Caitlin Clark, Early NFL Win Totals, & Brock Purdy’s Extension

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Draymond Green could barely be bothered to show up for work all of that demands here wearing new shades. I liked the ones last time. More, I'm gonna send you a pair of nice shades. Now you're gonna lose them, which is unfortunate, but I'm gonna send them to you anyway. And I don't say that demonse is an indictment on you. It's just because sunglasses are like the number one thing people lose, which is why people tend not to want to spend a lot of money on them. But I'll

send you some nice shades. I like the look. I just think the white framestone shar as good as the ones last week.

there's nothing wrong with him. He does. It's just fluid at the bottom of his arm. It's all it is. You know how I figured that out? I googled it, good old let me see which one I went to yesterday. Com It did look photoshot. But then you're just like, hey, why would someone have that on the bottom of their arm, And the answer is it's a bursa sack. It happens

to athletes. The I am fortunate that I am. I'm gonna be one of the you know, in thirty years, I'm gonna be one of the only people left that remembers how people what the Internet was created for, to find actual, accurate knowledge and information rather than nonsense conspiracy theories. Jim Harbaugh says he's living in an RV and classic category one by me instantly correct. The NCAA president heard

our brilliant deposition on gambling on Tuesday. It was like, yeah, player props, we maybe need to take another look at those. So all of that missed. The cut. Demons were starting last night. I was locked into the NBA last night from about seven thirty Eastern until almost one in the morning.

I was the league pass was popping last night, but I started at seven point thirty, which means I started about ten minutes after the early games tipped, which means I missed the entirety of Draymond Green's performance yesterday.

They end up getting the win despite Draymond's nonsense, and we are now to a place where the Warriors don't defend him. The Warriors aren't like, oh, it's unfair. And if you didn't watch what happened last night, We're three minutes into a game, a foul is called on someone else and Draymond freaks out, get a technical and then does the old dramon. So Draymond has now crossed the

rubicon in this regard. Not that long ago, Draymond getting an early technical was kind of the best thing that could happen to the Warriors because refs were afraid to throw him out. He then could act like a total unhinged lunatic intimidate. The refs scream at him do all these things at without risk of getting another technical because they didn't want to throw them out. I think around the time, I don't know if it was the elbow to Nurkic or the choke of go Bear or what

win it was. But sometime this year that has changed to where now folks are no longer afraid to throw Draymond out and he gets the first technical, the Warriors call time out. The entire team is trying to get Draymond to stop the referee is walking away, Draymond won't stop, and then he it could have been over, and he calls him the P word, the A word, and then

either the B word or the N word. I'm not sure which, but in quick succession, bleep, bleep, bleep, and he's and the ref throws him out and Draymond didn't even react. It's like he knew it. Okay, yeah, I'm getting thrown out here three minutes into a must win game and Steph. The reason this is such a story is Steph appeared to be brought to tears, and that is I mean, Kerr like consoled him, put his hand

on his back, and that is multi layered. I think part of it is God dog it, we need this game and now we're without our second most important player. But I don't think that's enough to bring Steph to tears. I think that it was bigger picture that Steph is realizing this is well, that's yeah, that's part of it. Here's another part of it. That's the like empathetic piece of it. And I don't say this with any judgment

that's quote selfish, not in a negative way. Piece of it is this is just what the rest of my career is going to be like Clay. My guy is either going to be here as a far less version of himself, or he's going to be gone. Draymond, my other guy, has lost the thread entirely and is has less control over his emotions than any player in modern NBA history. And this is how my career is going

to go. I'm thirty six years old. I am Whether Steph will admit this or not, he knows he is starting for the first time to show some real signs of agent. He's still a very good player. He is still a top ten player, but he's far closer to ten than number one. He no longer can just by the power of his own gravity and play Harriet team to contention, might not be able to even carry the team to the postseason. I mean, steps missed less than a half a dozen games and the Warriors are one

game up on the eleven seed Rockets. And he's looking at it and saying, this is what the rest of my career is going to be. Mediocre teams, young players that aren't yet ready to win. My wingman Clay as a compromised version of himself through.

staring at his basketball mortality with no reinforcements. And Steph now is going to I it is a weird spot, Demons. But Steph is now going to be forced to make a decision, and that decision he could be forced like it comes starting this offseason. And that is what is. And I, by the way, I want to say this on the front end, I would not judge him at all for either decision here. He has obviously more than earned the right to do whatever he wants. He is

as Steve as Steph. As Steve Kerr put it, he has carried the weight of the franchise on his shoulder shoulders for fifteen years, but he now thanks to some Warriors miss draft picks, thanks to Clay's injuries, and thanks to Draymond's total unpredictability, volatility, and regression as a player. Steph staying with the Warriors and competing for anything close to a championship or deep playoff run, those two things

are mutually exclusive. Say that is it is no different than if I were to say I want to retire in my hometown of Kansas City and live on the ocean. Gotta choose. Impossible to do both, and so Steph Curry now thanks to a lot of factors. But I would argue the biggest of which is Draymond's total inability to control his emotions and the Warriors decision to reward him with a hundred million dollar extension. Right, Steph now has to choose. Go ahead.

And so now Steph Curry has to choose what is most important to me, retiring a Warrior or competing for championships and or even for it, even if it's like, all right, I don't even I've got four rings, I've been to six finals, I've won two MVPs, I got my finals MVP. I don't have to compete for a championship. It'd be one thing if like, okay, the Warriors were capped out at the second round of the playoff, that they are gonna fight for their lives to make the

play in. They are not one of the fifteen best teams in a thirty team league, and a lot of people have to wear that. But everyone else here's I guess my last piece of it. Everyone else is at least doing their best. The front off has made some mistakes, but they're doing their best. Klay Thompson wants to be great again more than anything in the world. His body

won't allow him, but he's doing his best. Draymond Green has the easiest job of everybody, just don't be an asshole, and he can't do it, and so it's.

it's like, give me a like. Steph doesn't typically do that in a regular season game against the Magic, right, Like the night Night celebration is kind of reserved for bigger moments. Right, he did that, then he went over to the bench and angrily kicked his chair in the tunnel. Draymond is waiting for him smiling doing the night night like we're good buddy, good job. That is not the disposition of someone that realizes the gravity of their actions. Yeah,

so I feel for Steph. I do know that the two iconic guys of this era are obviously the two most iconic, Lebron and Steph. I know. I'll tell you this much right now. Lebron wouldn't be waiting around now and again, that's not a value judgment, but Lebron would not be like, Okay, yeah, so I just can't compete for titles for the next two years, so be it like and again on his team, Well, you know, that's

very interesting. They're very close friends. Uh, don't put this part on social media if people are watching, and they can do it like, I haven't talked about this publicly at all. Lebron, to his credit, and I'm probably hurting it here, attempted. The producers don't even know this. You're the only one that knows this. Lebron, to his credit.

A tempted to personally reconcile Draymond in my relationship, trying to kind of bring people together, and he loves Draymond and a lot of a lot of folks love Draymond Green the person, but Draymond on the court, his lack of impulse control is historic, and this story you can there is a I understand that the Warriors don't become the Warriors without Draymond Green. There's no question about that.

He is an all time legendary player. But a lot of people believe they would have won the championship in twenty sixteen if he doesn't hit Lebron in the groin and get suspended. I don't believe that a lot of people do. I think everyone agrees their title defense would have gone differently had he not punched Jordan Poole right

before the season started. And everyone must acknowledge this year would have gone differently if he wasn't suspended for a quarter of the season due to on court violent X that after which when he said, I'm I'm changed, I'm this, I'm that he now last night's getting thrown out of a game three minutes in? All right? Next?

done have happened in the last year. The stomp on some bonus's chest and the spinning backfist into nirk Those are those are dangerous. But Ron, I mean, Ron had some of the most vicious elbows you've ever seen. Ron also famously, you know, kind of incited a riot, you so, But but Ron didn't have as much beef with the officials as Draymond does. So it's like a different there. It's it's day, right, Draymond's closer to Rodman in that regard. All right, let's move on.

You can say if you want ad Milwaukee to that list, because Milwaukee has an argument that they have the best player and they made massive moves off season. If they don't make the finals, it's a massive disappointment. Everyone else is graded on a different scale, which is it depends on how it looks and how it goes, and so I don't I thought last year was excellent. I thought the Lakers last year went as far as they could

have gone. Maybe they could have gone one or two games against Denver further, but they weren't beating Denver last year. They just weren't and you have now that further verified by their performance against Denver this year. So no, I think Lebron and the Laker I think Ad being healthy. I think Lebron having another phenomenal season. As the oldest guy in the league. Lebron now has scored more points in year twenty one than the rest of NBA history

put together. I think all and the Lakers are if you if you were to say the Lakers are the second best team in the Western Conference, you could make that argument. You absolutely could. What they've been after the first fifty games, they're like seventeen and seven there that is that right? Seven to sixteen and seven something like that, regardless,

like there's there's real argument to be made. This is a very good team having you know that after some fits and starts and dealing with some rotational injuries, is getting better. I this I have now said this specific take on multiple platforms. I'm gonna say it again here. And I'm curious what producer Daniel. I don't know if we can get producer Daniel or resident Nuggets fan his mic up or him on the air. I don't know if that's possible. I should have asked them beforehand. Daniel.

Can the audience hear you? Okay? Yeah, I can hear you. Good, here's my question. Okay, so the audience maybe can't hear you, Daniel, So don't worry about that. This is I should have I should have prepped this earlier. Uh So, I'm just gonna I'm just going to uh give my take on this, and we'll see how Daniel feels about it. Oh, the audience can hear you? All right? Great? If I were to tell you the Lakers and Nuggets are guaranteed to play in the postseason, as a Nuggets fan, what round

do you want that to happen in? The Lakers and Nuggets are definitely gonna play, and let's just assume neither team suffers a significant injury. I understand that's not a fair assumption, but let's just for the sake of this thought exercise, the Lakers and Nuggets are gonna play. What round do you want it to happen?

And then one of those absolutely worthless basketball aggregation Twitter accounts took seven words I said on the pod, put it out there, and now it's just it's one of those viral sensations that is a literal quote, but it's the same account demands that when we were talking on this show about uh going, when I said to you exactly right when I said to you, guess the three teams I would like Lebron to go to. This is a little quick story and you know, getting tricked on

the internet, I said on this pod. And then we'll get back to the Lakers, Nuggets, thck to Demonse, there's three teams I want Lebron, I personally would like to see Lebron go to. And we said like the Calves, we said the Sixers, And then I said, Demonse, can you guess the next team? And demand said the Heat, and I said, quote exactly, the Heat are absolutely the

next team. And these these these worthless Twitter accounts tweeted out the quote the Heater the next team nick right on Lebron James, which is technically accurate and wildly misle right because I was saying the next team on my wish list, and they presented it as if I were

reporting that Lebron's next team is gonna be Miami. So this same account took the quote of me saying the Lakers should want Denver and round one contextless, and folks understandably are like, oh my god, this this this fool yeah, this guy. When my take on this to me is to me very logical and common sense. If we operate under the assumption that the Lakers, in order to make the Finals are going to have to beat the Nuggets, the round they have the best chance of beating them

is round one. The games are not every other day, you have more rest and Lebron and they will be the freshest they will be at any point in the postseason. So if you're the question is, if you're a Laker fan, would you rather what is more valuable to you? A greater chance at a deep playoff run with a lower chance of making the finals, or a greater chance of being bounced in round one with a greater chance of making the finals. Because I think that if they play

the Nuggets in round one, they probably lose. But I also think the only round they would have a realistic chance of beating the Nuggets is round one. And if you were to get past the Nuggets in round one, all of a sudden, you now you can start talking thinking big things because Lebron can't play forty four minutes every night every other day, but he might be able to in round one, where you have two days sometimes three days between games. Round two and round three, you're

every other day. Furthermore, if the Nuggets don't play the Lakers in round one, they're probably playing the Rockets or the Warriors or somebody that they will just wash out. And so in that scenario, the Nuggets have swept a team, the Lakers are in a seven game war, and then then all of a sudden, you gotta face them like

none of those things which should be attractive for the Lakers. Now, there's no real way to game it out, because the Nuggets right now could be the one, the two or the three seed, and so in my opinion, the ideal realistic scenario for the Lakers is this move up one line in the standings to the eight seed when play in game number one, become the seventh seed, and then get the nug and have the Nuggets be the two

seed and take your chances. Now you again, you that probably means the Lakers season is over after five games of Round one. But if the goal is a make give yourself the best chance to win a title, I don't think you have. I think your chance of beating the Nuggets in the conference finals is half of whatever your chance of beating them in round one is. All right, next?

certain they're paying Brock Party. Yet there's not and we'll see how this year goes. My guess is that after this year they find a reason to wait another year and see they've got him for the next two years at a million bucks and they can use the franchise tag.

This guy's got no leverage, and deep down, when he's being honest, Kyle Shanahan knows what everyone knows that the moment Brock Party where to go from one million fifty million dollars and you have to pluck away a lot of those weapons and that roster he is not going to be able to carry you. And I think Ile Shannan's a great coach and a brilliant offensive mind. And I said this about Tua and Mike McDaniel, and I

will say it about shanahan and Purty. I grade McDaniel and Shanahan on a curve of look at what they're doing despite the limitations forced upon them at quarterback. If either one of those guys sign off on that quarterback becoming one of the highest paid quarterbacks in football, that curve goes away, goes away entirely, and you are now listen. You are judged as if you have a great quarterback because you paid him as if you were a great quarterback. Speaking of great quarterbacks.

out of school, Caleb than Trevor, than Luck. What the general consensus would have been as far as like the what scouts would have told you, it's Luck than Caleb than Trevor. And this is the difference between pedigree, profile, how what type of prospect you are and what type

of pro you are? The what? And I also think era kind of matters even within this small decade long sample, Caleb is more valuable today than he would have been a decade ago, because today teams are more open to the mobilerick, you know, quarterbacks that cannot exactly right, quarterbacks that can operate out of structure. But Luck was considered the best prospects since Lway, and Luck is still considered the best prospects since Lway. They Trevor was considered the

best prospects since Luck. Caleb is considered the best prospects since Luck a better prospect than Trevor. All right, quick break, come back talk a little Caitlin Clark, and then some NFL over unders do that next, What's right? All right, welcome back in episode two twenty five, What's right in the right Before we get to the NFL win totals. Demonte let's talk to Caitlin Clark.

ice Cube. Put me down as not believing this. Put put me down as if the If the story is that Caitlin Clark has the opportunity to join the Big Three and get a guaranteed five million dollars, If that is the story, I do not believe that to be accurate.

dollars of value. Sure is it? You know, gets a percentage stake in the league, which if the league is valued at X and your percent is why that's worth four million bucks plus will pay you a million cash? Yeah? Maybe, But if what is being if it is being if the story is Caitlin Clark can play one season of the Big Three and get a check that you can go to your local bank and cash for five million dollars, she will obviously do that, and I just don't think

that's gonna happen. I think that this is really good publicity. I think it's interesting, this was what we have. We don't do a great job these days of following up on stories or asking to me the obvious questions of the finer details of stories. So I could be proven wrong here, but I don't don't believe this story as it's being reported, and you can be like reported ice Cube said it, I do not believe that Caitlin Clark has the option of getting five million dollars in cash

money to play in the Big Three. I don't think that's true. And so we'll see, We'll see if I'm right. Uh, just go ahead and mark this down. My guess. My guess is the offer is substantially less cash and a lot of theoretical equity or something that on paper you can say has a five million dollar value. Go ahead.

that that offer is gonna work. Actually, I believe that this podcast would instantly be worth fifty million if Patrick were to sign up for it. So my offer is actually a twenty percent ownership stake, which at a fifty million dollar valuation, is worth ten million dollars for him to take your seat offers out there ten million bucks. That to me is more likely the line we're taking, rather than I've got a check ready. So we'll see.

You can call me a hater. I call myself a uh realist with a slight dose dose of healthy skepticism. But we'll see, and I'm sure some intrepid journalists will follow up on this story consistently, So we'll just see. Let's go to NFL totals.

made a massive upgrade at quarterback. They won seven games last year, and so yes, I love the Bears over that is too low? Next?

see a quick turnaround for the Chargers. They'll be better than last year, but last year they won like five six games, so I think eight and a half is just right.

I think that the Bills are probably eleven and six, so ten and a half is just right next all right.

you get Tampa, you get Atlanta. They get the AFC North, which is brutal, obviously, and they have the first place schedule. But the Cowboys win twelve games every year.

in football. Like that that they're not gonna win ten games, So that to me is absolutely unequivocally too high.

be interesting. I don't love the Jags offensive coordinator. I don't love the GM and so I want to believe in the Jags because of how much I believe in Trevor, but I don't love the roster and so you know, fighting for one of those final playoff spots is probably how this is gonna go for the Jags. It's unfortunate, it is squandering Trevor's rookie contract. It's unconscious some of

the mismanagement they've had with this team. And last year it was you know, they were eight and three and Trevor got hurt, and everyone wants to pretend like that didn't happen, but that is what happened. This was an eight and three team and their quarterback got hurt. But I losing Ridley, spending money where they've spent it, I just don't think it's smart. All right, So there is a quick look at the we'll do the whole league post draft for the over unders take a quick break

come back. The Chiefs signed a rugby star will do that and answer your questions. What's right? Welcome back in What's right with Nick?

I don't think it's to play running back wide receiver. I think it's to get a look at him with the new kick return rules. I think that I think that there is real intrigue there and Andy get a free look at it. The other person that I think for the Chiefs could actually be really valuable in the return game. Yes, they're not gonna cut him because his contract's guaranteed. He you know they're gonna He's gonna be moved down the wide receiver depth chart by the draft,

by Hollywood Brown, all of that. But with the ball in his hands, he's dynamic. So I think this is I think it is an intriguing free look at a guy that I think is actually super sharp by them, and I like, all right, let's get to the listener questions.

not have a legitimate case. Sorry, he's on the best team.

I used to get MLBXRA. I was watching regular season baseball all the time when the Royal stink I'll see you in October. So this is probably a i'll see you in October baseball season. And then Prime Lebron said, there's a bunch of dorks behind the camera because we showed the control room. That's unfair. And there's a couple doors behind the camera. It's not everybody. I mean, it's it's not it's not everybody. Here's a couple dorks behind the camera. I'm not gonna you know, name names, but

that's just a couple that was that was unnecessary. Prime Lebron all right, great job everyone, great job. Demand's a oh and Patrick mahomes in for the show. See just now, I am gonna take a shot at the producers. Yeah, guys, producers. Just so you guys know, I understand you guys worked

very hard on these photoshops. If I very clearly and intentionally skip over the question in in the rundown that allows me to bring this up, it's probably because I saw it in preview and didn't think we should put it on the air. Just for the record, it's not like, oh, Nick missed it. Let's make sure listen, you miss one entrepren of the shots you don't take. I'm not mad

at you for taking the shot. But if I say, all right, that's it for the show, let's move on, don't just jump me with the graphic that I thought was, you know, maybe not white camera ready that's all. Demand's great job producers, great job listeners, great job. See you guys on TV today at three.

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