The NBA agrees to an 11-year $76B deal with ESPN, NBC and Amazon. How does this affect the Miami Heat?

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00:00News, a couple of other NBA notes, Leroy, the NBA agreed to a 11 year, 76 billion, the

00:08NBA.

00:09Oh yeah.

00:10Yeah.

00:11So that's 11 years, $76 billion broadcast deal with ESPN, NBC and Amazon prime.

00:16So there you go.

00:18And then Jonte Porter has pled guilty to his public gambling scandal.

00:22Think about that.

00:23So basically if you split that up amongst the teams and the players, everybody's going

00:30to get a billion a year.

00:32Yeah.

00:33They were saying, uh, I think someone's going to, like, you were going to hit like 80, 90

00:37per year.

00:38Some of these players, pretty crazy good for them, but it's, that's, that's insane.

00:44But here, if I can put it in perspective, cause everybody's talking about these players

00:48make too much, sounds like a lot, but you make a percentage of what your owner makes.

00:59Yeah.

01:00They get 51%.

01:01They need you to make the billions of billions of dollars and you can charge the hundreds

01:04of millions.

01:05Right.

01:06Right.

01:07If they were only making 10 million a year, then you'd be playing for a hundred grand.

01:10Like, so that's kind of how that works, you know, and, and for people to say, Oh, these

01:16So what would you suggest the owners keep it, but without the product, they don't make

01:20that money.

01:21And that's kind of how, how these things play out.

01:24It's the same thing in football.

01:26Like nobody ever thought when I was, I genuinely don't, I was playing the salary cap was less

01:32than a hundred million.

01:33I don't have a problem with the players making a ton of money.

01:36The thing that I don't understand is I don't understand why we've started putting handcuffs

01:40on these teams and like there's aprons and untradeable and you make these, like, I don't

01:47understand why that, why, why this is good.

01:49Cause, and I'll tell you one thing that that has been weird and this isn't just a heat

01:52thing.

01:53Although I know how you're going to lead that to me thinking it's a heat thing, but I don't

01:57understand why if a team is good at drafting, why they're going to be handcuffed by having

02:04to pay all the guys that they're, that they bring into the league and then to the point

02:09where they can't really make improvements.

02:11So like you could draft good, but maybe you don't draft a lead and one guy wants to come

02:14to you.

02:15I just, and I think part of what made the NBA fun and what kind of revitalized it was

02:19player movement and guys getting to go to different teams.

02:21And now it feels like they're really hindering that.

02:24And I don't love it.

02:25Here's what I would say.

02:27And I believe this in all sports, you should not be penalized for drafting and developing

02:35a player at no point in time.

02:38If you draft a guy or you bring a guy in and you ride them out for two to three years

02:45in the G league or what have you, without him getting picked up when it's time for him

02:50to get his come up, that team should not be penalized for signing that guy.

02:55That means that if you draft the guy and you bring him in, I'm talking about like these

03:02guys in the second round or the guys in the late first round, we're not talking about

03:05the lottery picks.

03:06The lottery pick guys go always play the salary game, right?

03:10But I'm talking about those guys you pick at the end of the first round, the second

03:13round is the two way guys or whatever.

03:16If you have them for a certain amount of time, you should not be penalized salary cap wise

03:24for signing them to extensions.

03:27You shouldn't because I'm tired of the Miami heat developing players for the rest of the

03:35league because they can't do their job, right?

03:38And so there needs to be some kind of reward or even like, it's such a stupid thing.

03:43Like, okay, let's say the, the, the Miami, he did want to keep Caleb Martin, right?

03:49He's got to do it.

03:50Why could, why like the, do you know how stupid it is that Caleb Martin can only sign an extension

03:56with the Miami heat and not test free agency.

03:59So you could only be in this position to make $60 million up to this day and hope nobody

04:05else.

04:06Why can't he come back and say, Hey, can I get that original deal?

04:07You know how dumb that is?

04:08Right.

04:09Like why?

04:10Because he opted out.

04:11Right.

04:12So, so the same money comes because, but isn't that dumb?

04:14No, here's why.

04:16Because the way that was set up and this has nothing to do with salary cap, it does, but,

04:21but it doesn't.

04:22The reason why they would be able to do that is because he would opt in and that money

04:26wouldn't kick until next year.

04:27No, I understand.

04:28But like the fact that he's penalized, right.

04:32Just by not being able to test the market and the team, like that, that sucks.

04:38Right.

04:39Like, and I don't know, and I don't really know who that benefits, who's benefiting by

04:41that.

04:42I guess the Sixers, that's it.

04:43The Sixers.

04:44Right.

04:45That's it.

04:46Now they get a play.

04:47Who's going to make 65 million for 32 million.

04:48Right.

04:49I don't know.

04:50This is a, they write this in the, they say in the short term, the deals will certainly

04:54mean that the league salary capital rise 10% annually.

04:56The maximum allowed by the terms of the most recent collective bargaining agreement between

05:02the players and the NBA.

05:03That means players such as okay.

05:04So you shake Gilders, Alexander and Luca Dodge, which could be making around 80 million in

05:08the 2030, 31 season.

05:10That raises at least some possibility that top players might be earning somewhere near

05:15$100 million per season by the mid 2030s.

05:18Yep.

05:19I can see it.

05:20And they're also saying that this is also going to employ with a expansion too, is we're

05:25going to get two new teams, likely both likely Vegas and Seattle, right?

05:30Which means the Timberwolves are coming over to the east.

05:32Probably.

05:33Yeah.

05:34I don't think so.

05:35Like you're already scheming and bam, Oh, would Memphis and Timberwolves, here's what's

05:44crazy.

05:48I think we can handle the injury bug with these rookies adding to our depth.

05:52Are you out of your bleep in mind, right?

05:56If that's the case, then why would you send your healthy player to play summer league?

06:00Hmm.

06:01I don't understand why he is.

06:04There's gotta be something to it though.

06:06They got a plan.

06:07I don't know what that plan is, but they got a plan or he's just a hoops junkie.

06:14Yeah.

06:16The guess would be that he's why it's not stupid.

06:22He's a hoops junkie.

06:23I'm sure he'll talk tomorrow after the game.

06:25So we'll, we'll find out he ain't gonna, he's gonna.

06:31Why are you getting exhausted about this?

06:33Because you think he's not going to say the company line?

06:36I don't know.

06:37You think he's going to say, look, I'm going to be honest with you.

06:40I really don't want to be here.

06:41Maybe he played a lot of basketball last year, but they asked me to come.

06:44Will you be mad if he says it's because I'm a hoops junkie?

06:54I would never speak to him again.

06:56We would do an interview and I would just sit there.

06:59I would just, you'd ban.

07:01I may.

07:02I guess I won't talk to him.

07:05No.

07:06No.

07:07What if I asked him the question tomorrow on the zoom and I say, hi May, did you play

07:12in summer league based on some plan or are you just a hoops junkie?

07:21I can ask that.

07:23Why not?

07:24It's a little interview question, baby.

07:30Why do I have to be your bit every day?

07:33Why?

07:34Dude.

07:35We'll get to those BAM comments coming up.

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