00:00The star player on my favorite team Jalen Brunson on the Knicks interesting story today in the paper Jalen Brunson
00:07I'm actually vanity fair. I think it's okay. Pardon me on that
00:10You know his contracts gonna slowly you come up
00:13Yeah, and obviously took a hometown discount his last deal to New York Knicks
00:17So the Knicks go out there and make some other deals sign some other guys
00:21He said quote-unquote. I hope that they'll do right by me
00:25So let me define for you what choices the Knicks and Jalen Brunson are gonna have and i'm gonna tell
00:31you despite the fact that i'm a
00:33Die-hard nick fan, which you know
00:35I find this to be objectionable. Okay, so let me just give you the facts first and then we'll get
00:41into it
00:41Okay, so Jalen Brunson in 2028. So after next season
00:46He could sign a four-year contract with the New York Knicks for a max total of
00:53323 million dollars. Yes, so that comes out to be
00:57Ballpark 60 some odd million dollars a year, right now the numbers right on that? Yes
01:01Now the reason is because with NBC back the TV number went up and the players get a percentage now
01:07of that
01:08I apologize four years to a 323. Okay, it's over 70 million dollars a year. I apologize
01:13Actually, it'll go up as the years actually boy. My math sucks today. It's actually 80 million dollars. Yeah a
01:20year
01:20Okay, that's so if he if he decides to redo his deal
01:23Let's just start fresh. Yeah if Jalen Brunson
01:27Redoes his deal in 2028 is a four-year deal
01:32323 million dollars
01:33That's 80 million dollars a year. That's right if Jalen Brunson decides to wait till 2029
01:39Mm-hmm then he gets a five-year deal
01:42For 418 million dollars the same
01:4780 million dollars a year just over. Okay, yeah now I love the New York Knicks
01:53Obviously, I love Jalen Brunson what he has brought to the New York Knicks making them a legitimate contender
01:59He gets all the credit for that and of course Leon Rose for putting great pieces around him
02:03But I cannot sit here today and tell you that we should be paying a basketball player
02:09Even my best player
02:1180 million
02:14Dollars a year
02:15I just I can't make that make sense and I'm not saying he hasn't earned it
02:21I'm not saying based on the current landscape and the finances of basketball
02:25That if other guys are going to get those kinds of contracts then yes
02:29Jalen Brunson deserves that type of contract because his peers are getting those types of contracts
02:35But if you try to figure out as we've all done the through the NBA all-star break
02:40How do we make basketball better? How do we quote-unquote fix basketball?
02:44Uh-huh
02:45I have to tell you this as a die-hard fan of basketball as a guy that was referred to
02:50as a basketball aficionado by the great Joe Dumars
02:53Mediocre Joe the great Joe Dumars
02:55Mediocre Joe Dumars
02:56I I can't defend I can't
02:59Giving Jalen Brunson
03:01Five years
03:03Four hundred
03:04Eighteen million dollars
03:06I can't
03:07Now
03:07I'd rather have him than not have him
03:09I'm not trading him obviously
03:11And I know the Knicks are going to give him that deal
03:14Unless he goes for the earlier deal
03:16Which is four years
03:17Three twenty three
03:18Still eighty million dollars a year
03:21Yeah
03:21I just my mind doesn't work
03:23I can't wrap my head around giving a basketball player eighty million dollars a year
03:30And I want to be clear about this because I know it's going to happen
03:32The haters are going to come out
03:34Based on the current landscape
03:38Jalen Brunson deserves every penny of either one of those two deals
03:43Yeah
03:44He has earned it
03:45He deserves it
03:46But we're being crazy folks
03:49We're being crazy
03:51If we're not going to pay our basketball players
03:54Eighty million dollars a year
03:56And then encourage them
03:57Now Jalen does not take advantage of this
04:00So it's a little bit different
04:01Encourage them
04:02To take eighteen games off every single year
04:06And only play sixty five games
04:08I'm sorry
04:09It is a problem with the sport
04:11The finances of the sport
04:13Sport are broken
04:15You can't give a guy
04:17Eighty million dollars a year
04:19To play sixty five games
04:22In the NBA
04:23Why
04:23I'm sorry
04:24Yeah but why
04:25Because it's crazy
04:26No no no
04:27See this is why
04:28Because my ticket prices are too high
04:30No they're not too high
04:31I'd like ticket prices are too high
04:32Then blame the owners
04:33Because we're giving out deals like that
04:34No they're not high because of that
04:35That's a lie
04:36Do not listen to Craig Carton about that
04:37You should
04:38That's not true
04:39Why do you think ticket prices are high
04:40Because the TV deal
04:41This is simple
04:42Do not listen to Craig Carton
04:43Owners
04:44Everything Craig said was wrong
04:46Owners make money on the TV deal
04:46No no
04:47Every word he said was wrong
04:48The TV deal
04:49And the players get a percentage
04:51Therefore
04:51When the players were making twenty million as the max
04:54It was because the TV deal
04:56Not the tickets
04:57The TV deal
04:59No had nothing to do with
05:00Tickets
05:00They can get free tickets
05:01The way the money wouldn't change at all
05:02Do not listen to Craig about this
05:04I have to be right
05:05No you're not
05:06The truth of the matter is
05:07All this is
05:09Is
05:09They bring in revenue
05:10Yes
05:11The league brings in a certain amount
05:12And the players get more than half the revenue
05:13And they get fifty one percent
05:15Of the revenue
05:16That's more than half
05:16Okay
05:16That's the way the deal was set
05:18That was negotiated
05:19Okay
05:19They also put in basically
05:21With the second apron
05:22A hard cap to spread that money
05:24Around the whole league
05:25What Craig Carton just said
05:27Yes
05:27Is not
05:28Don't pay the players
05:29Pay the owner
05:30I didn't say that
05:31Yes you are
05:31Craig
05:32No no Craig
05:33I can't give a guy
05:34Eighty million dollars
05:34To play basketball
05:35No no
05:35If you don't give him that money
05:37Where'd the money go
05:38I suppose that
05:39It would stay in the owner's pocket
05:41Right
05:41So what Craig Carton just announced
05:42Everybody is
05:43He wants thirty billionaires
05:45To get all the money
05:46And the players you actually watch play
05:48To not get the money
05:50Okay let me ask you a question
05:51The percentage is the same
05:52Let me ask you a question
05:54You're a small business owner
05:56Right
05:56Yeah
05:57Should you be allowed to make money
05:59Or should the people that work for you
06:01Make all the money
06:01They should
06:02Hold on
06:02The donors are poor now
06:03This was negotiated
06:05If I sit down and negotiate with
06:08The cleaner of the department
06:10Right
06:10And I say I'm getting this amount
06:11You get percentage
06:12So right now it's a hundred dollars
06:14Yes
06:14Right
06:15So right now I get forty nine dollars
06:17And all of you
06:18So as a business owner
06:19I'm just asking you
06:20Would you have signed up
06:21You busted your ass to build a business
06:23Yeah
06:23Right
06:23Would you have signed up
06:25To give your employees
06:26More money than you get
06:28Yes
06:28So I
06:29You probably wouldn't
06:30I absolutely wouldn't
06:31Because it's bad business
06:31No it's not bad business
06:32If I get forty nine dollars
06:34Yes
06:34And fifteen people
06:36Yeah
06:36Split
06:36Split
06:37Split fifty one dollars
06:39Yeah
06:39So then
06:40It becomes a million dollars
06:42Okay
06:42And it's four point
06:43That's
06:43What you're saying
06:44Doesn't make sense
06:45I don't think he should
06:46I don't think any player
06:47Should get eighty million dollars a year
06:48Yeah but that's just
06:49An arbitrary thing
06:50Yeah that's
06:51That's an arbitrary thing though
06:52And I think here's the deal
06:53And the reason
06:54I want to be very clear about
06:55You're preying
06:56Yeah
06:56On people who don't
06:57Who make fifty thousand
06:59And rather than help educate them
07:01You're preying on them
07:02Yes
07:02Because they don't make eighty million dollars
07:04I don't cost two hundred and fifty bucks
07:05To go to a game
07:06To see my favorite team play
07:07Yeah that's because
07:08The guard's expensive
07:09I don't cost almost two hundred bucks
07:10For you to see your favorite team
07:11Play in Philadelphia
07:12Yeah
07:12I know you're upset with your owner right now
07:14And I understand why
07:15Because he doesn't spend money
07:16I don't cost money
07:16For you to be
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