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Jillian Braverman

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Jillian Braverman

@jillybpb

Pro Pickleball Player | National Champion | Former Tech CEO | Podcaster

Joined May 2023

Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
Ten months after the blockbuster “$75 Million” merger between Major League Pickleball (Lebron James, Tom Brady, Anheuser-Busch) and Tom Dundon’s (Carvana, Top Golf) backed PPA Tour, the new entity (the UPA) needs an emergency bridge loan of $10mm by January 15 to meet its.....
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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The only thing for certain in 2025? You guessed it. More drama.
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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financial obligations. At the same time the bridge loan request was sent to MLP team owners, and not without irony, the UPA announced via press release “PRO PICKLEBALL CONTINUES TO EXPLODE: PPA TOUR AND MAJOR LEAGUE PICKLEBALL HAVE BEST YEAR EVER IN 2024” citing that female...
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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pickleball players make more than WNBA players and pickleball on Fox outperformed an MLS Cup broadcast. Can I ask kind of an awkward question? What exactly is going on here? Maybe we should rewind to last December when the two-year long war between MLP & PPA ended with an uneasy
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Jillian Braverman
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Dec 1, 2023
Was it something I said? @PPAtour @Pickleball @MajorLeaguePB
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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Sources report the amount was closer to $35mm, with 2024 year-end cash totaling only $2-4mm. So, will the UPA survive 2025? Or will it be Pickleball’s Fyre Fest: a gorgeous, celebrity-laden, deliciously decadent, soon-to-be relic unless a change of leadership...
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Jillian Braverman
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Nov 17, 2023
Today (finally), @PickleProLabs starts equipment testing @PPAtour events and Anna Leigh Waters withdraws from singles and Irina Tereschenko loses 0-11 first round and then withdraws down 0-2. #truthwins #paddletek #pickleball
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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merger between the frenemies. Inherited in the merger was $30mm in annual player salary debt—driven up in a war over players between MLP & PPA pre-merger. On the road to the merger, MLP asked its players to take 40% salary reductions, whereas Dundon’s players (PPA) took little to
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Jillian Braverman
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Apr 18, 2024
Fresh JOOLA Gen 3 paddles bought on-site at PB central tent failing testing at PPA Los Cab. (He’ll get his money back though) #pickleball
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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no reductions; a player’s coalition was formed and attorneys were hired; famous and unfamous team owners alike opposed the merger, then got behind it after Dundon promised to backstop team valuations up to $4mm/team (two teams immediately took him up on this, one owned by...
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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Meanwhile, quietly chugging along is the ever-underrated Intersport-owned APP professional pickleball tour which, by the way, is profitable (weirdos!) and currently “hosting more pros than any other tour in the world”.
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Jillian Braverman
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Nov 28, 2023
MLP players have been asked to reduce their next year’s salaries by 40%. PPA players have not been asked yet. Will they? Few things: 1.) Aren’t there collusion / anti-trust issues with this? 2.) Like we said on our last pod, players need to leverage collective bargaining ASAP.
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
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billionaire Marc Lasry and the other Brené Brown, who exited quickly and quietly). Finally, the merger closed in February of 2024—with each MLP team owner reportedly signing a hold-harmless releasing Dundon from any future liability or litigation. Perhaps Dundon learned something
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Jillian Braverman
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Jan 2, 2025
Breaking: PPA & MLP have burned through their cash from the merger and are in need of $10mm bridge loan by January 15. @Pickleball
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