Tristan Thompson apparently received a significant help in touchdown a gig at ESPN earlier this yr from none apart from his ex’s mother, Kris Jenner.
Throughout this week’s episode of Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” Jenner revealed she helped Thompson get a job as an NBA analyst on the “NBA Right now” staff in January.
“Initially, recognize you, serving to make this all occur,” Thompson mentioned to Jenner whereas discussing his ESPN gig at one level within the episode. He added, “Thanks, you made it occur.”
Jenner then mentioned her function in getting Thompson the job in a confessional.
“I used to be capable of attain out to ABC/Disney and actually specific how proficient I believed Tristan was,” she mentioned. “And the way they might actually profit from him being part of the ESPN staff, for instance.”
Thompson complimented Jenner for mastering the “artwork of negotiating.”
“Effectively, when it’s that simple it’s a number of enjoyable,” the Kardashian-Jenner matriarch responded.
Thompson was later signed to the Los Angeles Lakers forward of the NBA playoffs in April. He then signed a one-year contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers final month.
The NBA participant has two youngsters together with his ex, Khloé Kardashian: daughter True, 5, and son Tatum, 1. He additionally shares a 1-year-old boy with mannequin Maralee Nichols, and a 6-year-old son together with his ex, Jordan Craig.
Thompson obtained a number of reward for his parenting expertise from members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan throughout the first three episodes the present season of “The Kardashians.”
Final week, Craig’s sister, Kai, took to Instagram to name out the NBA participant after Kim Kardashian was filmed celebrating his involvement in her household’s lives within the second episode of the season.
Kai accused Thompson of ignoring his oldest son, Prince, who she claimed he “by no means sees or speaks to.”
“[Tristan] you’re NOT father should you can’t be father to ALL of your kids,” she wrote within the since-deleted put up.
