This is one of the most slept on interviews and one of his best guests. They dropped so much gems and the business of basketball. They spoke to it from the players perspective that few have never spoke to
This is stuff that the OG players talked about to the younger players on the roster. It wasn't meant to be shared with the fans, becsuse it was none of their business. No different than the story Charles Barkley said about Dr. J and Moses Malone being straight up with him at the very beginning of his career. Wasn't information they felt they needed to share with the general public.
What these guys are discussing is a GREAT, FANTASTIC initiative. They're showing black athletes how to be responsible and mature with their careers, earnings and lives. I can't applaud this enough. This is GREAT.
Klay is right for wanting more money and Warriors right for giving less. They both can get what they want by looking elsewhere. Win win for both parties. There shouldn't be any hatred towards either..
@@StraightGuyStraightTalk lmao when did they have team loyalty. It’s business. Big multimillion and billion type business. All that emotional “loyalty” bs don’t work in business
I find this a very difficult topic. I understand players want to get paid what they are worth, especially early on in their career. At the same time, if you "settle" for 80% of your worth, the team can sign better players. Boston is the prime example of this: Tatum was still on a cheap deal and that allowed the Celtics to trade for holiday, porzingis and white. The argument that money left on the table goes directly to the owner is falls: most of it goes to building a better team. Maybe i'm too Dutch for this discussion but for me Melo is a prime example of a player who made so much money that his team was never able to contend. What did he bring the Knicks: 1 won playoff series?
@@maartenvz what have the knicks ever done? They didn’t win before Melo and they haven’t won after Melo. People that try to argue this should go to the employer and tell them they want less pay so they can hire more good employees at their job. But nobody would do that so why in the world would you expect an athlete, who has a job and employer like most people, to do that?
It’s always business no matter what they tell you. I learned it in Corp America, when I was a young buck and a VP of 30 years got canned. Everybody expendable. Get your paper UP FRONT in base pay…no exceptions.
This what happened to Dwade in 2016. Heat wanted to pay that man 10mill he got 16mill but should’ve gotten paid more. He lead the heat to a game 7 against the raptors without Chris Bosh. And the heat organization still didn't think he was worth more. Thats why he left to chicago.
That’s actually not what happened. He agreed with the organization to forgo what he was gonna get paid to allow Lebron and Bosh to come there. Thy agreed that he would get it on the back end next reup with the contract. Miami dishonored the contract and screwed him over. To Their credit, they brought him back and apologized but the damage was done on my eyes. Haven’t watched them since
I think they gave him $20 million that year, but they gave CB most of the dough after Bron left, on a longer term contract. But you’re right in that Miami didn’t see D-Wade as a superstar anymore, just a star. Edit: I think Miami was trying to land KD too, so that was also why they tried to lowball D-Wade.
I've always said what Dre said "if they paying all these players millions, how much do they have?!". Read up 40 million dollar slave, great book that talks about this topic.
NBA players on average get more of a cut from revenue than other major businesses. For instance, NBA players are getting 50% of the revenue which is really good. Now think about your job and coworkers, you think your job is paying y'all 50% of overall revenue? That almost never happens in business.
The NBA makes and breaks players. Melo definitely deserved Rookie of the Year. They also called fouls on Melo for the same defense LJ used and never got fouls called on him. If the whistle is always blown on you vs. the whistle hardly ever being blown on you…..eventually your style of play will change. That was done by design and nobody can ever tell me otherwise
Would love. to hear the announcement that Carmelo Anthony is joining the Players Association and helping out Andre Iguodala and the other Vets making the league something even more special
I heard Gilbert arenas say one of the craziest things he learned in the NBA, was that dudes who came off the bench would pass up open shots because they needed there field goal or three-point percentage to be at a certain number so they wouldn't take any shots that they did bad shots because they knew a couple million extra dollars is on the line if they made sure their percentages and their numbers were at a certain point. That's crazy to me.
@@d-rocontopexactly lmao on top of that these clowns dont even be negotiating in real life. They let boss do whatever then got the nerve to speak on NBA players 🤣
@@truthiscensored- Go buy an NBA franchise and quickly realize just how expensive they are to keep running. You're only going to generate but so much revenue, and every aspect of the team and the fan experience has costs. Air transportation, lodging, and meals for a season is not cheap.
If their budget isn't balanced they don't want to be losing tens of millions a year. Most billionaires don't have it in cash it's in businesses that fluctuate value wildly.
I agree with athletes until they start saying they should be paid for what they've done in the past. Contracts are for what you are doing currently and in the future.
Carmelo Anthony was the best player his size that I have ever seen play the game...he can suit up and still be a force to reckon with in todays NBA. He made the wealthy , super wealthier.
Imo, the 💰 isn’t the issue, it’s the years. Klay secured $60M+ during the 2 years he was out w/ injuries. Then got $40M+ this past season. Being a Warrior fan, n having seen this dynasty get built from the beginning, I would hate to c him go. Hope a deal gets done sooner rather than later. It is a business at the end of the day tho. 😪
Fans are really hurting Klay. Imagine how many elimination game tweets they can pull up. People don’t even realize how that’s being used against him right now
@@timothykinoti7768 he’ll have a statue in front of the area one day, but right now we’re talking about moving forward. Dude thinks he should be paid handsomely and put up a 0 in a must win contest.
This stuff happens in real life. Coworkers get pissed when their colleagues negotiate for or demand more, or worse, leave for a better position. Not everyone. But too many people like to paint others as greedy, when they know they wouldn't turn it down themselves. It's simply that they are too afraid to demand their worth and I'm not okay with that. My thing is, whether for the average Joe, if your skill is marketable and the company is profiting, you DESERVE to get all you can. Aren't the CEOs and upper execs, and heck the shareholders, doing the same? But it's wrong when a worker wants all that they can reasonably get based on the market and competition.
Also those people OWN the media, so they can put out any narrative they want. By the the time the player make a social media post to defend themselves, the narrative about them has already spread like wildfire
The intangibles conversation is so interesting to me because as a Laker fan, the perception of Jarred Vanderbilt and Dlo completely misses that. Vando struggles as a scorer but defensively he wins games. Dlo is a scorer who has off nights but his presence on the court completely alters defenses and when he gets hot his 2-3 makes turn into 20 point runs. It’s hard to explain that without watching it and i can only imagine how hard it is to prove that when negotiating contracts
I was roccin until they brought up Klay, we gotta stop actin like he’s still 2017 Klay,he’s been injury prone these last couple years and he’s going into year 14. Shell of the defender he used to be but still put up solid numbers. If I was a GM he wouldn’t get the max from either but he would get a star contract forsure. To be fair he’s at the tail end of his career.
7:13 yes. this same experience you all go through as millionaires is what the average worker goes through, except for wages or salaries. yet the bosses we work for take home the surplus made from all of our work. this is why equity is important, especially for the most exploited workers
Keep the same energy when you don't get a raise relative to what you think it should be at your place of work and I'll believe you... Imagine your employer tells you THE EXACT SAME THING you are telling Klay Thompson and relative to YOUR JOB: You've been as successful / integral to them as Klay had been to the Warriors.
@@greatone8841 it is not relative. In what job do you get $60m while not being on the job for two years? He was massively compensated while he was out, then paid a top percentile when his production dropped drastically, so they are now asking him to take less.
I'm all for players getting every dime they deserve. However, Melo wanted both every dime he could get and a supporting cast. That doesn't work. His agent went to James Dolan to trade necessary assets to ensure he could enforce his Bird rights. Kudos, get your money. That didn't help the team, though, and was one of the reasons why Donnie Walsh left. Few scenarios and organizations can pay their talent top dollar and have a great supporting cast. Bob Meyers from Golden State was great at it. Once he saw where Golden State was going, he was out. That's the nature of the business. The players' union should negotiate a better salary/luxury tax.
It’s tough to see the comments bashing Mero here. For two reasons. First cause I think they’re unfair. He brings up valid questions, adds to the conversation & his jokes hit more often than not. Second reason it’s tough to watch is because what Desus & Mero had at Viceland was a special moment in time & situation that created some damn good television. That amount of talent should be getting sh*t on for not being a quieter stage prop. My guess is that while 7PM will always be ball centric however over time it’ll expand to include more pop culture, news & current events. In that expanded environment that’s where Mero’s gonna really earn his check.
Yah people's forget that Klay help GSW to get 4 rings in 11 season he got 2 season injured but they still talking bout that one elimination game he got 0-10, the way he looked around the Stadium after that game damn and I'm telling the world now GSW era is over even if they won a Championship Ring it will be in far Future. It's the people that drive him away from Warriors
Regarding Klay, NBA is a biz... and is a production based business that looks fwd and not backward. Klays already been paid for what he did already. Klay making it personal and it don't need to be that way.
Yeah its a business but when you make the business worth billions and you have been short changed you feel away about it. He missed out on 90 million because he wasn't voted to any all nba team the writers screwed him out of money and he has been taking franchise deals
@@BigSleeveLess big bro, I agree completely that it's not fair but that don't change the fact. With all this being said, I think pods like these and guys like Iggy who are trying to put these young guys on game are a god-send. This is the only way this foolishness will ever change. Also, please keep in mind that while I'm not a GSW fan, I'm a huge fan of klay and got nothing but respect for him.
Loving an NBA player is like loving a baddie. They wanna be in LA Poppin bottles and I’m in Cleveland. We know you won’t be here your whole life. We just hate when the time comes
I'm waiting for someone to ask Melo why he insisted that the Knicks trade all their depth pieces to get him at the trade deadline rather than just wait and sign with them during that summer. Like Carmelo Anthony, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Amare Stoudamire, Tyson Chandler. And Mozgov who was good at the time. Iman Shumpert. That would been a nice team.
9:00 An example of what Iggy is talking about is how the Brooklyn Nets tried to get Kyrie to re-sign for $10m and had Steven A Snitch attack Kyrie daily for almost a year to lower his value!
Iggy def unselfish teammate but knew limitations. Always thought Melo what ifs, drafted by Detroit. Klay already got 100 million from GS, dont see if he use that business is cut throat
Problem lies with salary cap . When melo took that massive 5 year deal he was worth every penny but if he takes less money you get another all star on that team .. dwade bron and bosh took less to make it happen .. if you take the max and don’t have other players with bird rights to go over your not going to win
I’m a dubs fan and I love iggy for life but sometimes I can’t listen to unc always tryna educate somebody 😂 with all do respect, sometimes I want to listen to him all day but sometimes I just can’t 😂😂
They won't. Their whole goal is to act like a fraternity and pump each other up calling themselves super smart with high IQ's so they can get each other paid.
It’a all business. Always keep that in mind. They’re trying to get the most out of you for the least amount of money and you should be trying to get the most money out of them while giving them the least amount as possible
This is one of the most slept on interviews and one of his best guests. They dropped so much gems and the business of basketball. They spoke to it from the players perspective that few have never spoke to
*so many
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This is stuff that the OG players talked about to the younger players on the roster. It wasn't meant to be shared with the fans, becsuse it was none of their business.
No different than the story Charles Barkley said about Dr. J and Moses Malone being straight up with him at the very beginning of his career. Wasn't information they felt they needed to share with the general public.
This young fella wakandan lol 😂
What these guys are discussing is a GREAT, FANTASTIC initiative. They're showing black athletes how to be responsible and mature with their careers, earnings and lives. I can't applaud this enough. This is GREAT.
Iggy out here educating folks
One of the first ones to tell the truth about the playoffs and how the refs will make the game close on purpose
Because he dressed like a school teacher?
@@SirNafurioushe’s always been a smart man
That's not Iggy. That's Furious Styles.
@ToriUptown smart how?
“What’s wrong with him I work at meineke”😂😂😂😂😂😂 funniest thing I’ve heard today
Klay is right for wanting more money and Warriors right for giving less. They both can get what they want by looking elsewhere. Win win for both parties. There shouldn't be any hatred towards either..
Klay is garbage lmao
@@jumpman366 no klay no chips. 4 chips bro.
@@leifseed they not paying him for previous years. He’s trash now
@@leifseedcontract is for the next 4 years not the titles he won in the past, cmon this shit is common logic
Warriors are not right. They did bad business and are trying to pay him less than Draymond and he’s not having it
Iggy got mad knowledge. He need to write another book
mero just be cracking jokes at the wrong time lol
Yea everything don’t have to be jokes
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He be double dutching waiting to crack a joke
He’s wack point blank. Melo should have a better host who knows ball
@@noneyabizz3403 agreed?
They say We family when they want you to stay. Then it’s business when they want to cut you.
What were you expecting them to say?
@@biscaynesupercars this is why players are doing only what’s best for them. In the past the players had more team loyalty.
@@StraightGuyStraightTalk lmao when did they have team loyalty. It’s business. Big multimillion and billion type business. All that emotional “loyalty” bs don’t work in business
I find this a very difficult topic. I understand players want to get paid what they are worth, especially early on in their career. At the same time, if you "settle" for 80% of your worth, the team can sign better players. Boston is the prime example of this: Tatum was still on a cheap deal and that allowed the Celtics to trade for holiday, porzingis and white. The argument that money left on the table goes directly to the owner is falls: most of it goes to building a better team. Maybe i'm too Dutch for this discussion but for me Melo is a prime example of a player who made so much money that his team was never able to contend. What did he bring the Knicks: 1 won playoff series?
@@maartenvz what have the knicks ever done? They didn’t win before Melo and they haven’t won after Melo. People that try to argue this should go to the employer and tell them they want less pay so they can hire more good employees at their job. But nobody would do that so why in the world would you expect an athlete, who has a job and employer like most people, to do that?
It’s always business no matter what they tell you.
I learned it in Corp America, when I was a young buck and a VP of 30 years got canned.
Everybody expendable. Get your paper UP FRONT in base pay…no exceptions.
This what happened to Dwade in 2016. Heat wanted to pay that man 10mill he got 16mill but should’ve gotten paid more. He lead the heat to a game 7 against the raptors without Chris Bosh. And the heat organization still didn't think he was worth more. Thats why he left to chicago.
Damn totally forgot about that series
That’s actually not what happened. He agreed with the organization to forgo what he was gonna get paid to allow Lebron and Bosh to come there. Thy agreed that he would get it on the back end next reup with the contract. Miami dishonored the contract and screwed him over. To Their credit, they brought him back and apologized but the damage was done on my eyes. Haven’t watched them since
Stop it The Miami did nothing wrong.
@@Shabeck1 he got it back with interest now by giving up his hole and his "son"
I think they gave him $20 million that year, but they gave CB most of the dough after Bron left, on a longer term contract. But you’re right in that Miami didn’t see D-Wade as a superstar anymore, just a star.
Edit: I think Miami was trying to land KD too, so that was also why they tried to lowball D-Wade.
Always a great listening experience when Dre talks. Miss seeing him in the league but looks like he killing it post NBA
I've always said what Dre said "if they paying all these players millions, how much do they have?!". Read up 40 million dollar slave, great book that talks about this topic.
NBA players on average get more of a cut from revenue than other major businesses. For instance, NBA players are getting 50% of the revenue which is really good. Now think about your job and coworkers, you think your job is paying y'all 50% of overall revenue? That almost never happens in business.
Nah this pod is universal life lessons bro 🔥 whether you a hooper or just somebody trying to navigate your career. 🙏🏾
That last sales speech from Andre Won Me and Melo Over 😆
This is the most real business conversation I’ve heard applied. Applies to everything!!!
This is why I don’t take people seriously that crap on stars for switching teams in free agency.
The world of professional sports is ruthless in general. You don't get what you think you deserve, but what you have the leverage to negotiate
Iguodala and livingston were the best role players we had back at warriors they fed the team pretty well
my all time biggest crushes : melo and iggy🥰 thank you lawd!
The NBA makes and breaks players. Melo definitely deserved Rookie of the Year. They also called fouls on Melo for the same defense LJ used and never got fouls called on him. If the whistle is always blown on you vs. the whistle hardly ever being blown on you…..eventually your style of play will change. That was done by design and nobody can ever tell me otherwise
fax 📠
Have you seen Melo’s defense? It looks like he’s doing karate lol. Ain’t no way bro
And Melo got his team from 17 win season, the previous year, to the playoffs his rookie year.
No the fuck he didn't. That Nuggets roster was way better than that Cavs team. Melo would have won 20 games with Lebrons roster.
@@ocampbell1954 Was he on the team? Then he helped get them there. GTFO here with the noise.
Would love. to hear the announcement that Carmelo Anthony is joining the Players Association and helping out Andre Iguodala and the other Vets making the league something even more special
Them 2, were 2 of the best.
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The money the players get is nothing compared to the owners
Then the players should buy a team 🙄 and pay themselves as owners 🙄
@@JuanMota27 klutch is doing a hostile in la
@@JuanMota27went over your head
@@JuanMota27obviously didn't understand what he said
@@DANGiiMC00L not all the players deserve max money 🙄 that is a FACT
I heard Gilbert arenas say one of the craziest things he learned in the NBA, was that dudes who came off the bench would pass up open shots because they needed there field goal or three-point percentage to be at a certain number so they wouldn't take any shots that they did bad shots because they knew a couple million extra dollars is on the line if they made sure their percentages and their numbers were at a certain point. That's crazy to me.
1:16 That's FUCKING AMAZING, especially when his trade felt totally wrong to me, glad he could give his all for them.
I like how players speak about these business situations, like normal people don't deal with it real life for way less money 😅
It’s always funny to me too . They are literally top .0000001% of earners 😅😅😅😅
Normal people are the only ones who act as if players shouldn’t make smart business decisions .
@@d-rocontopexactly lmao on top of that these clowns dont even be negotiating in real life. They let boss do whatever then got the nerve to speak on NBA players 🤣
@@jumpman366facts😂😂
@@jumpman366🎯
I love hearing the business of the NBA!!!!!! For some of us, we see where the game is being played
man I hope these young athletes are watching this!
Andre looking like the only 6'6" accountant in the world.
Any business out there can be ruthless.
Did I just find my newest favourite podcast?
Imagine taking a paycut for Billionaires
Imagine Multi-Billion Dollar companies asking you to donate to their needy cause
It should be for your teammates . There’s a salary cap for a reason
@@truthiscensored-
Go buy an NBA franchise and quickly realize just how expensive they are to keep running. You're only going to generate but so much revenue, and every aspect of the team and the fan experience has costs. Air transportation, lodging, and meals for a season is not cheap.
If their budget isn't balanced they don't want to be losing tens of millions a year. Most billionaires don't have it in cash it's in businesses that fluctuate value wildly.
Iggy was the turning point for the warriors
This talk is fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Melo
Thanks Iggy
Iggy and Melo....heaven. Leaders that you'll never realise why. Good men. I pray I'm not wrong
I agree with athletes until they start saying they should be paid for what they've done in the past. Contracts are for what you are doing currently and in the future.
Melo was the one who said Lin’s contract was ridiculous.
Carmelo Anthony was the best player his size that I have ever seen play the game...he can suit up and still be a force to reckon with in todays NBA. He made the wealthy , super wealthier.
Imo, the 💰 isn’t the issue, it’s the years. Klay secured $60M+ during the 2 years he was out w/ injuries. Then got $40M+ this past season. Being a Warrior fan, n having seen this dynasty get built from the beginning, I would hate to c him go. Hope a deal gets done sooner rather than later. It is a business at the end of the day tho. 😪
Klay is gone bro
We’re going to take good care of him down here in the big D! He got a chip on his shoulders too!
Fans are really hurting Klay. Imagine how many elimination game tweets they can pull up. People don’t even realize how that’s being used against him right now
The fans didn’t cause him to go 0-10 in an elimination game. He did that to himself.
Klay is done.
@@cyberft so you throw away 8yrs and 4 championships for one game and loss?..after getting the warriors from the mud to this place?
@@timothykinoti7768 he’ll have a statue in front of the area one day, but right now we’re talking about moving forward. Dude thinks he should be paid handsomely and put up a 0 in a must win contest.
@@cyberftwould you want to face him when he’s hot?
AI looking like he just got done speaking on behalf of his client lol...great interview
It suc$s when loyalty is one-sided in ANY relationship. I’m not mad at KD or any player who makes a decision HE (she) thinks is right for HIM (her).
This stuff happens in real life. Coworkers get pissed when their colleagues negotiate for or demand more, or worse, leave for a better position. Not everyone. But too many people like to paint others as greedy, when they know they wouldn't turn it down themselves. It's simply that they are too afraid to demand their worth and I'm not okay with that. My thing is, whether for the average Joe, if your skill is marketable and the company is profiting, you DESERVE to get all you can. Aren't the CEOs and upper execs, and heck the shareholders, doing the same? But it's wrong when a worker wants all that they can reasonably get based on the market and competition.
💯 % Facts on your statement!
Great conversation!!!
Crazy thing is….. Andre was a Superstar caliber player before going to the Warriors. He got rings but gave up stardom to do it.
Mmmhhh no. Good player
Great role player … ginobli level.. definitely not a star
He was a star in Philly. Made the All Star before Denver where he helped them to a record 57-25 finish at the time. He wasn’t just a ‘role’ player.
@@TheMostHeavenlyOnecasual for sure.
He couldnt lead the 76ers he fell short l should know thats the team l root for since 1996
Also those people OWN the media, so they can put out any narrative they want.
By the the time the player make a social media post to defend themselves, the narrative about them has already spread like wildfire
The intangibles conversation is so interesting to me because as a Laker fan, the perception of Jarred Vanderbilt and Dlo completely misses that. Vando struggles as a scorer but defensively he wins games. Dlo is a scorer who has off nights but his presence on the court completely alters defenses and when he gets hot his 2-3 makes turn into 20 point runs. It’s hard to explain that without watching it and i can only imagine how hard it is to prove that when negotiating contracts
I was roccin until they brought up Klay, we gotta stop actin like he’s still 2017 Klay,he’s been injury prone these last couple years and he’s going into year 14. Shell of the defender he used to be but still put up solid numbers. If I was a GM he wouldn’t get the max from either but he would get a star contract forsure. To be fair he’s at the tail end of his career.
Didn’t think Melo was that much bigger than him…😅
It's the field of view of the camera. It always looks like that.
Pause
@@cedarianmincy133weird
@@cedarianmincy133nah ain't no pause. Full sus. Man swangin.
Jason Tatum is a lucky guy to have a player like Jalen Brown in his corner
DIAMONDS being shared here
Klay will always be one of my inspirations
Yall forget Klay got paid 100m for three years and he didn’t even play
The Lakers are the gold standard for taking care of aging stars, not GS.
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This is dope as fuck and insightful
When players becomes old, the value decreases. Trophies/achivement means nothing if you cant do it in a year or two.
GSW already gave Klay his max as he was rehabbing. For him to act like he was beibg disresoected now is crazy.
Amazing Person/Amazing Player
Igoudala has a Finals MVP
Tobias harris negotiated the hell out of his contracts then🤣
7:13 yes. this same experience you all go through as millionaires is what the average worker goes through, except for wages or salaries. yet the bosses we work for take home the surplus made from all of our work. this is why equity is important, especially for the most exploited workers
Preach!!!
Yes We " regular employees" have to fight double harder for a well earned merit raise AND quadruple harder for a promotion!
Klay has been well compensated by the Warriors His production is down and he's 34 He's simply not worth the contract he wants going forward
Keep the same energy when you don't get a raise relative to what you think it should be at your place of work and I'll believe you...
Imagine your employer tells you THE EXACT SAME THING you are telling Klay Thompson and relative to YOUR JOB:
You've been as successful / integral to them as Klay had been to the Warriors.
@@greatone8841they've been loyal to Klay. They paid him nearly the max while he was injured. He's been massively overpaid the last few years
@@greatone8841 it is not relative. In what job do you get $60m while not being on the job for two years? He was massively compensated while he was out, then paid a top percentile when his production dropped drastically, so they are now asking him to take less.
remember the money they gave up while he sat the bench injured for hella long. 🤔
@@greatone8841klay is trash…
Mello is a top 5 bucket getter! He’s not dunking on you or blocking your shot from behind, but when you look up he’s got 40!
I'm all for players getting every dime they deserve. However, Melo wanted both every dime he could get and a supporting cast. That doesn't work. His agent went to James Dolan to trade necessary assets to ensure he could enforce his Bird rights. Kudos, get your money. That didn't help the team, though, and was one of the reasons why Donnie Walsh left.
Few scenarios and organizations can pay their talent top dollar and have a great supporting cast. Bob Meyers from Golden State was great at it. Once he saw where Golden State was going, he was out.
That's the nature of the business. The players' union should negotiate a better salary/luxury tax.
I respect Iggy even more 💯
Iggy was huge for the Warriors Ship run
To the younger fans … watch iggy on the sixers… that man was him
Love Andre!!!!!!!
Why does Kid Mero looks like the pizza guy Chris Hansen caught lmao
I don’t know. Were the warriors able to offer Klay 35 per year with the new CBA rules. I didn’t think that were possible because of the repeater tax
Wow that was actually really instructive. Way better than the Gilbert arena ghetto style podcast lol
It’s tough to see the comments bashing Mero here. For two reasons. First cause I think they’re unfair. He brings up valid questions, adds to the conversation & his jokes hit more often than not. Second reason it’s tough to watch is because what Desus & Mero had at Viceland was a special moment in time & situation that created some damn good television. That amount of talent should be getting sh*t on for not being a quieter stage prop.
My guess is that while 7PM will always be ball centric however over time it’ll expand to include more pop culture, news & current events. In that expanded environment that’s where Mero’s gonna really earn his check.
It’s just the nature of the beast and comes with the territory. That being said, that’s why a good agent is necessary
Iguadala probably has the best off the field successes of any nba player ive ever seen
That third guy just needs to shut up and let them talk
I’m confused tho. Klay deserves what at this point in his career? Realistically
Iggy the smartest athlete in this generation fasho
are those glasses they're wearing functional? just curious
Yah people's forget that Klay help GSW to get 4 rings in 11 season he got 2 season injured but they still talking bout that one elimination game he got 0-10, the way he looked around the Stadium after that game damn and I'm telling the world now GSW era is over even if they won a Championship Ring it will be in far Future. It's the people that drive him away from Warriors
Regarding Klay, NBA is a biz... and is a production based business that looks fwd and not backward. Klays already been paid for what he did already. Klay making it personal and it don't need to be that way.
Yeah its a business but when you make the business worth billions and you have been short changed you feel away about it. He missed out on 90 million because he wasn't voted to any all nba team the writers screwed him out of money and he has been taking franchise deals
@@BigSleeveLess big bro, I agree completely that it's not fair but that don't change the fact.
With all this being said, I think pods like these and guys like Iggy who are trying to put these young guys on game are a god-send. This is the only way this foolishness will ever change.
Also, please keep in mind that while I'm not a GSW fan, I'm a huge fan of klay and got nothing but respect for him.
I would watch more with a different co-host
Mero has to chill and just listen sometimes. Lol
Ion even watch the show but him talking making me Nvr wanna watch it😂😂
Its hard to fight for Klay. He’s not the same and thats the bottom line.
What Melo said about Gm feeling pressured sounds like what Rob Pelinka needs to feel, he keeps losing deals.
Heat Legend Iggy
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I'm waiting for someone to ask Melo why he insisted that the Knicks trade all their depth pieces to get him at the trade deadline rather than just wait and sign with them during that summer. Like Carmelo Anthony, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Amare Stoudamire, Tyson Chandler. And Mozgov who was good at the time. Iman Shumpert. That would been a nice team.
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im pretty sure Iggy was a superstar during his sixers years
9:00 An example of what Iggy is talking about is how the Brooklyn Nets tried to get Kyrie to re-sign for $10m and had Steven A Snitch attack Kyrie daily for almost a year to lower his value!
Iggy def unselfish teammate but knew limitations. Always thought Melo what ifs, drafted by Detroit. Klay already got 100 million from GS, dont see if he use that business is cut throat
Problem lies with salary cap . When melo took that massive 5 year deal he was worth every penny but if he takes less money you get another all star on that team .. dwade bron and bosh took less to make it happen .. if you take the max and don’t have other players with bird rights to go over your not going to win
I’m a dubs fan and I love iggy for life but sometimes I can’t listen to unc always tryna educate somebody 😂 with all do respect, sometimes I want to listen to him all day but sometimes I just can’t 😂😂
Business side of professional sports is real dirty. When I was a kid who grew up as a 49ers fan, I watched Joe Montana get traded away.
They need to cover when a team overpays a player-what are their thoughts on players who underperform?
They won't. Their whole goal is to act like a fraternity and pump each other up calling themselves super smart with high IQ's so they can get each other paid.
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It’a all business. Always keep that in mind. They’re trying to get the most out of you for the least amount of money and you should be trying to get the most money out of them while giving them the least amount as possible
How many rings melo had ?
Rings >>>>> scoring award
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great question
Ben Simmons seems like he understands the business end of the NBA more than any player ever has