Lakers Survive, Playoff Preview & Outpick Nick

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

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Sports, News, Sports News, Basketball, Football

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Nick reacts to last night's play-in games, decides if he is still confident in his Lakers pick and gives a postseason best-case / worst-case scenario for LeBron James. Then, Nick determines what the most tantalizing storyline in round 1 is. Later, Nick decides which playoff teams he has the most confidence in and ranks them in a new game called “Outpick Nick “. Lastly, Nick and Diorra answer your questions. 02:50 – 7-Year Anniversary of Kobe's final game 05:03 – Play-in Controversy and 8th-seed Predictions 18:51 – Nick Still Confident in Lakers? 27:44 – Best Case/Worst Case Scenarios for LeBron's Legacy 31:41 – Best Storyline heading into NBA Playoffs 36:24 – Outpick Nick 46:04-- – Happy Anniversary Nick & Danielle! 50:47 – Fan Questions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright, episode 142.
0:15.0	Tund to do massive week in our household.
0:20.0	I have some important family business to handle at the end of the show.
0:26.0	Before we do the listener questions, we'll do that at the end of the show.
0:31.0	But we got to get right into it today.
0:33.7	Diora is here. She's my 17 soon to be 18 year old daughter. Some of her family
0:39.3	business will be discussed at the end of the show as well as this is a wild week and a very
0:44.6	important day in the right family household but we had play-in games last night
0:50.5	we have 14 1616ths of the playoff set. We're going to play a
0:56.2	confidence game. Today is an anniversary in the NBA as well as a personal anniversary.
1:04.4	I'll get to that in a moment.
1:05.9	But first, what did not make the show,
1:09.0	not on the show today.
1:10.8	Sequin Barclay doesn't sign his franchise tag.
1:14.8	That's not surprising.
1:15.8	I think he'll play, but I don't think he's going to show up for a while.
1:18.7	Jake Paul and Nate Diaz boxing matchbooked. It's not possible for me to be less interested in anything
1:26.4	Jake Paul.
1:27.4	Do you like Jake Paul?
1:29.1	I used to be, I used to be, you know, a Jake Paul fan? I used to watch a A Jake Paul fan
1:33.0	I used to watch the team 10 videos.
1:35.0	Okay, I don't know what that is.
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