July 18, 2024 • 41 mins
Chris and Rob explain why the WNBA players’ union should be more appreciative of the massive media rights raise given to them by the NBA, discuss Bronny James finally breaking out his slump at the NBA Summer League and go head-to-head in a very special Russell Westbrook-themed edition of Teichert’s Tower of Trivia.
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
And Chris, I do want to make a little guy
from Kansas City, was talking about the stuff I'm doing
with MLB BRO. We do have a minor announcement. We
now have an MLB Bro TV show starting Monday, five
pm on the streaming service HBCU Go dot TV.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
So every week we'll have a TV.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Show, Yeah, thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Minute TV show Chris every week, which is just amazing.
We continue to grow. Jalen Guilkey. You remember his dad,
Chris played for the Cardinals and the Mets. I don't
all right, his dad Bernard Guilty. He was an outfielder.
He played for the Cardinals and Mets. And matter of fact,
he's the host of the show, Jalen Guilty. But the
only reason you be on it, uh, I'll do a
(01:50):
bro you need to know feature. I'll just have like
one feature every other week. I wouldn't be on every week.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's for the younger guys.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You're gonna pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But I was gonna say Chris Berman.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think his best nickname for a baseball player, Chris
was for Jalen's father, Bernard Guilty.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What do you call him?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Innocent and toil proven guilty? Bernard innocent and to proven guilty.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I mean, knowing how Berman used to do it, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That innocent and Bernard innocent until proven.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, Rob the w NBA, Speaking of proven guilty is
I don't know. They might be a little bit a
tad bit upset at this new situation with the NBA.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So here's the deal, Rob. We all know that the
NBA is going to.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Have a new TV deal eleven years seventy six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
That's almost seven.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Billion dollars a year, right, And the NBA, ROB, which
owns sixty percent of the WNBA and really has kept
the WNBA afloat. Adam Silver, the commissioner for the NBA,
said back in twenty eighteen that the WNBA had lost
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about ten million dollars every year since it began.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Okay, it's and that was in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
This year, the Washington Post reported Rob earlier this year
that the WNBA is expected to lose fifty million dollars
this season. So they're not making money, they're not breaking even,
they're losing money. And the only way they still exist
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for all the great athletes and players in that league
is because the NBA has carried them literally. And so
the NBA got to decide, Rob, how much of our
TV revenue are we going to give to the WNBA,
And they've decided, I guess over the eleven years, it
(04:15):
will be two point two billion to the WNBA. So
of their seventy six billion, they're given two point two
billion to the WNBA. Comes out to like two hundred
million a year, okay, And that's an increase rob of
one hundred and forty million they were getting sixty So
now they're tripling, more than tripling their amount. But Terry Jackson,
(04:41):
who's the executive director of the WNBA Players Union, is
not you know, she's a little bit perturbed. I guess
she feels like they're being undervalued. Here's what she says.
We have wondered for months how the NBA would value
the WNBA and its media rights deal with a reportedly
seventy five billion dollar deal on the table.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The league is in control of its own destiny.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
More precisely, the NBA controls the destiny of the WNBA.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's a strong statement.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The NBA controls the destiny of the WNBA, she says.
We look forward to learning how the NBA arrived at
a two hundred million dollar, you know, per year valuation
if initial reports are accurate or even close.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Neither the NBA nor the WNBA can deny that.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In the last few years, we've seen unprecedented growth across
all metrics. The players continue to demonstrate their commitment to
building the brand, and that the fans keep showing up.
There's no excuse to undervalue the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Again your thoughts, all right, So give the NBA first
back the last twenty nine years. Quis of losses that
it'd be cool if you want to do that first,
and then.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You go out quickly rob according to the numbers, you know,
ten million dollars a year since nineteen ninety seven, it's
roughly somewhere between two hundred and two hundred and sixty
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In Okay, So so they go and losses that the
NBA without the NBA, Chris, it would be no league.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right when we agree with that, Like they kept it alive.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They could try, but it wouldn't. Yeah, the NBA kept
it alive.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Kept it alive.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I know for a fact that when people when
they signed deals Chris with people, they would say, and
you gotta contribute to the WNBA. Like if you want
to make a deal with us, and you have to
take some you know what I mean, Like portion has
to go to the WNBA if you want to make
a deal with us. You can't just say I just
want the guys and not partake. And this was David
(06:42):
Stearns's baby, one of his legacy things, so he tried
hard to keep it afloat Chris, because he started it.
Remember there were other women's leagues before this, the WBL
and some other women's leagues before the WNBA. But I
don't know what leg they have to stand on Caitlin
Clark's games, Chris, if you could show me, because I
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would say to them, hey, you know, if you want
to go out on your own and go out and
work your own deals and do all that, have at it,
and if you could do better. No I don't, right, Chris,
I'd say, have at it, go ahead without without the NBA.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
You're not attached.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You want to be a separate league, Well separate you
go do your thing. You could do better deals on
corporate sponsorship without the NBA there, if you could do
all that on your own, I welcome you to detach
yourself from the NBA and go do your own thing,
because they'll come running back in a New York minute.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Chris, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'm sorry this is not and let's throw out this disclaimer, Rob,
because some people just don't get it. This has nothing
to do with gender. It has nothing to do with
women versus men. That athletes are paid, Rob, you and
I have covered many lockouts and all of that. They
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are paid a certain percentage in the NBA is roughly
in most leagues, it's roughly half, right, half of the
money that the sports generates is.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
What the athletes are paying.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So the reason NBA salaries are skyrocketing is because the
sports popularity in terms of jersey sales and parking and
attendance and TV deals most importantly, and.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
All of that is skyrocketing.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
They're not just.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Giving these players money to be nice them, right, They're
giving them half of the money that the league generates.
And the WNBA, we just said it, they're generating no money.
They're generating no money. And so the NBA, Rob, I'm
looking at. We talked about the NBA's revenue. Let's put
(09:01):
it at seven billion a year.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
With the new TV deal.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
They are given the WNBA two hundred million, or of
the seventy six billion, they're giving.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Them two point two billion.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Right, that's about roughly three percent of the NBA's revenue. Rob,
When you're given three percent of your revenue to a
league that's making nothing, that's not contributing to your bottom
line made.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Has never been in the block, been in the block.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You're doing them a favor.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And I mean, you look, and I hate to put
it this way, but and I don't take this literally.
Maybe I should beggars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh go ahead, what'd you say?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Beggars can't be choosers. I mean they're funding you. You
said it, Rob. If you want to go out on
your own, have at it. But we're funding you, and
we're we're giving you more than your liken, then economically
you deserve it.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Has nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And here's what I don't like. I don't like when
she puts in here and it's just one little phrase.
Our players. The players continue to demonstrate their commitment to
building the brand.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
What athletes don't like.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I don't want to hear about how hard the w
NBA players work. We know they work hard, they work
as hard as the NBA players, But guess what, So
do track and field athletes. So do bicyclists then, and
and and.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Weight lifts, And they don't make big money because they
can't generate the revenue. Like, let's just be real, it's
the same thing, Chris. There's college baseball. They have the
World Series. There you go, they sell out for that.
Every other game there's there's family and friends in the stands.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
That's what you see.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
The college World Series, Chris, is sold out right, okay,
But the rest of the year, nobody's going, nobody's watching.
You cannot expect to make what college football or college basketball,
even though there's a college baseball team.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No, just as hard, they're just as committed to their craft.
They've many of them got just as much of a
chance or want to get to the pros as the
football players.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You gotta understand it.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Though the college games aren't on national television on Saturday afternoon.
What I mean is that fair? Like, that's the thing.
Don't tell me, Well, just we play the same sport.
We should be on just as much as the men. Well,
if you were as popular, you would be.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's so easy if we talk about it all the time.
What do I do, Chris? I criticize the women in
this country. I do because it's on you watch the games.
Take your boyfriend on a day to your husband, Chris,
to a w NBA game.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Fill up the stands. There's plenty of women to fill
up the stands. Go do it. The men can't.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Ignore you if you have a packed house at the Barclays,
Chris with a liberty of playing.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
If they packed the house every night they have no.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Would start getting as There's no doubt about it. And Rob,
remember too, the WNBA season is only forty games. It's
half as long as the NBA season. So you have
to take that into account too. I mean that's a
small thing, but it is a legitimate thing.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
No, that's legit.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Your season is not as long.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And so I just again, it's not nothing to do
with you know, any quality or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
It is what the sport generations.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Rob, we talked about the man, Chris.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Supply and demand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We talked about it.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We worked just as hard as Colin Coward her.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We want to say that worked right.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
He's making more than us his way, his show generates
way more.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Steve, we work as hard as Steven.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
He Stephen getting paid like he's a freaking quarterback exactly.
I mean, he's like he's Justin Jefferson or something. And
and but hey, we worked just as hard. We put
just as much into our craft.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
We get it. This is how it works, right.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We don't all get paid the same amount because we're
all doing the same job.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It doesn't work like that. We're in the same industry.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And and if if our ratings somehow Chris superseded or
or we had something that was better than Colin, than
the bosses would have to say, well, maybe we need
to write this, Maybe maybe it's the odd couple and
and we need to move them in that slot and
that looking at killing it like that's how it works, and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No one, but you can't just go up in there
talking about well he making this.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Why can't you know?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You you have you have to understand how things work,
so this will be interesting. I just I mean, again, Rod,
we talked about it with Brandon ak yesterday.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Leverage.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
If you don't have any leverage, then you know, you're
kind of just blowing smoke.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, I don't I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, I don't know what leverage they have because, like
I said, other than Kaitlin Clark and maybe Angel reached
Chris their games, the attendance has to spike the rest
of the places. I mean, like I said it before
the season started. She would be like the Harlem Globe Trotters.
Every time she shows up, they got the crowds and
all that, but there's still a lot of five thousand
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and four thousand and six thousand nights Chris where the
other games are being played.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Rob her games or she's one of twelve teams, right,
she's on one of twelve her.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
So that one of twelve is what like eight percent.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
M the fever, which is her team accounts for thirty
three and a half percent of the WNBA's totally thirty
I mean, that's what four times the amount that they
should her. Their average attendance is fifteen, one hundred and
forty two, The league averages seven. Everybody else's averaged seven thousand,
six hundred forty. So, I mean business, Let's not just
(15:03):
get emotional about stuff, all right, all right? Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox, Rob and I just broke
it down WNBA. I'm not gonna stay upset because I mean,
they understand that the hands that feeds them. But you know,
they they release a statement they don't want to be
undervalued by the NBA giving them three percent roughly of
(15:26):
their TV revenue when the sport is not generating even
that amount of production, so to speak. So what are
your thoughts on this? Is it unfair to the WNBA?
Is it fair to the WNBA? Is it beyond fair
like they're getting more than their bringing in your thoughts?
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Speaker 6 (17:45):
You'll turn the way in on the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, are they being undervalued by the NBA giving
them three percent of their seventy six billion dollar TV deal.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
All right, let's kick it off with a sche On
in Sacramento.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
You're on the couple.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
What's up, Sean, Yeah, welcome back Rob, my uncle from
another brother and my brother buying the board. NBCU, Lady Patrick,
real quick, man, I think it was a color previous
A couple of weeks ago called it the welfare NBA.
That's what the wad for. I feel like, man, they
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if they want to find out what it really is
all about, go ahead and go independent. Just like y'all
fellas said. It's not it's not that we want to
be unfair, but it's supply and demand. If nobody's demanding
your product, even with the spike from Caitlin Clark right now,
you're not gonna be able to stand up and make
the kind of money NBA players are making. And before
I get off the pharm really quick, man, I just
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got to go ahead. And the Martin O he got
cooked by Fernando on trash talking everybody.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
That's how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No wonder Martin had his panties and a bunch over it.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I did it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Wow, all right, Sean? Thanks Yes, Jay in Alabama, you're
on the up. The Alabama, Atlanta. You're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
What's up, Jay, Hey man, how you're doing today?
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Doing great?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Good man?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
How are you all right?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I'm gonna keep it short because I don't want to
be the dead horse. You guys already said it. Even
the person who put out that statement doesn't believe what
she said. And if she wants that, if she wants
that hundred some more money, go get that hundred million
that Jalen Brunson left on the table. And finally, I'll
say this snake, I'm gonna shot this out every time
I call Rob, thank you for being truthful and saying
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that Patrick Mahomes is not chasing Brady because there's cheating
involved in those championships, all right, he's.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Ahead of Brady. Now, well, I mean I just think that.
I just think he's I just think that Joe. He's
not ahead of Joe Montana, but I'm just cheating.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think is ahead of Joe.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You can't deny the cheating, Chris. I mean, this is
there and we don't even know how much was going on.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
We don't know how deep it is, right, it could be.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, I don't agree with cheating, but that doesn't.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Lesson listen, anything less than that is being disingenuous at
best and willful ignorance at worse.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Not of it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm just saying it doesn't nullify his greatness or the
victories to me.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
WHOA, there's no greatness that you cheated if you will.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh so you gonna see here on national radio and
say Tom Brady's not great.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I'm not saying what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You just said there's no greatness.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
If you're thinking that, you ain't great, period?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
So is he great or not? You wanted to start
this quickly? Is time?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I'm gonna say this again, Patrick Maboles is not chasing Tom.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Easy question, brother, don't call up here with a bold statement.
If you ain't gonna back it up. Is Tom Brady's greater?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Do not either?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
I would not go.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Is Tom Brady great?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No, don't.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Is Tom Brady's great or not?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
So he's very good?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That was even very good? He cheated?
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Right, he's very good?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Okay, he's not great?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Thanks all right, Jay, thank you, I appreciated. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Gary real quick in Houston. You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Gary, we haven't heard from you in a while.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What you been on vacation?
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, I went to I went to Italy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Look at that, Chris, I know we hadn't heard from
him graduat.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Yeah, okay, but okay. So I think there's two problems
to w NBA. The first problem is the founders of
the league didn't understand the difference between the best basketball
players and the best female basketball players. The best basket
players are all men, Like the NBA has the best talent,
then men's college basketballs, then elite high school boys, and
then WNBA players on the level of really good high
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school bool boys.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
And in the Pole.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
League, we don't want to watch really good high school boys.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Well, no, I do think that's a fair like where
you rank. And that's nothing against women. I've always looked
at it this way, rob because obviously athleticism is a
huge part of basketball, and obviously skills too, But the like,
world class female sprinters are running times that like really
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really good high school boys run, you know, not the
ultra elite high school boys, but really good high school boys.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
State champions and many states and things like that.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So I would compare, you know, the level of the
WNBA two yet really good high school boys basketball, not
the elite teams that are filled with guys that are
going to you know, go D one or play in
the NBA. But I don't think. I still don't think
Rob that that's the ultimate thing. I mean, he says
(22:58):
nobody wants to watch it.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I don't know. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I mean, obviously their ratings haven't gone through the.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Roof, but I think people can you know, separate that
these are women playing and we don't, you know, judge
them against the men. But maybe most people do, Rob.
Maybe you know a lot of people have said they
want to see Dunky, you know, lower the rims to
nine feet. I wouldn't want that. I don't think the
women want that either, but you know, some people.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Because then they would be did you know, like Chris,
if they did, it wouldn't be they would be discredited,
Oh of course they're duncan well they lowered.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
The rim I don't know what they'd be discredited though,
you think. I don't think they would, But I don't
think they want to play. Yeah, it, but it would
seem like a cheapen version of the game, That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
All right, it is the eye couple of Tys Towers. Next,
but first Martin White's with the update.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
My wife's so Chris on Alex sarwatch, he's now one
for five, no three pointers taken though nine.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
They they talk to him about that, like, bro, like
what are you doing? I guess maybe this is why
he takes threes though he can't make twos either.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
It's a tough look right out for the second overall
pick in the NBA draft with the solid two points
right now, Wizards with a five point lead over the Kings,
eight twenty five left in the fourth quarter, sixty to
fifty five. Let's see here, what else we got? Russell
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The University of Alabama plans to honor former coach Nick
Saban by naming his football playing field for him at
Bryant Denny.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
State Week last week, they should name the stadium after him.
He won more than bear Bryant.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I mean, but the stadium's already named. What are you
supposed to change the name? Change the names the stadiums
all the time. Yes, change it. May they name it
after him?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
The street, No, the field, the playing field, Chris, it's weak.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Make that Bear Bryan play, leaving it Bear Bryant.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And with the new nick Saban did better than Bear Bryance.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
He did.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But that don't mean you.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Gotta change the name. Change the name.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
I mean they did, but I got you. Jacksonville Jaguars sued.
They meet Patella Stafford who stole something.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Named of Chris before was named after Bear Bryant. And
guess what they changed the name for Bear Bryant.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It was west Side Field.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Oh yeah, that thing?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That that's something, huh?
Speaker 10 (25:31):
I meet.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
Patel stole twenty two million from the Jacksonville Jaguars over
a three and a half year period to payoff gambling
debts and fund a life of luxury. He's being sued
now by the team for sixty six point six million
dollars in damages by Florida State Court, which is just
an insane number to be sued. Speaking of Florida, the
Saint Petersburg City Council improved plans for the Rays to
(25:53):
build a new one point three billion dollar stadium. It'll
have three thirty thousand seats of fixed roof and a
schedule to be ready for opening day twenty twenty eight.
Daniel Brown six under leads the first round at the Open.
Shane Lowry's five under, andrews Fla two under, Brooks Kopka
Scottie Scheffler both won under Tiger Woods eight over, Royal
McElroy seven over and Bryson de Chambeo five over. And
(26:16):
the Dolphins have placed linebackers Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips
on the pup list ahead of training camp.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Back to you guys, all right, thank you, Martin Weiss.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Don't you think that Jacksonville deserved that? How did they
let somebody take that kind of money? Who's minding the store?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Like?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Like, how did he get Chris?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
This ain't a five million dollars?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I mean like, yeah, I mean how do you get
away with you?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Right? How do you get away with that?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Like how that much money disappear? Yeah, like you're.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Watching the store. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
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Speaker 5 (26:53):
It's time for Tyson's Tower of Trivia.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
And no no ladies and gentlemen, vegans and meaty there,
tailed ship lovers, ruffle hip lovers, It's time.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
This game is so easy for tight Shirts Tower of Trivia.
Speaker 13 (27:11):
That's right, everybody. It is the segment that proves you
don't have to like sports to work in sports media.
I am your host, Phillian for taking Robbie Patrick's sweek
in here and.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Drick, what's up? I mean sweet.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Patrick splendor?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
You know, I'll take that. Rob will take that Patrick's Flenda.
Well let's go with that. Let's go with someone who
is also incredibly sweet himself, Alex tight Shirt.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Alex did you hear what he said?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I have been I have been called sweeter than honey Rob.
So that's.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Well, we got the gang's all here, let's get it
all going. This edition of ty Shirt's Tower Trivia is
actually the Russell Westbrook edition. Guys, So why don't we
start with the first question? So west Rob or me,
let's you know what I did do a coin toss here,
and you know what, tales never fails and you know
who landed on tails our very own Chris Brusar.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
First, it's old Patrick. You old Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You've seen Chris Brusaw it only on television. I'm there
rubbing your back.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Three days a week. I left it to chance.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Don't don't, don't, don't blame the messenger, man, I left
it a chance. Tell you come over tonight. Rub first, Patrick,
My goodness. Let's go with the first question. Russell Westbrook
spent the first eleven years of his NBA career as
a member of the Oklahoma City Blank.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Oh look you're ready.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I'm ready, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
All right, here we go, Here we go, Here we go, thunder.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Lightning.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Chris Blue, that's up.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
That's one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I'm messed up.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I can't believe that I was looking at something on my.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Computer three that I just messed up.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I meant to say lightning. Oh, but we got it.
We're good. I take those ten points. Yeah, I'm my bad.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
I'm oh, my goodness. Know whatn't even a purpose. We're
gonna start the next question, and you know what, Rob,
you're getting your due on this one. We're going with you, Rob.
So the next question in his only season as a starter,
Westbrook's U. C. L A. Bruins made it to the
final four before losing to Derek Blank and the Memphis Toygers.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At you ready, thank you?
Speaker 10 (29:59):
I'm ready, Chris asks me, No, I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
All right, Alex here, ah, here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
H today, Ralph at some point okay, uh my goodness, all.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Right, Alex, yep ah.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Bowl, No, I got it in okay, Bowl, give me
the question again, Patrick.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
All right the question and his only season as a starter,
Westbrooks Brew Bruins made it to the final six Words
Fly before losing to Derek Bank.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Derek Blank Rose.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
That clue was who this is from? Callebe from California?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Rose Bowl, Thank you, Alex, thank you. It's just smarter
than Chris wants to allow you to be.
Speaker 13 (30:59):
All right, let's go, let's go. Let's go with question three.
Russell Westbrook raised eyebrows back in twenty twenty two when
he went off on Skip Bayless for calling him west Blank.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
All right, Alex, here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
Let's do a baby.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I'm going musical.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
No no, no, that's a clue. No no, no, no,
thats no that's a clue. He just said, no, you
said I'm going You said I'm going musical.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Patrick, I think you got to give me a buzzer.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Patrick, You know what, Rob g is a player's cameo.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
He just.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Stuff sounds. Did you hear that I'm going music? How right?
Because he's not in the in the studio to Padrick
the answers underneath the.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Door, Patrick Alley, good da good teams that played against
Tom Brady in the Patriot.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Oh my, you know what.
Speaker 13 (32:10):
Let's moving on to the next one, guys. Back in
twenty Back in twenty twelve, Westbrook stated or started his
famous blank Not Foundation, which is also the name of
the Jordan Brand sneakers. He wears, what is it again,
(32:30):
blank blank Not Foundation? Okay, Alec you ready, yes, Rob,
thank you?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Question why.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
My man terrible clues.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Alex is on fire today. I'm brought us, he wrote us.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Hear how he's down in you, Alex, despite how well
you're doing AIX.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
It's all on Alex.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I'm impressed with his intelligence because.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
The thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
All right, here we go, all right, here we go.
Let's go to the next question. Westbrook is a man
of many nicknames, including the Brody and blank Brook.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
All Right, here we go, Alex.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Beauty and the Beest. Yeah we got a humdinger here twenty.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
All we are buzzing to day. Say well, let's go
to the next one here, guys, to quote, to quote,
our very own prestigious Rob Parker Westbrook had a cup
of coffee and a sweet roll in twenty twenty as
a member of the Washington Blank Alex Ready, I'm ready, Rob,
(34:03):
So remember he.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Had a couple of coffee.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Hey, hey, Hey, okay, here we go.
Speaker 13 (34:10):
Oz the wizard, Wizard of Oz and get this one attired.
All right, last one we got here, Russell, don't worry
about it.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Don't feel bad.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
How he's under playing you, Chris gives back.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
I'm just Rob's adding in the sweetener like splendor. Right now,
let's do this.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
We're shot on time, Patrick Come.
Speaker 13 (34:39):
Russell Westbrook is one of only two players in NBA
history to average a triple double for an entire season.
The other player was named Blank Robertson.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
All right, here we go out, let's do a baby.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Myer oscar.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah no, we need a voting Rob didn't know't winning time.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Stop that noise.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
It tie.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Was so used to me. We got a zero to
start my god killing.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We need a tiebreaker.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Patrick thinks it's done, so bring the bond goes in.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, don't bring the bomb, Alex No, start out with
my music first, and then you got to a clip.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Nobody wins. So sound of silence.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Oh man, All right, Well, Bronnie, Rob, don't look now,
but Bronnie James is.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
Ball Okay, he has one average again now he's balling?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Is that what it is keeping?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
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(36:15):
last night I said it going out of the last segment.
Ronnie James with a nice game last night, Lakers get
the w But the bigger story to many people, Ronnie
James not only hits his first three pointer, he actually
hits two.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
He finishes two for five from three.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
But Robbie scored twelve points, had a team high nine
in the first half, and really, to me, out of
I guess it was six total Summer League games, last
night was the first one where you were like, oh,
he looks like a pro. He played well, he was aggressive.
He obviously hit some shots.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He's finished five for eleven, so it's not like he
like lit the world on fire.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
But he took good shots. He stayed within himself too,
Like you might be tempted. You hit a couple shots,
you think you've got it going. You know you haven't
played very well. Everybody's watching you. You might want to
get You might get overly aggressive and start doing too much.
He played within himself and you know, didn't force the action,
(37:26):
but he was aggressive.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I think he might have been.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
More aggressive than many of his other games.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Droe had a nice drive to the bucket with a
fancy finish underneath a defender, kind of you know, went
up under the defender.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
So played a nice game, Robin.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
If you're a guy, if you're someone who's cheering for Brownie,
then I think you were encouraged by what you saw
last night.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, you can't make a big deal out of it.
I mean he had played so poorly that he definitely
needed that.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
That was important.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You know, when you zero for fifteen from three, you know,
you got to start making some baskets, Chris. I don't
care who you are, It just you have to.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
And he can't.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
He couldn't continue on the pace that he was because
it had gotten to the point where it was almost embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Uh, the play.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
And and then you got, as you said, a semblance
of you know that he belonged out there for a change,
and that was good for him and and and that's
how you got to play it. He didn't cross over
and now solidify. Oh yeah, he's an NBA player because
he scored twelve points on five for eleven, but summer league,
(38:35):
in summer league against most guys who will not nt
be in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
That's what people got to understand.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Most of most of those guys will not be in
the NBA, and not good enough, that's what they'll get. Yeah,
and that's why the poor play was was so start
Chris and stuck out because this is happening against guys
who aren't going to be in the league.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
So what do you get in the league. So good
for him? Good for him? Yeah, yeah, I think it was.
And look the thing for him and whether you like
it or not, he's in the league.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
You know, Rob, we talked about he's got the three
year deal guaranteed its four years, but three of them
are guaranteed. He's in the league, like he's going to
get every opportunity. Rob. It's like Eddie Howse says, some
guys have to play themselves into the league, and this
is the rare case where someone Briani's gonna have to
(39:34):
play himself out of the league, like.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
If he.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
And look if in three years, Rob, he hasn't shown
that he can be an NBA player.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
And that doesn't even necessarily mean a guy.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
I mean, you would hope certainly by then that he's
in a rotation, but that doesn't even necessarily mean you're
in the rotation. You know, there are guys in the
league for several years who aren't ever a part of
a rotation, you know, So but you have to show something,
like you you know, and he's got three years to
(40:10):
do it, and that's a ton of time. He doesn't
have to worry about making the team. All he has
to do is work on his game. And that's a
great like advantage to have. Rob unrealistic for most people.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Most people have to make a team, earn their way
on and there's pressure that goes with it, and anxiety
and all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Chris, you know, you here's your opportunity.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
You don't want to blow it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You know, a lot is on the line. It could
change your life or it could.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
And then you know, there's a lot of people who
have basketball in their minds and then Chris, they're lost
after they don't make it, make it.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
To the next level. I mean, they're devastated. They don't
even know what to do next.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Well, he's he's got pressure in that he's Lebron James
Junior and you know, all eyes on him, even to
a level that he doesn't deserve.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Just you know, is just that who his dad is.
He doesn't have the and that makes up for a rock.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
He doesn't have the pressure, like you said, of having
to make a team, having to make a living, but
he's got the pressure of.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
What his name is so all right, we got an
hour left. You know what to do. Lock it,
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Speaker 5 (00:52):
We got Tysan's Tower of.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Trivia Russell Westbrook edition coming up at the bottom of
this hour, so that's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And Chris, I do want to make a little guy
from Kansas City, was talking about the stuff I'm doing
with MLB BRO. We do have a minor announcement. We
now have an MLB Bro TV show starting Monday, five
pm on the streaming service HBCU Go dot TV.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
So every week we'll have a TV.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Show, Yeah, thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Minute TV show Chris every week, which is just amazing.
We continue to grow. Jalen Guilkey. You remember his dad,
Chris played for the Cardinals and the Mets. I don't
all right, his dad Bernard Guilty. He was an outfielder.
He played for the Cardinals and Mets. And matter of fact,
he's the host of the show, Jalen Guilty. But the
only reason you be on it, uh, I'll do a
(01:50):
bro you need to know feature. I'll just have like
one feature every other week. I wouldn't be on every week.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's for the younger guys.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You're gonna pretty quick.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
But I was gonna say Chris Berman.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I think his best nickname for a baseball player, Chris
was for Jalen's father, Bernard Guilty.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What do you call him?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Innocent and toil proven guilty? Bernard innocent and to proven guilty.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I mean, knowing how Berman used to do it, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That innocent and Bernard innocent until proven.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
All right?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, Rob the w NBA, Speaking of proven guilty is
I don't know. They might be a little bit a
tad bit upset at this new situation with the NBA.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
So here's the deal, Rob. We all know that the
NBA is going to.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Have a new TV deal eleven years seventy six billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
That's almost seven.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Billion dollars a year, right, And the NBA, ROB, which
owns sixty percent of the WNBA and really has kept
the WNBA afloat. Adam Silver, the commissioner for the NBA,
said back in twenty eighteen that the WNBA had lost
(03:24):
about ten million dollars every year since it began.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Okay, it's and that was in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
This year, the Washington Post reported Rob earlier this year
that the WNBA is expected to lose fifty million dollars
this season. So they're not making money, they're not breaking even,
they're losing money. And the only way they still exist
(03:55):
for all the great athletes and players in that league
is because the NBA has carried them literally. And so
the NBA got to decide, Rob, how much of our
TV revenue are we going to give to the WNBA,
And they've decided, I guess over the eleven years, it
(04:15):
will be two point two billion to the WNBA. So
of their seventy six billion, they're given two point two
billion to the WNBA. Comes out to like two hundred
million a year, okay, And that's an increase rob of
one hundred and forty million they were getting sixty So
now they're tripling, more than tripling their amount. But Terry Jackson,
(04:41):
who's the executive director of the WNBA Players Union, is
not you know, she's a little bit perturbed. I guess
she feels like they're being undervalued. Here's what she says.
We have wondered for months how the NBA would value
the WNBA and its media rights deal with a reportedly
seventy five billion dollar deal on the table.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
The league is in control of its own destiny.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
More precisely, the NBA controls the destiny of the WNBA.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's a strong statement.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The NBA controls the destiny of the WNBA, she says.
We look forward to learning how the NBA arrived at
a two hundred million dollar, you know, per year valuation
if initial reports are accurate or even close.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Neither the NBA nor the WNBA can deny that.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In the last few years, we've seen unprecedented growth across
all metrics. The players continue to demonstrate their commitment to
building the brand, and that the fans keep showing up.
There's no excuse to undervalue the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Again your thoughts, all right, So give the NBA first
back the last twenty nine years. Quis of losses that
it'd be cool if you want to do that first,
and then.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You go out quickly rob according to the numbers, you know,
ten million dollars a year since nineteen ninety seven, it's
roughly somewhere between two hundred and two hundred and sixty
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
In Okay, So so they go and losses that the
NBA without the NBA, Chris, it would be no league.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Right when we agree with that, Like they kept it alive.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They could try, but it wouldn't. Yeah, the NBA kept
it alive.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Kept it alive.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I know for a fact that when people when
they signed deals Chris with people, they would say, and
you gotta contribute to the WNBA. Like if you want
to make a deal with us, and you have to
take some you know what I mean, Like portion has
to go to the WNBA if you want to make
a deal with us. You can't just say I just
want the guys and not partake. And this was David
(06:42):
Stearns's baby, one of his legacy things, so he tried
hard to keep it afloat Chris, because he started it.
Remember there were other women's leagues before this, the WBL
and some other women's leagues before the WNBA. But I
don't know what leg they have to stand on Caitlin
Clark's games, Chris, if you could show me, because I
(07:05):
would say to them, hey, you know, if you want
to go out on your own and go out and
work your own deals and do all that, have at it,
and if you could do better. No I don't, right, Chris,
I'd say, have at it, go ahead without without the NBA.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
You're not attached.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
You want to be a separate league, Well separate you
go do your thing. You could do better deals on
corporate sponsorship without the NBA there, if you could do
all that on your own, I welcome you to detach
yourself from the NBA and go do your own thing,
because they'll come running back in a New York minute.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Chris, I'm with you.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'm sorry this is not and let's throw out this disclaimer, Rob,
because some people just don't get it. This has nothing
to do with gender. It has nothing to do with
women versus men. That athletes are paid, Rob, you and
I have covered many lockouts and all of that. They
(08:07):
are paid a certain percentage in the NBA is roughly
in most leagues, it's roughly half, right, half of the
money that the sports generates is.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
What the athletes are paying.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So the reason NBA salaries are skyrocketing is because the
sports popularity in terms of jersey sales and parking and
attendance and TV deals most importantly, and.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
All of that is skyrocketing.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
They're not just.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Giving these players money to be nice them, right, They're
giving them half of the money that the league generates.
And the WNBA, we just said it, they're generating no money.
They're generating no money. And so the NBA, Rob, I'm
looking at. We talked about the NBA's revenue. Let's put
(09:01):
it at seven billion a year.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
With the new TV deal.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
They are given the WNBA two hundred million, or of
the seventy six billion, they're giving.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Them two point two billion.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Right, that's about roughly three percent of the NBA's revenue. Rob,
When you're given three percent of your revenue to a
league that's making nothing, that's not contributing to your bottom
line made.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Has never been in the block, been in the block.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
You're doing them a favor.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
And I mean, you look, and I hate to put
it this way, but and I don't take this literally.
Maybe I should beggars.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh go ahead, what'd you say?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Beggars can't be choosers. I mean they're funding you. You
said it, Rob. If you want to go out on
your own, have at it. But we're funding you, and
we're we're giving you more than your liken, then economically
you deserve it.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Has nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And here's what I don't like. I don't like when
she puts in here and it's just one little phrase.
Our players. The players continue to demonstrate their commitment to
building the brand.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
What athletes don't like.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I don't want to hear about how hard the w
NBA players work. We know they work hard, they work
as hard as the NBA players, But guess what, So
do track and field athletes. So do bicyclists then, and
and and.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Weight lifts, And they don't make big money because they
can't generate the revenue. Like, let's just be real, it's
the same thing, Chris. There's college baseball. They have the
World Series. There you go, they sell out for that.
Every other game there's there's family and friends in the stands.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
That's what you see.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
The college World Series, Chris, is sold out right, okay,
But the rest of the year, nobody's going, nobody's watching.
You cannot expect to make what college football or college basketball,
even though there's a college baseball team.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
No, just as hard, they're just as committed to their craft.
They've many of them got just as much of a
chance or want to get to the pros as the
football players.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
You gotta understand it.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Though the college games aren't on national television on Saturday afternoon.
What I mean is that fair? Like, that's the thing.
Don't tell me, Well, just we play the same sport.
We should be on just as much as the men. Well,
if you were as popular, you would be.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's so easy if we talk about it all the time.
What do I do, Chris? I criticize the women in
this country. I do because it's on you watch the games.
Take your boyfriend on a day to your husband, Chris,
to a w NBA game.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Fill up the stands. There's plenty of women to fill
up the stands. Go do it. The men can't.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Ignore you if you have a packed house at the Barclays,
Chris with a liberty of playing.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
If they packed the house every night they have no.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Would start getting as There's no doubt about it. And Rob,
remember too, the WNBA season is only forty games. It's
half as long as the NBA season. So you have
to take that into account too. I mean that's a
small thing, but it is a legitimate thing.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
No, that's legit.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Your season is not as long.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
And so I just again, it's not nothing to do
with you know, any quality or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
It is what the sport generations.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Rob, we talked about the man, Chris.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Supply and demand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We talked about it.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We worked just as hard as Colin Coward her.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
We want to say that worked right.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
He's making more than us his way, his show generates
way more.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Steve, we work as hard as Steven.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
He Stephen getting paid like he's a freaking quarterback exactly.
I mean, he's like he's Justin Jefferson or something. And
and but hey, we worked just as hard. We put
just as much into our craft.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
We get it. This is how it works, right.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We don't all get paid the same amount because we're
all doing the same job.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
It doesn't work like that. We're in the same industry.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And and if if our ratings somehow Chris superseded or
or we had something that was better than Colin, than
the bosses would have to say, well, maybe we need
to write this, Maybe maybe it's the odd couple and
and we need to move them in that slot and
that looking at killing it like that's how it works, and.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No one, but you can't just go up in there
talking about well he making this.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Why can't you know?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You you have you have to understand how things work,
so this will be interesting. I just I mean, again, Rod,
we talked about it with Brandon ak yesterday.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Leverage.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
If you don't have any leverage, then you know, you're
kind of just blowing smoke.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, I don't I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, I don't know what leverage they have because, like
I said, other than Kaitlin Clark and maybe Angel reached
Chris their games, the attendance has to spike the rest
of the places. I mean, like I said it before
the season started. She would be like the Harlem Globe Trotters.
Every time she shows up, they got the crowds and
all that, but there's still a lot of five thousand
(14:25):
and four thousand and six thousand nights Chris where the
other games are being played.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Rob her games or she's one of twelve teams, right,
she's on one of twelve her.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
So that one of twelve is what like eight percent.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
M the fever, which is her team accounts for thirty
three and a half percent of the WNBA's totally thirty
I mean, that's what four times the amount that they
should her. Their average attendance is fifteen, one hundred and
forty two, The league averages seven. Everybody else's averaged seven thousand,
six hundred forty. So, I mean business, Let's not just
(15:03):
get emotional about stuff, all right, all right? Eight seven
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it down WNBA. I'm not gonna stay upset because I mean,
they understand that the hands that feeds them. But you know,
they they release a statement they don't want to be
undervalued by the NBA giving them three percent roughly of
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their TV revenue when the sport is not generating even
that amount of production, so to speak. So what are
your thoughts on this? Is it unfair to the WNBA?
Is it fair to the WNBA? Is it beyond fair
like they're getting more than their bringing in your thoughts?
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Speaker 6 (17:45):
You'll turn the way in on the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
You know, are they being undervalued by the NBA giving
them three percent of their seventy six billion dollar TV deal.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
All right, let's kick it off with a sche On
in Sacramento.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
You're on the couple.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
What's up, Sean, Yeah, welcome back Rob, my uncle from
another brother and my brother buying the board. NBCU, Lady Patrick,
real quick, man, I think it was a color previous
A couple of weeks ago called it the welfare NBA.
That's what the wad for. I feel like, man, they
(18:24):
if they want to find out what it really is
all about, go ahead and go independent. Just like y'all
fellas said. It's not it's not that we want to
be unfair, but it's supply and demand. If nobody's demanding
your product, even with the spike from Caitlin Clark right now,
you're not gonna be able to stand up and make
the kind of money NBA players are making. And before
I get off the pharm really quick, man, I just
(18:45):
got to go ahead. And the Martin O he got
cooked by Fernando on trash talking everybody.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
That's how bad it was.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
No wonder Martin had his panties and a bunch over it.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I did it.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Wow, all right, Sean? Thanks Yes, Jay in Alabama, you're
on the up. The Alabama, Atlanta. You're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
What's up, Jay, Hey man, how you're doing today?
Speaker 10 (19:13):
Doing great?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Good man?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
How are you all right?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
I'm gonna keep it short because I don't want to
be the dead horse. You guys already said it. Even
the person who put out that statement doesn't believe what
she said. And if she wants that, if she wants
that hundred some more money, go get that hundred million
that Jalen Brunson left on the table. And finally, I'll
say this snake, I'm gonna shot this out every time
I call Rob, thank you for being truthful and saying
(19:37):
that Patrick Mahomes is not chasing Brady because there's cheating
involved in those championships, all right, he's.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Ahead of Brady. Now, well, I mean I just think that.
I just think he's I just think that Joe. He's
not ahead of Joe Montana, but I'm just cheating.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
I think is ahead of Joe.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
You can't deny the cheating, Chris. I mean, this is
there and we don't even know how much was going on.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
We don't know how deep it is, right, it could be.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Yeah, I don't agree with cheating, but that doesn't.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Lesson listen, anything less than that is being disingenuous at
best and willful ignorance at worse.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Not of it.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm just saying it doesn't nullify his greatness or the
victories to me.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
WHOA, there's no greatness that you cheated if you will.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh so you gonna see here on national radio and
say Tom Brady's not great.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
I'm not saying what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You just said there's no greatness.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
If you're thinking that, you ain't great, period?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
So is he great or not? You wanted to start
this quickly? Is time?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
I'm gonna say this again, Patrick Maboles is not chasing Tom.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Easy question, brother, don't call up here with a bold statement.
If you ain't gonna back it up. Is Tom Brady's greater?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Do not either?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
I would not go.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Is Tom Brady great?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
No, don't.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Is Tom Brady's great or not?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
So he's very good?
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That was even very good? He cheated?
Speaker 11 (21:07):
Right, he's very good?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Okay, he's not great?
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Thanks all right, Jay, thank you, I appreciated. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Gary real quick in Houston. You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Gary, we haven't heard from you in a while.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What you been on vacation?
Speaker 11 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, I went to I went to Italy.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Look at that, Chris, I know we hadn't heard from
him graduat.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Yeah, okay, but okay. So I think there's two problems
to w NBA. The first problem is the founders of
the league didn't understand the difference between the best basketball
players and the best female basketball players. The best basket
players are all men, Like the NBA has the best talent,
then men's college basketballs, then elite high school boys, and
then WNBA players on the level of really good high
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school bool boys.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
And in the Pole.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
League, we don't want to watch really good high school boys.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Well, no, I do think that's a fair like where
you rank. And that's nothing against women. I've always looked
at it this way, rob because obviously athleticism is a
huge part of basketball, and obviously skills too, But the like,
world class female sprinters are running times that like really
(22:24):
really good high school boys run, you know, not the
ultra elite high school boys, but really good high school boys.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
State champions and many states and things like that.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
So I would compare, you know, the level of the
WNBA two yet really good high school boys basketball, not
the elite teams that are filled with guys that are
going to you know, go D one or play in
the NBA. But I don't think. I still don't think
Rob that that's the ultimate thing. I mean, he says
(22:58):
nobody wants to watch it.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I don't know. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I mean, obviously their ratings haven't gone through the.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Roof, but I think people can you know, separate that
these are women playing and we don't, you know, judge
them against the men. But maybe most people do, Rob.
Maybe you know a lot of people have said they
want to see Dunky, you know, lower the rims to
nine feet. I wouldn't want that. I don't think the
women want that either, but you know, some people.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Because then they would be did you know, like Chris,
if they did, it wouldn't be they would be discredited,
Oh of course they're duncan well they lowered.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
The rim I don't know what they'd be discredited though,
you think. I don't think they would, But I don't
think they want to play. Yeah, it, but it would
seem like a cheapen version of the game, That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
All right, it is the eye couple of Tys Towers. Next,
but first Martin White's with the update.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
My wife's so Chris on Alex sarwatch, he's now one
for five, no three pointers taken though nine.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
They they talk to him about that, like, bro, like
what are you doing? I guess maybe this is why
he takes threes though he can't make twos either.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
It's a tough look right out for the second overall
pick in the NBA draft with the solid two points
right now, Wizards with a five point lead over the Kings,
eight twenty five left in the fourth quarter, sixty to
fifty five. Let's see here, what else we got? Russell
Westbrook going to be traded from the Clippers and a
second round picking cash to the Utah Jazz and assigning
trade for Chris Dunn. Westbrook expected to agree to a
(24:31):
contract buyout with the Jazz and eventually signed with the Nuggets.
The University of Alabama plans to honor former coach Nick
Saban by naming his football playing field for him at
Bryant Denny.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
State Week last week, they should name the stadium after him.
He won more than bear Bryant.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I mean, but the stadium's already named. What are you
supposed to change the name? Change the names the stadiums
all the time. Yes, change it. May they name it
after him?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
The street, No, the field, the playing field, Chris, it's weak.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Make that Bear Bryan play, leaving it Bear Bryant.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And with the new nick Saban did better than Bear Bryance.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
He did.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
But that don't mean you.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Gotta change the name. Change the name.
Speaker 12 (25:13):
I mean they did, but I got you. Jacksonville Jaguars sued.
They meet Patella Stafford who stole something.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Named of Chris before was named after Bear Bryant. And
guess what they changed the name for Bear Bryant.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
It was west Side Field.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Oh yeah, that thing?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That that's something, huh?
Speaker 10 (25:31):
I meet.
Speaker 12 (25:31):
Patel stole twenty two million from the Jacksonville Jaguars over
a three and a half year period to payoff gambling
debts and fund a life of luxury. He's being sued
now by the team for sixty six point six million
dollars in damages by Florida State Court, which is just
an insane number to be sued. Speaking of Florida, the
Saint Petersburg City Council improved plans for the Rays to
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build a new one point three billion dollar stadium. It'll
have three thirty thousand seats of fixed roof and a
schedule to be ready for opening day twenty twenty eight.
Daniel Brown six under leads the first round at the Open.
Shane Lowry's five under, andrews Fla two under, Brooks Kopka
Scottie Scheffler both won under Tiger Woods eight over, Royal
McElroy seven over and Bryson de Chambeo five over. And
(26:16):
the Dolphins have placed linebackers Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips
on the pup list ahead of training camp.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Back to you guys, all right, thank you, Martin Weiss.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Don't you think that Jacksonville deserved that? How did they
let somebody take that kind of money? Who's minding the store?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Like?
Speaker 6 (26:32):
Like, how did he get Chris?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
This ain't a five million dollars?
Speaker 5 (26:36):
I mean like, yeah, I mean how do you get
away with you?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Right? How do you get away with that?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Like how that much money disappear? Yeah, like you're.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Watching the store. I don't even understand it.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
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Speaker 5 (26:53):
It's time for Tyson's Tower of Trivia.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
And no no ladies and gentlemen, vegans and meaty there,
tailed ship lovers, ruffle hip lovers, It's time.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
This game is so easy for tight Shirts Tower of Trivia.
Speaker 13 (27:11):
That's right, everybody. It is the segment that proves you
don't have to like sports to work in sports media.
I am your host, Phillian for taking Robbie Patrick's sweek
in here and.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Drick, what's up? I mean sweet.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Patrick splendor?
Speaker 7 (27:29):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (27:29):
You know, I'll take that. Rob will take that Patrick's Flenda.
Well let's go with that. Let's go with someone who
is also incredibly sweet himself, Alex tight Shirt.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Alex did you hear what he said?
Speaker 7 (27:44):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (27:45):
I have been I have been called sweeter than honey Rob.
So that's.
Speaker 13 (27:52):
Well, we got the gang's all here, let's get it
all going. This edition of ty Shirt's Tower Trivia is
actually the Russell Westbrook edition. Guys, So why don't we
start with the first question? So west Rob or me,
let's you know what I did do a coin toss here,
and you know what, tales never fails and you know
who landed on tails our very own Chris Brusar.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
First, it's old Patrick. You old Patrick.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
You've seen Chris Brusaw it only on television. I'm there
rubbing your back.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Three days a week. I left it to chance.
Speaker 13 (28:30):
Don't don't, don't, don't blame the messenger, man, I left
it a chance. Tell you come over tonight. Rub first, Patrick,
My goodness. Let's go with the first question. Russell Westbrook
spent the first eleven years of his NBA career as
a member of the Oklahoma City Blank.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Oh look you're ready.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
I'm ready, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Rob.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
All right, here we go, Here we go, Here we go, thunder.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Lightning.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Chris Blue, that's up.
Speaker 13 (29:09):
That's one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I'm messed up.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I can't believe that I was looking at something on my.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Computer three that I just messed up.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
I meant to say lightning. Oh, but we got it.
We're good. I take those ten points. Yeah, I'm my bad.
Speaker 13 (29:30):
I'm oh, my goodness. Know whatn't even a purpose. We're
gonna start the next question, and you know what, Rob,
you're getting your due on this one. We're going with you, Rob.
So the next question in his only season as a starter,
Westbrook's U. C. L A. Bruins made it to the
final four before losing to Derek Blank and the Memphis Toygers.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At you ready, thank you?
Speaker 10 (29:59):
I'm ready, Chris asks me, No, I mean.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
All right, Alex here, ah, here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
H today, Ralph at some point okay, uh my goodness, all.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Right, Alex, yep ah.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Bowl, No, I got it in okay, Bowl, give me
the question again, Patrick.
Speaker 13 (30:31):
All right the question and his only season as a starter,
Westbrooks Brew Bruins made it to the final six Words
Fly before losing to Derek Bank.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Derek Blank Rose.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
That clue was who this is from? Callebe from California?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Rose Bowl, Thank you, Alex, thank you. It's just smarter
than Chris wants to allow you to be.
Speaker 13 (30:59):
All right, let's go, let's go. Let's go with question three.
Russell Westbrook raised eyebrows back in twenty twenty two when
he went off on Skip Bayless for calling him west Blank.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
All right, Alex, here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
Let's do a baby.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
I'm going musical.
Speaker 14 (31:21):
No no, no, that's a clue. No no, no, no,
thats no that's a clue. He just said, no, you
said I'm going You said I'm going musical.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Patrick, I think you got to give me a buzzer.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Patrick, You know what, Rob g is a player's cameo.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
He just.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Stuff sounds. Did you hear that I'm going music? How right?
Because he's not in the in the studio to Padrick
the answers underneath the.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Door, Patrick Alley, good da good teams that played against
Tom Brady in the Patriot.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Oh my, you know what.
Speaker 13 (32:10):
Let's moving on to the next one, guys. Back in
twenty Back in twenty twelve, Westbrook stated or started his
famous blank Not Foundation, which is also the name of
the Jordan Brand sneakers. He wears, what is it again,
(32:30):
blank blank Not Foundation? Okay, Alec you ready, yes, Rob,
thank you?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
All right?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Question why.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
My man terrible clues.
Speaker 13 (32:57):
Alex is on fire today. I'm brought us, he wrote us.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Hear how he's down in you, Alex, despite how well
you're doing AIX.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
It's all on Alex.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I'm impressed with his intelligence because.
Speaker 10 (33:09):
The thank you very much.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
All right, here we go, all right, here we go.
Let's go to the next question. Westbrook is a man
of many nicknames, including the Brody and blank Brook.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
All Right, here we go, Alex.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Beauty and the Beest. Yeah we got a humdinger here twenty.
Speaker 13 (33:37):
All we are buzzing to day. Say well, let's go
to the next one here, guys, to quote, to quote,
our very own prestigious Rob Parker Westbrook had a cup
of coffee and a sweet roll in twenty twenty as
a member of the Washington Blank Alex Ready, I'm ready, Rob,
(34:03):
So remember he.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Had a couple of coffee.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Hey, hey, Hey, okay, here we go.
Speaker 13 (34:10):
Oz the wizard, Wizard of Oz and get this one attired.
All right, last one we got here, Russell, don't worry
about it.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Don't feel bad.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
How he's under playing you, Chris gives back.
Speaker 13 (34:34):
I'm just Rob's adding in the sweetener like splendor. Right now,
let's do this.
Speaker 10 (34:38):
We're shot on time, Patrick Come.
Speaker 13 (34:39):
Russell Westbrook is one of only two players in NBA
history to average a triple double for an entire season.
The other player was named Blank Robertson.
Speaker 10 (34:51):
All right, here we go out, let's do a baby.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Myer oscar.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah no, we need a voting Rob didn't know't winning time.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Stop that noise.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
It tie.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Was so used to me. We got a zero to
start my god killing.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
We need a tiebreaker.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Patrick thinks it's done, so bring the bond goes in.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, don't bring the bomb, Alex No, start out with
my music first, and then you got to a clip.
Speaker 10 (35:25):
Nobody wins. So sound of silence.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Oh man, All right, Well, Bronnie, Rob, don't look now,
but Bronnie James is.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
Ball Okay, he has one average again now he's balling?
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Is that what it is keeping?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
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(36:15):
last night I said it going out of the last segment.
Ronnie James with a nice game last night, Lakers get
the w But the bigger story to many people, Ronnie
James not only hits his first three pointer, he actually
hits two.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
He finishes two for five from three.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
But Robbie scored twelve points, had a team high nine
in the first half, and really, to me, out of
I guess it was six total Summer League games, last
night was the first one where you were like, oh,
he looks like a pro. He played well, he was aggressive.
He obviously hit some shots.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He's finished five for eleven, so it's not like he
like lit the world on fire.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
But he took good shots. He stayed within himself too,
Like you might be tempted. You hit a couple shots,
you think you've got it going. You know you haven't
played very well. Everybody's watching you. You might want to
get You might get overly aggressive and start doing too much.
He played within himself and you know, didn't force the action,
(37:26):
but he was aggressive.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
I think he might have been.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
More aggressive than many of his other games.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Droe had a nice drive to the bucket with a
fancy finish underneath a defender, kind of you know, went
up under the defender.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
So played a nice game, Robin.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
If you're a guy, if you're someone who's cheering for Brownie,
then I think you were encouraged by what you saw
last night.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Yeah, you can't make a big deal out of it.
I mean he had played so poorly that he definitely
needed that.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
That was important.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You know, when you zero for fifteen from three, you know,
you got to start making some baskets, Chris. I don't
care who you are, It just you have to.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
And he can't.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
He couldn't continue on the pace that he was because
it had gotten to the point where it was almost embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Uh, the play.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
And and then you got, as you said, a semblance
of you know that he belonged out there for a change,
and that was good for him and and and that's
how you got to play it. He didn't cross over
and now solidify. Oh yeah, he's an NBA player because
he scored twelve points on five for eleven, but summer league,
(38:35):
in summer league against most guys who will not nt
be in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
That's what people got to understand.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Most of most of those guys will not be in
the NBA, and not good enough, that's what they'll get. Yeah,
and that's why the poor play was was so start
Chris and stuck out because this is happening against guys
who aren't going to be in the league.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
So what do you get in the league. So good
for him? Good for him? Yeah, yeah, I think it was.
And look the thing for him and whether you like
it or not, he's in the league.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
You know, Rob, we talked about he's got the three
year deal guaranteed its four years, but three of them
are guaranteed. He's in the league, like he's going to
get every opportunity. Rob. It's like Eddie Howse says, some
guys have to play themselves into the league, and this
is the rare case where someone Briani's gonna have to
(39:34):
play himself out of the league, like.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
If he.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
And look if in three years, Rob, he hasn't shown
that he can be an NBA player.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
And that doesn't even necessarily mean a guy.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
I mean, you would hope certainly by then that he's
in a rotation, but that doesn't even necessarily mean you're
in the rotation. You know, there are guys in the
league for several years who aren't ever a part of
a rotation, you know, So but you have to show something,
like you you know, and he's got three years to
(40:10):
do it, and that's a ton of time. He doesn't
have to worry about making the team. All he has
to do is work on his game. And that's a
great like advantage to have. Rob unrealistic for most people.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Most people have to make a team, earn their way
on and there's pressure that goes with it, and anxiety
and all kinds of other stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Chris, you know, you here's your opportunity.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
You don't want to blow it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
You know, a lot is on the line. It could
change your life or it could.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
And then you know, there's a lot of people who
have basketball in their minds and then Chris, they're lost
after they don't make it, make it.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
To the next level. I mean, they're devastated. They don't
even know what to do next.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Well, he's he's got pressure in that he's Lebron James
Junior and you know, all eyes on him, even to
a level that he doesn't deserve.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Just you know, is just that who his dad is.
He doesn't have the and that makes up for a rock.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
He doesn't have the pressure, like you said, of having
to make a team, having to make a living, but
he's got the pressure of.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
What his name is so all right, we got an
hour left. You know what to do. Lock it,
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