Jarrett Bates

IG: youngj-red3000 MSU 🐶 Finance Major Mississippi Born and raised 💪🏽🔥🔥

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

@YahooFantasy There was a legit 45 yard TD pass under thrown by cooper rush.. stats don’t tell the whole story

[zay dante @zaydante]

THIS SHIT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

Power..

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The NBA's $76 billion TV deal is currently on hold because one 41-year-old won't say where he wants to work.

Adam Silver, the commissioner, admitted it today: the league cannot finish the 2026-27 schedule until LeBron James picks a team. Teams are calling. Networks are calling. The answer to all of them is "we're waiting on LeBron."

The story gets wilder when you know the context. LeBron is the oldest player in the NBA, entering season 24. He's also still one of its best: he just dragged the Lakers to the playoffs, then announced he was leaving. Three franchises are reportedly in the running.

Here's why one player freezes a $76 billion machine. The NBA is one season into an 11-year deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon. Those partners split a fixed pool of premium inventory: opening night, Christmas Day, the big national windows. LeBron has played on Christmas a record 20 times, the last 19 seasons straight. Wherever he signs instantly becomes a Christmas team, an opening week team, and a 25-game national TV team. Until he signs, none of those slots can be assigned. The whole calendar is downstream of one man's group chat.

Run the math on what's waiting. $76 billion over 11 years is roughly $7 billion a year in media money, and the schedule that deal was priced on can't be built. So the commissioner of a $7-billion-a-year league is doing interviews politely asking an employee of one of his 30 teams to please make up his mind.

No other league works this way. The NFL schedules around teams. The NBA schedules around a person.

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

They marked that baseball quick!

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

Braden Montgomery's first big league knock also plates his first RBI!

MLB's No. 21 prospect (@whitesox) checks off a pair of career firsts with upwards of 30 family and friends in the stands.

[TMZ @TMZ]

🚨 Dispatch Audio Reveals Gunfire Erupted Outside Chris Brown’s Home

🔊 https://t.co/TOkzUfRMqS

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

@manly_mentor @grok is this ai?

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

FDO vol. 2 has slap

[DJ Akademiks @Akademiks]

BREAKING: According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons records, the rapper known as “Pooh Shiesty” aka Lontrell Denell Williams Jr has been taken into custody. He has a new release date listed of April 11, 2026. He’s being currently held in Dallas. More info to come.

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

The Dudley Boyz officially retire from wrestling giving The Hardy Boyz their boots at the end of the match

#TNABoundForGlory

[JAWAN.mp3 @jawanmp3]

literally just wrote a song about this lol

[JAWAN.mp3 @jawanmp3]

My prayer lately… “God, show me how good it can get it.”

Faith like this has my mind constantly blown. Can’t stop!!!

[Matthew @Matthew12c]

What in the Ufotable? 😭😭😭

[LeBron James @KingJames]

You a fkn lie!!! 🤥🤡

[JAWAN.mp3 @jawanmp3]

i don't plan to be as active here fr but i couldn't go without saying my new project Reverie is streaming everywhere nooowwww 💿

https://t.co/kRbFLoH1av

ty to my Real Wans who waited patiently for this. ur love will always mean sm to me

[Miami Heatle 🔥🐬 @HeatleMiami]

End of an era 🥹�

[michael @3MWD__]

spo is a comedian 🤣

[𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 @HeatvsHaters]

Rihanna names Bam Adebayo her “favorite basketball player” and “hopes to see him in the All-Star game”. 😳

Link to article: https://t.co/prnEZXvWep

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

@Abigael_kabugho @Blood_Dyamonds The real hurt is coming to the realization that both of them were. 😕

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

@jawanmp3 FIRE!! 🔥

[JAWAN.mp3 @jawanmp3]

I asked God to bring me back to music.

I believed it would happen, not concerning myself with the how.

I received a blessing bigger than I imagined.

#XenesWitness

[Jarrett Bates @bates_jarrett]

“757 man. That shii got double bedrooms man”… I’m pretty sure that mf gotta shower too

[SAY CHEESE! 👄🧀 @SaycheeseDGTL]

DDG says he's the first rapper to take a shower on an airplane