What's Wright - BEST OF: Stephen A. FIRES BACK at LeBron James, wild Patrick Mahomes story, why SGA is NBA MVP

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

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🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Nick Wright reacts to Stephen A. Smith firing back at LeBron James following their confrontation at Knicks-Lakers. Later, Nick reflects on his 2017 pre-draft interview with Patrick Mahomes when Mahomes perfectly predicted his future. What has been most impressive about his run with the Chiefs? Next, Nick breaks down why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander deserves the NBA MVP over Nikola Jokic. #Volume #Herd

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0:00.0	Stephen A. Smith has been going around talking about his confrontation with LeBron James,
0:09.1	talked about it on his show.
0:10.8	It went and talked about it with Gilbert Arenas.
0:13.3	And he said, I thought it was weak.
0:16.2	I thought it was some BS.
0:18.8	Yeah.
0:19.4	What's your-
0:19.9	about LeBron coming up to him? And then also he went on Sean Hannity's show last night. Yeah. About LeBron coming up to him.
0:21.8	And then also he went on Sean Hannity show last night.
0:24.6	Yes.
0:26.0	And this got brought up in despite all the awful things Hannity has said about
0:32.7	LeBron over the years.
0:34.6	So I have a lot of takes on this and I was going to leave this beat.
0:41.6	But the Gilbert Arena show appearance was, to me, it has to be responded to.
0:54.5	And there's so many different tentacles to this.
0:58.2	So I will first, first I want to make this point.
1:06.2	We in the media have to be willing to occasionally taken out.
1:17.0	Everyone does, but particularly us.
1:20.4	We in the media have to be willing to at times be like, that was a miss.
1:28.5	I was wrong.
1:31.0	I didn't handle that perfectly.
1:34.3	And we in the media also have to recognize and acknowledge that no matter how big or prominent or wealthy or successful, any of us ever
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