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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

What's Wright - Best Of Nick Wright - Are Lakers FINISHED? Celtics TEAM TO BEAT w/ Tatum? Jokic TOP 10 EVER?

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Basketball, Football, Sports News

4.110.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Nick Wright breaks down if LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers can still hold NBA Playoff aspirations with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves injured. With Jayson Tatum back and playing at a high level are the Boston Celtics not just the team to beat in the Eastern Conference... but the entire NBA? How much of a case does Nikola Jokic have as a top ten player of all-time? And will we ever see a three-peat again in the NBA? #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.

0:13.4

Tatum returns to MSG tonight for his first time since tearing his Achilles

0:17.3

last year in the playoffs.

0:18.8

He's not thrilled about going back.

0:20.6

It's a little traumatic, but he wants to go about it now

0:23.9

because they might be able to see them in the second round.

0:26.3

What do you think of his approach?

0:30.3

So I had a hunch on...

0:40.7

Because the Celtics play back-to-back.

0:45.3

They play tonight and tomorrow, and he's not yet allowed to play back-to-backs.

0:48.9

So we very easily could miss this game and then play tomorrow.

0:58.5

And I had a hunch that I've since confirmed that it was very intentional that he is playing this game rather than tomorrow's game because he doesn't want the first game back to be a

1:05.7

playoff game the first game back in that building and And so a couple things on that.

1:11.5

One is I really do feel it is good fortune for the Celtics and for Jason Tatum individually

1:20.9

that this game was still on their schedule.

1:24.9

Like they only play at MSG a couple times a year.

1:27.7

If both of those games were early in the season,

1:30.6

then he wasn't going to get this opportunity to play at MSG

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