What's Wright - Best of NBA: Nico Harrison FIRED, LeBron James RETURNS to Lakers, Wemby's MONSTER start | Nick Wright

Welcome to the Best of the Week for What’s Right with Nick Wright. Fast hits, big swings, and the sharpest moments—let’s get into it.

So what just happened in Dallas, and what does it mean? Nico Harrison is on the verge of being fired after a pride-fueled decision nuked a team built around a generational star and flipped the timeline overnight.

How far do the ripples go? Dallas should consider a full teardown to claw back picks and see what they can get for big names like Kyrie, because the bet they made is gone and the asset drawer is thin.

Want a quick snapshot? They’re three and eight with a bottom-tier offense and a top-three defense, the opposite of what you’d want without a heliocentric scorer.

And the draft math is nasty; for example, OKC can swap in 2028 and San Antonio in 2030, which means control of future firsts is severely limited.

Bottom line, the fan base got burned by ego, and even if the culprit’s out, the damage sticks. I genuinely feel for Mavs fans.

Is Victor Wembanyama already the best player in the league? It’s suddenly a real conversation because his defense erases shots you never see, and his offense is catching up fast.

He barely took threes, looked stronger, tightened the handle, and still detonated the game while scaring drivers off the floor. Think elite rim anchor plus top-end scoring—the Olajuwon mix that can make you the guy.

If he lives in the mid twenties with this defense, he might be that dude right now. Anthony Davis is one of the few built to bother him and even he looked overwhelmed.

He’s must-watch, and the Spurs deserve real respect. His MVP price jumped from around plus twelve hundred to near the top, but I wouldn’t chase a short number right after a surge.

I had two early worries: the Durant-lite shot diet and the giant’s injury risk. He’s already fixing the style, and the health piece is holding for now.

Why do people keep getting LeBron wrong? Two decades of hot-take culture turned him into a magnet for goofy, self-refuting narratives.

The latest was he might mess up the Lakers’ flow, which is wild when the most adaptable star ever can slot in as scorer, initiator, cutter, or screener on demand. He took very few shots, kept the double-digit streak, and played late-stage Magic perfectly.

That streak story sums him up: he once hit a three on a bad ankle just to keep it alive, then sat for months. At forty in year twenty-three, nobody’s done this, and he can still flirt with top-ten status.

His longevity records will look untouchable to future fans given today’s missed games. Maybe OKC has everyone playing for second this year, but his role-flex is still a cheat code.

On Bill Simmons’s sliding-doors pick about the 2016 Draymond suspension, the hinge is real, but the conspiracy isn’t. In real time almost no one thought the league was trying to hand Cleveland the title; at most, people assumed they wanted a longer series.

And the results cut through spin: LeBron dropped forty-one in Game Five without Draymond and forty-one again in Game Six with Draymond, both double-digit wins. Calling it ref-made is pure revisionist history.

We’re a decade removed from that run and he’s still doing it at a high level. It’s rare stuff—like getting Brady for twenty years—just unreal.