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6 days ago
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Michael Porter Jr.'s ‘absurd' betting comments highlight NBA's hypocrisy
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus discuss the Nets forward's remarks on a recent podcast around gambling in basketball. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript We have to talk about Michael Porter Jr. I don't know if we should continue giving him microphones. No, cut that or take microphones away. I don't know if y'all heard what he said. The audio sounds better than the way I will read it. He talked about sports gambling. Now keep in mind, his brother Jonte was the first major name in the NBA that was nailed for sports gambling. If y'all homies bet 10K on my under this one game, I'm gonna act like I got an injury and they all get a bag. OK. Where are your homies getting 100 from Michael Porter Jr.? Like, before we get into the absurdity of everything you just said. If your homies are broke, all of them, if you, all your homies individually bet 1000 on your unders, A. You're going to jail, right? And you just said this on a podcast. Are you a plum fool? What are you doing? Like, just shut up, bro. Like, don't say the quiet part out loud. Like, you don't need to be aired, especially when this is your brother. Your brother is literally going through this. He has been banned from the NBA and yet you still are talking about, oh well, yeah, well, you know what I'm saying? I could just, you know, take myself out of the game and call an injury, whatever, we all get paid. Clown, certified clown. I will say this and I will be very clear. I will say something blue in the face. Pro sports leagues having business relationships with gambling out in the open makes them complicit to the hypocrisy of all this. The biggest, most valuable commodity in today's media is live sports rights. In this media, the streaming world, this cord-cutting world, live sports rights are the single most valuable commodity in entertainment and television, which explains the $4 billion valuations for teams, which explains the rising salaries for players for playing the game with integrity. If all of a sudden y'all think this becomes WWE they're gonna wind up becoming WCW. I know what happened to that. Close
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6 days ago
- Business
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Blazers reportedly sold for $4 billion - is that a bargain?
Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill and fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus discuss the reported sale of the Portland franchise to Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript The Portland Trail Blazers were sold from the Paul G. Allen Trust to NHL owner, I believe, of the Carolina Hurricanes. Tom Dundon for $4 billion, y'all, $4 billion. And you're thinking like, man, that is a huge number for a team that needs a new arena, right? Even though I love the Moda Center and I love the location. I just love Portland as a whole. Like, Portland is one of those sort of undiscovered gems on the NBA beat. Like when I was a beat writer, Portland would be one of those places like, Man, I can't wait to get to Portland. But just the crazy numbers, like we don't, we don't know so much about him. He came from the venture capitalist world. He owns the, uh, like I said, the Carolina Hurricanes. He also owns So clearly he's getting on the ground floor of a lot of different things. Something tells me that if he's buying it for $4 billion, this might be worth a lot more. I think a lot of the moves that they made probably helped increase that valuation a little bit, like bringing back Damian Lillard, you know, if you're trying to sell tickets, that's the way to do it. You now have the Asian market with Young Hansen. This is a good, I mean, it's a good team. I think they're gonna be a lot better this year. So, you know, for $4 billion, considering that the Celtics went for $6, seems like probably pretty decent value. Um, Lakers went for $10, right? Right. So I mean, I think he kind of swooped in, Tom Dundon. If he's a venture capital guy, obviously he's good with finances and money. That could actually be a really good deal. Um, shout out to the, to the Paul Allen Trust who bought the franchise for $70 million and flipped it for $4 billion. That's a, that's a nice little W. Yeah, yeah. I think that's all the owners who have were old money, like the old, old money. Now it's a lot of new money. So many teams have changed hands since the 2011 collective bargaining agreement, which lets you know how big of an investment the NBA is when the VCs are in it and are taking over. Close
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6 days ago
- Entertainment
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NBA schedule leaks, MPJ's unfortunate comments and LeBron vs. Steph
On this episode of Good Word with Goodwill, Vincent Goodwill and Dan Titus react to NBA Opening Night and Christmas Day games leaking. Which games are the most fascinating? Next, Vince and Dan make their way too early MVP predictions and Vince goes off on Michael Porter Jr.'s gambling comments. Later, Vince and Dan discuss if the Los Angeles Clippers can win a championship before choosing which current or former NBA player should have a podcast. (2:33) NBA Opening night games have leaked (11:30) The LeBron and Steph era (15:06) Most interesting Christmas Day games (21:56) Teams that will make a major leap this upcoming season (29:26) Way too early MVP predictions (37:19) Michael Porter Jr. comments on sports gambling (43:27) Bradley Beal, Clippers real contenders? (46:47) What current or former NBA player should have a podcast? (52:23) Blazers sell for $4 Billion Subscribe to Good Word with Goodwill Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube 🖥️
Yahoo
18-07-2025
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Why Mike Brown's first Knicks season will answer one big question
Yahoo Sports fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus and NBA writer Dan Devine discuss how New York's new head coach will adjust the team's playing style this coming season and whether the current roster will be ready to adjust. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript How much pressure do you see on Mike Brown right now? Do you think he's the right man for the job to potentially take the Knicks to the promised land? Mike Brown is under pressure because the bar that we've set is, if you make the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 25 years, you could still get fired. The Tom Thibodeaux situation is emblematic of the windows are so small and so short, it's opened for such a short period of time, and it's getting narrower and shorter every year, it seems like. And I think the message of 'we're moving on from Tom Thibodeau' is like it's not, that's not a move that you make as an organization if you feel like you're where you are supposed to be. It's a move you make if you feel like you've got a championship roster that isn't being maximized. Mike Brown is, I think, an interesting kind of needle-thread choice because this is somebody who is capable of being conversant in a number of different styles, can bring you a lot of the same, we do not compromise on our defensive principles, period. Kind of you know, hard assery, for lack of a better term, of Tom Thibodeaux, but has shown a willingness to be more flexible, to go deeper into his rotation, to say, I'm gonna take the talent that I've gotten and I'm gonna institute more ball movement, more player movement, more fluidity, more motion, and not just have it be station-to- station basketball where everybody's watching one guy cook. We're gonna find out if the Knicks' more stagnant approach was coaching oriented or star oriented. And I think that's gonna be pretty interesting to find out because we know that Mike Brown, given his druthers, wants to play more passing, more movement, faster into your sets, across half court earlier, get into your actions with, you know, more time on the shot clock, be able to go deeper and spread the floor, all those sorts of things. Now we're gonna find out if Jalen Brunson wants to play that way, and I think he's capable of it. I think guys like Josh Hart and McHale Bridges and maybe a larger role for McHale Bridges. Towns, if he's not sort of minimized as a spacer, all these sorts, like there's opportunities for higher-end offensive creation there, but it's got to come from the top down. And I think if Jalen Brunson shows that he's willing to buy into that, uh, the, the sky could be the limit for the next offense under Mike Brown. Close
Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Sport
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What does LeBron's 'frustration' mean for his Lakers future?
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Dan Titus and senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss Lebron James's reported "frustrations" with the Los Angeles Lakers and what it means for his immediate future with the franchise. Hear the full conversation on 'Good Word with Goodwill' and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript Unsurprisingly, we saw LeBron make a couple of appearances at Summer League. A report came out from Anthony Irwin, a senior insider at the Lakers, saying that LeBron has become increasingly frustrated. And unhappy with the direction of the team since the Russell Westbrook trade. Is this just noise? What, what are your take on it? Yeah, well, first off, you forgot the main reason he was at Summer League. His son was playing, right? Oh you guys are watching, you gotta watch Bronnie of course last year too, exactly right. Um, and listen, Bronny has given him reason to be excited about watching him play this summer. That's good. It is funny that when you zoom out from all of it, the headline is more like, report, man who opted into contract will stay with team that is paying him. You were absolutely right to point to the notion that it is difficult to trade a $52 million contract. If LeBron James wanted to be anywhere else, he could have opted out. LeBron James isn't gonna go someplace else and sign for, you know, the biannual exception. LeBron James is going to get the, the top possible dollar. The questions moving forward are all about what does this mean like on the court next year? What does this mean when we get to next summer and we revisit this whole question about where does LeBron want to be for the balance of his career? Is he, does he decide that he's done? Does he decide that he wants to play 23 more years? He's gonna stay there to make as much money as he can possibly make right now, because he opted in and said that's what he wanted to do, doesn't seem like a super shock. And then the rest of it is kind of all noise. Yeah, now that the Lakers have new ownership, I'm curious to see where Rob Polinka's place in this standing is. Like, maybe he's bulletproof for a while because he acquired he traded for Luca. Like he got off of that, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see where this goes. I don't, I don't think this is gonna end up being a midseason trade or anything like that. I think LeBron's gonna play out the final year, and then we'll see what's next. Maybe it's retirement, maybe it's going somewhere else. Close
