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Nick Wright (0:03)

Welcome in What's Wright? with Nick Wright episode 517

This episode of What's Wright? with Nick Wright is presented to you by Boost Mobile after a very busy weekend in the Wright household. As October is our busy month, as I have a birthday, my daughter, youngest daughter has a birthday, my wife has a birthday and the anniversary of her store, Trentage, and every couple of years, we have a big party that goes along with that. This year, we had about nine people staying at our house, the last of which left this morning.

Ladies, I loved you. You're always welcome, but it is a little relief to have the home back to normal. Damonza, great to see you. However, now October just rolls into November in the busy season, our families, as your baby is about to turn one, so I need to book some plane tickets here in the next few days. And the other thing that's changing this year, first of all, how are you? You look great.

Damonza (1:07)

I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Rough weekend. I feel like there was a crime committed on Sunday, but doing fine.

SPEAKER_3 (1:15)

Would your teaser get robbed on you?

Damonza (1:17)

The Browns are on top of the division somehow right now.

SPEAKER_3 (1:21)

Oh, okay.

Nick Wright (1:22)

So, yeah, so I thought it was a teaser-related crime, but instead, it was, yeah, it was the Browns. Well, we'll get to the Ravens game. There's a lot we need to get to.

No, but what I was going to say is actually the other thing is the NBA starts tonight, which we'll get to in a moment and straight to voicemail. But the reason it's noteworthy is, as I am now a Philadelphia 76er season ticket holder, and while I only own half the season, split it with my buddy Nehar, I realized I'm like, wait, Thursday and Saturday, I'm going to Philadelphia. Thursday, I'm actually leaving the TV show early. I told, I said it on the air once, and I think everyone thought I was joking, but it's LeBron's home opener, and the game tips at seven, and the last Acela that I can catch is 5 p.m. So I'm leaving the show during the show, so.

Damonza (2:22)

Who does Philly have Thursday?

Nick Wright (2:24)

Say it again?

Damonza (2:25)

Does Philly have Knicks? Who do they have Thursday?

Nick Wright (2:27)

No, they have the Knicks tonight, and then Thursday, they are home for the Cavs. And so it is, yeah, so all of that, it's all good. None of that is bad, and there is some other basketball that I want to discuss briefly in a moment. First, though, let's get straight to voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. We have a World Series. It is the Rays and the Brewers, the two best teams in baseball all year long. I understand it's not the biggest market. It should be great baseball. I personally will be rooting for the Brewers because they were my pick, because a buddy of mine is a diehard, and because I know the Rays also have never won a World Series, but the Brewers have been around quite a bit longer than the Rays. The Brewers haven't been there since 1982

I'll be rooting for the Brewers. The NBA tips off tonight, which we're not doing an NBA preview here because we would be doing it basically, not haphazardly, but we wouldn't be giving. I'm not going to spend three hours doing an NBA preview. There are great pods out there that are doing exactly that. We are still locked into football mode, and so we're just not doing one. The WNBA finals are tied at one game apiece. I do, however, before we get to the massive Jalen Hurts news, want to spend 60 seconds here updating a story from a year and a half ago. When I sat right here and said that if Angel Reese was going to be, have her status as a player, stay at the level of her status as a celebrity, she needed to get better because her celebrity was getting larger and larger and larger and you saw her and more and more non-basketball, you know, things like a real celebrity endorser can be. And it felt like her game had stagnated, if not dipped.

Well, this year, that changed considerably. This year, she was the defensive player of the year in the league. And I will hold the same standard for the WNBA that I hold for the NBA, which is I weigh playoff performances and finals performances far greater than regular season performances. And in round one of the WNBA playoffs, Angel Reese averaged 14 and 10 in a sweep. Now, again, it's best of three, so the sweeps are quite fast, but still a sweep all the same. And in round two of the WNBA playoffs, Angel Reese upped that 14 and 10 to 20 and 8 in another sweep. And then in her first ever WNBA finals, first game, and again, this is while being the defensive player of the year, she had 14 and 12 as the Atlanta Dream suffered their first loss of these playoffs. And then last night, Angel Reese had, by any metric, the single greatest game of her WNBA career, as she went 30 and 16, as the Dream got a victory over the favored Valkyries and stole home court and maybe took control of the series.