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According to Telfair, he made around $19 to $20 million, but his net earnings were much lower. “I played 10 years, you said I made 20 (million). We all know about Uncle Sam, so what’s that? 10 (million). That’s about a million a year. That ain’t no money,” Telfair told Ryan Clark, Channing Crowder, and Fred Taylor. “That’s the real truth. The real truth is I ain’t really make no money. I really ain’t make no money.” “So, people like, ‘Oh, I don’t understand how you go crazy,’ so I’m like, ‘I ain’t make no Floyd Mayweather money. I ain’t make the type of money where I’mma go crazy because I don’t have it today,” Telfair continued.
The 25-year-old appeared on the latest episode of podcast The Pivot, where he was asked by former NFL star Fred Taylor about his outspokenness on WNBA players receiving equal pay to those in the NBA. Around the 35-minute mark in the video below, Porter suggests that women basketball players are incomparable to men because of their smaller fanbase. "I see from both sides. I know these females want to get paid more, and they’re very talented. But so is a famous ping-pong player," Porter says. "Like, the best ping pong player is just as talented as the best NBA player. That doesn’t mean that they’re going to get paid the same because it’s what the people wanna watch."

Bridges discussed several topics on the show with podcast hosts and former NFL players Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor and Channing Crowder with one being the firing of Suns coach Monty Williams. “He’s going to get through it,” Bridges said. “He knows he’s a hell of a coach. He probably knows about the situation. Me personally, I say Monty is not the problem, but who am I?”