Welcome in. What's right with Nick Wright? The rare emergency pod. We might do more of these come NBA playoffs as the home setup allows for a little more flexibility here.

And Lakers 113, Nix 109, as the Lakers right now flatly look like not a contender, but the contender.

I understand that Charles Barkley tried to minimize, and we'll get more on Chuck in a bit,

what the Lakers have done to a good two weeks.

It's getting close to a good two months.

From the midway point of January to right now March 7th. This has been

the best team in basketball. And last night's game against the Knicks was not even close

to their best game during this stretch, which is what made it so impressive. Said on TV yesterday that this felt like a game that the whole world was going to be

betting the Lakers.

They were oddly only three and a half point favorites.

Everyone had caught up with the fact that the Knicks were 0 and 8 going into this game

against the top two seeds in the east, Boston, Cleveland, and the top two seeds in the West, the Lakers in the Thunder, and there was real questions about whether or not the Knicks could beat good teams.

Carl Anthony Towns coming off, missing the game for personal reasons.

The Lakers flying high, getting Austin Reeves back.

It felt like the whole world would be betting the Lakers.

And I said, ah, feels like a game the Lakers can lose, especially with the Boston game

coming up on Saturday and through three quarters, it looked like a game the Lakers were

going to lose. And then in the fourth quarter, yes game the Lakers were going to lose.

And then in the fourth quarter, yes, the Lakers hit some shots, but then only scored 23 points.

The story of the game and LeBron said it afterwards was going in, down 13, late in the third, down eight going into the fourth.

The Lakers held the Knicks to 15 fourth quarter points.

And that was before Jalen Brunson, story on the Knicks side is Jalen Brunson suffered a bad ankle injury in overtime.

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