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Brian Windhorst revealed that Jokic's agent Misko discussed meeting LeBron and Maverick Carter on a yacht in the Mediterranean to plan a rival NBA league — potentially Saudi-backed like LIV Golf. The plan appears to have fizzled as LIV Golf failed, Saudi Arabia cut PIF sports spending, NBA Europe launched, and LeBron signed to play until 42.
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Windhorst opens by setting the scene: as he started hearing Boston was asking for draft picks in trades, he assumed they were assembling pieces for a 3-team deal. But as notable players got traded and Brown wasn't the return in any scenario, it became clear something was wrong. The diagnosis: it wasn't Brown the player — it was Brown the $60M-per-year contract that teams feared. Multiple franchises passed on offers even with 3-4 first-rounders attached because they didn't want to tell him to his face they wouldn't extend him. Windhorst invokes the Darko Milicic tipping point: smart front offices convince themselves of things that in hindsight seem insane, and this might be one of those moments — or Brown might go to Philly and look great, and the Celtics will look like fools [1] — Brian Windhorst "Brian Windhorst revealed that multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even when Boston attached 3-4 first-round picks, someth…" 1:37:50 .
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Brian Windhorst revealed that multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even when Boston attached 3-4 first-round picks, something Windhorst himself found stunning. The issue wasn't Brown as a player — it was his $60 million salary versus production, with teams afraid he'd demand $70M on extension. The NBA's new financial reality just swallowed one of its best players.
Multiple NBA teams rejected Jaylen Brown trade offers even with 3-4 first-round picks attached, with teams citing his $60M salary vs. production gap.
Brian Windhorst broke down how the NBA's second apron tax threshold is being treated by teams as a de facto hard cap, even though it technically isn't one. No team has been in it two consecutive years. The result: teams are forced into player-sharing, can't keep championship rosters together, and the financial gap between superstar salary and production is now a front-office crisis.
PFT challenged Windhorst on his claim that the Trae Young contract was the worst in the NBA. Windhorst dug in hard — explaining that the $212M deal with a player option had no other bidders and would kneecap the Wizards for years — before finally conceding it was 'one of the worst.' PFT called it a massive dub.
Brian Windhorst laid out the LeBron James free agency landscape: 27 teams called Rich Paul, Cleveland feels like the frontrunner on vibes, the Warriors became real when Draymond opted out of $28 million, and Philly reached out immediately after landing Jaylen Brown. LeBron reportedly hasn't tipped his hand even to people close to him — exactly his MO from 2010.
Thomas's wife deferred her CrossFit career — she's in the global top 1% of athletes — to put him through law school debt-free. He wants her to chase the dream now; she wants the emergency fund and house down payment first. On a $200K lawyer income with no debt, the opportunity cost is just a few months of slower saving.
Underground calisthenics battles are exactly like UFC meets a rap battle — 150 people crowded around a circle, fighters walking out with masks and chains, nicknames like 'Extra Money' vs 'Calisthenics the Prince,' and people throwing money and betting. The battle set: 100 burpees, 50 muscle-ups, 75 dips, 75 squats with a 65-pound dumbbell. This is the next big spectator sport.
Rico Verhoeven controlled the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for approximately 10 rounds — and had his appeal upheld when officials admitted the fight was stopped after the bell. The result was never overturned. Rogan calls it either incompetence or corruption, and argues the money behind Usyk made an upset politically inconvenient.
Rogan lays out a blunt case: boxing's 3-judge system is structurally broken, and the judges know who the promoter wants to win. Glory's 5-judge format is the right model. Corruption doesn't have to be conscious — just knowing Usyk is the cash cow is enough to tilt the scales.
With the Usyk-Wilder fight stalling and Fury-Joshua coming too late, the real fight the world wants is the rematch. Rico is a free agent. Usyk vacated his belts. The story is unfinished and both Rogan and Rico know it. His Excellency Turki Alasheikh already called for it ringside — the question is money.
Rico texted Jason Statham during the Canelo-Crawford fight. Statham showed Rico's highlight videos to promoters. Two days later, Rico was on a call about fighting Anthony Joshua. When Joshua pulled out, Rico pitched Usyk himself — Undisputed vs. Undisputed. Usyk said yes in two weeks. The whole thing started with one text.
Every heavyweight who faced Usyk tried to move to the right — straight into his power hand. Rico and Peter Fury identified the obvious solution: move left, away from the left hand, and smother him with size. It sounds simple. Nobody had done it. That one adjustment was the foundation of 10 dominant rounds.
MMA fans boo when fights go to the ground. They love stand-up. Kickboxing is pure stand-up. Yet it barely exists in America while boxing and MMA are enormous. Rogan's diagnosis: no promotion machine. If the UFC got behind kickboxing the way they've built MMA, it would explode. The talent is there — the storytelling machine is not.
A nation of 17 million people gave the world Ramon Deckers, Peter Aerts, Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef, Rob Kamen, Ernesto Hoost, and Rico Verhoeven. Rico's theory: the country is so small that every gym shares knowledge freely. In the US, you need a flight. In Holland, you drive 40 minutes and spar the national champion.
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