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Chapter 1: Why should fans stop complaining about the Dodgers' payroll?
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Chapter 2: What predictions does Colin Cowherd make for the NBA Playoffs?
Luka would obviously be on that list if he was back. May get back at the end of the first series. Probably not. And what happens is when you don't have stars, you start reaching. McHale Bridges, they gave up five first rounders, gave them like 140, 150 million, four or five year deal. That's like a superstar deal at the time. That's a star contract. McHale Bridges is a really good player.
He's not a great player. Had a so-so year. So I think a lot of this is, You sort of convince yourself if you cover or you watch or you consume teams in New York outside of Aaron Judge and Juan Soto when he's healthy, there's not a lot of stars in the city. And what the players are telling you in the athletic poll is Jalen Brunson is not a first-year star.
He should be the second-best player on your team. I agree. Small, not hyper-athletic. Defensive liability. I love Villanova guys. I love his kind of smarts. You know, for his size, one of the great small finishers we've had along with Kyrie Irving in a long time. But here's Chris Broussard yesterday on the Knicks, a good team with a very, very good best player. His thoughts on their postseason.
We've looked at this as a disappointing season for the Knicks because I guess with the injuries, you know, Detroit kind of came out of nowhere. Boston, we knew Tatum was out. We expected the Knicks to kind of run away and lead the East, which they haven't done. And I have to say this. I have them as the third team in the East behind Boston and Detroit.
And what's interesting for the Knicks and a little concerning is the Pistons are younger and they're only going to be better next year. The Pacers get Halliburton back. The Celtics will have Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown for the entire year. And I still think Orlando and Cleveland have a ton of talent.
So I think it's interesting when you get a player's poll, we say it often on this show, you can't fool the players. You can talk all you want. And what the players are telling you, go look at the top teams. The top team's SGA, then Wemby, then Brown and Tatum, then Jokic, then Cade Cunningham. Okay, that's who the players see. I can never quite figure out Minnesota.
They're going to play Denver again in the playoffs. That's like an annual tradition. I like Denver in that spot. J-Mac, I know that hurts a little as a Knicks fan, but I think we've said this before. The reason we called the Warriors one of the best teams ever wasn't just because of Steph and KD. KD was your best player, most talented. Steph was second best.
Draymond is arguably third or fourth best, and Klay Thompson, who was closer to his prime, was third or fourth best. I always felt about Derek White of the Celtics. When Derek White's your fourth best player, that's a championship team. If he's your third best player, you can win a playoff series. If Brunson's your best player...
You're not a finals team, in my opinion, even in the beat-up East this year. Interesting.
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Chapter 3: How does Nick Wright analyze the Lakers' playoff chances?
They don't really understand. They want to get their friends, their buddies. I think they're way off on this. I think the players are way off on that. On my podcast last night, I said the Knicks are coming out of the East and going to the NBA Finals. I firmly believe that. I think they take down the Celtics.
They can't defend the three, and the Celtics live on the three. And also, they're a finesse team, and the Pistons are a physical team. So actually, if you watch the Knicks against OKC or Detroit, it's a bad matchup. They get pushed around. Now, Boston is inconsistent. Boston has bad shooting nights and bad halves. That's why the Knicks last year actually had some success against them.
So we're getting close to the playoffs. Nick Wright joining us. I'll give you my five playoff predictions in the NBA and Nick Wright top of the hour.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of payroll disparity in Major League Baseball?
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Chapter 5: Why are the Mets struggling despite high payroll?
I don't think they're going to lose the series, but I don't think they have the firepower or the backcourt strength to win a second series. Where are we on KD's legacy?
Well, listen, if they lose this series, they being Houston, it's a catastrophe. Yes. I mean, listen, I know people can say I'm biased. I think, and I think he's shown it over the last couple weeks since he had to assume this alpha role again. Yeah. I think LeBron is the best player in the series. The problem is the next five best players are on the Rockets.
And so this would be a catastrophic loss for the Rockets, for Ime Udoka, and for Durant. And I do, I really like Durant. I think he is, you know, I don't have to do the list right now, but about the 16th greatest player of all time. He is one of the greatest natural scorers, one of the two or three in the history of the league. But this is he was brought there to be the final piece.
Now Van Vliet gets hurt and then Steven Adams has surgery. So that lowered their ceiling. But they were the two seed last year. And granted, they did lose in round one. So winning the first round would be a step further. But I feel like most people were expecting them to lose in round one until the Lakers got decimated by injury.
He really needs this Houston stop to work because Brooklyn ended so poorly. Phoenix was a disaster from the beginning, and it does feel like Houston's season. They steadied themselves at the end, but went awry with his texting scandal, if you will, talking trash on teammates.
And as the veteran leader on the team and the guy that a bunch of his teammates looked up emulating, that's just brutal for a team's ability to go through the playoff cauldron of it all. And can I add an extra little take on this?
It's also why, because the Lakers are so injured and the Rockets are so shaky, it's why I found the Spurs punting that final game of the year against Denver and allowing Denver into their side of the bracket, one of the most... outrageous decisions of the NBA season.
The Spurs, all they had to do was beat the Denver backups, play Wimby 20 minutes, let him get 30 points like he did on Friday night, and you put the Nuggets with the thunder on the opposite side of the bracket, and you are smooth sailing to the conference finals. Instead, you lose to the backup Nuggets because you sit Wimby and Cornette, and now I agree with you.
I think that Spurs-Nuggets series could be the series of the playoffs, and I lean Nuggets in that. I saw them play a few weeks ago at full strength, and Joker won. I just thought that was so bizarre, such a bizarre decision by the Spurs.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Colin provide about the Knicks' playoff potential?
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You know, you're known as somebody who's always had LeBron's back, and I did say that sometimes you need clarity, and that Oklahoma City loss, and LeBron only takes like seven shots, and Luka and Austin Hurt, you're like, yeah, we're a long way away. We're not like a player away. Let's just say the Lakers, they get swept. It's possible. Let's say they get swept.
Like the OKC game, it's just an ugly series. I do think when you have new ownership, Those things matter. You know, Jeannie Buss, LeBron has been so impactful since he arrived in town. AD was never quite consistently as good as we thought. LeBron was arguably better than Lucas first year. Like, at some point, Jeannie Buss felt like, you know, this guy's been incredibly hardworking, dependable.
These new owners don't care. What if it's a sweep? And the Lakers, LeBron gives you a couple good games, but he can't. He doesn't have the armory here. What do you think happens and how long before we hear LeBron's not coming back?
So, you know, I think it's really interesting because I would have liked, and I think it's a shame we're not going to be able to see what this team was going to look like in the playoffs. You might be right that the OKC game was a window, that they were a second-round ceiling team anyway.
I happen to think they would have had a real shot against San Antonio in the semifinals, but then whoever they played in the conference finals, whether it was in that scenario, OKC or Denver, was potentially going to be problematic. I... So here's what I find the most interesting about LeBron's future. LeBron took on that Swiss Army knife third option role out of necessity.
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Chapter 7: How do injuries affect the Lakers' playoff performance?
Jalen Brown and Tatum are both excellent players. But the fact that one of them can be gone, the other is a MVP discussion, and they're still the best team, it doesn't tell me that Tatum's great. It tells me this is a much like we give so much credit to Mahomes. It's Brett Veach. It's Andy Reid. It's Spags. I mean, when he doesn't have protection, Mahomes can get blown out in the Super Bowl.
They literally, Tatum is the icing. The cake there is the culture. That's the Celtics star. They lost four of their nine guys in the rotation. They're still excellent.
So I understand what you're saying. Here is the distinction I would draw, and then I'm going to throw something at you on Tatum. I think what you saw this year was the roster that Brad Stevens puts together, the intensity and strategy that Missoula brings to the table gives Boston about as high of a floor as any team in the league. I agree with that. But they had, in my opinion, a 0% chance.
I don't care what their record was. A 0% chance to actually win the championship before Jason Tatum came back. Jalen Brown was having a great year. They were a great story. There was no shot that team was going to win four straight rounds and win a championship if Jason Tatum doesn't have, arguably, the fastest and thus far most successful quick turnaround Achilles recovery ever. And he did it.
knowing he was opening himself up to massive criticism. A guy who was the best player on their team for years but didn't win finals MVP. And then the team is rolling and Jalen Brown's having the best year of his career. Tatum came back knowing, I'm not at 100%. Jalen will be the number one option.
And if things go sideways, I think some fans, I think they'd be foolish, but some fans would be like, man. Yeah. Things sure were rolling well before Jason came back. All that. He did it anyway because I think he knew and the team knew this is our only chance to win a championship. And if Boston does end up in the finals, as you are predicting,
then if you're in the finals, you can win the championship. If they do, then I think you've got to consider reframing some of the Tatum analysis. You might be right that he doesn't have the je ne sais quoi of an Anthony Edwards. You know what I mean? You're calling it aura, the star power.
But neither did Tim Duncan, and I'm not calling him Tim Duncan, but a guy who has been a consistent winner consistently, consistently available, suffered one major injury, came back faster than any of us expected. If he is the final piece that puts the team over the top to potentially win a second ring, that's something else.
Okay, here's my pushback. If Brown would have been hurt and Tatum would have been their only MVP level star, they would have had zero chance to win a championship. Is that they're much closer. They're different personalities. Brown's more aggressive. Tatum's more skilled. They're both high IQ, EQ players. They're totally committed professional athletes. They're great.
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Chapter 8: What does Colin Cowherd think about the future of LeBron James?
It's an interesting... Luke is still at zero. It's an interesting race to see who's going to be the first to two. Because I don't know that anyone from this generation is going to get to four or five because it's so much harder to win multiple rings. Yeah, it's hard to make trades. And it wouldn't be...
It would be interesting if these guys beat Joker or Shea or obviously Giannis, who's out of the mix now, as the first team with the second championship of this mini post-Warriors era.
Good stuff. Nick Wright, first things first after us. It went a little long, but that's okay. It was all good stuff, buddy. Good seeing you.
Great to see you. Can't wait for your next five bold predictions. Oh, my goodness gracious. See you, Kyle.
That's why I didn't put bold in the headline. They were just predictions.
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