Ariel Helwani is launching a Showtime Basketball streaming show
"This is quite literally a dream come true for me."
"This is quite literally a dream come true for me."
"Good luck with the unbiased journalism."
"I can guarantee you, if it was any other sports owner, any other executive, he would be raked over the coals"
"I was ready to go for this show. Potentially both TV and radio, same time.”
"If you would have told that kid all these years later, 19 years later, that I would return as a correspondent..."
"All my goals were so I could make some money, and hopefully get my family some freedom. The kicking aspect just ended up being the right one."
Why would ESPN not go higher? Well, it's complicated.
"I want to let you know that there's no hard feelings here."
"I love how Ariel Helwani made it all about him. It was all about him. Such a douche."
Helwani gave a passionate speech about what he thinks the Raptors' win meant to Canada.
"Now, what has happened is Disney sees 'Oh, there's money to be made in MMA,' and Disney's buying everything, and ESPN's buying everything, and now we're telling you that the violence is okay. It wasn't okay before, but now the violence is okay, and now we sell it to you with ESPN+."
Helwani told AA how his once-strong relationship with White is now "non-existent."