Thunder-Spurs JUGGERNAUT series, Knicks-Cavs PREDICTION + SGA wins MVP | Nick Wright NBA Reaction
What's Wright? with Nick Wright
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Nick Wright reacts to Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers dominating Cade Cunningham's Detroit Pistons in Game 7 to set up an Eastern Conference Finals with Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks. Nick makes his series prediction for who comes out of the East as well as for who wins the juggernaut Western Conference Finals between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Oklahoma City Thunder and Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs. Later, Nick discusses SGA winning NBA MVP for the second consecutive season and where OKC's guard now ranks among the greatest players in league history... has he entered the top 5 guards of all-time? #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome in episode 457 of What's Right in the Crate. |
| 0:09.9 | As always, this episode is brought to you by our friends at Boost Mobile. |
| 0:14.4 | It is a bonus Monday episode to make up for the fact that Thursday we were not able to deliver you guys an episode. |
| 0:22.2 | That was a combination of health and tech and everything doesn't matter. |
| 0:28.4 | We weren't able to be here Thursday. |
| 0:30.3 | So we are here today. |
| 0:31.7 | We will also be live tomorrow as scheduled reacting to game one of the Western Conference Finals, which comes at you tonight, |
| 0:41.2 | and we do have a conference final set. And so to get this bonus episode or tomorrow's |
| 0:47.0 | episode, as always, subscribe to the pod, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, all of that. So I kind of want to start big picture in this regard, as we have Spurs, Thunder, |
| 0:59.5 | and Cavs Nix in the conference finals. |
| 1:02.8 | Now, did I predict this? |
| 1:05.3 | No. |
| 1:06.5 | Am I on a historically bad run when it comes to my pre-playoffs predictions and then my adjusted, |
| 1:16.8 | well, this team got knocked out, so let me go with that team, individual series predictions? |
| 1:22.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:23.7 | Is it even more embarrassing when you consider the fact that in the Western Conference, |
| 1:29.9 | it's just one versus two, the two best teams in the conference and maybe the league all year. |
| 1:36.4 | And in the Eastern Conference, it's the two preseason favorites. |
| 1:40.4 | Those are the teams left standing. |
| 1:42.0 | Does it make it more embarrassing? |
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