It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's nick coffee. All right, let's just dive right in. Shall be five o'clock here on a Tuesday, coffee and company fueled by Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. A lot to get to with just an hour left, so again we'll just get right to it. For those of you that were still considering making the trip at the end of the month of
the Bahamas to see Pat Kelsey's first team for the first time. In fact, it'll be your first chance to see him coaching, So I don't know what kind of crowd they're expecting to go. I would imagine, like if you have to pick one and you're in you know, you know, you would be able to do both because of schedule and being able to afford it. I would imagine the better trip would be the Battle for Atlantis, which of course is induring Thanksgiving, because those are real games and you know it's
it's I mean, you're escaping cold weather at that point. I guess if you're able to pull off both, then shout out to you. But if you if you're still considering making the trip here later this month. We now know when they're gonna play those two games in the uh in the Baja Mar. What's it called the Baja Can they go with the it's Baja Mar. It's the same place where they played in that tournament a couple of years ago
when they won the Baja Mar Classic. I think the Baja Bullies as they call themselves, and then went on to you know, have a really bad year. But yeah, they're gonna play Let's see, you just had it pulled up here. They're gonna play a team from Canada, college team from Canada who has been on trips like this before in previous years. I mentioned
it earlier. The last trip they went on, they played Yale twice and they played Wichita State twice and they lost both of those games, which I think most would just expect them to lose, but they were pretty competitive. And Yale never doesn't sound like a juggernaut in college basketball, but they did just knock off a good Auburn team in the first round of the tournament last year. So Louisville will play Tuesday, July the thirtieth at seven pm.
That'll be against the Bahamas. That is not the national team. I don't know who that's going to be, but hopefully it's somebody that can give them, you know, somewhat of a not a test, but just you know, I don't want to watch it. If I even get to watch it,
I doubt it's gonna be on TV. But it'll at least be worth a little more if you feel like you're well aware you're not playing the type of competition you're gonna see like night in and night out in the ACC, but you still are playing some dudes who you know previously played in college or maybe you're currently playing professionally somewhere. I have no clue what to expect from that team, so maybe we'll find that a little bit more info as we
get closer to that date. But that'll be the first game and then they'll play the Calgary team at noon on Thursday. So you know, if you want to, I don't know, it's tough to get a I mean, to get it if you're in the Louisville area. I mean, the flights are what's gonna get you, because you're you're not getting a direct in Nassaul from here. But if you wanted to make it just a trip for basketball.
You could you could realistically go Tuesday bright and early and come home Thursday afternoon, and it's not you know, you're not there as long and you're not spending as much money at the resort. But then again, you know, flights are probably what really makes it expensive because again you're gonna have connecting flights, and you know, flights aren't cheap. So again, if you're
going, I'm envious. I shared the story at the beginning of the show today that last week, you know, I'd mentioned I was kind of kicking the tires on the situation, knowing well aware it's very unrealistic to go, just because it'd be tough to make it work. Then you know, I
got a I got a little bit of a break. Somebody reached out to me, somebody I know relatively well that that is going and is connected with U of L, and and uh, you know, they said, hey, look if you if you can get there, I mean, I gotta, I gotta, I got, I got, I got your room covered for the for the resort. And I'm like, are you serious. He's like, yeah, like all right, well let me look into it.
So sure enough, I'm looking into it. Looking at flights, I found a scenario where I could drive up to Indy and kind of fly out of their airport, make it work, and it wouldn't be a crazy expense, and it would certainly be worth it to me because you know, I want to see this team play. Man. I'm excited for this upcoming season, uh, and the chance to see these guys in action, even though it's
not a real game. I mean, the Bahamas. There's worse places to be in late July, early August, but I mean, it's sincerely what would have me most excited to go was to see this group in action. And just as soon as I kind of thought, okay, maybe I can
make this work. Let me just make sure the passport's not expired, and then it hit me while looking for said passport, realizing, oh, it doesn't matter, doesn't matter if the passport's expired or not, because my annual vacation with my family to Destin, Florida happens to be that same week, So you know, not going to be able to make it happen. But it's okay. I'd rather be at Destin with my family anyway, because that's
I mean, that's it's all about family time. I did entertain the thought of calling my wife on the air and saying like, hey, honey, a little change of plans destin. You guys are going to go just the three of you. You need some alone time with the kids. I know you don't get that very often, and you're just desperate for more of it.
You're like, oh, you know, just all you want. So you enjoy the beach every day, dealing with the kids, packing the cooler, carrying the chairs, you know, dragging them in the sand, having to stop and put it all down because one of the kids is screaming their lungs out. You do that, you have that, that is what you deserve and want. And I'll just be in the Bahamas working covering basketball games. Thought of, you know, just thought about doing that and realized that
wouldn't That wouldn't work. I mean, she might get so angry if she's driving home from work now, and she might wreck her car because just the thought of I mean, she knows I wouldn't try to pull it off, but she probably laugh at me. Actually, to be honest with you, that she probably wouldn't take you serious, just like whenever I went viral on TikTok for trying to put her in her place. That reaction that that she gave me then is probably a similar reaction that I would get if I tried
to, you know, pull pull something off like that. But going to the bars with the guys, Yeah, yeah, sometimes sometimes you just need to sit the f down, shut the f up, and let me do my thing. I think that's word for word what I said, but of course I didn't say f I said those words. And you know, it was a it was a trend. It was a trend on TikTok. People were doing it, and I thought, you know, what the hell with
it, Let's just see what happens. And uh, I think it has like a million views or close to it, which you know, I don't know if other I mean, I don't say that to brag because I'll probably never have a video on TikTok that does anything like that. But uh, the algorithm picked up on it, and uh, and it became a thing. In fact, not even that long ago had somebody come up to me that's been over. It's been well over a year. It's like last it was no years ago. It was November of twenty twenty two. Yeah.
We weren't even working together yet, were we. It was right before that and I had somebody come up we hadn't seen it in a while, and was like, man, I gotta tell you. When I saw that, I was a dog suited all my friends. And I was like, well, I'm glad you. I'm glad you got to laugh out of that, and it it would be fun to try to recreate it again, but like I wouldn't she would know, right, I mean, it would be yeah,
it'd be it would be something I would make it. But it has been long enough to where if it was different enough, you might be able to pull it off. That's true. And that because it was Thanksgiving week and that is a week where like people who are my age do go out and taiwan on and have a night because people are back in town visiting family and stuff. And I did actually legitimately have a friend who who now lives
in Seattle that was in town at the time. You know, it was a little more like is he being I mean, I think I think her first response was are you are you effing with me? That's what it was. And that and that's when I said, sometimes you just need to sit there down, shut the f up, and let me do my thing. Uh. And then you know, she laughed and I ran away. That's what happened. Uh. But if I was to present this Bahamas situation like
it would you know, she's she knows that's not happening. I mean if in fact, she might be like, oh, yeah, well we'll see if you do that, well, we'll see if that's what happens. Kind of threat kind of threaten me, you know what I mean. Yeah, even if you pretended that you like already booked the flight and everything, Oh, that would be worst case scenario because do something like that because you don't. You don't even do those decisions on your own. She books everything for
you. Yeah, that's true. So she couldn't. She wouldn't believe that that's true. Yeah. So anyways, if you're going have fun, enjoy the Bahamas. I've never been to the Bahamas, but I'd love to go sometime. Could be a lot of fun. I mean, Bahamas and basketball, Like that's the perfect scenario, because I'm not I don't, you know, the beach is fine. Resorts are fine, Like all inclusive resorts are a lot of fun. We do that and it's always a great time and
we enjoy it. But for me, it's not just because I'm in a tropical place like Cancun or Rivier AMAI or something like that. It's I mean, the resorts are awesome, right, and you get, you know, just all you can eat, all you can drink, and you stand in a nice place, get to meet people. It's really I mean, it's a lot of fun. I enjoy it. But you throw in basketball. I mean, I'm in heaven. But again, it's nowhere near especial as
my annual family vacation trip to Destin, Florida. And I say that sincerely, we're really looking forward to it, all right, real quick. So the nc DOUABLEA, the future of the NUAA has been discussed for a while now, meaning people have always asked, geez, I wonder if this thing it can survive. I mean, they don't have a ton of resources.
They've never seemed to have less respect from college sports fans and seemingly even college you know administrations, now maybe not all of them, but like this isn't new, meaning people questioning how long the n DOUAA can survive, and you know, they have no plans to close as of right now, despite a two point eight billion dollar settlement that was recently announced. So if the NAA
doesn't exist, it could be for a variety of reasons. But I have a theory, a guess I should say, as to what will actually end up killing the NCIDUA lay where they don't have any money to operate, and I know that sounds crazy because you know they have unlimited money seemingly just from the NS Doablea tournament every year. I mean, and by the way, that is you know the I don't know if you guys are savvy in the business world, like you can have like your company name LLC, but then
your DBA is doing business as the NC Douablea. It's not an LLC, I don't think. But they should DBA do business as it should be known for as doing business as the NC double Tournament, because that's where their money comes from. I mean, that's that's that's how the company exists. That's how Mark Emmertt can get, you know, a multimillion dollar salary and then a bonus of multimillions every year just they're printing money seemingly from the NS DOUAA
tournament. But if these lawsuits that were recently filed are successful, they may run out of money. So one of the things that got brought up after this settlement became public is the timeline here. So for reasons that I that I still can't figure out, they're going to go back and pay former college athletes in this settlement because they were not able to profit from their NIL because the NC DOUBLEA denied them the right to do that, right, I mean,
yeah, here's the timeline. So two point eight billion is the settlement that covers only college athletes who competed from June fifteenth of twenty sixteen through November third of twenty twenty three, which, again I don't understand that timeline because I mean, there are plenty of athletes that played long before June fifteenth of twenty sixteen that also were denied by the NC DOUBLEA access to an NIL market
that they would have made a lot of money. So first, at least the first story I saw about a lawsuit from players that played long before that, that was the NC State nineteen eighty three NC State men's basketball team. They had ten members of that team that are suing the NCUBLEA and the collective licensing company, whatever that is, and I wouldn't be shocked if they win.
And now we have sixteen former men's college basketball players from the nineties and two thousands that brought on their own lawsuit claiming the NCE DOUBLEA and its member conferences illegally use their nils in March Madness highlights. So this suit is led by Mario Chalmers, of course, a no name from Kansas, Sharon Collins, also a non name from Kansas. They were on that two thousand and
eight Kansas national championship team. And it also includes six major college basketball conferences and Turner Sports Initiative, which, of course Turner Sports is you know, CBS Turner or the samet you know or partner together. I mean, I think Turner owns CBS or vice versa. So it's the people who put on the NCBLA tournament. So that's the lawsuit, and I don't see how they
won't win. And I think even if they don't win and this thing drags out, the more lawsuits they get out there, the more you're going like, I would be highly, highly shocked if these former college players they won a national championship in two thousand and eight didn't see this lawsuit by the NC state guys and said, why are we doing that? And somebody brought up a point that it may be valid. I'm not smart enough to know, but like it could be a statute of limitations thing. One. I wouldn't
understand why there'd be a statute of limitations on that. However, if there was, I feel like these lawsuits wouldn't you know, you can sue anybody for anything, right, Like there are many lawsuits every day that are filed that are absolutely nonsense. But I feel like these guys, especially Mario Chalmers who played in the NBA for a long time. I mean, I don't
think these guys are poor trying to get a check. I mean, clearly they want money, and it may not be because they need it desperately, or maybe it is because they need it desperately, but I just don't understand how they wouldn't be entitled to that, Like, how can theans DOAA?
To me? It's like, Okay, we'll do the two point eight billion for this amount of time because that's all we have available to pay out, because that's a lot of money, and well, and this will be this because by the way, this is the first time the nsaa's ever actually ever done anything that is paying players. And they had to do it because the
judge told them, not because they wanted to. So maybe they just assumed that the two point eight billion is such a big number and they finally are doing it, meaning paying players out of money they generated from college basketball, and they just thought, Okay, people will just not people will ignore the timeline here because I just don't again, what do I know, not a lawyer, far from it, but I don't understand if you played in November
of twenty sixteen, you can be entitled to a cut of this two point eight billion, but if you played in November of twenty fifteen, you can't. Like, it makes no sense to me. I mean a statute of limitations thing would make sense. But again, I just have a feeling these lawsuits because I feel like, if you you know, these attorneys who took on this, you know, who are you know fighting for these you know
who were putting these lawsuits in place and whatnot? Like if they knew it was a shut in case closed because the statute of limitations, I just don't think it gets that far down the line. But you know, I could be wrong, all right. So on the other side, we're not getting
going to the break just yet yet, just yet. But I do want to get to something I mentioned earlier but I haven't discussed yet, and that is just some comparisons that I think will put your jaw on the floor as far as a guy in the NFL that you know is like one of the best players in the league at his position, maybe somebody who's got an MVP trophy in the case, and you'll see his annual salary, and then you'll see a guy in the NBA that makes the same amount of money and you'll
look at his stats. Maybe it's somebody you've never heard of, and it's just crazy. So we will get to that on the other side. But JaMarcus Russell, I assume everybody listening knows who that is. He's one of the biggest, if not the biggest NFL draft busts of all time, and he has found himself in the news once again for you know, not good reasons. So he was a quarterback at LSU, was the number one pick in the two thousand in seven draft, only he didn't get a new contract.
He was out of the league in just two years, and he wasn't good when he was in the league. And I'd say if you polled one hundred NFL fans and asked them who the biggest NFL draft bus was, I'd say seventy five or more percent would say JaMarcus Russell. So I don't know what is you know what his life has been like since since his playing days.
But I know there was an ESPN Outside the Line story on him, and I think there was a thirty for thirty on him, and it didn't paint the picture as if you know, life was perfect, but you know, he did open up as to some things that led to him struggling, and you know, just people around him where he's from in Mobile, Alabama. So I have no clue what he's been up to in recent years, but he has found himself facing a lawsuit now because he I mean, this
is this is just a bad look. He was coaching at his alma mater as a volunteer coach, and he apparently took a seventy four thousand dollars check intended as a donation to the school and he kept that money himself. So a local business owner wrote the check and says that Russell approached him about donating to help the Williamson High School football team purchase new weight room equipment, and he gave Russell the donation by check, but the school says they never got
any of that money. And Russell has reportedly desposited into a Credit Union account and as soon as he deposited, he quickly withdrew fifty five thousand of the seventy four thousand and kept it himself. And now you know, I guess he's not facing criminal charges, but he's facing a lawsuit because I guess if this guy, I don't know, I guess technically he could still get in
trouble with the law. But if if this guy wrote a check and he just put it in JaMarcus Russell's name, I mean, it could just come down to hearsay, did this guy does he have proof that that check was for what, you know, for weight room stuff or what? But you know, sad because you got to be really, really really in a low place and be really down and out to one do that, but also to think you wouldn't get caught, to think you wouldn't get away with it,
or to think that you would get away with it. So I mean he's thirty eight. I thought he was a lot older than that. But yeah, he started twenty five games for the Raiders and ended his NFL career with fifty two percent completion rate, eighteen touchdowns twenty three interceptions. He was, I mean it was I don't even know if he if anybody considered. I mean, usually if you're if you're not picked up after your rookie contract as an early pick, I mean that's I mean, that's I mean it's rare,
but it happens. But usually somebody will kick the tires on you right and and put you on the practice squad or something like that. I don't see that he had any I mean, it sounds like once it ended with with the Raiders, it was it was done. It was done, so, you know, very sad. He's also the guy though that is known for a really funny story. You know, he he would not watch film
like he would not. They wanted him to learn the offense watching film, and they would give him I think it might have been DVD's they would give him of like you know, highlights and just you know, the offense. I'm not sure what's on the DVD as far as you know what they're showing him, but just stuff for him to learn the offense and get more acclimated
with the offense he's gonna run. And they had a feeling that he wasn't watching it because it wasn't translating, So they put blank DVDs in the DVD case and then asked him if he watched it, and he would tell them yes. I mean, like again, this guy has never made great decisions. It looks like former number one overall pick though. All right, we'll come back on the other side. Keep this party going on. It's coffee
and company. Feel about Thornton's right here. On Sports Talk seven ninety so, Donovan Mitchell inked a new three year extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers years earlier. This morning, woes broke the story and a lot of money. He's already made a lot of money. He's going to make even more. So. It is a three year, one hundred and fifty point three million dollar
deal. I believe it is, so that uh that keeps him there for well, it's not a I'm trying to get the specifics here, because the three years he's is is the is the amount of years that he's he's going
to be there under contract. He will have a player option UH in year four and after not this upcoming season, but the next season, after the twenty twenty five to twenty six season, he'll be eligible for a four year extension, which will give him the ability to I think, you know, enter a level of of of cleveland'll be able to give him more money than
there. They can't. You know, there's this there's something about how long he's been in the NBA that'll make him eligible for a different type of deal than what he's getting now. I believe. So, Yeah, Donovan staying in Cleveland, and I never really got the sense that he would he would try to leave because you know, there's always been talk about him wanting out of Utah and would he leave Utah not because I mean they were good for
a while, but you know, Utah is a small market team. They lost Gordon Hayward and it's probably along with the Orlando Magic and maybe the Detroit Pistons, they're not a small, tiny market they're just awful. But I guess you could maybe throw up Pacers in there too, to be honest with
you, those are the types of small market teams. The kings to where if you have, like if you hit it big in the draft and you have a guy that's become your franchise player and you're building around him and it's working, you have to worry about him just deciding he doesn't want to play with you anymore. He wants to go to a bigger market, maybe with maybe with a you know, a better team, or team up with his friends somewhere. Like that happens in the NBA now. So it was said
about Donovan in Cleveland. I'm sorry in Utah, but I don't really remember ever really, I mean, they just decided to trade him and kind of start over. I don't think he forced out, And in Cleveland, I don't think there was ever evidence that he wanted or that he was frustrated.
There was just a lot of noise about it, and he would at times kind of shoot it down on social media, you know, not you know, losing his mind in a tweet, but just kind of saying like, man, this is ridiculous, kind of insinuating that this is just so far from the truth. But everybody seemed to think that he wanted to leave, but he clearly didn't because he decided to stay And this was a Cavs fan
who put this together. I thought it's well done, but just how wrong everybody was about Donovan Mitchell and some claiming that like they know he's got coming back. It's just, you know, the worst kept secret in basketball, one hundred percent. Donovan Mitchell has played his last game full the Cleveland cavill lives, but it seems like no one around the league actually thinks he wants
to stay in Cleveland. Donovan Mitchell's gonna say, damn it, I want out, you know why, because I wanted to be in New York anyway. Okay, that nobody thinks he's staying there, you know, and I think that's what we've heard. I haven't heard anybody be like, no, no, you guys are wrong. He's staying a It's the worst kept secret. People don't think that Donovan Mitchell is going to be their long term anyway. Even if Donovan Mitchell and the Calves winning championship next year, that'd be
great, love it. It's even more likely than he's gonna leave, It's true. So I think what's happened with Donovan is that he has found himself in situations to where he doesn't have a ton of help. I mean, I think Cleveland is ecstatic to get him back because he has delivered since he was traded there, and he's made them better. They became a playoff team when he arrived. And he's got Darius Garland as a teammate who is a
good young player. And they're not terrible. I don't think the roster stinks, but like they're just gonna run it back, and I mean, I don't know what else you can do. I don't. I don't know if they don't have cap room or whatever. But you know, I'm friends with a couple of Cavs fans who work in that market, and they they're stunned that they were able to get Donovan back, but like they're not maybe by paying Donovan this that keeps them from being able to go add more pieces.
But like it's so clear that Boston is the elite team above everybody else in the East. And I don't know who's gonna be close to competing with them, like gosh, I mean, who maybe the Knicks, but maybe not. Yeah, I don't know, Man, the Knicks have good young pieces like I could, but I just have a hard time I'll believe it when I see it. With the Knicks, meaning like they've definitely got a good core right now, and they've become better in the last couple of years.
You know, they made it to the second round of the of the playoffs this year. But there'll be all kinds of talk about them being the team that could take them down. But again, that's what the Knicks or front
runners like. They like they've never actually done anything substantial in the NBA in a long long time, and they're all hype, and they were all hype acting like they'd won the series against the Pacers, and then the Pacers going to and I know they were injured and all that, but they go into New York and you know, talked about as the biggest game in Knick's history as far as you know, Game seven at their place, and you know they got they got demand the Pacers take a step forward. Maybe they just
man'. That's what really bums me out about the Pacers is that I like the personnel on this team, but like our ceiling is in my opinion, still far away from being like, honestly, to be fair, if the Knicks were at full stream, I don't think we beat them in that series. I mean we almost lost to them, and they were very, very shorthanded. So I mean, Halli Burton's a great star. Again. I liked what they've I like what the Pacers are doing, but I just it
makes me sad to know that I feel good about it. But I also can be realistic with myself and say, we're not sniffing an NBA title anytime soon, so you know, and we're not a destination for free agents. We're just not never have been. And you know, Indie is not a huge city compared to the biggest that the NBA has to offer, but it's also not a tight I mean, like you know, I'm biased, CLEARLYM a Pacers fan, and I actually love the city of Indianapolis. I really
do. I've never heard anybody who's been to Indianapolis, except for maybe people from the Deep South, that have anything bad to say about Indianapolis. I think it is, you know, for me and just sort of I think it's the perfect city. It you know, there's there's a ton of diversity, there's a lot of I mean, it's it's it's nice. It's big enough to where you have pro sports teams but it's not too big to just overwhelm you. Uh, the suburb areas are super nice. I mean you're
close to Chicago, you close to Louisville. Like, I would never move. I don't want to move, but like if I had to move to a different like if I was going to move to I mean it's no brainer. Actually, if I was gonna, let's say, I you know, my career took me to a pro market and I was, you know, going to a different station, I would I would prefer Indy one because I know a lot about those teams and that would help me, that would give me a little bit of a head start in a new market. But like
I love Indianapolis. I think it's a great city. So but you know NBA players, they want to be in Miami, they want to be in LA, they want to be in New York. And I get it because you know, there are guys who will have way Like for example, Dak Prescott is not a great quarterback. He makes good money with the Cowboys. They've clearly paid him well enough. He's made money, but do people understand being in Dallas, in the brand that the Cowboys have, he makes more
money probably from endorsements than anybody would ever realize. And it's not because of stats. It's because he's the freaking Cowboys quarterback and he's above competent. Right, Brands want to work with somebody who is the QB for one of the bigger sports franchises on the planet. Same thing in New York, like you have way more Lebron has been able to really you know, I mean Lebron
is a Hollywood guy now, and I don't mean like in movies. He's been in movies, but like he has a production company, Like he has used his wealth to start, you know, to be an entrepreneur in the tech in Hollywood world, and he could do that from anywhere he's Lebron, but like in LA makes it more convenient. So that'll never change. By the way, I think smaller market franchises will always sort of just have a tougher time in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't mean you can't have success.
I mean, look at look at the Packers. I mean they're not I mean they're tiny market, and you know they've they've had success and have continued. I mean they're one of the bigger franchises in the NFL. So Anyways, Donovan's getting paid a lot of money, and I'm happy for him. I'm happy for him. So let's look at let's see Donn So this year, Donovan Mitchell under contract under his new contract, Donovan's gonna make thirty four point eight million dollars. It's a lot of money. Next year he's
gonna make forty six point three million. He'll make fifty point one million in the next year, and then that last year in its contract with the player option fifty three point eight so he'll be eligible for a max after I believe it is the twenty eight season, which I think the max projected max is sixty five point five million, which is crazy to think about. So the NBA has got a lot more money to throw around, and I know why,
right, there's less players to pay. The collective Bargaining Agreement. Uh, they have a lot of guaranteed deal. I mean, just about every deal is guaranteed in the in the NBA, it seems, especially if you're like a consistent play that you know is you know they're not gonna cut. I mean, if they cut you and you still have a lot of guaranteed money on your deal, it's because they were just way wrong. So and
then there's some contracts that are like partially guaranteed. Let me give you a crazy stat Last year, Neurlans Noel did not play basketball in the NBA, was not employed, but he signed a training camp deal that had because he's a veteran, I guess it had. It had a guarantee component to where seven hundred thousand dollars was guaranteed. Ne Orleans Noel was paid seven hundred thousand dollars last year to not play basketball. Seven hundred k. And he hasn't
played legitimately in like four years. So it wasn't as if, you know, he was fresh off a good run with a team. He'd been fighting for a spot in the NBA for a few years there, and the King signed him but just kind of a training camp deal, but they let him go before the season started. They didn't keep him on the roster, but yet his deal. I mean, that just is a sign of money that you you can just throw away because you have unlimited amounts of it, you
know what I mean. So it's not like I'm bringing this to to attention of people, like nobody's aware of it. Like I know that the NFL doesn't have as much guarantee. There's way more players to pay. They don't have as good of a CVA, and that's why they don't make as much money. Like it isn't new information, but I think when you hear the salaries of this guy in the NBA and this guy in the NFL, like some of it is crazy, I mean unbelievable almost, Like Lamar Jackson.
Let's look at Lamar Jacks. Lamar Jackson this year just base just his contract, You'll make a lot more money with endorsements, and I think his contractor's like some cash included, which is just I guess added payments. But his deal, meaning like the terms of his contract is his salary for this upcoming
season is fourteen point two five million dollars. It's a lot of money, right, you know who's gonna make the same amount of money or more than Lamar Jackson, who has two MVP trophies, by the way, and he's currently one of the higher paid quarterbacks in the league. He's not the highest paid. But like it's not as if, oh, poor Lamar everybody else in the NFL at quarterbacks getting rich. It's just that this is the way it is Mitchell Robinson for the Knicks will make more money than Lamar Jackson,
Obie Toppin. You know Grant Williams from Tennessee played at Tennessee for a while, then was with the Celtics, Hornets and Mavericks. Think he just finished up the season with the mat I mean he's like a mid. He is mid at best. In the NBA. He makes slightly less than Lamar Jackson does. Max Struss makes over a million dollars more. I'm naming people that
a lot of you've never heard of. I'm sure, right, I mean, the NBA is the place to be apparently, I mean if you got money, I mean if you can, if you can, like if you can, and it's a hard league to stay in, right, I mean it's impossible almost there's not as many roster spots, like it's super competitive. But you can be in the NF you can be in the NBA on you know, a low level deal and still I mean you can be a guy
that is just known that you might get in one game a month. But if you're on a two three year deal and a good chunk of it's guaranteed, I mean, you're making you know, life changing money. I mean, let's look at let's look at some other players here, let's see. Ope, Sorry, I'm searching on a Google tab and that that happens whenever I end up not getting any So yeah, TJ. Hawkinson, he is a He's one of the five best tight ends in the NFL according to Pro
Football Focus. He's with the Minnesota Vikings. Nine point nine million dollars uh is is his salary. I mean, I can name dudes in the NBA who get off the bench once a month that make you know double that. I mean, he's making nine. Bruce Brown with the Raptors makes twenty three men million dollars this upcoming season. Nicholas Claxton twenty two million. I mean
Miles Turner nineteen million. And if you like, this is the kind of thing that if you have the ability is a young like if you've got a kid who you know is just a god gifted athlete, I mean to the point where you are you're not delusional as a parent to say that you think that your son could be a professional athlete and he's at an age where he's like fifteen, maybe sixteen, maybe fourteen fifteen is probably more like it, and you kind of want him to to to not quit one, but maybe
just you know, realize which one's going to get more focused. Because I'm somebody I hope when i'm a if I end up in that situation and I'm sure my son will not be a god gifted athlete that has a chance to play pro sports, I hope that happens, But you know, I'm realistic. I'd realize the chances of that happening. But like I think, even if we're just competing to maybe get a scholarship, I'm gonna let him play
whatever sport he wants. But I think if you're giving four sports the collective amount of same amount of attention, you're not giving any of them the amount that it needs for you to be super successful. But my point is, like shift him in the direction of basketball. I mean, harder to make it clearly, but like, if they've got that is a realistic I mean, that's the amount of money's crazy. I mean, even if you take away the fact that it's guaranteed, I mean, just the base salary for
these guys, man, it is, it's insane. And I think you're insane if you haven't taken advantage of all the great services that Louisville Men's Clinic has to offer, because they can help you fellas they've helped me with low te and they can help you with that or with a variety of things. Maybe you have a rectile dysfunction. If so, that's unfortunate. I'm sure that's difficult to deal with. Who knows. Maybe I'll be there one day. I hope not. But if i am, I know who I'm going
to turn to, and that's the folks at Louisville Men's Clinic. Doctor Wood. He's a true pro great guy character too, and I say that in a complimentary way. He's awesome. Really enjoy anytime I'm in the office catching up with doctor Wood. He's he's a funny guy, and you know, he knows what he's he knows what he's talking about, he knows what he's doing. He's a real doctor who's you know, prior to working for the Lowell Men's Clinic, he was a you know, practicing doctor for for many,
many many years. And you know now he's very passionate about helping helping dudes out right low ted joint pain, weight loss therapy. They've got options for that too. So you may feel like you're doing okay, but it never hurts to see if he could be doing better. Right, So go get a consultation, kind of talk them through your situation, and you know they may have something that you didn't even realize could help improve your life.
Give him a call, fabably two four four four four four thousand. Uh, that's the number to give him a call. They'll be happy to hear from you. Or you can check out an online Louisville Men's Clinic dot com. All right, our last break and then we'll come back and wrap it up on the other side right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I can't tell if people are underwhelmed with what they've learned about Hawk to a girl now that she's she's come out, she's been published at her first interview she was
on stage in Nashville Zach Bryan this past weekend. Because you know, this is what happens in the new world of the Internet here to where if somebody goes viral for something like that, like a random interview on the street or something, and nobody and nobody knows for sure. People on the internet are savvy enough to make something up about said person, knowing it's fake and know that a billion people are going to share it, like, wow, can
you believe it? Talked to a girl. I mean she she was a teacher and she lost her job, and like she's since come out and said, like, none of that stuff is true. She didn't lose her job. She was never a teacher. She's not even old enough to drink. This is her on a Barstool Sports podcast recently. What were you doing for your job? I worked in a spring factory. I'm not a school teacher. That was my next question, because we're a teacher and got fired from
your job. No, I'm not even old enough to be a teacher. I was gonna say, because you're twenty one, I'm like, this is illegal. Who was a teacher exactly? So you weren't a teacher or a bartender? So o the one. And also I've heard rumors that your dad is a preach. Sure, my father so far from apprecier. It's crazy, So everything made up like it at all? So I think the intrigue of the unknown is why. Also she's adorable, but I mean she in
you know the context of what she was discussing. Certainly, uh, generated a lot of fans of hers, But I mean, like I think people because there's it was so unknown for what a couple of weeks, everybody had made up their own mind as far as what they thought of her, what they assumed she did for a living, what her personality was like, and you know, you just never know. And she can also be a great
sign. Again what I just mentioned that this happens, that this is a known thing for people to to do engagement farming on the internet and monetize their social media following. Because how many times have you seen somebody share something about this girl that now we know is not true and it's because it got shared a billion times and somebody was able to profit from that. Apparently people really
that she's anti Trump. I don't know if you saw that or not, John, of course, because everybody in the South has I guess they just assumed she's on Nashville. She's in Nashville from the south of that accident, and she must be a big Trumper. And you know they assume everybody's dad from the South as a preacher too. Exactly. Yeah, But I mean she looked the clip, I mean, she still looked young, but everything I've seen from her since then, as far as taking pictures with celebrities.
In this interview I'm looking at right now. I mean, she looks a lot younger than I than I initially thought she was. I mean, I mean she's twenty years old. So Hawk to a Girl. That'll eventually fade, and you know, it'll be cliche. I hope she cleans up and makes a bunch of money from it. But like, you know, transitioning
from that to you know, a career. I don't think you did anything to keep yourself from getting a job, but like you're kind of gonna always be known as hawk to a girl now, which, hey, I guess there could be worse things you could be known for. All Right, we're out of time. We'll be back at it tomorrow, right here on SportsTalk seven ninety