Thompson said the reality TV mogul has “mastered” the “art of negotiating” after she “made a couple of calls” to the network

Kris Jenner, Tristan Thompson. PHOTO: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY; GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY

Kris Jenner is the ultimate momager.

On Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the 67-year-old reality television mogul revealed that she had a hand in her daughter Khloé Kardashian’s ex Tristan Thompson landing a gig as a commentator at ESPN.

Jenner praised Thompson, 32, for having “worked out this rhythm” with Kardashian, 39, as the exes co-parent their children, True, 5, and Tatum, who was born in Aug. 2022. “Wherever he’s needed, he’s running the kids around, he’s doing the errands,” Jenner said of the NBA player during the episode.

Thompson told Jenner, “Everything’s been great. You know, ESPN, obviously, I appreciate you, helping make this all happen,” during the episode.

Currently a player on the Cleveland Cavaliers roster, Thompson said his ex’s mother “made a couple of calls and made it happen,” adding that she has “mastered” the “art of negotiating” during the conversation.

Jenner explained, “I was able to reach out to Disney and ABC, and express how talented I thought Tristan was and how they would benefit from him being part of the ESPN team.”

Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Tristan Thompson. GETTY(3)

What’s more, Jenner’s pull with the network landed Thompson the gig almost immediately. “This is a dream. The fact that we could have that call on Friday and they asked if you could start on Monday, that never happens to anyone,” Jenner said.

The mother of six added, “When it’s that easy, it’s fun for me. It is so rewarding for me.”

Viewers also saw an emotional conversation about the athlete’s younger brother Amari Thompson. between Thompson and Kardashian on Thursday’s episode.

As the Good American founder explained in the episode, 17-year-old Amari lives with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which has left him wheelchair-bound and requiring around-the-clock support.

After Tristan and Amari’s mom Andrea died in January, Tristan became his brother’s legal guardian. Kardashian has also been involved with the teen’s day-to-day care, especially while he and Tristan were living with her amid Tristan’s home renovation.

Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian attend the Klutch Sports Group “More Than A Game” Dinner Presented by Remy Martin at Beauty & Essex on February 17, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.JERRITT CLARK/GETT

“There’s no playbook, there’s no rule book,” the mother of two said in a confessional of Amari’s condition. “We don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And I say ‘we’ because I am on all of the medical stuff for Amari.”

Though it’s been a challenging experience for her, Kardashian admitted that she felt somewhat prepared to step into this caretaker role after her ex-husband Lamar’s near-fatal overdose in a Las Vegas brothel in 2015.

She told Thompson, “With my ex-husband, when he was in his coma, some of the doctors were like, ‘He can’t hear, he’s brain-damaged.’ I would play music that I knew he liked and I would just always talk to him. And then when he was able to talk, he would say, ‘I heard everything you would say, I would try to talk to you,’ and I was like, ‘I knew it!’ So who knows how much Amari knows?”

Mother Andrea Thompson, NBA Player Tristan Thompson and brother Amari Thompson attend The Amari Thompson Soiree in support of Epilepsy Toronto at The Globe and Mail Centre on August 9, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY

Since Andrea was Amari’s primary guardian, Tristan requested sole legal guardianship of his younger brother on Sept. 8, claiming their father, Trevor Thompson, had been absent from Amari’s life since 2014 and Tristan was Amari’s closest living family member. He was eventually granted temporary guardianship of Amari a few weeks later.

The two now live in a home in Hidden Hills together, following a brief stay at Kardashian’s home after Tristan’s house was damaged by extreme weather.