The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What’s Wright - Best Of - LeBron James' MONSTER NIGHT, Luka & Lakers RED HOT + Dolphins-Broncos TRADE reaction | Nick Wright

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet.   Nick Wright reacts to LeBron James' high-flying 30-point performance in the Los Angeles Lakers' 124-116 win over Kevin Durant's Houston Rockets. Nick breaks down why there are no longer words to describe what LeBron is doing and discusses just how dangerous James, Luka Doncic, and LA are in the Western Conference with the NBA Playoffs looming. Later, Nick reacts to the Miami Dolphins trading star WR Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos. Did Denver pay too much? #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right with Nick Wright. The best takes and moments from this week on the show. Enjoy. So earlier this week, JJ said the best thing for the team is LeBron being the third highest used player. And then he went out, scored 30 on 13 to 14 shooting. And now the Lakers have that tiebreaker with the Rockets alone in the three seat. So a bunch here.

one is LeBron went 13 of 13. Did you see his one missed shot? It was like a blocker, like an early steel kind of. I mean, he jumped, got hit by three guys, lost the ball out of bounds. I thought he got fouled. If it wasn't a foul, it was a turnover. Instead, they called it a missed shot. But it was also the second straight game against the Rockets

when LeBron is dunking like it's 20-10. I mean, one of these alley-ups that he caught three feet behind his head, just bananas. He's different. As far, I mean, he's the oldest player in the, his next game, DeMonsay, he ties Robert Parrish for the most games, regular season games in NFL, in NFL, in NBA history. Which is honestly kind of surprising to me that he's. That he doesn't have it already? Yeah, exactly. Well, he has the most combined regular season and playoff games.

He's had that for a while. He has the most playoff games ever, the most combined regular season and playoff games ever. But Robert Parrish, who was obviously way before your time, DeMonte, he played 21 years. And until his final. year, which was 97 when he played 43 games, his first 20 years, De Manze, the fewest games he played in the season was 74. So he went 20 years of somewhere from 74 to 82 games, and then his final year he played 43. I mean, he played on, he's one of the only guys in league history to play older than LeBron.

he played until he was 43 years old, which is just unbelievable. It seems like he's happy for LeBron. Yeah, and he said he would go to the game. So I have a bunch to say here. And we'll get to the Lakers piece of it in a segment. I want to talk about LeBron for a second. And the biggest story with the Lakers is actually not LeBron.

It's Luca. But I was out of town when LeBron past Kareem for most baskets in NBA history. They didn't even stop the game for a second. Like they didn't even acknowledge it. You're laughing at me. But like, it's the most baskets. We're playing basketball.

The themes kind of like, might be like, oh, okay, just for a second here. Let's just stop, give him the basket. He doesn't have to do a whole ceremony. But as I remind folks, we had... Was that in L.A.? Or was that... I don't even remember.

I don't know. I just know what happened. But we had a nationwide countdown ticker when Steph Curry was about to get the most three-point baskets. LeBron breaks the record for just baskets. And they're just like, all right, ball in. Keep it going. It's not stopping the game for Bronn, man. And he is about to break the record for most games.

And I don't know if anybody, I think 10% of the audience knows that. I mean, if Robert Parrish pulls up to the game, then they probably, I mean, I imagine they'd stop it. Well, that is a weird one. When do you stop it? Does as soon as the ball's tip stop? Yeah, that's what sets the record. Like, that's a, that is a weird one. maybe you do something pre-game in the ceremony.

Yeah, exactly. But LeBron, we are numb to things like we saw last night. This was the, last night was the, hold on, when the LeBron dunk on Jason Terry. Hold on. Was either 13 years ago or 15 years ago. I just got to, sorry. Okay, 13. So the LeBron famous Jason Terry dunk was the reason I bring that up.

That was 13 years ago yesterday to the day. So at that moment, LeBron was in year 11. He was in, or year 10, pardon me. He was 10 years into his career and has that, historic, not historic, but memorable dunk on Jason Terry. 13 years later, he is putting on a dunk show in a critical game late in the season against Kevin Durant, the Rockets, who they just beat on the road, and we're like, okay, yeah, I mean, it was a really good LeBron game, but a belt sounds right. It's just, he is, he is,

You know he leads the NBA in fast break points. He is still, he's simultaneously the oldest player in the league, days from becoming. You got a cherry pick a little bit when you get older. Well, sure, but it's not a ton of cherry picking. It's a lot of full steam ahead. He's simultaneously the oldest player in the league and still the biggest open court threatened basketball since Janus is having a tough season. It's just, it's impossible to put into words.

And this is what I was saying the other day. To get to your point about, um, about third highest usage, him being the third option, big scoring nights from LeBron being a bonus instead of a prerequisite. was it for the Lakers winning makes them really scary. Is it, like if they win the finals this year, is it still like

Sionara LeBron to Cleveland, like at the end of the year? Like, how do you? Oh, if they win the title? If they won the title, yeah. Oh, if they won the title, no, I think that change, well, I don't know. I think that probably changes things. Um, but maybe not. Maybe it would just be like, it's perfect. I was just supposed to say considering like the time of his career, like if you are going to go back to Cleveland. But so there is, right, the Lakers have, and we're going to, I'm going to disregard the rundown a bit.

I apologize. We're going to stay here and then we'll probably do some Luca MVP stuff. But the, the Lakers right now. are in a real groove that is sustainable. Now, does it mean they're guaranteed to even make it out of round one? Not guaranteed. West is hard. Does it mean they'll be favored in round two?

No, they're not favored. They're going to be significant underdogs in round two. But it does mean that it's no longer farcical to discuss them as a conference finals team. And the, if the five-man group of, well, really, the four-man group of Luca, of Luka, Austin, Braun, and Marcus Smart, plus either Rui or Aiton, those two lineups legitimately work. And did you see DeAndre Aiton's quote the other day? I'm not going to be yesterday. Kind of having had an epiphany.

Yeah, where he's like, I've got to lock in. I was the guy who wasn't locked in and now I'm locked in. Good for him. And hopefully you can stay that way. And so again, people are going to roll their eyes and get annoyed with me. I don't care. I believe it and I know I'm right. This is where the things like people talk about justifiably, the tax of having

the greatest player of all time when he's no longer even the best player on his own team how it can screw with certain parts of the team Luca deferring to him late like what you know who has what role those things and that is a real thing

okay that is a real tax of having the goat in year 23 on your team the flip side of that tax is is when you have the goat in year 23 on your team, and he is going all out, full horizontal Dennis Rodman dive for a loose ball, I think it resonates with DeAndre Aiton.

Like shit, man. Braun's not playing in the exact role he wants to play. He doesn't want to be standing in the corner. You know what I mean, watching Luke and Austin. Cook and he's and LeBron James is doing that I can I can try to thrive

in my role I really believe that they also started Capella like the few days ago when they uh when they played the rockets I don't think they usually start them who the the Rockets the Lakers played the rockets and the other year the first game and they started Capella in that game yeah oh I didn't even notice

that oh that's the I was watching the at the beginning of that game I'm still watching the world baseball classic. Yeah, Shane Goon was also hurt, which played into that. Yeah. But, um, but, um, but good for a thing. I like that. The, no, and this is the, I, I, it's been like the one thing they're missing.

It's like a solid. And I have to, listen, I also, I've got to give JJ Redick credit, too. Like, the team is locked in more on defense. And it took. someone with a relationship with LeBron that JJ has, I think for LeBron to be cool with, this third option Swiss Army knife role. And it makes them a scary team, man. Now, the real reason they're scary right now, or the reason they're scariest is Luca.

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you updated your MVP letter. How does your top five look now? Well, and I did this before the Cade news. So as of this moment, here's what it would be, but it looks like Cade, unfortunately, is going to fall out of eligibility. Right now, the end. MVP of the league is Shea.

And it would, if Shea hits the 65 game mark, which I think he's seven games away from, he's going to be league MVP. And I want to be clear. I'm totally fine with that. What are you laughing about? Tell me. Nothing. No, no, no.

I, I don't really like the guy. Like, I don't like dislike him personally, but his basket, like, I'm cool off of that. You're not a fan of his style. I want to let you know. I haven't checked in on you on this in a while. Are you, are you bothered by mean comments on the internet?

Am I bothered by them? No, like if you get flooded with mentions, like will it mess with you up your day? Oh, no, no, I've seen like people have come to me a couple times.

I've seen it. Okay, well, you say that you have underestimated the venom and the vitre of OKC basketball fans. I think it's because it's the only

pro sports team there and they're very, very protective. So I just want everybody to know at Demonsse Bird, Bird with a Y. And so listen,

Shea, they have the best record in basketball. He scores 20 literally. every night, but average is 30. And I don't think anyone else on his team this year, any other individual guy, has been exception.

Yeah. J-dub has been injured a bunch. Chet is great defensively, but is, you know, and is very, chat's a very good player, but hasn't like ascended the way people maybe thought he would. Now, let me make it clear. They have an unbelievable roster. They have the best evens of basketball. Shit. They held the nets.

to 24 points in the first half yesterday. 24 in a half. That was 60 to 24 and half. So I'm not acting like he doesn't have an awesome team, but best record in the league, 30 plus points, efficient, good defensively. That's a deserving back-to-back MVP, okay? After Shea, at this point, if we are being fair,

it is either Luca or Wembe. Joker has fallen. Joker is four, and I would have Cade 5. But again, Cade's probably not going to be eligible. And the Luca, everyone knows the Wimby MVP case, and it's a great case. He's the best defensive player in the league. He's a very good offensive player. They have the second best record in the West and the second best record in all of basketball.

It's a great case. And if you want to say Wimby, is two, so be it. The case for Luca, though, has been understated all year. Luca is averaging one of the 10 most points per game this season of anyone this century. Post Jordan, this is a top 10 scoring season. Kobe had a season where he scored more, Harden had a season or two where he scored more

and shit That might be the list like hold on I'm gonna and Luke obviously does more than just score But I'm going to You know what I'm gonna check this real quick I should have done this before But 33 points per game Here are here is the full list

Of seasons this century or I'll just do post Jordan where someone scored more than Luca this year Embed by a tenth of a point

three years ago and then oh Luca himself two years ago Harden as I mentioned six years ago Kobe in 06

Harden in 19 and that's your list. So this post-Jordan, the only people to average more points per game in a season than Luca's averaging right now is Embed twice and Kobe one time. When you add to that, that he's giving you eight rebounds, eight and a half assists, the Lakers are the three seed, he's shooting 48 from the floor and 37 from three they're gonna win 50 games and he has these moment these games like last night where he just rips people's throats out like the the behind his back through traffic lob to uh aton followed by splitting another double team lob to brawn followed by the reverse pivot step back three, followed by the absolute dagger, double step back three to end the game.

He's just unbelievable. And all year, most of the conversation was about what's wrong with him. About why he might not win a title ever. Not forget this year, ever. And he. he is just a legendary offensive player who as of late has cleaned up the defense a bit and I mean on this winning streak de Manzay let me go to it so they've won seven in a row including games against really good teams

and here is Lucas stat lines on the winning streak 44 9 and 5 35, 8, and 4. 31, 11, and 11. 51, 10, and 9. 30, 11, and 13. 36, 6, and 4. And then last night, 49, and 10. They have beaten on this winning streak.

The Knicks, the Wolves, the Nuggets, the Rockets, the Rockets, the Rockets, plus Pacers Bulls. Yeah. He has a legitimate, and again, two weeks ago, I think people thought he wasn't even first team all NBA. And here is what I will say about Luca's attitude. Because last night, he was mother effing the fans. Yeah. Luca is at his greatest when he is turning the vitriol and I think deep personal and intense hatred he has for the officials to the fans and other players.

When he pivots it from I'm being persecuted to I'm going to make you cry and just. does like what he did to Devin Booker in that series against the Sons? No, because he's in a bad headspace when he's arguing with the refs. It's like, I don't, some players, you know, it's cool when they're angry, but I don't think it works for him. When he's into it with the refs, he's not having a good game. I agree with you. And I'll say something else that I really think has helped him being one tech away from a suspension.

Yeah. real that'll probably do it knows he doesn't like he's at 15 um now i honestly think just so it kind of reset the clock a bit it would have been kind of smart if with like 30 seconds left last night he would have walked up to a ref and just been like f you you eff and f to get because he's going to sit tonight no matter what i think he's going to sit either on a back to back in Miami. They got there at 5 in the morning. Just be like, you know what? I'm not going to play. So just, I'll just take my suspension here. But that's, you know, 5D chess I'm wanting him to play. Has anybody ever got their tech for screaming at the fans?

Screaming at the fans, you know, I think, I feel like that happened recently. And somebody talked about it. Hold on. Technical for screaming at fans, NBA. Oh, was Luca. No, no, no. It was, remember, hold on, remember last year against OKC at the very end of the regular season in the fourth quarter, Luca screamed at a fan and the ref thought he was screaming at him and threw him out. Oh, okay. They ejected him.

Like, that was the. Did it get resolved or he just stayed ejected? No, yeah, it's just. stayed ejected and it was like a tie game with six minutes left. I feel like that might have been Easter Sunday. For some reason, I was, I feel like I was at, let me see if that was Easter Sunday. Because I feel like I was at my mom's house when this happened. Easter Sunday last year.

When was Easter Sunday? Easter Sunday last year, no way to tell. April 20th. This looks like it happened April 8th. So I'm not even close to right. Well, yeah, look at Luka MVP. And he's, well, listen, I don't think he's going to win MVP, and I'm being fair right now. I wouldn't vote for him for MVP.

But he's got to be first team all NBA. He's got to be top three on your ballot. And Lakers Spurs Round 2. Here's the awesome thing about a potential Lakers Spurs Round 2 series from one. Wimby's perspective. Either way, it's an amazing opening-ish chapter in the story of Victor Wimbenyama's

playoff career. Either, and this is more about the LeBron piece than the Luca piece, but either in his first ever playoff run, he runs into 40-plus-year-old goat. and beats him, and it's a passing of the torch.

Or the first guy ever to beat him in a playoff series is maybe, like there is a non-zero chance that Wimby's first ever series defeat and LeBron's final series win are the same moment. Yeah. Like that, and there's a non-zero chance that LeBron's final playoff series defeat comes at the hands of Wembe. Either way, it's awesome. Like, either way, it's a really cool potential moment. And it looks like that's the round two we're going to get because, and this is the point I was trying to make on Twitter, but I'll just make again here quickly. it now would be stunning, DeMons A, if the Lakers don't get the three seed.

So they now have the tiebreaker with Minnesota, Houston, and Denver. They also are at 25 losses while Minnesota and Houston are at 27. Denver is at 28. They also have five games remaining against tankers. in Brooklyn, Utah, Indiana, Dallas, and what's the one other team I'm forgetting? Washington. So if they win those five games against tankers,

that puts them at 49 wins. They then, in their remaining eight games, which is Miami, tonight they're going to lose. Orlando, Detroit, with no Cade, Cleveland, OKC, OKC again, Golden State Phoenix. In those eight games, DeMonsei, if they just go two and six, they're at 51 wins. Again, two and six, which they should be able to do better, but say they just go two and six, they're at 51 wins, which would mean Minnesota has to go nine, nine, and what would that be nine and three the rest of the way and anthony adwarks is out a couple weeks

Houston would have to go 11 and three the rest of the way and Denver would have to go 10 and two the rest of the way it's just not happening and so yeah I mean you have to like their position in that regard boost mobile proving you don't have to overpay for great wireless unlock the savings with $25 a month forever unlimited plan. It's a permanent price with no contracts and no price hikes. You can keep your phone and your number, but you save up to $600 a year compared to the major carrier. Stop overpaying and switch to a fair price at boostmobile.com today.

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We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to a... We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special.

So how do we actually come up with the name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it, And, well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this.

We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy. Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an

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I picked Houston to get to the final four. I don't believe I picked them to win the championship. but Houston with Kelvin Sampson got all the way to the final against Florida, had the ball, chance to win it, didn't get a shot up kind of tragic loss. It's a different type of gut punch, but it reminded me of Virginia when as a one-seed, one of the favorites to win the tournament, became the first one-seed ever to lose to a 16. And then the very next year, they responded to that stomach punch by winning the championship.

I think Houston and Kelvin Samson finally break through. They're 9 to 1 to win it all. They have the huge bonus of, first of all, they, in my opinion, pretty clearly have the easiest one seed to deal within their region. It would be Florida. It would be a rematch in the title game. And they'll make the sweet 16.

Their sweet 16 and elite eight games are in Houston. So they would have home games to make the final four. Houston at 9 to 1 to win at all. And the other pick that I'm going to give out is, I think, the best all-around team in the country and certainly the healthiest of the... There's three big favorites, Arizona, Duke, and Michigan. Arizona's the healthiest. Arizona to win its region to make the final four at minus 155.

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Oh, yeah. My pals. This is $3 million? Yeah. My pals at Splash Sports, the college basketball tournament survivor contest. It's $3 million guaranteed. And it's $150 to enter. Now, contrary to what my friend Brent Hanks at Poker Go would tell you, I am not on the hook for the guarantee.

Splash Sports is. But still, the math on that is pretty simple to Monzae. If it's $150 to enter and they're guaranteeing $3 million to the winner, they need 20,000 entries. We are the Tuesday before the tournament, and we are, that's what I was just checking, sitting right now at 5,240 entries. So that means right now this moment, there is a, you know, call it $2.2 million overlay. There is right now, there is about $780,000 worth of entries, and there's going to be $3 million prize. So at this very moment, it's the single best value you could ever do with a survivor. contest.

And even, by the way, even if there's no overlay, it's still, it's $150 to you. Somebody's going to win $3 million. And if there's multiple winners, then they just chop it. Like if there's three winners, you know, they each get a million bucks, whatever it is. But it's a $3 million guarantee. I don't know if they're going to hit the guarantee, which is, it's weird. It's good for the user. the if you know if there's an overlay but it either way but if it gets but three million is just the

minimum so they get more than 20,000 entries and the price pool grows whatever it is to 150 bucks I'm gonna I will sponsor uh Daniel Paul and your entry so you three all can have an entry not can you Not to share, but like one each. One each, but it's going to be a group project, so to speak. Everyone's got, and everybody's got a piece of each other's. And the, you know, yeah, I mean, again, I did the survivor last year. It was a different, it was the Helm Youth's one, which last year was five grand. this year's 10 grand.

Oh, we have some breaking news. How about this? No, this is real breaking news. The Denver Broncos are trading for Jail and Waddle. Wow. Wow. Denver gets, by the way, shout out a Kib to leave. didn't he keep to leave say a couple days ago like denver was going to sign it or get a big receiver

so denver is getting jalen waddle and the dolphin's fourth round pick for the broncos first round pick third and fourth round pick so it's basically they're both they're swapping fourth round picks So the simple version of it is Miami is Miami is getting the 30th pick and the third round pick for Jalen Waddle. So Miami's getting a little less for Waddle than the chiefs got for

McDuffie. Denver's giving up the 30th pick and a third rounder and they're swapping fourths. And Denver now has a number one receiver and Miami is just ripping it down and starting fresh which is what they're supposed to do. I like that for Denver.

I like Jalen Warren. Now we've never we've never really seen Waddle as, you know, we saw him as a number one early in his career I think his first year before they got Tyreek

and he had a hundred 100 catches for 1,000 yards is really interesting. Because his rookie year, he had a, you know, he had a bunch of catches but was very low yards per catch. And then his second year, year with Tyreek, he had 30 fewer catches and 350 more yards. And his yards per catch went from 9.8 to 18.1. He's a really good player.

And he's still young. He's 27 years old. He's on a reasonable contract. Like, that fair is fair that's a good trade for Denver I like that and this is when you go for it right Bo Nix makes no money you brought back everyone you hadn't added anyone of note

so this is what you do so listen Denver trades the 30th pick of the draft and a third rounder for Jail and Waddle and they swapped forth so that's the simplest way to look at it I like that for Bo Nix And I like Miami just being like, we're going to try to go ahead and be the worst team in the league this year. You know who doesn't like that?

Start somewhere. Yeah, but you know what I just realized? Who doesn't like it? I keep forgetting they sign this guy. You know who doesn't like what Miami's doing? Malik Willis. Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting that they sign Malik Willis.

That's awful. I just, I look he's just forget him. That's crazy. tradeaway is number one. So they're going to run into next year with a wide receiving core of Jalen Tolbert, Tutu Atwell, and Malik

Washington. That's not great for Malik Willis. But at least he got paid and you'll see. And they're starting fresh. Cleaning up their books, taking their cat medicine. This year the cat medicine kind of they're going to be taking it next year as well if we're being totally honest

because Tua's deal is such a disaster. But, okay. So the dolphins, dolphins. So who is left on the dolphins? Like, I'm just... A. Chan and Darren Waller?

Devin A. Chan? Did they cut Darren Waller? I, no, I don't know. I think he, I don't think they had to cut them. I think he was on a one, you know, like a one-year deal. But, Bradley, I mean, they've got nobody left, man.

They got Bradley Chubb. No, they don't. Bradley Chub signed with the, Bradley Chubb signed with the bills. No, I mean, that's the, with respect, deserved respect to the New York Jets and the Tennessee Titans. Deserved respect. That's the worst team in football next year. Like that's

That's just going to be a really bad, bad team Who's the and who they Oh, is it Jeff Halfley is their coach now? Yeah, yeah, I mean, good luck Jeff. Yikes. They're a tough spot. Tough spot and the and the Broncos go out a real weapon. I like that for them.

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