Follow The Money | July 24, 2026 | Hour 1

**Mitch Moss** (0:05)
This is Follow The Money with Mitch Moss and Pauly Howard on VSiN.

**Pauly Howard** (0:11)
Yes, Follow The Money, Pauly and JJ, VSiN, eSports, Betty Network, big program coming up.
Always live downtown in Circa, where all the fun goes on. Adam Aaronson, voice of Philly coming up. 10 minutes on the big news. Brian Geltziler also will talk some college football with Tim Murray and Chris Vannini. JJ, I can't believe it. I'm stunned on the 24th day of indecision. And what's going to be his 24th year, not a one year, but a two year deal to go to Philly. The king goes to Philadelphia. Kenny Pickett makes more money the upcoming season than LeBron James. He was 8.9% on Cal she.
He was 12.1% at Draft Kings.
The only person I heard that had this and was strong on it was Joe House, that he would wind up in Philadelphia. I don't understand where all the golden state money was coming from. They still remain the third choice at Draft Kings and Cal she threw out, even though not once, not twice, but three times, Shams said they were out and were not in the running to get LeBron. He goes to Philadelphia and the big movement now, it was only about ten minutes, but they were as low as plus 250 to win the East at Draft Kings. They're now plus 340 to win the East, eight, nine to one to win the title, two to one to win the division behind the champs, the Knicks. And a perfect guy to talk to, Mr. New Yorker, what you think is their gunning and Brad Stevens opened the door. The ridiculous trait, you blow a 3-1 series lead to your rival, then you trade Brown. They were not even on LeBron's radar. You get Brown July 1st. That's a big reason why he goes to Philadelphia today in a stunning move.

**Adam Aaronson** (2:01)
No question about it. First of all, Pauly, I love the fact that I'm here with you, and we finally have the news once and for all.
When I got the notification on Twitter, I had to do a double take. I had to make sure I didn't get duped, because there are so many of these fake accounts out there. I'm basically expecting the worst. My first reaction is, holy smokes, not Cleveland, not Miami, Philly.
But if you peel back the layers here, and if you try to figure out why Philadelphia and LeBron James is going to end up being a match made in heaven for the next two years, it's pretty simple. Because to me, Pauly, out of these four destinations, Philadelphia gives him the best chance to win. That's just the reality of the situation. Cleveland has a bunch of losing players on their team, and there are no relationships between LeBron James and Donovan Mitchell. Then you look at the Miami situation, where is the shooting coming from? LeBron needs shooters alongside Giannis to go and have success. Miami, not exactly in the position to go and get them because, hey, they just gave up so much to get Giannis to begin with. And then there was this fantasy of all LeBron and Steff joining forces in Golden State. The problem with that is that team doesn't have a prayer of taking down Oklahoma City or taking down Wembee in the San Antonio Spurs. So I think LeBron said, hey, minimum money. I have a relationship with Maxey because he's a clutch guy and he's a stud. Edgecombe, really nice young player. They go in edge, Jalen Brown. I haven't even mentioned Joel Embiid, who now is a luxury for this basketball team. Listen, they're going to be really, really good. They're going to be super versatile. They're going to be outstanding defensively.
That said, though, as somebody that lives here in the Big Apple, Pauly, I am relishing the possibility of the defending champs. My beloved New York Knicks, who took care of me a couple of months ago with a 1501 ticket, nothing would make me Pauly Howard than sending LeBron James into the retirement home, a loser.

**Pauly Howard** (4:05)
Yep.

**Adam Aaronson** (4:05)
And a city loser, after hopefully my Knicks can go and take them down. And I'm telling you right now, if they match up in a seven game series, I'll take the champs any day in a week and twice again on Sunday.

**Pauly Howard** (4:17)
It's going to be a tough fit, because you got four big guys. Now you look, and four of the five guys averaged 21 a game last year, and then you got Edgecombe with 16 a game. But Brown wants all his shots, there's only one basketball, and Bede, listen, there's no way he's going to last three or four series. He can't do it. He's played 57 games the last two years.