President Trump to attend Game 3 of NBA Finals
Pak Gazette’ Kayleigh McEnany reports on President Donald Trump’s plans to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City. Trump, a lifelong Knicks fan, was personally invited by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who expressed excitement about the president’s attendance and noted shared interests. The segment also notes President Trump’s presence at multiple major sporting events during his term and his plans to host a UFC fight at the White House on June 14.
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There’s a lot of talk about whether MLB needs to adopt a salary cap, and now President Donald Trump is weighing in on the matter.
And he’s pretty firm in the salary cap camp.
OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske asked the president about MLB’s current situation aboard Air Force One.
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“If you don’t have a salary cap, you don’t have a sport,” Trump said. “They can’t help themselves. In sports, they can’t help themselves. Football has a salary cap.”
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Not only does the NFL have a salary cap, so do the NHL and NBA, leaving MLB as the only one of North America’s four major professional sports leagues without one.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on his way to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images))
“They should have done it a long time ago,” the president said. “I know so much about sports that I should have done it a long time ago.”
Trump then mentioned his administration’s efforts to enact laws related to NIL, something he compared to a salary cap in professional leagues, and noted that major schools are losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
“You can’t allow that,” he said. “No one can afford it.”
The president returned to baseball.
“Major League Baseball is shocking, frankly, that they didn’t put a cap in place years ago,” he said. “They had an opportunity to make a stop and they blew it.”
MLB players want to raise the payroll floor, challenge cheap owners and reshape the salary cap debate before the collective bargaining agreement expires in December 2026. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
MLB and the MLBPA are in the early stages of collective bargaining talks, and the first proposal for any type of salary cap came this week.
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The league proposed a salary cap of $245.3 million for 2027.
This season, the league’s highest Opening Day payroll belonged to the Los Angeles Dodgers at $415.2 million, while the lowest belonged to the Miami Marlins at $81.8 million.
