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What's Wright - Nick Wright Mailbag: World Cup predictions, Nick plays the VIRAL 82-0 NBA game
10 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are Nick Wright's predictions for the 2026 World Cup?
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Chapter 2: How does Nick evaluate Team USA's chances in the World Cup?
Group F, Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia. Again, Netherlands, huge favorites and they should be. Group G, Belgium, Egypt, Iran, and New Zealand. Again, Belgium, a huge favorite. Egypt and Iran, you would expect to be fighting for second place in that group. Group H, Spain, I think the biggest favorite of any individual team in any group. Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, and Cabo Verde.
This is in line maybe with Canada's group as far as the easiest group if you remove Spain. Uruguay... is fine but not not great saudi arabia is drawing close to dead and cabo verde is drawing dead i would think group i may be the toughest group norway france senegal and iraq iraq It's got no shot, but France is the number one team in the world. Senegal is the number 14 team in the world.
Norway is weird because they're right outside the top 30, but some people think Holland is the best player in the world. Group J, Argentina, Austria, Algeria, and Jordan. Argentina, obviously the huge favorite. Group K, Portugal, Colombia, Congo, and Uzbekistan. Portugal, obviously a significant favorite, but Colombia, I think Colombia could win that.
And then Group L, England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama, another brutally difficult group. Ghana, historically one of the best African nations. Croatia, back-to-back semifinals in this tournament. And England, nothing but heartbreak at the World Cup the last 60 years, but one of the best teams in the world. So that's the group piece of it.
As far as where I think it makes sense to potentially put money on a winner... I said I'm picking Brazil. Brazil's 7-1 on hard rock bet. It doesn't seem like anybody has a lot of faith in Brazil other than me. And part of that is it's just I always have rooted for Brazil since I was a little kid. They are the team that reminds me the most of soccer. I want them to be good.
They had dominated this tournament until the last four times it was held, in which case they have had pretty disastrous and embarrassing finishes. And the one year they got deep, made the semifinals, when they were hosting, they lost 7-1 to Germany. Smart money is probably on France. And if you're looking for a long shot,
I think there is something to be said for what if this becomes Erling Haaland's tournament and Norway at 25-1 goes on a run. It would be the biggest upset in the history of the tournament if they won it. Again, this is not a tournament where underdogs win. However, Croatia...
been a huge dog each of the last two world cups and in one they made the final and one they made the semi-final so maybe it's changing a little bit i don't think the united states if you want to bet them 50 to 1 you know to root for him fine
The United States winning two knockout round games and making it to the quarterfinals for just the second time in history would be a massive, massive success. So there is our World Cup preview. Thanks to our friends at Hard Rock Bet. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet Florida Sportsbook. The NBA finals are here.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Nick provide about Luka Doncic vs. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?
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One spot behind Bill Walton and one spot ahead of Anthony Davis. The point guards that I had ahead of Nash... when I did that list were Westbrook, which you could argue. Iverson's on a point guard. Walt Frazier, again, point guard, shooting guard. Jason Kidd, John Stockton, Chris Paul, and then the legendary guys. I think that's fair to Nash.
And, listen, he won two MVPs, never made a finals, defensive liability, doesn't have quite the eye-popping numbers you would think. Like, he's a point guard, and he's an unbelievable passer, and five years led the league in assists, but also never once averaged 20 points a game. You know, had, I think, probably... does his career all over again.
He shoots way more threes, and I think he's a little more effective. So if you think that's low esteem, I understand. I think it's fair, but of course I think it's fair. It's where I have him right. All right. So the 82-0 game, if people didn't see it take the internet by storm yesterday, let me explain it to you. But before I do that, let me remind you guys about my friends at Boost Mobile.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the 2020s all-decade team discussion?
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