Speaker 1: We haven't talked much about the major layoffs this past
Speaker 1: month from ESPN. We talked a little bit about it,
Speaker 1: but earlier Jalen Rose was let go. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a major player going forward for their NBA content.
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy got the AX. While I think he
Speaker 1: was very popular with a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of fans, a lot of people internally. He had been
Speaker 1: calling games at the Worldwide Leader of Sports for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: calling nearly one hundred NBA Finals game this week. The
Speaker 1: other shoe, though, dropped shockingly surprisingly and in the time,
Speaker 1: timing wise, didn't quite make sense. Mark Jackson, Mama, there
Speaker 1: goes that clam He was let go by ESPN, which
Speaker 1: means that two thirds of the team on the call
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals will now be gone. He had
Speaker 1: two years left though this contract, which means he's getting
Speaker 1: the bag to be unemployed. Say what about Mark Jackson.
Speaker 1: He was a staple of NBA on ABC and on ESPN.
Speaker 1: He's a class act, good dude, never done a push
Speaker 1: up in his life until he met me. And he
Speaker 1: had this to say after his surprise firing. I wish
Speaker 1: greater measures of success to the new ESPN team. May
Speaker 1: they continue to elevate this game that has given me
Speaker 1: a home and a life. I leave ESPN with nothing
Speaker 1: but gratitude. This now leaves only Mike Breen left standing
Speaker 1: from the trio who date all the way back to
Speaker 1: when Breen called the Knicks on cable. Van Gundy was
Speaker 1: a Knicks assistant coach and Jackson was the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks point guard. Breen, as you might imagine, was very
Speaker 1: upset and probably very thrown off. It's sad because this
Speaker 1: is what he said. It's sad because we really thought
Speaker 1: we had something special, and that's going to be thought
Speaker 1: going forward. It is that we were able to do
Speaker 1: a lot longer than anyone else ever did. It's something
Speaker 1: will all treasure, but we wish it was just a
Speaker 1: little longer. You don't expect it because he had two
Speaker 1: years left on his contract and he survived the first
Speaker 1: round of layoffs, because it was such a great team
Speaker 1: and to have it completely broken up was a surprise.
Speaker 1: The new A crew apparently is going to be Breen,
Speaker 1: Doris Burke, and Doc Rivers, who also is Mark Jackson's nemesis.
Speaker 1: Given the fact that Mark Jackson was traded away from
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. For who Glen rivers to be
Speaker 1: discarded twice in your career if the same man has
Speaker 1: got to be a rough beat and to be held
Speaker 1: on the hook waiting for your demise until that man
Speaker 1: who ended up supplanting you decides Yeah, and maybe I'll
Speaker 1: take the job while I wait for a new coaching gig,
Speaker 1: which is which I really want to do. Is a
Speaker 1: rough beat as well? What's next for Mark Jackson? Is
Speaker 1: it a return to coaching? Maybe? Apparently there is a
Speaker 1: much bigger offer out there. Is it Amazon? Is it TNT?
Speaker 1: Is it Apple? No, sir, no, ma'am. It is Cam
Speaker 1: Soda Cam Soda, the same company that streams young women
Speaker 1: probably men also playing with themselves on camera Cam Soda
Speaker 1: solo cam only fans masturbation videos. They want to hire
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson to do what hopefully not play with himself
Speaker 1: but no play by play with herself is like, that's
Speaker 1: what they want to do, doing color commentary on a
Speaker 1: Brandy love threesome. The mama there goes that man and
Speaker 1: jokes are endless, hence which I stole from someone from TikTok.
Speaker 1: Mama there goes that clam cam Soda is willing to
Speaker 1: pay him a million dollars a year. It's not chump James,
Speaker 1: but for a man who's strict in his morals and
Speaker 1: his commitment to God, I don't think that a preacher
Speaker 1: or a pastor like Mark Jackson is going to take
Speaker 1: the gig. But that's a shame. By the way, is
Speaker 1: there any way that Doc Rivers was in Mark Jackson's
Speaker 1: place having been let go of ESPN, he would say
Speaker 1: no to Cam Soda. Absolutely fucking not. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: already commenting for Cam Soda right this second. If it
Speaker 1: was Doc Rivers in Mark Jackson's place, let's move forward, anyone.
Speaker 1: And everyone was talking about Jalen Brown's insane max super
Speaker 1: Max contract until Anthony Davis signed, And now now that's
Speaker 1: what everybody else is talking about. J Be signed five years,
Speaker 1: three hundred and three million. People lost their minds. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. But he was up for
Speaker 1: the extension that the thirty five percent is the thirty
Speaker 1: five percent. There's really nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let him go, they're not gonna trade them,
Speaker 1: so man, it is what it is. They're not committed
Speaker 1: time to move off of one or the other. I
Speaker 1: mean the ship is sailed. At this point. Tatum is
Speaker 1: now going to be the highest paid player, and next
Speaker 1: summer he's going to cost them three hundred and eighteen million,
Speaker 1: which means there is throw six hundred and twenty one
Speaker 1: million point seven lockdown with the two J's for nearly
Speaker 1: two thirds of a billion dollars, is what that is.
Speaker 1: People then freak out about the Anthony Davis extension, and
Speaker 1: those people are dumb. One hundred and eighty six million
Speaker 1: dollars over three years locks him down in LA until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, sixty two million dollars on average. It
Speaker 1: floored most people because he'll be making sixty seven million
Speaker 1: dollars in twenty seven, twenty twenty seven. Those fans do
Speaker 1: not realize this. There was no other way to go, folks,
Speaker 1: because Anthony Davis opts out of his player option or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, because it's something else,
Speaker 1: and then he signs for five years, three hundred and
Speaker 1: change and has even more money locked into the Lakers
Speaker 1: for even more time. So either they're going to let
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis walk, which they are not going to do.
Speaker 1: Why because then it would be a barren wasteland when
Speaker 1: Lebron leaves, or they lock them in for a much
Speaker 1: more favorable contract, which is why they did it on
Speaker 1: day one that he was extension eligible. But guess why,
Speaker 1: Just wait what people will scream about when Nacola I
Speaker 1: love Coca Cola and chocolate covered cheesecakes. Jokic is eligible
Speaker 1: to sign a five year, four hundred and four million
Speaker 1: dollar max deal with eighty one million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: which is right around a million dollars a game. We
Speaker 1: are very close to one hundred million dollars a year
Speaker 1: NBA contract, which I'm sure will be Damian Lillard in
Speaker 1: the Portland S Trailblazer uniform when he has signed. Till
Speaker 1: twenty thirty seven