Best Of - Jayson Tatum's RETURN to Celtics? LeBron & Luka DISASTER for Lakers + Olympic Reaction | Nick Wright
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Nick Wright breaks down what Jayson Tatum's return will mean for Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics... has Tatum's accelerated recovery put himself in a nearly impossible situation to succeed? Later, Nick reacts to Team USA's thrilling gold medal victory over Canada at the Milan Winter Olympics and shares his other favorite stories from the games including Alyssa Liu's inspiring gold in women's figure skating. Next, Nick discusses why this season has been a disaster for LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and the Los Angeles Lakers and what LA must hope for moving forward. #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right with Nick Wright. |
| 0:07.7 | The best takes and moments from this week on the show. |
| 0:10.9 | Enjoy. |
| 0:13.2 | Yeah, so the Denver cooked us in the second half. |
| 0:16.0 | We were coming off of back-to-back. |
| 0:18.0 | But Shams reports that there are reinforcements coming back. Tatum is practicing full 5-to-back. But Shams reports that their reinforcements coming back. |
| 0:21.4 | Tatum is practicing full 5-on-5. |
| 0:25.3 | How highly would you rank the Celtics with Tatum at 100% maybe? |
| 0:29.9 | Let me rank them without Tatum first, okay? |
| 0:33.5 | Because we talked on Tuesday about Jalen Brown being, you know, a third on my MVP ballot to me firmly in the top five. |
| 0:45.2 | And how impressed I've been with what he's done, what Missoula has done, the way they've kind of proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the math edge they have night in |
| 0:57.1 | night out right so I have given Boston their flowers and been very very I think fair to what |
| 1:07.3 | they have accomplished this year without Jason Tatum. |
| 1:12.9 | With all of that said, |
| 1:24.6 | I would put them at close to 0% to win the championship, not make the finals, win the championship, if Jason Tatum does not come back. |
| 1:30.5 | If Tatum doesn't come back to Monzae, |
| 1:36.6 | I would have the following teams in no particular order, but the following teams ahead of Boston in championship probability. |
| 1:44.1 | OkC, San Antonio, Denver, Detroit, the Knicks, |
| 1:52.3 | the Timberwolves, the Rockets, the Cavs, |
| 1:59.1 | and that I might end there, Sixers, Lakers would be the next teams that come to mind. |
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