Mahomes or Allen (Again???) and a Clippers-Heavy Mailbag With Nick Wright

Bill Simmons (0:00)

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Nick Wright is here. You see him with my buddy, Kevin Wilds. And first things first, every day on FS1, he's also the host of the What's Right podcast. Competing podcast, but not really, because we're all friends.

Nick Wright (3:03)

Wow, yeah. That's one, that is, it's also, you know, also not competing, because I think you have the most popular sports podcast in the world, so I don't, so I also don't consider you a competitor, but I appreciate you mentioning, I do with my son. There's room for everybody.

Bill Simmons (3:17)

Everybody has pods.

SPEAKER_3 (3:19)

Yeah, there's room for all of us.

Nick Wright (3:21)

Yeah, great to see you.

Bill Simmons (3:22)

You were supposed to come on during the summer to do a mail bag with me, and the timing never worked out. You got riled up a couple times. You got mad that I wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

Nick Wright (3:32)

I did. I sent you, so I preempted. So here's the thing, because you always talk about getting aggregated.

Bill Simmons (3:39)

Yeah.

Nick Wright (3:40)

And I don't, sometimes the aggregation, you know, is good in regard, like, it's almost free publicity, like some of the Clippers or whatever. It's like, oh, I didn't put that out there. And sometimes I say certain things that I'm like, we're not going to put this out because I don't want to be publicizing, you know, this shot I'm taking at someone. Yeah. But I anticipate someone will put it out on my behalf. And then I'm like, hey, I didn't publicize it. I just said it.

Bill Simmons (4:07)

Right. It's like a no look pass.

Nick Wright (4:09)

You're like, exactly like, oh, I mean, I said it, but I wasn't like boosting it, but I knew it would get boosted.

But I was worried that there was going to be like a headline, Nick Wright eviscerates Bill Simmons for the seatbelt thing. So I did a front run on it, which is I immediately clipped it and texted it to you. So you knew even if you never watched it, what I was saying was in good, my heart was in the right place. And that was before I knew you can't see anymore because you're contacts. This week.