Nick Wright's NBA Playoff + Awards Predictions: Will Lakers SURVIVE Rockets? Celtics-Nuggets Finals?
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Nick Wright shares his predictions for the 2026 NBA Playoffs! Will LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers survive Kevin Durant's Houston Rockets (likely) without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves? Are Jayson Tatum's Boston Celtics the team to beat in the Eastern Conference over Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks and Cade Cunningham's Detroit Pistons? Later, Nick shares his NBA awards predictions after Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham were deemed eligible for awards. #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome in, while driving Nick Wright, episode 447. |
| 0:09.8 | This will be our NBA playoff pick show and our NBA awards ballot. |
| 0:15.9 | As we found out, we record this on a Thursday. |
| 0:19.7 | And so we found out just moments ago, Luca and Cade, |
| 0:23.4 | both won their appeals, both eligible. I will admit, when I saw Dusty from First things |
| 0:32.9 | first, text me a screenshot of a Shams Sharania tweet tweet and i just saw it in the corner of the screen |
| 0:40.5 | and it was a picture of luca my heart jumped of it i was like he's gonna say he's coming back |
| 0:46.4 | but instead of the awards thing so i'm happy for lucca he deserves to be on awards ballots but |
| 0:52.7 | the other would have made me happier this episode of what's Right and the guy is presented to you by Boost Mobile. Reminder does help us out if you like, rate, subscribe, review to the show. Demandze, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing excellent. How's it going for you? I mean, it's going good. I knew this already. We just recorded a one hour show where I'm not lying. |
| 1:11.2 | We're wearing the same clothes. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm not lying to the audience. |
| 1:13.6 | Like I didn't talk to you. |
| 1:17.0 | All right. |
| 1:17.5 | I'm just going to jump right into it. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm going to pick every series and the number of games in every series. |
| 1:22.8 | And we'll see how I do. |
| 1:25.4 | Western Conference, round one. |
| 1:28.6 | OKC smokes. |
| 1:30.7 | Whomever wins the 8-9 playoff game. |
| 1:35.1 | I think it'll be Phoenix beating Golden State. |
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