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You Better You Bet

Nick Friedell Talks NBA Finals, Spurs vs. Thunder & Draft Lottery

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Audacy NBA Insider Nick Friedell joins the show to break down Thunder vs. Spurs, Knicks chances of winning the NBA Finals, and the league's new draft lottery.

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0:00.0

This is 1580 The Bet, presented by BetMGM.

0:26.5

This is You Better You Bet, presented by BetMGM on Westwood One Sports.

0:34.5

Wednesday night in either San Antonio or Oklahoma City.

0:36.6

The NBA finals get started.

0:39.1

The Knicks are just sitting around waiting to see who they're going to get. Sounds like Mitchell Robinson is going to try to make it a go for game one,

0:43.8

despite that broken pinky. And the Knicks, they haven't lost since. Over a month, 11 in a row,

0:50.9

they're on a roll. Are they ready to just make New York City their oyster?

0:57.2

Because that's what winning an NBA championship for this current iteration of the New York Knicks would do.

1:02.8

And who are they going to face when they get there?

1:04.7

Plus, we've got to talk draft lottery nonsense.

1:06.6

All of that, it's a Friday.

1:08.7

Pleased to be joined by our good friend, Nick Fidelidel, Odyssey NBA Insider. Insider calls brought to you by Hyundai and the all-new Hyundai Palisade hybrid. Chris Mackin for Nick Costos today. Morning, Nick. How are you? And what did you think of game six last night? Chris, it's great to be with you, as always. Game 6 was not so hot.

1:28.8

And if we're being real here, look, after game won and all the hype that that produced

1:34.6

and is fantastic of a game as that was the rest of these games, you're like, really?

1:40.3

Like, that game last night, that thing was over real fast in the second half i i i am very interested

1:48.8

to see what happens here in game seven these are two very very good teams but i'm just hoping

1:56.0

more than anything else for anybody like us that's just a fan of the game, that it's just a good game,

2:02.7

because after how great that first one was, I feel like there's been a pretty dramatic drop-off

2:09.0

night tonight. Yeah, the way I just brought it up earlier, and we talked about it pre-show

2:16.2

in our meeting coming in was,

2:18.0

yeah, this series has not been after you got past game one,

2:21.0

really hasn't necessarily been a great series after everything we were going to get following game one.

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