Nick Wright's Latest Rhetorical Trick

After an entire season of Nick Wright telling anyone who would listen that not only would the Warriors lose to the Cavs in the finals (often adding "if they get there"), but that signing Kevin Durant was a mistake. The Warriors gentleman's sweep of the Cavs and KD earning Finals MVP honors proved Wright wrong on both counts.

Since then he's bounced around a few shows in damage control mode spitting out the same line over and over and over again:

"I was wrong about the Warriors, and I gotta own that..."

While this may SOUND like a sports talking head accepting defeat, it's really not. It's a conversation ender. Wright never explains why he was wrong, or what he thought he saw that wasn't actually there, or what specifically the Cavs or LeBron did wrong or the Warriors and KD did right, he just says "I gotta own it..." and moves on to talking about LeBron. He never actually acknowledges why he was wrong, and when you partner that with the fact that he's openly admitted he doesn't like the Warriors, that leaves only two possibilities: his bias clouded his judgement and he doesn't want to admit it, or his bias clouded his judgement and he doesn't know that's why he was wrong.

I view sports "journalists" as belonging to one of two possible categories:

1. Actual people with a deep knowledge of a sport or sports in general who can give me, as a casual fan, interesting analysis or insight into a form of entertainment I enjoy.

2. Characters with loyalty only to controversy. This category is where your Skip Baylesses and Stephen A. Smiths reside.

I think Nick Wright was already deeply entrenched in the second category, but an ever increasing number of people (many who are vocal on a certain other subreddit), seem to think that's not the case. I hope this rhetorical trick of his doesn't actually fool anyone into thinking he's anything other than a character with zero credibility on any sports related issue.

His political takes are alright tho.