But our staff decided, if you're going league pass only, it's got to be bucks.

Pelicans 2019, Number one overall Pick Zion Williamson posting 22 a half points per game last year and just under 28 minutes per game.

Now the pelicans air, letting Zion play more minutes.

So, Paul, what are you expecting from him and his sophomore season and his sophomore season?

If Zion does not make the All Star Game, I'm gonna be disappointed.

This guy is must watch TV in the company, so I don't care.

I must watch TV.

If he plays, just actually plays.

He'll be voted in by the fans.

He'll be voted in.

So it's like even if this play is just below like an actual All Star, let's say like a tray young, he's going to be on every highlight.

He already has one of the biggest, like fan followings.

They just need him on the court so that the fans can push him the way they would love Thio.

We will see all eyes on that team out West.

And on the other end of that game, of course, it's the Bucks and Yanis.

We know that they are signed up for another five years after he signed the Supermax.

Richard.

Were you surprised that Yannis committed to the books without giving it that one more years since obviously could have signed the same deal next offseason?

No, I think it's OK, because if he wants to win a championship and they want to trade, you see this all the time.

If we want to give up assets and draft picks and kind of our future, it needs to be because you're committed.

So I think that was like, Hey, I wanna win a championship here So if I need to sign now so that we could go get the players and the assets needed So I thought it was a good move by both parts.

When I see 227 million e am not surprised, right?

Listen, let me get my signature on this piece of paper, Then I'll figure it out.

So, no, I am not surprised.

He's committed to this team for five more years for over 200 something he'll be 30 when he's done.

So he has.

He has one more opt out opportunity where he'll be under 30 to get a Supermax or even to sign up some other.

Some other big deal.

Yeah, I was gonna be for Block 300.

Yeah, well, this contract does have a player opt out in the fifth year.

So that is something to note.

It was also interesting to me and Yannis press conference after he signed the deal, he was talking about how it did bother him, that people were asking him all he's all summer, all offseason, whatever we're calling the offseason, whatever this has been, um, that people kept asking him about it, and then his teammates brought him those pens for his birthday and things like that.

He said he just didn't want all of those questions Or you guys surprised that in a year, by the way, with no fans or no fans in a lot of places that that was so present on his mind.

Well, I think if you look at what Kyrie had gone through, what Kevin Durant had gone through, obviously, you know other free agents like Anthony Davis or even LeBron James when you know he was leaving Miami or leaving Cleveland.

If you've been paying attention to it, you're like, I don't want any part of that.

Either I want to be here or I don't.

The money is ridiculous.

I wanna be here.

They're committed.

We've had good conversations.

They're willing to go into the tax.

Let's get Let's just get this over.

But he's not one of those huge media markets to where they're going, like harass, um, and talk about it every day.

You know they're gonna respect him as a player who he's been to the Milwaukee Bucks.

So if it came up, but he would have said, Listen, I don't wanna talk about it right now.

It wouldn't have been the same situation with Durant, who was with Curry.

You know, that was a star studded team where there's like media members from everywhere, always in that locker room.

That wouldn't be the case in Milwaukee and where, in the times where media is not even in your locker room right now, even it wouldn't have been a problem for him to go through that.

That's what that's what interested me that he made that point because I thought, Oh, that's not gonna be as much of a factor this year.

You have to deal with him being in your face.

But you know what?

It's good for the MBA that he's a quarter of a million dollars.

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