The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - LeBron James Injury Reaction: Lakers star exits vs. Celtics, impact on Luka & LA

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

Nick Wright reacts to the Boston Celtics' 111-101 win over LeBron James, Luka Doncic, and the Los Angeles Lakers. Nick breaks down the impact of LeBron's injury as well as Jayson Tatum's superstar per...formance in Boston's big win. Later, Nick shares his thoughts on LeBron confronting Stephen A. Smith regarding Bronny James. #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:09 Welcome in, What's Right with Nick Wright, another emergency pod following a really important Laker game. This one did not go the Lakers way and the loss might be the least of their worries. Celtics 11, Lakers 101. This might be the shortest pod we've ever done, but I wanted to do something here because I'm about to get on a plane
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Starting point is 00:02:49 So very busy next 36 hours for me. But LeBron James, Tweaks is groin. I'm going to call it Tweaks's groin because Sean, just reported one to two weeks is what they're looking at. So here's what we want to do on today's show very quickly. The game last night, the impact of LeBron's injury, and then we haven't talked to you since LeBron confronted. I think that's a fair word.
Starting point is 00:03:15 Stephen A at the previous Laker game against the Knicks. And I do think that that, I guess we have talked to you since then. We haven't talked to you since that video came out. I do think that is worth a few minutes because I might have some details on that that have not been publicly shared that I think I'm within my rights to share. So I will share those. But first, the game. We'll get to LeBron just a minute because I want to give credit words too. Tatum was phenomenal.
Starting point is 00:03:44 Tatum, even if you don't watch the game, you look at the box score, 40, 12, and 8 playing big minutes, 45 minutes, barely resting. he was outstanding. And as good as Jalen Brown was, and Jalen Brown hit a huge three late when the game had been cut to four. He finished with 31 and 6. I actually thought the most impressive Celtic other than Tatum was Al Horford.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Horford, who kept getting put out on an island with Luke Adonchich, and Horford held his own as well as any guy, his age, any 38-year-old not named LeBron James, could have been asked to do, Horford did it. Missoula after the game gave him a ton of credit
Starting point is 00:04:28 and he deserved a ton of credit. I mean, Luca, so I'll get to Luke in a second. But the Tatum was great. The Celtics, here's the thing if you're a Celtics fan. The Celtics were awesome. It's the best version of the Celtics.
Starting point is 00:04:45 You saw it last night. I think you'll see that again on Wednesday. Wednesday, the Celtics play the Thunder. I think they're, they will be amped for that game. After that, you look at their schedule, you might not see a fully locked in, fully motivated Celtics team
Starting point is 00:05:03 until round two of the playoffs. You might, after Saturday night, and then this coming Wednesday, let me put it like this, if the Celtics don't play well Wednesday, and I think they will, Saturday might be the last time you see them play great for two months, because they're not going to have to.
Starting point is 00:05:22 after Oklahoma City, the schedule is Miami, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Utah, Portland, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix, San Antonio, Memphis, Miami, Phoenix, Washington, New York, Orlando, Charlotte, maybe that New York game late in the year, but I also could see the Celtics, you know, kind of holding some things back in that game because that's probably going to be the round two matchup, but the Celtics showed you yesterday, particularly in that third quarter, is that championship gear, they still have it. And not that many of us doubted they had it, but this is why a lot of us, hand up, myself included,
Starting point is 00:06:00 have considered the Celtics, not the Cavs, the real favorites in the East all year long. So the Celtics deserve massive credit. They got the victory by dominating the Lakers in the third quarter. There was a moment I thought the Lakers might be able to steal it, a really soft, I thought, foul on a three-pointer on Derek White when it was down to four is what allowed the Celtics to kind of never have the Lakers have the ball with a chance to cut up to one possession after that great third quarter. So Celtics win. They're seven back of the one and seven up on the three.
Starting point is 00:06:36 So they are just locked into the three line. Now to the Lakers side. Listen, LeBron got hurt. And his demeanor after the game tells me he doesn't think this is a month long injury. And the Shams report that they're going to give it a couple of days to calm down and then they're going to reevaluate in one to two weeks tells me he hopefully would be back by the end of the month. So they have a road trip. The Lakers have a tough schedule.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Well, they have a tough schedule the rest of the way. I think it's the third toughest schedule the rest of the way. Now, I am obviously, you know, maybe biased on this because I am going to Memphis 20 days from now to three weeks from today, I guess is another way to put it, to see Grizzlies Lakers. I obviously would hope LeBron would be back by then. It wouldn't shock me if they have him come back. after that for the homestand but one to two weeks means maybe he's back way earlier than that I don't think this is anything like a death knell for the Lakers and I even think there is a slight bright side that I'll get to in a moment what it does mean however
Starting point is 00:08:04 is their ability to hold on to the two seed which they lost last night is very tenuous and their chances of falling from the three line are certainly in play. Now, I don't think they can fall further than the four or five right now, so everyone knows the standings. Denver's 41 and 22. The Lakers are 40 and 22. The Grizzlies are 39 and 24 and the rockets are 39 and 25. You then get to the Warriors who have 28 losses. So you don't have to worry about them falling to the but not a big margin of error, even Memphis has not been playing well lately, so that neither is the Rockets really,
Starting point is 00:08:47 so that helps them out. But the schedule's not easy. At Brooklyn should be able to handle that game, then at Milwaukee, at Denver, and then Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver at home, Milwaukee at home, and then it softens up a bit.
Starting point is 00:09:05 So these next couple weeks, where they should be without LeBron James, going to be in a tough spot. Now, where they deserve credit is the first half last night, and then even when they were trying to make the fourth quarter comeback, they're without their two tallest rotation players in Rui and Jackson Hayes. So you just had everyone kind of playing out a position. And it felt to me like despite that,
Starting point is 00:09:35 they mostly held their own defensively. It was the Celtics defense and the Lakers' offense not being able to get it going. That was the difference in the game. And that's where the Celtics deserve a lot of credit in, listen, Luca still got 34, but Luke only had three assists. And Luca, now some of that was just guys missing shots, but they did a good job of making sure Luca couldn't just be the preeminent creator for the Lakers. and it's why the Lakers often struggled.
Starting point is 00:10:08 There are some Laker fans who I'm noticing are already like, man, Luca seems to be laboring. Luca doesn't, is he injured? As someone who has watched, you know, as much Luca notched since he came to the league as anyone alive, really. Let me tell you, Luca appearing to be banged up is just Luca. He's always kind of limping.
Starting point is 00:10:34 limping, he's always kind of laboring, he's always got that kind of sour, ah, look on his face. It's just who he is. And it's not something anyone really should be too shocked by. Okay. So I wouldn't read too much into that. I would just say that is, that is what it is, so to speak. That that is, Luca is very rarely 100% healthy. So here is the potential bright side to LeBron missing a little bit of time. We still haven't gotten the full Lukadanchich experience. And I still think there is a level of, even though Luca has had the ball in his hand a ton the last few games, 22 shots against the Celtics, 23 against the Knicks,
Starting point is 00:11:37 22 against the Clippers a week before. It still feels like there's a little bit. The only game it really felt to me like, oh, that's the Luke I'm used to, was the New Orleans game, where he had 38 and 15. And the 15 assists is the number I'm really looking at. And maybe with LeBron out,
Starting point is 00:12:02 you're going to get a little taste of a little more of that. And then when LeBron comes back, that you're going to get more Luca as the clear cut number one, LeBron as the best number two imaginable. One other thing on Luca, then I want to get back to LeBron. Yokic had a 30-20-20 game. And folks are wondering if that's going to win him the NBA. award. That would really, listen, this, I felt this way about the NFL MVP this year,
Starting point is 00:12:41 and I'm glad the voters got it right and gave it to Josh. Two years ago, Josh Allen had far better stats than Lamar, but Lamar's team won, and Lamar's team had the better record. Lamar's team was the one seed, and we said Lamar's the MVP, okay? Last year, Luca had the best stats in basketball by a lot. He was 34, 9, and 10 for this season. And as far as the oh my God wow moments, had a 60-2010 game last and a 73-10 game. And at no point was the argument that I heard
Starting point is 00:13:30 was the 60-2010 game the year before last? I'm not sure. I'll have to look. But regardless, the 73-point game was definitely last season. But the argument was his team hasn't won enough and it's Joker's award, which I was totally fine with. The MVP this year, based on the precedent that we have, probably needs to be shed. In fact, almost definitely needs to be shed. I do want to talk the LeBron stuff before we get to the confrontation on Friday night.
Starting point is 00:14:06 I will be really bummed because he's going to be healthy by the playoffs. I'll be really bummed if he doesn't get to play seven more games this year. So this assuredly knocks LeBron out of, he wasn't, listen, I was just talking MVP. MVP is going to go Shay one, Joker one, Shay two, or maybe Joker won Shay two. That's how it should be. That's what it's going to be. But LeBron was making a case for some really fourth or fifth place votes. He also has been making a really interesting first-team all-N-B-A case.
Starting point is 00:14:46 And first-team-all-N-B-A, four spots are just locked. Shea, Joker, Janice, Tatum. And then that fifth spot I thought was going to come down between Donovan and LeBron. LeBron now being out, sitting at 58 games. The first team all NBA stuff's probably done. And the real question is, is he going to get to the 65 game threshold? Given the latest update on how long they expect him out,
Starting point is 00:15:24 he should be back with plenty of time to get to the 65 games. but just as a basketball historian and obviously a LeBron guy, it would be a huge bummer if he finishes just shy of the 65 game threshold and is not eligible for what will now be a second team all NBA because there is some real poetry to year two age 20, LeBron being second team all NBA, and then year 22, age 40, LeBron being second team all NBA. But he's out now for, I'm going to go ahead and make a guess.
Starting point is 00:16:11 I'm going to say LeBron James is going to return to the lineup. Today is the ninth. I'm going to say LeBron James is going to return to the lineup at Chicago Thursday, March 27th. Again, that's based on absolutely nothing except the reading the tea leaves. So that would have him missing, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Denver, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Orlando, Indiana. and that would have him returning missing 10 games and then returning with 10 games left.
Starting point is 00:17:04 That's what I... So I think that if we set the over under there, I think that is a good... Anything longer than that, I would be a little concerned, anything quicker than that you take as a bonus. A little quick insight into what... the background of the LeBron and Stephen A thing was,
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Starting point is 00:23:29 Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay. So a couple quick things about the LeBron Stephen A moment. One is, just generally speaking, and this gets to where my frustration about how LeBron has been covered forever.
Starting point is 00:24:12 The killer instinct, people aren't afraid of him. he's not this guy, he's not that guy. So much of that just has to be, has to do with how he's been covered rather than the reality. Because what happened on Thursday night was in a game it looked like the Lakers were going to lose. In between the third and fourth quarter, LeBron James saw the world's most famous, sports media member who he thinks has been unfair to him and his family, more on that in a second, walked over to him, checked him, and then against that guy's favorite team ever, walked them down, hit the three in the corner to cut it from four to one directly in front
Starting point is 00:25:14 of that person and then won in overtime hitting all the clutch free throws. If that were Michael or Kobe, it would be part of their legend. It would be in their documentaries. Oh, and then this time
Starting point is 00:25:31 walked over to them in a game they looked like they were going to lose against that guy's favorite team and then won the game. And so that's just, I thought that was I think most of us when we saw it assumed that happened after the game
Starting point is 00:25:49 and I was even a little confused because I was watched that game and that game LeBron went right to the locker room after the game and then also when you saw it it looked like something was going on on the court so I remember when the video first came out being like was that during a live action essentially
Starting point is 00:26:09 but I didn't put it all together and then we got the real details. It was between third and fourth quarter. Now, because I think a lot of people have been really dishonest and unfair about acting like, oh, LeBron's son's in the league and now he doesn't want anyone, even though he's an NBA player, to criticize him. That's not what this was. This was a number of different things.
Starting point is 00:26:44 The first one is this. I do think as far as criticism of Brony James, I do think it is, listen, Bronny James as a basketball player, is totally fair, a fair target. Where I think there might be some frustration is,
Starting point is 00:27:09 have you heard, and I'm going to mispronounce some of these names, any of these names, in any media whatsoever except for maybe the most in the weeds dedicated local team podcasts
Starting point is 00:27:28 Baylor Shireman Jonathan Magbo, Kyle Philipowski, Tyler Smith, Tyler Colick Johnny Furphy, Juan Nunez, Bobby Clintman, A.J. Mitchell, J. Mitchell, J. Wells, Osso Igaro, Adam Bona, KJ Simpson, Nikola Durecic, Pell Larson, Jamal Sheed,
Starting point is 00:27:53 Cam Christie, Antonio Reeves, Harrison Ingram, Tristan Newton, Enrique Freeman, Melvin Ajinka, Quentin Post, I've been hearing some Quentin Post, he's been playing well for the Warriors. Cam Spencer, Anton Watson, Kevin McCuller Jr., Ulrich, Comche, Ariel Huckport. the only guy I've heard mentioned all year. Now the first couple names I mentioned, Philipowski obviously was a great college player and Shireman was a really good college player. All year, maybe a little Jamal Sheed.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Those are all the second round picks. So it's not as if on these shows we talk a lot about second round picks. So you might be like, well, yeah, but Brani, is getting more opportunity, getting more run. He, you know, he's playing in more NBA games than most second round picks. Well, let's check. Brony James, the 55th pick of the draft.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Here is where he ranks amongst rookies this year in the following categories. Again, I've did this once for it. I'll do it again. The 55th pick, you would hope. So round 55th in everything. in minutes played in the NBA. Bronny James, the 55th pick is 56th. In games played, Bronny James, the 55th pick is 51st.
Starting point is 00:29:29 In assists, Bronny James, the 55th pick is 53rd. In steals, Bronny James, the 55th pick is 48th. In points, Brony James, the 55th pick, is 56th. So in other words, playing exactly to his draft status. Yeah, well, those are garbage time minutes.
Starting point is 00:29:55 What does that really mean? What's you doing in the G League? 21, 5, and 5. In the G League regular season, 34 minutes per game on 45, 39 splits. So I think some of the frustration is, The Lakers took in the first round last year, Jalen Hood Schafino, who is, let me check his G-League stats, who is no longer on the Lakers. They didn't even, what draft?
Starting point is 00:30:36 Yeah, the last year's draft. He got waived or moved. I don't even remember. And he is. This year, I don't know, not the tip-off tournament, regular season in the G-League. Sorry, this is taking me a moment. Last year in the G-League, the Lakers first round pick. Again, Brony this year in the G-League, 21, 5-and-5.
Starting point is 00:31:06 Last year in the G-League, their first-round pick. Their first-round pick. What number was he overall? I think 17. It was pre-20. I know because there was a really good player taken right after him. Yeah, he was 17. Yeah, Pods, who everybody in the Warriors loves went 19.
Starting point is 00:31:27 So, Brian, he's year, 21, 5 and 5 is the 55th pick for the Lakers G League team. Jalen Hood, Schaffino, 22, 5 and 5 as the 17th pick. So it does feel like, well, we don't really talk about these guys and then this. But that's not what this was about. this actually wasn't about brawny and this is the part that i think just should be level set it was about
Starting point is 00:31:56 it kind well two things one the commentary when and i said before i'll say it again i really like stephen a but this is i'm just trying to so i'm not even making as much of a value judgment about this i'm just trying to kind of set the record straight when stephen a did the
Starting point is 00:32:18 I'm pleading with you as a father to end this. That really, really bothered LeBron. And that was why, by the way, LeBron's people called Stephen A, and then Stephen A made fun of them for it. And so then LeBron handled it himself, which felt to me totally reasonable. And so I didn't really get when Stephen A is like,
Starting point is 00:32:48 you have my number, all this stuff. Like, Stephen A always says, I'm at the games, I'm around, come talk to me. That's what he did. But the whole, when you're talking to a guy who had no relationship with his father whatsoever, and then basically telling that guy in LeBron be a better father, that is going to really, really ruffle some feathers. Then when you add to it the fact that we've all kind of memory hold, the fact that Brani
Starting point is 00:33:21 suffered cardiac arrest and almost died less than a year and a half ago when you have that added kind of anxiety as a parent which any parent any parent that's ever had any health scare with any of their kids and for the vast those parents out there listening
Starting point is 00:33:40 who've lost a child I can't imagine but for the majority of us we've never had a health scare like that but we've almost all had something we're super nervous. You can't imagine what it'd be like you get the phone call, your kids getting CPR. So you're all, you're certainly going to be on added edge. And then the other piece is this. Does it feel like there is been, and this is where the leave my son out of it part, I guess is about Brony? Does it feel like there has been, is it surprising when you hear Brani in the NBA is playing
Starting point is 00:34:22 exactly to the level of the 55th pick supposed to. When you hear in the G league, he is producing exactly to the level the Lakers' first round pick 17th overall did last year. Does it feel like that's what's been when they've decided to talk about him in the media, that that's been the topic or
Starting point is 00:34:44 that that's been the context, pardon me, or does it feel more like it's been this is a make a wish story. This is a guy who has no business being there and is way out of his depth. And that's the part. Now listen, some of this is just part of being, you know,
Starting point is 00:35:05 I guess the good side of being bronze kid is you get drafted when maybe you wouldn't have. The bad side is even if you, you know, show play up to that level that you earned it, or that you're earning it, you're going to get scrutinized. but as Stephen A said, that was a parent confronting a guy about his kid, and I didn't think it was out of line,
Starting point is 00:35:26 and I actually think the fact that he did that, and then walked down the Knicks, who happened to be Stephen A's team right in front of him, it's pretty dope. Sadly, LeBron's now hurt. So, Lakers, I would say, let's just say he's out the next 10. They should beat Brooklyn, Phoenix, San Antonio, Chicago, Orlando
Starting point is 00:35:54 without him. And then if at Milwaukee, at Denver, home for Denver, home for Milwaukee, can you go one in three? I guess I'm putting it like this. Six and four in the next 10 without Braun would be good.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Five and five, eh, anything worse, big problem. and seven and three are better is outstanding. Luca can do it, especially if Rui and Jackson Hayes are back. Luca can do it, but it's on Luca now. Luckily, you know, at any given night, he's the second best player in the league. All right, I'm headed to Vegas.
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Starting point is 00:37:11 And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called. Hey, Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We get to ask other people to do podcasts.
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Starting point is 00:37:43 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 a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, Embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth.
Starting point is 00:38:32 Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline.
Starting point is 00:38:55 And we're going straight to the source the athletes themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions in the moment and the stuff nobody gets to hear. Listen to SportsSlice on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more,
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