What's Wright - Grizzlies-Warriors prediction & NBA Play-In, Lakers-Wolves + NBA awards - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in What Driving Nick Wright Episode three nineteen, Huge Show,
Huge Day, fresh off the Masters, NBA Playoffs starting and
fresh potentially with a new what Big Day for What's Right,
maybe a new partnership. And today, if not today, certainly
this week we're gonna two hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube.

(00:23):
So shout out to everyone works on the show, Shout
out to Demand myself, everybody, Blue Duck, volume, all the folks,
and shout out to my friends at Seat Geek. More
on them later in the show. But I had a
big meeting a few weeks ago and they're like, hey,
who are some brands you actually use? Like things you
actually use. I'm like, well, you already took care of

(00:44):
the sports betting with my DraftKings. That's a check. And
I was like Peloton every day, five days a week
during the NBA playoffs, but that's fine, five to seven
days a week. I said that cars, I said, Mercedes,
still looking at them. Sharpie's Sharpie. I've been trying to
get you guys for ten years. I mean your number.

(01:05):
They're probably like, we don't need to pay to endorse it.
He he advertises us more than anyone ever and Seat
Geek because I had just when they had talked to me,
I had just bought those courtside tickets to Lakers Grizzlies
hadn't gone yet on seat Geek. I bought my theater
stuff on seat Geek, and guess what, seat Geek's now
a part of the What's Right team and so more

(01:26):
on them in a bit, but appreciate them as always. Demanse,
how are you. I know you've been a little under
the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm pretty good. Good at sea pops still a lot
better these days, but we're on the.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, good, you sound good. You sound better than I thought.
Your mom talked to you this weekend. She was like,
Demansey's sick, he's coughing and all this stuff. I was
like Tuesdays and she'd show because listen, we can't do
and I understand. Warriors Clippers happened. We have Lakers Thunder
or Lakers Timberwolves. My NBA Awards ballad is today we

(01:59):
are pre emptively bumping our NFC over Unders. Instead of
during the show, as we've done three straight shows before
the show, We're now doing that Thursday because Wednesday night
we're not gonna need to talk Thursday, we're not gonna
talk a lot about the Wednesday Night nine ten muck
play in games. So Thursday when doing NFL over unders today,
we're gonna do awards ballots. But you know, we also

(02:20):
have to do the producers. You know, the producers all
of a sudden, they care a lot about the utube algorithm,
about what goes viral, and they're like, eh, Clippers, Warriors,
was Sunday Lakers stuff does really well. Maybe we can
trick Nick into not talking about the Masters by putting
in what missed the cut. So here's what missed the
cut and including what's gonna be a five to twenty

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minute missed the cut segment. It won't be twenty, but
it's gonna be a few minutes. Dallas drafts Pagebeckers number one.
That was obvious. Max Crosby's new assistant GM in Eastern Michigan.
That doesn't matter. Here's what does matter. Rory freaking McElroy
in an all time Masters Sunday, an all time Masters tournament.
In the last six years, Demons, there have been twelve

(03:06):
people to walk on the moon. There have been two
people to complete the career Grand Slam and Golf Rory
just became one of them. It's just facts. Since the
advent of colored television, you up until Sunday were twelve
times more likely to walk on the moon to complete

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the career Grand Slam. Just fact, and Rory had been
trying and trying and trying. The five people who had
completed it before they completed it, it was Sam Sneid,
Gene Sarazen, Gary Player, Jack Nicholas and Tiger Woods. Fact
checked me on that producers. But I'm ninety percent sure
those were the five. Sarahzn Sneed Player, Nicholas Woods. Those

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five guys all completed it either on their first try
or their second or third try. Rory was on a
had eleven tries tries, couldn't get it done, and then
this weekend he goes into Sunday with the lead. So
let me back it up a little bit. Thursday, Rory

(04:12):
having one of the best masters. Oh, I gave it
to Sam Snead. It was Ben Hogan. My apologies, my goodness, gracious,
terrible job by me, Good job by Sam Snead for
me thinking it was him, but obviously it's Ben Hogan.
I got Sarah and Wright Snead wrong. Doesn't matter. Back
to Thursday, Rory announcing himself, this is gonna be my tournament.

(04:35):
He's on his way, cruising to probably a sixty six
round one in Augusta and then double bogie fifteen, double
bogee seventeen. All of a sudden, a majestic round turns
into even part. What happened? Rory? How does that happen?

(05:00):
But then he rebounds Friday with a great round Saturday,
despite having another double I'm sorry, no. Saturday, another great
round and then we're like, okay, he's the leader. Bryson
hits a huge putt on eighteen. Bright It's gonna be
Bryson and Rory, the two most popular golfers in the world,

(05:24):
both polarizing for their own reasons. Final pairing at Augusta National.
When just last year, when Rory was looking like he
was gonna win a major, Bryson up and down from
the bunker at eighteen to steal it from him. Rory
crestfallen leaves without talking to the press. Everyone gets mad

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at him. Sunday though he's got the lead, two shot
lead going into Sunday. At the Masters first hole, another
double bogee, it's now three double bogeys on the round.
Only one guy ever has won the Masters with three
double bogies. He then follows that up with a terrible

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second hole, and all of a sudden, Bryson is in
the lead and the Rory meltdown is on. It would appear,
but it wasn't. He then rallies over the next ten
holes takes a commanding lead. I think it was a
four shot lead at that point. Demonsay on DraftKings he

(06:31):
is minus twelve hundred to win the tournament, minus twelve hundred.
All you gotta do, Rory is cruise. Just relax, chill,
don't worry. Cruise. So we get to the thirteenth hole. Sorry,
my phone's playing the sound because I'm looking at the
highlights so excited. Get to the thirteenth hole. He is
a four shot lead. Bryson has melted at this point

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to par five. He's been going for par fives and
two all weekend. Is you know what, I'm gonna be smart? No,
Jean van der veldeing here, I'm gonna lay up, leave
myself a beautiful eighty yards to get on the green
and he duffs it. One of the worst pitch shots

(07:17):
you'll ever see a professional golfer hit right into the creek,
right into the creek from eighty yards out, and all
of a sudden he has his fourth double bogie of
the day. All of a sudden, it's a tournament again,
and nobody can believe it's happened. So we but very

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next hole another Bogeye is the Rory meltdown complete? It
is not an amazing fifteenth and seventeenth hole, And all
of a sudden he gets to eighteen. Justin Rose holds
the butt. He gets to eighteen, demansay, we just need
a four, a four, and you put on the green

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jacket a four and you're a legend forever. Rory McElroy,
who was such a prodigy in Northern Ireland, his dad
and his buddies pulled money when he was like ten
years old to bet with the bookies in Ireland. One day,

(08:20):
my son's gonna come back to Europe, to the United
Kingdom and win the British Open. The bookie was like,
give me a break. He's like nope. In fact, I'm
gonna give you the exact details on that. Rory McElroy
dad British Open bet. This is an all time story
So Rory's dad walks in to a bookie shop in

(08:48):
the UK. He says, I got a fifteen year old son.
He's gonna win the British Open one day. Me and
my friends have uh, me and my friends have pulled
together two hundred dollars. Guy's like, well, all right, I'll
give you five hundred to one on it. It's like,

(09:10):
all right, two hundred bucks to win one hundred grand,
I'll take it. And ten years later Rory does it.
Twenty six years old. Dad walks back in says, hope,
you spent that two hundred dollars wisely, give me my
hundred racks. But then Rory went a decade without winning
a major. Shortly after that, still no Masters, no career

(09:32):
Grand Slam. He walks up to eighteen knowing a four
and I win the Masters. Puts it in the sand.
That's okay, just get it close, Rory, get it close.
He gets it to six feet this putt to win
the Masters, pulls it left missus. Oh my god, this

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is gonna be the most crush loss in golf history.
Playoff hole. Justin Rose been steady, Round one leader, Round
two leader, just chillin. All of a sudden crazy putt
for him on eighteen to get in the playoff. Rory
hits his second set on eighteen in the playoff hole

(10:19):
within four feet shot of his life, drains the putt,
puts on the green jacket, weeps, sobs the stuff dreams
are made of. Now one of the fifteen greatest golfers ever,
one of the ten greatest golfers of the last one
hundred years, Rory Dan McElroy And oh yeah, have you
looked at the other majors this year? One is the

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PGAs that of course he crushes. The US Opens, that,
of course he's won at. And guess where the British
Open is? Demons in Northern Ireland where he's from. Oh my,
what a what a weekend of golf. All of that
took place on me and your mom's anniversary. And I

(11:05):
was sitting in a sports book in Philadelphia, where man
sometimes being in Philadelphia being Nick Wright can suck. And
I don't know if your mom gave you this story.
It was I disarmed everybody all day. Everybody that came
up to me, I could see in their eye like
they want to talk trash to me. So every single

(11:25):
person that came up to me. I said congrats on
the super Bowl before they could say anything, and I
disarmed everyone. Everyone because of that was quite nice, except
for one person who was a little drunk at a
bar and really got in my face and was really
quite rude to me. And here's the tricky part about that.
That one person happened to be a female, and your

(11:48):
mom was sitting right there and I was like, oh boy,
this is not going to go well for anyone involved.
Her boyfriend's recording I'm like, oh, she like really played
this whole confrontation. I'm like, hey, I congrats leaving you
win the super Bowl, and she was like, in this
stupid South Jersey accident, like stop talking all that shit.
I'm like, I didn't talk any shit. I second congress

(12:08):
to one of the super Bowl. I'm just having a
good time. She was like, then, why'd you come up
and talk to us. I'm like, okay, you're a hammered
I'm just listening. And as soon as she said that,
your mom stood up and I was like, oh boy,
time to go. Nice to meet you. See you guys later.
We're out of here. But so that was Saturday, Sunday.
Your mom's out shopping. The reason I even said any

(12:28):
of this in the sports book. Sportsbook folks know me
and they actually like me. So they're like, hey, Nick,
we have a we have it's a ten TV setup,
two giant ones and then eight good ones. They basically

(12:48):
gave me the remote for Sunday. They're like, you picked
the games, you picked the sound. What a dream? Here,
I'm signaling them when to go from the sound of
the Masters to Warriors Clippers. We've got the Lakers in
the bottom corner because bronis playing. I've got a bet
on the Nuggets to beat the Rockets. We got that going.
Oh my goodness, what a dream. So all that was Sunday,

(13:12):
capped off by Rory McElroy and capped off by the Warriors,
potentially wrecking their whole season. Now to the part of
the show. Everyone who has a financial incentive on the
show wished I would have led with which is the basketball?
But I care too much about the golf to leave
it out. Go ahead? Uh?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yes, The play in tournament starts tonight. On the West.
We've got Golden State in Memphis. On the East, got
Orlando and Atlanta. There's lots unpack in Orlando.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
And Atlanta. So I don't think we're gonna get to
it today.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
You wrote, you wrote, you said there's a lot to unpack. Yeah,
another one who gives it? We're not talking about Atlanta?
Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So the big story is Golden State's in the play
in and the bigger stories. What did you think of
the game that knocked them into the play in? They
obviously took an ounce of the Clippers.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, So I think a lot of things. I
think the first thing is I owe Draymond Green an apology.
Nine years ago, demonse, the Golden State Warriors were playing
the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. It's
a very famous series because in those Western Conference Finals,

(14:24):
the Thunder were up three games to one, and the
Warriors came all the way back, most famously because of
Klay Thompson's Game six, a brilliant Game seven, and then
the Warriors, of course went on to lose their own
three to one lead in the NBA Finals. Many people
falsely believe the reason they lost that series was because
Draymond Green got suspended four game five. Now, that reason

(14:47):
that belief is so absurd is because not only did
the Cabs blow them ount in Game five, but the
argument was, well, Lebron wouldn't never scored forty one if
Draymond was on the court, and so in Game six,
when Draymond was on the court, Lebron scored exactly forty
one one. Again, but that's neither here nor there to
the apology. So in those NBA playoffs, the reason Draymond

(15:08):
Green got people falsely believe Draymond Green got suspended for
punching Lebron James and the groin. That is not We're
slapping him in the groin, however you want to put it.
That is not quite right. Draymond Green got suspended for
accumulating four flagrant foul points. He got a flagrant foul
in round one against the Rockets for body slamming Michael

(15:31):
Beasley as the game was ending, in something that no
one quite could ever figure out why he did. He
got a flagrant foul point for slapping at Lebron James.
But in the interregnum of that, he got a flagrant
foul point for attempting a layup and kicking Steven Adams
dead in the groin. And so all that accumulated, and

(15:54):
I was very vocal that that was obviously intentional, because
no human being ever has ever shot a layup and
had part of the layup motion b their left leg
go at a ninety degree angle into the air towards
the baseline. So obviously he was trying to do it.

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Nine years later, I'm here to tell you, Draymond, I
apologize I was wrong. Turns out you sometimes just spaz
out on layups because with the game on the line
down two in overtime, Draymond Green had a wide open layup,
no one to kick, and in some weird failed attempt

(16:43):
to draw a foul. I guess kicked the air, fell
backwards and smoked the layup. And that was only one
of his two grievous late game mistakes. So the other
one is this, and the broadcast I think screwed this

(17:03):
up end of regulation. The Clippers get the ball, tie game,
thirty one seconds left. So what that means is make
or miss. The Warriors are going to get the last shot.
You play solid defense for twenty twenty four seconds, you're

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gonna have seven to ten seconds if you're Golden State
with a timeout. Kawhi gets the ball with four on
the shot clock and now eleven on the game clock
and Draymond panics and takes a foul to give, which

(17:46):
the broadcasts like, oh, that's no problem, they're not in
the bonus's foul to give. It was a problem because
now the shot clock resets to fourteen, there's only ten
seconds left it Now the Clippers get the last shot,
and now the worst thing that worst case scenario for
the Clippers is overtime as opposed to worst case scenario
being losing. So Draymond messed up the end of regulation,

(18:10):
smoked the layup at the end of overtime, and all
of a sudden, the Warriors are in the play in.
There's another part of that game that I must address
because Steph Curry. Listen, Steph was utterly brilliant in the

(18:33):
fourth quarter of that game, hit hell hit a shot
that he thought was the game winner. I know because
he did his shimmy afterwards in the end up losing.
And I even can not ding him too much for
the eight turnovers in that game, even though those were rough.

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But when Kawhi' is locked like that and held, Chris
Dunn is real impressive defensively, all of a sudden, you're
gonna force some turnovers find so be it. But the
other thing that happened at the end of that game
is something that has happened to Steph Curry at the
end of close games, particularly close, high leverage games for
his the majority of his career, which is Steve Kerr

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takes him off the court because he is a defensive liability.
And I understand that people get so enraptured by Steph
Curry's offensive brilliance one of one shot making, the gravity

(19:39):
as on the game, all of it and sustained excellent
at age thirty seven, that people sometimes get a little
over their skis and they're like, not only is he
top ten? Why is he not in the goat conversation?
And I have been hesitant to have him quite officially

(20:08):
crack my all time top ten, so my all time
top twelve in order. Longtime listeners know this, viewers know this,
and I will do this off the top of my head.
I will know I will get it right if we
end with twelve. Is lebron Kareem, Michael Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan,

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Kobe Bird, dream Shaq, Steph so Shack and Steph are
right on the outside barely. They are both one of
one unique forces in NBA history. They both, however, have
one feature that no one in the top ten does,

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which is, in the some of the biggest games of
their careers, their team took them off the court because
of a flaw in their game that they were never
able to quite correct. For Shaquille O'Neill, it was late

(21:19):
game free throws if they had a lead late and
the other team was definitely going to foul. Phil Jackson
would say to Shaq, we're better off with you not
on the court this possession. And Steve Kerr, for STEP's
entire career, if given the opportunity to go offense defense,

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we'll have one of the greatest players of all time
stand next to him rather than be on the court.
It's not disqualifying from anything other than jumping guys like
Dream and Bird and Kobe and Donky, So it's not disrespectful.

(22:03):
You still have him ahead of doctor j out of Jokich,
out of Jerry West, out of Oscar, out of Jiannis,
hat of Durant, head of all those guys. But you
saw it again, and so those were my initial takeaways,
and then my further out takeaway was, wait a minute,

(22:28):
Kaminga wasn't under the weather, Kaminga wasn't dinged up, Kaminga
was a fully healthy DNP coaches decision, which again maybe
that was covered during the broadcast, but I was toggling
sound masters to the NBA, and so I didn't realize
that that is a huge story and what that means

(22:55):
for the Warriors vibe check going forward and the Warriors' chances.
So Golden State had it all out in front of them,
where if they had just taken care of the Spurs game,
which they blew in a horrific fashion. And I don't

(23:16):
know if we've talked since then, but that Spurs loss,
just like I think we did it on Thursday. I
don't know. I think it doesn't matter. Really echoes through
this season, much like the Spurs win over the Nuggets
last year cost them the one seed. Echoed through that
season when the Nuggets all of a sudden, they are
blowing a game seven to the Timberwolves. So that loss

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made it to where the Warriors weren't going to be
able to get to the four or five line. This
loss puts him in the play in and we have
seen the Warriors have issues in the play in, Lebron
hit the three over steph their first game ever in
the play in. Draymond then smoked a layup as time

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expired in their elimination game of the play in. They
went to overtime and the Grizzlies beat them. And then
last year, Clay has the worst game of his career
and they lose to the Kings in the play in.
That's over three And while no one has been less
impressed by the traveling circus that is the Memphis Grizzlies

(24:31):
than me, as of late, the Grizzlies can win tonight,
and if the Grizzlies win tonight, demand the Warriors season ends.
Not because the Warriors won't beat the winner of MAVs Kings,
but because the Warriors, having cost themselves a week off

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dealing with Jimmy Butler's quad contusion, Jonathan Kaminga's ego contusion,
and then all of a sudden heading into Oklahoma City,
will get absolutely cooked.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
What's going on with Jonathan Mingo? You're saying the egle thing.
What's well Curb sounds like.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
For the first time in three months. Kerr was like, no,
you're just not in the rotation, And.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
I mean by the X factor for that team. Maybe Pods.
I could see Pods being that.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
But whatever it is, Man, Kerr just decided in our
biggest game of the year, we are better off giving
you zero minutes, and it was and according to the
people who've covered that team, the closest the players are
not mad about it. So that's like, now Kamingo's kind
of been on the ounce. He wanted a big contract.
I didn't give it to him, but still you thought

(25:50):
that he was going to be important. And so now
the Warriors' best case scenario is they go into a
two week all out death match with the email Udoka's
Rocket squad, with Amon Thompson fresh off holding Steph Curry
to three points, putting him in jail for two weeks.

(26:12):
And if you're lucky enough to get out of that
series only bruised and battered, you have the Lakers waiting
for you. So none of that's good man. So I
think this weekend was disastrous for the Clipper or for
the Warriors, and I think they absolutely could lose tonight.

(26:35):
I know they're seven point favorites. I like, you know,
Jah is a live grenade and he can go off. Yeah,
And so I think that is very dangerous. I know
you have another play in question. Do that and then we.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Can uh yeah, So how do you feel about the
play and do you think that it should maybe be
taken or should they leave it to give you know,
teams like players like Steph the opportunity to make it
if you're like kind of hanging out in the back.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
So here's the thing. I like it under the original premise,
which was the Bubble created the play in but it
was only going to exist if teams were with an
X amount of games in the standings. This year, it

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isn't fair for the Warriors or the Grizzlies that one
of them is going to be in a win or
go home game against a Kings or a MAVs team
that they The Warriors and Grizzlies both won forty eight games.
The Kings and MAVs won forty and thirty nine, respectively.

(27:48):
So that's where I don't like it. Where So last
year's standings are a better example of when it could
be good. Last year, the Bakers won forty seven. The
Kings and Warriors both won forty six, So it's like, okay,
they're a game apart. The Pelicans won forty nine. They

(28:11):
were the seven. Initially the Lakers beat them, and then
the Pelicans, and then the Warriors played the Kings in
the nine ten. The Kings went on obviously to play
the Pelicans in the in the final playing game. But
the point being under those circumstances where teams are that close.

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But last year, for example, in the East, the Sixers
won forty seven, the Heat won forty six. Those were
the seven eight, and then the Bulls won thirty nine
and the Hawks won thirty six, and they're in a
play in So I do like it. I don't think
it should be guaranteed that we're getting it. I think
we should only get it if teams are within say,

(28:56):
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Speaker 3 (29:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Now, let's get to the Lakers side of this.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Lakers locked up the three seed and now they are
facing ant in Minnesota in round one. Luca obviously took
care of business, but against against them last year he
averaged thirty two, thirty two, nine and eight. How do
you think these teams stack up against each other? Are
you a little worried there?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
No, this is the ideal bracket for the Lakers. Okay, So, like, listen,
everything's hard in the West, and everyone wanted Memphis. But
once it was clear Memphis wasn't going to climb out
of the play in part of it, then this was
the best you could have hoped for. Like, you want
to play the Nuggets right now? I don't. Jamal Murray's back,

(30:08):
joker is joker. You want to play the Clippers right now?
Holy shit, that team looks unbelievable. The Warriors, because of Steph,
are always dangerous. So again, the best possible path for

(30:29):
the Lakers, in my opinion, was having the Thunder, Nuggets
and Clippers on the other side of the bracket. And
they do they are they might. By the way, also,
if the Warriors lose tonight, they'll If the Warriors lose tonight,

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the Lakers road to the Conference finals is Timberwolves and
then either Rockets Grizzlies, and even if the Warriors win
tonight and then Simbols in either Rockets Golden State and
so Aunt might average thirty to a game in this series.
The Lakers do not have anyone that can guard Anthony Edwards,

(31:14):
but that's fine. Here are the other things that are
gonna happen. I don't know how you can credibly play
Rudy Gobert the amount of minutes you probably want to
play him. Luca just told us a week ago. He
was like, what moment from your from the MAVs video

(31:35):
got you choked up the most? And it wasn't when
they drafted him. It wasn't, you know, one of his
crazy buzzer beaters. It wasn't the seventy point game. It
was hitting the step back over go Beer in the
Conference finals, then cursing him out in Slovenia. Luca has

(31:56):
tortured Rudy Gobert on multiple count nicks in the Olympic
Slovenia against France. He's done it when Gobert was a Jazz.
He did it when Gobert was a Timberwolf, he did it.
So that is a rough spot for the Timberwolves to
start with. You then add that the Lakers are getting

(32:18):
They no longer have to deal with playoff D'Angelo Russell,
which is a disaster, and instead get to go against
playoff Julius Randall, which is a different type of disaster.
That's nice. They don't have Darvin Ham with his hands
in his pockets or drawing up on the whiteboard contest

(32:42):
without fouling. They've got JJ who's been up for thirty
nine straight hours figuring out how to blitz Anthony Edwards.
All that's good. You also have a series that because
Luca is going to want to make Rudy Gobert cry,
Lebron's gonna be able to sit back the first three

(33:04):
quarters like he did in that MAVs game. So again,
I think it is a hard fought five games for
the Lakers, maybe six. I will tell you guys my
favorite round one bet. Shout out to my friends at DraftKings,

(33:27):
by the way, like we should. I would like to
can DraftKings. Can we start getting some boosts or something?
I just if there's something I really like. I don't know.
This is plus one twenty. Maybe they can throw my
face on it, make it plus one twenty five for
what's right, listeners. But the Lakers minus a game and

(33:48):
a half in the series, meaning is plus one twenty.
So the Lakers for the series is minus two hundred.
So question is, do you think the Lakers are going
to win the series? Yes, okay, you bet them at
minus two hundred. You win if they win in four
or five, six or seven. Or you can get them

(34:12):
at minus a game and a half at plus one
twenty and you win if they win the series in four, five,
or six. So yes, you cost yourself if it's a
seven game Lakers win. But I don't think it's gonna
be seven games because I think Luca is gonna light
this team on fire, and I think that, uh, listen,

(34:36):
nas Reed's gonna be a problem. You got credit where
it's due. Jaden McDaniels is an excellent defensive player, but
they got We saw Luca with a worst supporting cast,
beat this team in five to go to the finals
last year. Now, Aunt said I got tired, which was odd,
and Aunt won't be tired this time. But you also

(34:57):
have Lebron with eight days off coming into it.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
On the Lebron side, are like, obviously not trying to
speak this in the existence, but are you worried at
all about his growing?

Speaker 3 (35:07):
So I know that was kind of acting up last.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Night week he saw Yeah, so it looked like he
kind of tweaked it in the game against Houston game
eighty one. He didn't seem too concerned. And this is
also why you know having eight days off is going
to be so incredibly useful and helpful. So no, I'm

(35:29):
not obviously if he truly reaggravates his growing, if he
has to miss time, then that would be a problem.
But this is where I remind you guys of one
of the single most remarkable stats in basketball history, which
is Lebron James' teams have played in two hundred and

(35:55):
eighty seven playoff games. Demanse in his career two hundred
and eight, So teams Lebron has been on have played
in two hundred and eighty seven playoff games. Of those
two hundred and eighty seven, Lebron James has played in
two hundred and eighty seven. He has never missed a

(36:17):
single playoff game in his career. So yes, fingers crossed,
knock on wood, whatever you gotta do. But also that
number is.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
So bananas, it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
It's three and a half full seasons. Yeah, he's played.
This will be his fifty fifth career playoff series, fifty
five series. He's forty one and thirteen in his career
in playoff series, And so yeah, I mean, I you hope.

(36:49):
Obviously he's got to stay healthy. He's done a good
job of that through his career. One more question before
we move on to some other stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
So if Minnesota ends up winning this series and at
shows out as he moved closer to become in the face.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
So yes, I Ant needs to tighten up his off
court life, but he's got everything else. And if he
were to outduel Lebron and Luca in what is going
to be the highest rated Round one series, yeah that will.

(37:27):
But I kind of look at Ant. Here's the optimistic
look of Ant. He's on the Luca trajectory. Luca made
an early conference finals run. The next year, the team
made a big trade and then took a bit of
a step back for Luca was Kyrie. They end up

(37:49):
missing the playoffs. For Ant, they trade Carl Anthony Towns.
You know, they end up down at the sixth line,
probably bouncing round one and the next year for Luca,
they made the finals, so that like it's not like
Ant is behind schedule at all. But yes, this would
scutt This would Winning this round one series would do

(38:15):
more for Ant's notoriety and facing the league stuff than
winning the round two series they did last year against Denvers.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Sies.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Probably super important with this year, like if he won
this one, if they beat the Lakers and then they
just lost in round two.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Correct, No, no, no, you beat the Lakers, everyone's then gonna
expect you to beat the Rockets or the Warriors or
the Grizzlies. That that part's definitely true. All right, before
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(42:56):
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LA to Houston, maybe we do a little what's right
family meet up? Oh yeah, that Rockets playoff game if

(43:21):
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all that stuff. But Lakers Rockets would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
That would be really awesome.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Yeah, and you're listen, this is something you'll learn because
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like Kramer, just write it all off. All right, let's
go to the other playoff series.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, so we're waiting for the play in to figure
out what the rest of the series are going to
look like. Across the league, but the rest of the
list set in the first round on the on the
West side, we've got the Lakers versus Minnesota, We've got
Denver versus the Clippers, and then on the East you've
got the Knicks versus Detroit and Indiana versus Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Okay, so I'm gonna spend the most time on Denver Clippers.
We already did Lakers, Timberwolves, and by the way, in
about ten minutes, we're gonna do my full NBA Awards ballot,
so stick around for that. Let me go to the
East first. I just want Milwaukee to win. I don't

(44:36):
Indiana should win. That they should, and Indiana has been
the more consistent team. Indiana's been, honestly, the more impressive team.
Indiana right now is the healthier team. But do you realize, demons,

(44:56):
that Jannis has not won a playoff game, has not
been on the court for a playoff win since that
unbelievable forty and eleven to go up three to two

(45:18):
on the Celtics in twenty twenty two. Yeah, the next game,
Giannis was just as good forty four and twenty, But
that was Tatum's best game of his career up to that. Point,
then they lost Game seven. Then the next year he
got hurt during the playoffs and miss games, and then
last year was out. He has not won a playoff

(45:40):
game since that game when it looked like they were
going to defend their title. Not a game, forget a series,
a game. He is having another unbelievable year. I would
like to see him if he could just throw the
team on his back and get them back to round

(46:00):
two and then throw a scare into Cleveland. So I
the anally, go at, what did you say?

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Though?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
I don't. I don't know that he'll leave this summer. Maybe,
I mean maybe maybe, I don't know. I so Indiana
is the smart pick, but I'm going with my heart
and just saying I want Giannis to do it, and
I'd go with Milwaukee there nixt Detroit. I disagree with

(46:35):
the DraftKings odds on this. So they have the Knicks
as huge favorites. Oh that's funny. They that's sorry, I
just got an email that was not meant for me.
I well, that's no, it's it's it doesn't matter. I

(47:00):
so they are. Look, I was looking at my phone.
I wanted to pull up the exact line that is
really sorry that the exact line. I think the Knicks
are minus four hundred in the series. Let me make
sure that is correct. But series markets on DraftKings Knicks
or minus four hundred Detroit's plus three ten. I think

(47:24):
that's too at that price. I think Detroit is a
better bet, but I think the Knicks are gonna win.
I just don't think that Detroit is a push over
the way that market would say it is. But I
expect the Knicks to win. And then we have what
should be an absolute all out war in Round one

(47:46):
Denver against the Clippers. Now it struck me as noteworthy
demands that Jamal Murray's hamstring was just lingering, and Jamal
Murray's ham was such a problem that Michael Malone all
of a sudden was like, listen, we hope he's back

(48:07):
for the playoffs. And then Michael Malone got fired and
Jamal Murray's hamstring was healthy enough to play a couple
days later. That struck me as like nobody if people
are surprised by the Malone firing and nobody, And again
I'm not making any allegations, but the sequence of events
there to me is a noteworthy one. But with Jamal

(48:31):
Murray back, and with Joker playing like this, and with
the Nuggets seemingly, you know, having I guess a bit
of a cloud lifted, maybe they feel scary. The Clippers,
on the other hand, look abjectly terrifying. Hardin was the
best player on the court for Clippers Warriors. He was

(48:54):
unbelievable in overtime. He was thirty nine and ten, and
Kawhi was sensational on both ends. Zubots has been great
all year, all year, and uh Norman Powell was the
guy everyone was playing their tiny violins for because Lebron
stole his All Star spot and they've gotten excellent coach

(49:17):
in Tyler. So this is the hardest series to pick. However,
when you add to the fact that Denver has home court,
Denver has the best player in the world, and the
Clippers have playoff Harden, I'm going to go Denver in

(49:42):
a seven game classic, Denver to win the series. And
let me check again. Let me check this as well.
I hadn't looked at it yet. The Clippers plus a
game and a half, meaning the Clippers to either win

(50:04):
the series or lose in seven, is only minus two twenty.
That's somewhat attractive to me because I do think that
the Clippers could win, but I if they don't, I
do think it goes seven, but I probably would just

(50:27):
take Denver. Denver to win the series on DraftKings is
minus one thirty five. That feels about right, very very close.
But best player in the world gonna get rested. I'm
not even gonna bring up the Qui injury stuff because
you're just not rooting for it. Uh. But it also

(50:49):
makes them a harder team to bet on, and Harden
in the playoffs is a real thing. So that's that's
to me. I like the Lakers and a hard fall
but relatively quick series. Denver in an absolute classic, the
Knicks to win, but not in four or five, and

(51:12):
the Bucks in seven, because why not. That's how I
feel about the matchups that we have right now. All right,
let's do the Suns real quick and then get to
my awards ballot.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, after just one season, head coach Mike Budenholzer has
been fired from the Suns. They finished this year thirty
six and forty six and have now had three coaches
in three years. Do you think that this Phoenix stint
is gonna hurt Katie's legacy, which surely didn't help it.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
Yeah, I mean, this man, basketball is so crazy, and
this is one of the things I love about it.
But I was just talking about Janice's You know how
quickly it happened for Yannis like that. They just went
from being the defending champs, up three to two one
Boston home Game six, Giannis drops forty. They lose. Anyway,

(52:05):
he hasn't won a playoff game since then. Think about
if you are the Phoenix Suns. You're the Phoenix Suns,
you're up two one in the NBA Finals. You're it's

(52:26):
twenty twenty one, You're in Millwall like you're up two
oh technically, but get you get throttled in game three.
That's supposed to happen. You're up to one in the finals,
and you have a chance to win game three and

(52:58):
go or game four, pardon me, and go up four
games to three games to one, and it goes Booker
missed jumper, Giannie is huge block on eight and Chris
Paul turnover, Devin Booker miss lay up and all of

(53:20):
a sudden, it's a two to two series. And then
it's like, okay, it's a two to two series. We're
all right. We're not exactly where we want it to be,
but we're all right. Game five, it's it's coming down
to the final minutes. You make a furious comeback after

(53:41):
being down twelve in the fourth quarter. You have the
ball down one twenty seconds left, Holiday rips, Devin Booker
throws the oop to Yana, the Bucks win. Giannis drops fifty.

(54:04):
Then a madman buys your team, and now you're just
on your fourth coach in three years. You've traded away everything.
You're on an apron. Hell, Bradley Beal is pissed because
budenholtzers like play like. Drew Holliday's like, how dare you?
I'm Bradley Beal. Kevin Durant, You've got to trade him
just to You were this close the year after winning

(54:27):
the championship, you're the one seed. By the way salign
immediately went away, you're the one seed. Let's go back
to that real quick. What happened there again? You're this
close to winning a championship. You don't you come back
the next year you're even better. You find yourself, uh

(54:51):
up three to one on the Dallas Mavericks. I'm sorry,
up three to two, you blow them out in Game five,
by thirty, by thirty, you blow them out. You're gonna
go back to the conference finals. You're gonna play the Warriors,
Chris Paul, Steph Curry. It's gonna be great. And then

(55:13):
Game six, Luca goes crazy, thirty three, eleven and eight,
All right, doesn't matter. Game seven's in our building, no problem.
And Game seven the score is fifty seven twenty seven
at halftime, and Luca has twenty seven by himself, and

(55:36):
Devin Booker won't look him in the eye. And now
you're just ruined. So it's less about Durant and more
about that franchise just falling off a cliff. And as
far as where Durant's gonna go, We're gonna have plenty
of time to talk about that over the next few weeks.

(55:56):
I'm not gonna get into it right now, but it
this did not go the way he had hoped. He
forced his way to a team that had just been
to a finals and the previous year the best record
in basketball, and the team won one playoff round. Ever,
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NBA awards ballot and as much as we can, and
then we'll get to our f one minute and some
listener questions.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yeah, you still don't have the ballot, but we're just
gonna do this for practice sake, but we'll get you
there someday. For first, off, you've got your MVP at one,
You've got SGA two yek.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
Yeah, I'll go through who I have. But the the
so MVP to me is quite simple, and I have
been sorry, Daniel, really, I have found it unbelievable the
number of people who have just decided all of the

(59:24):
rules that I laid the groundwork for last year no
longer apply. And so for me, the only question for
MVP is the fifth spot. One through four are pretty obvious.
Shay is the league MVP. He's thirty three a game
on a sixty eight win team. Joker should be the

(59:46):
unanimous second place MVP guy. He's thirty a game with
a triple double carrying a team that is terrible defensively.
Some of that's on him and just fired their coach.
Giannis is third, Tatum is fourth, and if you want
to say Tatum's third, Giannis is fourth, that's fine. I

(01:00:06):
think what Giannis has done, especially despite Dame being out,
is remarkable. But that's a debate. And then for fifth place,
it was a debate between the following Donovan Caid Edwards

(01:00:27):
and Lebron and I still want well, I'll talk about
All NBA first team because my one through five, my
MVP ballot is not my first team All NBA, and
I'll explain that in a minute. But my fifth place

(01:00:50):
spot goes to Lebron. And it goes to Lebron because
despite the injury, still played seven games. He seamlessly did
what a lot of people thought he either wouldn't be
willing to or able to. Which is fit with Luca.

(01:01:16):
People are recreating history that, oh, the Lakers were headed
for the play in before the Luca trade. The Lakers
were the four seed the day Luca made his debut
with the team. They stayed even though Anthony Davis had
gotten hurt. They were on a winning streak when Luca
first got to the team. They're only real losing this

(01:01:41):
year happened surrounding Lebron's injury. Lebron was a Swiss Army
knife defensively once they got Luca and honestly once Ad
went down. They are the three seed in a loaded
Western conference. They were only Oklahoma. The city was better

(01:02:01):
this year against the best ten teams in basketball Lebron's
been the through line of it all. I have him
his fifth place in MVP now to the top of
the ballot. So here's why I find these folks who
are now saying they are going to vote for Joker

(01:02:24):
to be so disingenuous, and what they simply should say
is he's my favorite player. He's the best player in
the league, so I'm voting for him. Last year, the
numbers for Joker v. Luca were not close. I will

(01:02:45):
remind you of them. Okay. Last year, Luca averaged thirty
four nine and nine. He won the scoring title on
good efficiency. He averaged thirty four points, nine point two rebounds,

(01:03:05):
nine point eight assists, so basically thirty four nine to ten.
The league MVP was Nikola Jokic, who averaged seven fewer
points twenty six and a half, three more rebounds twelve
and a half, and one fewer assists nine And it

(01:03:30):
wasn't close. Luka got four first place votes, and the
argument was purely well, Jokers team won fifty seven games,
Luca's team won fifty and Luca was not very good.
Even though the team was fine defensively, Luca was not

(01:03:51):
very good defensively. Those same people now this year are
saying throw those rules out. And even though Shay's team
has won sixty eight games and Jokers team won fifty,

(01:04:12):
the same exact number Lucas team won last year. I
think Joker's gonna get it because I've never seen an
offensive season like this. And my question is, didn't you
kind of see an offensive season like this last year
by a guy who got four first place votes? Again,
Luca last year was thirty four nine and ten. Joker

(01:04:38):
this year is thirty Let me get yeah, twenty nine
point six called thirty thirteen and ten. So four or
fewer points four more rebounds on a team that won
the same amount of games. And so that now you
might say, Nick, last year were aren't you a guy

(01:05:02):
that was arguing for Luca. Wouldn't that then follow that
this year you should be arguing for a Joker one
hundred percent if one of two things were true. One,
I had an actual vote and it was impacting it,
so I must vote with consistency or two. And this
is more importantly and really the reasoning. I do feel

(01:05:28):
like the previous winner winners, but certainly the most recent
year continues to set the precedent for the voting public
because it is an undefined award. So last year when
a guy with fifty wins who's playing in the four
to five game, who averaged thirty four to nine to ten,

(01:05:51):
got four of one hundred votes because we said best
player on the best team with really good stats is
going to run away with it, to then not give
Shay when Shae is again, it's like Shaye's averaging twenty
five a game, He's thirty three, five and six with

(01:06:11):
excellent defense on a sixty eight win team. And the
history of guys on teams who have won sixty eight
plus games, all of them every team that has ever
won sixty eight plus. Steph won MVP, Jordan won MVP
the sixty nine win Lakers did not have the league MVP.

(01:06:34):
Kareem won it in seventy two, but that is because
two Lakers split votes. Wilt and West finished third and second.
That's why the Lakers didn't have one. The who are
the other ones? Dave Cowen's on the sixty eight win
Celtics won MVP, Jordan won sixty nine games and shamefully

(01:06:56):
didn't win it ninety seven as the voters got sick
with giving it to him, gave it to Carl Malone.
But it's just folks need to just say I like
Joker the most, so even though his coach got fired
and his defense has been bad, and even though last
year was about wins, this year it's about raw stats.
I'm just not gonna lie. I just think it's I
think Shay's the MVP, not to All NBA. So again

(01:07:17):
I don't have an actual vote, but and I know
they changed the rules. I want my All NBA First
Team at the very least to be two guards, two
forwards in a center, and I want all of my
All NBA teams to at least be credible teams you
could roll out on a basketball court. So even though

(01:07:40):
I had Lebron as my fifth place in MVP voting,
I do not have him as All NBA First Team.
I gave that to Donovan. So I want my two
guards to be Shayan Donovan, my two forwards Gihonnyson Tata,
my center Joker. Second team All NBA for me was

(01:08:01):
very simple. My two guards are Stephan ant Cade's technically
a guard, but he's tall enough we can just put
him in kind of that point forward spot. He and
Lebron are second team and alburn Shingoon, who was the
best player on a Rockets team that was the second seed.
He is second Team All NBA, Third Team All NBA,

(01:08:24):
with apologies to Tyrese Halliburton. Halliburton had his spots stolen
in Game eighty two Demons by James Harden thirty nine
to ten to lock up the five seed and stay
out of the play in. So it's Jalen Brunson, James Harden,
Jalen Williams as a forward. Because your team wins sixty

(01:08:48):
eight games, it's not just one guy. Carl Anthony Towns
is the other forward and Evan Mobley as the other center. Again,
that team wons what sixty four they need someone other
than just it. My Defensive Player of the Year was
not difficult for me. I think Draymond really hurt himself
at the end of the year. It is Evan Mobley,

(01:09:08):
my sixth man.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Of the year. The mobiley thing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
You have him as your defensive Player of the Year,
but he's only in your third team All NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Yeah, so that happens sometimes. The where in hell there
have been years defensive Player of the Year didn't even
make any All NBA Team. I don't think Marcus Smart
made an All NBA team when he won it, I
don't think. I don't know if Tony Allen. Did Tony
Allen ever win Defensive Player of the Year. I don't remember,
but that happened sometimes. But I think he's the defensive

(01:09:37):
player of the year. Sixth Man of the Year is
Malik Beasley. Just an absolute flamethrower off the bench, and
I guess somewhat controversial. Most improved. I think it's if
it's a zubots I almost had zubots On as my
on my All NBA team. He jumped his scoring by
fifty percent over his career. He's been great eight defensively,

(01:10:00):
Clippers have been excellent, He's been huge. I think he's
the most improved player, even though he's old and it
usually doesn't go to old guys. Clutch Player of the
Year is Lebron. Lebron's four the only player in the
league with four hundred, one hundred, one hundred and the fourth.
Lebron's fourth quarter plus minus and the Lakers record in
the fourth quarter, and his assistant turnover ratio is better

(01:10:23):
than either of the previous Clutch Player of the Year
winners and Stephan Ant and I understand Jalen Brunson's clutch
numbers are going to probably make Jalen Brunts win this award.
That is in part because they do not have clutch
numbers for defense in the clutch, where Jalen was lacking
obviously because of his size. I think Lebron's clutch Player

(01:10:44):
of the Year Rookie of the Year is very very simple.
Stefan Cassel is going to be close to unanimous. Well,
Resa Chale gets some votes, and I think Coach of
the Year demons is Ima Udoka getting this Rockets team
to the two season when Jalen Green's a nice player.
Amon Thompson's gonna be an awesome player, but he's very young.

(01:11:06):
I think im Udoka deserves Coach of the Year. So
those are my ballots and my full NBA awards, all right,
it makes sense to everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Makes it makes sense?

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
I uh so? I before we get to the listener
questions back after her spring break with our F one minute,
if you're a new viewer listener, my goddaughter Sierra Fidel
is our F one correspondent. She is back updating us
on what has happened in Formula one over the last

(01:11:43):
couple of weeks. Here is Sierra.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Hey, guys, welcome back to the F one minute with
me Sierra, so let's talk all things bor Rain GP.
So it's been called the best race of the season
so far, even with the chaotic technical difficulties, but before
down twenty more to go. Unlike the circuit last week
in Suzuka, here in Moraine, the track seriously promotes overtaking
and that's pretty much what we saw throughout the entire race.

(01:12:06):
On the first lap, a big headline falling quality was
Oscar Piastre, starting from pole position for the second time
this season. He was able to keep his position, but
the rest of them pretty much played musical chairs around
the first corners, but it was pretty entertaining to say
the least. The conditions and the tire strategies were a
big talking point of this race. With the cooler conditions,

(01:12:26):
most cars started with sauces, but the Ferrari boys started
on mediums. It kind of sucked for them at first,
but after a few laps around the track, the tires
came alive for them and they were doing pretty good.
Piastre controlled this race pretty much the entire time, however,
with sizeable gaps to the front at times Russell leclerk
and for a small fraction of a moment Hamilton was

(01:12:49):
even fighting for a win. Notice how I did not
mention Verstapan however, Yeah, that's because he was struggling pretty
much the entire time with no grip, going into the
pits multiple times to switch out time and reporting issues
with his car. And there was even a safety car,
but it was from debris, not exactly a crash, so
it wasn't all that notable. But at the restart Pastree

(01:13:10):
was still ahead, and Norris on fresher tires managed to
pass both mcclerk and Hamilton, but not Russell in the
good old Mercedes. In the end, PS three got another
win under his belt, finishing fifteen seconds ahead of everyone else,
Russell and P two and Norris in P three. Some
honorable mentions that I cannot leave out is the fact

(01:13:30):
that has finished with double points this weekend, which is
a big accomplishment for a team that maybe scores one
or two points here or there between two drivers. Alpine
showed promising pace pretty much throughout the entire weekend, and
Yuki Sonoda bagging points for Red Bull Lets Go, has
the second Red Bull seat curse lifted just yet. Only

(01:13:51):
time will tell. But key takeaways McLaren is a team
to beat. That's pretty obvious. That's been so for a
while now. But McLaren is a team to beat. Pastre
is supposed more of a threat than ever, especially to
his teammate now he has he has more wins than
Lando and he's threatening his position in the Drivers' championship.
Little by little, Ferrari is showing better days. Hopefully within

(01:14:11):
the next few races they can have their breakout performance
and maybe, just maybe one of them can be on
the podium.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Please.

Speaker 4 (01:14:19):
But that'll be all for this week's f one minute.
Next week, this circus is headed to Saudi Arabia to
close out the triple header. So until then, I'll catch
you next week.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Great job as always, Sierra. Can't wait to hear from
you next week. The producers demnse really want to get
the Lil Wayne tweet in the show. I didn't do it.
During the Master's thing the chol Wayne was tweeting that
he couldn't watch Bryce, and so I texted him, was like, hey,
use the Masters app. Here's how you do it. And
then he sends out this tweet. I mean, listen, he's

(01:14:49):
got thirty three million followers. Throwing me a little tag
in there would have been nice, but it's all right,
no problem, weezy. If you have the same issue I
was having, all you gotta do is download the Masters app.
Thanks my right, he's the nicest person in the world.
People would be shocked at how nice of a guy.
Even if you think he's a super nice guy, you'd

(01:15:10):
be shocked by it. Save these listener questions for Thursday's episode.
We're having a few technical issues, and more importantly, I'm
gonna be late to do Cowherd show, so I gotta go.
Today's show went long. You did great. Enjoy the playing tonight.
Go Royals against the Yankees. Thank you to seat Geeks,
shout out to them. Thank you to DraftKings. Thank you
to everyone watching. See if we hit two hundred thousand
by the end of the day. Thank you to Volume

(01:15:32):
and Blue Duck. Thank you to Demanse. Talk to you
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