NICK WRIGHT Talks LeBron, Skip, Pundit Beef

Summary

The Adam Friedland Show – "NICK WRIGHT Talks LeBron, Skip, Pundit Beef"

Date: December 10, 2025
Guest: Nick Wright

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Episode Overview

This highly anticipated episode features Nick Wright, host of FS1’s First Things First, known for his bold takes on LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and all things sports debate. Adam Friedland, in his signature playful and irreverent style, talks with Nick about LeBron’s legacy, the state of sports punditry, beef between on-air personalities, the dynamics of being a sports fan, and plenty of sports-meets-pop-culture asides. The conversation ranges from Kansas City trivia to the existential sadness of modern fandom, poking fun at the media ecosystem along the way.

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Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. The Life and Path of a Professional Pundit

[08:56–09:43]

• Nick’s career ambitions: “If you’d asked me 20 years ago what my plan was—get a big enough name by doing sports that I could...basically Olbermann's career path. Become a big enough name doing sports that I could then do politics.” (Nick Wright)
• Taking pride in being an ‘opinionist,’ not a journalist: “I’m definitely not a journalist…I’m one of those people that argues about sports on TV.” (Nick Wright, [28:08])

2. Regional Identity: Kansas City, Sports & Moving Around

[09:52–11:47]

• Adam and Nick riff on KC's split identity (Missouri vs. Kansas), local rivalries, and sports culture.
• Humorous riff on city stereotypes: “It all sounds terrible. It sounds—I feel like they’re all eating meat and just 900 pounds.” (Adam, [10:38])

3. Fandom and Personal Connection to Sports

[13:04–14:50]

• Childhood stories about calling into radio shows, obsessing over games, and the emotional cost of fandom.
• The unique loyalty of Raiders fans and the shifting culture after franchise moves.
• Adam: “My feelings are hurt because I care about, like, men with great bodies.” ([17:25])

4. Pundit Beef, Skip Bayless & The Culture of Sports Media

[24:02–26:27]

• Adam repeatedly jokes about Skip Bayless in absurd, exaggerated terms, teeing up Nick for “pundit beef” talk.
• Nick reflects on the Undisputed era: “Skipping Shannon at its peak was one of the greatest sports television shows of all time. It was perfect.” (Nick, [26:23])
• Are some takes on TV fake? Adam: “Are some guys bullshitting?” Nick: “100%.” ([26:35–26:39])

5. The Great GOAT Debate (LeBron vs. MJ, Kobe, etc.)

[29:33–34:41]

• Nick’s formative experience as a LeBron supporter: “LeBron was always my favorite player. And then I get on national TV and the argument is ‘Will he pass Michael Jordan?’…and then I was on TV during the 3-1 comeback… and the next day on TV I said: he just passed him. It’s over.” (Nick Wright, [30:03–30:43])
• Media’s nostalgia and investment in the MJ era colors the “GOAT” debate.
• “A lot of the most influential media folks...their legacies are tied to the Jordan era Bulls.” (Nick Wright, [31:29])

6. The Role of Personality and Media Ecosystem Shifts

[32:40–34:41]

• Nick credits his success to filling “the LeBron is the GOAT” vacancy in the pundit space.
• Adam: “Is it personality driven…do you think the media has elevated this GOAT debate?”
  Nick: “Oh, 100%. The fact that it was controversial to say the greatest high school prospect ever…is the best—it’s been hugely beneficial for me.” ([32:40–33:04])

7. LeBron’s Career & Critique

[35:15–38:50]

• They discuss the Miami “Decision” and backlash, LeBron’s growth, the impossibility of public expectations.
• “In 25 years in the public eye, the only indefensible misstep was that Miami press conference after they lost the finals.” (Nick Wright, [36:11])
• “It’s a ridiculous standard to hold him to.” (Adam, [38:20])

8. Athlete Vulnerability & Social Media

[41:25–41:58]

• The mental toll of modern fame for superstars.
  Adam: “It just indicates a vulnerability and an insecurity when it’s like, bro, like, you’re the best. You literally are the best.” ([41:58])

9. Sports Gossip & Media Dynamics

[49:23–52:14]

• Growing obsession with “sports gossip” and inter-pundit drama.
  • “The things that do the best on social media or on YouTube...are like inter-sports gossip. Sometimes not even involving the athletes.” (Nick Wright, [50:04])

10. List Debates & Lightning Round Hot Takes

[70:03–81:29]

• Nick’s all-time NBA top 10 (in order): “Bron, Kareem, Jordan, Magic, Russell, Wilt, Duncan, Kobe, Bird, and then Shaq/Hakeem/Jokic/Steph.”
• Heated debates on topics like:
  • Should offensive linemen be on TV?
  • Coaches in suits, baseball coaches in uniform
  • NBA era comparisons, value of championship rings
  • Soccer > American sports?
  • Steph Curry as best PG ever?
  • The accidental comedy of sports fandom.

Lightning Round Notables:

• Baseball managers in uniform: “One day a year, the other sports should do the same thing. NFL coaches in a tank top.” (Nick Wright, [78:12])
• Allen Iverson in the NFL? – “He would’ve been [top five ever], I also think he could have been Arsenal’s striker.” (Nick Wright, [78:33])

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Notable Quotes & Highlights

• LeBron and the GOAT Debate

  • “Just say the guy who’s obviously the greatest player ever is the greatest player ever. And I became famous for it.” (Nick Wright, [31:06])
  • “People in 40 years won’t believe this was an argument...people will think—you gotta be kidding me, people argued for someone else.” (Nick Wright, [42:31])

• On Pundit Culture

  • “The things I’m most known for are being big supporters of the two guys who are gonna go down in the greatest in the history of their sports.” (Nick Wright, [74:23])
  • “The barrier for entry of being a smart sports TV guy is not very high.” (Nick Wright, [73:59])

• On Fandom & Emotion

  • “It’s the hope that kills you.” (Adam Friedland, [20:58])
  • “I cried the first Lakers chip with Shaq and Kobe because I’d never seen a team of mine win.” (Adam, [69:48])

• On Sports Nostalgia & Storytelling

  • “It’s the story of a career…that’s why Kobe’s final game mattered. We thought we’d never see him again.” (Adam Friedland, [99:40])

• On Race, Analytics, and NBA Media

  • “It’s been a way for people who didn’t—especially NBA front offices—wait for people who didn’t play to get a seat at the table in an overwhelmingly black sport. It’s given a lot more white people seats at the table.” (Nick Wright, [96:54])

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Timestamped Memorable Moments

• 27:00 – Theories on Stephen A. Smith, Michael Jordan, and pundit bias.
• 30:43 – Nick announces (on TV, during real life 2016 finals) LeBron surpassed MJ.
• 36:11 – Nick: “That press conference after that finals loss...[was] the only indefensible misstep.”
• 41:58–42:31 – The toll of social media and the “GOAT” debate on LeBron’s psyche.
• 51:54 – “Pundit says this about that pundit. People...love that shit.” (Nick on gossip)
• 70:03–72:08 – Nick’s All-Time NBA Top 10, and defending the “chips” argument.
• 79:15 – “Soccer is the best sport. The talent pool is wider.” (Adam)
• 88:17 – Nick reveals: “I’m a grandfather as of 12 days ago.”
• 94:28 – Digs at Tim Duncan being a “nerd ass”—the colorfulness of Adam’s fandom.
• 97:41 – Praise for Zach Lowe: “Zach is the best to ever do what he’s doing because he’s having fun and because he’s smarter than all these guys.”

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Tone & Format

The episode unfolds in Adam’s signature loose, comedic, self-deprecating style—constantly poking fun at himself, his guest, the absurdity of sports fandom, and the media machine. Nick rises to meet the wit, combining deep sports nerd insight with self-effacing humor and candid industry observations. Discussions range from geeky and thoughtful to wild and intentionally childish, welcoming both casual fans and deep insiders.

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Conclusion

By the episode’s end, Adam and Nick cover nearly every angle of modern sports culture—fandom, media, legacy, and even the accidental poetry of watching “gorgeous men” disappoint you on a Saturday morning. It’s a rare, wide-ranging, and frankly hilarious peek behind the curtain of sports TV, sports obsession, and sports as personal mythology. Even the most heated debates are handled with a nod and a wink, a reminder that we’re all, in Adam’s words, “just talking hoop.”

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Selected Quote to Close

“Just say the guy who’s obviously the greatest player ever is the greatest player ever. And I became famous for it.”
— Nick Wright ([31:06])

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Recommended for:
Basketball obsessives, sports media nerds, fans of smart irreverent banter, and anyone who ever wondered why grown men still get so worked up about a game.

Transcript

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[Nick Wright]

I have not really. He and I, it's.

[Adam Friedland]

Listen, it's wrong but that one and a half million dollars that like for. For someone to say no, I won't have sex with you for a million and a half dollars. He's got. That really has to hurt your feelings. Skip must be so like. He's like what's. I'm that repulsive.

Okay. Would you have sex with your wife is here. I'm sure she would say go for a million and a half dollars. Would you let Skip crack?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Would you tell him if it was on the table still if SkiIP was like all right, Nick, you're ranked second. Would you be like yeah, he would get you something so nice. A million and a half dollars. I would let him do whatever he wants to be. You're not gonna be gay. The rest I feel like it doesn't make you gay. It's mean. Sorry. I'M on a rant right now and I should be doing this on Fox sp.

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Nick Wright]

Thank you.

[Host/Announcer]

My guest this week is sports broadcaster and host of first things first on FS1, the goat, Nick Wright. For me, this is a big opportunity, both a debut and also a greatest hits album. I've been saving up these takes for.

[Adam Friedland]

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[Host/Announcer]

I had to finally unleash them. So for a few short hours, I got to feel like some of my.

[Adam Friedland]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Adam Friedland]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Adam Friedland]

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[Host/Announcer]

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[Adam Friedland]

You know.

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[Adam Friedland]

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[Host/Announcer]

I E third him.

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[Nick Wright]

It's kinda. I don't know if it's what I'm best at. It's. I used to. If you. If you'd asked me 20 years ago what my plan was.

[Adam Friedland]

President of the United States.

[Nick Wright]

No. But the idea was to become a Get a big enough name by doing sports that I could. It was basically Olbermann's career path. Become a big Enough name doing sports that I could then do politics. But I've.

[Adam Friedland]

I think we started already, right, Thomas? Okay, great. We're all kind of exhausted right now. This is the third interview in three days.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, who am I?

[Adam Friedland]

And then we have the mayor, and then the mayor is coming on.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm MSM now, dude. I'm mainstream.

[Nick Wright]

Mainstream.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Crossed over.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna bring out.

[Nick Wright]

Long way from the Cometown podcast.

[Adam Friedland]

No, it's the same thing, basically.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, but it's a smart rebrand. It's like two chains.

[Adam Friedland]

It's not deliberate at all. Titty boy.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, exactly.

[Adam Friedland]

I think titty boy's coming on.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, really?

[Adam Friedland]

Are you a Big Tech 9 head?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

He's the guy of your city.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I like him a lot. And he's a really good dude.

[Adam Friedland]

Is he? Oh, you know him from the celebrity Kansas City? Well, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, there's very. There's not a ton of folks that are, like, born and raised Kansas Cityans with, like, Nash. There's a bunch of people in the comedy world, really. Stone street.

[Adam Friedland]

That never moves, Rut?

[Nick Wright]

Well, I don't know. You know, I think they moved, but I mean, they're born and raised there. Like Paul Rudd, Paul Stone Street. John Hamm.

[Adam Friedland]

Are you KCK or KC Mo. Casey Mo.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Almost everyone you'd meet is Casey Mo.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you. Do you. With kck?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It's more posh, right?

[Nick Wright]

No, it's the opposite. Oh, so here's. So this is what's going on. Oh, I wouldn't. Kansas City, Kansas is a really tough.

[Adam Friedland]

Area because to me, it all sounds terrible. It sounds. I feel like they're all eating meat and just 900 pounds.

[Nick Wright]

Wow.

[Adam Friedland]

You went Kansas City to Houston.

[Nick Wright]

I went Kansas City to Houston, LA to New York.

[Adam Friedland]

How are you so slim? You're so trim? You went to some big places.

[Nick Wright]

I went to some big.

[Adam Friedland]

You went to the gastric bypass capital of America. Houston.

[Nick Wright]

Is that Houston? Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Is that a Fact?

[Adam Friedland]

I watched 600 pound Life When Ball is along. Yeah, they're always. And yeah, the guy's always like, please stop eating. And then they have to go home and they just can't. They can't stop. They can't stop.

[Nick Wright]

But yeah. So the.

[Adam Friedland]

Sorry.

[Nick Wright]

No, you're fine. But no, the reason you thought Kansas City, Kansas more posh is. I don't know if anyone cares about this. There's a road in Kansas City literally called State Line Road. That's exactly what it sounds like.

[Adam Friedland]

That sounds awesome.

[Nick Wright]

And the Kansas like, so if you are in KCMO and you cross over into Kansas, it's mostly suburbs and stuff, but that's not Kansas City, Kansas. That's like places called Leawood and Overland Park. And so there's, there's a part.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, so the burbs in Kansas are nice.

[Nick Wright]

Very nice. And fun fact. The state of Kansas people are like, why is Kansas City in Missouri? Because the state of Kansas was named after the city of Kansas City. Kansas City, Missouri existed.

[Adam Friedland]

It's kind of pathetic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

After us.

[Adam Friedland]

After some.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Now they're trying to take the Chiefs and the Royals. They're trying to get the Chiefs and the Royals to move state across state line. Yeah. Be a travesty to go to K. To go to.

[Adam Friedland]

So there's local rivalries there.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

With the other guys. Well, they all put on for Pat though.

[Nick Wright]

Of course.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

So that's where you make peace. Well, the Chiefs and Royals are everyone's. But for the. A lot of those folks went to local colleges. So mu, KU and K State are like the local rival.

[Host/Announcer]

Jayhawks.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, ku Jayhawks. Well done.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

You're a ball knower.

[Adam Friedland]

I, I love ball. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Football or basketball?

[Adam Friedland]

I basket at this point. Basketball kind of. The, the, the, the tuck game kind of. I cried because I was. I'm a Raiders fan and, and it wasn't fair.

[Nick Wright]

And I, I, I remember we're the same age. You're 38.

[Adam Friedland]

You're 42.

[Nick Wright]

41, but yeah, 41.

[Adam Friedland]

Sorry, I know you don't look a day over.

Yeah, I thought it was really cute. Like the, you were like a kid. You, the kid. The Casey kid. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Nick. You mean when I called into the radio. Casey, Nick the kid. Yeah. I called into all the Chiefs post.

[Adam Friedland]

Kids and you yell about Marty Schottenheimer. Yeah. Andre Risen.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, that's right. Andre Risen.

[Adam Friedland]

I met him in the court once. We hate each other.

[Nick Wright]

Because you're a Raiders fan. Yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

You guys, I'm not anymore.

[Nick Wright]

Decades.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm a. I literally grew up in Vegas too. I was born in LA and then grew up in Vegas.

[Nick Wright]

And very similar to my path.

[Adam Friedland]

When they moved to Vegas, I stopped being a fan. It's just not real.

[Nick Wright]

But they aren't.

[Adam Friedland]

Half of the stadium is traveling fans because they want to go get fucked up.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Same with the la. Same with Chargers.

[Adam Friedland]

That's not an LA team. If you talk to The Mexicans in LA, they're still loyal to the Raiders.

[Nick Wright]

Yes, 100%.

[Adam Friedland]

They're the most loyal people in the world.

[Nick Wright]

Well, the Raiders are like one of the biggest national brands in large part. They're in Mexico too. Yes. That's what I was gonna say in there. Their Latin fan base is crazy.

[Adam Friedland]

It's Dallas and the Raiders.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. America's Team America. They should kind of like stop liking the Cowboys then. If it's America's team, we've been pretty mean to Mexico for a while.

[Nick Wright]

You know, I hadn't thought about that. The moral conundrum of being a Hispanic Cowboys fan.

[Adam Friedland]

It's strange.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. And honestly, you know, they should probably just embrace the Kansas City Chiefs.

[Adam Friedland]

I know a guy who has a. He used to, like, help out with the show. He has a tattoo on his ass and it's a Dallas Cowboys star and a Palestine flag. And I was like, that is the only one in the world. That is the only one. It's on his ass, too.

[Nick Wright]

Why'd you fire him?

[Adam Friedland]

I didn't fire him. No, he was like a freelance kind of guy.

[Nick Wright]

Why didn't you bring him back?

[Host/Announcer]

I don't know.

[Adam Friedland]

He lives in Jersey.

[Nick Wright]

He's a good guy.

[Adam Friedland]

I like him a lot. He's a documentarian.

[Nick Wright]

He's a documentarian with a Cowboys tattoo on his ass.

[Adam Friedland]

No, he's not showing the people in the documentary.

[Nick Wright]

No, I got that. But it just seems like a high brow job and maybe, I don't know.

[Adam Friedland]

You're saying he's stupid.

[Nick Wright]

No, I'm not saying a Jersey Cowboys fan is.

[Adam Friedland]

That has to be the worst kind of guy.

[Nick Wright]

Well, so I. So I agree. And I also now when people fight, if I meet people and they don't know me and they're like, oh, you know, who's your team? I have to preface it with, well, I'm born and raised in Kansas City. Or else they'll think like, oh, you're a Chiefs fan living in New York. You're just a front runner.

[Adam Friedland]

No one does that, though. Even though you guys are good. No one does it. You know that. You know that.

[Nick Wright]

Well, they're just not.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know.

[Nick Wright]

We took on, you know, all of the Swift, Taylor Swift fans.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. So now you have to pretend it's not baby music. Because if you're fucking tight end, you have to like. I mean, he loves Shake it off. No, you want to see some guy get his head knocked off there for fucking shake it off. I wish I could talk about this stuff on tv.

[Nick Wright]

Why don't you?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm on the. I do long form, Jewish style, late night talk. I don't know, what the fuck. This is the cute thing about the kid radio station. I was a very precocious kid myself. And when I was four, I think I was at a party, like a parents party with my parents, and I would talk to parents.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And there was people from the Raiders front office, and I, like, was yelling at them, like, badgering them that they had a fiery art show.

I think I heard my dad say it.

[Nick Wright]

You know, when I was 10, I happened to, like, I was somewhere, and my. One of my mom's friends said, hey, that guy is the president of the Miami Dolphins and Pulinga. No, I think it was. I think it. I don't really remember.

[Adam Friedland]

What is it?

[Nick Wright]

Wayne Huizenga.

[Adam Friedland]

Who.

[Nick Wright]

It was at the time.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

And I walked over to him, and I was like, I just want to let you know, hiring Jimmy Johnson's the greatest move you've ever made.

[Adam Friedland]

Of course.

[Nick Wright]

Right? Like, yeah. So it's very similar to.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, Ted, you're like, yo, he's. He's leaving the Canes and he's coming to the big leagues.

[Nick Wright]

Well, no, he had just left the Cowboys.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, he came after. That's right. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

They count once. Yeah, once. Jerry and him fell out.

[Adam Friedland]

Dude, your wife likes to like these kind of car. You have to be the most bored. Unless you like it.

[Nick Wright]

No, she's boring.

[Adam Friedland]

Is it.

[Nick Wright]

My.

[Adam Friedland]

My girlfriend says, oh, did your team lose? And I have to be like, did my team lose? And I'm like, my feelings are hurt because I care about, like, men with great bodies.

[Nick Wright]

I just.

[Adam Friedland]

As I realized as an adult that we shouldn't be wearing jerseys.

[Nick Wright]

No, of course.

[Adam Friedland]

I can't be wearing a man's name on my.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I think there is.

[Adam Friedland]

We came up with rules, actually, in the office.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, can I hear them? If you're.

[Adam Friedland]

Sorry. If you're white, you. Not past 13. If you're. If you're. If you're black, like, do your thing.

And if you're. No. And if you're Mexican, you know, come on. You're the realest. You're the real. So I think, much like a white guy can't wear a jersey past 13.

[Nick Wright]

The. Here's the. There are, to me, a couple exceptions, and I'm not a hockey fan. I think hockey sweaters just, like, look like an awesome outfit almost. And I think baseball jerseys. Two baseball games to the.

[Adam Friedland]

I. I never. I never. When my team's playing, I can't wear the. The jersey. I'm very superstitious. Clearly, I can't touch The Jersey effect.

[Nick Wright]

Really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. And I'm primarily at this point into soccer and Arsenal team.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, I was gonna. Just because they're in first place.

[Adam Friedland]

No, it's been 20 years of hell.

[Nick Wright]

Well, I mean, yeah, but right now you're a fan. They're in first place.

[Adam Friedland]

No, you don't.

[Nick Wright]

I'm just fucking with you. It's really my buddy. This is gonna sound.

[Adam Friedland]

It means so much and it's ridiculous.

[Nick Wright]

So our. The guy who does stats for the TV show. This great kid named Josh. He's a die hard Arsenal fan. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. He doesn't know like me.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, I think he probably knows a lot.

[Adam Friedland]

The mayor knows Ball.

[Nick Wright]

The. The mayor of New York City.

[Adam Friedland]

Zoron.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, I would buy that.

[Adam Friedland]

I met him like before the election. We were talking about our worst, most humiliating losses for Arsenal is his team.

[Nick Wright]

Arsenal.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, okay. He knows I play cards with a guy who is.

[Adam Friedland]

Come on, you can't be talking about that. What cards?

[Nick Wright]

Dude, why can't I be talking about cards?

[Adam Friedland]

It's a big. You're gonna get in trouble. I don't want to see you locked up.

[Nick Wright]

I play in legal games.

[Adam Friedland]

You play? What do you mean legal games?

[Nick Wright]

So this is what nobody understands about poker. If all of us in this room agreed to play in a card game, we could play for $10aman. But you don't want to play with us.

[Adam Friedland]

You want to play with cool guys.

[Nick Wright]

I understand, but just hear me out. Or a million dollars a man, and that's totally legal.

[Adam Friedland]

I play you in a million dollars. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

Let's do it. I'm gonna vanquish you on sports tanks after this.

[Nick Wright]

Okay, but no, the reason I was saying it, this guy, he's die hard sports fan who lives in New York City, has the two best courtside knick seats in the building, right next to Mike Brown now not Thibodeau. And has a box at Arsenal that he just goes to for every home game.

[Adam Friedland]

The fuck, bro?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I should introduce you.

[Adam Friedland]

This guy, I don't even like him, but he just knows at the same level. And we talk every day about this. I. The amount that I care. Like if my girlfriend knew, she would, like she would leave me.

[Nick Wright]

Do you. Are you in a bad mood all week? If they lose, I.

[Adam Friedland]

What happens is this. You get the games in the morning.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Right.

[Adam Friedland]

And so it's like a Saturday morning. You're a little bit hungover, your girlfriend's still in bed, and you go to the living room and you're sitting there and they. They just. They ruin you before your weekend starts. So the saying is, it's the hope that kills you.

[Nick Wright]

So, yeah, listen, I've been. Obviously, the Chiefs have been very good the last half decade. This year's been tough.

[Adam Friedland]

Does it feel worse and worse each time? Yes, it doesn't feel. Each chip. Each chip doesn't hit it as heavy, right?

[Nick Wright]

Well, yeah, nothing will ever match the first one. But being a football fan and having your team lose, it doesn't ruin your weekend. But, like, we're doing this on a Friday. Yeah. Yesterday was the first day that I was not in a depression based on the Chiefs Broncos game. Like.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, who's the coolest guy on the Chiefs?

[Nick Wright]

The coolest guy on the Chiefs. I mean, I'm. I. I'm buddies with Patrick, so I, like. I would say him. Travis. Travis certainly had that mantle. Travis has. You know, Travis has becomes so famous, he has to be kind of more careful now.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. He fell off. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

No, I didn't say he fell off.

[Adam Friedland]

I think I agree. You're saying that this guy.

[Nick Wright]

I didn't say he fell off. He asked me.

[Adam Friedland]

By far the coolest guy on your team is Andy.

[Nick Wright]

Well, he's not on the team, but.

[Host/Announcer]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, but he's the coolest guy in that vicinity. Everyone else is a real dorkus. I mean it.

[Nick Wright]

Chris Jones, pretty cool.

[Adam Friedland]

I saw him at a restaurant and it's one of the most massive people I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Nick Wright]

Did you see him run the 40th combine?

[Adam Friedland]

No, not at his store. Not at a restaurant with my parents.

[Nick Wright]

I understand, but this is funny for you.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you know penis fell out.

[Nick Wright]

There you go.

[Adam Friedland]

That's fine. I never miss a penis sports thing. I imagine that when Bron's dick came out, everyone relaxed. Everyone was chill about it.

[Nick Wright]

When did that happen?

[Adam Friedland]

Before a finals game. He was adjusting his shorts and we saw his dick.

How do you not know you're in the media?

[Nick Wright]

I did not know that.

[Adam Friedland]

You're in the fucking mainstream fake news media. Yeah. And I'm. You didn't know that he's your favorite guy.

[Nick Wright]

He is my favorite player.

[Adam Friedland]

Are you, like, stoked? Are you stoked about it?

[Nick Wright]

Stoked about what?

[Adam Friedland]

That there's a LeBron? Come on, bro.

So you ate Fox 2016?

[Nick Wright]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

How have you. You've been in TV for nine years?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you enjoyed it? What's the vibe at Fox? Is it like, more Republican sports or.

[Nick Wright]

No, it's so. It's super. Listen, it is super. Siloed like the Fox Sports were owned by the same people. But Fox Sports is. I've never. I've been doing it for nine years. I'm pretty openly liberal guy. I've never had. I think one of my most famous things ever was right when the show started, some impassioned Kaepernick stuff. And I never.

[Adam Friedland]

How were you the only guy? How are you, like, one of the. It's like.

[Nick Wright]

You want to know something?

[Adam Friedland]

It's so bizarre to me.

[Nick Wright]

I'll tell you something.

[Adam Friedland]

You just caught the easiest ones.

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

[Adam Friedland]

He took a knee and he's like, what the fuck did he do wrong?

[Nick Wright]

Of course.

[Adam Friedland]

And then like, LeBron James is the best basketball player.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, you mean.

[Host/Announcer]

Oh, that.

[Nick Wright]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

I just filled vacancies that were. I'm like, they were just there.

[Nick Wright]

They were just there, everyone. And then my hometown team becomes the greatest football team ever. I have become very lucky.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

I'm very lucky that somehow.

[Adam Friedland]

How stupid are the other guys doing this?

[Nick Wright]

Well, that's. Again, I love moron. Really?

[Adam Friedland]

They must be morons.

[Nick Wright]

I'm not gonna say everyone's a moron, but I will say that I. It is.

[Adam Friedland]

You and skiip are the only smart people.

How's he doing? You checking on him?

[Nick Wright]

I have.

[Adam Friedland]

Not really.

[Nick Wright]

He and I.

[Adam Friedland]

Listen, it's wrong, but that one and a half million dollars, like, for. For someone to say, no, I won't have sex with you for a million and a half dollars. He's got. That really has to hurt your feelings. Skip must be so, like. He's like, what's. I'm that repulsive? Amelia would like, okay. Would you have sex with. Your wife is here. I'm sure she would say, go for a million and a half dollars, would you let Skip crack?

I'm sorry. I would.

It must be. Listen, it's wrong. He shouldn't do that in a workplace. I'm not defending Skip, but walking away, he must be just. He must be hurting. And I'm not saying you should check in, but maybe we should call him right now and see.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Would you tell him if it was on the table still, if SkiIP was like, all right, Nick, you're right. Second. Would you be like, yeah, he would get you something so nice. A million and a half dollars. I would let him do whatever he wants to be. You're not gonna be gay. The rest. I'm like, it doesn't make you gay. It's me. Sorry. I'm on a rant. Right now. And I should be doing this on Fox Sports 1.

What about. Have you checked in on UNK? The squad is having a rough.

[Nick Wright]

Listen, I have been the. I moved to New York. I got hired by Fox in 2016, and then the show started in New York in 2017. So I never. Those. I never really was on campus with those guys.

[Adam Friedland]

So.

[Nick Wright]

They were colleagues, but I don't know them.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, they must have been so funny to see them at, like, the office. Oh, yeah, yeah. I would imagine. Come on now, Ski. Yeah. Do they have arguments? Obviously, dude. I mean, I'm saying. It's just that they were box office for a while. They kind of. It kind of. They found something there.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah, yeah. That. Yeah. That show, Skippin Shannon at its peak was one of the greatest sports television shows of all time. It was perfect.

[Adam Friedland]

And it's just like, are there bad faith takes.

[Nick Wright]

Are some guys bullshitting some guys? 100%.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

Like.

[Nick Wright]

And you can tell Skip doesn't think.

[Adam Friedland]

LeBron is that bad.

[Nick Wright]

No, see, I don't think Skip's bullshitting.

[Adam Friedland]

Why does he hate LeBron?

[Nick Wright]

That. You know, that's weird. That one is a weird.

[Adam Friedland]

It's like, perverse. In fact, it's. It makes sense that Stephen A. Why Stephen A.

[Nick Wright]

Is here. Stephen A. Is mad that LeBron won't pay him attention. That's what it is.

[Adam Friedland]

No, it's kind of. Maybe someone's.

Okay without naming names. Does Mike. Does he have influence?

[Nick Wright]

Oh, oh, you mean the fact that Stephen. That Stephen A. And Mike are buddies? I feel like. Yeah, of course.

[Adam Friedland]

Obviously, Mike is at the crib, North Carolina, Hitting a tequila, and he's like, go fuck with Braun a little bit more, don't you think?

[Nick Wright]

A little bit, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

He's been making his life hell for 22 years.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that.

[Adam Friedland]

That's.

[Nick Wright]

That's. I think there is.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm a Kobe fan too. Like, it's just. But it's so obvious to me it is in.

[Nick Wright]

Well, I think there's a lot of. I think there's a lot there, but I think you there. Some of the most ardent, either brawn critics or MJ sycophants are also texting with mj. I do think that's okay.

[Adam Friedland]

So for our audience that's not familiar with what you do, how would you describe your job? I think we should. We're. Obviously, he's a sports pundit.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, I'm a. What they call. They call me an opinionist. I'm a sports talk show host. I'M one. When people pundit. When I. Yeah. Pundit. I don't know. When people ask me. I'm definitely not a journalist.

[Adam Friedland]

Really?

[Nick Wright]

Why? When people. Because I don't practice journalism.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, you don't snitch?

[Host/Announcer]

No, that.

[Nick Wright]

No, that's. I just don't. I'm not out there, like, reporting on stories. When people ask me what I do, I say I'm one of those people that argues about sports on tv.

[Adam Friedland]

So sick. I mean, it's such a. In concept. It's such a funny concept. Right. And I think it really comes from Mike. Right. It comes from Mike the Mad Dog. I think they're the genesis of all this.

[Nick Wright]

Hundred percent.

[Adam Friedland]

The concept. If the loose concept of two men at a table having a point, counterpoint. Like, let's.

[Nick Wright]

You really want to argue? Let's just pretend.

[Adam Friedland]

I kind of want to ask. I'm more interested in, like, how. What the ecosystem is nowadays. Because, I mean, like, okay, you came in nine years ago. Bron was what, in his 13th season?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I mean, I started at Fox three months before the 31 comeback against Golden State. And I looked around and so like, the three months before the block.

[Adam Friedland]

And he's a smart guy. The 25, right?

[Nick Wright]

25%. What a smart.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, oh, dude. As businessman, what would I be? I.

[Nick Wright]

What would I be? My mom's grandfather was Jewish.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

So is that 25.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, you feeling the LeBron James is good at basketball?

[Nick Wright]

Vacancy. Well, so that's the.

[Adam Friedland]

That was the unbelievable.

[Nick Wright]

That was the unbelievable thing. So he was. Bron and I are the same high school class. I came from Kansas City, doesn't have an NBA team.

[Adam Friedland]

You said same high school class.

[Nick Wright]

Like, where. So there's a reason I'm saying that.

[Adam Friedland]

Ohio.

[Nick Wright]

No, I got it. But just listen to me for a second. You were best friends, so in. No, but. So in high school, me and my basketball teammates would watch the St. Vincent St. Mary's games, and they were on TV because it was so fucking cool. I saw him at age right. We thought, like, this guy is our age. And Kansas City didn't have a team. So I was just like, you know what? Wherever that guy goes, that's going to be. He's.

[Adam Friedland]

There was no high school basketball in Kansas City.

[Nick Wright]

No, we didn't have an NBA team.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, okay.

[Nick Wright]

And so I was like, that's good. I didn't have. I was unaffiliated from NBA fandom. So LeBron was always my favorite player. And then I get on national TV and everyone is the argument people are having is one day will he pass Michael Jordan? And that's like as far as anyone will go. Like the third rail was he might one day be able to be as good as him. And then I was on TV during the 31 comeback. The greatest three game stretch in the history of the sport. 4116 and 7, 418 and 11. And then 29 point triple double with the greatest defensive play ever. And the next day on tv, I said, he just passed him. It's over.

[Adam Friedland]

The block was his moment in his career. That was his moment.

[Nick Wright]

And I mean, that was 10 years.

[Adam Friedland]

Had the shot right over Brian Russell. That's like kind of their.

[Nick Wright]

Yes, they each have their moments. Luckily, Bronze didn't have to push off.

[Adam Friedland]

But yeah, they were playing against truck drivers and so.

[Nick Wright]

Well, it's a little overstated.

[Adam Friedland]

They're so good right now.

[Nick Wright]

They're certainly.

[Adam Friedland]

They're so good.

[Nick Wright]

So much better than previous eras. But everybody. You explain the era you're in, but to your point, it was remarkable that. No, that that corner was unguarded. That like, hey, just say the guy who's obviously the greatest player ever is the greatest player ever. And I became famous for it.

[Adam Friedland]

So why. Why Isn't everyone the LeBron guy? Right.

[Nick Wright]

I think. Cause people are. I think there's a lot of, A lot of the most influential media folks. A lot of their legacies are tied to the Jordan era Bulls. And so they are very protective of that.

[Adam Friedland]

We watched that as kids.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. But we were, we were very young. It's like, what's your favorite music?

[Adam Friedland]

Pretty much eclectic.

[Nick Wright]

But like, if you the. For a lot of people, their, Their favorite song. Yeah. Is like the first one of the first songs they listened to the first time they were driving their own car. And I think there's a lot of media folks that the greatest era of sports is the era when I broke into sports broadcasting that was going on.

[Adam Friedland]

They're all from Boston. It doesn't compute. Yeah, but so there's obviously a nostalgia factor. But like, also there might just be. There might be. Like, do you think the media has elevated this like, goat debate? Right? Like, well, I think I have, but like, people, like, do you think to some extent you've kind of been lucky that like LeBron is like, you know, like you're doing the right thing? I'm not saying like this is like disingenuous, but you've benefited from like LeBron getting pummeled, you know.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, 100%. The fact that it is. The fact that it was controversial to say the greatest high school, the greatest prospect ever, who has played, has all of the youngest ever due records and oldest ever due records.

[Adam Friedland]

Who.

[Nick Wright]

Who has every record imaginable. That it's still controversial to be like, he's the best. Has been hugely beneficial for me. It would be.

[Adam Friedland]

But why is it uniformly. It was like, no, there are guys that weren't like, nostalgic for the Bulls championship. Like, is it. Is it personality driven?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I mean, I think that. So here's. Again, this might be too Inside sports for your viewers.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, I know.

[Nick Wright]

So I have a theory that if Jordan never.

[Adam Friedland]

A lot of theories.

[Nick Wright]

If Jordan never existed.

And the greatest play, the universally accepted greatest player of all time was Kareem, because that's who it would have been.

[Adam Friedland]

I know what you're going to say. If Jordan ever existed. 9, 11 wouldn't have. Right.

[Nick Wright]

Than a guy like Tim Duncan would be in the goat debate. Because what people were doing, what people turned the goat debate into, was not who's the greatest player ever, it's who reminds me of Michael Jordan the most. Which is why Kobe is probably a touch historically overrated because he is the most similar to Michael Jordan.

[Adam Friedland]

Not today, Satan.

[Nick Wright]

But I'm just like, if magic was considered the goat, then no one would argue that LeBron was. Because LeBron is a better Magic. But because Mike was considered the goat, people elevated Kobe past a guy like Tim Duncan who was just objectively better than him.

[Adam Friedland]

They said 1B. That's right.

[Nick Wright]

Exactly. And that's crazy.

[Adam Friedland]

So you're saying that he benefited from Michael.

[Nick Wright]

I'm saying that instead of the argument being right, instead of the question being who's the greatest basketball player of all time, people ask that question, but they were really asking is who's the most similar to Michael Jordan? And those are not the same thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I agree. I just think that. I think Tim didn't like, carry.

[Nick Wright]

Like, he didn't have the aura or the gravitas.

[Adam Friedland]

He didn't like, he had good players. He had Manu and he had.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Kobe only had Shaquille o'.

[Adam Friedland]

Neal. Kobe like Kobe like the second two or like the second.

[Nick Wright]

Right. But what hurts again, what hurts Kobe is the three years and the middle of his prime when he missed the playoffs or lost in round one, smack dab in the middle of his prime.

[Adam Friedland]

With who, Andrew Biden?

[Nick Wright]

Well, that's the thing. But in the NBA, like, you're supposed to, you know, you carry guys.

[Adam Friedland]

He was left alone and he was Listen, here's the thing about Braun, Okay. Like, he is the beta tester for like a new type of superstar, the NBA. Right. Not like Jordan marketed sneakers. Right. Now they have to also market their themselves as human beings. Right. And let's be Christian for a second.

100%, 25%. But I'm still a live and let live Christian. Right. Obviously, the first guy to have to do it is going to be a clumsy adjustment. Right.

[Nick Wright]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

And I don't think that that's afforded to LeBron enough. Right. And I do think that the decision was potentially the first kind of.

Kind of brick. Right. In the social media era.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I think that one year he just had a rough one because when he lost the Mavs, he just said, if you don't like me, you're poor. And like, he did that thing. And it's true.

[Nick Wright]

It's the only real that. That press conference after that finals loss. Yeah. In 25 years in the public eye, it's the only indefensible misstep.

[Adam Friedland]

When he picked up the purse, he had the suit with shorts.

[Nick Wright]

Well, that.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm also UTA Clutch sports. We're family. I love you, lebr. I'm so happy you're back.

[Nick Wright]

Anyway, he actually. Well, that was. That was right before the 31 comeback.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

That was the same.

[Adam Friedland]

I know. But he was like. He was like being.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. The Tom Ford suits would have been better had they won.

[Adam Friedland]

Worse was the shutter shades. Miami. Miami. And like the fake. The nerd glasses, The D. Wade. LeBron. I just think that like, LeBron was beloved. We all knew that he was so good. We all knew that those fucking Cavs teams were doo doo cheeks. Right. And like, I don't think he would have been blamed for leaving. Right. Potentially. If he went to the Knicks, I think, and did the decision like that. No one would have cared. But there was something about the. Not two, not three, not four, which is like he's a. He's still like, he's adjusting to a pressure that no one's ever applied to it.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Listen. And I think the. But the. That's the remarkable thing about the guy's career is like the thing in Miami or in against Dallas happened. And for you're asking, that was a sick team.

[Adam Friedland]

That Dirk run was awesome.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, he lost a J.J. beret.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, it was a little.

[Nick Wright]

He lost to Dirk Nowitzki.

[Adam Friedland]

JJ Beret was pretty much the.

[Nick Wright]

I know that's what the myth is, but it's not true.

[Adam Friedland]

They say it as a meme thing but that.

[Nick Wright]

No, that the folks. To answer your question of why it's controversial to say he's the greatest, a lot of people decided in that moment he's ineligible. He'll never be able to overcome it. That was 14 years, nine finals appearances, and, yeah, four championships ago.

[Adam Friedland]

You have his, like, number or, like, do you, like.

[Nick Wright]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

Has he ever sent you a selfie or.

[Nick Wright]

No, no.

[Adam Friedland]

Has he ever liked Instagram of yours?

[Nick Wright]

No, I have a good relationship with him, but I don't. I don't.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, you put on for him. Has he said thank you ever, actually.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

He should as well. He should. But, like, what I'm saying is, this is like. It is a ridiculous standard to hold him to. But what I think is, I don't know, if you get his number, just text him. Just be yourself. You're the best basketball player ever.

[Nick Wright]

I think at this point in his career, he is.

[Adam Friedland]

What is the decision for fucking Hennessy? I mean, it's just like, come on, dude. Like, don't.

[Nick Wright]

Anybody that was tricked by that fucking Hennessy pre ad is a moron.

[Adam Friedland]

Why?

[Nick Wright]

Because anybody that thought that. Anybody that thought LeBron was going to announce his retirement at noon on a Tuesday online.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, what did you. The ussr, the state media. That makes no sense.

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

[Adam Friedland]

Tuesday is not a retirement day. What does that even mean?

[Nick Wright]

I'll tell you exactly what it is.

[Adam Friedland]

And anyone that thinks that Tuesday is a retirement day is more on it.

[Nick Wright]

Anybody that thought that. LeBron. That's bizarre. It's not bizarre at all.

[Adam Friedland]

No, it's just he's 41 and we're like, how much longer is he gonna go?

[Host/Announcer]

He's the best basketball player ever.

[Nick Wright]

Wondering whether or not he might retire does not make you an idiot. Thinking it's gonna be one day notice, and I'm gonna do it in the middle of a week, middle of a workday, as opposed to a major event in prime time. Doesn't know how. The guy's. So I guess I'm calling you an idiot.

[Adam Friedland]

So he's never retired on a Tuesday before.

[Nick Wright]

He's not gonna retire Tuesday online.

[Adam Friedland]

Who knew that? Anybody with a literally 99.9% of people don't know that you're putting on for your boy.

[Nick Wright]

I'm not putting on for myself.

[Adam Friedland]

It's just not the. It's just not the how.

[Nick Wright]

Let me ask you this. How do you think he will announce I'm gonna retire?

[Adam Friedland]

I will. Okay. He'd probably do think the Kobe year was like, the video Tributes and like, it was a whole thing.

[Nick Wright]

So he would give me.

[Adam Friedland]

That was the worst year. And. But. And then it was the best sports game I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Nick Wright]

At the end, the 60 point game.

[Adam Friedland]

It was just the most. I was weeping. Like, I called my dad weeping. And. And it was kind of like also just, sorry to get stuck on Kobe, but all of the fucking math nerds.

[Host/Announcer]

That were like, he's inefficient. He just.

[Adam Friedland]

No one saw an inefficient shooting performance for like a 13 win team. They saw a God. They saw, like, someone that we thought we'd never see again. And then he came back for one.

[Nick Wright]

Night, channeled it, and it's one of the greatest sports performances ever.

[Adam Friedland]

I think it is the best sports game. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

You can just say game. What? You don't have to say sports game.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, there are other types of games. Like girls play games.

[Nick Wright]

I understand, but even if we included that, do any of those trumpet or is it the best game?

[Adam Friedland]

You're trying to flex on me in terms of sports game.

[Nick Wright]

No, I'm saying it in a nerd.

[Adam Friedland]

Way because that's how I do interviews. Okay, but going back to like, like.

It'S just like, he doesn't need. He doesn't need to do that just to protect himself.

[Host/Announcer]

Right.

[Adam Friedland]

He's like, he's already the best basketball player ever. And I do think it's like, it's similar to kd, right? He's a.

[Host/Announcer]

He's a.

[Adam Friedland]

That is a basketball angel. That is a savant. There's an offensive savant. And we got to watch him. And he's. The burner. Accounts indicated that, like, the boys are going into the comments. The boys are checking Reddit. And it's like, it's really depressing for me because I'm like, you know, if I had, like, let's say $100 million, like, I wouldn't give a fuck about it. I'd disappear. Right.

[Nick Wright]

Don't you think, though, that that's evidence? Maybe you wouldn't. The fact that the people who have it don't doesn't make you doubt whether or not if you had it, you would have.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm not judging him for it. I think that it's just like, it just indicates a vulnerability and an insecurity when it's like, bro, like, you're the best. You literally are the best.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And I think the goat debate being perpetuated has kind of.

Perhaps like, influenced that, you know, like people saying that he's not the best basketball player when he's 41. And what was he, 24? Six and six last year?

[Nick Wright]

Sixth in MVP voting, second team all NBA. And you're 22, was it 24, 66. Yeah, that's right.

[Adam Friedland]

At 41.

[Nick Wright]

Well, at 40.

[Adam Friedland]

And he was yambing on.

[Nick Wright]

He was like, yeah, no, I. Listen, it's nobody. Here's the thing. Yeah, it will. People in 40 years won't believe that it was an argument that it was like, people will think. No. And so the. That part is unequivocally true, that this is going to age as. You got to be kidding me. People argued for someone else, like, and.

[Adam Friedland]

It'S like a Mad Men where they're at a picnic and then they just shake out all their garbage into a field. And you're like, oh, they didn't have littering back then. You know what I mean?

[Nick Wright]

That's the only prestige great show that I've never seen. It's not good.

[Adam Friedland]

It's just fashion. No, it's good.

[Nick Wright]

My wife. My wife owns a women's boutique and is a style professional stylist.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you dress him? Yes. Give it up for her. You are you. He's a peacock.

[Nick Wright]

You have the best.

[Adam Friedland]

You have some of the best. I think, like that. I think in a debate, I think you dressed like. Like, I don't know, Peaky Blinders, kind of like. Yeah, like Atlanta Church. Peaky Blinders?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Is that. I'm sorry, you just. It's a powerful move. You're like a sharply dressed.

[Nick Wright]

Well, I try. Listen, there is. I do not have a face for traditional tv.

[Host/Announcer]

We wear what they tell us.

[Adam Friedland]

Come on.

[Nick Wright]

No, no, no. Right. So I do a lot of things, whether it be the hair, the jewelry, or the clothes, to kind of distract from.

[Host/Announcer]

You're not distracting.

[Adam Friedland]

It's a flex against the guy you're arguing. Cause you're like being like a. You're like doing a closing argument, like defense attorney.

[Nick Wright]

Well, I thought you were gonna do.

[Adam Friedland]

Defense attorney of a client who's so guilty. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

I was worried you were gonna do that to me. Cause when I walked in, you said you had to go change for the show, but then you just put on a worse T shirt.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, this was under my face. Sorry, dude. We've had three interviews in a row.

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[Adam Friedland]

Sometimes it feels like someone's difficulty handling celebrity can cast a shadow over the very reason why they are a celebrity. And yeah, I think that that's interesting. Right. And I think that it's like. It's. Yeah. I think that people. I think that sports punditry and you could tell me what your experience has been in the last 10 years has become a lot of celebrity gossipy.

[Nick Wright]

Yes.

[Adam Friedland]

And I think it's because we're so interconnected with.

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[Nick Wright]

I do. Listen, I. What's crazy is nothing as far as like the things that do the best on social media or on YouTube.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Are like inter sports gossip. Like. Like in sometimes not even involving the athletes. Sometimes it's like cold Mornings, holiday plans.

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[Adam Friedland]

It's like streamers. Does it feel trashy sometimes? Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

And I think you have to walk a fine line on what you want to, you know, how seriously you want to be taken.

[Adam Friedland]

I think you should go all in on it. The Stephen a. Wind Horse LeBron thing was just. It felt like fly. It was. I was locked in on that.

[Nick Wright]

It was right.

[Adam Friedland]

It was yellow journal. I mean like, like.

[Nick Wright]

And I listen, I, I don't think, I think Wendy is in a separate category. I think Wendy's one of the most respected guys in the, in the business.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, when Braun did that, I thought.

[Nick Wright]

What Braun did.

[Adam Friedland]

Did you say. Then there was one that was. Did you.

[Nick Wright]

That's the. I thought Bron taking that shot at Wendy was unnecessary. Yeah, I think the, I think everything he said about is like, you don't have to say it.

[Adam Friedland]

This guy went to your high school.

[Nick Wright]

Or something called you the liar.

[Adam Friedland]

And then like, you know, he thinks you're awesome. And he's like. He's been like, put like, he's been like celebrating you for 20 years.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I thought that one was weird. I thought he could have gone harder at Stephen A. But.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Well, first of all, okay, just on a basic moral level, if some guy's shitting on your son constantly and he's a two way player and he's getting mentioned more than a fuck the fucking mvp, like sga, like, he's a dad. He's got to be. He's going to be like, shut the fuck up.

[Nick Wright]

But it also, but it wasn't. It was that he's entirely within his rights, of course. But it's also that whole thing was. All of it was, in my opinion, misleading. What Bronn was so upset about was when Stephen A.

Flipped it from criticizing Bronny the player to criticizing Bronn the father. When he's like, I'm pleading with you as a father to stop.

[Adam Friedland]

That's not the right thing. Being the dad, protecting the son is better. That name is better.

[Nick Wright]

I understand. But it is what it is.

[Adam Friedland]

Don't attack me. That's rough. Either way, he's just a two way player. He's in the G League half the time. The South Bay Lakers, and they're just like, it's because it's Bron's son and he's just getting all this fucking attention. And plus, he's a real one, kind of for going to la. Could you imagine being on a team with your dad? It'd be so annoying. My dad would be fucking, like, just. I would go to Phoenix, get blowjob after blowjob. I wouldn't go and see with my dad. That sucks. He's a real one for actually doing it. I mean it. I mean that. Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna. Yeah, my dad's gonna, like, if I miss something, a shot, like, my dad's gonna be like, it's annoying. And your dad's the best basketball player ever. Well, that's the other.

[Nick Wright]

That's the other top part.

[Adam Friedland]

So good on Brody. But beyond that, it was the first time I didn't. I think it was at the beginning of the administration. It was the first time I just didn't think of Trump and Elon for a week.

[Nick Wright]

I got a vacation because of LeBron. Stephen A.

[Adam Friedland]

Stuff well, because, like, LeBron takes Sean, Wendy. And then I'm like, that's peculiar. And then, then Stephen A. Okay, first off, he said, like, like, and if you. And if you touch me, I will have no choice but to put hands on you. Who are you? Who. Seriously?

[Nick Wright]

That's the part that was.

[Adam Friedland]

Who are you taking in that.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, that's. I mean, it was such an interesting statement. It was.

[Adam Friedland]

And then, like, it was. It's. He's six. He's six, eight.

[Host/Announcer]

Six, eight.

[Nick Wright]

The greatest athlete of all time. Talking about that, all of it. And then wouldn't. And then Stephen A. Wouldn't stop talking about it. He talked about it again right before this season started.

[Adam Friedland]

The funeral thing is a little bit my fault.

[Nick Wright]

It's your fault?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

How?

[Adam Friedland]

I told Pablo I met him at the Nets game right after we got Luca. The Lakers were in town, and we were at a bar, and I was like, why. Why wasn't LeBron at the memorial? And he's like, he was. And I was like, I don't. We didn't see him. Right. And then he was like, yeah, well, his daughter was being born that day. And then that happened. And right before that happened, he texted me. He's like, I've talked to, like, 25 people. This is my white whale.

[Nick Wright]

And so you're the genesis of that story.

[Adam Friedland]

I told my dad. He's like, you fucked up our playoff run, you fucking idiot. I just, like. I wanted to know where he was. The other thing is this. These two guys were, like, not nice to him. Can you imagine? Bron wore 23. He wore 23.

[Nick Wright]

And this guy's being a dickhead to him forever.

[Host/Announcer]

Forever.

[Nick Wright]

Jordan's relationship with Bron is really fascinating.

[Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you think that Kobe and MJ thought it was soft that he has friends?

[Host/Announcer]

Really? They were two guys.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, as a man, you shouldn't have friends. Seriously.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, I haven't thought about it that way, but maybe.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. The other thing was, this is, like, bra was dipped into the River Styx. Like, God gave us that human being. Like, those two guys had to become sociopaths to, like, achieve their greatness. And, like, there was a. There weren't. There was a dissimilarity, I think.

[Nick Wright]

Well, yeah, I mean, listen, the Kobe's path is Jordan's path. And with the exception of, like, obvious, Kobe's dad obviously played in the NBA. Obviously, all these guys have a lot of gifts.

[Adam Friedland]

Where did Jordan's dad play?

[Nick Wright]

Not in the NBA. That's why I said, with the exception.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm gonna get killed. He's gonna kill him.

[Nick Wright]

And bronze path, I would say, is closer to Magic's as far as bronze.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, he's Wemby. He's a freak.

[Nick Wright]

Of nature. Yeah. Maybe that's a better.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Kareem. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I mean, I think he was. He was 18 years old. He was already built for the NBA.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. At 20, he was the best player in the league.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I remember second in MVP voting. MVP voting is just suck ups. Like you just.

[Nick Wright]

I don't have a vote.

[Adam Friedland]

Try to suck up to him.

[Nick Wright]

I don't have vote. I'm sure you. I'm sure. I'm sure I should vote. I'm sure when Brom was 20 and Kobe missed the playoffs because he didn't have enough players, you still thought Kobe was better. And then that was that.

[Adam Friedland]

Go to 81.

[Nick Wright]

The. Yeah, that. Yes. I mean, or that. That era. And then the next year when I was abroad, that year when you were, you know, crying about Saskra Vujicic and Bron was taking Delonte west to the.

[Adam Friedland]

NBA finals, I'm crying. He was the machine. The machine. The eyebrows.

[Nick Wright]

Yes. Vujicic was good.

[Adam Friedland]

The thing is this, like, I'm a Kobe fan, but I accept that LeBron is the goat. Right. And when we won in the bubble, which is, by the way, was the. The toughest championship ever.

[Nick Wright]

Correct.

[Adam Friedland]

Right. And the fact that.

[Nick Wright]

And they had home court and they were the team that didn't get to use it.

[Adam Friedland]

There's no home. Oh, exactly.

[Nick Wright]

My point is they had earned home court and then nobody got home.

[Adam Friedland]

And like, it's just, from what I understand, like, it was draining. I mean, we saw Jimmy that sec. That game, he just won single handedly.

[Nick Wright]

Well, no, I mean, team. The Clippers fell apart. The Nuggets fell apart.

[Adam Friedland]

You saw AD Hit the shot.

[Nick Wright]

The. Oh, I'm sorry. The Nuggets didn't fall apart. The Clippers fell apart against the Nuggets.

[Adam Friedland]

I can't believe the Clippers fell apart.

[Nick Wright]

But I cannot believe it's one of the greatest. And you know that the fucking Thunder have the Clippers draft pick this coming year. Yeah. It might be the fourth pick of the draft.

[Adam Friedland]

How do they know?

[Nick Wright]

Shay was good, man. I don't know. I mean, everybody thought he was like, oh, he's, he's better than expected. Nobody thought this. Nobody in the world thought this was possible. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Comparing it to the, to the Luka trade is crazy. Oh, no, that's insane.

[Nick Wright]

No, well, the Luca trade was just Israel.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

No, that was Miriam else.

[Adam Friedland]

It goes all the way to the top.

[Nick Wright]

That is one of the Fox Sports.

[Adam Friedland]

You can't get spicy.

[Nick Wright]

No, that is one of the most frustrating conspiracies is that The.

[Adam Friedland]

It's for the casino.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, that. It's for the casino to move them or to move it to Vegas. When it was very, very simple. Nico Harrison did not like that there was someone more powerful than him in the organization. So he fucking shook his head.

[Adam Friedland]

He had a bad attitude. He's a fat boy.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, but I mean, I don't even think that. I think those were his excuses when reality was, he was like, as long as Luke is here, I won't really be in charge. He will be.

[Adam Friedland]

He sold it as a win now.

[Nick Wright]

He sold it as win now. And they're terrible. And now they're gonna trade ad.

[Adam Friedland]

I love him.

[Nick Wright]

Anthony Davis. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

In the bubble, honestly, when we won, I had this thought to myself, does it feel the same? And it kind of didn't. Because the Lakers, I kind of liked, like, javale and Dwight, they were fun.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

But it was a mercenary kind of team. And I kind of thought to myself, like, does it feel like, you know, we had all these, like, kids and then we threw them away for ad. I was so happy for ad when he was, like, crying, you could tell it meant so much to him.

[Nick Wright]

And I think they would have won again the next year if Bron didn't get hurt.

[Adam Friedland]

The problem was that they started the season three weeks later, and the organization should have protected their two assets. Their two biggest assets. They should have sat out the first half of that season.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, but I mean, they were. They. They had the best record in the west when Solomon Hill did the cartwheel into LeBron's ankle.

[Adam Friedland]

And there was that. And then AD also went down.

[Nick Wright]

Well. Yeah, but AD's gone down every year of his career except for the championship.

[Adam Friedland]

Really?

[Nick Wright]

Are you being a smart ass?

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know. I don't know, dude. I feel bad for that guy. He seemed like. Do you remember Kentucky during that tournament? Yeah, I just remember. I was like, this guy is just an absolute comprehensive monster.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Yeah. I think he's. I think the best prospect. You could argue that from Bron to Wimby, in that time frame, the single best prospect was Anthony Davis.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Well, your 40 year thing, I have a counterpoint.

[Nick Wright]

Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

They're not gonna care about Braun. M.J. because of Wimby. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

I don't think he gets there.

[Adam Friedland]

Why?

[Nick Wright]

Because every single player in the history of the league that's 75 or taller has just had terrible injuries.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, but his body's different, dude.

[Nick Wright]

Really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, he's not.

[Nick Wright]

What's he doing right now?

[Adam Friedland]

He's not thick. He's not like Greg, Odin.

[Nick Wright]

I. Yeah, but neither was. I mean, who's your favorite body?

[Adam Friedland]

Who do you think has the best body out of all the guys?

[Nick Wright]

I. I don't know. Really? I don't know. Probably Dwight. Right?

[Adam Friedland]

Dwight.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, probably.

[Adam Friedland]

He's strong.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. I mean Dwight's like a bodybuilder. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

But I just don't think Wimby will stay healthy, sadly. And so far that's been true.

[Adam Friedland]

Did Dwight get kind of like blacklisted a little bit?

[Nick Wright]

I don't think so.

[Adam Friedland]

After that stuff went up. Now we're doing celebrity gossip.

[Nick Wright]

We are now doing celebrity gossip.

[Adam Friedland]

But he was good still.

[Nick Wright]

I mean he wasn't that good at that point. He played a long time. Dwight played a long time.

[Adam Friedland]

Was it after the championship? How many. Where'd he go after? 20, 20. I think he went to China.

[Nick Wright]

I don't. I think he played with one other year.

[Adam Friedland]

That team was like big and strong.

[Nick Wright]

Well, yeah, that team. That team had a lot of. They were built like. What's the best comp for that?

The football team? No, they were Chris Joneses, like the 08 Celtics. Like just a lot of length. Say that I don't like Celtics either.

[Adam Friedland]

That team also is just. Do you think. How do you compare the current era to dead ball? Like, do you think that those competitive. Is there competitive parity there?

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

[Adam Friedland]

Because like everyone that played against Kobe. The impressive thing about Braun is that he transitioned between eras. Multiple eras. Yeah, yeah. But like now it's just like Steve Kerr like woked the league. You think it is. It's wokeness.

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

[Adam Friedland]

The three ball. Oh yeah, yeah. Do you think it's. It's just utter wokeness? I don't, I don't think but like that era where it was like 87, 83 and like those like Lakers, Celtics, Finals. Sure is. Were the. Was that more difficult? Like as the rule changes?

[Nick Wright]

I think that I. I think that they. It just totally changed the way the sport's played. I don't know if one's more difficult than the other.

[Adam Friedland]

You're just trying to figure out a way to compliment LeBron.

[Nick Wright]

No, I'm not by that answer. I'm not. I just. So like the 80s were prior to the. No, prior to the 2000s, the 80s were the highest scoring decade of the last 50 years. And then the 90s were the lowest scoring because. And it's all. It's not same guys in the 80s and 90s. It's just the Rule changes.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Oh, my God, my shirt's dirty. My girlfriend's out of town right now.

[Nick Wright]

Dude, how long have you been with your girlfriend?

[Adam Friedland]

Five and a half years of fiance.

[Nick Wright]

I was gonna say. Yeah, it's about time. If it's five and a half years, how'd you propose?

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, I bricked it so bad.

[Nick Wright]

How'd you do it?

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, my God. Okay, I was in. So we got together at New Year's. It was gonna be our five year anniversary.

[Nick Wright]

So this is. I'm just 10 months ago.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, does he come up with, like, plans? Like, romantic plans? Yeah, he definitely does. Look how romantic of a guy this is. I'm a mess of a guy. So, yeah, we. She was going to Mexico City to see a friend. I said, she's like, do you want to come? And so then her friend.

[Nick Wright]

So it's New Year's Eve.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, her friend was my man.

[Nick Wright]

You might be the first person ever proposed on New Year's Eve, dude.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't fucking know.

[Nick Wright]

Go ahead. I want to hear.

[Adam Friedland]

God damn it, dude.

[Nick Wright]

I want to hear.

[Adam Friedland]

What do you. What did he do?

[Nick Wright]

She hated it. Yeah, no, she. But I. But it was.

[Adam Friedland]

It was.

[Host/Announcer]

She hated it.

[Nick Wright]

It was a great plan.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, fine, but go ahead. So I'm like, how can I not fuck it up, right? And so I. So I told her friend, I was like, we'll just do like 10, 9, 8, 7, kiss, and then I'll hand her, right? Simple. Like, I. No way I could fuck it up. And then that night, my inside man was, like, ways, like, trashed by like, 9:30. Then the girls were like, let's make a move. And then. So I had to.

[Host/Announcer]

They're like, you're good at directions.

[Adam Friedland]

And I'm like, oh, God. And I was like. And then we show up at a place at like, 11. No one's there. It's completely empty. And I was like, you have to find a fucking. And also I ran my mouth to, like, too many people. So my phone buzzed. Buzz, buzz. Like, her brother hit me up. He's like, you guys are being fucking sus, dude. Like, he's like, I know it's going down. Let me see pics. My family was convinced that I didn't want to include them in this special moment in my life. 25%. That's how they act. But, like, yeah. So then I was like. I told her friend, who also. She laughs when she's nervous. So I was like, why are you laughing at me? And then I was like, you have to Find a fucking party. I was like, this is my life. And then. So then she found a party and we went into Uber and dropped us off. And then I looked and I was like, where is it? She's like, it's here. And it was a hospital. It dropped us off at a hospital. And then, like, we found this place where she was invited. And then it was like eight people around a coffee table. And then I was like, I'm not gonna fucking propose here. And then some guy was like, yo, the last episode was Fire. And I was like, I'm not gonna propose in front of these people. And then, like, all night we were trying to find a place, and it was like I was acting bad. She was like, why have you had such a bad attitude to New Year's? And I'm like, I'm great. I feel great. And then, like, finally, like, 3:00am, we found a place and it was great. And there was, like, people. They were playing, like, cumbia or whatever. It just looked fun, right? And so I get patted down. And then it was cold. You know how they get cold. Sorry, I apologize. It was rude of me. You know how they fucking. They're always cold. Yeah. So she was wearing my jacket, and then she got patted down. And then the ring was in the inner pocket and they pulled it out. And then I've been so badly. I've been so badly behaved that I was like. And she was like. And then she said something so sweet. She said something so sweet. I can't believe I'm telling Nick Wright this. I love you, dude.

[Nick Wright]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[Adam Friedland]

And she said something so sweet, but literally, it was so emasculated. Like, my penis went in my body. She said, well, it didn't work out tonight, but maybe another time. And I was like, yeah, maybe another time. And then, like, yeah. And then the whole next day, I was, like, trying for the first time in my life, you know that, like, men, they're supposed to, like, if you're. You feel terrible about something, you're supposed to not mention it.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It was the first time I've ever done that. Yeah. I let my phone die. There was like 50 missed texts because I ran my dumb ass mouth to everyone. And. And then at the end of the day, I was like, I feel terrible all day. And she's like, why don't you just fucking ask me? And I was like, I thought I could do a plan. Like just one fucking plan for the first time in my fucking life. She's like, no. Like, you're terrible. At plans. That's why I make all the plans. You call me a micromanager, but you're incapable of plans. That's why you're lucky to be with me. And I was like, you're right. That's so us. You know? And she was like. And then she was like. She's like, why didn't you just fucking ask me? And I was like, really? She's like, yeah. You think I would have liked that? I was like, it sounded good. I thought girls would like that kind of thing. And she was like, no. She's like, I don't have. Like, I'm not like, a dumb bitch. So then I was like.

And then she took it, and I was weeping.

[Nick Wright]

Sick ring, though.

[Adam Friedland]

It's like my late mother's, and it's a great, great grandmother or great grandmothers. Yeah. From back in the day.

[Nick Wright]

That's awesome.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. And I was crying, and she was like, why are you being so dramatic? I was like.

[Nick Wright]

You were crying?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. So much.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You cried, too.

[Nick Wright]

I didn't cry.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you ever cried at sports.

But not when you got engaged to your queen over here?

[Nick Wright]

I didn't cry. No, I didn't cry.

[Adam Friedland]

I cry a lot. I cried the first Lakers chip with Shaq and Kobe because I'd never seen a team of mine win.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I remember. I was peeing.

[Nick Wright]

Notice how you said Jack's name first, but.

[Adam Friedland]

Shut the fuck up. All right? Let's do this dumb thing. What's the 10? What's your 10?

[Nick Wright]

What's my 10?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Players ever.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, that's what you want to do. We're just talking hoop, but.

[Nick Wright]

Okay, that's fine.

[Adam Friedland]

Hoop is my best.

[Nick Wright]

In order. That's fine. Bron, Kareem, Jordan, Magic, Russell, Wilt, Duncan, Kobe.

[Adam Friedland]

Why? Russell overweld. Because of the chips.

[Nick Wright]

I mean, he owned him. Repeatedly.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, but then you're playing into the labom argument that the chips matter.

[Nick Wright]

Well, they were head to head, and it's 11 to 2.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, but that guy was having so much sex, he was probably tired.

[Nick Wright]

And then. So I. By that math. What? How many did I just name?

[Adam Friedland]

Robert Ori is the second best player, though.

[Nick Wright]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Again, if you're. No.

[Adam Friedland]

Who else.

[Nick Wright]

Who.

[Adam Friedland]

Who else is up there? Randomly.

[Nick Wright]

Randomly up there. That I have higher than others?

[Adam Friedland]

Bill Rut. I'm saying championships.

[Nick Wright]

Oh. I mean, Russell's teammates.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Havilichek. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And it wasn't basketball, dude. You see what they're doing.

[Nick Wright]

I understand, but what do you. What do you want them to do.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm just saying, like, we can't, like, pretend like Dante DiVincenzo just murders everyone there. That was a good pull, actually. Dante DiVincenzo was a good one.

[Nick Wright]

Are you just saying it? Because also he'd be allowed to play because he was white.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, they let. In Boston, they let Bill.

[Nick Wright]

But there's limitations on how many black guys you could have.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, beyond that, it was a racist state.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah. Oh, horrible.

[Adam Friedland]

Kyrie also. They're still about that.

[Nick Wright]

It's a well earned reputation.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The green hair.

[Nick Wright]

But then. And then. So then after whatever.

[Adam Friedland]

Is Kobe. Fuck it. Yes.

[Nick Wright]

Bron, Kareem, Michael, Magic, Russell, Wilt Duncan, Kobe. So Kobe's eight birds. Nine and then 10, 11, 12 gets hard because it's Shaq, Akeem, Joker, and Steph are all fighting.

[Adam Friedland]

You hate that shot. You don't like him?

[Nick Wright]

No, I just didn't believe in him. I was just late to the party. I was wrong about him. Yeah. That's all. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Why is it, like, we, like, when we argue about sports, people just like someone not knowing the future.

[Nick Wright]

It's like, you hate him.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, who cares? Yeah. You're like, yeah, Nikola Jokic was a fat guy from the Balkans, and then he ended up being incredible.

[Nick Wright]

One of the greatest players of all time.

[Adam Friedland]

How are you supposed to know? But although you, Caleb Williams.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You said before you ever played, you're like, he will play in the super bowl this year.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I picked him. That's a whiff. Did you feel like now was your.

[Adam Friedland]

Blood coursing through your veins?

[Nick Wright]

In my defense, you're like, I have a new boy. So here, let me ask you. Let me ask you this.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm firing in.

[Nick Wright]

So let me ask you this. So I predicted that Caleb Williams as a rookie would play in the Super Bowl.

[Adam Friedland]

Is he good that he has nail polish? That's what I know.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. His mom's a nail tech. It's like a bonding thing.

[Adam Friedland]

People are rude to him about it, though.

[Nick Wright]

No. Yeah. People are careful. I. That apart. I totally agree. Yeah. People think he's too effeminate. I don't think that.

[Adam Friedland]

Well, they do that to the. The Sixers guy too, Jared.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

The.

[Nick Wright]

The Tick Tock.

[Adam Friedland]

But he does Tick Tockers, and that is where I draw the line. Just stop it.

[Nick Wright]

Well, that just seems childish.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Why is he doing that? His.

[Nick Wright]

His Tick Tocks just seem very childish. But, I mean, he's a kid.

[Adam Friedland]

Your boy's brother, he loves Tick Tock.

[Nick Wright]

Also Oh, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You think that's why he gets crap? Cause of the like. It's not because obviously what's the argument you're like, mahomes is really good. What is the argument that you're getting back there?

[Nick Wright]

Oh, I mean, it's all bullshit.

[Adam Friedland]

It's because he. What, he talks like Kermit the Frog?

[Nick Wright]

No, I mean, it's just. He's just won. He's won too much. And so doesn't that make him good? No, of course. But I'm saying because of that he has a lot of people that don't like him.

[Adam Friedland]

So you just talk to people that are like 35 IQ all day long about sports?

[Nick Wright]

No, I think the reason the TV show I do is good is because Brew and Wilds are both really sharp guys. But to your point earlier, like, the barrier for entry of being like a smart sports TV guy is not very high.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm jealous. I mean, I'm not even a LeBron Stan, but if I could have seen that there was a vacancy there, you.

[Nick Wright]

Would have jumped in.

[Adam Friedland]

It is brilliant business. I totally agreed it. And then.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, the. I mean, the things I'm most known for are being big supporters of the two guys who are going to go down in the greatest in the history of their sports.

[Adam Friedland]

You think he's Mahomes better than Brady?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I do.

[Adam Friedland]

Right. Why is that?

[Nick Wright]

Because he was great. He was individually great immediately. And Tom wasn't.

[Adam Friedland]

And he was. He came in for Drew Bledsome.

[Nick Wright]

Right. But Tom. So Tom was considered those first. You remember, everybody thought Peyton Manning's the better quarterback, but Tom Brady's clutch for like the first decade. And it wasn't really until Brady got Moss and they had those crazy stats. Mahomes 1 league MVP his first year as a starter. So he was. And he's always. And he's won amazingly at a higher level than Brady through the limited time.

[Adam Friedland]

And he went to a party too with the. They had Chainsmokers. DJ Khaled. You see that clip?

[Nick Wright]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

So funny. I'll show you.

[Nick Wright]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

He's like, yeah, we went to a hotel. We were party. They had chase smokers. DJ Cow. Yeah, dude, he's awesome. I mean, what. But like people like start off, they actually do a nice party for us at the hotel. The chain smokers came through. DJ College came through. I had the goddamn spoon man from the Sound Garden videos coming to my show. No way.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

Change bikers came through. DJ Khaled. That's your boy, dude. Tell Him I'm nice. I will party for us at the hotel. Tell him I'm nice, but I'll text him.

[Nick Wright]

Adam Friedland is nice and kind of.

[Adam Friedland]

Like, I will tell you after the show, but I kind of have a involvement with the Kelsey thing.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, so tell us now.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, they know. The audience knows.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, okay.

[Adam Friedland]

But, yeah, Taylor Swift and I have been through a lot. We're doing fine right now. Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. Am I supposed to know? Should I have done my research on this?

[Adam Friedland]

No, it's boring. It's like some guy came on my podcast that was dating Taylor Swift. Oh, yeah. Because my friend said someone mentioned Ice Spice, and he said, is that the Eskimo Spice Girl? Because of Ice.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And then they said it was. It was insensitive to Eskimos or whatever.

[Nick Wright]

Really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, it was like, kind of a. And then, like, I miss a lot.

[Nick Wright]

Of the Internet that you see.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I am not online at all, dude. I missed that. Ronaldo was at the White House yesterday.

[Nick Wright]

I don't believe that. You're not online at all, bro.

[Adam Friedland]

Dude, I'm here working on this. On this brilliant show.

[Nick Wright]

You just said you've worked three days in a row and you're exhausted. You can't be working that far.

[Adam Friedland]

Interviews in a row. Because I grind on them. Not for this one, because this is light work. All right, all right, let's do it. This is light work, dude. I could do this if I wanted to. But wait, let me. Let me. I want. I want to. I want to. Let's do a segment. Right? Lightning round.

[Nick Wright]

Right, Lightning round.

[Adam Friedland]

You're going to get, like, let's say five seconds to argue back.

[Nick Wright]

Five seconds. Okay. All right. Sure.

[Adam Friedland]

And then. Okay. Offensive lineman shouldn't be on tv. As pundits. I don't care what Jeff Saturday thinks about something. If you don't get TDs or sacks, just, like, get off the screen. And also, like, we don't know what you look like.

[Nick Wright]

That's your take.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they should have. I don't want to see them.

[Nick Wright]

You absolutely need them because.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, okay. NBA. They should go back to business suits. The coaches.

[Nick Wright]

I love that take. I agree.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, they look like they're, like, at.

[Nick Wright]

A Kia finance event, like, doing NBA coaches.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

NBA coaches should wear suits. I 100% agree.

[Adam Friedland]

And baseball coaches wearing the uniforms is the dopest thing of all time.

[Nick Wright]

You love it.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, it's hilarious. See, Don Zimmer's fat ass, like, wearing suits.

[Nick Wright]

I think one day a year. The other sport should do the Same thing.

[Adam Friedland]

Suits?

[Nick Wright]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

What?

[Nick Wright]

Wearing uniforms. The coaches. Like the NFL coaches?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

One day a year in a tank top.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I guess J.J. would look fine. So if David Stern were commissioner, Pablo would be dead.

What do you think about that? Okay. Agree.

[Nick Wright]

It's a great take. Okay. I think if Stern were. Go ahead.

[Adam Friedland]

If AI went to NFL, he'd be potentially top five ever.

[Nick Wright]

Allen Iverson. Yeah, agreed, dude. I think he would have been. I also think he could have been Arsenal's striker.

[Adam Friedland]

He was one of the best pure athletes I've ever seen.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And when he talks about Kobe, like, those guys put Kobe maybe one.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, I know.

[Adam Friedland]

And I trust, like, what AI thinks about basketball more than a guy that doesn't know how to play sports.

Sorry, bro. Soccer is the best sport. The talent pool is wider. It's the whole world, right?

[Nick Wright]

The talent pool's wider. And there's not a height barrier to entry the way there is in other sports.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes. And there is just, by far. The atmosphere is. There's no.

[Nick Wright]

The atmosphere is the best.

[Adam Friedland]

There's no comparison.

[Nick Wright]

I agree.

[Adam Friedland]

And it's just like. There is also, like. I guess the packers are technically like this, but there's a notion of like, belonging to a club and then that your. The supporters. I pay Arsenal. I pay them. What do you pay?

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean? What do you pay?

[Adam Friedland]

38 pounds a year.

[Nick Wright]

For what?

[Adam Friedland]

To be in my club. That's my club.

[Nick Wright]

What, you just give them money? Yeah. What do you give back?

[Adam Friedland]

I'm a member of Arsenal. And then they're the players of the first team. The manager is the coach. And then there's a board. There's four. It's kind of beautiful.

[Nick Wright]

But then what's your role?

[Adam Friedland]

My role is that I'm a member of Arsenal.

[Nick Wright]

So, like, do you get to vote on stuff?

[Adam Friedland]

I get to maybe try and get tickets, but we get to watch preseason games. Yeah, we get to watch. Stream preseason games. I literally watch everything.

[Nick Wright]

So you're just paying for Arsenal League pass, buddy.

[Adam Friedland]

No, I get that on Peacock and on Paramount.

[Nick Wright]

Right, so then you just. You're just giving them £40 a year.

[Adam Friedland]

Whatever. You should just watch the better sport.

[Nick Wright]

I like it.

[Adam Friedland]

It's embarrassing being a guy from Brooklyn say that. It's the best sport.

[Nick Wright]

Listen, I like it. World Cup's on my network.

[Adam Friedland]

World cup is good. We're gonna brick it. The United States is gonna.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, no shot. We got no shot.

[Adam Friedland]

No, no, no. I don't care about the team. That's. I never.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, you mean as A host nation. Yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It's gonna be like the. The ticket prices are insane.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, but that and ticket prices are insane.

[Adam Friedland]

Every World cup, there's like, my friend tried to get five tickets and it was like $50,000.

[Nick Wright]

You're trying to go to the final?

[Adam Friedland]

No, he's trying to go to a random game in Miami.

[Nick Wright]

I don't think.

[Adam Friedland]

I think group stage. Mark would never lie. I'll put him on the phone after this. He's the finest man I know. Kobe farewell game was the best sports game in the last 25 years, probably ever. Stefan Wardell. Stephen Curry is the best point guard of all time. And anyone who doesn't have him in their top five is. I don't have. I have no respect for you.

[Nick Wright]

Top five player of all time.

[Adam Friedland]

Yes.

[Nick Wright]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

I've never seen anyone shooting basketball.

[Nick Wright]

He's the best shooter of all time.

[Adam Friedland]

What is. But that's what basketball is. That's how you make voice.

[Host/Announcer]

That's part of.

[Nick Wright]

It's a big part of what basketball is.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you ever seen anything remotely like that?

[Nick Wright]

No. He's the best shooter of all time. He's not better than Magic Johnson.

[Adam Friedland]

There's no goat debate for shooting.

[Nick Wright]

No.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay. And what. What? I. Okay, I'll get sidetracked.

[Nick Wright]

I.

[Adam Friedland]

The story of the 1980 finals is on paper. Incredible. Right? He's a rookie.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It's game six. Kareem's hurt. He's in LA trying to rehab. They're like, let's just throw it. He plays five positions and he wins mvp.

[Nick Wright]

Shouldn't have won mvp, but yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Have you watched game six?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Come on.

[Nick Wright]

What?

[Adam Friedland]

It's not. He's no one's league.

Magic because he's a big guard. And Michael Cooper, he could be a 3 and D. The rest of them are league.

[Nick Wright]

Kareem is definitively.

[Adam Friedland]

He wasn't playing that game.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, you're talking about literally just that game.

[Adam Friedland]

It's just crap. It's just.

[Nick Wright]

But it's.

[Adam Friedland]

It's just. There's no comparison. The Arizona.

[Nick Wright]

But you're like. This is like saying, I'm with you, dude.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm a bro. I'm a bromosexual.

[Nick Wright]

Like, let me ask you this. Yeah. You're a comedian. Yeah. Who's the fucking Jackie Gleason or whatever?

[Adam Friedland]

Very good. Yeah. He's a. He was a rabbi.

[Nick Wright]

If his routines right now look pedestrian compared to absolutely not, then I'm.

[Adam Friedland]

Who's the arts. There isn't a comparison of the other side.

[Nick Wright]

No, hold on. Who's the guy that used Henny Youngman take my wife, please.

[Adam Friedland]

That is the best joke ever written. Because they say. Because of word economy. They say that is the. That is the.

[Nick Wright]

The best joke ever written. But I guess my point is true too. Or like I Love Lucy. That type of stuff, like, doesn't hold up today. But we assume those people, if they were born today, would be the funniest people alive.

[Adam Friedland]

A girl.

[Nick Wright]

What?

[Adam Friedland]

It's a girl. She's being annoying. It's not funny that.

[Nick Wright]

Can I ask you a question? When you said.

[Host/Announcer]

Hold on.

[Nick Wright]

I have a question from 10 minutes ago. Yeah, yeah. When you said, they get cold, and then you apologize to my wife because.

[Adam Friedland]

I was being sexist, but it was.

[Nick Wright]

Joking, so I didn't know if you were being sexist or racist.

[Adam Friedland]

That's what I was saying.

[Nick Wright]

I was trying to figure out if your girlfriend was black. And you were saying, black date. I would never go there.

[Adam Friedland]

I would complain about these with a ball and chain. Because we're on a first guy date.

[Nick Wright]

You thought the same thing, right? Was like, oh, are you also engaged with black women?

[Adam Friedland]

What is that stereotype?

[Nick Wright]

What do you mean?

[Adam Friedland]

Black people get cold.

[Nick Wright]

I didn't know if that's what you were saying.

[Adam Friedland]

Women get cold. If you've heard a million times. And I did a joke like, I'm sorry.

[Host/Announcer]

And then I'm like, they get cold.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

That's why I couldn't figure out.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, because obviously your wife is here and we're on a first date and she's. She's chaperoning us.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And how's it going? What do you think? Yeah, I'm destroying it. Right. Okay.

They should let more people that aren't jocks be the coach.

[Nick Wright]

Why?

[Adam Friedland]

Because there's no overlap. Like, if you could learn the game cerebrally, you don't have to have played when you were 21 years old.

[Nick Wright]

I disagree.

[Adam Friedland]

Why? Because I, you know, Jose Mourinho was.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't play. Right. I'm not saying that it's impossible to be done. I think the best, particularly in the NFL.

[Adam Friedland]

You're sucking up to the jocks right now.

[Nick Wright]

No, I'm not sucking.

[Adam Friedland]

We could do it.

[Nick Wright]

I think there are elements of it that we could do, but I think, like, to be the boys with NFL team. Correct.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

And I think a huge part of being an NFL head coach is being able to, like, command the respect of the room. And I think that's very difficult.

[Adam Friedland]

If you weren't a player, you're absolutely Right now I'm imagining like I'm your cow.

[Nick Wright]

You don't have to imagine it that much. Just look at the doll.

[Adam Friedland]

Listen to me. We're doing Spider Y Banana. I learned about it in the YouTube. It's bullshit that the NFL has non guaranteed contracts and that these guys are like literally destroying their brains. And you could just cancel someone's deal. Like, why is Shohei getting like a billion dollars? So it's just for a less popular sport.

[Nick Wright]

The. Yeah, I mean, I. The. The union for the NFL has been bad for a long time.

[Adam Friedland]

They're pro. Like, the, the owners.

[Nick Wright]

The union just hasn't had any teeth.

[Adam Friedland]

It's really like actually, like, it's brutally sad. Especially the sacrifice they make physically.

[Nick Wright]

Now listen, they. Anybody can get a guaranteed contract. They just. Guys, the. They don't have the leverage to negotiate.

[Adam Friedland]

When you hear about Bobby Bonilla, are you like, sick, dude?

[Nick Wright]

Well, yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Fuck the man. He's got to pay.

[Nick Wright]

Well, listen, I'm a union guy. I think that. Yeah, but the football union's been bad for a long time and the guys don't have enough juice to really.

[Adam Friedland]

Who's the rep? Who's the main guy?

[Nick Wright]

It was D. Marie Smith forever. Who is it now? I don't even know. They just got asked. Pablo, he just got them all in trouble.

[Adam Friedland]

He got the. The union. He's a Pinkerton. He's a union buster.

[Nick Wright]

Well, I don't think he meant to be, but kind of, yeah, he did because he tattled. Well again.

[Adam Friedland]

I ruined the Lakers playoff run. Did you have a take that you were wrong because of me?

[Nick Wright]

Did you take that? I was wrong.

[Adam Friedland]

That was my fault. I apologize. Because you think the T. Wolves. Did you say, we're gonna beat the Teals?

[Nick Wright]

That's your fault. You threw it off with your tattling to pop.

[Adam Friedland]

My dad is pissed off at me. Yeah, my dad, my parents.

[Nick Wright]

What do your parents do?

[Adam Friedland]

My mother passed away. My dad was an architect. And then. They're from Cape Town. They were Jews. And then my dad, the apartheid regime had him on a enemies list. And then he got called up to go to Angola, to the civil war. And then they moved to la. But then my dad. The reason I'm kind of into sports is my dad got into sports and it was the 80s in LA, so it was showtime. Dodgers. Fernando. And so my dad was at the. At the Gibson game.

[Nick Wright]

Really?

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

That's sick.

[Adam Friedland]

But he learned American sports to have something to share with his kid who's American. And so like we shared it.

[Nick Wright]

So does your dad have a sick accent?

[Adam Friedland]

It's. I don't think it's a very good one. Is it safe? Have you seen the blood? The blood diamond? Yeah, he. He sounds nice. I love my dad, but he just. At this age, he's 74. He turns the TV off like. Like, 25 times a game. He cannot take the stress, really. And it could be, like, a regular season game, too.

[Nick Wright]

And his favorite team is Lakers during.

[Adam Friedland]

The World Series, game seven. I'm backing on baseball.

[Nick Wright]

I know. This was an unbelievable playoff. Yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

It's an unbelievable playoff.

[Adam Friedland]

During the World Series. I called, like, 40 times just to make sure he didn't die.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

And he's like, I can't take this. It's not good for my health, Adam. It's not good for my.

[Nick Wright]

Do you go to LA and go to games? No, we're going to LA on Tuesday for Thanksgiving. Yeah. See? And I get to meet my granddaughter for the first time after. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Congratulations, by the way. Oh, thank you, Grandfather.

[Nick Wright]

I'm a grandfather? As of 12 days ago.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you think that, like, the other guys that should have more respect for you?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, 100%.

[Adam Friedland]

As UNK gramps.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

OG.

[Nick Wright]

Exactly. Right? That's how I feel.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

But we're gonna go to Lakers Mavs the day after Thanksgiving, and the question is sad, Right? Well, here's the question that I have not yet talked to my wife about. So my granddaughter will be, at that point, 20 days old.

Also, though it would be super sick for her when she's 70. It'd be like meeting someone. It's like I watched Babe Ruth to take her to the game.

[Adam Friedland]

She's 20 days old, but she can.

[Nick Wright]

Say she was there. She won't remember. She'll be told you actually were.

[Adam Friedland]

Who's gonna respect that?

[Nick Wright]

Who's.

[Adam Friedland]

Seriously.

Very small, baby, you. You were in the same.

[Nick Wright]

If your dad saw Babe Ruth play, that wouldn't be cool.

[Adam Friedland]

If he was a baby.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

No, he would remember it. What, you went to Kaufman. That was your first game.

[Nick Wright]

Kaufman.

[Adam Friedland]

Kaufman.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

It was a shit stadium.

[Nick Wright]

No, it's still there.

[Adam Friedland]

The fountain.

[Nick Wright]

The fountains are great.

[Adam Friedland]

You guys should change your uniforms.

[Nick Wright]

Why?

[Adam Friedland]

Because they look too much like Dodgers?

[Nick Wright]

No, they're powder blue. Oh, powder blue ones are better.

[Adam Friedland]

They used to have, like, Dodgers uniforms.

[Nick Wright]

No, they had Royals uniforms. Maybe you guys copied us.

[Adam Friedland]

No way. You guys are Tech nine.

[Nick Wright]

You guys have.

[Adam Friedland]

We have, like, Brad Pitt.

[Nick Wright]

Brad Pitt from. Actually, that's a bad poll, because. Where's Brad Pitt from? Just north of Kansas City.

[Adam Friedland]

Fox Sports. Okay. The Brooklyn Nets shouldn't exist. Agreed. I live 10, five minutes from the stadium, walking. It's just their fans aren't there.

[Nick Wright]

They're there. We had the year they got Katie, Kyrie and Harden. We got. We had season tickets. Yeah. And my wife, after that year, said, I would rather go to five Knicks games a year than all of the Nets games.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, it's just I feel bad for them because every game is a road game.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. No, I. I don't know where. So. Where? What city? Is there a city on the east.

[Adam Friedland]

Coast they should go to Newark, New Jersey.

[Nick Wright]

Over. They used to be.

[Adam Friedland]

They put on for the fucking Devils.

[Nick Wright]

Here's.

[Adam Friedland]

I got a good one for you. Yeah. The Los Angeles Clippers should not exist.

[Nick Wright]

They should go to Seattle or Vegas. Totally agree.

[Adam Friedland]

Vegas. It's. I don't care and I'm from there. The Las Vegas Raiders should not exist and nor should the A's. And Oakland should have something.

[Nick Wright]

I agree. Oakland should have guys. But the Raiders have moved so many times. Louisiana. Oakland.

[Adam Friedland]

Louisiana.

[Nick Wright]

Oakland, Vegas.

[Adam Friedland]

They're Oakland. Okay. The best. Speaking of Oakland, the best sports movie is Moneyball. They save so much.

They do. It's incredible. What's yours? Titans.

[Nick Wright]

No, it's not. Remember the Titans?

[Adam Friedland]

Coach Boot, he brought those boys.

[Nick Wright]

Objectively speaking, the best sports movie of all time is probably Rocky.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Nick Wright]

Raging Bull's pretty great.

[Adam Friedland]

That's up there.

[Nick Wright]

The new Space Jam that Bron created.

[Adam Friedland]

Incredible. Incredible. Uta, Family Clash Sports. Rich Paul. Mav Carter. I asked my agents if I could have a meeting with Rich Paul, when I go to la.

[Nick Wright]

I could.

[Adam Friedland]

What am I gonna talk to him about?

[Nick Wright]

I don't know. He'd like you. Rich is a great guy. Is he? Yeah, Rich is a great guy.

[Adam Friedland]

Really?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. And Maverick's one of my dearest friends. Really? Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

So you're like. You're, like in too deep. That's why you did that Tuesday take. That was ridiculous.

[Host/Announcer]

Tuesday at noon.

[Adam Friedland]

Everyone should know that a Tuesday is not a retirement day. Who the fuck. What was that? It would. Do they text you. That are a good one.

All right, here's the last one. Yeah. I'm just putting it out there. For a million and a half dollars, you could have your way with me.

[Nick Wright]

Literally.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't care. Freaky, unchristian. Whatever you want. You can use any hole you want.

It's.

I just want to buy a house.

[Nick Wright]

Really. I gotta imagine you do really well, bro.

[Adam Friedland]

It's like. It's gonna be Good. I think this year has been a reinvestment cycle.

[Nick Wright]

But reinvest. Oh, reinvest in yourself.

[Adam Friedland]

You're probably. Yeah, in my own damn self. I'm drinking water. Yeah. I'm doing meditation. How's this going? Really? You like me more than Broussard?

[Nick Wright]

I love Broussard, but I like you a lot.

[Adam Friedland]

Thank you. As your co worker. You shouldn't be saying that, but kind of.

[Nick Wright]

He's great guy, this guy. I never. I never do stuff like this ever.

[Adam Friedland]

Really? Why'd you do it?

[Nick Wright]

The. No, he needs to.

[Adam Friedland]

Why?

[Nick Wright]

She thinks I should do more stuff like this, but that's not why I'm doing it. I'm doing it because I actually, I.

[Adam Friedland]

You like the show?

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. I think you do a good job.

[Adam Friedland]

We're gonna have a Richie Torres moment after this.

[Nick Wright]

Okay.

[Adam Friedland]

Okay, Last take. And we're gonna cut this. College basketball is bad, but it's not as bad. It's way better than girl.

[Nick Wright]

I think women's college basketball is actually Women's college basketball. I think women's college basketball.

[Adam Friedland]

I'm talking about the league.

[Nick Wright]

I understand. I think women's college basketball is more consistently watchable than men's college basketball at this point.

[Adam Friedland]

Why? Because you're hornier for them? No, that's not. They're sexier.

[Nick Wright]

No, I just. I think that the men's college basketball doesn't work in its current state, and I think women's college basketball, soccer is too long. I think college basketball having people that stay for all four years makes the product really good. And that never happens in men's ball.

[Adam Friedland]

Steph.

[Nick Wright]

Steph stayed for three, I think. Three.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, he almost got there.

[Nick Wright]

Duncan stayed for four, but that's a long time ago. Nerd ass.

[Adam Friedland]

Nerd ass. Duncan. That's classic Duncan. Fundamentals. Yeah, he didn't. He learned how to play basketball when he was, like, 17. He was a swimmer.

[Nick Wright]

He was a swimmer. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

There was, like, a. This aquatic center was destroyed.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah. He's from the U.S. virgin Islands.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. Yeah. Same bro.

[Nick Wright]

Basically.

[Adam Friedland]

Not one time, actually. Was that. Never mind. Was that where the. Did you. Are you on the logs or. No. Did you ever meet epc?

[Nick Wright]

Oh, that's. I didn't know what you were talking about. No, no.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you know anyone that's met him?

[Nick Wright]

I don't think so.

[Adam Friedland]

Can you imagine, like, some guy's like, you want a private plane to a private island? And it's. It's my crib. And then you just walk in and you, like, didn't expect That.

I think.

[Nick Wright]

Most of the people who went. Were aware of what was going on.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, I. I don't, of course, but what if someone. Some guy was like, there's this guy Jeff.

He'S so rich, and then, yeah, he wants to take me to an island. My goat Dershowitz is there.

[Nick Wright]

You're a big Dershowitz fan?

[Adam Friedland]

No. The worst guy ever.

Okay, I think. I think we got it. I mean, like, is there anything you want to. You want to debate me on? I can beat you.

[Nick Wright]

Well, that's what.

[Adam Friedland]

I didn't talk about Kobe, but it's fine. I don't need to. I don't need to stoop down, like, to the level of the inefficient, the math guys.

[Nick Wright]

No, he's a great. I said he was one of the 10 greatest players of all time. For some folks, that's not enough because they want the myth rather than the facts. But being one of the 10 greatest in the history of something's really good. If at the end of this thing, they were like, the Adam Friedland show is one of the 10 best digital interview shows ever. You wouldn't be like, that's bullshit. That I'm nine.

[Adam Friedland]

1B. Dude, 1B.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

See Chelsea lately? 1A, three lane.

[Nick Wright]

1B.

[Adam Friedland]

I don't know. I hate the math stuff. Is it raised? Is it driven by race?

Is it that it's a white pundit class talking about a black production?

[Nick Wright]

So I do think there is an. There is an unintentional element to that where I think that some of the. Some of the. It has been a way for people who didn't, especially NBA front offices wait for people who didn't play to get a seat at the table. And an overwhelmingly black sport. It has made a lot more. Given a lot more white people seats at the table.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, I didn't mean it that way. I mean it like they could, like, criticize a black player with math. No, I mean it like that. What black. You don't think. Are there any players that do the math?

[Nick Wright]

No, what I'm saying is the front offices that are dominated by guys who didn't play, analytics folks that's overwhelmingly white, and the front offices that are dominated by ex. Players that's overwhelmingly black.

[Adam Friedland]

Right. In a front office context, I don't mind it, but on tv, it's just not entertaining. Oh, right, yeah.

[Nick Wright]

People arguing about efficiency.

[Adam Friedland]

Zach. Zach is the one that's fun about it because he gets so excited. I don't even know what the numbers mean.

[Nick Wright]

Well, so I. Yeah. So Zach. Zach is the best to ever do what he's doing because he's having fun and because he's smarter than all these guys.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah.

[Nick Wright]

And so what is, folks who are not as smart and don't know as much basketball as Zach trying to do what Zach does is a disaster. Because now it's like, wait, you don't have all the information and you're boring. That's not going to work.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. What. What it. Like, do you think it's a. It's divorced from. What is great about sports, though? The math?

[Nick Wright]

Some of it, yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

But you're math because you're like, lebron is the best. Because.

[Nick Wright]

No, I mean, I'm a little bit of both. But I do think that is your.

[Adam Friedland]

Favorite movie, like the top box office.

[Nick Wright]

No. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

You're like, it's the best movie as the best.

[Nick Wright]

I think There Will Be Blood's the greatest movie ever.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, fire. Yeah, great. Best movie. Wait, so let's. I want to finish this point because I think it's interesting. Like what. What do you identify, like, when you were a kid calling in, say, Marty Schottenheimer should be taken out back and fired. Yeah. And fired. Yeah, Taken out.

[Nick Wright]

Taken out back and old.

[Adam Friedland]

Old Yeller. What? Like what. What do we like about it? And why do we get so mad at each other about it? We've been getting along, but when you're on tv, you're pissed. You get pit. You get heated about shit. And I don't think you're doing showbiz. I think you're actually like.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah, Yeah, I like to. Much to the chagrin of my lovely wife, who we've referenced a few times. I like to argue and I really. I have always.

[Adam Friedland]

You act like that over there.

[Nick Wright]

Maybe I try not to, but it's sometimes hard.

I have always had. Maybe it's a mental defect, but it's also probably of what's made me. However good I am at what I do. I'm really convinced that if after I make my argument, you don't agree with me, you must not have understood my argument. Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

I mean, everyone feels that way, right?

[Nick Wright]

Well, I think some people have more humility in it than I do.

[Adam Friedland]

But. But, I mean, what you're doing on TV is something that people do when they're hanging out, right? Yeah, we do.

[Nick Wright]

In a barber shop, wherever.

[Adam Friedland]

And it's like, why. Why does it retain meaning right to people? Right.

[Nick Wright]

Oh, I don't. That. I don't know.

[Adam Friedland]

I think it's because we attach Narrative to it, Right? Yeah. So, like, Kobe shooting a hundred times and getting a 60. I think, by the way, it's the story of the. Of a career, Right?

[Nick Wright]

Correct. I don't think there's a lot of criticism of Kobe's final game. I don't think.

[Adam Friedland]

That's what I'm saying. I'm saying that's why it made it special.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

Right. It's not debatable. Everyone had a great time watching it.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

But it made it special. Not because of anything other than we thought we'd never see him again. It's like when Tiger won the Masters.

[Nick Wright]

That is. That's. That's. That's one of my two or three favorite sports moments ever. Yeah. Tiger winning the Masters.

[Adam Friedland]

Because when we were kids, he was like. It was a mythology.

[Host/Announcer]

He was also a kid.

[Nick Wright]

Right.

[Host/Announcer]

Do you get SI kids?

[Nick Wright]

I got all of it, man. I got. I got a grant.

[Adam Friedland]

Hillary Magazine, SI kids. I had.

[Nick Wright]

I had. Growing up. I had every. Because ESPN the Magazine came out when we were teens. Yeah. And I would get in the ad, read the whole thing, and pin it up on my wall. And I had all of them on my wall when I graduated high school.

[Adam Friedland]

Do you remember the commercial with kg?

[Nick Wright]

With KG and Stephon Marva? Tastefully done.

[Adam Friedland]

I took it serious. They said, all nude.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Adam Friedland]

They said no bikinis. They were like. The punchline was all nude.

[Nick Wright]

Tastefully done.

[Adam Friedland]

Yeah. I mean, but they didn't. They actually didn't. I mean, FOX Sports would never do that. Espn, they would never lie about putting real boobs in it. At that age, you're hunting for boobs.

[Nick Wright]

Yeah.

[Host/Announcer]

I was like, I gotta get ESPN.

[Adam Friedland]

The Magazine because Stephon Marbury told me there's gonna be sluts in it, and there was nothing.

[Nick Wright]

I think that. I mean, if we're really trying to rehash that commercial, I think he was implying that he was gonna be nude in it.

[Adam Friedland]

Oh, really?

[Nick Wright]

And you had to get it.

[Adam Friedland]

It's like, you know, Burt Reynolds. He. He posed in Playgirl, and he thought it was because girls were reading it. And then he found out afterwards that you believe it? Gay guys. Gay guys. And then he got pissed off. He's like, what the hell? No, I don't believe it. Of course not.

[Nick Wright]

Dude.

[Adam Friedland]

This has been a pleasure.

[Nick Wright]

Thank you.

[Host/Announcer]

Wait, I should wa.

[Adam Friedland]

Sam.