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You Better You Bet

Nick Friedell Talks NBA Playoffs, Wemby & MORE!

You Better You Bet

Audacy

Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Audacy NBA Insider Nick Friedell joins the show to discuss the end of the NBA season playoff race, Victor Wembanyama's MVP chances, and MUCH MORE!

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0:00.0

Daniel!

0:02.0

The

0:04.0

... Welcome back to you better you bet on Westwood One Sports.

0:31.1

Welcome back into the show.

0:32.8

My name is Karen Tarrison.

0:33.9

Very happy to be here with you on this wonderful, wonderful Tuesday.

0:37.9

We were talking about Victor Wimbunyama, who had the fastest triple double, or double, double, in almost 20 years.

0:50.5

He had 10 points and 10 rebounds in the first eight minutes of the game yesterday.

0:58.2

And we were talking about just an absolute unicorn, an absolute alien.

1:03.6

That's who Victor Wimbunyama is.

1:06.2

We're going to be joined by Nick Fidel here coming up in a little bit.

1:09.3

We're heading into the home stretch right now in the NBA.

1:12.6

One thing that I'm kind of keeping an eye on, I'll be interested to get Nick's thoughts,

1:17.2

is there's a chance that the Knicks end up getting the four seed in this.

1:22.0

The Pistons are going to get the one.

1:24.2

The Celtics are likely going to get the two.

1:26.7

If you look at the schedule for the Knicks down the stretch

1:29.8

and how well Cleveland has played since the addition to James Hardin,

1:33.5

there's a chance that the Knicks end up getting the four seed,

1:36.7

which could end up being a good thing.

1:39.0

I think they're clearly better than Toronto.

1:41.0

We'll see what happens with Cade Cunningham and what his status looks like. So maybe if you get them in the second round, that it will end up being a positive thing. If you were the Knicks, just taking a closer look at the Eastern Conference. The Western conferences, I would say at this point, kind of straightforward. We know who the one seed is. We know who the two seed is. I would say the Lakers are going to hold off that three seed as well. We also don't have really any competition when it comes into the playing game. The Western Conference, for the most part, is kind of locked in. The Eastern Conference is a little bit different. Let's head to the phone lines right now to be joined by Nick Fidel. He is our Odyssey Sports NBA insider. All

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