Becky Hammond DOUBLED DOWN on Her Jalen Brunson Take

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]the shampooing of the hair in the pool.

[00:00:03]Uh Cody, you're you're not rethinking that. You're you're doubling down on that.

[00:00:09]>> Yeah, of tripling down. Yeah. I'm disappointed that uh you know, Rosenist uh didn't uh get on board there.

[00:00:16]>> You feel clean when you get out of the pool?

[00:00:19]>> Very much so. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:00:20]>> Put it on the poll at leard show. Do you feel clean when you get out of the pool?

[00:00:24]Because I don't. I feel like there's a chemical on me. I feel if it's not a saltwater pool, I even well salt water too actually. But uh the chlorine is worse. Like I feel like there's a film off on me when I get out of a pool and I don't want that in my hair. That's not like shampoo doesn't remedy the fact that I don't want chlorine in my hair.

[00:00:44]>> Chlorine is a cleansing agent. You know what are you doing?

[00:00:46]>> You think it's good for the hair? You think chlorine You think >> I've been told that by uh meteorologists.

[00:00:52]>> Meteorologists. Weather people. Weather people.

[00:00:55]>> Yeah. Don No, the former Channel 10 guy, told me that chlorinating your hair was good for you.

[00:01:01]>> Don No is who you mentioned. Someone who hasn't been on television doing the weather in 25 years. How is it that you've only gotten worse since this?

[00:01:09]>> I root for the Canadian.

[00:01:11]>> Oh my.

[00:01:14]>> I'm going.

[00:01:18]Go ahead. Put that on on rerun. Replay.

[00:01:21]What do you call that? Repeat.

[00:01:24]>> Joker. He sounds like Commissioner Gordon telling Batman to go get the Joker.

[00:01:28]>> Thank you.

[00:01:30]>> Joker.

[00:01:31]>> Why would I ask a meteorologist if chlorine is good for the hair?

[00:01:35]>> He deals with He deals with rainfall and stuff like that. Water precipitation.

[00:01:41]>> But chlorine's not in any of that.

[00:01:44]>> You know, >> precipitation.

[00:01:45]>> Greg's right about this.

[00:01:46]>> You're doubling You're d >> Thank you, Billy.

[00:01:49]>> You're doubling down. You're doubling down on chlorine and shampooing in the pool. You sound like Becky Hammond.

[00:01:56]Becky Hammond said the New York Knicks cannot win with uh Jaylen Brunson as their best player and she was asked about it again and Becky Hammond did her best. Greg Cody >> makes sense for what?

[00:02:10]>> You're taking you're taking a little bit of grief from what you said about Jay Bronson.

[00:02:13]>> You are. I'm not big enough.

[00:02:14]>> I never say hey.

[00:02:15]>> Exactly. That's why I'm saying no. I mean, I speak from I speak from experience and I never, you know, Allen Iverson got MVP and he lost in the finals and I think the two best teams are probably in the West, but I'm up I'm up for being proven wrong. And that's the other thing is I think Jaylen Brunson's a hell of a player. A hell of a player. Um I'm speaking historically on the NBA uh with with what I said. I don't know why that's being brought like why everybody's so stuck on that. I said it two years ago. I stand by let you clear the clear the air.

[00:02:46]>> There's no air to be cleared. I said what I said.

[00:02:49]>> He proves me wrong. He proves me wrong.

[00:02:51]I mean I I Good for him. But I I do think uh the two best teams are in the West.

[00:02:57]>> We know who you like, right?

[00:02:59]>> Oh, well, you know who I'm cheering for.

[00:03:01]>> She's not wrong.

[00:03:02]>> Not yet.

[00:03:03]>> Not yet.

[00:03:05]>> Right.

[00:03:06]>> That's also true.

[00:03:08]Uh >> I like that answer. Yeah, >> this is whole like gotcha social media old tweets and >> the rest of that media.

[00:03:16]>> She ain't wrong yet to question Jackson Dart.

[00:03:20]>> Yeah. And then I like Yeah. Okay. So So what? Then I'm wrong.

[00:03:25]>> Cool.

[00:03:27]>> Well, you kind of really undid this for the internet, Becky.

[00:03:29]>> I mean, even if even if the Knicks win the finals from an historical perspective, like she she's still right.

[00:03:38]She's still right. I mean, the only small guard who's your best player that leads you to a championship, it's Isaiah Thomas. And so, I think it's fair two years ago to ask, is Jaylen Brunson Isaiah Thomas? You don't put Steph in there, though, because Steph is a little bit bigger. And we've just changed the entire game. I've been saying that all of my life since Isaiah won it. I've been saying won it with a broken foot, didn't he? Or didn't he?

[00:04:06]>> I think they lost that year.

[00:04:07]>> They lost that year. That's right. He was playing in the finals with a broken foot.

[00:04:10]>> What a performance.

[00:04:11]>> Yes. But uh Steph, I I just think that maybe that's no longer true because if you can shoot from 30 feet, all of a sudden the size starts mattering a little bit less if we're going to just distort all of the numbers. So it might I think a lot of things I think a lot of people covering sports these days have to sort of rethink some things that have been true the entirety of their lives.

[00:04:36]Webby can make it true by just all of a sudden the Spurs win and they didn't have to lose first, right? We've been saying that one for a long time. You have to suffer some before you win the championship in basketball.

[00:04:47]>> She did mention Steph in that original piece with Malikica Andrew. She was like, you know, Steph's really the outlier, but I don't think Steph really falls into the same category of what she's talking about. He's an offball guard. He's more of a a shooting combo guard. Like he's he's moving a ton without the ball. Well, I think she's talking about put the ball on the floor.

[00:05:06]You know, a guy that creates his own shot. And Steph certainly can, but that's not really what his role is.

[00:05:11]>> We can probably take the helmet off.

[00:05:13]>> No, I'm going to keep it on. And I And it's falling apart. By the way, I have American Jigalow Richard Gear in my hand because it's falling to to pieces. The the gear head's not in shape.

[00:05:27]Uh I wanted to get into uh because we have uh coming out later today, the stepback part of a series that is uh looking back historically at LeBron James uh during this time. Uh Izzy Amin and myself uh sat down for a while and we talked to an assortment of interesting people who have been in LeBron's life. And it's a six-part series and we're proud of it. So you could check that out on the feed later today. But LeBron is, again, the reporting again from Brian Windhorse is no discounts. If Cleveland, if you want him, you're gonna have to pay full price. It's not going to be that LeBron James continues uh to be underpaid. I've said this before, LeBron James, every season that he has played has been underpaid because there's a salary cap. And if there were not a salary cap, what he brings to your team, to your economy, to your city, uh you cannot pay him enough to have him not be underpaid in that sport. So, he refuses to take a discount even if it's the great punctuation story of going back to Cleveland. What are your thoughts there, Zaz? According to Winhorse, this is according to Brian Winhorse. Nothing wrong with that from LeBron's perspective, but you can't also say winning is most important. And that's okay. Like that that's totally okay. You could want both, but winning is not most important if you're not willing to take a pay cut.

[00:06:57]>> I would think he would put winning first. I I would think he would go to some place thinking this is my one last chance to get another ring. And and if that means you have to take 10 million less a year, it sounds ridiculous to say like if if that means you only have to take 10 million less a year, you do it.

[00:07:15]You know, I mean, at at this point in his life, how rich is he? You know what I'm saying? Like the difference between making 55 million a year and 48 million a year is nothing.

[00:07:26]>> Yeah, but they have three million to spend according to Winhorst and he made 54 last season. It is hard to believe that he won't like if he he makes 50 now that you won't take 25 to help you win.

[00:07:40]Especially because like if he does do that like does anyone think differently?

[00:07:45]I'm like, "Oh, that's you're not worth 50 million anyway." Like what? Why not?

[00:07:51]>> Because he's cheap as hell. He's just about the same cheapness as Tom Dundan.

[00:07:55]He doesn't even pay for the premium Spotify.

[00:08:00]What?

[00:08:01]>> This is not an eitheror choice. It's not uh in LeBron James' mind. And I've been making a form of this argument since people accused A-Rod of selling out by going to the Texas Rangers and demanding a contract that was exactly double 252 million uh the largest ever given in sports before that which was 126 to Kevin Garnett. Uh he wasn't choosing losing there. He thought he was going to take the winning with him. Why wouldn't LeBron James think that everywhere he goes he takes the winning with him given that for more than 20 years everywhere he goes he takes the winning with him.

[00:08:36]>> Also A-Rod doesn't get enough credit because he was actually trying to give some money back and the union would not allow that if I recall correctly.

[00:08:44]>> No, you're right. A-Rod was really trying to help facilitate initially what was a Boston deal that was very close and then he he ended up going to the Yankees but he was he was all about winning at that point in his career.

[00:08:55]>> I'm going back uh to the Texas Rangers.

[00:08:57]No, I am too. No, no, no. He made that decision. I'm with you. He He didn't think Texas was going to be bad. He thought he was the final piece. And then he suffered. He won MVPs, but they were last place teams. And then when it got time to Boston's interest, he was willing to do whatever it took to facilitate that deal. But, you know, you can't have a guy at the peak of his powers with that union agreeing to that sort of stuff.

[00:09:22]>> I mean, I understand what you're saying about, you know, these players. They believe they're taking the winning with them. So, why would LeBron not believe he's taken the winning with him? I don't think it's about that. We're talking about a salary cap sport here and a player who has long talked about needing other good players around him. So, it's not that he doesn't believe that he's taking the winning with him. It's if you take less money, you can continue to get all the good players around.

[00:09:44]>> I understand why the money is a a fascinating part of this. All the contract terms are going to be interesting to me. How long does he sign for? How does he want to keep his options open? Does he sign a multi-year deal? What does that look like? Player option after player option. I think it's all interesting.

[00:09:59]>> I envision he goes back to what he did every year, this last go round with Cleveland, where every year's a one plus one.

[00:10:04]>> Trista, can you please uh see what kind of math you can do on this? I don't know the exact clientele that Clutch has. But when I tell you that Clutch, the brainchild of LeBron James with Rich Paul, represents 94 NBA players and you are getting basically the way LeBron is paid for carrying that sport, you're getting I think it's 5%. I don't think it's 10%. I think it's 5% of 94 NBA contracts as part of how it is that you're running a business that has to be run with employees. Can you see if you can do some sort of quick math? I don't know who all those clients are, and I don't expect you to do 94 of them, but just trying to figure out what 5% of that would be as LeBron's side hustle.

[00:10:53]He's got a content business that's losing a lot of money as well. The content business, can you look that up for me, Chris? The reports on how much money the content business has lost over the uh over the last year because it's been a good amount of money that he has lost. But uh when you say Zazzlo that flatly, he can't say winning is the most important thing if he's not willing to take less money. I would and have never understood I would take less money. I would want to work with my friends and have the best chance at winning at this point in my career because the money would not be that important. And I know I can make it up in commercials. It's like I know I can make it up with a retirement tour just by just by getting a sponsor to my my retirement tour. I could do it, but I'm not in uh I'm not the one who tells other people to take discounts on their services. I'm not the one to tell other people that they should get less than they're actually worth when again I will say underpaid his entire career. And why would he want to take $3 million instead of 50 plus million instead of putting the burden on the franchise? No. Go find other cheap players. You can find me good players.

[00:12:08]They're going to be players. I've gotten free agents to come to Cleveland because the traveling circus is something that people want to be a part of. When LeBron James is at the center of your team, >> it's got to be a little bit different at this stage in his career.

[00:12:21]>> He's not the guy anymore. Cleveland is more appealing when you know that LeBron is certifiably the best player in the league.

[00:12:27]>> Zaz was saying yesterday he's gonna get Kyrie to come with him. That was yesterday.

[00:12:31]>> Yeah, Kyrie in 2026 is different than Kyrie back then. And even Kyrie back then was like, I'm out of here.

[00:12:37]>> Yeah. Yahoo reported in 2023 his company lost $30 million >> for the NBA the revenue for his side hustle right around 50 million per year.

[00:12:48]But there's also other sports that they represent. remember they represent the NFL as well. Around 200 million a year is what it looks like they're making um off of the contracts.

[00:12:59]>> I don't think that LeBron is still interested in the ownership game, but that costs billions. Like you have to have it's it's not hundreds of millions that gets you into the NBA ownership game anymore. And uh I I all of us everyone listening to this says take a discount, right? every everyone listening to this says that what's what's going to be the difference in your life in real terms, LeBron, between taking less money and not taking less money, >> especially with the example of Jaylen Brunson right now with his friends in the championship.

[00:13:32]>> Without that, you don't get OG Anobi signed to a long-term deal. You don't get Muel Bridges signed to a long-term deal. You don't figure out a way to get all the Villanova boys there. You don't get Carl Anthony Towns making $60 million without Jaylen Brunson taking that pay cut. This Knicks team does not exist.

[00:13:48]>> We do see this everywhere in sports where you'll have great player. I mean Conor McDavid just took a discount last year when Tom Brady did it every year.

[00:13:56]Every every year the last seven 10 years of his career he might do.

[00:14:00]>> It's not because they're trying to save the owner money. They're trying to help the team in a salary cap sport.

[00:14:04]>> Yeah. That's how the big three in Miami came together 15 years ago. Uh LeBron's main source of income isn't even his NBA contract anymore. He's got plenty of money otherwise. And what would assure more than a sacrifice financially? What would assure that his homecoming in Cleveland is the sentimental well-received thing that that everybody hopes it is?

[00:14:25]>> Just be clear on this part though, okay?

[00:14:27]This changed. You said he did it in Miami and he did, but never again because when he got to Miami, he expected that to come with certain perks. He thought he would get 200 tickets and sweets and assortment of other things that would have made it a wink wink deal and he didn't get any of those things. And so immediately thereafter he's like I'm not doing that again. Not ever. And he has not like that that you say he did it before and he did but he learned the lesson that I'm never doing it again.

[00:14:56]>> Yeah. But he was 25 then and he's 41 now. People change. He's matured. He's a different person. Not just a different player, a different person than he was.

[00:15:04]does. And I think at this point in his career and his life, maybe he is willing to make that sacrifice. No, but what do you mean maybe he is? He's not. We The conversation started with he's not.

[00:15:15]>> Okay. Well, we'll see. No, but