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EYL #163 High School Basketball League Pays Teens Six Figures · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: You as a player, knowing that at seventeen you got
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  Speaker 3: that many people watching you and your brothers perform, what's
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  Speaker 3: that like? Because I'm thinking about the NFL combine and
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  Speaker 3: the NBA combine. These are like juniors and seniors and
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  Speaker 3: some freshmen in college and they fold under pressure. What
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  Speaker 3: was it like as a seventeen year old going through that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they told us they were gonna be there,
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  Speaker 4: you know when we first came, they sure, that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be there.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, we've been putting the work in.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you might get a little nerves,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, you know what you're here for and
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  Speaker 4: where your goals are. So just being out there and
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  Speaker 4: we all compete, it went hard. You know, just try
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  Speaker 4: to put on the show in front of them.
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  Speaker 2: My graduates from my school being forced.
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  Speaker 5: Back drop b drop, Mike, drop back drop drop.
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  Speaker 6: All right, guys, welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: E y l.
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  Speaker 6: This is a very special episode for us.
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  Speaker 7: We're gonna get busy. Yeah, this is this is a
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  Speaker 7: big one. So this is a home for you on
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  Speaker 7: the court. Well, yeah, flashback.
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  Speaker 6: If you don't know, I was a stellar basketball player.
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  Speaker 3: Because they were count how many times you would say
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  Speaker 3: that that episode.
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  Speaker 8: And so this is one before I became a journalist,
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  Speaker 8: I played basketball, So this is right up my alley.
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  Speaker 6: So over time, elite.
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  Speaker 8: When I first heard of this idea, I think my
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  Speaker 8: man Greg Barnett might have told me about this, and
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  Speaker 8: it was super interesting to me when I first heard
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  Speaker 8: about it, and then we posted it on social media
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  Speaker 8: a while back, and the social media thing got a lot,
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  Speaker 8: a lot of traction.
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  Speaker 6: So I'll explain.
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  Speaker 8: It, but we're gonna have a detailed conversation, but first
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  Speaker 8: let me just give some backstory. So this is a
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  Speaker 8: revolutionary idea where they have a high school.
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  Speaker 6: Pro league in a sense.
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  Speaker 8: Where high school kids from all over the country, actually
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  Speaker 8: all over the world have come to Atlanta and there's
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  Speaker 8: three teams and they get I'm saying right.
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  Speaker 6: Now, they get paid to play.
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  Speaker 8: And where in this facility it looks like an NBA arena,
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  Speaker 8: Like it's.
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  Speaker 7: Super Elite is the appropriate title for.
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  Speaker 8: This training facility. They got apartments, they got a school
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  Speaker 8: inside the actual facility.
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  Speaker 6: They got Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: Alia, national championship coach of Yukon.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, So it's a super revolutionary idea.
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  Speaker 7: Oh Ryan Gomes last night two Providence Star. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So it's it's really combining the business side of sports
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  Speaker 8: with the professional side of sports, with high school education
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  Speaker 8: all mixed and blended in one. So we have the
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  Speaker 8: honor of speaking with Aaron Ryan, who's actually the commissioner,
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  Speaker 8: and then Bryson Warren, who is one of the star players.
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  Speaker 7: This is the first.
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  Speaker 3: This is gonna be our first high school the pro
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  Speaker 3: talent to ever touched you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, what's saying it now? Remember to pa remember the name.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, speaking in to existence first and foremost gentlemen, Thank
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  Speaker 8: you for joining us, appreciate.
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  Speaker 2: It, Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you not no problem. So all right, let's get
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  Speaker 6: into this.
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  Speaker 8: So Bryson, all right, I just gave my Well, actually,
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  Speaker 8: before I go to you, Bryson, I want to get
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  Speaker 8: it from Aaron. Aaron, can we get the backstory on this?
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  Speaker 8: How did this start? And how did you get involved?
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  Speaker 8: Because you was actually in the NBA for twenty two years,
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  Speaker 8: so you were on a professional at the highest level.
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  Speaker 8: So how did you come back and get involved with
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  Speaker 8: the high school again but on a professional level.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, what's amazing about this entire journey is that
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  Speaker 9: over Time Sports Media Company has been really researching this
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  Speaker 9: for the last sixteen months. In fact, they held an
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  Speaker 9: event about a year and a half ago in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 9: called the Takeover, and they brought in fifteen of the
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  Speaker 9: best boys and girls in elite basketball. And they not
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  Speaker 9: only brought in these young people, but they brought their
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  Speaker 9: families in and they had this amazing event over one
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  Speaker 9: hundred and twenty million in video views, an incredible celebration
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  Speaker 9: of the game at dunk content contests, three point shootout.
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  Speaker 9: But they spent a lot of time with these families
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  Speaker 9: in New York and they ask them questions about what
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  Speaker 9: are the challenges of elite basketball, of being a parent,
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  Speaker 9: of being in a support network, but.
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  Speaker 2: Even for the athletes themselves.
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  Speaker 9: And three things came out of that discovery, and they
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  Speaker 9: actually went into researching those which is equal access to
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  Speaker 9: the best skilled development in this country is.
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  Speaker 2: Not there.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, you find that eighty to eighty five percent
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  Speaker 9: of the best players in this country end up transferring
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  Speaker 9: high schools by their sophomore year just to find the
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  Speaker 9: right coaches, the right skills, the right development opportunity. The
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  Speaker 9: second thing is once you start moving around like that,
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  Speaker 9: your education is disrupted, your home life is disrupted because
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  Speaker 9: you're probably moving away from home. And so the notion
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  Speaker 9: that there was a need for customized education was also something.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, you think about prodigies and other aspects of sports,
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  Speaker 9: and art. Whether you're a violinist, whether you're a tennis player,
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  Speaker 9: whether you're a golfer, you get customized. In fact, you
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  Speaker 9: usually get homeschooled, so customize academics. And then the third
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  Speaker 9: thing is economic empowerment. These young people have value today
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  Speaker 9: and what a lot of adults and a lot of
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  Speaker 9: institutions will tell them is you'll get your turn to
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  Speaker 9: monetize this, but you have to wait. You have to
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  Speaker 9: wait till we get ours. And so we heard that
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  Speaker 9: loud and clear. And so what was inspiring for me
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  Speaker 9: coming from the NBA is we were in this conversation
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  Speaker 9: fifteen years ago at the league. We were sitting around
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  Speaker 9: table with the NCAA, the NBA, the sneaker companies, like
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  Speaker 9: what can we do to better shepherd the next generation
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  Speaker 9: athlete to be prepared for the NBA and the adversity.
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  Speaker 9: And so for me, joining this was like I was
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  Speaker 9: hearing something that I had already been talking about.
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  Speaker 2: What the realities.
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  Speaker 9: I had found an organization that had the courage and
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  Speaker 9: the capital and the audience to really take this on.
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  Speaker 8: So all right, this is something that's extremely interesting. Was
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  Speaker 8: for years, people have been criticized in NCUBA or making
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  Speaker 8: billions of dollars from athletes, but the athletes never got
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  Speaker 8: any money.
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  Speaker 7: This is an ongoing thing for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 8: Athletes actually are able to get paid, but you guys
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  Speaker 8: are actually skipping the whole process of college by paying
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  Speaker 8: athletes while they're in high school.
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  Speaker 6: Right, So let's get into this.
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  Speaker 8: So, yeah, they get paid, They get paid, right, And
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  Speaker 8: I guess the minimum is one hundred thousand dollars, that's correct.
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  Speaker 6: What's the maximum?
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  Speaker 9: Well, listen, there's a varying sort of salary structure in
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  Speaker 9: what we do. But what's important to realize is we're
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  Speaker 9: not just talking about direct salary. We're talking about the
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  Speaker 9: entire compensation package. First, let's just talk about expensibatement. Right,
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  Speaker 9: we pay for everything. Rison doesn't pay for his food,
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  Speaker 9: his lodging, his transportation, anything. And in fact, beyond that,
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  Speaker 9: not only does he get a salary, but he gets
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  Speaker 9: performance bonuses around participation and being great partners with us.
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  Speaker 9: He also has opportunities beyond that, so we share in revenue.
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  Speaker 9: Examples being Rison has a trading card that he's participating in,
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  Speaker 9: and he gets royalties on his jersey. If we do
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  Speaker 9: a video game deal, he gets access to that revenue
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  Speaker 9: as well. He also has the opportunity in a number
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  Speaker 9: of categories to monetize independent of us. And so what
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  Speaker 9: we're talking about is an entire package that also includes equity.
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  Speaker 9: And Bryce and I just had a conversation about this yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, all twenty six of the guys who were
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  Speaker 9: here yesterday we sat around a room and talked about
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  Speaker 9: our partnership. I said to them, you know, I've been
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  Speaker 9: in this industry for I've been in this industry for
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  Speaker 9: twenty four years actually, and never have I received equity
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  Speaker 9: from any of the organizations that I've.
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  Speaker 2: Worked for until now.
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  Speaker 9: So I waited twenty four years to get a piece
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  Speaker 9: of a company. And Bryson's been at this for about
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  Speaker 9: four and a half months and he's already getting a piece.
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  Speaker 2: So I wanted them to understand the power partnership.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing, right, because when I was reasing the business model,
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk about the player performance. So based
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  Speaker 3: on how they play, they can actually receiveesses based on
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  Speaker 3: their performance.
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  Speaker 7: Number one and number two.
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  Speaker 3: You have twenty four to thirty guys, and I said
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  Speaker 3: twenty six, Now, what's the selection process to getting the
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  Speaker 3: athletes here. I mean, there's plenty of talented kids throughout
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  Speaker 3: the country. How do we hone in on these are
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  Speaker 3: the twenty four or the thirty that we want.
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  Speaker 9: Well, let's start with your first With your first question,
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  Speaker 9: which was around performance. The way we define performance is
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  Speaker 9: performance as partners in the entire business. It's about showing up.
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  Speaker 9: It's about building elite habits. It's about being here for
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  Speaker 9: your teammates, being here for our organization, being a part
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  Speaker 9: of our overtime elite community each and every single day.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 9: He's an employee, So it's about expectations for all of us.
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  Speaker 9: They have expectations on me, our investors have expectations of
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  Speaker 9: us holistically, and so his performance bonus is based on
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  Speaker 9: total performance, not just necessarily what's on the cart.
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  Speaker 8: So like coming to class on time, is grades a
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  Speaker 8: part of it as well.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we have a customer education here, which is
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  Speaker 9: something like that. I mean, the reality of is we
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  Speaker 9: assess each and every athlete to see where they're at.
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  Speaker 9: And our learning facilitators and we call them learning facilitators
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  Speaker 9: versus teachers for a reason. They facilitate learning. In fact,
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  Speaker 9: Bryson and his teammates are a part of the process.
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  Speaker 2: But what it's not.
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  Speaker 9: It's self paced learning, which is we will ensure through
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  Speaker 9: this program that not only will you leave here with
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  Speaker 9: a high school diploma, but we will teach you around
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  Speaker 9: about life skills that actually are going to prepare you
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  Speaker 9: for your trade, which is becoming a pro basketball player.
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  Speaker 9: So things like financial literacy, things like public speaking, things
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  Speaker 9: like social media etiquette, and strategy.
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  Speaker 2: The business of basketball.
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  Speaker 9: What goes into turning a game, a fun hobby into
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  Speaker 9: a business.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting because before we started, I asked Bryson, I said,
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  Speaker 3: is this your first interview?
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  Speaker 7: And he was like, nah, So I want to get
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  Speaker 7: to you.
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  Speaker 3: What has this experience been like with this customized education
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  Speaker 3: Because I come from education and it was like English, math, Science,
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  Speaker 3: social studies, FISAD. You have to do that and then
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  Speaker 3: you get an elective, but you're learning life skills and
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  Speaker 3: you learn the financial literacy. What has it been like
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  Speaker 3: for you as a student.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: It's definitely different, which I like because it's more towards like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, life, you know, with basketball, you know life
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  Speaker 4: after like like English, you know, we're talking about speeches,
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  Speaker 4: how to give speeches. You know what to do with
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  Speaker 4: words to say, but words not to say. And like
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  Speaker 4: even in nutritional science, we're talking about what type of
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  Speaker 4: foods we could get. You know, we want to gain weight,
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  Speaker 4: and may we want to lose weight. So everything you
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  Speaker 4: know is geared towards basketball and just life.
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  Speaker 6: So right, so let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 8: Coming out of Arkansas, I believe you was the player
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  Speaker 8: of the year as a sophomore, right, first first ever
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  Speaker 8: to do that, that's her Just so obviously you know
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  Speaker 8: you have a right, you have a right.
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  Speaker 6: Future ahead of you.
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  Speaker 8: But by coming here, you're giving up your college eligibility,
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  Speaker 8: right did you your parents? Was that something that kind
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  Speaker 8: of worried you? Were you scared about that?
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  Speaker 4: No, me and my dad, ever since about seventh grade,
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  Speaker 4: we've always said, you want to go straight to the league.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't want to go to college.
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  Speaker 4: So with this popping up, it was like a blessing,
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  Speaker 4: like this is what we were looking for and now
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  Speaker 4: just here, I'm just blessed to be a part of
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  Speaker 4: this and you know, keep my dreams and keep working
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  Speaker 4: and go to the league.
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  Speaker 5: So now I was never nervous. I was just you know, happy.
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  Speaker 3: So your minimum salary is one hundred thousand. I'm be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you, it took me ten years of teaching
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  Speaker 3: to one hundred thousand. So how attended? If are you
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  Speaker 3: inside of these financial literacy classes? What are you learning
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  Speaker 3: about now that you've had this salary that most Americans
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  Speaker 3: don't make, especially in education.
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  Speaker 7: But you're here now, So what is that like inside
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  Speaker 7: of those classes?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we've been with North Rock a lot, so they've
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  Speaker 4: just been telling us the fundamentals of you know, of
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  Speaker 4: money and right now just working on building our circle,
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  Speaker 4: keeping the circle small, just you know who you you know,
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  Speaker 4: choosing in your circle. Like for me, I've already been
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  Speaker 4: doing that. So like I'm big on giving back. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, me and my circle, I've actually got an
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  Speaker 4: AAU team now Brice and United back in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 5: Just get you back to.
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  Speaker 4: Them, back to them so you know, just helping them.
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  Speaker 4: That's me and my circle. You know, that's how we
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do. So, yeah, that's that's a big Aaron.
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  Speaker 4: You had mentioned they have they have equity. Can you
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  Speaker 4: explain that? Like how what kind of equity stake do
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  Speaker 4: they have? Like can you get some details on that?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I can tell you that every employee at Overtime
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  Speaker 9: has has equity in the company, and just like a
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  Speaker 9: lot of companies, they want us all vested in you
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  Speaker 9: in the future of the company. And so why does
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  Speaker 9: that have to stop at just the adults who operate
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  Speaker 9: the business. It should be included that these young men
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  Speaker 9: are part of that.
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  Speaker 8: So if this company goes public or something like that,
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  Speaker 8: they'll be early equity shareholders.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, well we'll we'll we'll all see the benefits
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 9: And that's why that's why we're so that's why we're
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  Speaker 9: so passionate about building it the right way.
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel about that, Brycon.
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  Speaker 4: That's good men, Me and my teammates, my brothers, we
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  Speaker 4: all know that everything we do, you know, where like
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  Speaker 4: we're share hull, is in the company. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: we always gotta be positive, you know, keep a clean
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  Speaker 4: image because we know whatever we do is affecting the company.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, we're always we're always un notice I.
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  Speaker 9: Mean, can we just stop right here, right We've talked
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  Speaker 9: about circles, We've talked.
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  Speaker 2: About giving back.
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  Speaker 9: The young man has his own team and he understands partnership,
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  Speaker 9: and so even this interview is a part of the
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  Speaker 9: learning experience everything we do. I mean, Bryson joined me
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  Speaker 9: for a partnership pitch this week as well, some of
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  Speaker 9: his other some of his other teammates did as well.
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  Speaker 9: And so every moment is a teaching moment at Overtime
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  Speaker 9: Elite and that's that's what that's what, that's what really
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  Speaker 9: gets me up every morning and really inspired by what
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  Speaker 9: we do, what we're doing.
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  Speaker 8: So all right, So it started with an eighty million
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  Speaker 8: dollar I think investment from a variety of different investors,
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  Speaker 8: some well known investors Drake Jeff Bezos, I heard of him,
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  Speaker 8: and I believe like twenty four NBA players, right, Carmelo, Anthony.
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  Speaker 3: Darren Fox, Trey Young, Trey Young, Palgosol Internationals.
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  Speaker 8: So all right, when overtime and if wayd anybody that
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  Speaker 8: is not familiar with overtime, Overtime is a platform, a
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  Speaker 8: sports platform, right.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's the next generation sports media company. This
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  Speaker 9: is about building community between the next generation's athlete, creator
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  Speaker 9: and fan and it's a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We call it a community for a reason because it
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  Speaker 2: is not all outbound.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, we know our first our first weekend, we
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  Speaker 9: had twenty four million views on on Bryson's first game.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, he hit a game winner in overtime and
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  Speaker 9: we had eight point eight million engagements.
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  Speaker 2: That is a conversation, shares comments, dms.
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  Speaker 9: We have an engaged community and that's and that's what's
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  Speaker 9: driving a lot of that is the foundation of what
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  Speaker 9: we're doing here.
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  Speaker 8: So all right, so obviously they're all very smart investors,
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  Speaker 8: but they're not investing like it's not charity. They're looking
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  Speaker 8: to make in return on investment. So when I'm looking
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  Speaker 8: at this, I'm looking at there's a lot of overhead.
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  Speaker 8: This is, you know, an operation that I know costs
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  Speaker 8: a lot of money to run.
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  Speaker 6: What is the revenue model here?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, So one of the one of the things that's
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: that's interesting for me is I've been a part of
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: four startup leagues, the WNBA, the d League which is
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: now the G League, I helped launch the NBA two
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: K League, and now Overtime Elite.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: And in every case what we.
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: Found ourselves doing is starting as a truly nascent property.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: We're talking about effectively zero fans to start with, certainly
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: the opportunity for crossover.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: But no sort of core fans to the core product.
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: We start here with a foundation of fifty four million
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: followers one point seven billion video views every month.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: We are global.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: We have some of the biggest accounts in Europe, in India, Africa,
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: and obviously throughout the States. And so what allows us
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: and allows our investors to see the future of this
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: is we start with our own distribution, in our own audience.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: We don't necessarily today have to go out and buy
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: or partner to reach our core. What we do have
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: to do is find ways to grow our casual and
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: our curious fans.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: But we run We run the same plays.
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: That a lot of sports properties do, talking about sponsorship,
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: finding great partners like Gatorade and State Farm and some
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: others to come who are committed to us for multiple
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: years as we build this out, and then foundation foundational
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: to what we do.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: The second thing is licensing.
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: We have a we have a robust and growing apparel business.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: You wear the hoodie I have on, or the hoodie
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: has on in any airport in America, and at some
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: point some youngsters is gonna come up and I need
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: that one.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: I heard that. I heard that last night.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: You got to throw up your oh, and so one
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: of the other things I heard last night and you
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: referenced earlier, was that the licensing part and the likeness
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: and so their jerseys are sold right here after the game.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: How does how does that work?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: It is there a certain number of inventory that you
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: have for each one? And how's that? What's the process
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: of that? Yeah, so that's unique.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: We we have we have an operation, a retail operation,
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: digital digital operation that's currently online.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: You can you can shop.
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: You can shop at overtime at overtime dot com now
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: and get you get your hoodie, especially get this this
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: nice little heat check that he's.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Got on check. You know, you can also buy his
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: jersey at the same place.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: And so we have all twenty seven jerseys on sale
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: now between now and middle of December.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: It's our first it's our first time ever doing that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: It's made to order, and we're prepared with the inventory
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: and we're gonna continue.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: To build that out.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: In fact, they're going to be a part of some
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: amazing collaborations later on this year that I'm definitely gonna
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: wanna want to want to want to want to get
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: you guys on a on a list, So I get
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: that early.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I got to go fill in the Warren Jersey. You
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: may sell out after this episode.
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: You know, it's so crazy because I was telling Aaron,
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: you know, I went to a school called IMG Academy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: And for the average person that's hearing this, they might
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: think that this is a crazy idea to go. But
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: IMG it was based around sports and then the education
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: was kind of like built around the sports.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: And I loved it and.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: It really really like changed my life because I've had
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: an opportunity to not only like connect with professional athletes
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: because a lot of pros came down in the train,
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: but to do something that I really loved. But then,
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: like you said, like the nutrition and have like a
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: personal chef, and it's just a whole different way to
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: actually like go to school. So how has this transition
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: been for you to go from a regular school your
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: whole entire life and now go into a training facility
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: with a school that's like built around it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Like, how has that been?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely been different. But you know, I think
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: they gear more for you. You know, like you said,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: basketball in school, you know, they go together and you'll
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: have either basketball school first for a certain amount of time,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and then you'll just do one another with extra workouts,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: So just been getting the twenty four to seven you know,
• 20:02
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• 20:04
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• 20:08
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• 20:10
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  Speaker 7: Yeah you are.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: So you went from being the player of the year
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: in Arkansas the man, right, and now you've joined twenty
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: five other twenty six other guys who are the man
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: where they're from. So what's that like, right? Because in
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: college it's kind of a similar situation. Everybody is the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: player of the year where they're from, and then they
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: meet in college and then somebody is going to be
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the start. So what is it like now with knowing
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: that everybody here the purpose is to be here to
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: make it to the pros?
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: What's it like the competition?
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Like, I mean, you know, we all got our dreams
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: are going to the pros, and I think that that
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: just what makes us better. I mean practice, you know,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: like I said, we're alder Man.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: So you must be killing people practice.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: You know, that's fun. You know we're going at each other.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: You know, sometime it gets a little you know, reality,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: but you know, at the end of the day, we
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: know you're brothers. So just doing that we know in
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the game is just not gonna be as hard as
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: practice's gonna be easier. But we know we go hard
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: in practice. How Coach Ali says, level A VIV hundred
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: twenty percent.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: That's what we do every day.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: So Aaron, let me ask you. Is it twenty seven
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: kids total? It's twenty seven, so twenty seven young men.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: So this is the question that everybody's gonna have, all right,
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: out of twenty seven, everybody has aspirations of making it
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: to the NBA, but.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: They're all not gonna make it to the NBA.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Right, So all right, the people that don't make it
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: to the NBA, there is a college fund set up
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: for them, right, So can you talk about that for it,
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: because like, I know that's gonna be something like, well,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: what about the kids that don't make it to the
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: NBA that da da da.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: We have to start with how we define success here, right,
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: Success is about getting you prepared two through and beyond basketball.
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: And what success might look like for some athletes in
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: this program is exactly what their dreams have mapped out,
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: which is walking across that stage. Shake in the commission
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: of the NBA's hand and start and really getting past
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: the starting line of a career.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: In the NBA.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: Others might find their way overseas, and there's still professional
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: basketball players that make multiple millions of dollars in other
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: parts of the world.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: There also might.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Be a young man or many young men who find
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: that they have a passion for the game but want
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: to redirect it in a way that doesn't necessarily include
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: being on the court as much as it is surrounding
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: the game or surrounding another passion of theirs.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And that's where we're here.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: And prepare because young I don't just like all of
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: us like we've changed over time and we've matured, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: even our goals have evolved.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And so if someone's goals evolve to want to.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: Go back to college as opposed to be becoming a
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: professional basketball player, we're here to support it with one
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars in academic scholarship to go to any school,
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: any school you want, in any school you can get into,
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: and so we'll be here to support that. The other
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: thing is is, you know, Dan Porter, one of our founders,
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: was talking to Kevin Durant actually early days of this concept,
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: and he was talking about the academic scholarship concept and
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: the fun and and Katie just asked a very simple question,
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: what if they don't want to go to college?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And Dan's like, you're absolutely right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: We have we have over one hundred investors in some
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: of the most amazing industries and companies in the world,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: and they are they are invested not only in this,
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: in this financially, but they're they're also making their resource available.
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: And so if a young man wants to go work
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: in the music industry, we've got a couple of people
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: who've done that before. If you want to get into
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: you know, venture capital or real estate or or technology,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: we have we have folks all throughout our board that
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: obviously can help us. And so what we're here to
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: do is support not only the realization of your of
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: your perfect dream, but also you're.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Imperfect dream, right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: And and so that was the conversation that we had
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: with families, eyes wide open. Here are the here are
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: the decisions you're making, and here are the opportunities that
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: we are prepared to support, not only the ones that
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: are perfectly aligned with going to the NBA and crossing
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: that stage, but also those that those that don't and
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: so we have opened up, we have we have open
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: and honest conversations about that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: One of the things that overtime has done is it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: given us eyes to young talent at a very early
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: stages by providing highlights or clips of them. A couple
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: of years ago, we saw Zion Williamson twist his ankle
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: at a duke game, fell out the shoe right, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: everybody was like, oh my gosh, his career could be
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: over right, what shoe was that?
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: It was a big scandal. They thought he was injured.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: And so I'm asking this question now because I'm thinking
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: about what if these guys at some point get injured.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Is there some type of financial protection or assurance in
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: the event of injury for them?
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: Yes, and and and that's again that was a part
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: of the eyes wide, open conversation with every family, which is,
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: let's talk about what we all hope will happen, but
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: let's also discuss the things that can happen to us.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Right, and so we do we have We have.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Insurance, disability insurance that would cover that in a way
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: that no other high school in America, in fact, even
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: colleges would address nor cover. And so we are prepared
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: for a number of outcomes here obviously wanting to stay
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: focused on the ones that we believe they're poised to
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: to realize. And so yeah, that's that's that's what success
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: and preparation and and support looks like for us.
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: So as far as the actual basketball competition, who's on
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: the calendar? Like, who do you actually play? Because I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: assuming you're not allowed to play high schools?
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Right we are?
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: You are?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Are? It's you know, there's a lot.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: If there's one NCAA for college, there's fifty n c
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: a as for high school so you have to navigate
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: the map with those who are are open to it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: There's also obviously different prep schools throughout the country, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: so we have a we have a pretty robust schedule
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: between the twenty ninth of October through middle of March
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: in factors, thirty seven games that will play, and it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: a combination of three different formats of basketball or competition.
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: We'll play in prep series where we'll either bring in
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: three prep schools to play against our three teams, we'll
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: play on the road and the same thing, or we'll
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: play what we call league play, which is Brison's team
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: versus the two other teams in a night. So we'll
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: play a twenty minute game with two of them, a
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: twenty minute game with the other with another combination of them,
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: just to make sure they all three play each other
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: in a given night.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: So that's called league play.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Then the other thing, which you witnessed last night here
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: at ote with something we call pro simulation or pro
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: sim and that is us playing with NBA or pro
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: rules to prepare them. And so when you look on
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: our court, you'll see an orange three point line, you'll
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: see a black three point line. Last night we played
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: twenty four second shot clock and we played with the
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: black line, which is the three point line in the NBA.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: Oh I was, I was wondering, Okay, So all right,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: because I'm like, this is a long game because it
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: was twelve minute quarters and you had three refs.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, So that you don't do that every single game.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: No.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: In fact, we play all three different formats throughout the season.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Okay, So the twenty minutes, like after the college type
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: vibe the three point line.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: So the other other thing is is that that is
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: designed to allow for pro scouts to be able to
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: see these young men and their path towards really being
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: prepared for the next level. And so a couple of
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: things we do. One is we do pro sim games.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: The other thing we do is we open up practices.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: In fact, we've had our first of what will be
• 28:43
  Speaker 9: many pro days, and we had our pro day a
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: couple of weeks back, and so it was basically an
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: invitation for all pro scouts, NBA and otherwise to come
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: in and see these young men for the first time,
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: see them train, see them play, see sort of the
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: the habits that we're trying to form. We had sixty
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: scouts here, Twenty nine to thirty NBA teams were in
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: the building.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: So I mean that sounds pretty intimidating.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: But for you as a player, knowing that at seventeen,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: you got that many people watching you and your brothers perform.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: What's that like?
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Because I'm thinking about the NFL combine and the NBA combine.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: These are like juniors and seniors and some freshmen in
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: college and they fold under pressure.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: What was it like as a seventeen year old going
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: through that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, they told us they were going to be there,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: you know, when we first came, they said, that's you know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: they're going to be there, so you know, we've been
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: putting the work in. I mean, you know, you might
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: get a little nerves, but you know, you know what
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: you're here for and where your goals are. So just
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: being out there and we all compete, it went hard.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: You know, just try to put on the show in
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: front of them.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember.
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: So before I went to IMG Academy, briefly, I went
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: to this other school called Winchington Academy in New England
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: and that was one of the top prep schools in
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: the country at the time. And we had a at
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: NBA Prospects. So Rick Patino came and that was like
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: a big deal to have Rick Patino there as a practice.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: And then we had one NBA scout came because we
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: had a kid from Australia. So I remember when the
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: NBA scout came. It was like every white was like, Yo,
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: the NBA's here right now, Like it was going.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Crazy, sock iron in your socks.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: I have to say, to have twenty nine NBA scouts,
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: that's like crazy, Like you know what I mean, Like,
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: how Aaron have you had pushed back from the NC
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: double A on this Do you think the NC DOUBLEA
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: feels threatened by this.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: No, in fact, I'm certain of it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: It's it's funny because when we first launched, everybody thought
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: that this was some sort of strategic pursuit which was.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: To compete with the NCAA.
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: The reality is there's thousands upon thousands of Division one
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: and Division two basketball players who've made the choice to
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: go to college and that experience that I had and
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: many of other athletes have had, it's perfectly It's perfectly
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: right for earners.
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  Speaker 9: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland
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  Speaker 9: Security for them. We just wanted to make sure there
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  Speaker 9: was another option, and so we've had conversations. I've had
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  Speaker 9: colleagues at the NCAA for years through my past at
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: the NBA, and what we've recognize is that optionality is
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: good for young people, and this is one option. There's
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: actually only twenty seven spots, so it's it's it's not
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: affecting sort of the broader ecosystem. And we want young
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: people like Bryson to be able to make choices, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: so I would say that they generally agree with that,
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  Speaker 9: and we just want to make sure that they understand
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: what we're up to, and we want to understand that
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: when we're speaking to families that we can speak with
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: clarity on the choices and the trade offs, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: Being that you are here and they are being paid
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: in preparing them for professional life, so they have to
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: sign with agents. Are agents here for them? How does
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: that work?
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: They there's a there's an there's a sort of a
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: diverse set of choices that they've all made. Some of
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: them do have agents, others have had legal representations, some
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: have leveraged their family to get to this point. What
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: what Bryson's starting to experience and a lot of them,
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: is what's the diagnostic to making decisions around who is
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: in your circle? So we don't necessarily we don't recommend
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: anybody or or any particular path. We just provide them
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: with the right questions to ask as they're contemplating it,
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: what are the factors?
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  Speaker 2: What are the things you think are important to you?
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: And what are the what are the types of resources
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: and services you're gonna need to support this as you
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: as you move forward?
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  Speaker 6: You you saw it with an agent, right, I'm with
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Derek pa quality Control. Quality Control.
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  Speaker 8: See so yeah, shout out to the guys. So how
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: did that come about? How did that talk about? Like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: how did they approach you?
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: How?
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: What made you time with them?
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: I've been knowing DP for like like a year now,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I think, so me and him, we've just been getting close.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: He's just been talking to me about different stuff. He's
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: to represent John Moran, he represents Jared Allen, so you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: just building a relationship with him. And yeah, he decided
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: to go with QC. He's the head of basketball there
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: now too. So I just thought it is you know,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: they're here in Atlanta over times in Atlanta, So I
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: thought that was the best thing for me and my family.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He got a little baby look to him, got a
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: little baby look that is that your favorite artists?
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, little baby look to him?
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: But so nil Obviously he's taken over college sports where
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: players are actually able to monetize off their likeness. Do
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: these gentlemen also have the same opportunities to seek endorsements
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: from outside companies?
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: Yes, yes, and in fact that was put in place
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: before the decision Supreme Court. That was always our plan.
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: And now it's great that other athletes in not only
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: basketball but broader across the NCAAA are able to realize
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: that same thing because it aligns with what our belief
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: has been the whole time, is that these young people
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: should be have access and should be empowered to realize
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: their value now and not have to wait.
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: So like in Europe, like Luca, he's been playing prost
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: he was fourteen years old, right, it's pretty common where
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: they have like the Pro League for kids and they
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: and then they grow and then they go to like
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: you know, the pro leagues over there, or if they
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: good enough, they go to the NBA.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: So is that the idea of this?
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: I know it has three teams right now, but do
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: you see this where it's like twenty teams all across
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: America in different satellite overtime locations. And then this is
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: really like the European how they have it over there,
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: but is here in America is that something that you
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: guys envision.
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: I can't completely play out how the the ecosystem will react,
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: because in fact, Real Madrid only has one of those teams, right,
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: But yes, you're right, all of the others, whether it's
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Real Madrid or Barcelona, both in soccer and now in basketball,
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: have these academies or these programs that kind of work
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: themselves up. And that's why in some ways what we're
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: doing is revolutionary, but only by way of geography.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: This is not revolutionary in the world of soccer.
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: This is decades long of a model, not necessarily attached
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: to immedia company, but certainly attached to pretty strong brands,
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: you know, to have you still have to recognize it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: Right now, there's a finite pool of elite, you know,
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: hyper elite players and talent, and so I think it's
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: important that we recognize how big the pool of people
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: who should be making this decision is, and we need
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: to be responsible on how we grow, how we grow
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: based on that pool. I can see us having more
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: than three teams, certainly in the coming years, but.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily, I don't want to.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: But also it's so how many kids on the teams international?
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: Seven seven, of our twenty seven in our first year,
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: which was pleasant surprise.
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: Basketball is the international huge in Europe, NBA, Africa, Africa,
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: So they might be a limited amount of talent in America,
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: but now when you start going overseas, that changes the
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: whole dynamic. So talk about that, talk about the overseas
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: marketing and bringing players in from overseas.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Yes, so we have scouts that cover you know, coast
• 39:00
  Speaker 9: to coast in the United States, and we also have
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: scouts over overseas that cover Europe, Africa and beyond. In fact,
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: one of our players is from the Philippines. And we're
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: going to continue to build out our capabilities and making
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: sure that we're tracking and partnering with folks that can
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: identify talent, and that certainly does open the pool up, right,
• 39:18
  Speaker 9: And so you know what's great about being in our
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: first year and actually thinking into the future is we're
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: gonna start to be all identified. What is an OTE athlete,
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: what is the profile of an OTE athlete, what's the
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: DNA of a young man that we believe has the
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: potential to succeed in this type of program, And that'll
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: help us determine how large the pool is. Right this
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: is an invitation only operation, and so we have to
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: start to set the criteria and the standard for which
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: talent looks looks like.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: But I agree with you. I think the pool is
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: bigger than we all think.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: You had.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Said earlier about the education system, and so I'm sending
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: him thinking like being like I said, this is very
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: much structure to how school goes. I want to know, Bryson,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: what a day in the life is like of I
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: guess we could say student athletes slash employee. What is
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: that like? Is there a regimen you guys all have
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: to wake up at the same time? Is there a
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: certain amount of time that's a loted for school? And
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: obviously you got to train. So what's the day in
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the life look like for you guys?
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: So every morning, first we do wake up COVID tests
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: every morning. Okay, So then depending on what trying to
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: bust everybody getting bus at the same time. Like me,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I come to the gym every morning.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: You're being bust from where from apartments apartments, So we'll
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: get a bust from my apartments to come here.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: But like me and some other guys, I'll come to
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the gym before everybody gets here.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: It gets shots.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Up and then depending on what day it is, we'll
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: have school from about like every's in the morning, it'll
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: be like ten to one, and then practice from like
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: two to five, and then we'll get some lunch in
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: between that. So after that you'll have recovery wait, and
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: then you get some extra.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Work in you.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: So the males you eat mails here.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, it would be his breakfast, lunch, and dinner here.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: How's the food good? All right?
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: So you know that it's interesting, yeah, because what it's good?
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: But it's all so different, right, And so what we're
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: finding is that we have twenty seven young people have
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: come from all different places in the world and walks
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: of life, and so becoming more conscientious of what you eat,
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: whether it's how well you fuel your body relative to hydration,
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: relative to protein and and and fruits and vegetables.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: It's an adjustment for some of them. For sure.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I'm listening to because I'm like, if I'm the guy,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: the kid sitting in the nutrition class and now I'm
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: going to eat what I just learned is still in
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: my mind. Like I used to do this project when
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I was teaching health about SODA's and like this tropical fantasy.
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: It was one. It was like how much sugar is
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: in it? It was like a whole project.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: And then I walk down the street as I'm going
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: home and I see kids still buying it, and it's
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: just like, man, they didn't really get that message. But
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: now you're actually like I can imagine the nutrition instructor.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: It's like in the cafeteria whatever you guys are eating.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Like remember we just spoke about.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: Like I said, going to IMG changed my life because
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: the nutrition was real big for me. I went to
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: Wasshington before, and it was night and day. Weinhington just
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: for reference, it's in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: and there's nothing around it. And it was a McDonald's there,
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: and I used to eat McDonald's every day to the
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: point I think I gave myself a stomach also, like
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: I really had stomach pains bad.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: And we went to IMG.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: They had personal chefs and they was making like meals
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: and it was like and that's the first time I
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: really started to really think about nutrition, and it's carried
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: with me my whole life. And that's the best shape
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: I've ever been in because it was like waking up
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: you're eating good.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: And then you're just working.
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: Out and it was in Florida, so it's hot, so
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: you know you're staying in shape. And then it's hard
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: to really explain if you haven't really been through it,
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: but you get a greater appreciation for like world class
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: athletes when you're training like a world class athlete, even
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: if you're in high school. But to train like a
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: world class athlete, it's actually bigger than sports because now
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: mentally you have a way more discipline, your your physical
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: appearance is better, you know nutrition, So that level of
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: training a last your whole life, So appreciate it and
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: b is something that goes way bigger than just sports.
• 43:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and we're simply so far just talking about the
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: physical piece of it. Well, we're also what we're also
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: spending a lot of time with these athletes is about
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: the social emotional side of it, and so mindfulness and
• 43:46
  Speaker 9: understanding how to be in touch with yourself and how
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: to make sure you understand where you're at in terms
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: of your your mental wellness along the way, because they're
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: going to face adversity, they've decided on a path that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: going to make them uncomfortable at various times, and so
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: we're trying to We've always said this is about the
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: whole athlete.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: I was gonna ask you have a sports psychologists here.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: We do very important you know.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: One of the things that it's key is that they're
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: getting paid right, and so they're that financial literacy piece.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Are they telling them or advising them on the things
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: to invest in? And if so, what are some of
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: those things that they're telling us young men to invest in.
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: At this point, again, it's.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: About the diagnostic. This is not we are not playing
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: the role of financial advisor, your lawyer or agent. What
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: we're trying to do is surround them with people who've
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: been through this. As an example, a week and a
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: half ago, Tony Parker was here.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: We'll spend time with with with with the.
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: Team talking about his experiences and you know, one of
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: the one of the big lessons and you should build
• 44:46
  Speaker 9: on this is he talked about how important it is
• 44:49
  Speaker 9: to seek out resources while you are still playing. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: Bryce and maybe share a little bit about why that
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: was so important for Tony.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he told us, like you said, want to you know,
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: try to seek your resources out while you're playing, because
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: that's when they're gonna call you back. It was like,
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: you know, you want to reach as many people as possible.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Like he was telling us he was getting sit down
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: with like some of the biggest people in business while
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: he was playing because they was gonna call him back,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: they was gonna be willing to talk to him.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: So that was a big thing. You know, we all
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: got from that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: As soon as he went to the Bobcasts, they stopped
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: answering shout out to the Hall of fam Let me ask.
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: You this because this is a unique situation because it's
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: in Atlanta. It's a lot different from Sarasota, Florida, where
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: IMG is. There's a lot of temptations out here, there's
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: a lot of influence. This is hip hop, this is everything, right,
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: So are there safeguards in place to kind of because
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, you look at you like you know what
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: I'm saying, Like you look at those kinds of documents.
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: Now you're serious, Like this gets bigger and bigger, and
• 45:50
  Speaker 8: it's like, you know, you got a lot of things
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: that's good, but it could be some negative influences as well.
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: So what it Are there safeguards in place or are
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: there type of mechanis to make sure that the kids
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: stay focused and don't lose sight of their goals because
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: like I said, I mean, we love Atlanta, but it
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: can be distracting.
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the key is having it's always eyes
• 46:13
  Speaker 9: wide open and having an open conversation about our expectations
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: and also.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: The things that get in the way of that, the obstacles.
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: And while we talk about it a lot, we also
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: as an organization need to be responsible that we're still
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: dealing with young men sixteen to nineteen years old and
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: we owe it to them as individuals, but also to
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: their families. And so we're structured, you know, like a
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: like a small college, and that we have we have
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: Damian Wilkins as our dean of Athlete Experience and Culture
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: who's been through exactly what we're going through. Obviously, Kevin Ali,
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: Ryan Domes you referenced earlier, Brandon Williams, who worked in
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: our Player Programs Division at the NBA and then went
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: on to be an assistant GM both at the Sixers
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: and and the sacer Menal Kings has been working with
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: young athletes in this in this space and these conversations,
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: UH for for for the last two decades, and so
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: certainly we have experienced people who have not only been
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: around guiding athletes but also have lived it.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: And then we also have.
• 47:14
  Speaker 9: A residence life team, So where Bryson lives, we have
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: people who live there full time a to just sort
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: of make sure that they're there to guide them, but
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: also to make sure that we we avoid trouble and
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: avoid trouble finding us.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, our ends.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: So I mean we use the word employee, and so
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of safeguards put in place and make
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: sure they stay on tasks and make sure they do
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the right thing. But if you're an employee, same way
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: you're hired, you could be fired. And so what are like,
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: what is that process like if somebody has to be
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: removed from this?
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I mean we we.
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: We've established code of conduct, we have a handbook that
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: our employees and they're responsible for adhering to. We recognize
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: that this is a partnership, is a community, right, it's
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: a it's a community and we're partners. So the hope
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: is that these young men start to realize that.
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: But we we we know we.
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: Know that in life there are going to people that
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: that that that find different paths. I mean, the combination
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: of making sure that there's accountability, but also a restorative
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: element to what we're talking about, and that yes, young,
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: young people will make bad decisions, and the question is
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: is what's the conversation we have after it and how
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: do we get them back on the right path and
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: how do we actually use that moment to illuminate the consequences.
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: Well, you said people can watch it, like what's the
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: streaming options that they watch? Like, if you wanted to
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: watch a game, how how can they watch it?
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: So there's a couple of different ways you can consume
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: this one is just sort of in more real time
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: through our I G handles, through TikTok, through Twitter, but
• 48:51
  Speaker 9: our game summaries and our game recaps are on YouTube
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: and and we what we found about uh, this next
• 48:59
  Speaker 9: generation sports fan think about it. We just went through
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: a pandemic where plenty of us have pretty sizable televisions
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: on our on our on our walls, and I can
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: tell you in my house, I have a sixteen and
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: a twelve year old and it was never on.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: In fact, they consume most of their media on a small.
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: Format and in fact, they don't watch ninety minutes of anything.
• 49:19
  Speaker 9: And the statistics will will tell you that well, the
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: average age of the viewer for most traditional pro sports
• 49:28
  Speaker 9: continues to go up. There is a consumption pattern of
• 49:32
  Speaker 9: young people who actually love watching sports in a condensed
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: form through digital through digital mediums, and so we overtime
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: have really found that our sweet spot is meeting that
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: next generation fan online and specifically on YouTube.
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: So you don't you don't play the whole game. They
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: can't watch the hole. It's just like clips.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: It's most of the whole game. It's just condensed in
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that it kind of collapses some of the parts.
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: And and what's interesting about the YouTube viewer, it continues
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: to evolve while many of us think about it on
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: the form of a phone or on an iPad. In fact,
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: more connected TVs each and every each and every month
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: is starting to show longer view times of YouTube content
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: because it's actually coming through.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: A large song.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: So your YouTube viewers, because we're in this, I mean,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: we got to show everybody.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: But this is like state of the art arena.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: This is like arena when you go to a typical
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: high school, a prep school, the student body is who
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: fills the stands. You have twenty seven students, even if
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: you brought their families. It wouldn't be able to feel
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: how do you get people in here? Is YouTube the fact, like,
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: what are we doing to get people in these seats?
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: So this is this is Atlanta's this this is going
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: to become Atlanta's home. And what we're here to do
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: is make sure that we're connecting with the community in
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: as many way as possible, whether it's the Atlantic Station
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: area directly around us, or it's the broader it's the
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: broader community here in Atlanta. We want them to make
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: we want to make this their home. And so what
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: we've gone out done is we've started to build partnerships,
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: partnerships with key influencers in the market, with the high
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: school community, with with the city. The city has been
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: an incredible partner to us since being here. We have
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: we have even had relationships and conversations with our w
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: n B A and our NBA neighbors here in the market.
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: We're surrounded by an incredible, you know, community of of
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: of of universities and colleges that we're starting to reach
• 51:27
  Speaker 9: out to. And so the idea is that for Atlanta
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: to really take pride in having ot you're in it
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: right here in the center of the city.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Now, Bryson, you had the NBA scouts come here, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: that was pressure. But what's it like when Quavo and
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: two Chains are watching you play and these are guys you're.
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: Looking up to.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: What's that like when you have these level celebrities, when
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: you got on your leagiers in front row.
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: A by the way, Uh, what's that like?
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Playing in front of some of the guys that you
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: watch on YouTube, watching TV and now the here watching
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: you play.
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: It's definitely exciting.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: I mean we've been going hard, but just to you know,
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: he don't like side like you can go buy say
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: what's up to them? Stuff like that, Like they're real
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: down the earth, So I mean, you know, it's just
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: fun seeing them there watch you play. You know, they'll
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: even be talking to you at the game, like, wait,
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: we were talking to me with QC two.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: But you know it's fact two change came.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, like you know they come in, you hear
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: everybody start going crazy. Like I said, the environment just
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: gets even better when they're here.
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: Ye So there's been another cultural icon that started something
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: Team shout out to yeasy the Dondae Academy. Are you
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: guys gonna play the don Dae Academy TBD.
• 52:33
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: You know this space is it's amazing. This space is
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: evolving so fast. We were talking about before.
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: It's like, you know, seven weeks ago we set our schedule,
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: we announced it, and we've already seen you know, different
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: programs pop up, players exchanging. This is this is sort
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: of a a peek into what you know, elite prep
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: basketball has been has been going through and it continues
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: to evolve. And so you know, we're not we haven't
• 53:01
  Speaker 9: been in direct contact with Don it's obviously it's been
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: launched in.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks.
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: So we just love that there's more options for young
• 53:08
  Speaker 9: people and anybody who's investing in the future of young
• 53:13
  Speaker 9: athletes and surrounding them with what with what's necessary to
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: pursue their dreams.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: We're here for and we'll see.
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: Let me ask you this.
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: So, all right, kids are getting paid, So I'm assuming
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: they have to sign contracts, right, correct?
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: How long is it like one year contract or two?
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: It varies? It varies obviously because we have sixteen to
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: nineteen year.
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: Old athletes, they're in various parts of their path to
• 53:36
  Speaker 9: be becoming becoming you know, they're pros now but pursuing
• 53:40
  Speaker 9: the next level. Obviously with the one and done in place,
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: it's really it's one year removed from your graduation year.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Is sort of the rule as it stands today.
• 53:51
  Speaker 9: And so there are athletes that have multiple year contract
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: contracts with US that get them to that point.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: And it's annually. So the one hundred thousand is annually.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: So if I'm sixteen, I'm getting a hundred thousand sixteen
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: years as my let's say junior year six one hundred
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: thousand as my senior year. And with the BOTUS says
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: it could be obviously more.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Correct correct if yeah, if you were getting the minimum, yes.
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: So you are you recruiting? Like are you recruiting players?
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: Like how a college coach will go to somebody's house
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: and sit down with their parents and give them the
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: whole rundown and why they should go to this college.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: Is that similar to all you working with AAU coaches,
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: Like what's the feeding process to actually get kids in?
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: I mean we're.
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: Tapped into whoever is the circle or the ecosystem that
• 54:30
  Speaker 9: surrounds a particular support network that surrounds an athlete. I
• 54:33
  Speaker 9: mean most of this was done virtually given the given
• 54:35
  Speaker 9: the pandemic. But now that we have a facility, now
• 54:38
  Speaker 9: that obviously the aspects of the of the pandemic are
• 54:42
  Speaker 9: allowing us to meet people live and to have a
• 54:45
  Speaker 9: place to do it.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: We're starting to even have conversations.
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: It's like visits colleges and or folks coming here.
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying, Like they can have like how
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: you do like your college visit when you go to college.
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: Yes, kids can come here and visit here.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Like can you imagine when you leave the woodlands they
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: brought you there, I'd be like, I we we're not
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: gonna see Sauty anymore.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Lights up, put your highlights on that thing.
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: This big.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: That's called sold.
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: It's called sold. All right, So obviously you said that
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: right now the viewership.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: Is YouTube, but I'm thinking this could obviously is gonna
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: be a lot bigger. Are the big broadcasting networks coming
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: to you now already? Because there's a big broadcast network
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: that is not too far from here, Atlanta based. Might
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I've heard of them, Turner Sports, But I can envision
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: them coming in and saying like we need to be
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: a part of this.
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: Is that a long term vision? Is that's something you
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: guys looking forward.
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: To Yeah, global distribution is clearly an important path for
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: us to continue to examine and explore. And we've we
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: have relationships across the entire ecosystem, as you can imagine,
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: and even that space is evolving right from traditional or
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: linear television to more digital platforms OTT you know, even
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: even sort of pay per view is becoming I think.
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: So we're keeping all of our options open. And it's
• 55:59
  Speaker 9: not domestic, it's international. So that's certainly that's certainly in
• 56:05
  Speaker 9: our vision and our plans going.
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: Forward right soon. What is some ideas that you have
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: They talked about a trading cards. Do you do you
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: have like business ideas that you want to like put
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: in place over the next couple of years.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, right now I'm just exploring see what I'll
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: see what I like, and I know other people do,
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm just seeing what I like and what
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: I want to get into.
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: You know, Just do you have passions outside of basketball,
• 56:29
  Speaker 8: like music or anything like that, like art?
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, I just, like I said, just like giving back,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean to my community back in Arkansas,
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: just giving them a platform more exposure.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: So That's why I started my.
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: Team How is it like? Have you been back to
• 56:41
  Speaker 8: Arkansas since.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: I've been here?
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: I've not been back to Arkansas. I'm going back next
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: Week'll be fun.
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: We don't give them the name, the Prince of Little Rocky.
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: But how how is it? How is it like?
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: Because I know how that feeling is when you come
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: from you know, a smaller town and everybody's looking at
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: you as like you know, the person that's gonna make it,
• 56:59
  Speaker 8: and it's a lot of hope and aspiration sometimes even pressure.
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: Are you Are you feeling that yet?
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: I mean yeah, you know, like I get a lot
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: of d EM's like yeah, I mean you're your next
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: You know, they're looking up to me, you know some
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: of the lickuy.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: They tested me, I test them back. You know.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Just no, just because you know from Arkansas, you know
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: you can dream big, just like I am. So I'm
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: just you know, trying to give them that hope, enjoy
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: you know that they can see through me to help them.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: The league, well, the G League. I'm looking at Gatorade
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: G League as an elite team. Obviously you guys are
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: over timing leader is there, Lenny? Is there is there
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: something that ties you guys together or two separated sas
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: man thing that.
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: Links us together, well two things. One is from a
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: business perspective. We were we we've been partners with the
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: g League. In fact, we documented much of Jalen Greens
• 57:48
  Speaker 9: your last year. We were we were production partners in that.
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: Obviously Jalen was a part of Prolific Prolific Prep, which
• 57:55
  Speaker 9: was a school we covered prior to that. And uh, simultaneously,
• 58:01
  Speaker 9: I'm I'm a longtime friend of Sharif Abdul Raheem.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: In fact, we live two times over from each other
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: and we go to breakfast once a month, and.
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: So last ninety six he is from Atlanta.
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: He is from Atlanta, and you know, he also has
• 58:13
  Speaker 9: a son that's going through the journey right now in college.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: In fact, Debris is at Georgia now.
• 58:20
  Speaker 9: But we would we get together for breakfast, and we
• 58:23
  Speaker 9: were talking about this when it was just a concept,
• 58:25
  Speaker 9: and now that it's a reality, it's it's made our
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: it's made our breakfast interesting.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: But certainly we're we're trying to figure out ways.
• 58:32
  Speaker 9: Like you know, we're clearly on a mission to empower
• 58:36
  Speaker 9: and to prepare young people. And so it's great to
• 58:38
  Speaker 9: have a friend and appear in the same space.
• 58:41
  Speaker 8: Before we rap question. I know a lot of people
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: that's going to head. Is everybody's going to come knocking
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: down your door. They want to have them my kids this,
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: my kid's gonna be.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: I know you're not actually like looking for for talent,
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: but if somebody wants to come to over time, what
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: would be the path or is there no path other
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: than we'll reach out to you if you're good enough.
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: I mean, if you're if you're in that sort of
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: that that top of the pyramid, and you're and you're
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: and you're playing on the stages that that are getting
• 59:13
  Speaker 9: you noticed, and you know you've shown a an appetite
• 59:18
  Speaker 9: for this level of focus this early in your life.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Uh, we know.
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: You know who you are, and we we're we're seeing
• 59:25
  Speaker 9: you play already and so and we might even be
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: already sort of contemplating when we're gonna talk.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: So I think I feel very confident that.
• 59:37
  Speaker 9: We're we're we have an incredible recruiting and scouting group
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: that is continuously looking for people who are looking for
• 59:45
  Speaker 9: this option and are are showing signs of being prepared
• 59:47
  Speaker 9: for it.
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: Powerful Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it over time, elite,
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: What would you like to tell the public before before
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: we wrap anything, you wanted to just tell people social
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: media handles, anything like that.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, follow it, follow us on ig, TikTok at overtime,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 9: a leader at ote what you're going to see. There
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 9: is an incredible journey that twenty seven young men are
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 9: taking right now, and they're changing, they're changing the trajectory
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: of of of basketball as we knew it and as
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 9: I as I told Bryson when he first joined, Uh,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 9: we're in the business of pioneering a new path. And
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: there's not too many times in your life, let alone
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 9: in your career that you get to do it. And so, uh,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: we'd love for as many people to be on that
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 9: journey as possible, whether it's in this building, whether it's social,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: following us on social, or whether it's finding ways for
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: us to partner and and and and and build this,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: build this together. We're here for it and we're we're
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 9: incredibly excited about the future.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: Are you having more fun now or when you was
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: with the NBA?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a it's been a progressive path.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: I don't think I would have been prepared for this
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 9: had it not been working at NBA Entertainment, you know,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 9: in the in the late nineties, working on Last Dance,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 9: helping participate in the launch of the w n b
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 9: A to running USA Basketball.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: From a business perspective, I'm.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 9: Having this fun because of the work and the things
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: that prepared me for this moment.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: For sure.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, you ain't ahead, man. You got to
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: give us the Instagram, give us everything, man, Come on.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: Now, definitely follow us ot on Instagram and TikTok ot
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: and definitely follow me at as you found Bryson on Instagram.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: And don't forget that Warre in Jersey. Then you have
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: a point guard. Yes, sir, he's getting busy last night.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 7: Oh one last thing.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: So this is a huge facility training car I think
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 8: he was talking off camera. Are their ideas to maybe
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 8: have a basketball camp, maybe do stuff outside of just
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 8: the Ote family, and maybe have like a greater community
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: involvement for this facility.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Certainly.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 9: I mean the first thing was trying to get this
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 9: one hundred and three thousand square foot building up in
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 9: five and a half months.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: And now that now the rocket ship is built.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: Now it's just trying to figure out where the destination
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: is and part of that is engaging community in Atlanta
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 9: and just broadly in what we're doing and so finding
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: ways to connect to the basketball community in the Atlanta
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 9: community at large, UH in.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: Programs and opportunities.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 9: For for for them to be a part of This
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 9: is clearly is clearly in our sites.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: Uyo celebrity basketball game.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: Absolutely I'm looking at I mean even like the G
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: League when when they play it doesn't look anything like this.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: It's like, so, you guys got something special. This is
• 1:02:26
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• 1:02:28
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• 1:02:30
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• 1:02:33
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• 1:02:36
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• 1:02:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and Like I said, we're huge basketball enthusiasts, and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 8: we definitely shout out to our family and Dykement. We
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 8: definitely we're actually gonna have our own section Indickement next year.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 8: Fact that's gonna be crazy.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: Fact.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: I have to say, we definitely have to do something here.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: I think I got a couple of ideas. So talk
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: to you about you. Are you gonna play? Thank you? Oh?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: You never know?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, thank you.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: I told you. The only thing that guy means you
• 1:03:21
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• 1:03:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you guys, Rock and West. We'll see you next week.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: My graduates from my school being forced back drop.
• 1:03:35
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