Sonny Vaccaro says he believes Caitlin Clark might have gotten a a lot better deal from Nike — telling TMZ Sports activities he is positive the previous Iowa celebrity might’ve inked a pact just like the one Michael Jordan obtained again within the day.

The shoe business legend, after all, is aware of all in regards to the deal MJ obtained — he was the one who helped negotiate it. And, when he heard Clark solely obtained $28 million over eight years to be with Phil Knight‘s co., he was stunned it wasn’t extra.

Vaccaro tells us she might’ve landed a contract that not solely gave her extra annual cash — but additionally allowed her to take a reduce of each Clark-branded merchandise offered … identical to Jordan obtained along with his preliminary Swoosh settlement in 1984.

“She ought to have gotten a chunk of every part,” the 84-year-old stated, “identical to Michael Jordan.”

Vaccaro believes there have been loads of folks responsible — everybody from Clark’s reps … to different shoe firms who dropped out of the race and allowed Nike to come back in with what seemed to be on its face a company-friendly contract.

“I am saying to you,” he stated, “they tousled. They need to have held on to the final drop.”

Clark, although, would not appear too disenchanted … $28 mil, in any case, is a ton of coin — particularly contemplating she’s solely set to make $76,000 from her WNBA contract this season.

Frank Grillo‘s standing up for Sylvester Stallone … saying Sly by no means insulted any extras on the “Tulsa King” set — and the casting supervisor’s mendacity as a result of she did not do her job.

We caught up with Grillo — who’s starring in ‘TK’ season 2 — at LAX and he says he was on set the day Stallone allegedly launched a string of insults on the extras — he claims it by no means occurred.

Frank says he thinks casting sup., Rose Locke, obtained caught not doing her job correctly … including we’re dwelling in a time the place anybody can declare their emotions are damage, and ya gotta cope with it.

Stallone’s a gentleman and an absolute skilled, in response to Grillo … and says it is unhappy to see him compelled to reply to all these allegations.

Grillo says he is additionally caught up with Sly in latest days … and, it’s important to watch the clip to listen to his replace on how Stallone’s processing these claims.

As we reported … Rose Locke, former casting supervisor for “Tulsa King,” took to Fb to declare Stallone referred to as extras names together with “tub of lard’ and “fats man with a cane” — and demanding fairly younger ladies be introduced in to behave round him.

Director and Govt Producer of the Paramount+ sequence, Craig Zisk, advised TMZ these claims had been false … saying they wanted to shoot a scene in a hip, younger bar — and the extras did not meet the standards.

Zisk says they used the extras earlier than he texted Locke and demanded she ship headshots of future extras to him to look them over. After a brief forwards and backwards, Zisk claims Locke give up.

Kanye West‘s Yeezy Porn has a minimum of one well-known OnlyFans star prepared to speak turkey … ‘trigger Girthmasterr says he is a giant fan — and, if the star calls, he’ll definitely hear.

The large-time porn star says Kanye’s hit music, “Hey Mama,” impressed him, as a result of he needs to purchase his mother a home. He says his mother has labored her entire life to assist her youngsters … and, now Girthmasterr needs to pay her again by serving to her retire, and a collab with Ye may assist.

Talking of his mother, we requested Girthmasterr how she feels about her son doing porn … and based mostly on the clip, feels like she’s completely on board!

ICYMI … Girthmasterr’s blowing up on-line after revealing he makes between $40K and $80L a month on OnlyFans — with followers dashing to Pornhub to see his wine bottle-sized member.

Ye may use that sort of star energy in his new enterprise. We broke the story, Ye’s seeking to begin Yeezy Porn, a brand new grownup leisure studio — and, we’re advised it may open as quickly as summer time.

Stormy Daniels‘ ex-husband Mike Moz advised us he is collaborating on the challenge with Ye … and says it’s going to be in contrast to something we have ever seen earlier than.

Governor Kristi Noem‘s received social media customers howling with rage — ‘trigger she admitted to taking pictures and killing her personal canine … one thing she says needed to be executed.

South Dakota’s political chief tells the harrowing story in her upcoming memoir, “No Going Again: The Fact on What’s Unsuitable with Politics and How We Transfer America Ahead” … discussing farm life and detailing precisely why she says her younger wirehaired pointer needed to die.

The Guardian reviewed the guide and rehashed this unhappy chapter. KN owned a 14-month-old pup named Cricket with an untrainable and aggressive character, and did not turn into the most effective hunter both. After an tried hunt, she says she began driving again with Cricket … solely to make a cease at an area household’s house, with the canine attacking their chickens.

The canine apparently killed a few of the chickens and when Kristi tried to get it beneath management … the canine nipped at her … and that is when she realized she needed to put it down.

As you may think about, the outrage on X is fierce … many are blasting Noem for killing defenseless animals, whereas others are sharing pics of their canine in solidarity with Cricket.

Kristi’s not bothered although, responding to at least one outlet’s article by saying animals die on a regular basis on farms … and, encouraging supporters who wish to learn extra wild tales to purchase her new guide. Unclear if this story is gonna have an effect on Trump’s choice in presumably deciding on her.

Britney Spears has settled her authorized dispute along with her dad, Jamie Spears, and in a surprising flip of occasions, Jamie is not paying Britney a cent, however Britney is paying Jamie’s authorized payments … TMZ has realized.

Sources with direct data inform TMZ … the case has quietly settled and Britney is livid. We’re informed her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, assured her she had a stable case, however in the long run, she’s paying Jamie’s authorized payments which we’re informed quantity to greater than $2 million.

Thoughts you, Britney has paid Rosengart hundreds of thousands — we have been informed north of $4 million — however now Britney is deep within the gap over the case.

Rosengart had alleged Jamie mishandled and fleeced the property whereas he was her conservator for 13 years. Jamie and his staff led by legal professional, Alex Weingarten, have all the time been clear that he obtained each expenditure accepted by the conservatorship choose, so all the pieces was kosher.

Drake‘s making amends with Tupac‘s property, complying with the stop and desist calls for it made after he used an AI Tupac voice on his diss monitor, “Taylor Made Freestyle.”

Sources with direct data inform TMZ … Drake’s crew and representatives from Tupac’s property have had productive talks after the property despatched its C&D letter on Wednesday — and it is already led to critical progress.

Drake’s taken down the monitor from his Twitter and Instagram — the one locations he posted it — and, his crew is attempting to get it faraway from different websites that redistributed it.

Keep in mind … attorneys for Tupac’s property despatched out the letter blasting Drake for utilizing Pac’s voice in a Kendrick Lamar diss monitor .. earlier than setting a 24-hour deadline to take the track down and clarify what data they fed the AI generator.

That final half could be very fascinating … because it seems Pac’s camp is taking steps to higher perceive the entire AI course of — maybe to thwart the inevitable future makes an attempt to imitate his voice.

As for Drake … it appears he is taking all needed steps to keep away from litigation — and, the method is off to a great begin.

Two heads are higher than one — and, completely essential to experience within the carpool lane — however ya gotta make certain these heads are flesh and bone … and never plastic, like this one was.

One driver discovered that lesson the laborious means in Santa Fe Springs, CA — a suburb in L.A. County about 12 miles southeast of Downtown L.A. — when a California Freeway Patrol officer pulled them over … and found a dressed-up model within the passenger seat.

CHP Santa Fe Springs posted a pic of the plastic dummy Thursday to Instagram … and, we gotta hand it to the motive force — it is fairly dang lifelike, particularly from a distance.

Not a lot up shut although … which is what the CHP officer observed when he pulled them over. The motive force obtained busted for crossing over stable double traces on the freeway … and when the officer took a more in-depth look, he observed the dude was truly within the automotive by himself.

The CHP account joked the model’s goatee was slightly TOO sharp — and warned others to not strive the identical trick … as a result of perpetrators shall be caught and punished.

Regardless of the good-natured ribbing, CHP says its officer hit the motive force with a number of citations for the incident … so, most likely not price trying to smuggle a model out of Macy’s and into your automobile, no matter how convincing it might appear.

Diddy needs to dismiss among the claims in certainly one of his sexual assault instances … claiming he cannot be sued below legal guidelines that didn’t even exist on the time of the alleged incident.

In keeping with new docs, obtained by TMZ … Diddy’s attorneys are firing again at claims made by Joi Dickerson-Neal — a lady who filed a swimsuit in opposition to him in November claiming he drugged and sexually assaulted her again in 1991.

Joi filed six causes of motion in opposition to Diddy … and, now his workforce’s claiming she will’t sue him for a number of of these claims as a result of the legal guidelines did not exist when she says he assaulted her.

For instance, Dickerson-Neal’s suing Diddy below the New York Companies for Victims of Human Trafficking Regulation … which Diddy’s attorneys observe wasn’t in impact till 2007 — about 16 years after the incident came about.

Diddy’s additionally contesting her claims below the New York State Revenge Porn Regulation, codified in 2019, the New York Metropolis Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Regulation — handed in 2000 — and the 2016 NYC Revenge Porn Regulation.

Principally, Diddy’s attorneys are calling for claims below these legal guidelines to be dismissed with prejudice — although, in fact, they’re additionally sustaining their shopper didn’t commit the alleged acts in any respect, together with the sexual assault she claims to have endured at his arms.

Value noting … the attorneys aren’t making the identical argument in opposition to the primary two counts — frequent legislation claims for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery that don’t depend on particular statutes — as a result of the arguments concerning the timing of sure statutes being handed don’t apply to these claims … that are on the coronary heart of her case.