Speaker 1: We are on Lonzo Ball Watch, and we have some
Speaker 1: more bad news. According to Sham's Lonzo Ball will undergo
Speaker 1: a third surgery on his left knee that will get
Speaker 1: him to miss completely all of next year, putting his
Speaker 1: entire career into doubt.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 1: What to say, man, I don't know who these people
Speaker 1: are working on Lonzo. But the first initial injury was
Speaker 1: a simple meniscus tear, and now we've got a guy
Speaker 1: who might miss the rest of his career. He's on
Speaker 1: his third surgery. What is that gonna do? I do
Speaker 1: not want to face a reality where Lonzo Ball never
Speaker 1: plays in the NBA game, But that's what it is,
Speaker 1: so we'll move on. Jovon Buja just dropped the bomb
Speaker 1: also about the Lakers' future plans that coincides with the
Speaker 1: Lakers and D'Angelo Russell back in the fold. He wants
Speaker 1: to get another contract, he wants to go back to
Speaker 1: the Purple and Gold, and the Lakers are interested.
Speaker 2: Makes sense.
Speaker 1: So from what Jovon Buhan has been told by his
Speaker 1: sources around the organization, he says this, they want to
Speaker 1: run this situation, this current roster back it's looked good.
Speaker 1: So far, They've won a ton of games. They've done
Speaker 1: a lot of winning without Lebron and from what I've
Speaker 1: been told, they are not going to be pursuing Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving in the off season. The Kyrie Irving ship, I
Speaker 1: think has sailed what That leaves Kyrie with just one option,
Speaker 1: the Maps, and we are gonna have to see how
Speaker 1: that plays out with Dallas. Good thing lucaikes playing with them.
Speaker 1: And as for the Lakers, I kind of like this
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 2: I like this team. This team's fun. This is the
Speaker 2: most fun version of the Lakers I've seen.
Speaker 1: In a long time. Likable too. I pretty much like
Speaker 1: everybody on this team. This is a much better team.
Speaker 2: Than they were in the Bowl when they won the title.
Speaker 2: If they had a little bit more depth. Dare I
Speaker 2: say the Lakers could be back? I hope not? All right?
Speaker 1: Moving on to this quick contract update, another alert came
Speaker 1: from Wojanowski.
Speaker 2: Boh, this is the bomb. This is the sound of
Speaker 2: the woj bomb.
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks have lockdown Bogdon Bogdanovic four years sixty
Speaker 1: eight million dollar contract. Man That stings, considering that Boyon
Speaker 1: signed a four year, seventy three million dollar contract and
Speaker 1: I think he's older. Not only are they not related,
Speaker 1: but now Bogdon has to go through life knowing he's
Speaker 1: the second highest played b Bogdanovic in the NBA.
Speaker 2: Either, I like him, Quinn Snyder must like him. That
Speaker 2: makes sense.
Speaker 1: He loved Boyon when he played for Utah he had
Speaker 1: Joe Ingles and who is a slower version of bogdan
Speaker 1: But now he's also had Boyon Bogdanovic too. So now
Speaker 1: we have to wait until Quinn Snyder's master plan continues
Speaker 1: to reveal itself. I guarantee, I don't guarantee, but I
Speaker 1: do not think Trey Jung is back next year, Shucker.
Speaker 1: I guess there's another All Star bitching about the MVP award,
Speaker 1: and it's not Joel Embiid, only this time it is
Speaker 1: Yannie Yannis. Yes, that's how you know things are getting
Speaker 1: out of POCKETA because Jannis is speaking and is mad.
Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
Speaker 1: The thing that I don't get about the MVP criteria
Speaker 1: is that it changes. Like I believe and I know
Speaker 1: that people are dominating. So what is the MVP? Is
Speaker 1: it the guy that scores the most points? Is it
Speaker 1: the guy that's the most efficient Is it the guy
Speaker 1: that's the most dominant, Is it the guy who's the
Speaker 1: most valuable?
Speaker 2: Sometimes the best player isn't even the most valuable on
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 1: Like I think that Brook Lopez is really valuable player
Speaker 1: for our team. Like the MVP criteria just fucking sorry
Speaker 1: for my language. It just changes Yiannis can't even cuss
Speaker 1: without saying, hey, sorry, uh as I said again, I
Speaker 1: can't control that. I can only control how I prepare
Speaker 1: for the game and try to be ready for the game.
Speaker 2: That's where it takes.
Speaker 1: Do you know what it takes for Giannis to drop
Speaker 1: an f bomb and then apologize. What it takes for
Speaker 1: everyone to debate whether Yokic or Unbeid is the MVP
Speaker 1: while Yannis draws forty and eighteen every damn night and
Speaker 1: nobody says a freaking peep and he's already won it twice.
Speaker 2: Why he's like, Yo, I just dropped forty five points
Speaker 2: on the Kings.
Speaker 1: What the fuck do I have to do in order
Speaker 1: for you guys to start saying my name again? He
Speaker 1: could score fifty every night if you wanted. It's very
Speaker 1: clear that he's the most unstoppable player in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and He can't even get into the conversation because of
Speaker 1: this little pissing match between Mbid and Yokic. They haven't
Speaker 1: even gone to it a finals combined, and Yannis is
Speaker 1: already we won a title.
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 1: Go off, Yannis, tell him what's good? You can give
Speaker 1: out Yannis the MVP every year and nobody would complain.
Speaker 2: That's how dominant he is. Times are changing, Times are
Speaker 2: at changing.
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan sang that ages ago, and you know Adam
Speaker 1: Silver has that loaded up on repeat on his h
Speaker 1: What is that Microsoft Zoom?
Speaker 2: That's probably what he uses. Because it was announced today
Speaker 2: that Silver and the.
Speaker 1: League are looking to triple its current revenue from TV deals.
Speaker 1: You know what happened, right, Adam Silver saw three numbers
Speaker 1: and went from six to twelve and about one hundredth
Speaker 1: of a second. Here's those numbers, five hundred and fourteen,
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety four and two hundred and seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Those numbers are the gross revenue numbers of Amazon, Apple,
Speaker 1: and Google in twenty twenty two, in the tune of billions.
Speaker 1: That's total of one point one nine trillion dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's how much money they have.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Put it this way, Amazon, Apple, Google, if they merged,
Speaker 1: they'd have more gross revenue than all but fourteen countries
Speaker 1: on Earth. The country of Google by Amazon GDP would
Speaker 1: put them as the fifteenth richest country on Earth, ahead
Speaker 1: of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Holland.
Speaker 2: That's how much these fools make. So he saw a.
Speaker 1: Peek at them and was like, Oh, yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: need to soak them dry. We're gonna need to charge
Speaker 1: them extra. They've got plenty. According to the Sports Business Journal,
Speaker 1: the NBA has high hopes for squeezing more money out
Speaker 1: of media outlets and negotiations because Amazon and Google told
Speaker 1: the league of their interest.
Speaker 2: In streaming the games.
Speaker 1: Listen as someone who makes money off the teat of
Speaker 1: right steals, don't hate it, don't hate it at all.
Speaker 1: Guess what if TV revenue triples? Now, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: salary caps in the three hundred million dollar range, which
Speaker 1: means that we are going to get a player that
Speaker 1: makes a hundred million dollars a year. And that also
Speaker 1: means talking heads are gonna get paid more to bitch.
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on. Finally, Bronnie James Bronnie James
Speaker 2: the decision.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Bronnie James TV radio, Twitter announcement.
Speaker 1: Where will Bronnie James play basketball next year? He's getting
Speaker 1: advice from his uncle uncle Kevin Kevin Durant. Durant had
Speaker 1: this to say about college ball. There's still some amazing
Speaker 1: talent in college now with so many different routes, the
Speaker 1: otes going overseas, guys going to Australia, all that stuff
Speaker 1: is cool, But still going to college. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's a great route because it's ill on that big stage.
Speaker 1: You get to show who you are on the big stage,
Speaker 1: and the tournament NCAA tournament is still a huge thing.
Speaker 1: I would love to see Bronnie in college instead of
Speaker 1: going another route. Also, he better not go to Ohio State.
Speaker 1: They didn't make the tournament this year, and I don't
Speaker 1: think Bronnie James is elevating them to.
Speaker 2: Some sort of march madness pursuit.
Speaker 1: But prea John Katie college is I think the one
Speaker 1: hundred percent the best route for Brownie.
Speaker 2: Did you see what happened to Scoot?
Speaker 1: Scoot is now on ice because he stinks against grown men.
Speaker 1: You go against college students Brownie. If it looks like
Speaker 1: a duck, it quacks like a duck, it's an Oregon duck.
Speaker 2: Quack quack.
Speaker 1: Bronnie James going to go to Oregon. That's my prediction.
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