Nicole yokas. We have to lead with him.
The richest contract in NBA history,
for whether the most soft-spoken guys, Emily
back-to-back MVP, he got paid five years, 264 million
dollars,
That I
butchered. What's your take on that to you?
If there's one guy who's worth it, right? Like if you're
the Nuggets a you get the guy who's carrying you in the playoffs
and on the court he's also the guy selling your jerseys and
like we you were mentioned in this earlier
with Zion it's a business. At the end of the day.
You're
you're selling tickets, are selling sponsorships, you're
selling. See, you know
TV rights deals and all this.
Yo, coach move that needle right in Denver. He is
the market so I yeah you pay him.
You pay him the max you can and if
if the two-time MVP isn't the guy to serving if the richest
and project and it behaves pretty,
who is like I yeah, it's it was a good deal all around and
I think it ages well by the way, I don't
some of these contracts, by the way, it's interesting.
Somebody's big contracts are going out and people like
before 5 years,
the TV rights deal is up in New Deal will kick in and the 2526
season and it's expected to, I've heard lately more than
double,
right? So if it like, just the NFL got that huge.
If it, they're making a little over two. Now, if it gets to
say five, well, the salary cap starts to
it's not going to come in all at once, they're going to
smooth it this time. But like
the salary cap comes in and goes up and so the back ends of
some of these contracts were like you're paying that guy.
How much
the teams are like? Yeah, the salary caps can be going up.
It's not. To be as painful on us as you think.
Yeah, that's a really good point. Thanks for bringing that
up. And I know
before I let you go,
there is gone. I know you're a big fan of the Cleveland
Cavaliers, he signed a big deal, same as the same numbers
as John Moran, you know five years, 183 Million worth of 231
million.
He made his first All-Star team. What do you think about
that one? Does that improve Cleveland's fortunes?
They kind of had to lock him up and he they're betting on him
taking another step forward. I think right? Like he took a big
step last year.
I would be surprised if Collin Sexton is back at the end of
the day. Like, I'm not sure where he be playing, but you'll
get a chance somewhere. But
Darius, Garland and Evan Mobley are the future and maybe with
Jared Allen next to, you know, his kind of the third guy on it
so you pay me. I look against
Cleveland, you're not going to do,
you're not gonna get better. If this guy's part of your future,
you can do it and he's popular around the league. Other
there's a lot of fans in other front offices and ultimately
you need to make So
I try like this one. I
think if you're clean, what do you think? I mean if your
Cleveland again, it's kind of this design thing you got to do
it right? Yeah. This is the way I look at like, smacks deals
and stuff is
to me, it could go
extremely well
for extremely poor. I'm talking like worst-case scenario, what
do you do?
And it's interesting,
no one wins in that scenario, especially if you're a small
Market because the franchise is basically bankrupt, right?
Because you spent all this on this one person,
then you can't find any trade Partners where we heard that
story before. You can't hurt. You can't find any trade
Partners. So then you have to end up buying him out,
something like John Wall, do you define him out?
And then he ends up paying, you know, they end up getting on
the clippers for a tax
payer
mid-level taxpayer, extension exception of scuse me and then
so that's what six and a half million dollars a year.
You go for making forty million dollars a year plus 2 6 and
a half million dollars a year and then how do you re-establish?
Value.
The answer is you can't and that's what we see. Like, Blake
Griffin, another another former number one, overall draft pick.
It was bought out of a deal, who then is now signing better
and minimums around the league, and he's in his early 30s. So,
to me,
these max deals. I understand they're in the society.
But at what, cost it to the franchise, and to the player,
like, that's going to get that bad. Basically, if it doesn't
work out. Well, that's the peak of your earning potential for
life. Can you name another career? You're going to make,
you know, millions of dollars per year
like this or like that. That's basically it. So
to me, it's a I don't I think some of these, like,
issuing out Max Steel's.
I understand why you have to do it but I just think they
should. You exercise more caution? Why destroy? Someone's
career?
Yeah, and you were taking a huge risk. So
we're there any Quarry
and he under the radar deals that were you said oh hey. That
was a sneaky. Good move.
Yeah, I mean I think Malcolm Brogdon was the
biggest winner. I mean the time you
felt except that's me is
like gold. I they somehow manage to keep the DNA of
the Celtics. They just went to the finals. Jason, Statham is still
the guy jail involving
everyone is still there and they added him.
Who is one of those guys who's like,
you know, like a Tobias Harris,
you know, like he's kind of that level of Guy where
he's a great number three
and I got like a Jrue Holiday Lights. So
the fact that the Boston Celtics did that
and retained everything
is is miraculous. So to me, that's
That day one free agency so far.
And then whoever whatever happens with this. Kevin Durant thing,
that is also the biggest or life,
but that Malcolm Brogdon thing.
As soon as I saw that I'm telling you Kurt, I was like,
it's over the Celtics, like they did it. They did it.
I love that move. I'll tell you the other team in the East and
will let's make Gene our producer. Happy
the other team in the East that I thought had a really quietly
good offseason Philadelphia
because when you look, there's,
they haven't as of us talking. They have not yet announced
the With James Harden, whatever the extension will be, there will
be one
that will get done.
He's not going somewhere else.
And that's exciting for a lot of Philadelphia fans. I'm sure
I'm sure but better than that
they went and got players from round hit though. Their stars.
Now that are Better Built For The Deep playoff run. They got
PJ Tucker. They
paid a 37 year old three years, 10 million years
at 37
They went and got Daniel house. Who is sneaky quiet? Good at
it. Like, I don't not my name. May be a lot of fans know. He
is perfect for them. They traded for De'Anthony, melting,
and all these deals.
These are the kind of guys who are going to be able to play
minutes for them deep into the playoffs were to way guys, so
that they're not stuck. Remember last year, they got
deep in the playoffs and you and I talked about they got to
the
Matisse tribal conundrum of.
Well, we need a defense
but they completely healthy
mucks up our offense because We can help off of him, right?
Well, what do we do with with this? Now, we got to wait,
guys, you better not help off, PJ Tucker in the corner,
you know, Melton can get to the river.
Suddenly they've got better depth to go around
Harden and in bead, and I think that they took a
step forward. I think that they were a,
I don't know if they're going to be better much better in
the regular season, but I think there are much more dangerous
playoff team. Now
I'll believe it when I see a girl on it to me, this is this
this reeks of In 2.0.
Yeah, I watched that. I don't know how many stars I've seen
cycle through that Rockets
era and it did not,
you know, that was one of those things last year, Tom on Kevin
Durant, I am one. I am
interested to see where this lat.
Remember when we saw James Harden force himself out like
we thought that would be the biggest deal with like
ever. We thought we'd like this is going to change the fortune
of someone, the franchise this is going to be it. This is
going to be like he's one of the most creative and
Innovative players ever.
Her to play. This is like huge. What happened?
It ended up not being a very big deal
which is shocked
like it's shopping for a play of that caliber to go that team
and nothing really happens. And that's kind of my that's kind
of my fear with the extension
and also with this with Kevin Durant,
like is it as big a deal as we're making it seem? Or is it
going to be like James Harden last year?
We showcase, we shall see.