to be that bad again and they only lost
Speaker 3: by one. That's not how it works in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: First of all, Katie and Kyrie combined for sixty two points,
Speaker 3: are nearly fifty percent shooting. So while Katie won't be
Speaker 3: that bad, Kyrie won't be that goodtill gonna combined around
Speaker 3: sixty to seventy points per game. But every single moment
Speaker 3: in these playoffs, when the margins are this thin count,
Speaker 3: and no, you can't feel good about losing the game.
Speaker 3: When you have a three point lead with forty five
Speaker 3: seconds left and you give up two layups to lose Boston,
Speaker 3: it's a Jaalen Brown layup. Then they have a terrible
Speaker 3: possession does Brooklyn on the other end that ends in
Speaker 3: a Kevin Durant contested twenty seven footer and then they
Speaker 3: give up another layup to lose the game. Boston didn't
Speaker 3: have to take a single jump shot to beat them.
Speaker 3: That's first of all, second of all, and I've been
Speaker 3: hammering the coaching point all year. I will continue to
Speaker 3: hammer it. Either you don't have the roster of a
Speaker 3: team that has any chance can beat for a title,
Speaker 3: or your coach doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker 2: What do I mean?
Speaker 3: After Kyrie hit that three at the end of the
Speaker 3: game with forty five seconds left put them up three,
Speaker 3: Boston called timeout. So Brooklyn then had the chance to
Speaker 3: put their very best defensive lineup on the court, the
Speaker 3: best five defenders they can come up with, and then
Speaker 3: if they get a stop, all time out themselves, put
Speaker 3: the best offensive lineup on the court. And you know
Speaker 3: who took the court. Kevin Durant, Shore Claxton, good call,
Speaker 3: Bruce Brown. I don't know Kyrie Irving and Gooram Dragons.
Speaker 3: So either Steve Nash doesn't know what he's doing, or
Speaker 3: he does know what he's doing. And that's your best
Speaker 3: five defenders. And if your best five defenders, two fifths of
Speaker 3: them are thirty six year old Goran Dragic and Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3: That's a problem. And if you watch that again, is
Speaker 3: the second to last offensive play for Boston. Boston because
Speaker 3: they have a real coach and they have real continuity.
Speaker 3: All they do is they have whoever's Durant and Claxton
Speaker 3: are guarding. Those two guys set a screen for each
Speaker 3: other thirty five feet from the basket, draw Brooklyn's only
Speaker 3: two legitimate defenders all the way outside of the paint.
Speaker 2: And then Jalen Brown gets.
Speaker 3: To go one on one on Bruce Brown. So that's
Speaker 3: a huge problem for them. And then also, and this
Speaker 3: is where I want to give Boston a ton of credit,
Speaker 3: the fact that they got that rebound off the Durant
Speaker 3: miss with fourteen seconds left Forford gets the rebound, he
Speaker 3: kicks it. I don't know if it was White or
Speaker 3: Perch or whoever was out there. Who then kicks it
Speaker 3: to Brown, who kicks it to Smart, who find Sadam.
Speaker 3: All five guys touched the ball. Boston doesn't call time out.
Speaker 3: That is like that.
Speaker 2: That is a team that.
Speaker 3: Knows how to play together, as opposed to a team
Speaker 3: that has two sensational offensive players and that's it, and
Speaker 3: now quickly before and we're going to spend time on
Speaker 3: this because this is the most interesting game of the weekend. Also,
Speaker 3: Durant's got to be better. Durrant demandsay, we were watching
Speaker 3: the very beginning of that game.
Speaker 2: We watched the whole thing.
Speaker 3: But in the very beginning of the game, how many
Speaker 3: times did Durant just have the ball taken from it?
Speaker 2: Just get bullets?
Speaker 3: I mean, he had half a dozen turnovers and the
Speaker 3: first handful of them were the ball. He just wasn't
Speaker 3: ready for the physicality of the game. Boston's not going
Speaker 3: to stop that, the idea that ball. Like Boston's been
Speaker 3: the number one defense in basketball for four months now,
Speaker 3: They're going to keep bringing that level of physicality. I
Speaker 3: don't think Brooklyn's ready for it. And Brooklyn now essentially
Speaker 3: has to win five out of seven, which they because
Speaker 3: they had yesterday or Sunday's game one and they blew it.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's other stuff to talk about this.
Speaker 6: Game now, Nikyrie, we got the full Kyrie experience Sunday.
Speaker 6: He had thirty nine, six and five and multiple middle fingers.
Speaker 6: Then he said he was just matching Boston fans energy
Speaker 6: after the game and said that there's only so much
Speaker 6: you could take.
Speaker 2: What do you think how fans treated him and how
Speaker 2: he reacted?
Speaker 3: All right, listen, I am not going to sit here
Speaker 3: and defend a Boston sports fan.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 3: That is not what I want to do. And I'm
Speaker 3: sure they were vulgar to him. I believe him, all right.
Speaker 3: And in general, fans, particularly Boston fans, have a bad
Speaker 3: rep Utah Jazz fans have a bad rep.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Particularly that's a whole other story. We get into it
Speaker 3: at some point. Philly fans have not the greatest rep
Speaker 3: There are certain arenas you know are going to be
Speaker 3: extra intense if you will. With that said, of course,
Speaker 3: you're not supposed to flip off the fans like those.
Speaker 2: And the thing with Kyrie.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell a quick story from me as a child,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you know the story or not,
Speaker 3: and it's not going to make sense in the beginning,
Speaker 3: but I'll bring it all together as.
Speaker 2: I so often.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, one time I was with my I was
Speaker 3: probably eight years old. I was with my parents that
Speaker 3: were shopping for lights. I was at a place called
Speaker 3: Rinson House of Lights in Kansas City. It's a giant,
Speaker 3: like almost Ikea sized places like lights and chandeliers. It's
Speaker 3: family owned, and there's a big, friendly dog who just
Speaker 3: like stays in the store and lays down. So while
Speaker 3: my parents are looking for lights, we were like, oh,
Speaker 3: you can pet the dog and play with the dog.
Speaker 2: And about ten minutes.
Speaker 3: Do you know the story, About ten minutes later, you
Speaker 3: hear the dog bark and I'm trying and I have
Speaker 3: two giant teeth marks on either side of my face,
Speaker 3: like he bit my face like that, and I'm I'm
Speaker 3: trying and I'm upset, and the owners are so apologetically like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, knowing this has ever happened, and my
Speaker 3: dad calls me over.
Speaker 2: It's like what happened? And I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was petting him and what did I just kind
Speaker 3: of nonchalantly if you remember the story, tell my dad
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: Do you remember? Did you grab me like you grab
Speaker 2: his tailor?
Speaker 3: Is I put my finger up the dog's nose. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was a little kid and I put my finger
Speaker 3: up the dog's nose and he bit me.
Speaker 2: And I was horrified that he and the dogs shouldn't
Speaker 2: have bit me.
Speaker 3: But I also shouldn't have been shocked that if I
Speaker 3: put my finger up the dog's nose that he might
Speaker 3: react for it. In this analogy, Kyrie Irving is eight
Speaker 3: year old me and Celtics fans are the dog. Should
Speaker 3: they be calling him the P word and the B word?
Speaker 2: No? Should Kyrie be shocked by it? No? And Kyrie's
Speaker 2: woe is me? Why did?
Speaker 3: Why can't they get over it? Well, let's go through
Speaker 3: the quick history of this. Okay, Kyrie gets to Boston
Speaker 3: his first year there, he oddly skips out on even
Speaker 3: showing up for Game seven of the playoffs, sitting on
Speaker 3: the bench.
Speaker 2: He's not with his team.
Speaker 3: Then next year, before the season starts, he holds all
Speaker 3: Prescotmerdce's like, oh, love to finish my career here, if
Speaker 3: you'll have me. He immediately starts planning to go play
Speaker 3: with Kevin Durant, gets caught talking to Kevin Durant about
Speaker 3: this the All Star Game, gets asked about it, and
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, my god, friends can't talk with friends.
Speaker 2: What the hell are you guys talking about?
Speaker 3: By the way, sidebar our young players are totally selfish.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to win. They need to follow me.
Speaker 3: We then get to the playoffs. They have a good
Speaker 3: first round of the playoffs. Round two they play Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Kyrie is awful in that series and demands to guard Yiannis.
Speaker 3: Giannis destroys him repeatedly and then he immediately bounces. He
Speaker 3: then last year in the playoffs, gets to Boston, or
Speaker 3: before that, even before he even gets to Boston. First
Speaker 3: game back in TD Garden, he's saving the arena. Remember
Speaker 3: that he's saved in the arena. Then in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: left here he stomps on that stupid Leprekhn's face, which
Speaker 3: I don't really care about that, but he did it.
Speaker 3: And then this game he gives them the middle fingers repeatedly,
Speaker 3: and the whole time he's like, why can't they move on?
Speaker 3: What are you like, guys, We're just here to play basketball, Dude,
Speaker 3: have some accountability. And again, I think fans are out
Speaker 3: of line all the time. That's a different discussion. But
Speaker 3: stars in the league don't go around and flip people off.
Speaker 3: They just don't do it. So much of Kyrie's own
Speaker 3: drama is self inflicted. It's just exhausting. The oh why
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a distraction for my team
Speaker 3: when so much of this is stuff he goes out
Speaker 3: of his way to do so.
Speaker 2: Yes, fans should treat people better.
Speaker 3: Kyrie also needs to be a little more like Kevin Durant,
Speaker 3: if you will, and a little bit less like eight
Speaker 3: year old Nick Wright.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next? Were by the way, I don't
Speaker 2: think we're gonna hit the clock today, but we're gonna try.
Speaker 6: But the Suns cruising game one and looked as dominant
Speaker 6: as they did in the regular season. Luca, meanwhile, might
Speaker 6: not never be one hundred percent in this postseason. So
Speaker 6: here's your chance to get off your whole MAVs to
Speaker 6: the Finals take.
Speaker 2: Okay, so listen.
Speaker 3: My Maps of the Finals pick had the caveat of
Speaker 3: if Luca's back by game three, I believe, I hope,
Speaker 3: I pray, You'll be back by game three. I'm not
Speaker 3: getting off the Maps of the Finals take because if
Speaker 3: he's not back by game three, then I'm allowed to
Speaker 3: pick it another team. It was all Luca bass I
Speaker 3: said that from the very beginning. What I will say
Speaker 3: about the Sun's game, and I'm not going to mention
Speaker 3: any other names any other people that may have won MVPs.
Speaker 3: What I will say is Chris Paul showed you what
Speaker 3: an MVP looks like. The guy who I said last
Speaker 3: year should have been the league MVP. Chris Paul in
Speaker 3: Game one of that Sun series had thirty points. You know,
Speaker 3: last time Chris Paul scored thirty points Game one of
Speaker 3: the finals last year. When all you're without scoring thirty,
Speaker 3: it's almost like he could have been scoring a ton
Speaker 3: of points, and yet he picks his spots.
Speaker 2: He had nineteen in the fourth quarter night.
Speaker 3: He only scored more than nineteen in a game, fourteen
Speaker 3: dimes all year, and it's like, Oh, the best players
Speaker 3: pick up and lift their teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I almost wish I do my thing when it comes
Speaker 2: to MVPs. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're almost out of time. Back, we are out
Speaker 3: of time, that's the buzzer. But we're gonna we have
Speaker 3: a jaw topic. It looks like, go.
Speaker 6: Ahead, what's last Finally, the most fun game of the weekend?
Speaker 2: Memphis and Minnesota. Yeah, two of the youngest and most
Speaker 2: fun teams in the league. This could be an epic series. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So if you have to build around, who are you choosing?
Speaker 2: Jaw or ant Man? Oh to it. Listen to me.
Speaker 2: The answer is definitely job.
Speaker 6: Okay, he definitely going with a man. But how come
Speaker 6: I just think he's more solid. You know, he's durable
Speaker 6: well and hurts playing. Okay, so that's a fair take.
Speaker 6: I do I mean John?
Speaker 3: In this game, there were like six times I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, he's going to be hurt and he's
Speaker 3: he is thin and he does hit the ground a ton.
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards is built like a truck. That's where I
Speaker 3: agree with. I just think Jaws Upside is League MVP.
Speaker 3: I think ant Man's top end is scoring chain and
Speaker 3: so I don't know what the hell that sound is.
Speaker 3: I think that's them telling us we got to go,
Speaker 3: or it's my alarm system freaking out. I'm with Jaw,
Speaker 3: You're with ant Man. We'll revisit in five years. We'll
Speaker 3: be right back.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe in calling everything sounds either.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, he's obviously an excellent player, but I
Speaker 3: think this is year seven and.
Speaker 2: He just always feels a little soft.
Speaker 3: To me, they could be amazing next year if he
Speaker 3: gets a little tougher because Anthony Edwards is a star.
Speaker 2: You're right about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have two number one picks that were
Speaker 3: no doubt number one picks, and this was this is
Speaker 3: it's like an unpopular year to have this Karl Anthony
Speaker 3: Towns take.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like he does great in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Leader Well, this is his second time ever.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's only ever been in the playoffs one
Speaker 3: other time and that was the one year they had Jimmy.
Speaker 3: But like, that's the thing is he has these amazing numbers,
Speaker 3: and before Anthony Edwards got there, it never translated to winning.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I can't prove it.
Speaker 6: It's like if Anthony Anthony Edwards can begin in the postseason,
Speaker 6: why I can't catch.
Speaker 3: And he was, By the way, he almost set the
Speaker 3: record for most points ever in a player's postseason debut.
Speaker 2: Do you know a hold to that record? By the way? Uh,
Speaker 2: is it Lebron? No, it's wait, hold on. If it's
Speaker 2: not Lebron, and I'm bringing up who do you think
Speaker 2: it is? Is Kobe? No, that's Luca. Luca forty two
Speaker 2: in his first ever playoff game. Get healthy, Luca. So
Speaker 2: who's somebody had thirty six? Anthony Edwards had thirty six.
Speaker 3: I think this weekend Lebron's I think Lebron had a
Speaker 3: thirty point triple double.
Speaker 2: Was his playoff debut? I don't remember. Kobe was a
Speaker 2: team in coming off the bench his first playoff so
Speaker 2: good point.
Speaker 3: So he wasn't the guy. But uh, but it's Luca
Speaker 3: with forty two. All right, I think we're ready for
Speaker 3: the b block. Demanse excellent first segment, even though I'm
Speaker 3: until the audience something, we were rolling. We were fine.
Speaker 3: Demons tripped over one word. He's become He's got it.
Speaker 3: He's become such a diva. First of all, we haven't
Speaker 3: even discussed it got he got his haircut. He didn't
Speaker 3: say it was for the podcast, but I believe it
Speaker 3: was for the podcast. He's like, oh, I want to
Speaker 3: look a little more professional. Damn near shaved his head.
Speaker 3: And then this time in the A bloc we're rolling,
Speaker 3: he stumbles over one word. He's like, guys, guys, guys,
Speaker 3: we got to pick. We gotta start, we gotta start
Speaker 3: to stop from there. See, you gotta be fresh. Okay,
Speaker 3: what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Wild week for Baker Mayfield. Yeah, says he wants to
Speaker 2: boo people in their cubicles. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Rumors connecting him to the Panthers Robby Anderson says no
Speaker 6: to those, by the way, Yeah, he said he's motivated
Speaker 6: by the disrespect that he seems to have no fans left.
Speaker 2: Do you think we should jump in this corner? Well,
Speaker 2: I'm in his corner. I would love you to join me.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, Baker is not great, but I would
Speaker 3: also feel disrespected if I We're big. The Browns were
Speaker 3: one and thirty one in the two years before he
Speaker 3: got there.
Speaker 2: Everyone just forgets this.
Speaker 3: Before Baker took over, there was a bud Light promotion
Speaker 3: where there was a freezer fridge of three beer that
Speaker 3: they were gonna cut the chain off of once the
Speaker 3: Browns won a single game, and the first game of
Speaker 3: that promotion, the Browns tie and they're like, can we
Speaker 3: open it? They didn't lose. They've lost thirty one of them,
Speaker 3: thirty two. Baker gets there. Two of the four years
Speaker 3: he's been good. Two of the four years he's been bad.
Speaker 3: The two years he was bad, one they had the
Speaker 3: worst coach maybe in an NFL history, in Freddie Kitchens.
Speaker 3: The other he was injured, and they and fine, they
Speaker 3: want to move on from him. For Deshaun Watson as
Speaker 3: Deshaun on the field is excellent. I guess you can
Speaker 3: deal with that. But the way they've handled it leaking
Speaker 3: that he's not an adult and then not just releasing
Speaker 3: him so you can go find another team because they
Speaker 3: hope to get some sixth round pick for some cap relief.
Speaker 3: I'd be angry if I were Baker two. So I
Speaker 3: don't blame Baker feeling disrespected.
Speaker 2: I also really hope he doesn't end up with the Panthers.
Speaker 3: The Panthers are not any good and Baker if he
Speaker 3: ends up with the Panthers, I think this is. I mean,
Speaker 3: they just tried this with Sam Donalds. He's better than
Speaker 3: Sam donald but the top three pick that didn't work
Speaker 3: out in his first place, the Panthers then taking a
Speaker 3: flyer on him. I don't so I agree with Robbie Anderson,
Speaker 3: but for different reasons. Robby Anderson wants a better Quarterbackbby
Speaker 3: Anderson should be very happy he got the contract he
Speaker 3: got from the Panthers and not worry so much about
Speaker 3: who's coming in, especially since if Baker's not that if
Speaker 3: it's not like they have a better quarterback in house
Speaker 3: in Carolina, like a Baker would be the best quarterback
Speaker 3: they've had since Cam was healthy, and Cam's not. I mean,
Speaker 3: Cam's not that guy anymore. Darnold's obviously not that guy.
Speaker 3: Like to me, the idea that Robbie Anderson's taking shots
Speaker 3: at Baker Mayfield give me a break. But I really
Speaker 3: hope Baker ends up with the Steelers. I think that's
Speaker 3: a perfect fit for him. It allows him to try
Speaker 3: to get some revenge on Cleveland. The Steelers have stability,
Speaker 3: they have defense, they have all the things that I
Speaker 3: think Baker can succeed with. And I think at times
Speaker 3: there was a time where Baker's stock was probably a
Speaker 3: little too high.
Speaker 2: At this point, I think it's a little too low.
Speaker 3: I would be fine with paying Baker Mayfield eighteen million
Speaker 3: dollars a year, or eighteen million dollars for one year
Speaker 3: as a tryout, as you know, to kind of test
Speaker 3: the waters, if you will. So yeah, I am a
Speaker 3: Baker fan. I've liked him. I think that you know,
Speaker 3: he tried to play through injury and ended up costing
Speaker 3: him a ton of money. And I don't like how
Speaker 3: the Browns have handled this whole situation all right, Time
Speaker 3: now for a game, A little this or that?
Speaker 2: Demonse kicked us off? Please, most interesting comeback? Forty eight
Speaker 2: year old trail or Owens yep or the Warriors deathline.
Speaker 3: Oh it's the I'm not interested in anything t O related.
Speaker 3: Did I ever tell you? I don't think I ever
Speaker 3: told you this. I guess I am a little I'll
Speaker 3: talk with Warriors in a moment. I'm a little interested
Speaker 3: in one thing t O related, which is like four
Speaker 3: years ago, when he was getting jerked around by the
Speaker 3: NFL Hall of Fame. I went on television and I
Speaker 3: was like, listen, he's obviously should be a first Battle
Speaker 3: of Hall of Famer. I don't care that he was
Speaker 3: a jerk. He's one of the five or six best
Speaker 3: receivers ever by any metric, Like give me a break
Speaker 3: here to somehow got my phone number, called me and
Speaker 3: basically thanked me for like forty five minutes call.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think you were in college. Like
Speaker 2: I don't remember where I was when I got the
Speaker 2: phone call.
Speaker 3: I know I was on a long drive and I
Speaker 3: got some phone call from uh some it showed up,
Speaker 3: like what No, it was the middle of the day
Speaker 3: to the middle of the day, and he was so
Speaker 3: like he was so appreciative of it. But then he
Speaker 3: also just like went on like a long kind of
Speaker 3: rambling defense of his career. But I was already defending
Speaker 3: his career, Like he just wanted to like talk to
Speaker 3: somebody who's like before you, buddy, Like I'm with you,
Speaker 3: but I'm not interested in potential to comebacks. I am
Speaker 3: interested in the Warriors. The Warriors right now. They they
Speaker 3: again were recording right before Game two of Warriors Nuggets,
Speaker 3: and god knows, listen, the Nuggets could crush him because
Speaker 3: the Nuggets have the best player in the league. They
Speaker 3: have the soon to be two time MVP, one of
Speaker 3: the greatest players ever. So god knows, Game one was
Speaker 3: an aberration, and the Nuggets should, you know, at the
Speaker 3: very least make this thing go seven games, since they.
Speaker 2: Have clearly far and away the best player on the court.
Speaker 3: And the Warriors, meanwhile, were so unconcerned with the Nuggets
Speaker 3: they didn't even start Steph Curry, who's on a pitch
Speaker 3: count are a minutes count, and Jordan Poole ended up
Speaker 3: scoring thirty. But the Warriors, they looked scary at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the year when they were helped and then
Speaker 3: but they weren't even really healthy because Clay wasn't there
Speaker 3: right then Clay came back, and then Draymond was out,
Speaker 3: and then when Draymond came back, Steph was out. And
Speaker 3: so now they're all three potentially back, plus Jordan Poole
Speaker 3: has been a damn revelation.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think the Warriors are.
Speaker 3: You asked me earlier about me adjusting my Western Armorence
Speaker 3: Finals pick. My pick is the MAVs if Luca's back
Speaker 3: by game three. If he's not, I'm a West I
Speaker 3: don't know what I'm going. I'm a Western Conference finalist
Speaker 3: free agent. I get to survey the landscape. But the
Speaker 3: Warriors right now look pretty impressive. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2: Word? Stranger protests Kyler demanding an extension or Timberwolves fans
Speaker 2: gluing and chaining themselves to the court.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Timberwolves fans are mad at Timberwolves owner Glenn
Speaker 3: Taylor and like his chicken farms or something. I'm more
Speaker 3: interested in the Kyler Obviously. The stranger ones are the
Speaker 3: people gluing in themselves the court and chaining themselves to
Speaker 3: the rent. That's stranger. But the more interesting is Kyler.
Speaker 3: I don't know what leverage Kyler thinks he has. Ky
Speaker 3: there have been in the last handful of years, five
Speaker 3: guys that after your three gotten quarterbacks, top five picks,
Speaker 3: that after your three have gotten big extensions. Mahomes no doubter,
Speaker 3: Josh Allen, I didn't think it was a no doubter,
Speaker 3: but he got it and has been great. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 3: on the field, no doubter, and then Winson golf total disasters.
Speaker 3: Wins and golf were total disasters, and they had both
Speaker 3: accomplished more than Kyler.
Speaker 2: Has up to this point in his career.
Speaker 3: Kyler's the smallest full time starting quarterback we've ever seen.
Speaker 3: He keeps getting hurt, and he keeps tailing off at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. I am not when he's
Speaker 3: got two years left on his deal. Was the number
Speaker 3: one pick of the draft, so he's not in a
Speaker 3: situation like Lamar's in Lamar's rookie deal was four years,
Speaker 3: nine million total.
Speaker 2: Kyler's is four years.
Speaker 3: Nine million per year and his fifth year option is
Speaker 3: like around thirty million bucks. I and the idea that
Speaker 3: Kyler Kyler's gonna sit out a season, really he's gonna
Speaker 3: I don't think he has leverage. If I were Arizona,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, Kyler, you're coming back, Buddy Flatley, like,
Speaker 3: we're not extending you right now.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think Kyler's getting bad advice, and I would
Speaker 3: I understand why he wants to get paid right now.
Speaker 2: But I Lamar didn't get a deal after your three.
Speaker 3: Lamar won a league in BP and had won a
Speaker 3: playoff game. Kyler's not done either, hasn't been close to either.
Speaker 3: So I'm not sure what the end game here is.
Speaker 3: And they're not going to trade him and they're not
Speaker 3: going to give him a new deal and he's not
Speaker 3: gonna sit out the season.
Speaker 2: I think tyler is getting bad advice. All right, what's next? Okay,
Speaker 2: more passive aggressive Lebron tweet retweeting Kuzma about the heat
Speaker 2: or praising tylo Oh.
Speaker 3: I think it's the praise of Tylou when he's saying
Speaker 3: the heat. He's talked about the heat. Developing players. One
Speaker 3: thing I will give the Lakers credit for this. They
Speaker 3: did a good job in developing players. They developed Caruso,
Speaker 3: they helped develop Kuzma. Those guys were not, you know,
Speaker 3: lottery picks. So I don't think that was that passive aggressive.
Speaker 3: The Tylou thing is definitely passive for us. And now Tyleru.
Speaker 3: They ended up blowing that fourth quarter lead. Port Clippers
Speaker 3: pulled George help and safety protocols.
Speaker 2: They're out.
Speaker 3: But regardless, I mean, Lebron gets to just be right
Speaker 3: about that. He wanted them to hire Tylou. They interviewed
Speaker 3: Tyleru and they offered him the job, but they offered
Speaker 3: him a paltry salary and not enough years, and so
Speaker 3: the Lakers end up going with Vogel. Tyler then goes
Speaker 3: to the Clippers and proves to be one of the
Speaker 3: very best coaches in the sport. So yeah, like that's
Speaker 3: passive aggressive, but it is also accurate. All right, what's
Speaker 3: like we might actually hit the clock this segment. This
Speaker 3: would be amazing. We got a minute left.
Speaker 2: What's next? Dog with better media training? Yeah, the dog
Speaker 2: from Baker's podcast or our guy Dexter. Oh okay, well
Speaker 2: that's yeah.
Speaker 3: So I don't think that was Baker's dog, but he's
Speaker 3: sprawled out on the couch, spread eagle and this is
Speaker 3: well two things. One is so look at this, and
Speaker 3: Wilde made this point on the show, Baker, he can
Speaker 3: need better people around you, man, to tell you the
Speaker 3: couch and the dog, like, your first public appearance can't
Speaker 3: be with this dog with his ass on the ground,
Speaker 3: his genitals in the air, like he just can't.
Speaker 2: That just can't be.
Speaker 3: With that said, I still think he's better behaved than
Speaker 3: our dog. Let's Deanna Danielle, somebody let Dexter out. Let's
Speaker 3: see if somebody let Dexter out of the the bathroom please,
Speaker 3: So our dog is did you guys open the door? Okay,
Speaker 3: just let Dexter, just open the door and let's see
Speaker 3: what he does. Dexy boy, come here, watch this, Watch
Speaker 3: this lunatic dex You guys might already hear him.
Speaker 2: He's come here. Come here, buddy, he might not stuck over.
Speaker 4: Dex Oh okay, all right, calm down, calm down.
Speaker 2: Oh he peed all over us? Oh oh my god,
Speaker 2: calm down. Where are you always knocking everything over?
Speaker 3: Dexter, Dexter, Dexter noe? Okay, well no, I was just
Speaker 3: trying to show them. See this guy's a He peed
Speaker 3: all over my new sweatsuit. I just took him out.
Speaker 3: Now he's biting me.
Speaker 2: This he's a maniac. He's a crazy panda bear.
Speaker 3: Look at this guy. Oh but you are a good boy.
Speaker 3: You are a good boy, Dexter. This is why you
Speaker 3: subscribe on YouTube. I don't know if this is very
Speaker 3: good for the audio listeners. But he's biting me again.
Speaker 3: But this is a great.
Speaker 2: You're a very good boy, even though you're an idiot.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Yeah. No, he.
Speaker 3: Has like they call it, like excitement, like incontinence. Whenever
Speaker 3: he gets excited, he just pulls on himself.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. In final segment, What's right with
Speaker 2: Nick Wright?
Speaker 3: Show and podcast and YouTube show episode number eleven. Usually
Speaker 3: in this final segment, Demons catches me off guard. Today,
Speaker 3: I actually kind of want to talk something sports related
Speaker 3: on the catch you Up card a little bit, which
Speaker 3: is you and I need to go to either game
Speaker 3: three or game four of Nets Celtics in brook so
Speaker 3: we should go. But here's what just to put a
Speaker 3: pin in, and we don't. There's I want to talk
Speaker 3: about the Kyrie stuff a little more. You know, who's
Speaker 3: actually getting a pass or something of a past and
Speaker 3: very lucky Kyrie did the middle fingers.
Speaker 2: Nonsense, it's Durant.
Speaker 3: Because Durant was really bad. Durant was really bad in
Speaker 3: that game, and nobody seems to care. And but I
Speaker 3: mean not, he's not getting crushed for it. Now, you're
Speaker 3: allowed to have a bad game. But when the nets
Speaker 3: entire playing is Katie and Kyrie both be brilliant, that's
Speaker 3: how we can overcome things. And Kyrie was brilliant and
Speaker 3: Durant was nine of twenty four with a half dozen turnovers.
Speaker 2: That's a problem.
Speaker 3: But set that back by the way that actually I
Speaker 3: just realized that means Durant's nine of his last thirty
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, because he did go zero for.
Speaker 2: Six in that game seven overtime at home.
Speaker 3: The game, Everyone's like, oh, if his foot wasn't on
Speaker 3: the line, Yeah, his foot wasn't on the line in regulation,
Speaker 3: and then in overtime if he had made a single
Speaker 3: shot instead of going over six. But no, you never
Speaker 3: talked bad about Kevin Rant. You know, he's a god.
Speaker 3: I'm a peasant. I know these things. But to the point, Demons,
Speaker 3: I'm just curious if we go to Barclays and let's
Speaker 3: say you wear that Celtics cherson and I'm just me,
Speaker 3: do you think we'll get hackled a little bit by
Speaker 3: the crowd?
Speaker 6: Then yeah, right, definitely get some side eyes at the.
Speaker 2: At the very least, but maybe even people shouted us. Right.
Speaker 2: Could you see a scenario where people maybe even curse
Speaker 2: it me? Could you see that happen potentially?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How do you think Fox, the good people at Blue
Speaker 3: Duk Media who run this thing.
Speaker 2: Would be if I reacted the way Kyrie.
Speaker 3: If every time somebody said something to me at Barclay's,
Speaker 3: I just gave him one of these.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they blur this or not, but
Speaker 2: they gave one of those.
Speaker 3: If somebody said Nick, right, you suck, and I say
Speaker 3: what Kyrie said, and I say it back, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm just giving it back to them. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean. It's just you know, I'm here for the
Speaker 2: I'm here for the smoke. Uh huh. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean that is kind of I understand that you're
Speaker 6: the one in like the public eye and like you
Speaker 6: have the following or whatever, but at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, like you know, everybody's human, so it's like
Speaker 6: the heckling.
Speaker 2: It comes to a points where.
Speaker 6: It's like it's it's not basketball, like you're coming at
Speaker 6: me as another human being. But I understand, like the
Speaker 6: middle finger might be a bit much, and it also
Speaker 6: depends on like what it is that they're saying, like Kyrie,
Speaker 6: you suck.
Speaker 2: I feel like doesn't know.
Speaker 3: And then he said that they called him the B
Speaker 3: word and the P word. I understand that that that Listen.
Speaker 3: If if my dad were at the game last night,
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, pop's, how was the game?
Speaker 2: He was like it was amazing.
Speaker 3: I kept calling Kyrie Irving a bit until he flipped
Speaker 3: me off. I even mortified, like you're seventy years old
Speaker 3: stopping like that. Of course, it's embarrassing behavior by the fans.
Speaker 3: But what Kyrie doesn't seem to quite get is this,
Speaker 3: in an odd way, it is that level of passion
Speaker 3: that is why the NBA is as popular as it is,
Speaker 3: and people and the players make as much money as
Speaker 3: they do because people are irrational about this specific form
Speaker 3: of entertainment. They care that much about it. That doesn't
Speaker 3: excuse the behavior. And I think in general most fan
Speaker 3: behavior a lot of times is reprehensible. But the guys
Speaker 3: have learned over their careers. The stars understand there's twenty
Speaker 3: thousand people in this arena. If one percent of them
Speaker 3: are total jackasses and another one percent are just hammered,
Speaker 3: that's four hundred people that could be out of line
Speaker 3: at any given time. So reacting to it is not
Speaker 3: in my interest. All the other stars seem to get it,
Speaker 3: and so and I understand Kyrie gets it.
Speaker 6: What tell me, no, no, no, that was bad.
Speaker 2: I was going to say something about Patrick Beverley, but
Speaker 2: that's not really his problem.
Speaker 3: No, it's problems with the fans. His problem is problem
Speaker 3: is with with skill levels. His problem is with not
Speaker 3: being a good enough basketball plas that's today's show.