Rockets RALLY vs. Lakers, will LeBron respond? Pistons STAY ALIVE, Game 6 PREDICTIONS | Nick Wright
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Nick Wright breaks down LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers' Game 5 loss to the Houston Rockets... how nervous should LA fans should be? Then, Nick reacts to Cade Cunningham outdueling Paolo Banchero in the Detroit Pistons' Game 5 win over the Orlando Magic as well as Donovan Mitchell's Cleveland Cavaliers pulling away from the Toronto Raptors for a 3-2 series lead. After, Nick predicts the outcomes of the Game 6s between Jayson Tatum's Boston Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers, Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks and the Atlanta Hawks, and Nikola Jokic's Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome in, What Driving Nickride episode 4.52. |
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| 0:17.8 | Demandse, good to see you. |
| 0:19.7 | Good to see you. |
| 0:21.5 | Both our teams in the last 36 hours have suffered quite frustrating playoff defeats. |
| 0:29.7 | Yes. |
| 0:31.0 | Close out games, opportunity to just, you know, win it in a nice, tidy five at home. |
| 0:37.8 | At home, yep. |
| 0:39.4 | And instead, for various reasons, neither were able to do it. |
| 0:46.5 | And I don't think anybody thinks the Celtics are actually in trouble. |
| 0:54.2 | I do think a lot of people think the Lakers are actually in trouble. |
| 0:59.7 | We will discuss whether or not I think they're in trouble momentarily. |
| 1:04.1 | Also, scheduling update, and as always, |
| 1:07.0 | that's why it's good to subscribe to the show on YouTube Spotify or iTunes we have an |
| 1:12.7 | unbelievable mailbag episode scheduled for tomorrow that we are actually now going to do |
| 1:18.3 | next Friday they are great questions you can still submit them the reason we are going to |
| 1:23.9 | do that next Friday instead of this Friday is Dave McMinneman and shout |
| 1:29.4 | out to Dave this is the difference between being a just a transactions reporter journalist |
| 1:37.4 | where what you where your real utility is breaking news moments before it would have become public otherwise, |
| 1:47.2 | and a relationships-based journalist, Dave McMinneman has, for years, been developing |
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