Thunder lock Big 3 up for $822 million! Insane! Orioles owner speaks! NFLPA changes are coming ASAP (Episode 1312 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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https://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/auction-lunch-with-david-samson-of-nothing-personal-3220102 Today’s word of the day is ‘benjamins’ as in big bills as in Brinks truck as in Thunder as in SGA as in Jalen Williams as in Chet Holmgren. That’s right. The Thunder won the NBA title and now have locked up its Big 3 for $800 million! WHAT!? (10:30) Giannis has spoken. What did he say? A clue! A crumb! (17:00) Orioles owner David Rubenstein finally spoke for the first time since Brandon Hyde was fired. That was a month ago. Woof. What did he have to say? Injuries. (28:30) Review: The Bear Season 4. (34:15) Another American woman is in a Grand Slam Final. Amanda Anisimova is back in a final for the first time in 6 years. She had previously taken time off for mental health struggles. (42:50) We have another update on Lloyd Howell and the NFLPA. Uh oh. (48:00) NPPOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.0	It is Friday, July 11th, 2025.
1:15.2	We're talking, Benjamins.
1:18.2	Not often on a Friday.
1:20.1	You got to bring it on a Friday.
1:22.9	Do not mail it in.
1:24.1	It's 20% of your week.
1:26.3	20%.
1:27.3	I'm tired though I'm not tired about talking about money
1:33.8	I'm not tired about talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder because every day you win a title
1:42.0	let's go back even further, Koka. Fantastic. Young team, so good.
1:49.8	Title worthy. Game seven against the Nuggets. Uh-oh. They win. Who can beat them. Get to the finals.
1:59.0	Are they going to sign their core? Greatest GM ever. He loves
2:05.8	music, looks calm, not many people at the parade, and then the contract start. SGA MVP,
2:15.9	four years, $285 million. Next, Chad Holmgren. They just signed him to a five-year,
2:27.7	$250 million contract. I said, wow, that's a fearsome twosome. And just yesterday, Jalen Williams, he's good.
2:39.8	Don't get me wrong. Five years, $287 million. That means that Williams, SGA, and Homegren are under contract for a total of $822 million in contract.
2:59.6	And if you do the math, the three of them alone, three, in the final year of their deals, will be paid $184 million,
3:15.8	which today would be the 15th highest total team payroll.
3:23.0	You love it as fans. You have to. You don't care about owners' money to you don't care about owners money you don't care about
3:28.4	allocation inside a payroll you don't care about anything other than hey we want a title we want to be
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