NBA Reaction: LeBron x Lakers drama, Suns & Thunder MEGA deals + Nick Wright's MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Nick Wright leads off the show with a major career announcement regarding the World Series of the Poker. Next, Nick breaks down the drama in Los Angeles surrounding LeBron James' future with the Lakers and his reaction, or lack of a reaction, to the team adding Deandre Ayton. Then, Nick discusses Devin Booker's massive deal with the Phoenix Suns as well as the mega contract extension for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren with the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Nick then shares his NBA free agency winners and losers before answering whether Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is still the biggest threat to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome in, What Driving Nickride episode 347. |
| 0:09.2 | This episode of What Driving Nickride is brought to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:14.1 | A ton to do today. |
| 0:15.1 | We are not on TV today and tomorrow because of the Euro soccer tournament. |
| 0:20.9 | So we will be, this will be the only place that I'll be on the air today. |
| 0:26.3 | And then a little schedule adjustment next week instead of Tuesday pod. |
| 0:32.7 | We will do a Monday pod. |
| 0:34.3 | The reason for that will, I will explain in just a moment. |
| 0:39.6 | DeMonze, great to see you. |
| 0:41.9 | You know, the approaching weekend birthday, major plans, anything? |
| 0:49.7 | Just, low key? |
| 0:51.2 | With the friends, yeah. |
| 0:52.9 | Nothing, nothing too crazy yeah maybe |
| 0:55.0 | okay Saturday or something yeah it's also the the late 20s birthdays are they all kind of run |
| 1:01.4 | together 25 is something and 30 is something but 26 27 28 29 maybe a little something because |
| 1:10.2 | you feel like that's my last year in their 20s. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.6 | But yeah, so this is, if we were to power rank birthdays, 27 is pretty bad. |
| 1:21.3 | Like, not bad, but it's just, it's, you know, it doesn't make very, very low on the totem pole. And for your birthday's up to this |
| 1:30.2 | point, it, like, as far as excitement level going into it, it might be dead last. Like, I'm not |
| 1:36.1 | trying to rain on your, like, just there's not a lot of buzz. Not a lot of, you know, not a lot of, |
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