David Samson

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11,959 appearances 166 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 5d ago

David Samson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Dan Le Batard Show · David Left Trysta a Voicemail | Hour 1 · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

Do I think that Trump and his Department of Justice is actually doing something with Mark Walters saying, by the way, you're going to have a team sold that's going to be the Lakers and we'd like a Kushner family member to be involved because we're investigating you and your insurance companies and this would go a long way toward helping that investigation go away. voice-verified

Do I think things like that happen? voice-verified

Every single day under Republicans and under Democrats, deals are being made. voice-verified

So I don't find that to be even noteworthy because in the know, you know that. voice-verified

In this case, do I think that there is a world where Donald Trump has asked the DOJ, which is like a clown show these days, given that all the best attorneys have resigned because they're being asked to do things that are even beyond the scope of the insanity that they have been asked to do. voice-verified

to participate in in prior administrations do I think there's a world where Trump has said to DOJ let's take a look at this Democrat Steve Ballmer billionaire let's see if we can make something stick and then we'll wait to convert him and then move on to the next thing of course that's a possibility voice-verified

Well, Amin, let's start with the fact that when you've got players who sign max deals that are percentage of cap, if the cap goes up, that means their guaranteed money goes up. voice-verified

If the cap goes down, their guaranteed money goes down because they've got the same percentage of a smaller pie. voice-verified

So there are players who do get impacted by that. voice-verified

And Amin, what happened here is that the NBA had forecast a 10% increase in the salary cap year over year over year. voice-verified

And last year it was 5.5%. voice-verified

And they told teams it's gonna be that again. voice-verified

So act accordingly. voice-verified

But yesterday they changed their forecast like the Federal Reserve increase in interest rates. voice-verified

And they said, nope, it's now 6.7%. voice-verified

You've got an extra 2 million to think about voice-verified

for all of you apron-huggers and all of you players who are paid by a percentage? voice-verified

Oh, I mean, I don't think that they were cautious at all because they had basically highlighted that there'd be a 10% increase in the cap after they did the national TV deal with the cap smoothing that you're talking about. voice-verified

And then they adjusted their estimate down to five and a half and now they're adjusting it back to 6.7. voice-verified

So the reason why I think this happened is I don't think the NBA or any of us had any idea that the RSN crater would really impact teams the way it has because they have not been able to replace the money that they lost in guarantee from their local networks. voice-verified

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