Lakers SWEPT, LeBron’s Future, Wemby RETURNS, Knicks TITLE-BOUND? | Nick Wright NBA Reaction
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Nick Wright reacts to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers being swept by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the NBA Playoffs. Is this the end of LeBron in Los Angeles? Where could we see LeBron next.. New York? Golden State? Back in Cleveland? Later, Nick reacts to Victor Wembanyama NOT being suspended following his ejection from Game 4 of the San Antonio Spurs series with Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Who does Nick have winning Game 5? Next, Nick shares his prediction for Cavaliers-Pistons with the series even at 2-2 as well as his thoughts on Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals... is this the year New York returns to the NBA Finals? #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome in, What Driving the Gride episode 4.57. |
| 0:10.5 | This episode of What Driving the Grite is presented to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:16.2 | We have a little breaking NFL news from right before the show to Monzae. |
| 0:20.9 | Chiefs Broncos week one on Monday night football, |
| 0:24.5 | which means the NFL pretty confident that both quarterbacks |
| 0:29.1 | going to be healthy post-offseason surgeries. |
| 0:32.9 | Holmes with the knee, Bo Nicks with the ankle. |
| 0:37.2 | Oddly, they haven't told us where the game is. |
| 0:42.0 | People, I think, are doing the wrong math on this. |
| 0:45.1 | I think they are trying, they're like, well, is that because of a Royals game |
| 0:51.1 | week one or a concert in Denver? |
| 0:54.3 | I don't think it is because they don't know which stadium is available, Denver or Kansas |
| 1:04.3 | City week one. |
| 1:05.6 | My guess is they are trying to make sure the opposite stadium is available for their second meeting. |
| 1:12.9 | And so that's why we don't yet know where this game is going to be played. |
| 1:18.3 | Despite that, I still, because we don't know, if it's going to be played narrowhead, |
| 1:22.9 | the chiefs will be favorites. |
| 1:24.0 | If it's played in Denver, the Broncos will be favorites. |
| 1:26.2 | And because I have just a, you know, a little degeneracy in me, I texted a poker great, my pal and diehard Bronco |
| 1:34.8 | fan, David Baker, and was like, hey, you want to bet this thing blind? We don't know the line, |
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