Nick Wright owns ‘worst NBA Finals prediction of all time’
Sports media has not covered itself in glory trying to predict the ongoing NBA playoffs. Already, nine talking heads at The Ringer have had their NBA Finals predictions completely upended by picking either the Boston Celtics or Denver Nuggets to advance out of the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively. Both teams faced unexpected early…
Credit: FS1 Sports media has not covered itself in glory trying to predict the ongoing NBA playoffs. Already, nine talking heads at The Ringer have had their NBA Finals predictions completely upended by picking either the Boston Celtics or Denver Nuggets to advance out of the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, respectively. Both teams faced unexpected early exits in the first round.
Three Ringer staffers selected both the Celtics and Nuggets prior to the start of the postseason last month, and it appears they were joined by at least one FS1 personality. Nick Wright, host of FS1’s First Things First , is owning up to his poor prognosticating just one day after the Celtics fell to the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7. People are calling it the worst NBA Finals prediction of all time… and I’m not sure they’re wrong.
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com/lkANCRTISX — nick wright (@getnickwright) May 3, 2026 “People are calling it the worst NBA Finals prediction of all time… and I’m not sure they’re wrong,” Wright posted on social media alongside a screenshot of his NBA Finals prediction from First Things First . It seems Wright got caught up in the same hype plenty of other NBA media folks did. To be fair, the Nuggets were a popular trendy pick in the West for people that wanted to zag from the Thunder and Spurs.