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  • Not that we get overly into, as Marshawn Lynch would say, counting your chickens, right?

  • But I just want people to your $85 million deal for LeBron James.

  • Okay, ESPN came out with this the other day, which I thought was just baffling for my eyes to see.

  • Per month.

  • $3.57 million per month per month per day.

  • $117,397 per hour.

  • $4891 per minute, $82 per 2nd, $1.36.

  • You're saying that's pretty?

  • Pretty amazing.

  • Yeah, it's good money get.

  • I mean, what you gonna do, man?

  • Greatest dude in the world and basketball and I'm your price.

  • And I totally agree with you before we hear from LeBron on what the greatest achievement of his career would be.

  • And believe it or not, it's actually not to run down.

  • The J just gave, even though that's pretty darn amazing.

  • I just look at the Sacramento Kings.

  • I'm just throwing them out.

  • I'm throwing them out because they the longest NBA playoff drought going right now, you put LeBron on any of the 30 teams in the NBA there immediately a playoff contender.

  • And if they have a pulse, they're gonna probably at least win 50 games.

  • So from that standpoint, two years 85 he's underpaid.

  • You missed two.

  • Good.

  • You miss one thing, or better yet, to things you talked about that.

  • But it also increases the revenue for that organization.

  • Ti ticket everything.

  • Everything his value is.

  • That's why I said name your price is not name your price guys like from a Lakers organizational standpoint.

  • And in being in l.

  • A guy, obviously guys like Magic Johnson get he can get 5% of ownership for free because the value that he brought to the table for the bus family they Here you go, man, you could have that.

  • Kobe Bryant can get an extension at the end when everybody thought, Why would you ever give him that?

  • Well, that's Kobe Dam, Brian.

  • What?

  • You mean yes, and they wanna be in the business of James even though he is still at the top of the game.

  • It looks crazy that you would give a guy that at this age, that type of money, but you gotta factor in everything.

  • It ain't just the championship trophies.

  • It's the investment in the value that he brings to the table, from the rights to the merchandizing, to everything instantly relevant.

  • And he turned suddenly relatives 36 years old this month, his career earnings thus far.

  • $435 million.

  • So he will be an owner of MBA team Now, that's what in Cleveland with Dan Gilbert, if they can work that out, that could potentially happen.

  • But LeBron James will own NBA team trust and believe that.

  • How about that?

  • He's always talked about being a mogul.

  • There's, but he always He always thinks about his business.

  • I mean, even the other day on the podcast he was talking about he wanted to hire.

  • He wanted to bring on Luca.

  • Don check to be the first LeBron James shoe like he wanted that to do that internally within Nike before Michael Jordan got it.

  • He's always thinking about his business and his properties that way.

  • It's a great point.

Not that we get overly into, as Marshawn Lynch would say, counting your chickens, right?

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