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Nick Wright thinks the media is being hypocrites when it comes to Luka vs Wemby MVP debate 👀 “Him opening his MVP campaign by saying ‘my 3rd prong is there’s more to offense than scoring’ and everybody in the media being like ‘HE’S RIGHT YA KNOW! HAVE YOU HEARD...

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Nick Wright thinks it’s interesting the media isn’t criticizing Wemby for campaigning his MVP case when they usually always do when a player talks that way about himself: “Most in the media hate stuff like that… Typically a 22 year old who’s never won anything explaining to everyone how he’s the best player and not why his team is the best, but why he is the best. Typically the media scolds that. Not with this guy who since he’s came in the league has been telling us how the spurs play basketball the right way. The is characteristics of Wemby’s overwhelming arrogance that most of the media tends to scold in athletes but with the 22 year old french kid, everybody applauds it” (Via The Dan Le Batard Show)

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Nick Wright says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just had the shortest tenure of best player alive in the history of any sport: “Most people thought it was Joker going into this postseason, right? And then Joker losses and it’s kind of like up for grabs. And then Wemby has his bad moment with the elbow. Shai gets announced as MVP then it felt like the moment, like he was handed the trophy. All right, he’s the 2 time MVP the defending champs, their huge favorites. Shai congratulations you’re the best player alive. It might have been like 15 minutes, bro. And by the end of the first quarter it’s like, nope it’s the other guy.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)
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Nick Wright says Shai Gilgeous-Alexander just had the shortest tenure of best player alive in the history of any sport: “Most people thought it was Joker going into this postseason, right? And then Joker losses and it’s kind of like up for grabs. And then Wemby has his bad moment with the elbow. Shai gets announced as MVP then it felt like the moment, like he was handed the trophy. All right, he’s the 2 time MVP the defending champs, their huge favorites. Shai congratulations you’re the best player alive. It might have been like 15 minutes, bro. And by the end of the first quarter it’s like, nope it’s the other guy.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)

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Nick Wright says his criticism for Wemby was he didn’t want to anoint him, because the All-Time greats and true legends anoint themselves: “And that is what he did last night. He went into the building of the up to this point undefeated defending champs, watch their best guy win the award he wanted. And then said for these next 3 hours I’m going to make it absolutely unequivocally clear who the best goddamn basketball player walking the planet is, that’s what he did.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)
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Nick Wright says his criticism for Wemby was he didn’t want to anoint him, because the All-Time greats and true legends anoint themselves: “And that is what he did last night. He went into the building of the up to this point undefeated defending champs, watch their best guy win the award he wanted. And then said for these next 3 hours I’m going to make it absolutely unequivocally clear who the best goddamn basketball player walking the planet is, that’s what he did.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)

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.Chris Broussard sounds OFF on nick wright for putting Jalen Brunson over Wemby on King of the Hill 👑😅 “I get it, he had two back-to-back 12-point games. So what? He’s so good defensively that he can score 12 points and still have a phenomenal game.”
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Fred VanVleet isn’t a fan of Wemby campaigning for MVP: “This is my one thing I don’t like. Luka been averaging 40, 10, and 10 for the last 2-3 weeks and he’s been going down. Wemby gets up there in a press conference and says ‘I’m the MVP’ and he goes up?” (via Unguarded Pod, h/t NBA Courtside)
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Fred VanVleet isn’t a fan of Wemby campaigning for MVP: “This is my one thing I don’t like. Luka been averaging 40, 10, and 10 for the last 2-3 weeks and he’s been going down. Wemby gets up there in a press conference and says ‘I’m the MVP’ and he goes up?” (via Unguarded Pod, h/t NBA Courtside)

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Nick Wright says the media bashing Bam’s 83 points is a MASSIVE indictment on how people view sports: “I thought the general reaction to a player with that cool of a story, that likable, un controversial as Bam Adebayo, scoring 83 god dog points in a NBA game, instantly being a debate about its validity, is a massive indictment on how we consume, discuss, and enjoy sports… EVERYBODY SHUT UP! Somebody scored 83 points in a basketball game.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)
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Nick Wright says the media bashing Bam’s 83 points is a MASSIVE indictment on how people view sports: “I thought the general reaction to a player with that cool of a story, that likable, un controversial as Bam Adebayo, scoring 83 god dog points in a NBA game, instantly being a debate about its validity, is a massive indictment on how we consume, discuss, and enjoy sports… EVERYBODY SHUT UP! Somebody scored 83 points in a basketball game.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)

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Nick Wright makes the BEST case on why LeBron in Miami is the perfect fit: “The best option, and I really disagree with Simmons on this, is Miami. Miami is the only spot where if they make the finals, and be up against Joker, Wemby, SGA, Luka, he would not be being asked ‘hey man, you gotta match what that in his prime superstar is presenting.’ That would be Giannis’ job. As good as JB and Maxey are, it would fall on him. As good as Mitchell is, it would fall on him. In Miami that’d fall on Giannis. One of the 20 greatest players ever who has something to prove. Miami last year had the 13 offense and 13 defense. Adding Giannis and LeBron immediately gives them the opportunity to be a top 6 offense and defense… LeBron on this team with Wiggins, Mitchell, Adebayo, Giannis, be able to spend all of his energy on the offensive side of the ball.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)
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Nick Wright makes the BEST case on why LeBron in Miami is the perfect fit: “The best option, and I really disagree with Simmons on this, is Miami. Miami is the only spot where if they make the finals, and be up against Joker, Wemby, SGA, Luka, he would not be being asked ‘hey man, you gotta match what that in his prime superstar is presenting.’ That would be Giannis’ job. As good as JB and Maxey are, it would fall on him. As good as Mitchell is, it would fall on him. In Miami that’d fall on Giannis. One of the 20 greatest players ever who has something to prove. Miami last year had the 13 offense and 13 defense. Adding Giannis and LeBron immediately gives them the opportunity to be a top 6 offense and defense… LeBron on this team with Wiggins, Mitchell, Adebayo, Giannis, be able to spend all of his energy on the offensive side of the ball.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)

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Nick Wright says everything about Wemby feels tenuous and a little scary, it’s why he’s so special: “The flip side of the coin of we’ve never seen a guy be able to tip dunk his own missed three, we’ve never seen a guy be able to protect the paint while guarding the three point line. Is what goes along with having a body that size is just more times your going to say I’ve never seen it. Normally it’s amazing and then the other night it was, I’ve never seen a NBA player fall quite like that and this sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, I don’t know the actual math on this, but just visual because I’ve seen guys fall like that and I’ve seen guys fall like that and hit their face on the ground it felt to me because of the extra length of torso almost that by the time his head hit the ground it was just going a little bit faster it gained more velocity. And it wasn’t lost on me that the highlight of game one, the on where they showed Duncan and Robinson going like “ Oh my God” was when Wemby took the ball at half court did the spin move in the paint and then dunked. That was almost exact same thing he was trying to do on this play. And like when, it’s the size plus the style. He’s not just planting himself in the paint, like he’s out there moving. And it is the elephant in the room on any of the, how many MVPs? How many championships? It’s like, man. How nervous are you going to be every time this giant of a man falls.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)
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Nick Wright says everything about Wemby feels tenuous and a little scary, it’s why he’s so special: “The flip side of the coin of we’ve never seen a guy be able to tip dunk his own missed three, we’ve never seen a guy be able to protect the paint while guarding the three point line. Is what goes along with having a body that size is just more times your going to say I’ve never seen it. Normally it’s amazing and then the other night it was, I’ve never seen a NBA player fall quite like that and this sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, I don’t know the actual math on this, but just visual because I’ve seen guys fall like that and I’ve seen guys fall like that and hit their face on the ground it felt to me because of the extra length of torso almost that by the time his head hit the ground it was just going a little bit faster it gained more velocity. And it wasn’t lost on me that the highlight of game one, the on where they showed Duncan and Robinson going like “ Oh my God” was when Wemby took the ball at half court did the spin move in the paint and then dunked. That was almost exact same thing he was trying to do on this play. And like when, it’s the size plus the style. He’s not just planting himself in the paint, like he’s out there moving. And it is the elephant in the room on any of the, how many MVPs? How many championships? It’s like, man. How nervous are you going to be every time this giant of a man falls.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright)

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13,651 views • 4 months ago

Nick Wright says he thinks the Spurs should wake up this morning very nervous: “Because last night, Ant only played 25 minutes, Jaden was instantly in foul trouble and in foul trouble throughout. At some point you would imagine those Bones minutes are going to go to Ayo. And all of a sudden Minnesota despite the injuries will be back to being eight deep. And I think Chris Finch has some really interesting ideas on what to do on the Wemby problem.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright
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Nick Wright says he thinks the Spurs should wake up this morning very nervous: “Because last night, Ant only played 25 minutes, Jaden was instantly in foul trouble and in foul trouble throughout. At some point you would imagine those Bones minutes are going to go to Ayo. And all of a sudden Minnesota despite the injuries will be back to being eight deep. And I think Chris Finch has some really interesting ideas on what to do on the Wemby problem.” (Via What’s Wright? with Nick Wright

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