Bryan Curtis
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2 Jun
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And so it was not in any contract that he signed when he sold his share of the Mavericks for three point five billion. This was just purely a hey, you can stay in on basketball thing. And Mark Cuban was cool with that. Mark Cuban sold that to the public. These guys told me this, but it's not in this incredibly complicated contract I just signed to sell the team?
It's so funny because not only do we have Stephen A reluctantly addressing it on First Take and then on his podcast also, also reluctant. Because he had more to say. The two hour show wasn't enough. My other favorite detail was that he mentioned he was sitting with Ari Emanuel and Larry David. Yes.
Not germane to the LeBron confrontation, but just wanted to let everybody know that that's who we're sitting with there.
Yeah. He also said, you know, if LeBron called me, I would take the call. Right. So I would not send the most famous basketball player in the world to voicemail repeatedly. Right. Did clear that up. It's good to hear in the in the thing I did. By the way, we could talk about there's so many things to talk about.
But the whole Stephen A thing that really that got me was he said, you know, why didn't LeBron or why didn't Clutch call me?
hash this out and i'm you know in certain ways we can talk about the brawny part of this because i think i'm sympathetic to a lot of what steven a had said about brawny and the idea that brought somehow brawny is talking about brawny is talking about your family and crossing this red line like i i don't totally buy that but the whole idea is like wait if we say something on a podcast or he says something on television does that mean the person who's aggrieved can only respond to us privately
Right. So we say it publicly, but then they need to keep all their business behind closed doors. Like, wait, if you had a problem, why didn't you call me? Well, you said it on TV, whatever I'm upset about. Right. Like their media figures, too, in a way, shouldn't they? I don't know. Anyway, that also tripped me up a little bit.
That was different.
So there's not a, like, you know, Library of Congress transcript of everything Stephen A said about Bronny, which... I wouldn't have had time to read even if there was. But I think this all starts in January. There's that game against the Sixers. And Stephen A had a couple of hits after that about Bronny. But really what he said was LeBron is putting his son in a bad situation.
He's shadow GMing his son to the Lakers. He has a tweet. What was that now? Two years ago, like Bronny's better than guys I'm watching on League Pass. He sets him up as being really, really good. And then he put him in a bad situation. And that as his dad and as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, you should know that this isn't a great place for him to be in right now.
It's just not. That was the point. I mean, again, and again, it's Stephen A. So it has, you know, I'm not doing it justice, probably. And if LeBron's watching that, I'm sure he can find some phrase or something to latch on to. But that was the point. And that's a discussion you guys have had 1,000 times about LeBron James and the Lakers.
Right.
Yeah. You know, when you said we haven't seen this on the court, we have seen this in the locker room a bunch of times, including, by the way, with Joel Embiid earlier this year. This is a pretty standard locker room media member thing. you know, athlete confrontation. I don't like what you said about me. I don't like what you wrote about me. But the difference is what you point to.
Stephen A. had almost literally just agreed to a $100 million a year contract. He's the face of that. $100 million total contract. $100 million a year would be a lot. Excuse me. Yes, that's a lot. But he's the face of the network. And as you say, it's a face of ESPN's approach.
And with ESPN, I think there's an interesting question of whether they're doing more of this kind of stuff or whether the other stuff at ESPN has just been stripped away to such a degree. This becomes a bigger part of ESPN. You see what I mean? Like when you get rid of Zach Lowe, when you chop off all these parts of ESPN, Stephen A is just going to be a larger part of the network.
He's just going to seem bigger, whether he actually is, you know, occupying more hours of airtime or not.
Yeah, and it ends with Kenan Thompson wearing a beard on Weekend Update. Doing a Perkins impersonation. Yeah, we got a Trump parody and we got a Perk parody. Think about that.
100%.
I completely agree about the postgame thing. And that's why the late SportsCenter with SVP is often better because he's got the guy on who just won the game. He's doing the breakdown of the game, whether it's football or basketball. I felt some of the angst from the TNT thing is about moving to ESPN, too. I mean, that was clearly part of it, right? Hey, we got this great show over here.
We're moving over there. But they're really not.
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