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Shall be five o'clock here on a Tuesday, coffee and company fueled by
Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. A lot to get to with just an
hour left, so again we'll just get right to it. For those of
you that were still considering making the trip at the end of the month of
the Bahamas to see Pat Kelsey's first team for the first time. In fact,
it'll be your first chance to see him coaching, So I don't know
what kind of crowd they're expecting to go. I would imagine, like if
you have to pick one and you're in you know, you know, you
would be able to do both because of schedule and being able to afford it.
I would imagine the better trip would be the Battle for Atlantis, which
of course is induring Thanksgiving, because those are real games and you know it's
it's I mean, you're escaping cold weather at that point. I guess if
you're able to pull off both, then shout out to you. But if
you if you're still considering making the trip here later this month. We now
know when they're gonna play those two games in the uh in the Baja Mar.
What's it called the Baja Can they go with the it's Baja Mar.
It's the same place where they played in that tournament a couple of years ago
when they won the Baja Mar Classic. I think the Baja Bullies as they
call themselves, and then went on to you know, have a really bad
year. But yeah, they're gonna play Let's see, you just had it
pulled up here. They're gonna play a team from Canada, college team from
Canada who has been on trips like this before in previous years. I mentioned
it earlier. The last trip they went on, they played Yale twice and
they played Wichita State twice and they lost both of those games, which I
think most would just expect them to lose, but they were pretty competitive.
And Yale never doesn't sound like a juggernaut in college basketball, but they did
just knock off a good Auburn team in the first round of the tournament last
year. So Louisville will play Tuesday, July the thirtieth at seven pm.
That'll be against the Bahamas. That is not the national team. I don't
know who that's going to be, but hopefully it's somebody that can give them,
you know, somewhat of a not a test, but just you know,
I don't want to watch it. If I even get to watch it,
I doubt it's gonna be on TV. But it'll at least be worth
a little more if you feel like you're well aware you're not playing the type
of competition you're gonna see like night in and night out in the ACC,
but you still are playing some dudes who you know previously played in college or
maybe you're currently playing professionally somewhere. I have no clue what to expect from
that team, so maybe we'll find that a little bit more info as we
get closer to that date. But that'll be the first game and then they'll
play the Calgary team at noon on Thursday. So you know, if you
want to, I don't know, it's tough to get a I mean,
to get it if you're in the Louisville area. I mean, the flights
are what's gonna get you, because you're you're not getting a direct in Nassaul
from here. But if you wanted to make it just a trip for basketball.
You could you could realistically go Tuesday bright and early and come home Thursday
afternoon, and it's not you know, you're not there as long and you're
not spending as much money at the resort. But then again, you know,
flights are probably what really makes it expensive because again you're gonna have connecting
flights, and you know, flights aren't cheap. So again, if you're
going, I'm envious. I shared the story at the beginning of the show
today that last week, you know, I'd mentioned I was kind of kicking
the tires on the situation, knowing well aware it's very unrealistic to go,
just because it'd be tough to make it work. Then you know, I
got a I got a little bit of a break. Somebody reached out to
me, somebody I know relatively well that that is going and is connected with
U of L, and and uh, you know, they said, hey,
look if you if you can get there, I mean, I gotta,
I gotta, I got, I got, I got your room covered
for the for the resort. And I'm like, are you serious. He's
like, yeah, like all right, well let me look into it.
So sure enough, I'm looking into it. Looking at flights, I found
a scenario where I could drive up to Indy and kind of fly out of
their airport, make it work, and it wouldn't be a crazy expense,
and it would certainly be worth it to me because you know, I want
to see this team play. Man. I'm excited for this upcoming season,
uh, and the chance to see these guys in action, even though it's
not a real game. I mean, the Bahamas. There's worse places to
be in late July, early August, but I mean, it's sincerely what
would have me most excited to go was to see this group in action.
And just as soon as I kind of thought, okay, maybe I can
make this work. Let me just make sure the passport's not expired, and
then it hit me while looking for said passport, realizing, oh, it
doesn't matter, doesn't matter if the passport's expired or not, because my annual
vacation with my family to Destin, Florida happens to be that same week,
So you know, not going to be able to make it happen. But
it's okay. I'd rather be at Destin with my family anyway, because that's
I mean, that's it's all about family time. I did entertain the thought
of calling my wife on the air and saying like, hey, honey,
a little change of plans destin. You guys are going to go just the
three of you. You need some alone time with the kids. I know
you don't get that very often, and you're just desperate for more of it.
You're like, oh, you know, just all you want. So
you enjoy the beach every day, dealing with the kids, packing the cooler,
carrying the chairs, you know, dragging them in the sand, having
to stop and put it all down because one of the kids is screaming their
lungs out. You do that, you have that, that is what you
deserve and want. And I'll just be in the Bahamas working covering basketball games.
Thought of, you know, just thought about doing that and realized that
wouldn't That wouldn't work. I mean, she might get so angry if she's
driving home from work now, and she might wreck her car because just the
thought of I mean, she knows I wouldn't try to pull it off,
but she probably laugh at me. Actually, to be honest with you,
that she probably wouldn't take you serious, just like whenever I went viral on
TikTok for trying to put her in her place. That reaction that that she
gave me then is probably a similar reaction that I would get if I tried
to, you know, pull pull something off like that. But going to
the bars with the guys, Yeah, yeah, sometimes sometimes you just need
to sit the f down, shut the f up, and let me do
my thing. I think that's word for word what I said, but of
course I didn't say f I said those words. And you know, it
was a it was a trend. It was a trend on TikTok. People
were doing it, and I thought, you know, what the hell with
it, Let's just see what happens. And uh, I think it has
like a million views or close to it, which you know, I don't
know if other I mean, I don't say that to brag because I'll probably
never have a video on TikTok that does anything like that. But uh,
the algorithm picked up on it, and uh, and it became a thing.
In fact, not even that long ago had somebody come up to me
that's been over. It's been well over a year. It's like last it
was no years ago. It was November of twenty twenty two. Yeah.
We weren't even working together yet, were we. It was right before that
and I had somebody come up we hadn't seen it in a while, and
was like, man, I gotta tell you. When I saw that,
I was a dog suited all my friends. And I was like, well,
I'm glad you. I'm glad you got to laugh out of that,
and it it would be fun to try to recreate it again, but like
I wouldn't she would know, right, I mean, it would be yeah,
it'd be it would be something I would make it. But it has
been long enough to where if it was different enough, you might be able
to pull it off. That's true. And that because it was Thanksgiving week
and that is a week where like people who are my age do go out
and taiwan on and have a night because people are back in town visiting family
and stuff. And I did actually legitimately have a friend who who now lives
in Seattle that was in town at the time. You know, it was
a little more like is he being I mean, I think I think her
first response was are you are you effing with me? That's what it was.
And that and that's when I said, sometimes you just need to sit
there down, shut the f up, and let me do my thing.
Uh. And then you know, she laughed and I ran away. That's
what happened. Uh. But if I was to present this Bahamas situation like
it would you know, she's she knows that's not happening. I mean if
in fact, she might be like, oh, yeah, well we'll see
if you do that, well, we'll see if that's what happens. Kind
of threat kind of threaten me, you know what I mean. Yeah,
even if you pretended that you like already booked the flight and everything, Oh,
that would be worst case scenario because do something like that because you don't.
You don't even do those decisions on your own. She books everything for
you. Yeah, that's true. So she couldn't. She wouldn't believe that
that's true. Yeah. So anyways, if you're going have fun, enjoy
the Bahamas. I've never been to the Bahamas, but I'd love to go
sometime. Could be a lot of fun. I mean, Bahamas and basketball,
Like that's the perfect scenario, because I'm not I don't, you know,
the beach is fine. Resorts are fine, Like all inclusive resorts are
a lot of fun. We do that and it's always a great time and
we enjoy it. But for me, it's not just because I'm in a
tropical place like Cancun or Rivier AMAI or something like that. It's I mean,
the resorts are awesome, right, and you get, you know,
just all you can eat, all you can drink, and you stand in
a nice place, get to meet people. It's really I mean, it's
a lot of fun. I enjoy it. But you throw in basketball.
I mean, I'm in heaven. But again, it's nowhere near especial as
my annual family vacation trip to Destin, Florida. And I say that sincerely,
we're really looking forward to it, all right, real quick. So
the nc DOUABLEA, the future of the NUAA has been discussed for a while
now, meaning people have always asked, geez, I wonder if this thing
it can survive. I mean, they don't have a ton of resources.
They've never seemed to have less respect from college sports fans and seemingly even college
you know administrations, now maybe not all of them, but like this isn't
new, meaning people questioning how long the n DOUAA can survive, and you
know, they have no plans to close as of right now, despite a
two point eight billion dollar settlement that was recently announced. So if the NAA
doesn't exist, it could be for a variety of reasons. But I have
a theory, a guess I should say, as to what will actually end
up killing the NCIDUA lay where they don't have any money to operate, and
I know that sounds crazy because you know they have unlimited money seemingly just from
the NS Doablea tournament every year. I mean, and by the way,
that is you know the I don't know if you guys are savvy in the
business world, like you can have like your company name LLC, but then
your DBA is doing business as the NC Douablea. It's not an LLC,
I don't think. But they should DBA do business as it should be known
for as doing business as the NC double Tournament, because that's where their money
comes from. I mean, that's that's that's how the company exists. That's
how Mark Emmertt can get, you know, a multimillion dollar salary and then
a bonus of multimillions every year just they're printing money seemingly from the NS DOUAA
tournament. But if these lawsuits that were recently filed are successful, they may
run out of money. So one of the things that got brought up after
this settlement became public is the timeline here. So for reasons that I that
I still can't figure out, they're going to go back and pay former college
athletes in this settlement because they were not able to profit from their NIL because
the NC DOUBLEA denied them the right to do that, right, I mean,
yeah, here's the timeline. So two point eight billion is the settlement
that covers only college athletes who competed from June fifteenth of twenty sixteen through November
third of twenty twenty three, which, again I don't understand that timeline because
I mean, there are plenty of athletes that played long before June fifteenth of
twenty sixteen that also were denied by the NC DOUBLEA access to an NIL market
that they would have made a lot of money. So first, at least
the first story I saw about a lawsuit from players that played long before that,
that was the NC State nineteen eighty three NC State men's basketball team.
They had ten members of that team that are suing the NCUBLEA and the collective
licensing company, whatever that is, and I wouldn't be shocked if they win.
And now we have sixteen former men's college basketball players from the nineties and
two thousands that brought on their own lawsuit claiming the NCE DOUBLEA and its member
conferences illegally use their nils in March Madness highlights. So this suit is led
by Mario Chalmers, of course, a no name from Kansas, Sharon Collins,
also a non name from Kansas. They were on that two thousand and
eight Kansas national championship team. And it also includes six major college basketball conferences
and Turner Sports Initiative, which, of course Turner Sports is you know,
CBS Turner or the samet you know or partner together. I mean, I
think Turner owns CBS or vice versa. So it's the people who put on
the NCBLA tournament. So that's the lawsuit, and I don't see how they
won't win. And I think even if they don't win and this thing drags
out, the more lawsuits they get out there, the more you're going like,
I would be highly, highly shocked if these former college players they won
a national championship in two thousand and eight didn't see this lawsuit by the NC
state guys and said, why are we doing that? And somebody brought up
a point that it may be valid. I'm not smart enough to know,
but like it could be a statute of limitations thing. One. I wouldn't
understand why there'd be a statute of limitations on that. However, if there
was, I feel like these lawsuits wouldn't you know, you can sue anybody
for anything, right, Like there are many lawsuits every day that are filed
that are absolutely nonsense. But I feel like these guys, especially Mario Chalmers
who played in the NBA for a long time. I mean, I don't
think these guys are poor trying to get a check. I mean, clearly
they want money, and it may not be because they need it desperately,
or maybe it is because they need it desperately, but I just don't understand
how they wouldn't be entitled to that, Like, how can theans DOAA?
To me? It's like, Okay, we'll do the two point eight billion
for this amount of time because that's all we have available to pay out,
because that's a lot of money, and well, and this will be this
because by the way, this is the first time the nsaa's ever actually ever
done anything that is paying players. And they had to do it because the
judge told them, not because they wanted to. So maybe they just assumed
that the two point eight billion is such a big number and they finally are
doing it, meaning paying players out of money they generated from college basketball,
and they just thought, Okay, people will just not people will ignore the
timeline here because I just don't again, what do I know, not a
lawyer, far from it, but I don't understand if you played in November
of twenty sixteen, you can be entitled to a cut of this two point
eight billion, but if you played in November of twenty fifteen, you can't.
Like, it makes no sense to me. I mean a statute of
limitations thing would make sense. But again, I just have a feeling these
lawsuits because I feel like, if you you know, these attorneys who took
on this, you know, who are you know fighting for these you know
who were putting these lawsuits in place and whatnot? Like if they knew it
was a shut in case closed because the statute of limitations, I just don't
think it gets that far down the line. But you know, I could
be wrong, all right. So on the other side, we're not getting
going to the break just yet yet, just yet. But I do want
to get to something I mentioned earlier but I haven't discussed yet, and that
is just some comparisons that I think will put your jaw on the floor as
far as a guy in the NFL that you know is like one of the
best players in the league at his position, maybe somebody who's got an MVP
trophy in the case, and you'll see his annual salary, and then you'll
see a guy in the NBA that makes the same amount of money and you'll
look at his stats. Maybe it's somebody you've never heard of, and it's
just crazy. So we will get to that on the other side. But
JaMarcus Russell, I assume everybody listening knows who that is. He's one of
the biggest, if not the biggest NFL draft busts of all time, and
he has found himself in the news once again for you know, not good
reasons. So he was a quarterback at LSU, was the number one pick
in the two thousand in seven draft, only he didn't get a new contract.
He was out of the league in just two years, and he wasn't
good when he was in the league. And I'd say if you polled one
hundred NFL fans and asked them who the biggest NFL draft bus was, I'd
say seventy five or more percent would say JaMarcus Russell. So I don't know
what is you know what his life has been like since since his playing days.
But I know there was an ESPN Outside the Line story on him,
and I think there was a thirty for thirty on him, and it didn't
paint the picture as if you know, life was perfect, but you know,
he did open up as to some things that led to him struggling,
and you know, just people around him where he's from in Mobile, Alabama.
So I have no clue what he's been up to in recent years,
but he has found himself facing a lawsuit now because he I mean, this
is this is just a bad look. He was coaching at his alma mater
as a volunteer coach, and he apparently took a seventy four thousand dollars check
intended as a donation to the school and he kept that money himself. So
a local business owner wrote the check and says that Russell approached him about donating
to help the Williamson High School football team purchase new weight room equipment, and
he gave Russell the donation by check, but the school says they never got
any of that money. And Russell has reportedly desposited into a Credit Union account
and as soon as he deposited, he quickly withdrew fifty five thousand of the
seventy four thousand and kept it himself. And now you know, I guess
he's not facing criminal charges, but he's facing a lawsuit because I guess if
this guy, I don't know, I guess technically he could still get in
trouble with the law. But if if this guy wrote a check and he
just put it in JaMarcus Russell's name, I mean, it could just come
down to hearsay, did this guy does he have proof that that check was
for what, you know, for weight room stuff or what? But you
know, sad because you got to be really, really really in a low
place and be really down and out to one do that, but also to
think you wouldn't get caught, to think you wouldn't get away with it,
or to think that you would get away with it. So I mean he's
thirty eight. I thought he was a lot older than that. But yeah,
he started twenty five games for the Raiders and ended his NFL career with
fifty two percent completion rate, eighteen touchdowns twenty three interceptions. He was,
I mean it was I don't even know if he if anybody considered. I
mean, usually if you're if you're not picked up after your rookie contract as
an early pick, I mean that's I mean, that's I mean it's rare,
but it happens. But usually somebody will kick the tires on you right
and and put you on the practice squad or something like that. I don't
see that he had any I mean, it sounds like once it ended with
with the Raiders, it was it was done. It was done, so,
you know, very sad. He's also the guy though that is known
for a really funny story. You know, he he would not watch film
like he would not. They wanted him to learn the offense watching film,
and they would give him I think it might have been DVD's they would give
him of like you know, highlights and just you know, the offense.
I'm not sure what's on the DVD as far as you know what they're showing
him, but just stuff for him to learn the offense and get more acclimated
with the offense he's gonna run. And they had a feeling that he wasn't
watching it because it wasn't translating, So they put blank DVDs in the DVD
case and then asked him if he watched it, and he would tell them
yes. I mean, like again, this guy has never made great decisions.
It looks like former number one overall pick though. All right, we'll
come back on the other side. Keep this party going on. It's coffee
and company. Feel about Thornton's right here. On Sports Talk seven ninety so,
Donovan Mitchell inked a new three year extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers years earlier.
This morning, woes broke the story and a lot of money. He's
already made a lot of money. He's going to make even more. So.
It is a three year, one hundred and fifty point three million dollar
deal. I believe it is, so that uh that keeps him there for
well, it's not a I'm trying to get the specifics here, because the
three years he's is is the is the amount of years that he's he's going
to be there under contract. He will have a player option UH in year
four and after not this upcoming season, but the next season, after the
twenty twenty five to twenty six season, he'll be eligible for a four year
extension, which will give him the ability to I think, you know,
enter a level of of of cleveland'll be able to give him more money than
there. They can't. You know, there's this there's something about how long
he's been in the NBA that'll make him eligible for a different type of deal
than what he's getting now. I believe. So, Yeah, Donovan staying
in Cleveland, and I never really got the sense that he would he would
try to leave because you know, there's always been talk about him wanting out
of Utah and would he leave Utah not because I mean they were good for
a while, but you know, Utah is a small market team. They
lost Gordon Hayward and it's probably along with the Orlando Magic and maybe the Detroit
Pistons, they're not a small, tiny market they're just awful. But I
guess you could maybe throw up Pacers in there too, to be honest with
you, those are the types of small market teams. The kings to where
if you have, like if you hit it big in the draft and you
have a guy that's become your franchise player and you're building around him and it's
working, you have to worry about him just deciding he doesn't want to play
with you anymore. He wants to go to a bigger market, maybe with
maybe with a you know, a better team, or team up with his
friends somewhere. Like that happens in the NBA now. So it was said
about Donovan in Cleveland. I'm sorry in Utah, but I don't really remember
ever really, I mean, they just decided to trade him and kind of
start over. I don't think he forced out, And in Cleveland, I
don't think there was ever evidence that he wanted or that he was frustrated.
There was just a lot of noise about it, and he would at times
kind of shoot it down on social media, you know, not you know,
losing his mind in a tweet, but just kind of saying like,
man, this is ridiculous, kind of insinuating that this is just so far
from the truth. But everybody seemed to think that he wanted to leave,
but he clearly didn't because he decided to stay And this was a Cavs fan
who put this together. I thought it's well done, but just how wrong
everybody was about Donovan Mitchell and some claiming that like they know he's got coming
back. It's just, you know, the worst kept secret in basketball,
one hundred percent. Donovan Mitchell has played his last game full the Cleveland cavill
lives, but it seems like no one around the league actually thinks he wants
to stay in Cleveland. Donovan Mitchell's gonna say, damn it, I want
out, you know why, because I wanted to be in New York anyway.
Okay, that nobody thinks he's staying there, you know, and I
think that's what we've heard. I haven't heard anybody be like, no,
no, you guys are wrong. He's staying a It's the worst kept secret.
People don't think that Donovan Mitchell is going to be their long term anyway.
Even if Donovan Mitchell and the Calves winning championship next year, that'd be
great, love it. It's even more likely than he's gonna leave, It's
true. So I think what's happened with Donovan is that he has found himself
in situations to where he doesn't have a ton of help. I mean,
I think Cleveland is ecstatic to get him back because he has delivered since he
was traded there, and he's made them better. They became a playoff team
when he arrived. And he's got Darius Garland as a teammate who is a
good young player. And they're not terrible. I don't think the roster stinks,
but like they're just gonna run it back, and I mean, I
don't know what else you can do. I don't. I don't know if
they don't have cap room or whatever. But you know, I'm friends with
a couple of Cavs fans who work in that market, and they they're stunned
that they were able to get Donovan back, but like they're not maybe by
paying Donovan this that keeps them from being able to go add more pieces.
But like it's so clear that Boston is the elite team above everybody else in
the East. And I don't know who's gonna be close to competing with them,
like gosh, I mean, who maybe the Knicks, but maybe not.
Yeah, I don't know, Man, the Knicks have good young pieces
like I could, but I just have a hard time I'll believe it when
I see it. With the Knicks, meaning like they've definitely got a good
core right now, and they've become better in the last couple of years.
You know, they made it to the second round of the of the playoffs
this year. But there'll be all kinds of talk about them being the team
that could take them down. But again, that's what the Knicks or front
runners like. They like they've never actually done anything substantial in the NBA in
a long long time, and they're all hype, and they were all hype
acting like they'd won the series against the Pacers, and then the Pacers going
to and I know they were injured and all that, but they go into
New York and you know, talked about as the biggest game in Knick's history
as far as you know, Game seven at their place, and you know
they got they got demand the Pacers take a step forward. Maybe they just
man'. That's what really bums me out about the Pacers is that I like
the personnel on this team, but like our ceiling is in my opinion,
still far away from being like, honestly, to be fair, if the
Knicks were at full stream, I don't think we beat them in that series.
I mean we almost lost to them, and they were very, very
shorthanded. So I mean, Halli Burton's a great star. Again. I
liked what they've I like what the Pacers are doing, but I just it
makes me sad to know that I feel good about it. But I also
can be realistic with myself and say, we're not sniffing an NBA title anytime
soon, so you know, and we're not a destination for free agents.
We're just not never have been. And you know, Indie is not a
huge city compared to the biggest that the NBA has to offer, but it's
also not a tight I mean, like you know, I'm biased, CLEARLYM
a Pacers fan, and I actually love the city of Indianapolis. I really
do. I've never heard anybody who's been to Indianapolis, except for maybe people
from the Deep South, that have anything bad to say about Indianapolis. I
think it is, you know, for me and just sort of I think
it's the perfect city. It you know, there's there's a ton of diversity,
there's a lot of I mean, it's it's it's nice. It's big
enough to where you have pro sports teams but it's not too big to just
overwhelm you. Uh, the suburb areas are super nice. I mean you're
close to Chicago, you close to Louisville. Like, I would never move.
I don't want to move, but like if I had to move to
a different like if I was going to move to I mean it's no brainer.
Actually, if I was gonna, let's say, I you know,
my career took me to a pro market and I was, you know,
going to a different station, I would I would prefer Indy one because I
know a lot about those teams and that would help me, that would give
me a little bit of a head start in a new market. But like
I love Indianapolis. I think it's a great city. So but you know
NBA players, they want to be in Miami, they want to be in
LA, they want to be in New York. And I get it because
you know, there are guys who will have way Like for example, Dak
Prescott is not a great quarterback. He makes good money with the Cowboys.
They've clearly paid him well enough. He's made money, but do people understand
being in Dallas, in the brand that the Cowboys have, he makes more
money probably from endorsements than anybody would ever realize. And it's not because of
stats. It's because he's the freaking Cowboys quarterback and he's above competent. Right,
Brands want to work with somebody who is the QB for one of the
bigger sports franchises on the planet. Same thing in New York, like you
have way more Lebron has been able to really you know, I mean Lebron
is a Hollywood guy now, and I don't mean like in movies. He's
been in movies, but like he has a production company, Like he has
used his wealth to start, you know, to be an entrepreneur in the
tech in Hollywood world, and he could do that from anywhere he's Lebron,
but like in LA makes it more convenient. So that'll never change. By
the way, I think smaller market franchises will always sort of just have a
tougher time in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't mean you can't have success.
I mean, look at look at the Packers. I mean they're not
I mean they're tiny market, and you know they've they've had success and have
continued. I mean they're one of the bigger franchises in the NFL. So
Anyways, Donovan's getting paid a lot of money, and I'm happy for him.
I'm happy for him. So let's look at let's see Donn So this
year, Donovan Mitchell under contract under his new contract, Donovan's gonna make thirty
four point eight million dollars. It's a lot of money. Next year he's
gonna make forty six point three million. He'll make fifty point one million in
the next year, and then that last year in its contract with the player
option fifty three point eight so he'll be eligible for a max after I believe
it is the twenty eight season, which I think the max projected max is
sixty five point five million, which is crazy to think about. So the
NBA has got a lot more money to throw around, and I know why,
right, there's less players to pay. The collective Bargaining Agreement. Uh,
they have a lot of guaranteed deal. I mean, just about every
deal is guaranteed in the in the NBA, it seems, especially if you're
like a consistent play that you know is you know they're not gonna cut.
I mean, if they cut you and you still have a lot of guaranteed
money on your deal, it's because they were just way wrong. So and
then there's some contracts that are like partially guaranteed. Let me give you a
crazy stat Last year, Neurlans Noel did not play basketball in the NBA,
was not employed, but he signed a training camp deal that had because he's
a veteran, I guess it had. It had a guarantee component to where
seven hundred thousand dollars was guaranteed. Ne Orleans Noel was paid seven hundred thousand
dollars last year to not play basketball. Seven hundred k. And he hasn't
played legitimately in like four years. So it wasn't as if, you know,
he was fresh off a good run with a team. He'd been fighting
for a spot in the NBA for a few years there, and the King
signed him but just kind of a training camp deal, but they let him
go before the season started. They didn't keep him on the roster, but
yet his deal. I mean, that just is a sign of money that
you you can just throw away because you have unlimited amounts of it, you
know what I mean. So it's not like I'm bringing this to to attention
of people, like nobody's aware of it. Like I know that the NFL
doesn't have as much guarantee. There's way more players to pay. They don't
have as good of a CVA, and that's why they don't make as much
money. Like it isn't new information, but I think when you hear the
salaries of this guy in the NBA and this guy in the NFL, like
some of it is crazy, I mean unbelievable almost, Like Lamar Jackson.
Let's look at Lamar Jacks. Lamar Jackson this year just base just his contract,
You'll make a lot more money with endorsements, and I think his contractor's
like some cash included, which is just I guess added payments. But his
deal, meaning like the terms of his contract is his salary for this upcoming
season is fourteen point two five million dollars. It's a lot of money,
right, you know who's gonna make the same amount of money or more than
Lamar Jackson, who has two MVP trophies, by the way, and he's
currently one of the higher paid quarterbacks in the league. He's not the highest
paid. But like it's not as if, oh, poor Lamar everybody else
in the NFL at quarterbacks getting rich. It's just that this is the way
it is Mitchell Robinson for the Knicks will make more money than Lamar Jackson,
Obie Toppin. You know Grant Williams from Tennessee played at Tennessee for a while,
then was with the Celtics, Hornets and Mavericks. Think he just finished
up the season with the mat I mean he's like a mid. He is
mid at best. In the NBA. He makes slightly less than Lamar Jackson
does. Max Struss makes over a million dollars more. I'm naming people that
a lot of you've never heard of. I'm sure, right, I mean,
the NBA is the place to be apparently, I mean if you got
money, I mean if you can, if you can, like if you
can, and it's a hard league to stay in, right, I mean
it's impossible almost there's not as many roster spots, like it's super competitive.
But you can be in the NF you can be in the NBA on you
know, a low level deal and still I mean you can be a guy
that is just known that you might get in one game a month. But
if you're on a two three year deal and a good chunk of it's guaranteed,
I mean, you're making you know, life changing money. I mean,
let's look at let's look at some other players here, let's see.
Ope, Sorry, I'm searching on a Google tab and that that happens whenever
I end up not getting any So yeah, TJ. Hawkinson, he is
a He's one of the five best tight ends in the NFL according to Pro
Football Focus. He's with the Minnesota Vikings. Nine point nine million dollars uh
is is his salary. I mean, I can name dudes in the NBA
who get off the bench once a month that make you know double that.
I mean, he's making nine. Bruce Brown with the Raptors makes twenty three
men million dollars this upcoming season. Nicholas Claxton twenty two million. I mean
Miles Turner nineteen million. And if you like, this is the kind of
thing that if you have the ability is a young like if you've got a
kid who you know is just a god gifted athlete, I mean to the
point where you are you're not delusional as a parent to say that you think
that your son could be a professional athlete and he's at an age where he's
like fifteen, maybe sixteen, maybe fourteen fifteen is probably more like it,
and you kind of want him to to to not quit one, but maybe
just you know, realize which one's going to get more focused. Because I'm
somebody I hope when i'm a if I end up in that situation and I'm
sure my son will not be a god gifted athlete that has a chance to
play pro sports, I hope that happens, But you know, I'm realistic.
I'd realize the chances of that happening. But like I think, even
if we're just competing to maybe get a scholarship, I'm gonna let him play
whatever sport he wants. But I think if you're giving four sports the collective
amount of same amount of attention, you're not giving any of them the amount
that it needs for you to be super successful. But my point is,
like shift him in the direction of basketball. I mean, harder to make
it clearly, but like, if they've got that is a realistic I mean,
that's the amount of money's crazy. I mean, even if you take
away the fact that it's guaranteed, I mean, just the base salary for
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All right, our last break and then we'll come back and wrap it
up on the other side right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I can't
tell if people are underwhelmed with what they've learned about Hawk to a girl now
that she's she's come out, she's been published at her first interview she was
on stage in Nashville Zach Bryan this past weekend. Because you know, this
is what happens in the new world of the Internet here to where if somebody
goes viral for something like that, like a random interview on the street or
something, and nobody and nobody knows for sure. People on the internet are
savvy enough to make something up about said person, knowing it's fake and know
that a billion people are going to share it, like, wow, can
you believe it? Talked to a girl. I mean she she was a
teacher and she lost her job, and like she's since come out and said,
like, none of that stuff is true. She didn't lose her job.
She was never a teacher. She's not even old enough to drink.
This is her on a Barstool Sports podcast recently. What were you doing for
your job? I worked in a spring factory. I'm not a school teacher.
That was my next question, because we're a teacher and got fired from
your job. No, I'm not even old enough to be a teacher.
I was gonna say, because you're twenty one, I'm like, this is
illegal. Who was a teacher exactly? So you weren't a teacher or a
bartender? So o the one. And also I've heard rumors that your dad
is a preach. Sure, my father so far from apprecier. It's crazy,
So everything made up like it at all? So I think the intrigue
of the unknown is why. Also she's adorable, but I mean she in
you know the context of what she was discussing. Certainly, uh, generated
a lot of fans of hers, But I mean, like I think people
because there's it was so unknown for what a couple of weeks, everybody had
made up their own mind as far as what they thought of her, what
they assumed she did for a living, what her personality was like, and
you know, you just never know. And she can also be a great
sign. Again what I just mentioned that this happens, that this is a
known thing for people to to do engagement farming on the internet and monetize their
social media following. Because how many times have you seen somebody share something about
this girl that now we know is not true and it's because it got shared
a billion times and somebody was able to profit from that. Apparently people really
that she's anti Trump. I don't know if you saw that or not,
John, of course, because everybody in the South has I guess they just
assumed she's on Nashville. She's in Nashville from the south of that accident,
and she must be a big Trumper. And you know they assume everybody's dad
from the South as a preacher too. Exactly. Yeah, But I mean
she looked the clip, I mean, she still looked young, but everything
I've seen from her since then, as far as taking pictures with celebrities.
In this interview I'm looking at right now. I mean, she looks a
lot younger than I than I initially thought she was. I mean, I
mean she's twenty years old. So Hawk to a Girl. That'll eventually fade,
and you know, it'll be cliche. I hope she cleans up and
makes a bunch of money from it. But like, you know, transitioning
from that to you know, a career. I don't think you did anything
to keep yourself from getting a job, but like you're kind of gonna always
be known as hawk to a girl now, which, hey, I guess
there could be worse things you could be known for. All Right, we're
out of time. We'll be back at it tomorrow, right here on SportsTalk seven ninety