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What's Wright? with Nick Wright

What's Wright - Grizzlies-Warriors prediction & NBA Play-In, Lakers-Wolves + NBA awards

What's Wright? with Nick Wright

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Sports News, Basketball, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Nick Wright dives into all of the NBA Play-In matchups, including a pivotal showdown between Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors and Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies. Next, Nick turns his attention to LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and the Los Angeles Lakers' first round matchup with Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves. Will LA survive a dangerous Minnesota team? Then, Nick predicts what is next for Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns after another disappointing year as well as how far Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets will advance after firing Mike Malone. Later, Nick reveals who he thinks deserves the MVP, DPOY and all the other awards in the NBA. Finally, as always, Nick and Damonza answer your questions.

0:00 - Intro/Missed the Cut

2:55 - Rory McIlroy wins The Masters

13:23 - Play-In predictions

29:29 - Lakers-Timberwolves deep dive

43:54 - Round 1 playoff matchups

51:22 - Suns fire Budenholzer

57:52 - Nick’s NBA awards ballot

1:10:39 - F1 Minute

1:13:42 - Lil Wayne shouts out Nick

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0:00.0

What's up, everyone? It's Greg Rosenthal, and I'm teaming up with the King of Spring.

0:05.2

Daniel Jeremiah, he requires me to say that. We're going to be bringing you 40s and free agents,

0:09.6

the only podcast you'll need this NFL draft season. From DJ's mock drafts to my top 101

0:14.7

free agents, we'll have it covered for you with all new episodes every Thursday, keeping you

0:19.6

up to date as we head to the NFL draft.

0:22.4

Listen to 40s and free agents on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.3

Welcome in. What's Right with Nick Wright episode 319. Huge show, huge day, fresh off the Masters, NBA playoffs starting, and fresh potentially with a new what big day for what's right, maybe a new partnership.

0:46.3

And today, if not today, certainly this week, we're going to 200,000 subscribers on YouTube.

0:53.1

So shout out to everyone works on the show. Shout out to DeManzai, myself, everybody, Blue Duck, volume, all the folks. And shout out to my friends at Seat Geek. More on them later in the show. But I had a big meeting a few weeks ago. And they're like, hey, who are some brands you actually use? Like things you actually

1:11.5

use. I'm like, well, you already took care of the sports betting with my draft Kings. That's a

1:16.4

check. And I was like, Peloton every day, five days a week during the NBA playoffs, but that's

1:23.2

fine. Five to seven days a week. I said that. Cars, I said, Mercedes, still looking at them. Sharpies.

1:30.9

Sharpie, I've been trying to get you guys for 10 years. I'm your number. They're probably like we don't need to pay to endorse it.

1:36.6

He advertises us more than anyone ever. And Seat Geek, because I had just, when they had talked to me I had just bought those court side

1:45.6

tickets to Lakers Grizzlies hadn't gone yet on seat geek I bought my theater stuff on seat

1:50.8

geek and guess what seat geek's now a part of the what's right team and so more on them in a bit

1:56.4

but appreciate them as always DeManzay how are? I know you've been a little under the weather.

2:01.9

I'm pretty good. Good to see Pop's doing a lot better these days, but we're on the...

2:05.2

Okay, good. You sound good. You sound better than I thought. Your mom talked to you this weekend.

2:12.6

She was like, De Manzee sick. He's coughing and all this stuff. I was like Tuesday's big show.

2:35.1

Because, listen, we can't do and I understand Warriors Clippers happened. We have Lakers Thunder or Lakers Timberwolves. My NBA awards ballot is today. We are preemptively bumping our NFC over unders instead of during the, as we've done three straight shows before the show.

2:39.6

We're now doing that Thursday because Wednesday night, we're not going to need to talk Thursday.

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