Why Is Victor Wembanyama Taking A Pay Cut?

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Support him at SoundCloud.com slash May 1st Music. Speaker 2: There is information that was put out there in the ether right after the NBA finals. Speaker 2: And information that I found viable, information that I found pertinent, information that I found accurate because I tapped in with some of my peoples and they confirmed like, yeah, this is actually a thing. Speaker 2: It's now coming into fruition. Speaker 2: So let's start with where we began, right? So let's start with where the T was first dropped. Speaker 2: So let's go ahead to the screen.

As always, I know how we do here. Right into the screen. Speaker 2: Your man's J Will. Before the nonsense of him and RJ in the NBA draft, he had this T that he dropped. Speaker 2: I've talked to a couple of different players that could be super max this year or next year. Speaker 2: They're starting to feel a little pressure from team owners by saying, yo, Jalen Brunson left 13, 113 million dollars on the table. Speaker 2: What are you going to do now?

Speaker 2: The concept of being team friendly, the concept of team friendly discounted contracts. Speaker 2: This is not a new concept, but in this second apron world that we're living in, especially when it comes to the NBA, Speaker 2: This is becoming a more and more prevailing question when owners and front office people are approaching superstar players. Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson took a short, why won't you? Speaker 2: Now that the Knicks have won a Larry OB, now that the Knicks have ended a 53-year drought, Speaker 2: it's only going to get ramped up even more and more because now we have the heels of not one but two players Speaker 2: that were super max eligible or max contract eligible at the least in the second person who decided to take a short. Speaker 2: Now, I did some content about this when this drop and I said this is a very dangerous precedent. Speaker 2: And I was mocked. I was told I don't know ball.

I was told all these things by fans. Speaker 2: And we all know that fandom is a mental illness. This is another, get another exhibit, another example of why fandom is a mental illness, because fans want you to think that Jalen Brunson leaving $113 million on the table is a great thing. Speaker 2: And I can understand if you are a Knicks fan, while you especially think today this is a great thing because it left money on the table for the Knicks to be able to go get Kat, to be able to absorb the contracts of Mikael Bridges and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Speaker 2: Now they got a Larry OB. Speaker 2: However, if you remove the rose colored or in this case, the orange and blue glasses. Speaker 2: And understand that this is a horrible precedent because nowhere in regular life, normal life, your life, would you do a thing like this?

Speaker 2: You would not leave one hundred and thirteen million dollars on the table. Speaker 2: You wouldn't. Speaker 2: And if you did, you would be mocked for it. Speaker 2: Be only in the insane asylum that is athletics and professional athletics. Speaker 2: Is that being championed? Is that being lauded? Is that being used as a rallying cry?

Speaker 2: Imagine trying to give NBA owners a rallying cry. Speaker 2: And you perceive that as a good thing. Speaker 2: Can you imagine how insane that is? Speaker 2: So the reason why this is now spinning the block, this was what, June? Speaker 2: June 16th. Speaker 2: This is after the Larry OB by the Knicks tape. Speaker 2: After the 53-year drought has been ended.

Speaker 2: About a month later, the future face of the league, Big Vic. Speaker 2: Now we could call him Rich Vic, but he could have been even richer Vic. Speaker 2: Wemby has signed a five-year, 252 maximum rookie-scale contract extension with a player option in the fifth season. Speaker 2: Now, the key word is max rookie-scale contract extension. Speaker 2: Webbing Yama decided on the 25% maximum instead of the 30% Supermax escalators to 303 million. Speaker 2: So instead of 252 million, Vic could have had about 50 some odd more million, 51 more million by getting 303. Speaker 2: But of course, the narrative is going to be, well, he did this, so the Spurs will be able to re-up Stefan Castle in the future and potentially Dylan Harper after that.

Speaker 2: And while that is all well and good, Tim Duncan did this during his career. Speaker 2: Dirk Nowitzki has done this in his career. Speaker 2: Taking less, your superstar taking less is not a new concept. Speaker 2: However, if we're in the age of player empowerment, if we're in the age of the players have the most power they've ever had. Speaker 2: Why are players still bowing down to owners? Speaker 2: And yes, they can wave the flag of, well, we're doing this in the name of building a team around you. Speaker 2: What happens if the Spurs don't sign Dylan Harper?

Speaker 2: What happens if the Spurs don't sign Stephon Castle? Speaker 2: then Big Vic took a short for what? Speaker 2: What would be the justification Speaker 2: of losing $51 million, Speaker 2: leaving $51 million? Speaker 2: Now, of course, Big Vic is a monumental player. Speaker 2: He's a super popular player. Speaker 2: He's an international player. Speaker 2: He gonna make that 51 up in other ways.

Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is Speaker 2: is that the collective bargaining agreement, Speaker 2: the CBA, Speaker 2: was negotiated for you to be able to go get that 51 extra million dollars. Speaker 2: Players that were underpaid for years. Speaker 2: The Scottie Pippens of the world, like we all saw in the last dance, Speaker 2: Scottie Pippen was severely underplayed because the CBA was weak as hell back then. Speaker 2: Where a player of the caliber of Scottie Pippen could not get a bag. Speaker 2: And he had to foolishly take a dumb bag just to be able to say he got something out of it. Speaker 2: And there was no wiggle room out of it. Speaker 2: Victor Webinyama is on the shoulders of those players Speaker 2: players in the 60s that breaking six figures was monumental Speaker 2: Big Vic is on the shoulders of those players and he walks away from 51 million dollars Speaker 2: under the guise of well this will allow us to sign Dylan Harper and Stephon Castle Speaker 2: I ask you what happens if the Spurs don't Speaker 2: big Vic will be okay but what happens when the next guy is up when the next guy is up they're Speaker 2: gonna say well look Jalen Brunson took a short Victor Webbing Yama took a short who are you to Speaker 2: not take a short it's all leverage and negotiations when you go into these contracts when you apply Speaker 2: for a job and that job has a range on it likely you're trying to get the high end of that range Speaker 2: aren't you?

Speaker 2: Now what happens Speaker 2: if you're offered that job Speaker 2: but they're offering you Speaker 2: the lowest end of that range? Speaker 2: You're going to feel Speaker 2: a way about that, right? Speaker 2: You're going to try to Speaker 2: counter that offer, right? Speaker 2: So it's okay for you Speaker 2: because it's such a Speaker 2: significantly lesser number. Speaker 2: It's okay. Speaker 2: But because NBA players Speaker 2: make buku bread, Speaker 2: make generational wealth money, Speaker 2: it's okay for them to leave 51 million dollars on the table because you certainly would do that right Speaker 2: if you could walk away from 51 million dollars then why can't you leave 10 to 15 grand on the Speaker 2: table in your job negotiations because that 10 to 15 grand to you is what that 51 million is Speaker 2: to Big Vic. Speaker 2: So if you can leave that 15 grand on the table, Speaker 2: why should Big Vic, Speaker 2: if you feel a way about having to leave 15 grand on the table, Speaker 2: why should Victor Webbingama feel a way Speaker 2: about leaving 51 mil on the table?

Speaker 2: There's this weird dynamic of where Speaker 2: athletes should do things that normal non-athletes Speaker 2: would never do if they were in the same shoes. Speaker 2: And yes, you're going to have the few fans. Speaker 2: And again, remember, fandom is a mental illness. Speaker 2: So once you put it in that frame of mind, Speaker 2: then you'll understand a fan's logic. Speaker 2: A fan will tell you, Speaker 2: oh, well, you know, I would do it Speaker 2: because I want to win. Speaker 2: If I want to win, I'll take a short. Speaker 2: That shit sounds cool in a movie.

Speaker 2: It sounds great in a Hallmark movie. Speaker 2: It sounds great on an ESPN movie. Speaker 2: We're talking about real life. We're talking about real life where we've seen people win the lotto and blow it. Speaker 2: So everyone assumes when they get this big money, they're all going to know exactly what to do. Speaker 2: Those lotto winners thought the same thing. Those people that fall into inheritances and then blow it.

Speaker 2: They thought the same thing. Speaker 2: Oh, if I had that money, I know what I would do. Speaker 2: You would do what? Speaker 2: But yet and still, I'm supposed to be okay Speaker 2: with Victor Webbingama leaving $51 million on the table, Speaker 2: even though you won't leave 10 to 15K on the table. Speaker 2: Make it make sense. Speaker 2: We'll hit the chat. Speaker 2: So, Trey, I don't know what the big deal Kawhi Harden and lots of others have taken less.

Speaker 2: Yes, they've taken less. And you're naming top tier players, right? Speaker 2: And while it's OK for them to lose bread, they're also on the back half of their career. Speaker 2: Kawhi was not taking shorts in San Antonio. Speaker 2: When Kawhi was in a clipper and all that money that Uncle Dennis and Steve Ballmer had to go and maneuver behind, Speaker 2: They had to maneuver that money for a reason because Kawhi was not taking a short. Speaker 2: That's the reason why they got into this hole. If Kawhi was, let me go off the screen here.

Speaker 2: If Kawhi would have took a short, he wouldn't be in Toronto right now because he would still be a Clipper. Speaker 2: If Kawhi didn't want to take the baggest of bags. Speaker 2: So much so that it forced the Clippers to have to circumvent the cap. Speaker 2: allegedly, Kawhi would still be a clipper. Speaker 2: That extra money that Kawhi and Uncle Dennis negotiated for, Speaker 2: the clippers allegedly didn't have it. Speaker 2: So they had to go through back channels to find a way to go get that extra money. Speaker 2: So if Kawhi would have took less, he would still be a clipper.

Speaker 2: But because he didn't take less, the clippers did what they had to do, Speaker 2: which was circumvent the cap Speaker 2: and they got busted for it. Speaker 2: And now Kawhi is back in Toronto. Speaker 2: And the legs have changed the game in every sport. Speaker 2: The stats guys are telling owners Speaker 2: and then owners are fixing the salaries accordingly. Speaker 2: I mean, look, that part has always been happening. Speaker 2: So I'm not pushing back against that, right? Speaker 2: That's certainly a point.

Speaker 2: My thing is this. Why are people hired in the front office? If the if the collective bargaining agreement is agreed upon the owners and the players, front office executives have jobs where the whole job is to figure out how are we going to manage this cap? Speaker 2: The cap, as it currently states, if you're not willing to pay into that second apron, which again, let's stop. Speaker 2: I'll come up the screen again. Let's stop acting like it is so ridiculous for an owner to pay the second apron. Speaker 2: The owners, which are making so much more money, they're making so much revenue.

Speaker 2: The valuation for these teams are skyrocketing. Speaker 2: Just because the second apron is a bit of a luxury tax, that doesn't mean the owners can't pay it. Speaker 2: Owners are refusing to pay it. It's not that they can't pay it. Speaker 2: It's not that they're not allowed to pay it. They're just deciding they're not going to pay it. Speaker 2: So the fact that we're sitting here acting as, oh, woe is me.

Speaker 2: My owner has to make a decision about whether he's going to pay a few extra hundred million dollars or not. Speaker 2: When the evaluations for these franchises are going up by the billions every year. Speaker 2: What are we talking about? Speaker 2: I'm supposed to cry for James Dolan because he doesn't want to pay the second apron to go bring back Maga Mitch Robb. Speaker 2: When the amount of money he's made from this championship run will not be known for at least a decade. Speaker 2: I'm supposed to feel bad for James Dolan. Speaker 2: That guy, James Dolan.

Speaker 2: I'm supposed to feel bad for him Speaker 2: I'm supposed to feel bad for Steve Ballmer Speaker 2: who paid 2 billion straight cash Speaker 2: for a team Speaker 2: I'm supposed to feel bad for him Speaker 2: I'm supposed to understand his perspective Speaker 2: that oh my god Steve Ballmer doesn't want to pay the second apron Speaker 2: I can totally rationalize that Speaker 2: a guy that paid 2 billion straight cash homie Speaker 2: for a team Speaker 2: that's who you side with Speaker 2: that's who you identify with not the player not the player who's an employee of steve balmer Speaker 2: you identify more with steve balmer make it make sense Speaker 2: the sports culture tapping in yet players have been asked to take less since forever Speaker 2: the heat big three all took less yes i do remember the heat all took less that's a different scenario Speaker 2: You want to know why? Because they were all trying to play together. Jalen Brunson was not taking a short because he knew the Knicks were going to go get Carl Anthony Towns. They were not buddies like that. The Hedos thing was different. Despite what D. Wade has changed the story about four, five, six, seven, eight times.

Speaker 2: It was crafted at the Olympics when they played together, when Larry Brown was making all those dudes make love to the bench. Speaker 2: They all plotted. And it finally came to fruition. Speaker 2: Those dudes were boys. Now, there was slight variations along the way. Speaker 2: At one point, Melo was in. Then next time he was out.

At one point, they thought about Stoudemire because Bosch was like faking it a little bit. Speaker 2: But then they got bad. They got Bosch back in the fold. The main thing is three more or less friends or at least two friends. Speaker 2: And the third dude that they were cool with wanted to play together. Speaker 2: So it makes sense that they collectively keyword collectively would take a short. Speaker 2: That's not the case with these others, unless you're telling me Big Vic, Castle and Harper are so cool that they all go take shorts.

Speaker 2: What part of Ron Harper's son makes you think he going to take a short? Speaker 2: Do you know who Stefan Castle daddy is? Speaker 2: Far Rock in the house, Queens all day. Speaker 2: Do you know who is that? Speaker 2: You think he going to take a short? Speaker 2: You think if he was in the same position as Big Vic, he would walk away from 51 M's? Speaker 2: Because if you're saying that, you don't know who both those dudes daddies are.

Speaker 2: problem is it is hard to fix the owner salaries i mean look you buy a business you operate the Speaker 2: business the best way you see fit if the owner is saying if james don't look like look i don't care Speaker 2: how many chances we have to run it back i am not paying that paying that second apron that's Speaker 2: literally what he did because maga mitch rob they barely even offered him a relevant contract so it's Speaker 2: clear they were not bringing them back. And the fact Speaker 2: of the matter is that James Dolan could have run Speaker 2: it back. He could have said, you know what? Speaker 2: He could have had that championship hangover and said, Speaker 2: you know what? Man, I'm so delirious. Speaker 2: I'm going to run it back. I'll pay the second Speaker 2: apron.

But even he smartened Speaker 2: up Nas and decided, no, no, no, no. Speaker 2: We're not going to do that. Speaker 2: Maga Mitch Robb Speaker 2: is all good, but nah. Speaker 2: I'm going to go get Andre Drummond. Speaker 2: I'm good. Speaker 2: So, but that doesn't change the fact Speaker 2: that the valuation of the Knicks, Speaker 2: which was skyrocketed in the first place, Speaker 2: is now even higher thanks to this Larry OB. Speaker 2: So that can't change.

Speaker 2: So if that can't change Speaker 2: and there's no rules that forces that, Speaker 2: then why do we have front office people? Speaker 2: Why are there people in the accounting department Speaker 2: whose job it is to manage the cap? Speaker 2: Why do we have capologists? Speaker 2: Why are there financial people if the players just going to keep taking shorts? Speaker 2: Even though it was collectively bargained. Speaker 2: So you have a union. This is essentially your union is saying, hey, you can make $80 an hour.

Speaker 2: Oh, no, I don't want that. Just give me 60. I'm good. What? Speaker 2: You're paying them union dues to be protected and they're allowing you to get 80 an hour. Speaker 2: But you're just going to elect to take 60. Speaker 2: what part of the game is that Speaker 2: if y'all ain't trying to do that Speaker 2: why are we expecting athletes to do the same when it's on them Speaker 2: I will never understand that it's the most Speaker 2: maddening thing when I'm having conversations with fans and they're telling me Speaker 2: it's okay that a superstar athlete is taking Speaker 2: significantly less and I always ask the question well would you do that Speaker 2: at your job would you do that if you were Speaker 2: offered 20 more K, would you just sit back and say, you know what?

I'll take five. I'm good. Speaker 2: Give that 15 to the rest of the team. My guys, my coworkers, give it to them. Or you know what? Speaker 2: Let the boss get that. Even though his bonus is unknown to you.

That's essentially what Speaker 2: putting money, leaving money on the table is essentially allowing the boss to keep that money. Speaker 2: Even though there's a salary ceiling that they have to hit, it's only 90%. Speaker 2: So there's extra money that's just going to sit there that they don't have to pay out. Speaker 2: Steph in the chat was good. Speaker 2: People don't even give Jesus 10% anymore. Speaker 2: They definitely wouldn't leave 51 M's on the table. Speaker 2: I mean, look, when it really comes down to it, there's a philosophy here that is misguided when it comes to the normals, the normies, and athletics.

Speaker 2: So just people who make a lot of money in general. Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about another dude who makes a lot of money later on in the stream. Speaker 2: But in regards to what we're looking at here, Victor Webinyama taking 25% when he could have took 30. Speaker 2: We'll jump back on the screen. Speaker 2: he could have had 51 more M's. Speaker 2: And while I understand the concept of it, Speaker 2: and Big Vic certainly fits the profile of someone Speaker 2: who would buy into the whole team concept. Speaker 2: Take care of my guys.

Speaker 2: Make sure Castle's here. Speaker 2: Make sure Dylan Harper's here. Speaker 2: So I get it. Speaker 2: It makes sense. Speaker 2: However, there's going to come a point in time Speaker 2: where this type of player Speaker 2: has to stop taking the short. Speaker 2: This ain't LeBron and the Heatos Speaker 2: where they were all mans in them. Speaker 2: This is the future face of the league Speaker 2: taking a short Speaker 2: and how that's going to be leveraged Speaker 2: against other players.

Speaker 2: It's going to happen. Speaker 2: And it's not just Big Vic. Speaker 2: Austin Reeves. Speaker 2: Now, Austin Reeves is not, Speaker 2: you know, one of those. Speaker 2: He's not a face of the franchise. He's not that type of dude. Speaker 2: But understand, even Austin Reeves contract for years, one hundred and eighty million.

Speaker 2: He took a short. What Reeves essentially did was take half of the raise he could have had. Speaker 2: Four percent instead of eight between year one and year two of his contract. Speaker 2: So let me get this straight. He was doing a percent rate. Speaker 2: So again, let's let's take it back to your gig. Your gig says we can offer you a 8 percent raise.

Speaker 2: How many of you watching would say I'm good? Only give me four. Speaker 2: Go home to get misses and tell her that and watch that reaction. Speaker 2: I could have had eight, but I told him I'm so good financially and otherwise. Speaker 2: I only want eight. I only want four. Cut that eight in half.

Speaker 2: We good over here, right? The way the eyes will be cut at you. Speaker 2: The way that the couch will be made up for you. Speaker 2: The way that it will be just you and the dog for at least a week. Speaker 2: You know it. You couldn't you can't play this type of game at the crib. Speaker 2: 8% raise, you only come home with 4?

Speaker 2: Why, they took it away from you? Speaker 2: No, I just said I didn't want it. Speaker 2: What? Speaker 2: Now imagine being Austin Reeves. Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, you're not even the face of the franchise. Speaker 2: You're not even the number one option on this team. Speaker 2: And you take it a short?

Speaker 2: So wait a minute. Speaker 2: I get the whole concept of y'all selling to me, Speaker 2: hey man, big time players do that. Speaker 2: Okay, that's cool. Speaker 2: I still think it's bullshit, but I'll even let it rock. Speaker 2: Now we got secondary players taking shorts. Speaker 2: Austin Reeves got to take a short too. Speaker 2: Who he leaving room, who he leaving money for?

Speaker 2: Luka already got his. Speaker 2: Who he doing this for? Speaker 2: So not only it's a number one option being asked to take a cut. Speaker 2: Now we got a second option taking a cut. Speaker 2: What are we doing here? What is happening here? Where is the NBPA?

Speaker 2: They put out a statement for for Big Vic saying, hey, we don't like this. Speaker 2: This to me is even more troubling because this is a I don't want to shade Austin Reeds, but let's be clear. Speaker 2: He's a number two option on what we all think won't be a very good team this year. Speaker 2: And there's a scenario where I could say Austin Reeds is a role player. Speaker 2: We got a high level role player being asked to take a short cut your raise in half. Speaker 2: Y'all make sense of it to me because I there's no scenario where this makes sense to me. Speaker 2: It also helps there is no state income tax in Texas.

Speaker 2: I mean, if you're thinking that Big Vic, so then every team, so then Miami, they should never take like, again, if we're going to jump into that and leverage that, that's only a play in certain states. Speaker 2: So then that makes it even more the same that Austin Reeves should not be taking a short. Speaker 2: By that logic, if I'm going to go off of this, that there's no state taxes in Cali, you know who does have state taxes? Speaker 2: I know state taxes in Texas. Speaker 2: You know who does? Cali. Speaker 2: You know who has high as hell state taxes?

Speaker 2: Cali and Austin Speaker 2: Reeves is leaving half of his race Speaker 2: on the table Speaker 2: playing in Cali. Speaker 2: It's beyond the money with the second apron. Speaker 2: Draft picks are affected Speaker 2: as well, bro. Speaker 2: Draft picks are only Speaker 2: affected Speaker 2: if the Speaker 2: Well, guess whose job it is to draft? Well, every single front office. So again, if we're trying to believe the notion that we play to win the game. Speaker 2: If that is what we're if that's what that's that's the hill that we're dying on that we play to win the game.

Speaker 2: Everybody's impacted by everything, but the first round picks all their money is slotted already. Speaker 2: Front offices have a job if the goal is to win, which we know sometimes we know that's not the truth, even though they tell their fan base that it is. Speaker 2: We know it's not actually true. Speaker 2: But if we're supposed to believe these teams are all about winning. Speaker 2: These front offices, these front offices have a responsibility to fill out the best team possible. Speaker 2: That means they're supposed to draft good players. Speaker 2: OKC hasn't lost anybody yet.

Speaker 2: SGA got the bag Speaker 2: Jalen Williams got the bag Speaker 2: Chet got the bag Speaker 2: that's three Speaker 2: so the narrative is Speaker 2: in this current CBA Speaker 2: you can only have two max players Speaker 2: then how does OKC have three Speaker 2: so if Sam Preston and them Speaker 2: could figure it out Speaker 2: and they're still drafting Speaker 2: and they're still drafting well Speaker 2: if they can figure it out Speaker 2: why can't the other teams figure it out Speaker 2: Why do we have to fall on the back? Oh, woe is me, the owners. Speaker 2: Woe is me, these front offices. When one front office has figured it out. Speaker 2: Their calculators work just as well as all the other teams calculators. Speaker 2: Somehow OKC's got three young players in their prime on max bags. Speaker 2: But the Celtics, oh, my God, we can't afford Tatum and Brown.

Speaker 2: we got to get rid of one of them. Speaker 2: And let's get rid of the one Speaker 2: who doesn't have an agent. Speaker 2: Let's get rid of the one Speaker 2: that thinks he's too smart. Speaker 2: Let's get rid of the, Speaker 2: let's be real, Speaker 2: the more blacker presenting one. Speaker 2: That's the one we're going to get rid of. Speaker 2: Woe is me, Speaker 2: the Celtics who were bought Speaker 2: by a private equity fund. Speaker 2: That is buku bread.

Speaker 2: If anyone could pay the second apron, Speaker 2: it's a private equity fund. Speaker 2: they said no Speaker 2: now Jalen Brown's in Philly Speaker 2: Steve Ballmer Speaker 2: 2 billion straight cash Speaker 2: Kawhi won how much? Speaker 2: oh I ain't paying him that Speaker 2: let's funnel that money through Speaker 2: some back channels Speaker 2: allegedly Speaker 2: now they get popped for it Speaker 2: oh let's just send him back Speaker 2: to where he came from Speaker 2: let's send him back to Toronto Speaker 2: now Toronto Speaker 2: doesn't want to be on the hook Speaker 2: for extending Kawhi Speaker 2: because they don't know Speaker 2: what the sanctions are Speaker 2: that are going to come down Speaker 2: even though, Speaker 2: hint, hint, wink, wink, Speaker 2: the dude who's going to be deciding Speaker 2: whatever infractions Speaker 2: come raining down upon the Clippers Speaker 2: just so happens to be Speaker 2: the Raptors owner. Speaker 2: All the players are underpaid Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things. Speaker 2: Kansas City owners said that Patty Mahomes after committing. Speaker 2: Yeah, half a billion dollars to Pat Mahomes. Speaker 2: I have never been more angry than reading that statement because it was so accurate and true.

Speaker 2: And it was nothing, absolutely nothing that Patrick Mahomes could do about it. Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes signed a contract 10 years, half a billion dollars. Speaker 2: And the dude who signed him to that contract came right out and said he's still underpaid and he will always be underpaid. Speaker 2: That's how much a Patrick Mahomes drives up the value to the man who gave him, the man who offered him half a billion dollars. Speaker 2: That that guy could say, you know what, even with this half a billy, I'm so up, I could never pay you your actual value. Speaker 2: That man said that with his chest and no one blinked. Speaker 2: that man said that with his chest Speaker 2: here's half a bill Speaker 2: here's half a billion Speaker 2: and it still ain't enough Speaker 2: but this is what I'm going to give you Speaker 2: and you're going to take it Speaker 2: because I could never give you Speaker 2: an actual billion Speaker 2: I could never give you 1.5 billion Speaker 2: which is probably Speaker 2: your actual worth Speaker 2: and value Speaker 2: to not only Kansas City Speaker 2: to the Kansas City Chiefs Speaker 2: and to the NFL at large.

Speaker 2: You're worth triple Speaker 2: what I just gave you. Speaker 2: But since your union is so weak Speaker 2: and so ass, Speaker 2: I can give you a short. Speaker 2: And the media is going to spend like, Speaker 2: oh my God, 500 million, Speaker 2: not understanding Speaker 2: that I actually underpaid you. Speaker 2: Adam Schefter is going to go crazy Speaker 2: with tweeting out the details of this contract Speaker 2: and everyone's going to say, Speaker 2: oh my God, that's so much money, Speaker 2: when I know that's a short. Speaker 2: And I know it's so much of a short Speaker 2: that when I'm asked about it in the press, Speaker 2: I want to publicly tell everyone that it's a short. Speaker 2: And you ain't going to say not one syllable about it Speaker 2: because you can't do shit about it Speaker 2: because your union is ass. Speaker 2: Hey, Salubro.

Speaker 2: Always appreciate you tapping in. Speaker 2: I've been noticing you popping up Speaker 2: in the last couple of chats. Speaker 2: Bro. Speaker 2: And a role player in Austin Reeves. Speaker 2: You can sell me on Big Vic. Speaker 2: Face of the franchise. Speaker 2: Future face of the league.

Speaker 2: You can sell me on him. Speaker 2: You can sell me on that. Speaker 2: I still won't believe you deep down. I won't believe it deep down. Speaker 2: But I can look past that slightly and say, all right, you get it. Speaker 2: He's he's from over there overseas. They sell you on that team shit off rip.

Speaker 2: We're supposed to hear we know how we get down. A.A.U. go for yours. I bet. Speaker 2: Austin Reeves. You got to take half a raise. Speaker 2: Okay.

Speaker 2: All right. Speaker 2: If y'all say so. Speaker 2: If y'all say so. Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to me, Speaker 2: but if y'all say so. Speaker 2: Half? Speaker 2: Half. Speaker 2: Half that race?

Speaker 2: Half. Speaker 2: Mm. Speaker 2: Tell me Austin Reeves took a short Speaker 2: so the Lakers could bring in Walker Kessler. Speaker 2: Is that what you're trying to tell me? Speaker 2: You see, Luka got his money. Speaker 2: You see it here. Speaker 2: Luka got his money.

Speaker 2: He get his full 30% of the cap. He get his. Speaker 2: I can't believe it. I surely cannot believe it. Speaker 2: I find this to be so, so maddening and disappointing. Speaker 2: Absolutely maddening and disappointing. Speaker 2: There are so many ways to where front offices control a lot of things.

Speaker 2: front offices can really move the needle Speaker 2: in terms of how you can maneuver the cap. Speaker 2: Matter of fact, let me come to the screen. Speaker 2: Let's go to spot track. Speaker 2: Let's see how OKC did it. Speaker 2: Because clearly, one team has figured it out. Speaker 2: It may be the fact that they traded for SGA Speaker 2: instead of drafting SGA has affected some things. Speaker 2: I don't know.

Speaker 2: But let's play that game. Speaker 2: As soon as my keyboard decides to act right, Speaker 2: we can get this going. Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 2: NBA, OKC, where they at? Speaker 2: They're right there. Speaker 2: All right, let's come back on screen. Speaker 2: So let's see.

Speaker 2: Jalen Williams, 41.2. Speaker 2: Chet, 41.2. Speaker 2: So they got, so okay, here's what we're looking at. Speaker 2: They got the 25% max. Speaker 2: So if this is the case, does this mean that Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren and SGA all took the lesser? Speaker 2: They took the Victor Webbing Yama extension. We're doing this in real time.

Speaker 2: But Chet, but SGA's number jumps up to over 30. That's no longer. Speaker 2: So his new bag. All right. So here's how this plays out. Speaker 2: Jalen Williams and Chet got the max, but they took the big Vic max. Speaker 2: SGA was on the same big Vic max.

Speaker 2: So at one point in time, they had three players on the lesser max contract. Speaker 2: So in this CBA, the narrative is you can only have two max players. Speaker 2: Here we see three players all on max deals in OKC. Speaker 2: And they still had a deep roster, Caruso, Hartenstein. Speaker 2: Like, again, if you draft well. Speaker 2: And your scouting department does their job, you can fill out a roster if you have your big three all locked in the max deals. Speaker 2: So how was OKC able to pull this off where they had three dudes all on the 25% rookie max?

Speaker 2: But somehow no other team can do that. So is the game plan for the Spurs? Speaker 2: Is the game plan for the Spurs? All right, we got Vic on the on the lesser max. Speaker 2: We're going to try to go get Dylan Harper and Castle on the lesser max. Speaker 2: Again, I go back to you and say, do you know who those boys' fathers are? Speaker 2: Now, I could be wrong, and if I'm wrong, I'll spin the block, Speaker 2: and I'm not sitting here 10 toes down saying it's definitively not going to happen.

Speaker 2: I just find it hard to believe that you're going to have Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper Speaker 2: both taking the short to stay in San Antonio. Speaker 2: Especially when other teams are going to be dangling bread out there. Speaker 2: The bread won't be able to match what the Spurs can offer, but big bread is big bread. Speaker 2: If Stephon's Castle is going to is does someone to continue to live and play in the shadow of Big Vic and someone offers him a equivalent bag or somewhere in the neighborhood of the same bag. Speaker 2: He might dip. Same could go for Dylan Harper. Speaker 2: Someone wants to hand the keys to Dylan Harper to go be the guy instead of you're going to be the number two or the number three.

Speaker 2: under Vic his whole career, Dylan Harper might want to go somewhere and be the one. Speaker 2: Stephon Castle might want to go somewhere and be the one. Speaker 2: You're never going to be the one at San Antonio. Speaker 2: You are never going to, as good as Tony Parker was, as good as Manu Ginobili was, Speaker 2: they were never going to be the one. Speaker 2: As good as Kawhi Leonard was, he was never going to be the one. Speaker 2: The one was Tim Duncan, even when he was old and washed, he was still the one. Speaker 2: Even though Parker stepped up at times and Kawhi stepped up at times and obviously Ginobili, when it came down to it, Pop was giving the ball to Tim Duncan.

Speaker 2: That's going to be the case for Big Vic. Speaker 2: Is Stephon Castle going to be cool with that for the next decade? Speaker 2: Is Dylan Harper going to be cool with that for the next decade? Speaker 2: This is where we're at here. Speaker 2: Chet, no SGA is no longer going to be getting that 25% maxed Speaker 2: He's jumping up to the full max next year Speaker 2: And you see how that aligns here Speaker 2: They still got Jalen Williams and Chet locked in Speaker 2: In their escalators Speaker 2: They go from 25% to 25.6 to 26.2 Speaker 2: So they get in their raises Speaker 2: But the big jump is SGA Speaker 2: And that's probably probably why Lou Dort is probably not going to be there. Speaker 2: But again, you're talking about losing a Lou Dort. I'm not saying the man is is is he's certainly not irreplaceable, right?

Speaker 2: He's a key player. He's a role player. He was there for the chip. Speaker 2: But your core three is still there and you still got role players that are vets in Caruso and Hartenstein. Speaker 2: So somehow Hartenstein could go get his bag. Caruso could get his bag. They can extend SGA even more.

Speaker 2: And Chet and Jalen Williams could have their money. But somehow the rest of the league can't do the same. Speaker 2: The rest of the league can only have one max player, two at the most. But if you're Boston, you can't even afford two. Speaker 2: Because of this this dark cloud that is the second apron. Somehow OKC has figured it out. Speaker 2: the money is right here in front of you on your screen OKC has figured it out where Chet and Jalen Williams can have the same max bag SGA can come off of the max bag that was slightly less and then go get the real max and they'll still be fine.

Speaker 2: So much so that they didn't legitimately consider even getting involved with Giannis. Speaker 2: Because Giannis would have wanted SGA money. Speaker 2: Now that would have threw this whole thing off. Speaker 2: Stephanie chat, this fandom talk about, I would love if Dylan Harper ended up at Golden State. Speaker 2: I mean, look, at some point, someone's going to offer it to him. Speaker 2: Someone's going to offer it to him. Speaker 2: He's too good.

Speaker 2: We know what that ceiling is. Speaker 2: He has number one guy potential. Speaker 2: I'm not going to say number one on a champion level good. Speaker 2: I haven't seen enough of him yet. Speaker 2: Only one year in. Speaker 2: But he has number one lead guy potential. Speaker 2: If that's the case, do you want to be the number two or three for a decade plus behind Victor Webbingama?

Speaker 2: I don't think it's automatic to just say, yes, he's going to do that. Speaker 2: And we all can definitively say that. Speaker 2: Especially when his father was a former Hooper and was a real good one before injuries fucked his knee up and messed his career up. Speaker 2: He still stayed long and on enough and got championships and all that. Speaker 2: But Ron Harper was a bucket. Speaker 2: Cleveland Ron Harper was a bucket. Speaker 2: And then the knees got shot.

Speaker 2: Not literally, but the knees were hurt. Speaker 2: The knees were bad and he didn't have the technology back then in the 80s and early 90s that they have today. Speaker 2: So when your knees were shot back in the day, your career was a wrap. Speaker 2: So he left bread on the table because of injuries. You think he going to let his son leave bread on the table to go be number three behind Vic? Speaker 2: It's a dicey game. It's a dicey, dicey game.

Speaker 2: So somehow, some way, Sam Presti and the Brain Trust in Oklahoma City have figured it out. Speaker 2: But all the other teams in the NBA have no idea what to do, have no idea how to make this happen, have no idea how to copy and paste what is clearly working. Speaker 2: You see here, SGA, his extension was designated veteran. Speaker 2: So because he's at that point in his career, he can now get the full-fledged max. Speaker 2: And that's why his number jumps up to 60-plus M's. Speaker 2: Jalen Williams and where's Chet? Speaker 2: Well, they didn't have the designation for Chet there, but he got his extension as well.

Speaker 2: They figured it out. Speaker 2: And they still got all the future picks in the world. Speaker 2: They still got all the future picks in the world. Speaker 2: future picks Speaker 2: let's go to OKC Speaker 2: my bad on the scroll Speaker 2: where is oh Speaker 2: LMNOP Speaker 2: there we go Speaker 2: dog look at all these picks bro Speaker 2: look at all these picks Speaker 2: look at all these picks bro Speaker 2: look at all these picks. Speaker 2: And you want to tell me it's impossible? Speaker 2: You want to tell me that, Speaker 2: and they're doing this without even thinking Speaker 2: about this second apron. Speaker 2: They're not even thinking about this second apron.

Speaker 2: And these are just first round picks. Speaker 2: These are just first round picks. Speaker 2: Upwards of five first round picks next year. Speaker 2: Five. Speaker 2: Three the year after that. Speaker 2: to the year after that, to the year after that. Speaker 2: Somehow, they have figured it out.

Speaker 2: And no other team in the league can't. Speaker 2: Everyone else is dumb. Speaker 2: Everyone else is just clueless. Speaker 2: Or is it not really about winning? Speaker 2: They need to sell to the fans it's about winning. Speaker 2: They need to sell to the league and their partners Speaker 2: that it's about winning. Speaker 2: But is it actually about winning?

Speaker 2: When the Boston Celtics and the boy genius Brad Stevens tried to do this, where he tried to say that, and I'll come off the screen here, the boy genius Brad Stevens tried to say that, oh, well, we got rid of Jalen Brown because, you know, his contract and the amount of years left on the deal and et cetera, et cetera. Speaker 2: and a reporter one of the few times the media had some balls was like well wait a minute Speaker 2: the paul george deal is only one year shorter so it's not like paul george is an expiring contract Speaker 2: this year so he had that money because he was like oh well we got more money for the cap next year Speaker 2: and the season after that he was like well wait a minute paul george's contract is locked in so Speaker 2: what are you doing it's a player option like it's not a team option it's a player option like paul Speaker 2: George could opt in and collect all that money and fuck your whole thing up. Speaker 2: Now, if they have a deal in place, again, more Kawhi Clippers circumvention. Speaker 2: If PG, Pandemic P, and the Celtics have a, you know what I'm saying? Speaker 2: Like, hey, look, we only want you here for one year. Speaker 2: We know you have that player option. Speaker 2: We don't want you to pick up that player option.

Speaker 2: So we're going to do whatever we got to do to make sure you don't pick up that player option. Speaker 2: We don't want you here. Speaker 2: Now, if pandemic P is silly enough to go along with that, or if he's at the point in his career where he doesn't care anymore. Speaker 2: Then maybe the boy genius can get off what he's trying to get off where I didn't want to pay. Speaker 2: Or let me be clear, the private equity fund did not want to pay Jalen Brown for the next three years. Speaker 2: didn't have to be forced Speaker 2: with extending him again Speaker 2: and paying him max money. Speaker 2: So, okay, we're going to get out Speaker 2: from underneath that contract.

Speaker 2: We're going to keep Tatum Speaker 2: because he looks the part. Speaker 2: And now we're going to find a way Speaker 2: to get out from underneath Speaker 2: this Paul George contract Speaker 2: because we don't want to pay him either. Speaker 2: We'll pay him for this year Speaker 2: because we got to. Speaker 2: We have no choice. Speaker 2: But that player option, Speaker 2: he cannot pick that up. Speaker 2: If that has been told Speaker 2: to Brad Stevens Speaker 2: from the private equity fund, Speaker 2: you know there's been conversations already. Speaker 2: It doesn't take a lot to make the leap of, Speaker 2: don't be surprised if Paul George decides Speaker 2: to forego all this money that he's owed Speaker 2: in Boston next year.

Speaker 2: When again, fan logic, Speaker 2: any one of us would just pick up that player option Speaker 2: and take that bread. Speaker 2: All these picks, bro. Speaker 2: You kidding me? All these picks, bro. All these first. Speaker 2: What does Boston have? Speaker 2: How many picks Boston got?

Speaker 2: Boston don't got a lot of picks. Speaker 2: They do not have a lot of picks. They don't have a pick in 2029. Speaker 2: They don't have their own pick, meaning they got to swap with the Kings. Speaker 2: They do not have a lot of picks. Speaker 2: So again, who's supposed to come help Jason Tatum? Speaker 2: It ain't going to be with draft capital.

Speaker 2: Because the first sixer pick isn't until 2031. Speaker 2: So when's that help coming for Tatum? Speaker 2: We got rid of Jalen Brown because we want to surround Jason Tatum with help and cheaper help. Speaker 2: That usually means draft picks. Speaker 2: I guess, again, unless they think Hugo Gonzalez is going to come in and take the league by storm. Speaker 2: Where is that help supposed to come? Speaker 2: Because it ain't coming through the draft.

Speaker 2: Unless they're going to nail this first pick next year. Speaker 2: Which likely won't be in the lottery. Speaker 2: they have a Spurs a pick swap with the Spurs that will not be a high pick Speaker 2: they have a pick with Portland depending on what Ja does in Portland assuming he's still there Speaker 2: because Nike wants him to be in 2029 that probably won't be a lottery pick when does the help come Speaker 2: for Jason Tatum to justify the fact that Jalen Brown and his salary were no longer a viable Speaker 2: fiscal responsibility for the private equity hedge fund. Speaker 2: Steph in the chat. Speaker 2: Do you think someone like Ant takes a team-friendly deal Speaker 2: or he getting all his? Speaker 2: I mean, I think he already got, Speaker 2: well, he got the first extension, right? Speaker 2: Ant got the first extension.

Speaker 2: Let's see. Speaker 2: I don't think he took the 25, but let's see. Speaker 2: Did he take the 25? Speaker 2: No, no, Ant did not take the 25 Speaker 2: He took the full 30 Speaker 2: So here you go Speaker 2: Ant took the full 30 Speaker 2: Even LaMelo took the 25 Speaker 2: LaMelo took the short Speaker 2: How'd that work out for Charlotte? Speaker 2: LaMelo, no, how'd that work out for LaMelo? Speaker 2: LaMelo took the short in Charlotte Speaker 2: Team-friendly contract Speaker 2: They shipped his ass to Minnesota Speaker 2: Exhibit A, Your Honor Speaker 2: Leave some money on the table, LaMelo Speaker 2: could surround you with help. Oh, that help didn't come or that help didn't gel with you.

Speaker 2: You're driving reckless through the streets of Charlotte. All right, we're going to get you up Speaker 2: out of here. What happened to that 5% that LaMelo left on the table? Can he go back and get that? Speaker 2: No. He just took the short. LaMelo took the short and they shipped his ass on up out of there.

Speaker 2: Ant did not take that short. And guess who his agent is? Rich Paul. Speaker 2: You think Rich Paul going to let that man take a short? Speaker 2: Ant did not take the short. Speaker 2: So that tracks. Speaker 2: And again, they found a way.

They have found a way. So they have two max guys. Speaker 2: They have Ant on the full max, the full 30% max, and they have LaMelo on the 25% max. Speaker 2: In theory, they should be able to go get another max guy. Speaker 2: But that's not the case because they have Jaden McDaniels. Speaker 2: And they have Rudy, who as a vet is getting big bread. Speaker 2: But that's expiring, right?

Speaker 2: In two years. Speaker 2: Does green means a player option? Speaker 2: Let me see. Speaker 2: What does that mean? Speaker 2: What does green? Speaker 2: Yikes. Speaker 2: What does the table mean?

Speaker 2: is at the top? Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 2: No, it's not. Speaker 2: Oh yeah, green is player option. Speaker 2: So Rudy Gobert has a player option next year. Speaker 2: So in theory, Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert could be an expiring deal. Speaker 2: Now have they had that conversation with Rudy?

Speaker 2: But the fact that you have Ant at the full max, Speaker 2: Lomelo at the 25% max, Speaker 2: Rudy is still getting a full max for a vet. Speaker 2: And Jaden McDaniels is getting a good salary for a role player. Speaker 2: They just gave Ayo the bag. Speaker 2: That's a lot of dudes making money on this Minnesota squad. Speaker 2: And they were still trying to get, or let me not say it's past tense, Speaker 2: even though we all think LeBron's not going to do the easy thing Speaker 2: or the right thing and go to a Philly, go to a Minnesota. Speaker 2: He's going to do the easy hometown move and go back to Cleveland, Speaker 2: allegedly, or maybe Miami, allegedly, Speaker 2: but they still had room to go bring in LeBron. Speaker 2: Even with LaMelo getting the 25% max Speaker 2: and getting the full max, Speaker 2: Rudy getting a max as a vet, Speaker 2: and Jada McDaniels and Ayo getting the max at their level, Speaker 2: they still have a way to go get LeBron.

Speaker 2: So again, if this is possible, Speaker 2: how are these other teams not figuring it out? Speaker 2: Philly just traded for, let's do the Philly one. Speaker 2: The Philly one's even crazier. Speaker 2: Because Embiid, Embiid got the max. Speaker 2: Jalen Brown got the max. Speaker 2: Maxey has the 25% max. Speaker 2: And they still found a way to get it done.

Speaker 2: So you could have two maxes, two full maxes, Speaker 2: and a 25% max. Speaker 2: Both on the same squad and both on the same squad for a few years. Speaker 2: Embiid has a player option two years from now. Speaker 2: So somehow that makes sense. Speaker 2: That is able to work. Speaker 2: The capologist got no problems with this. Speaker 2: But Big Vic got to take a short.

Speaker 2: Austin Reeves got to take a short. Speaker 2: Now, granted, they had the benefit of Vijay Edgecombe on a rookie deal. Speaker 2: And Phylon could be one of those. Speaker 2: They got him on a rookie deal. Speaker 2: So this is that small window of, hey, we'll pay for Embiid and Jalen Brown and Maxie there at the top of their game. Speaker 2: But you got to have some cheap. This is the OKC copy and paste.

Speaker 2: You have your big three guys. You pay your big three guys. Speaker 2: But you have to hit on some draft picks after that to help supplant. Speaker 2: And build a roster. You're building a roster with youngins. Speaker 2: You're building a roster with rookies and good rookies. Speaker 2: Just because you have a draft pick doesn't mean you're going to hit on that draft pick.

Speaker 2: The draft pick to some franchises is still a lottery. Speaker 2: Where the odds of them hitting on a pick is very, very slim. Speaker 2: But somehow, Philly is able to have two guys making the full over 30% max. Speaker 2: And maxing at the 25% max. Speaker 2: And they have a chance. Speaker 2: so somehow they figured it out OKC has figured it out Speaker 2: Minnesota has figured it out Speaker 2: and Philly has figured it out Speaker 2: yet San Antonio don't even want to entertain that Speaker 2: let's get Vic for the short and once we get Vic for the short Speaker 2: they are daring Stefan Kassel and Dylan Harper to walk in there and ask for the 30 Speaker 2: because if Big Vic is taking a short Speaker 2: You can't go in there and get more money than Big Vic from the Spurs. Speaker 2: So that is setting the precedent of, hey, Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle, guess what?

Speaker 2: You can only get the 25 because our most important player, our best player is taking the 25. Speaker 2: I wish you would walk in here and ask for the 30. Speaker 2: I wish you would. Speaker 2: But that's OK. Speaker 2: Fans are cool with it. Speaker 2: it's no biggie Speaker 2: because imagine if Speaker 2: let's imagine the best Speaker 2: co-worker you have Speaker 2: the star of your department Speaker 2: and you find out Speaker 2: he makes 10k less than you Speaker 2: would you then go into your boss's office Speaker 2: and say you know what Speaker 2: our best worker Speaker 2: is underpaid, take the 10K from me and give it to him? Speaker 2: Would you do that?

Speaker 2: How many of you would do that? Speaker 2: And if you did do that and you go home Speaker 2: and you tell your significant other that, Speaker 2: how that going to go? Speaker 2: How that going to go? Speaker 2: But somehow, the Spurs are going to be able to wave Speaker 2: in Dylan Harper's face and Stephon Castle's face. Speaker 2: Well, Vic only took the 25% extension. Speaker 2: Why do you want the 30? Speaker 2: You can't make more money than Big Vic.

Speaker 2: If Big Vic decides to take the 25, Speaker 2: why do I got to accept the 25 if I'm Dylan Harper? Speaker 2: Why do I got to accept the 25 if I'm Stephon Castle? Speaker 2: Why can't I get the 30? Speaker 2: Well, Vic took the 25. Speaker 2: That's Vic. Speaker 2: I'm not Vic. Speaker 2: I want the 30.

Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way in sports. Speaker 2: But it would work for you and I Speaker 2: if whatever you get is what you negotiate. Speaker 2: That's okay in the real world. That's okay in normal world. Speaker 2: When in sports world, because the best employee, the most important employee, take a short, we all got to take shorts. Speaker 2: Make that make sense. Speaker 2: All right, let's get into Kaepernick.

Speaker 2: Colin Kaepernick somehow was brought back into the news because of your man's Speaker 2: Hove. Hove did a bunch of concerts here. Got everybody in the frenzy. Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium, three nights. Brought out all Speaker 2: the people, all the folk. And it looked to be a good time. Speaker 2: However, on night one, like he did Speaker 2: the Roots picnic, Jay-Z did a freestyle.

And in his Philly freestyle, Speaker 2: he dissed Drake, he dissed Dame Dash, he dissed a whole bunch Speaker 2: of people. So there was a highly anticipated moment to Speaker 2: what's going to happen when Hove touches Yankee Stadium. Who's going to catch strays Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium? Who's going to be the next Speaker 2: under the ire of Hove? Speaker 2: So after getting a fresh cut for his woman's beauty care products, Speaker 2: he took the stage and threw some bars Speaker 2: at Colin Kaepernick. Yes, we're still somehow Speaker 2: talking about Colin Kaepernick in 2026, Speaker 2: even after, you know, seven years Speaker 2: after him signing and settling with the NFL, Speaker 2: we're still somehow mentioning Colin Kaepernick in 2026. Speaker 2: And we're mentioning Colin Kaepernick Speaker 2: because it is the most easiest stain on Jay-Z's record.

Speaker 2: It is the most easiest stain on his profile. Speaker 2: He would lead you to believe that he doesn't make mistakes. Speaker 2: Or all his mistakes were as a drug dealer. Speaker 2: All his mistakes were early in his career. Speaker 2: Once he got up, he stayed up. Speaker 2: From Def Jam president to title to the Rockefeller flip. Speaker 2: Making the deals with cell phones to sell a million copies of your album, all that stuff.

Speaker 2: He would make you think he has not made a mistake. Speaker 2: So when he makes a mistake, like having an exclusive deal with Target. Speaker 2: To sell out a special edition version of his album. Speaker 2: But there are those in the black media space that are running to protect him by saying, well, Speaker 2: Other stores are offering it to. Not the one that Target is selling. It's a Target exclusive. Speaker 2: So clearly you negotiated a deal directly with Target to have a special edition of what you're selling be put on display for them.

Speaker 2: Hove knows that there is a boycott. Hove knows that through because of their DEI policies, people are continuously to this day, Deontay Wilder, boycotting Target. Speaker 2: Hove don't care because Hove is a capitalist. Hove don't care because if he sees a dollar, he's still that hustler in Brooklyn that was selling drugs. Speaker 2: And even though he has come a long way in terms of legitimizing himself and those around him, at the end of the day, he does all the same moves, whether it was losing 99 bricks and finding a way to get that back. Speaker 2: Whether it's stabbing on Rivera, whether it's doing funny money things when it comes to Rocca Nation contracts and even Live Nation contracts. Speaker 2: To now making a deal with Target to where you are selling product, trying to get black people to buy Target when you know there is a ongoing boycott of black people buying things at Target.

Speaker 2: Now, are there still black people buying things in Target? Yes. Speaker 2: Are they in masses like prior to the boycott? Nowhere near. Speaker 2: Target has has admitted as such that they have lost a lot of their black. Speaker 2: Customer base. So don't you find it funny?

Speaker 2: That on the heels of Jay-Z announcing this whole run around 30th anniversary of reasonable doubt. Speaker 2: And what was it, the 20 or 25th anniversary of Blueprint? Speaker 2: that we're going to run to Target or make a deal with Target to sell my album. Speaker 2: Because who's likely to sell, who's likely to buy that product? Speaker 2: Black people. Speaker 2: So you're now encouraging black people to go to the place that black people are openly, Speaker 2: not unilaterally, but more than enough, are boycotting. Speaker 2: You are encouraging people to go to a place that has admitted that they are losing Speaker 2: their black customer base that has admitted that there are no longer adhering to common decency and DEI practices.

Speaker 2: You are selling a product directly through them. You are trying to generate income for that company. Speaker 2: So we was on his ass about it. I've coined the phrase capitalist hove because that's who he is. Speaker 2: So he has heard that. And he is trying to call out the fact that, oh, well, y'all shop at Amazon. Speaker 2: Y'all shop at all these other places.

Y'all use social media. You know who owns that? Speaker 2: So. Allow me to do a deal with Target because you use social media. Speaker 2: Allow me. To leverage my blackness for profit. Speaker 2: Because you shop Amazon Prime.

Speaker 2: Allow me. Speaker 2: To continue to use my blackness. Speaker 2: For generational wealth. Speaker 2: That stays only within me and minds. Speaker 2: Because you are on YouTube. Speaker 2: And Google owns YouTube. Speaker 2: That's his retort.

Speaker 2: Does that sound like a smart retort? Speaker 2: Does that sound like. Speaker 2: Someone who knows what the hell they're doing. Does that sound like a sound businessman? Speaker 2: Does that sound like the same dude who says, I'm not a businessman, I'm a business man? Speaker 2: The dude that did back to back albums with R. Kelly.

Speaker 2: The man that did tours with R. Kelly. Speaker 2: That guy. Speaker 2: The guy that sold out Brooklyn. Speaker 2: So the Nets could be in Brooklyn. Speaker 2: He allowed a Russian oligarch, a Russian billionaire to use Jay-Z's blackness to allow low income residents to be dispersed from their apartments to clear the way for Barclays Center to be built in all the surrounding high rises and businesses that followed. Speaker 2: The same guy that sat down with Roger Godel and said to the world, we are past kneeling.

Speaker 2: That guy. Speaker 2: The guy that has cosplayed Basquiat. Speaker 2: This is the guy that we're supposed to be following. Speaker 2: This is the guy we're supposed to be adhering to. Speaker 2: This is the guy that we're supposed to be looking up to. Speaker 2: He is being put in a position that he does not belong in. Speaker 2: He's being put in the position of a MLK and Malcolm X.

Speaker 2: When he's more like Al Sharpton. Speaker 2: This is y'all hero. Speaker 2: This is y'all. Speaker 2: This is who y'all have propped up. Speaker 2: So the fact that Jay-Z is out here and he's throwing shade. Speaker 2: on the freestyle they run out of characters had to bring up cap again buddy took a check i ain't Speaker 2: even mad at him but along with that check you have to sign a non-disparagement i'm the one Speaker 2: they can't control that sounds cute except for the fact that he's wrong Speaker 2: it's all cute until you find out that he's wrong so again the guy that goes on stage and Speaker 2: pontificates, the guy that goes on stage Speaker 2: and wants to tell you Speaker 2: that he knows it all. He is Hove, Hove of the God, Speaker 2: the God MC, Me, Jehovah, all of that.

Speaker 2: He has been through the fire and come out on the other end Speaker 2: and he knows it all because he's been through that fire. Speaker 2: He is in these rooms that Speaker 2: is so inaccessible for you and I. Speaker 2: He is in these rooms that are supposed to be so unattainable Speaker 2: for us to even fathom the things. Speaker 2: He gets one of ones. Speaker 2: He put us on the Hublots. Speaker 2: He told us to stop wearing jerseys. Speaker 2: This guy.

Speaker 2: He was wrong. Speaker 2: Now, will he spin the block in another freestyle? Speaker 2: He's doing the London shows next week. Speaker 2: Is he going to go over to London with the blokes? Speaker 2: And freestyle that he was wrong about Kaepernick? Speaker 2: Because they're saying it that a source told TMZ Speaker 2: that Colin Kaepernick did not sign a NDA. Speaker 2: Did not.

Speaker 2: So Hove, who made a deal with the NFL. Speaker 2: Hove, who sat next to Roger Godel Speaker 2: and told the world we're past kneeling, Speaker 2: even though we were nowhere near past kneeling Speaker 2: and Kaepernick admitted as such. Speaker 2: And when you see what is still going on Speaker 2: day to black people, black boys to be specific, Speaker 2: why would Jay-Z be able to feel Speaker 2: why would Jay-Z be able to feel a way Speaker 2: about saying we're Speaker 2: past Neely? And let's examine who's around him. Speaker 2: Roger Goodell, obviously, who tried to act as though Speaker 2: this whole thing of social Speaker 2: unrest that was going on during the pandemic was not a thing and then had to apologize for it later Speaker 2: when it became so apparent, so overtly apparent that it was happening. Speaker 2: He had to spin the block and apologize. Speaker 2: Then we're looking at Tiki Barber.

Speaker 2: This guy right here, Tiki Barber, former NFL player, former New York Giant, former running back, Speaker 2: who is now a media pundit, has a radio show, not a very good radio show, but it's a radio show. Speaker 2: Tiki Barber once said, Tiki Barber is not the greatest representation of his his culture and his race. Speaker 2: And he has admitted as such because I used to work on his show and he famously or infamously said at one point in time, Speaker 2: he did a show with a white co-host and he said, matter of factly, Speaker 2: His co-host, who was a white, bald Italian dude from Brooklyn, was more of a black man than he was. Speaker 2: Let me run that back for you. Speaker 2: Tiki Barber, a black male football player, looked into a camera, spoke into a microphone, and said that his white co-host, who was unathletic, Speaker 2: bald and flabby and sick, Speaker 2: was more of a black man than he was. Speaker 2: So again, you have Roger Goodell, Speaker 2: who thought that social unrest and social injustice was a myth. Speaker 2: You have Tiki Barber, Speaker 2: who thinks his white Italian from Brooklyn co-hosts is blacker than he is.

Speaker 2: and I'm supposed to believe Speaker 2: that you have what's Speaker 2: you have the culture in mind Speaker 2: when you're sitting at the table Speaker 2: breaking bread with these folk Speaker 2: it is akin to Speaker 2: we're seeing the Democrats out here Speaker 2: running around all praising Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham on his way out Speaker 2: when he was the most Speaker 2: one of the most strident Speaker 2: against Speaker 2: people that look like me Speaker 2: and Jay-Z Speaker 2: and Tiki Barber Speaker 2: just say you're trying to be the only black in the room Speaker 2: and I could tell you this from experience in corporate America Speaker 2: and especially in sports media corporate Speaker 2: you will run into a lot of black faces unfortunately Speaker 2: that like being the only one in the room Speaker 2: that is not I Speaker 2: I don't like being the only one in the room Speaker 2: I despise it Speaker 2: because it makes things stand out Speaker 2: so much more than it should Speaker 2: when I see Speaker 2: when I'm the only one in the room Speaker 2: I'm like well what do these others Speaker 2: what have they done Speaker 2: that is so much better Speaker 2: than who I know on the outside Speaker 2: who can do this job Speaker 2: these people at this table Speaker 2: why am I the only one Speaker 2: who looks like me at this table Speaker 2: and I'm sure women catch it the same way Speaker 2: especially black women. Speaker 2: When a black woman walks into a corporate table Speaker 2: and she's the only woman in the room Speaker 2: and maybe even also the only black person in the room, Speaker 2: she's looking around like, Speaker 2: what have all these other people have done Speaker 2: to make them more qualified than the people that I know Speaker 2: that look like me, Speaker 2: that I know are just as good Speaker 2: or maybe better than the people Speaker 2: that are currently at this table? Speaker 2: So Jay-Z goes to this table Speaker 2: and makes a deal strictly for himself and his companies. Speaker 2: If it's about his companies, he'll ride. If it's about the betterment for him and those in and around him, he'll ride. Speaker 2: When it's for the culture, he doesn't give a fuck. And I would much rather I would feel so much better about his moves if he would just admit that I would be OK.

Speaker 2: Let me know what it is. I mean, if you just watch his moves, he's telling us. Speaker 2: But he's able to go on stage and lie at a concert. Speaker 2: And people eat this up like it's the truth. Speaker 2: When he's actually lying. Speaker 2: Enough with Hov. Speaker 2: What happened to the Marcy?

I looked this up. Speaker 2: This is the TBA. Speaker 2: I think it's called the Bitcoin Academy. What is it called? Speaker 2: Whatever it is. Speaker 2: There was a movement. There it is.

Yeah. Speaker 2: Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z are giving back to the residents in Marcy Projects with free Bitcoin classes. Speaker 2: Right. It's through his foundation, the Sean Carter Foundation. Speaker 2: Free Bitcoin education classes presented by Crypto Blockchain Plug and Black Bitcoin Billionaire. Speaker 2: you see here what the classes were going to be take a screenshot if you want to read it Speaker 2: take a screenshot if you want to read it right the bitcoin academy yeah so that is what tba means Speaker 2: so i went to go look this up because i wanted to know well what the hell's going on with this tba Speaker 2: so summer classes 2025 2024 2023 2022 so for four years running and i'm assuming five because we're Speaker 2: in 2026, but there's no dropdown for 2026. Speaker 2: Let's assume that 2026 just has not been posted yet.

Speaker 2: Summer classes, 2022 through 2025. Speaker 2: Free classes exclusively for Marcy residents. Speaker 2: So on the surface, this looks amazing. Speaker 2: On the surface, this looks like a real powerful thing. Speaker 2: Hove is going back to the community to teach them about the future of crypto and how they Speaker 2: could get in early, except they're not getting in early. Speaker 2: because Bitcoin, especially around 2022, Speaker 2: was already out of here, Speaker 2: especially if you're living in Marcy Projects. Speaker 2: So were people in Marcy being given free Bitcoin?

Speaker 2: Like how are they supposed to buy Bitcoin? Speaker 2: You're already living in Marcy Projects. Speaker 2: Bitcoin, let me come off screen. Speaker 2: What was the price of Bitcoin in 2022? Speaker 2: Come on. Bitcoin price 2022. Speaker 2: It began at nearly 50K.

Speaker 2: Let's see. Speaker 2: It peaked at 50K and dropped down at its lowest to around 23K. Speaker 2: Who at Marcy had 50K or even 23K to give out? Speaker 2: Okay. Speaker 2: Who had that bread? Speaker 2: Who at Marcy had that? Speaker 2: If they had 40K to drop on some Bitcoin, would they still be living in Marcy projects?

Speaker 2: But Hov is coming around giving them classes. The problem is I can't find outside of this little testimonial thing here at the bottom. Speaker 2: I couldn't find any information in regards to actual participation of students in these classes. Speaker 2: Now, again, I'm not saying this is fugazi. I'm just curious as to why there's no actual. Speaker 2: Footage. Of the class is happening like this here is a is a thing that's here in the background and the watermark, the logo thing here.

Speaker 2: But outside of that, there's nothing else that shows that these classes are actually happening outside of these testimonials, which, let's be real, could be manufactured. Speaker 2: What happened to these Bitcoin classes? Why is it summer 2026 here on the website? Speaker 2: Is it over already? Speaker 2: So not only did you sell out your people for a stadium for under 1% of a team, Speaker 2: but then you come back to the hood with your man's Jack Dorsey Speaker 2: and use his name to give yourself even more clout, Speaker 2: come back to the hood, Speaker 2: and you're offering them exposure to new technology, Speaker 2: to potential financial wealth, Speaker 2: but Bitcoin had already reached a point Speaker 2: to where it was so expensive Speaker 2: that you weren't going to be able to get people to buy into it. Speaker 2: So people at Marcy couldn't afford to buy into Bitcoin, Speaker 2: but you're offering them free classes on how to get Bitcoin, Speaker 2: but they can't afford the Bitcoin at the price. Speaker 2: what is the outcome of that and why isn't 2026 why isn't summer 2026 why can't why isn't the Speaker 2: website up i mean maybe they just update update the website i know as someone with the website Speaker 2: how difficult it is at times to keep your your website up to date but i would like to thank Speaker 2: someone the likes of sean jay-z carter and the sean carter foundation could update a website in Speaker 1: a more timely fashion.

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