What's Wright - Best Of - Brunson HEROICS, Knicks HUGE Game 1 win vs. Spurs, Myles Garrett & AJ Brown TRADE reactions, OKC's future | Nick Wright
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Nick Wright reacts to Jalen Brunson's 4th quarter heroics in the New York Knicks' massive Game 1 win over Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. Is Brunson the clear-cut best American player? Is he making a run at best player in the world? Next, Nick breaks down what's next for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Chet Holmgren, and the Oklahoma City Thunder after their Western Conference Finals loss. Should OKC make a move for Giannis? Anthony Davis? Later, Nick reacts to the Los Angeles Rams trading with the Cleveland Browns for Myles Garrett as well as the New England Patriots trading with the Philadelphia Eagles for AJ Brown. How does this shift the balance of power in the NFL? #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right with Nick Wright. |
| 0:07.7 | The best takes and moments from this week on the show. |
| 0:10.9 | Enjoy. |
| 0:13.0 | All right. |
| 0:13.6 | So you predicted this. |
| 0:14.7 | The Knicks were going to go into San Antonio and steal game one against the Spurs. |
| 0:19.4 | They close it out on an 11-0 run. |
| 0:22.3 | Shaky start for Brunson, not just from an efficiency standpoint, |
| 0:26.5 | but banged up, the knee injury, the ankle injury. |
| 0:29.7 | And despite that, he does what he's been doing since he's joined the Knicks, |
| 0:33.6 | and that's become the most clutch player in the NBA, |
| 0:36.4 | 13 points in the fourth quarter. |
| 0:38.4 | And so they continue this hottest streak in playoff history. |
| 0:42.3 | What about Nick how the Knicks won this game made you feel even more confident in your series prediction of them taking it in six games? |
| 0:51.5 | Well, I think they're better. |
| 0:58.8 | And I entered, neither team played perfect basketball last night. Both teams' best players were inefficient. There were the only guy, I think there |
| 1:06.0 | are only two players in that game who leave that game feeling awesome about how they play carl anthony |
| 1:13.6 | towns and josh hart and towns is you know the second best player on the nix josh hart |
| 1:19.3 | might be the third most important player on the nix on any given night but everybody else feels |
| 1:26.0 | like they left a little meat on the bone so to speak |
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