Nick Wright TELLS TRUTH on LeBron James x Nikola Jokic agent boat meeting | Lakers | Nuggets

Nick Wright TELLS TRUTH on LeBron James x Nikola Jokic agent boat meeting | Lakers | Nuggets

Yogic Jokic’s agent was posted with Maverick Carter and your your guy LeBron James on a boat in France. The photo caption was the summer of 2025 is the perfect time to make big plans for the fall of 2026. Very specific. You said there’s a zero 0% chance that he goes over to Denver. Um why is that? Why can that not happen? Okay, because it’s not going to happen. So, here is well, I’ll explain what’s up with the caption, but this is one of those I am going to need the audience to just trust me that when I I rarely say I know this for a fact, but when I say it, it’s not speculation and it means I have about something like this information that is not publicly accessible, so to speak. I’m not like reading someone else’s report. I know for a fact that the idea that LeBron next off season is going to sign with the Denver Nuggets is pure and utter fantasy. Now, if you want to say it would be awesome, sure. If you want to say he should, no problem. If you want to say it’d be fun, why not? All those things, I’m here to tell you. And by the way, as me, someone who obviously would like to see LeBron win it, you know, every year he has left, win a championship, I wouldn’t hate it at all. I’m simply telling you it’s not going to happen. So, and I’m here to tell you that caption was not about LeBron. And this is where it is. So that so all everything I have said there is are things I know unequivocally definitively. I know that LeBron will not be a Denver Nugget next year. I know that that caption was not about LeBron James specifically. I know those things. What I say from this point moving forward is call it informed speculation but not something I can say unequivocally I know. So what was it all about? And the answer to that is Maverick Carter, who at times gets, I think, unintentionally like dismissed as, you know, Maverick Carter, LeBron’s best friend, or Maverick Carter, LeBron’s business manager. Those are accurate titles, but it far underells who Maverick Carter is at this point in the sports world and really the business world. And so now listen, again, I try to my job’s never not to be unbiased. My job is simply to, you know, make sure the audience knows my biases. It is absolutely fair and the audience should know I consider Mav a dear friend. I can separate that from what I’m talking about here, but you guys should know that in if you didn’t already. Um, and of everyone I know there’s a lot of like internet speculation about my relationships with LeBron and the people, you know, in LeBron’s orbit and Rich and Randy uh, Mav specifically unequivoc and even though I do a little business kind of with Rich, the the person in that circle that I am far and away the tightest with is Math. Um, and so you guys can have that information. Uh, but it does not impact what I’m about to tell you here. What I’m about to tell you here is, um, Mav has established himself as a legitimate force in the business world. If you were to I don’t know that he has a LinkedIn, but if you were to check the board of directors that he’s on, the long list of them, the people that he has real relationships with outside of inside and outside of sports and what he has built himself uh professionally. The reason I say all of that is to say he is not [ __ ] around with this league. He is attempting to build this F1 style traveling eventbased basketball league. And so when you see Nicola Joic’s agent, who is also the agent of another dozen or so NBA players and maybe more importantly more than a hundred European basketball players. Talk about the summer of 2025 is great a great time to make plans for the fall of 2026. That is not about LeBron and Joker playing together. That is, and again, this is my speculation. This is not something I know. Uh, but this is my read. That is about the league Maverick is trying to put together. And the full details on that league are at this point a little hazy. Would that league be trying to directly compete with the NBA? I would my guess would be no. But again, I don’t I I want to be very careful on this stuff because I think people will assume on certain on certain things people assume I know way less than I do, which is always fine. I don’t that doesn’t bother me. But where it can get tricky is if people assume I know way more than I do and they read more into my speculation as reportage, which this part is not. Um, but that was about trying to set up what would be a very interesting new way to present professional basketball. And now, and this is the blindest of all the speculation, um, I couldn’t help but look at, and poor Daniel, our producer, who’s a diehard Denver Nugget fan, who maybe started this pod with the hopes that LeBron and Joker were going to one day play together for the Nuggets. And now I’m going to end the Daniel wants him to I don’t know. Daniel wants him on the Nuggets. Well, I I Daniel, you can put it in the chat. I don’t think Daniel wants him on the Nuggets. Well, see, you know, another season where they don’t make round three, maybe you’d feel a little differently. Um, and so, uh, but regardless, here’s who I here’s what I do know. Daniel definitely wants Joker on the Nuggets. And yeah, you know, did I watch Joker overcome with emotion watching his horse win that race and think about, you know what, I bet Joker would really enjoy a job where he’s not in Denver 8 months a year. And if if there were a way for him to one day continue to make huge money playing professional basketball while having a lighter schedule and having more and not necessarily being stationed and anchored to the Midwest of the United States for more than half the year, could that be attractive? to him maybe. And so I think I’m very curious to see exactly what Mav tries to build. And I’m very curious as so many of the best players in the NBA start to skew international for how many of those international guys at some point in their career or for a year of their career or at the tail end of their career they might be like yeah that that is more attractive to me than the current setup. I don’t know cuz I don’t know exactly what the setup of Mavs thing is going to be, but it’s real and it’s coming down the tracks. Um, all right. You want to the You can ask me those couple follow-ups to Monontz. Um, yeah. So, I mean, they were on the boat and they were catching fish. You were on the boat this weekend. Don’t worry. Hold on. Don’t worry about the fish one. You can ask me about uh ask me the first couple. Why I mean, why can’t LeBron go to Denver? So he can. So this is the thing I want to make clear. He could. He’s not going to. Like there there is the if the Lakers and Nuggets were to have in 20 this year, similar years they had last year, both make the playoffs, you know, both get knocked out relatively early. Uh, and the Nuggets, even though I like the offseason they had this year, you know, they don’t have a ton of flexibility as far as salary cap space and all that stuff, they they would of course he could go there. It’s just not going to happen. And a reminder to everyone that when everyone was criticizing LeBron for opting into the contract that he had signed with the Lakers, when they were saying, “Oh, you know, he could have opted out and signed with anyone for the minimum.” And I said, had he done that, he would have been immediately across the board criticized for some fraudulent ring chasing, stacking the deck. You got to see a little sneak preview of that for a few hours this weekend when people thought that’s what that caption was about. And the immediate reaction was that would be a fake ring. That wouldn’t count. Even Daniel wrote in our doc, he can come ring chase if he wants. Like, got it. Like, so we all we all knew that that would be coming, but we got to see that in very real time here. Um, all right. One more before we move on. Is it a crime to be emotional emotionally invested in your hobbies? I mean, he cried after this horse run the race. He was like, “We get to go home now after we won the finals or after the finals.” No, it’s Listen, it’s not a crime. This is what I would comp it to. And I don’t think this is that outrageous at all. And I’m I’ll just com even though you know this is going to sound I am not comparing myself to Nico Yic, but I’m using myself as an example. If you work your entire life for something, you obviously love it. If you work your entire life for something and you get great at it as you obviously have a passion for it. But if you work your entire life for something and it is the focus of your life after you know 10, 15, 20, 30 years of doing it, a new challenge can all of a sudden be more exciting even without knocking at all. You know what your main thing is and what has been the pursuit of your life. So that’s how I view I don’t view Joke like some of the jokes of like Joker just plays basketball to pay the bills. This is his true love. I I don’t feel that way at all, but I do feel that this is something not new cuz he’s always been into horses, but an exciting new challenge and something that he hasn’t yet mastered. So, the reason I said I would compare it to myself is I you would like if I were to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet, you would see a level of like emotion and gratification from me that I don’t think you could ever see from any like broadcast accomplishment. And that’s not because like you love like you love your hobby more than you love your main thing. It’s because it just activates a different like dopamine and different part of your brain. So that’s what I see with Joker. But I do think he has a true passion for his horses. I think he truly really loves loves his horses. And I think there’s there’s an extra thing when your hobby involves a living creature. You know what I mean? Like where you feel like you have real relationships. I know that sounds weird, but the anybody that’s ever had, you know, I’ve never really feeling animals, too. I think they’re very personable creatures. So Oh, I would imagine. And I was just going to compare it to like if you’re hunting is kind of a bad example here cuz I’m talking about the sacredness of animals, but I was going to say like having a hunting dog, you know what I mean? Like a dog that you that you and gets the job done. Correct. Um I I feel like there’s some of this maybe with you with your snakes, but snakes are so different animals because not very personable creatures. They’re not personable and you can’t really like read their emotion the way you can so many mammals. Like they can’t like like with with dogs and with horses sometimes you feel like you can like read the look in their eye and you know they certainly can like rest their head on your shoulder and stuff. They don’t really do that to everybody. Yeah. Right. And so I totally I’m not mocking Joker at all. I think it’s really cool. But I also do think that when there is something you really really love that you literally can’t be a part of at all for the majority of a year every year because your job takes you halfway around the world. That does certainly play into the math on how long you plan to do that job. I do feel that way. And so that’s to me that’s the end of the Mav Joker’s agent LeBron Instagram caption, which is just a great July topic.

Nick Wright theorizes what went down between LeBron James, Maverick Carter, and Nikola Jokic’s agent in France over the weekend. Is it possible that we see LeBron leaving the Los Angeles Lakers to join the Denver Nuggets?

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