Rocky the Mountain Lion, Patrick Williams, and Wembanyama Untouchables
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
2.2 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Trysta bounces around the league with under a week to go until the start of the 2022-23 season. She discusses the unbelievable salaries for NBA mascots, Patrick Williams being benched in Chicago, and who she wouldn't trade for Victor Wembanyama. Tune In!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | A couple of the stories, though, from around the league before we get into our top 10. |
| 0:18.0 | This one's interesting to me. |
| 0:21.4 | Did you know that the Denver Nuggets mascot makes $625,000 per year? |
| 0:33.8 | How? |
| 0:34.8 | What is he done? |
| 0:36.2 | Who does he know? |
| 0:41.1 | Is that shocking? Is anyone else shocked by that? |
| 0:48.2 | His name is Rocky. Rocky the Mountain Lion. If you didn't know that, join the club. |
| 0:53.3 | Join the club because I didn't know that. I didn't know that mascots had full out names. |
| 0:54.3 | I didn't know that they made that kind of money. |
| 0:56.6 | Harry the Hawk from Atlanta makes $600,000. |
| 1:01.7 | Benny the Bull gets $400,000. |
| 1:05.1 | And shockingly, Phoenix, the Phoenix gorilla, he's getting absolutely shortchanged. |
| 1:11.2 | $200,000 for Phoenix the gorilla. |
| 1:14.4 | I tell you what, those stock-go homes, the cost of living, parking spots everywhere, |
| 1:20.1 | grocery bills down to the floor because Mexico is just a quick jaunt away. |
| 1:24.9 | Avocados are like 25 cents per avocado in Phoenix. |
| 1:28.2 | They are still shortchanging my man, Phoenix, the Phoenix Gorilla. |
| 1:31.7 | He doesn't even have a name. |
| 1:33.6 | Phoenix Gorilla? |
| 1:34.7 | We got Harry. |
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