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Italian Hoops Team Offers Kobe Bryant One-Year, $6.7M Contract

Kobe Bryant has been offered a one-season, $6.7M contract to play for Italian team Virtus Bologna. Team GM Massimo Faraoni said that he has been "on conference calls with Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, Bologna president Claudio Sabatini and main sponsor Canadian Solar, which would provide the cash for such a deal." Virtus has given Bryant "four contract options, stretching from the one-year deal to two-month and one-month options," plus a per-game deal of $739,640 per home game. All of the offers are "pretax and would allow Bryant to return to the Lakers immediately if the lockout ends" (AP, 9/23).

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On this week’s pod, SBJ’s Austin Karp has two Big Get interviews. The first is with Learfield's Cory Moss as he talks about his company’s collaboration on EA Sports College Football. Later in the show, we hear from MASN/ESPN baseball analyst Ben McDonald on how he sees the college and professional baseball scene shaking out. SBJ’s Adam Stern shares his thoughts on the upcoming Canelo-Mungia bout on Prime Video and DAZN.

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