NBA Finals Preview, Justin Jefferson Contract & This or That | What’s Wright?

On today’s episode, Nick discusses Chennedy Carter’s body check on Caitlin Clark and the backlash from the media, previews the NBA finals between the Celtics and the Mavs, and reacts to Justin Jefferson’s massive contract. Later, Nick discusses the Bears, Cowboys, and Jason Kelce in “This Or That.” Lastly, Nick and Damonza answer your questions.

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NBA Finals Preview, Justin Jefferson Contract & This or That | What’s Wright?

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[Music] welcome in what’s right with Nick right episode 241 where we will try to talk about the WNBA without I mean I don’t know he calling people out their name flipping out saying you’re people only know you because of me we’re we’re going to try to do that I don’t know if it can be done at this point I I don’t know it seems like we have all of a sudden found the sports topic that can’t be discussed without people losing their god dog Minds I mean I understand there are some racial and gender angles to it but ultimately this just a sport story that is pretty it’s it when you when you when you get through all the morass it’s not that complicated yet there is a whole lot of projection of people’s own stuff being put on what’s happening right now in the WNBA and may oh my oh my is it causing landmines for so many of my colleagues Deon how are you doing pretty good pretty good crazy weekend wnba’s popping though crazy weekend and I I and by the way since this weekend I think the Indiana Fever have played three more games my God who set this schedule I mean I understand you want to get eyeballs on Caitlyn Clark and Shout Out by the way because uh according to the folks that monitor this type of stuff one and a half million people watch that fever Sky game which makes it the fourth highest rated WNBA game in the last 22 years so people are people are into this so I understand the WNBA saying we got to you know put Caitlyn Clark on this world tour but they had played as of Sunday as many games in the previous nine days as the aces had played all season think about that they had played as many games in nine days the aces played all season so we are the going to start with that but first we must get to what missed the cut so here is what missed the cut the Stanley Cup Final is set more on that in a moment KD working on his Jumper in the club I just like Kevin Durant more and more every day and the Bills sign an Olympic wrestler Deon much like last year I have a crisp clean $100 bill right here this will become yours digitally at least via zel if you can name the two teams in the Stanley Cup Final um this the Stanley Cup is a that’s that’s hockey um yeah that’s hockey so we’re gonna go with the Oilers uh-huh and against who um the Oilers against the Brew uh what’s I honestly don’t know another hockey team um Brewers maybe that’s not it’s not okay you were thinking Bruins Brewers is it’s also not the Bruins so I was certain you were cheating because Oilers is correct but the fact that you weren’t cheating and got Oilers it’s Oilers Panthers the Panthers beat the Rangers it’s 50 you know what it’s 50 so and I’m just going to rip this right in half and send you at um so it’s $50 I’ll give it to you good job by you um all right Deon let’s get right to uh the story that is sweeping the Sports World which is a kind of hard foul I mean my God people Everyone take a break but go ahead kedy Carter of the Chicago Sky obviously fouled the crap out of Caitlyn Clark um yeah and it sparked a lot of controversy people were saying that her teammates didn’t back her up they’re complaining about the reing kayln Clark doesn’t seem to make a big deal about it she’s seems to be rolling with the punches quite literally but uh what what are your thoughts why is everybody else making a big deal on it okay and now there’s more to it which is angel came out yesterday and said you know people aren’t watching just because of her this all started in the national championship game uh a year ago and and there are so many things happening here that I find wildly fascinating so what you have is two groups coming colliding and it is creating this V Tex of uncomfortable takes so one group is not familiar with how Sports media covers Sports and athletes so that group for instance yesterday saw Angel Reese gave a quote where she seemingly ends the quote with you know they’re not just watching because of one person they’re watching because of me too and the quote ends and it’s like wow well I mean that’s kind of you know more me than we what about your teammates what about the other rookies but then she went on immediately after that if you extend the court another 10 seconds to say you know there’s a lot of us and talk about the rookie class as a whole kind of Caitlyn excluded it would appear That’s fine and folks are like oh my God look at how you’re doing this black woman misquoting her doing this and it’s like I listen there is a lot of race involved here and we will get to it but I promise it is not a woman thing or a black thing it is a sports media thing where if you give the internet and sports aggregators a piece of a quote that can be used against you it will be used against you that is unfair it is not great it is why you have to be very careful of the sports media aggregation site or accounts but that is not unique to Angel ree that is simply unique to social media and how sports are covered you then have so there is this this these folks who don’t really know how the sports media sausage is made that think things are being wildly things are wildly unfair which they might be wildly unfair but it’s kind of just how sports are covered in 2024 then you have a group of people that feel like in my my opinion um I should basically be able to have any opinion on this topic and you should thank me for having an opinion on the topic because I usually don’t talk about this topic so the fact that I’m talking about it means if you’re criticizing me for talking about it you’re in the wrong because I should just be getting credits and ploted and flowers for talking about it and those two groups are going to rip each other apart and I’m going stand on the sideline and say [ __ ] it just seems to me like something we have seen before in sports now again there is a clear racial Dynamic to this that must be acknowledged so I’ll do that before we even get to the part that I’ve seen in sports before which is there is a fraught racial history between the WNBA players at large and the media and sponsors of the league that is this is a overwhelmingly black League that a wildly disproportionate amount of its most famous players ever have been white players what is also true if we are being honest is if you were to say what percentage of the W is black and got that number and then got or and what percentage is white and then said okay of the 20 greatest players ever what percentage is black what percentage is white for reasons that are I would imagine quite complex and I have some theories on but I don’t really have time or interest to get into him right now there is a dis compared to the league as a whole there is a disproportionate amount of the greatest players of all time that are white women and so there is a weird so that is true what also is true is amongst the greatest players of all time the white women have seen his seemed historically to been marketed and pushed and gotten more media love than the black women which is why Paige Beckers a few years ago at the ESP I thought gave an amazing speech when she won female athlete of the year when she essentially got up there and said when she was playing at Yukon before she tore up her knee saying hey uh I appreciate all of this but this is a league that has been mostly built by black women and people that look like me consistently get these Awards and we need to be aware of that and try to maybe write those wrongs moving forward even though Paige Beckers was deserving of the award and one of the baddest college basketball players of her era before she got hurt and this new group of players came along and by the way Paige is still one of the great college basketball player she played Caitlyn in the final four that was the push off game the bad foul call at the end of the game or the illegal screen I think it was uh and she’ll you know and she’ll continue to be awesome next year so there is all of that going on here right and that is real it is real that Caitlyn being portrayed as the Conquering Hero an angel being portrayed as the villain last year in college basketball even though Angels team won there was a lot of Race To that you cannot act like the LSU team overwhelmingly black byou Barbie FL who’s a rapper and then the mostly Lily white Iowa team that there wasn’t racial Dynamics at play of course there were and we can be adults and acknowledge it we could just like by the way and by I think uh that Gabe Goodwin our esteemed head of Blue Duck who runs this podcast I I’ll give you a a cross sport cross-gender example Once Upon a Time pton Hillis was on the cover of Madden and I bring up Gabe because I think it was his fault for reasons I don’t totally remember I think Sports Nation was involved I think it was I think it was Gabe’s fault I blame Gabe for this but the reason pton Hillis a slightly above average running back for the Cleveland Browns on the cover of Madden it’s because he’s a white running back and it was cool and it was an odity and here is the other thing that I that may maybe because Deon so here’s my theory on this I think that maybe this that I am I think I am kind of in the ultimate place of privilege when it comes to talking about these topics because I don’t feel an additional pressure If I were black I think there is an understandably pressure and tell me if you agree or disagree with me on this I think there is a pressure on black commentators that man there is so much obvious racism in the world and in sports and everywhere that when a racial topic comes up I don’t want to be I don’t want to seemingly be adding to it or be on the wrong side of it because I have an important responsibility or voice in the space like does that I’m not explaining that exactly right does that but does what I’m saying make sense sense that makes sense so so I think that thre stay in the middle kind of well I and I think I so I so I am in a unique spot BEC and then I think there’s also white commentators who are try you know at times trying to Pander and at times just you know obviously o overtly on the wrong side of these issues black commentators on the wrong side of these issues sometimes too I am just so confident that ah I don’t think anyone’s ever I think there are a lot of things once at one point I will be unfairly accused of I don’t think being racially toned deaf and I don’t think being bigoted when it comes to race or not seeing the different levels of it I’m just not worried about it I think I have my entire life’s body of work and track record and I think I also don’t have that additional pressure like internal pressure because I am a white guy talking about this stuff so I just I recognize that’s something of a place of privilege but I just kind of call it how I see it and I see a lot of race involved here that and people seem to be stubbing their toe on that curb which is preventing them to getting to the obvious thing that is happening amongst the players which is this girl is richer than all of us more famous than all of us is getting more pub and attention than all of us and she’s a white girl and you know what that’s [ __ ] it we our team beat her team in the national championship game and she got is the one that became super famous with all that said it’s not because the the it is the other piece of it is she is the best of all the rookies she’s the best of the draft class she’s the best of the college basketball players last year she was the best so it is when LeBron James got drafted before they even drafted him when the Cavs won the do you know what I’m going to talk about here Damonte you’re laughing I mean are you just laughing bringing up LeBron go ahead though it’s it’s it’s a good comparison I get it so here’s the thing the Cavs win the draft lottery they have Ricky Davis and Darius miles on the team the team is terrible that’s how they win the draft lottery yes and those guys are like yeah man LeBron can help ride wave you know what I mean he can ride our bandwagon I you know I don’t think a high school kid’s going to come in and make a big difference but we’ll see those were his teammates you know why CU he had just gotten an80 million deal from Nike that nobody was talking about the Cavs the Cavs were like damn it this is BS we’re better than him we’re older than him we’re more established than him and there was legitimate jealousy from his own teammates now fortunately we didn’t have to deal with the extra level of race on this one cuz it was all black guys in the discussion here I I can only imagine what that would have been if all of LeBron stuff well that’s an interesting story thought exercise LeBron’s entire career as exact identical except he’s a white dude I wonder how so many things would be different but it wasn’t there that that’s that’s not complicated rookie hazing is not complicated and hard fouls and sports are not complicated now is it interesting that Aaliyah Boston didn’t immediately come to Caitlyn Clark’s Aid yeah it is that is interesting it’s noteworthy is it interesting that angel ree stood and applauded yeah that’s interesting I don’t think she likes Caitlyn guess what she’s not supposed to and this whole idea that everyone should be like fetting Caitlyn Clark the other competitors like oh we’re all going to make more money thanks to you we’re all getting all these akuta there’s that word again thanks to you wa that is not how athletes work we would never say that about male athletes never and people might say oh well you know don’t you think there’s a level of it like to like keep it within the parameters of the game though like the foul that the the girl issued to Caitlyn Clark was just like I mean I think she got a flager one for it or whatever but I think it’s like a different level of hate is what I’m saying yes so so here’s the thing that was out of bounds but it wasn’t wildly out of bounds flagrant one is what she should get not you know more than a regular foul not enough to be thrown out of the game now do I think the refs miss the boat by not issuing it immediately instead i’ be issued retroactively sure but that wasn’t like and going making the rounds yesterday was Candice Parker what she dealt with as a rookie and the big giant melee that happened between her team and the Detroit team when she was a rookie guys so I don’t I don’t look and Angel got fouled like that last week and nobody gave a [ __ ] and I understand Angel’s frustration with this I also and so this is again where race must be acknowledged the Chicago Tribune again the newspaper in Chicago that’s where the Chicago Sky obviously from Angels team um in the editorial they about that foul they they say and I quote the foul committed by Chicago Sky guard Kennedy Carter was egregious outside of a sporting contest it would have been seen as an assault pipe down folks you know what’s also a an assault outside of a sporting contest a box out a a a a a contest on a layup shut up and that to that is race right the only thing that gets people all of a sudden flocking to we must protect this woman is a white woman in distress particularly if it’s a non-white person putting her in distress that is race and like I just feel like we should be able to hold multiple thoughts in our head at once and I I do want to go back to the the basketball piece of it because I like Angel and I have supported angel I you and I had a whole thing on this show when she talked about what she had been going through I think I was in comparison to some of the other members of sports media I think I saw that for what it was better than most and I really like Angel she flip-flopping so this is th say it again flip-flopping go ahead no I’m not flip-flopping I’m I no no not but I’m going to make not you I’m saying is doing a little flip flopping on her stance and she I don’t even know that she’s I listen I think it’s here’s the thing on that before I give what I was going to say it folks say they want to be a villain Nobody Does the only person in the last decade in sports that I’ve seen that truly wants to be the villain do you know who I’m going to say toon it’s got to green no no because he plays the victim he plays he says he wants to be the the villain but then he’s like you guys are trying to make it so I’m broke when I’m older no Beverly plays the victim too uh Dylan Brooks plays the victim all these guys R Beverly’s like you don’t know what they said to me I I shouldn’t have thrown the ball but you don’t know what they said Dylan Brooks is like call me Dylan the villain then he’s like it’s a media construct there’s only one person who actually wants to be the villain Luca Luca actually wants to be the villain he wants to go in your building tell you to go bleep yourself Swagger do all of it everyone else wants to pick and choose when they’re the villain right and it’s hard LeBron tried it for a whole year and then was like that was miserable I don’t want to do that anymore okay so that’s not what I was going to say what I was going to say is this my does not look at social media at all but my B good yeah I mean it’s too there too much you know hookah smoking his eyes um here’s my VI Angel ree on the basketball court um if you want there to be less attention on Caitlyn and more on you you need to play better sorry just got to be better there is not there is Angel Reese was an outstanding Championship level college basball player who went seventh in the WNBA draft about where she should have gone maybe at this point you can say she should have gone fourth or fifth um she is having in my opinion the second best rookie season some would say Cameron Brinks having the second best rookie season second or third but there is a wide gap between what she’s doing and what Caitlyn’s doing just like there is a wide gap between what she what Caitlyn is doing and every other rookie a five more points on more games now think about well so so right so and Caitlyn’s biggest weakness right now is her the turnovers are bad but that was also a problem in college so I think that’s just going to be a problem but Caitlyn right now it’s like oh she’s shooting 35% from the field and 30% from three well Angels a forward shooting 35% from the field and so she is going through rookie struggles just like Caitlyn is the Caitlyn’s numbers this year 15 and a half points five rebounds six assists on 3530 splits Angel who’s been the second best rookie is 10 and a half points per game nine rebounds two assists on 35% from the field Cameron Brink uh who’s been you know the second or third best rookie nine points uh five rebounds two assists on 47% from the field and really good defense and then Raa Jackson 10 uh 10 points per game three rebounds no assists because she’s a big on uh 49% from the field thing is this if folks want to make the argument that Caitlyn Clark is getting undo attention somebody in her rookie class got to go out there and out player and that hadn’t happened just hadn’t and that is again that’s a sports conversation and I’m not going to act like I had this kind I I I said everything exactly perfectly here and that and also by the way we should wait and see how Camila cardosa ends up looking she’s only played one game after missing the beginning of the Season uh in her first game she played really well 11- six on five of seven from the field so we’ll see how you know how she does uh but the fact of the matter is guys there is a what is so cool about this is we have another sport now that enough people are f following that it is a national conversation and I implore folks who have been following the WNBA for years don’t be WNBA hipsters please don’t be the fan of the band that loved it before it you know was going on worldwide tours and then shitty towards the new fans and gatekeep and be like well if you weren’t here shooting with me in the gym you guys the it’s better the the sport growing is better for everyone okay I do ask that I also ask the Johnny come L’s and I think I am a a cross between the two groups I think I obviously watched and followed more WNBA than the average person but that’s because I’m in sports for a living but I also was not you know I knew enough about the WNBA that last year I placed a very significant bet before the season started on the aces to win the title and I placed a very small bet on the aces to go undefeated for the season uh but not enough to act like I am you know I that I’m a WNBA League Pass subscriber and I am I’ve never talked about on the TV show side for maybe a segment or two in seven years until this rookie class headlined by Caitlyn so I I’m a bit of both right but I beg just like I don’t want the folks who were always fans to gatekeep I would like the folks who are new to the party to not act as if a they are experts on everything WNBA related and B please do not act like everyone needs to give us credit because we arrived at the party there is this weird thing going on where it is like well now that I am talking about your sport I I am doing you a favor and therefore I should be above criticism for my takes on it no man just like I said when when Diana terazzi during the NCAA tournament I thought had I thought had a bad take on Caitlyn in the WNBA by the way Diana looks like she might have been more right than I was on that and what I said was a bad take it looks like maybe I was wrong and she was right um it is in B and I said and I disagreed with Diana’s take and it felt like a lot of people disagreed with it but were almost afraid to say they disagreed with it the way they would if it were Kendrick Perkins discussing Victor wanyama it’s like no man the everybody’s everybody’s grown here everybody can fend for themselves to a degree we don’t need to be overly protective of Caitlyn Clark she’s a badass Fierce competitor that also despite a grueling schedule seemingly not a very good team and massive scrutiny is handling herself fine I say seemingly not a very good team to Monte is the number one pick and back toback years they’re two and nine no I laugh because like you said seemingly well but now let me let me give one other prediction that I know is going to end up being a classic Category 2 Caitlyn Clark from this moment forward is gonna have bananas numbers so here’s why so they have had multiple backto backs they have played 11 games no other team’s played more than n the aces have played six because of that the rest of the way here they don’t have a single backto back they have massive so they play on the seventh the 10th the 13th the 16th the 19th 21st 23rd 27th 30th 2nd 6th 10th 12th 14th 17th then a month off because of the Olympic an Olympic team that we don’t know if Caitlyn Clerk’s going to make or not and then again in September and August a relatively light schedule compared to the field because they already had their tough part so they’re going to have more rest they also have already played the LI you play The Liberty four times they’ve played them three already the Liberty might be the second best team in the league you play Connecticut four times they’ve played them twice already con a top three team in the league so the schedule’s going to get softer she’s got her legs underneath her she’s going to have more rest and she’s going to ball out and by the way I hope the rest of the rookie class does as well I’m rooting for all these girls but we’ve got to be able to acknowledge of course there is a racial Dynamic here of course there is a very typical jealousy Dynamic here that would exist no matter the races but is heightened because of the racial Dynamics here and of course there is just some sports competitiveness here which is Angel Reese thinks she’s better she beat her in the national championship then Caitlyn got her get back the next year but didn’t win the national championship and Angel they they are going to be Rivals and that is great for the sport all right did I manage to do that without saying I made anyone famous or calling anyone a [ __ ] I think I did wow did that give me a medal for it quick break right back what’s right all right welcome back in what’s right with Nick Wright all right after a nice half hour on the WNBA in racial and gender Dynamics in America and a little slight media criticism I suppose let’s get right to the NBA finals Deon say go ahead uh yeah we are just a few days away from your large Slovenian son being able to prove uh prove you correct back up all those words you’ve been speaking for the last couple of weeks but it’s weird Cu uh Boston’s at minus 220 this is not very weird and Dallas is at plus 185 to win the series uh do you think Vegas has that wrong you know considering the path that the Mavericks had to take to get there and and the Boston Celtics yeah so I do I do think Vegas has this wrong this would be the third biggest finals upset since the merger the biggest upset famously 04 Pistons over the Lakers the second biggest upset a weird one the 19 Raptors over the Warriors but KD popped his Achilles clay blew out his knee so that one I I don’t want to say you can throw it out but that’s wasn’t an up a traditional upset you know what I mean like the unless you think the Raptors were going to beat the full strength Warriors and then this fact of the matter is this since the trade deadline the Mavs have had the best defense in basketball and with this starting lineup they have played this year on a 65 win pace which is what the Celtics played all year a 6465 win pace so I do think that this series is relatively even and if it’s relatively even and one team has an all-time Legendary player and the other team has Jason Tatum then I’m going to go with the team with the alltime legendary series is relatively even or did you say it is relative I said I do I do think the series I do think the series is relatively even I think their regular season records would say it’s not 64 wins versus 50 wins but I don’t look at the Mavs as that team I look at the Mavs as the team they were once they got Gafford and PJ and once Lively you know what I mean got more reps in his rookie season so I just and early in the season they dealt without having Kyrie I just really like the Mavs in this spot and maybe I’ll end up being wrong and everyone people are now yesterday the internet got mad at Zack low for saying I thought something obvious which is Jason Tatum is somewhere between the sixth seventh eighth best player in basketball that is not an indictment it is just the truth that now can you win the title with that yeah is it super rare yes so like I the now does the best player always win no if that were the case LeBron be 10 for 10 in the finals so obviously the best player well I think that’s a little you know that doesn’t always work with team sports but it does work more often than not in the NBA however I typically if the other team’s got demonstrably and clearly the best player you need to have massive team advantage and Vegas thinks the Celtics do I do not I think that there is a huge gap between Luca and Tatum I think there is right now A minimal gap between brown and Kyrie now the next three best players in the series are Celtics Chris STS Drew and Derek white but the next three best players after that are Mavs in PJ Gafford and uh live no I’m leaving somebody out the oh yeah drik Jones Jr could be on there but I the that’s right and so the A and then you add to it what to me is a pretty clear and maybe Celtics fans disagree with me here coaching Advantage for the Mavericks and the fact that the Celtics have been hit or miss at home while the Mavs have been absolute killers on the road and I like the Mavs in this spot and so I think plus 185 is crazy I also think it’s very on the board Boston wins game one which is why I might wait to bet the series because if it’s plus 185 right now it’ll be like plus 300 or plus 260 after Boston wins game one if they win game one but I also might just pull the trigger and beted it beforehand but I I’m going to roll with this being Luca’s moment and that I don’t think the Boston crowd is going to get to Kyrie but I do think the Boston crowd is going to get Luca going I think the Boston crowd going after Luca is going or going after Kyrie is going to be good for Luca I am curious Deon however your feelings going into this finals versus two years ago when your Celtics were playing the Warriors and I have other questions Celtics related for you um but your feelings going into the finals since the Celtics are your team uh a lot more comfortable with them going into this into the series against the Mavericks um this is the one team out of the West like I would have been more afraid to play Minnesota and the Mavericks are uh I mean they’re coming off they had to play the Timberwolves who openly came out and said that they were tired Celtics aren’t tired yeah Celtics are deeper um I think that I think that the Celtics can can get this done in six um just way too deep Kyrie and Kyrie and Luca I don’t think are going to be enough to win in a seven game series I think it’s just too much I think that the hookah and the cigarettes will catch up to LCA at some point and this is so this is the furthest Luca has ever been obviously right yep yeah he made the Conference Finals two years ago but this is for everyone on the Mavs this except for Kyrie this is their first Finals meanwhile for everyone on the Celtics except for Chris staps they’ve been here before right right and so I do think that plays to in your favor to a degree actually I don’t was Al I don’t think Al Horford’s been here before but he’s played in a million playoff games cuz he was with the Celtics and then left and then came oh no he was there two years he was there when they played him in the Warriors yeah uh you’re right because he was there then left to Philly then came back when they played for the season so yeah everyone but Chris STS essentially has been there Drew hasn’t been there with Boston but he’s been there with Milwaukee obviously uh here’s the gosh darn it I was gonna ask you another question another question but real quick you um you mentioned Luke and Kyrie won’t be enough one thing that would be a little concerning for me for boss if I’m Boston is this the mevs did beat the Thunder with Kyrie averaging 16 points per game so they beat the number one seed in the West in six games and could have won that thing in five uh and Kyrie was you know 16 points a game in that series now do they need Luca to be brilliant obviously but is looking healthier as the playoffs go on and that is my biggest prediction of this series is you Deon are going to leave Midway through this series have a visceral dislike for Luca from the whining and the preining and the screaming and lighting team on fire on alert for his he’s a he cries he he cries yeah okay yeah he does after after getting calls too not just after not getting calls he gets angry when he gets calls when he doesn’t get calls the whole nine what’s your other question go ahead uh do you think that Luca will leave this series The Villain that he wants to be um or you think he wants to oh oh that’s a good pH I like that that’s Luca’s Bane with a hookah yeah I mean I think he is I think he is going to be I mean absolutely hated by the Celtic crowd and I can’t wait for it what’s your next followup uh if you think that Boston will win the finals is it a smart is a smart bet to bet Tatum at minus 115 or brown at plus 650 for finals MVP oh listen at those odds I like brown way way way better now I am curious who’s who’s going to have get that go ahead go no I get I I I understand that I was just uh like with with I think if the if the Celtics win the finals it won’t be because Jaylen Brown was the best player well he just won Conference Finals MVP now maybe listen you might be right but I also I don’t know what’s going on with Jason Tatum but I think he’s going to turn on at some point well and he was good in the Conference Finals to be clear it just Jaylen Brown hit the shot that one of that forced overtime in game one and their numbers were close and he was more efficient I am curious though who’s we’ll talk about this more on Thursday who’s going to be Luca’s primary Defender because Drew is not big enough it’s G to have to be Tatum or brown and whomever it is that is going to take a lot out of them energy-wise on the offensive end now he’ll probably hunt you know switches and stuff anyway but that’ll be interesting to see I also think you know we we’ll talk about it more on Thursday how Chris STS is going to look when he comes back is one of the biggest storylines of this series all right let’s move move on because we have Thursday we’ll do like an all final show on Thursday go ahead Fair uh so Justin Jefferson just signed a record $140 million extension with Minnesota so that’s a very similar to Jordan pool money uh so obviously Justin Jefferson he’s the he’s the best wide receiver in the league some might say so you got to give him that money but if for you isn’t it great to have like you know a team like the Chiefs who doesn’t have to go out there and spend all that money for a wide receiver gu yeah but they nobody here’s the thing nobody else has momes so I understand and Justin Jefferson deserves the money but I do think that we and I’ve talked about it on this pod before and I will continue to we are going to reach something of a market correction college football keeps producing ready to go wide receivers and they are producing less ready to go offensive and defensive linemen so I think you are going to see maybe not for Justin Jefferson caliber players but for that next caliber wide receiver the really good guy but isn’t you know top five in the league smart teams say we can get 85% of that production by a guy in the draft for 10% of the salary we’re just not pay we we are not the Chiefs have basically said we’re going to draft and develop wide receivers and Corners because that’s what college football is producing and we are going to pay our offensive and defensive lineman along with the quarterback Wilds had an interesting thought which was under the current salary cap structure can you basically just have $50 million for your quarterback and your wide receiver one and split it up as you see fit so like for the Vikings you know you have Justin Jefferson on the rookie deal or I’m sorry on the record setting deal and then a rookie quarterback for the Dolphins right now you have Tyreek and Wadd on these crazy deals but they haven’t paid Tua yet the the Cowboys have Dak on this huge deal waiting to pay CD maybe when they pay CD do they then not bring back Dak the bills Josh Allen makes a ton of money they trade Stefon Diggs the Chiefs all the money goes to momes they Draft receivers it was an interesting thought by Wilds that I had really I hadn’t really considered on that level but I now the Eagles are trying to do everything pay Devonte pay AJ and pay jayen Herz but they’re kind of borrowing a lot from the future the ners you pay Debo you seem hases to pay iuk and perie makes nothing uh and so I get why the Vikings would do it but I also think some of these wide receiver contracts are not going to age well all right let’s play a quick game of this or that uh yes it’s time for for this or that we got uh bearss Hard Knocks huge pull for them uh Caleb Williams and the Bears will be featuring on Hard Knocks this year uh the NFL putting Caleb in the spotlight right away is genius or too soon oh I think it’s genius I think he’s charismatic I think he’ll be excellent I think that he will become instantaneously another star of The League so I think I I love it I think it’s great next no better team for that right uh uh after the Rangers were eliminated New York men’s sports teams have now going on a combined a 100 Seasons without a Championship uh but you got a nice graphic up there for those watching on YouTube oh I love that that’s good that’s a great graphic but they still have Jaylen Brunson New York Sports is hopeless or hopeful oh I think it’s hopeful because the Knicks just had their best season in in my opinion in a quarter Century the Rangers it seems like were good and the Yankees might win the World Series this year so I think hopeful next uh Dallas is having a great year for sports the Rangers won the World Series the stars made the Conference Finals in the NHL and the Mavs are in the NBA Finals uh so what about Dallas Cowboys will join the party soon or never well I it’s not going to be soon I I don’t want to say never but it would be later rather than soon I the the Cowboys are in the midst of you know they kind of took their shot with the way dax’s contct was structured and the guys they had soon well never is not the right answer so then I guess the answer soon um so the I I guess I’ll say I guess I’ll say soon no I’m not I don’t have to pick one the answer is later it’s there there the answer is not never but it’s also not soon to be clipped um yesterday on TV you said your top five quarterbacks in the NFL are momes Allan and stad with the fifth spot up in the air uh Nick’s fifth best quarterback is Lamar Jackson or Justin Herbert there none of the above I’d probably go Caleb but if you guys don’t want me to put a rookie I’ll say Stafford uh and so and I know people think I’m being disrespectful to Lamar I’m just being honest sorry and the game those you’re not picking either of the what do you mean the game you just went outside of the this that you guys well I’m sorry you guys put Justin Herbert on there instead of Matt Stafford that’s not my fault put put put a better name or put Trevor all right next um uh Syracuse alumni Carmelo Anthony is joining the ownership group for an expansion of the basketball team in Australia he said it is part of a journey to one day becoming an NBA owner uh could your Fates be intertwined Nick will be an avid fan or a general manager Avid fan I got I had an opportunity to to become a part of uh ownership group of uh lower level Italian basketball team that I could have kind of been part of the general manager front office you know kind of group for uh I don’t know if I told you about this mon this is like 18 months ago um but I didn’t have and I thought I would want to do it but then I thought about it I just didn’t have the time to like actually you know what I mean am not going to be scouting like lower level International prosp I just wasn’t um and so I the maybe in another life yeah it was cool and I probably should have followed up on it more than I did but I didn’t um and in another life maybe but right now I just just Avid fan all right next all right so it took Jason Kelce less than three months in retirement to start picking fights and uh his first enemy uh big soap so he’s got a thing against showers yeah Jason Kelsey wrote all of you have been fed diabolical lies washing every crevice of your bodies and hair all the same all the time is somehow better or healthier any dermatologist not in bed with big soap will agree hot spots are all that’s necessary and actually leads to cleaner healthier skin this is really a I’m going to go ahead and say we started the show talking race we might end the show talking race this is is also a two americ thing this is there are real there is a real racial dichotomy about uh how often you need to you know scrub like your calves versus whether or not when you’re in the shower as Jason Kelce put it you wash hot spots and just kind of let soap and water and gravity take care of the rest what it is go ahead Deon so the the Jason Kelsey are big soap was of this or that but that’s not something that you want to hear from a guy like Jason Kelce um a big football player shower yeah dude listen I he’s not saying he’s not showering what he’s saying is is he is washing directly his underarms and his you know genitals and that the rest of it ah soap and water will take care of itself and what I’m telling you is I don’t think Jason Kel is the only person out there with that opinion I do think that happens to be more of an opinion held in the white Community than the non-white community I also think that Jason Kelce one of the there are certain things like there’s also like a real racial division about do you just use the bar of soap to clean yourself or do you use a washcloth or wash towel there’s a lot of things that again we don’t talk about are you a I’m not I’m not talking about how I shower or how I bathe because I I understand better than Jason Kelce there’s certain things better just keep to yourself there just no wins in this there’s just no there’s there’s no upside in this uh and but it was it I I think Jason Kelce is taking a lot of arrows for an opinion A lot of people share uh but they not break enough to say it I’m not saying where I stand I’ve also been married to your mother for 15 or married 11 years with your mother 15 years so I maybe have adjusted whatever my potential previous bathing habits were who knows all I know is it’s no one’s damn business quick break get to your questions next what’s right hey welcome back in what’s right with Nick right Deon we’re back we didn’t even know it we weren’t paying attention all right let’s get to The Listener questions right now go ahead uh rap stallion I knew you were going to say Luca is a villain come on man talking about how everybody else is a victim but somehow not Luca Luca’s top three winners in the league always oh lers in the league sorry playing always playing victim well listen I think Luca whines to the refs a lot I do not think he plays victim to the media that’s what I was talking about those other guys play victim to the media Luca doesn’t Luca on the Court’s always whining but he wants to be the villain go ahead I think there is a curve when you consider that Luca’s like he’s he’s he’s for like I don’t want to like I guess sounds kind of weird but he’s not I don’t think he was like brought up in like the the whole like the way media and sports is done over here so I think he’s still a giant baby but he’s just a foreign giant baby he’s not like okay I listen he he whes to the refs on the court but but he is I I don’t think he plays victim in the postgame press conference or off the court just my opinion um all right let’s go to Kevin Gillan Uh Kevin Gillan said uh Deon needs his new shades if Nick doesn’t Pony up soon the comment section is going to pass the hat for a pair of pit vipers so I looked up what pit vipers are demon Google pit viper sunglasses cuz I didn’t know what those were called I didn’t know that that’s what those were I don’t even know what to compare them to I think they’re like the sunglasses Hulk Hogan used to wear like in the late 80s or early 90s and I think some baseball players wear them I don’t think those would look good on Deon I don’t think those are really his look I do need to get you a pair of nice shades though that part’s true um all right let’s go to Eric haa I thought you had them and like you just hadn’t given him no no no no this guy this guy guy is saying the the oh wait Su I’m just um yeah oh I do have them you’re right no no no I I actually do have them that part’s I wasn’t even thinking about it that part is correct I do have them I just haven’t given them to you go ahead uh so Eric HOA said I understand it’s more compelling to talk about what if the Celtics lose but are the are there talking points for if they win or is it more of a what missed the cut no if they win we’ll spend a lot of time on it I the don’t and I think we’re going to I think leading the TV show with a discussion about that today I I don’t think they’re going to win and I have not been that interested in their Meandering walk to the finals through three teams without their best player I I know people are might Celtics fans might not like that sorry I just haven’t been and so uh we let’s see how the series plays out I promise if they’re winning they will get their credit but right now I’m just not that interested in it I’m just not and I don’t think they’re going to win um all right next uh negative4 and two asked who would benefit most from a Finals MVP Luca Kyrie or Tatum oh Tatum would benefit the most from it uh because he would then say what more do you want from me guys so ta Tatum would benefit the most from it but uh I I think from a legacy perspective it is no Tatum actually the answer is Tatum because I think Luca gets one eventually oh we had pit vipers on set what are the odds of that wow what are the maybe I was wrong maybe those Shades well I mean that’s unbelievable maybe those Shades do look good on you I like it um all right Damon read go to 100 overalls question 100 overall Batman Brun what a name a question for Nick what exactly does Lamar what exactly does Lamar need to do to be a top five quarterback I mean I don’t know not every single year of the worst game of his season in the playoffs sorry wait what did you say just like what did you say every year of his career he has had his wor first game of the season in the playoffs every single year of his career sorry I I mean they score more than 10 points in a home Conference Championship game I don’t know I like Lamar I root for Lamar if I’m being honest do I think he’s one of the five best quarterbacks in football I don’t um all right next last question Joel Penfield uh Joel pinfield said Nick I need a Vibe check on your thoughts on the Royals uh Big Stretch of games coming up huge stretch got to take two out of three from the Guardians we we had lost six of seven it looked like we were going to be slumping going into the biggest series of the year and then that amazing ninth inning on Sunday uh got us going in the right direction with two- Run come back against the Padres now we got to take two out of three against the Guardians and stay within spitting distance of the AL Central all right great show great job Deon I’ll see you guys on Thursday for a finals gambling show what’s right hey thanks for watching if you’re still here do me a favor hit the Subscribe button then hit the Bell so you can be notified when we have new episodes after you’ve done that one more favor go to your favorite audio platform of choice and subscribe there as well don’t forget we’re live every Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 a.m. eastern is 10:35 10:40 it’s sometimes changes but that’s why you hit the Bell you hit the Bell so you’re notified you subscribe so we can get to 200,000 followers we’re right around 150,000 we’d love to get to 200,000 get Deon another plaque so like subscribe rate send a rating too do all that cool stuff thanks guys