Gil's Arena UPDATE: Stephen A pulled up for smoke Update 2: "Standup Steve.." Mccants backs down

[Barney Rubble]

lmao . Delusional u r 1.5 million lmaoooooo


try 90k per year

Josiah said he makes more than league minimum NBA players, and they make 1.2 mill. He's the brains of the show, comes up with the topics, gets there first, stays late and works from home. Underdog is worth over 1.2 billion, so they shouldn't be tripping over the cost of the show since it's one of their biggest advertisers. They should be treating it like Stake does Kick.com.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250326332418/en/Spark-Capital-Leads-Underdog-Series-C-Pushing-Valuation-Over-%241.2-Billion

 

[Primetime]

Yep and the clip posted above, Gil basically just said what you said. What Underdog pays everyone is way more than what the channel makes. Gil said the channel makes around 3M a year. He said he could tell from the way underdog was talking they were gonna cut ppl, sorta name dropped Lexi as one of the ppl that would be cut if they didnt do the 2 days a week think and tried to buck and get more days or w/e.

Josiah probably makes 3M by himself. You know skip getting paid a lot. A good nugget is the sponsors. It seems the basketball show isnt getting the sponsors they thought it would and they may be tried to use Skip/Gridiron's potential for a package deal with that too for the channel. Gil said Underdog was gonna give Gridiron it's own channel and stuff at first and he suggested they just use the Gil's arena channel for it.

Tbh, the lack of sponsors doesn’t surprise me. Not to put (all) the blame on any one person but we’ve all seen how it can turn into a complete shyt-show whenever McCants or Kenyon get triggered. The yelling, screaming over the same topic for 20 minutes gets awkward, exhausting, and old real quick.

Josiah and Gilbert are the heart of the show, whereas the others… good BTS insight on their own careers but day-to-day ball analysis? Meh.

i.e.We know Brandon can’t really articulate himself, Kenyon has temper tantrums, McCants is knowledgeable half the time but just be saying shyt/showing his insecurities the other half, Lexi and Sheryl are just kinda there, Young can barely speak coherently, etc.

 

[stepbackj34spud]

In the same live stream, Gilbert said they were also considering bringing in one of or both Pierce and Beasley to join the basketball show.

To be honest, a Gil's Arena of Joe Tsai, Gilbert, Pierce, Beasley... with the final spot being one of Jennings, KMart, McCants,Young (i think they're all mid and bushable tbh) would be a big upgrade. Sheryl needs to be bushed tho imo. The young chick who plays in the W, Lexi iirc, she's cool

Mccants is the heart of the show bro. I rewatch this on the daily(drive to/from work, bullshytting around the crib)i never miss an episode. It aint the same without Mccants.

A perfect group would be Gil, Josiah, Mccants, and somebody like Norris Cole. Norris Cole is excellent when hes on. Cole is well spoken, and he isnt a yes man.

Swaggy and Kenyon csnt string together a coherent sentence. Its super annoying listening to them. If Nick could actually have an intellectual conversation, he’d be the star of the show because he’s funny and isnt a yes man. Nick the only one who wasnt buying the replace Kobe with T-Mac bullshyt.

Kenyon is wild bias and gets loud every time he thinks right. Carmelo and Kidd are literal GODs in Kenyon’s mind, yet he attacks the other cast members for favoring players.

Lexi Brown is fukking useless. She doesnt even watch ball.

Jennings is OK. I fukk with B Even tho he doesnt say much at times.

Sheryl Swoops is only good for wnba talk.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Mccants is the heart of the show bro. I rewatch this on the daily(drive to/from work, bullshytting around the crib)i never miss an episode. It aint the same without Mccants.

A perfect group would be Gil, Josiah, Mccants, and somebody like Norris Cole. Norris Cole is excellent when hes on. Cole is well spoken, and he isnt a yes man.

Swaggy and Kenyon csnt string together a coherent sentence. Its super annoying listening to them. If Nick could actually have an intellectual conversation, he’d be the star of the show because he’s funny and isnt a yes man. Nick the only one who wasnt buying the replace Kobe with T-Mac bullshyt.

Kenyon is wild bias and gets loud every time he thinks right. Carmelo and Kidd are literal GODs in Kenyon’s mind, yet he attacks the other cast members for favoring players.

Lexi Brown is fukking useless. She doesnt even watch ball.

Jennings is OK. I fukk with B Even tho he doesnt say much at times.

Sheryl Swoops is only good for wnba talk.

Norris has been excellent every time he's on. He kinda plays the straight man to all the clown shyt. You also know he's gonna have some excellent insight whenever they have a serious guest on. I do like Nick, even if he's a moron, he's very entertaining and plays well off Gil.

 

[Primetime]

@stepbackj34spud

I’d say Josiah and Gil are the heart of the show and the modern Ernie and Chuck, so to speak.

To me, among the rest McCants and Cole are the closest to a “Kenny” (or rather a contrast/antagonist to Gil) however Rashad’s problem is similar to Kenyon’s where he has his own extreme biases and gets super emotional and loud when ish aint going his way.

When Rashad is at his best is when he’s talking in-game adjustments like how a team should guard xy and z. With Cole, he’s good… he just doesn’t have an engaging personality and he also dikkrides Spo the same way Kenyon does AI and Melo.

I actually feel your boy Pierce would be a good 3rd piece. Altho he would still have the Cali bias, he was good enough as a player (and his own biggest fan) that wouldn’t just be another Bron (Josiah) Kobe (Gil) or Melo/AI (KM) dikkrider. He also has a bit more respect for modern players, which I feel would also be a good contrast.

 

[Jplaya2023]

Damn i feel for Lexi. I hope her recovery is going well

 

[aceboon]

Damn Lexi was making double her WNBA salary to sit up there with a stank attitude, I wonder how much her pod with Jalen Rose's dumbass daughter is pulling in.

 

[T-K-G]

lmao . Delusional u r 1.5 million lmaoooooo


try 90k per year

nikka what are you talking about the sound mixer probably made that much himself

Damn Lexi was making double her WNBA salary to sit up there with a stank attitude, I wonder how much her pod with Jalen Rose's dumbass daughter is pulling in.

Lexi was in a weird spot, she was the only active player there and wasn't even good forreal to be giving opinions about other people. I think she did well not talking down on other women players.

For a guy like Mccants it doesn't matter cuz he can just go home after stirring the pot. Lexi had to pull up to practice with starters and all stars who had extra smoke for her cuz she making more money than them.


Just look at how they were hating on Clark and Reese, two players who actually had the on court popularity to validate the success.

You just KNOW players were talking to Lexi filthy Skylar Diggins is for sure an a$$hole, wouldn't be surprised if she pressed her first day after the trade.

 

[aceboon]

was Cody Kessler doing TV work for any big networks prior to this gig with the pod? I actually fukk with him on this, once him and Aqib get done talking I usually ffwd past Skip talking

 

[EzekelRAGE]

I was right about Josaiah, he makes over 3M for the pod. At the end of that clip Gil says he cant afford to even pay 1 person just based on what the youtube brings in. Josaiah says "not me, I'd be elsewhere". Gil sorta also hinted at the total staff expense. He says 4M might be the the total cost of staff. I assume that adds Skip/Aquib/etc too. 48M is a lot for staff, especially if the channel only makes 3-4M a year. That's just staff, not including shyt like paying Gil for the space etc.

Honestly it seems like some of them may be overpaid on the basketball side if Lexi/Swoopes making Ms. Not sure, Kmart may be overpaid too. Nick as well.

Tbh, the lack of sponsors doesn’t surprise me. Not to put (all) the blame on any one person but we’ve all seen how it can turn into a complete shyt-show whenever McCants or Kenyon get triggered. The yelling, screaming over the same topic for 20 minutes gets awkward, exhausting, and old real quick.

Another issue is for most pods, the gambling shyt is the biggest sponsor(PrizePicks/Draftkings). In this situation Underdog running shyt, so they cant get that gambling bag. I know they got Ro Sparks, but idk if Gil's arena gets that sponsorship. Gridiron be pushing it though.

Rashad’s problem is similar to Kenyon’s where he has his own extreme biases and gets super emotional and loud when ish aint going his way.

Damn Lexi was making double her WNBA salary to sit up there with a stank attitude, I wonder how much her pod with Jalen Rose's dumbass daughter is pulling in.

Keep in mind that was the first contract. They reupped afterwards, so she makes more than the 200k figure.

lol at Nick throwing his son

Some ppl killing kenyon for being "too cool" for not even bothering to do the "woof woof" with everyone else at the end
I wonder how salty he is that Skip on the channel and Skip's shyt is a higher priority. I remember he said he felt Skip banned him from Undisputed or something.

 

[Brandon M.]

I was right about Josaiah, he makes over 3M for the pod. At the end of that clip Gil says he cant afford to even pay 1 person just based on what the youtube brings in. Josaiah says "not me, I'd be elsewhere". Gil sorta also hinted at the total staff expense. He says 4M might be the the total cost of staff. I assume that adds Skip/Aquib/etc too. 48M is a lot for staff, especially if the channel only makes 3-4M a year. That's just staff, not including shyt like paying Gil for the space etc.

Honestly it seems like some of them may be overpaid on the basketball side if Lexi/Swoopes making Ms. Not sure, Kmart may be overpaid too. Nick as well.

Another issue is for most pods, the gambling shyt is the biggest sponsor(PrizePicks/Draftkings). In this situation Underdog running shyt, so they cant get that gambling bag. I know they got Ro Sparks, but idk if Gil's arena gets that sponsorship. Gridiron be pushing it though.



Keep in mind that was the first contract. They reupped afterwards, so she makes more than the 200k figure.


Some ppl killing kenyon for being "too cool" for not even bothering to do the "woof woof" with everyone else at the end
I wonder how salty he is that Skip on the channel and Skip's shyt is a higher priority. I remember he said he felt Skip banned him from Undisputed or something.

yall really are delusional


yall believe a person is getting paid 3 milions dollars per year to host a youtube basketball show?

no wonder this world is the way it is

 

[EzekelRAGE]

You just KNOW players were talking to Lexi filthy Skylar Diggins is for sure an a$$hole, wouldn't be surprised if she pressed her first day after the trade.

She most definitely got shyt for the shyt Gil was saying. Talking about them being dinosaurs and shyt lol.

was Cody Kessler doing TV work for any big networks prior to this gig with the pod? I actually fukk with him on this, once him and Aqib get done talking I usually ffwd past Skip talking

Yea, I fukk with Cody too. They need to keep him on every show. I hope they bush the other white boy on there. I think they call him Incognito? He is straight trash. Brady's broadcast shyt was the topic. Aqib and McCoy straight laid out and said Brady doesnt get insider information, basically guaranteed it. Incognito kept saying "it isnt fair, ,Brady can pass on the inside knowledge he gets from team interviews". When McCoy asked him what info he could possibly get, Incognito couldnt name anything and kept repeating "he can get inside knowledge"

Permanent lineup should be Cody/McCoy/Aqib on every show imo, nice balance. Of course you gotta deal with Skip

 

[EzekelRAGE]

yall really are delusional


yall believe a person is getting paid 3 milions dollars per year to host a youtube basketball show?

no wonder this world is the way it is

 

[Brandon M.]

idiot

 

[EzekelRAGE]

idiot