Nick Wright Mailbag: What's next for LeBron? Thunder dynasty? + Nick's BEST LESSONS from career
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Nick Wright answers listener questions during a mailbag episode! What's next for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers as rumors circulate about James' future in LA? And who will Nick root for once LeBron retires? Are Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder about to be the NBA's next dynasty... or will OKC run into a similar fate as the most recent NBA champions? Later, Nick shares the best lessons he's learned from his career so far. #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome in, What's Right, episode 461, our semi-monthly mailbag episode. |
| 0:13.3 | This episode of What's Right when the ride is presented to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:17.6 | Reminder to like, rate, subscribe, and review to the pod. |
| 0:20.8 | Normally right off the top, we do what straight to voicemail brought to by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:26.3 | We don't do that for mailbag episodes. |
| 0:28.1 | Also, Thursday's show, we did not get to LeBron's future. |
| 0:33.3 | So before we get to the questions, just off the top of the show, De Manzay, good to see you again. |
| 0:39.5 | Let's talk a little bit about LeBron and money and his future. |
| 0:44.1 | So Wind Horse reported the LeBron wants the Lakers to come to him and offer him the max. |
| 0:48.4 | And if they don't give him the max, he wants them to explain why and how it would make sense and what they would do with the |
| 0:54.5 | extra cap space. What justification could the Lakers give for paying of anything less than the |
| 1:00.0 | max? Listen, if you remember last year, he was willing to take a pay cut if it meant they could |
| 1:08.7 | bring in, I think it was Clay Thompson or DeMorta Rosen. |
| 1:11.9 | And then they couldn't. |
| 1:13.9 | He was like, all right, just running my money then. |
| 1:16.1 | Like, go ahead. |
| 1:17.3 | I'll take it. |
| 1:21.6 | Here is why I find the LeBron money discussion so frustrating? |
| 1:29.8 | Because the general, |
| 1:34.4 | the general conventional wisdom by nearly everyone in the media, |
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