The Real Lakers Buyer Has a Name, the Mendoza Clock Keeps Ticking & Von Miller Is a Cowboy

Grant and John Browner pick up the story that ate Monday alive — and it got wilder on Tuesday. The Lakers sale isn't a Buss family story anymore; it's a Mark Walter story. New reporting says Walter tried to pull payments years early out of the Dodgers' Spectrum TV deal, he's selling Chelsea, and John does the arithmetic nobody at the press conference will: Bob Iger and Josh Kushner combined aren't worth $13 billion. So who is? The name that surfaced — Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the Manchester City chairman and front man for Sheikh Mansour — and the crew walks through how a controlling-majority rule meets a 14.9% wink, what oil money did to golf (the $1 billion Tiger Woods turned down, the $100 million appearance checks, Phil Mickelson's "I got debt"), the Saudi comedy shows no one ever saw a minute of, and why the second apron means nothing to people with that kind of liquid cash. Before all that: the Fernando Mendoza situation in Las Vegas. John's position hasn't moved — every game Kirk Cousins starts is evaluation time the Raiders are lighting on fire, Mendoza doesn't need to be generational to be a good NFL starter today, and Cousins' own quote ("I just let him be") gives away how much mentoring is actually happening. Plus Von Miller signs with the Cowboys and John unloads on the Cowboys tax — the thirty-year title drought, championship footage that exists only on VHS, and why he's not buying Caleb Downs until someone says Sean Taylor and means it. The show closes on why John has always believed Myles Garrett's side of the 2019 helmet incident, the training-camp brawls sweeping the league (John's forensic conclusion: it's hot), and the NL MVP race — where Pete Crow-Armstrong is having the season of his life and it still isn't a contest, because Shohei Ohtani picks up a baseball too. New episodes drop nightly. Follow the crew on X. Directed & Produced by: Grant Mona Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.