Nick Wright Mailbag: WILD Kobe Bryant take, when Nick knew LeBron could be GOAT, Jaylen Brown drama
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Nick Wright answers listener questions during a mailbag episode! What's next for Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics after their star guard made controversial comments following the Celtics' first round loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Playoffs? Later, Nick shares a take on Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant that he is certain will not be well received, as well as the moment he thought LeBron James could become the greatest NBA player of all time. #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome in, What's Driving The Grindrude Episode 4.56. |
| 0:09.2 | It is our Friday mailback episode, and this episode of What's Right and The Guide is presented to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:15.8 | A reminder to like, rate, subscribe, and review the show. |
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| 0:30.0 | All right. Before we get to the mailbag, DeMonse, Thursday, on Thursday's show, we were supposed to get to Jalen Brown. But sometimes I just can kind of feel that I'm finishing with a flourish. |
| 0:36.1 | And I didn't think we were going to get any better |
| 0:38.4 | than the Draymond Green rant at the end. And so I just, I ended it. However, that, so Jalen |
| 0:45.2 | Brown, I'm going to catch everybody up. Jalen Brown, the day after the season ends, has a somewhat |
| 0:50.8 | bizarre Twitch stream where he says a lot of things. One of the things he said was criticizing the officials got fine 50 grand, but also said |
| 0:59.8 | like this was my favorite year of my career. |
| 1:03.5 | And that then led to people being like, really? |
| 1:07.8 | You guys won a championship in previous. |
| 1:10.1 | You won finals MVP. You won finals MVP. |
| 1:11.5 | You won finals MVP. Then Tracy McGrady, who evidently has a real relationship with |
| 1:18.7 | Jalen Brown, said on his podcast with Vince Carter, said, yeah, listen, Jalen's got problems with |
| 1:25.3 | the organization. Everyone's like, uh-oh. |
| 1:29.4 | Brad Stevens then asked about it. |
| 1:31.5 | Brad Stevens like, no, no, we're all good, you know, tried to debt it. |
| 1:36.4 | Jalen then was like another Twitch stream initially said it was going to be on IG with Kevin |
| 1:41.5 | Garnett, then pivoted to later in the day on Twitch where he said |
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