Pacers-Thunder Game 5 Reaction: SGA & J-Dub GO OFF, Haliburton ALL-TIME BAD
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Nick Wright breaks down Game 5 of the NBA Finals as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s Oklahoma City Thunder go up 3-2 on an injured Tyrese Haliburton’s Indiana Pacers. Then, Nick discusses the blockbuster trade by the Orlando Magic for Desmond Bane and what it means for the rest of the NBA and Kevin Durant. Later, Nick debates what’s next for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Finally, as always, Nick and Damonza answer your questions.
0:00 - Straight to Voicemail - brought to you by Boost Mobile
4:20 - Haliburton’s disastrous performance
28:03 - Jalen Williams joins exclusive group
44:29 - Will OKC become the NBA’s next villain?
51:30 - How the Desmond Bane trade shakes up the NBA
58:32 - Durant’s trade demands
1:04:32 - Solitaire and lying
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| 0:44.6 | Welcome in, Episode 340. |
| 0:47.0 | What's Right with Nick Wright, presented to you by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:51.2 | And this is an insane show we have today because last night we had something |
| 0:59.5 | of the yin and the yang of historic NBA finals performances and that's not an exaggeration. |
| 1:06.2 | It was as bad of a performance as you will see from a team's best player from a superstar |
| 1:15.4 | in a finals game in your entire life. |
| 1:19.2 | And it was just about as good of a performance as you will see from a team's second best |
| 1:26.5 | player in an NBA finals game as you'll see from a team's second best player in an NBA finals game, as you'll see in a decade. |
| 1:31.2 | And so we will get into all of that. |
| 1:34.2 | And then we will also, I am going to make something of a Faustian bargain with the audience. |
| 1:42.6 | And we'll see how it works out because it has a little |
| 1:46.7 | to do with politics it has a little to do with solitaire it has a little to do with internecine |
| 1:53.5 | media beefs and it has a little to do with the future of the republic as a whole and i know there are |
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