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EYL #274 Inside the NBA G League: NBA's Stepping Stone, Business, & EYL Partnership with Shareef Abdur-Rahim · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, welcome back, euy l. We are on
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  Speaker 3: location special location location. We are in New York though yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: NBA headquarters. We are at the G League suite. Is
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  Speaker 3: this is the G League suite.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna call it now the league Swee takeover. You know,
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  Speaker 4: anytime you're in New York City in the corner office,
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  Speaker 4: you important.
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  Speaker 3: For sure, for sure. So Sharifa door Raheem basketball legend.
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  Speaker 3: But now it is the president of the NBA G League.
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  Speaker 3: So we actually are going to be announcing some exciting
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  Speaker 3: things that ey L and G League will be doing together.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's fitting to have this conversation. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be talking about all things business for lated when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to sports, the G League, marketing, promotion, and of
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  Speaker 3: course you know his his interesting journey from Atlanta to
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  Speaker 3: third pick Canada to now running the G League.
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  Speaker 4: The kids these days will probably not remember there was
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  Speaker 4: a franchise of Vancouver. But there was a franchise of Vancouver,
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  Speaker 4: sure and this was this was the franchise player for sure.
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  Speaker 5: So first and Foremo, thank you for joining U appreciate,
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  Speaker 5: thank you, thank you for having me, and thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I said this off camera, but thank you for everything
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  Speaker 5: you're doing, you know, educating you know, all of us,
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  Speaker 5: exposing people. You know, I just shared I took a
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  Speaker 5: clip you know, just recently and shared it with my
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  Speaker 5: my younger brother who's interested in real estate. So what
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  Speaker 5: you guys are doing is phenomenal and empowering.
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  Speaker 4: To a lot of people. You APK, you sire it.
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  Speaker 4: So what it's about, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So let's get into it. So first I'll give
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  Speaker 3: the backstory for anybody that doesn't know. So, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: were you're from Atlanta. McDonald's all American, one of the
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  Speaker 3: best players, and then you went to Georgia Tech. I
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  Speaker 3: went to cal cal and then freshman year, and then
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  Speaker 3: you have an illustrious career in the NBA. But a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people struggle after their post playing career, right
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  Speaker 3: they now it's like the lottery to try to become
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  Speaker 3: a broadcaster, but only a few people can actually really
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  Speaker 3: be successful as a broadcaster, and a lot of guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're just trying to figure it out. They
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  Speaker 3: make money. Some people have not made great decisions with
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  Speaker 3: their money and they fall on financial hardships. But you're
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  Speaker 3: somebody who obviously has figured it out after his career
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  Speaker 3: and now you're an executive, you know, in the NBA,
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  Speaker 3: you know, running the G League. So I first want
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  Speaker 3: to just you know, what was that transition like for you?
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  Speaker 3: Was this something that you always kind of had in
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  Speaker 3: mind that you wanted to stay in sports, but on
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  Speaker 3: an executive level and mentally, how was it transitioning from
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  Speaker 3: being a star basketball player your whole life to now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, being a regular citizen.
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  Speaker 5: You know, one, I think the transition like starts at
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  Speaker 5: the beginning. You know, I kind of picked that up
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  Speaker 5: from like got you know, the Magic Johnson's Isaiah Thomas,
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  Speaker 5: the guys before me I saw do really well as
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  Speaker 5: they transitioned from playing and just talking to them and
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  Speaker 5: understanding things that they were doing, meeting people, learning, being
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  Speaker 5: curious while they were playing. And so I said, started there.
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  Speaker 5: When I retired, I had the opportunity. I retired with
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  Speaker 5: the Sacramento Kings. I retired early. My knee. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I have some trouble with my knee, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 5: you know, the last three years of my contract, I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't play. And you know in the NBA, contracts are guaranteed.
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  Speaker 5: Uh so I was still getting paid, but I couldn't play.
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  Speaker 5: And the organization asked me to stay and help out
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  Speaker 5: and you know, help out with you mentor some of
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  Speaker 5: the younger players, and what but what they what? What
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  Speaker 5: the guy who was the president then, a guy named
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Petrie. What he allowed me to do was to
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  Speaker 5: you know, he asked me to mentor and help younger players,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, go do whatever else you want to do.
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  Speaker 5: So I would go and I would meet with the CFO.
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  Speaker 5: I go meet with the person who was over marketing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, all the areas of the organization I had
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  Speaker 5: never had exposure to. And you know what that did
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  Speaker 5: for me was just opened up, like the idea that
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  Speaker 5: this is a business and like wow, all these you know,
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  Speaker 5: this media deal going on and this marketing deal, and okay,
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  Speaker 5: so when you guys asked us to come to this
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  Speaker 5: you know mixer, you know, to this you know, social engagement.
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  Speaker 5: This is really what it was about. So I spent
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  Speaker 5: two years doing that. I went, I was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: kind of the one and done era. I was at
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  Speaker 5: the front of that myself and stuff on Marlbury. So
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  Speaker 5: I but in this time that I'm you know, playing
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  Speaker 5: in the NBA and uh, you know now transitioning. I
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  Speaker 5: was trying to finish school. So I and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm in Sacramento. You know, if you know the northern California,
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  Speaker 5: Berkeley was about an hour away. So during this time,
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  Speaker 5: I went and I finished my undergrad at Berkeley.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: From there, you know, I kind of worked in some
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  Speaker 5: different areas in sports, and you know, before long I
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  Speaker 5: kind of transitioned. I went back and got my masters,
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  Speaker 5: and when I finished, that led me, you know, back
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  Speaker 5: here to the NBA. Had done an internship here, internship
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  Speaker 5: here at the NBA once so longster your debt led me.
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  Speaker 5: But it all just it came just from being curious,
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  Speaker 5: you know, not wanting you know, just my planning career
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  Speaker 5: to be the end of you know, what I could
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  Speaker 5: contribute and what I could do. I wasn't sure exactly
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  Speaker 5: you know, where it would leave me and what I
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  Speaker 5: would do. But it's been you know again, I think
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  Speaker 5: I've been able to take my experience plan you know,
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  Speaker 5: my experience around the business and you know, now cultivate
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  Speaker 5: Daddy into you know, leading the G League.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean that's interesting, right because most people when
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  Speaker 4: they think intern, they think, all right, that's the person
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  Speaker 4: that's going to do the job for free, that's going
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  Speaker 4: to learn on the fly, being a star, being an
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  Speaker 4: all star, Right, going from that part of life to
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  Speaker 4: now being an intern and having to start over again
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  Speaker 4: in a different realm. Was there any anxiety, any angst
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  Speaker 4: or did you have that year of that you were
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  Speaker 4: going around meeting CFOs. It really prompted you to say,
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  Speaker 4: I'm comfortable in these settings. I'm gonna attack this thing
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  Speaker 4: head on. I'm gonna start from the beginning. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: work my way out.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know one, you know, I was like, I
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  Speaker 5: did it. I was in I So, you know, after
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  Speaker 5: a number of years with the King's Organization, I left
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  Speaker 5: and you know, I went and I went to went
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  Speaker 5: to grad school with the Business School, and and in
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  Speaker 5: between my first year and my second year, I was like,
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  Speaker 5: I want to experience. I want to you know, go
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  Speaker 5: learn being a you know, just be in a regular
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  Speaker 5: setting is hard to do that. So I, you know,
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  Speaker 5: made some calls and email some people, and Mark Tatum,
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  Speaker 5: who's the Deputy Commissioner, I got in touch with him
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  Speaker 5: and I was telling them what I was doing.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: The story I tell is like I was like all
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  Speaker 5: over the place, and he was like, look, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we'll figure it out. But I ended up you know
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  Speaker 5: interning here at the at the NBA, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: like you know, what I did you know, honestly, you
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  Speaker 5: I borrow from my background, like you know, you got
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  Speaker 5: to start somewhere, you know, like even then you know
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  Speaker 5: nobody Lebron and show up being Lebron, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: you know Jordan and show up being Jordan's you know, nobody.
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  Speaker 5: You have to you know, you kind of have to
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  Speaker 5: start where you are. You know, we all need people
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  Speaker 5: to help us and educate us, and then you have
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  Speaker 5: to be willing to do the work and and kind
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  Speaker 5: of you know, be open enough to learn it. So
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  Speaker 5: in that part of it, you know, like I was,
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  Speaker 5: I was fine, and you know, and yeah there's some
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  Speaker 5: anxiety you don't know what you don't know, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: you you're willing to learn and kind of you know
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  Speaker 5: ingratiate yourself to people in a way that you know
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  Speaker 5: people are willing to help and and and show you
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  Speaker 5: the way. So for me, I never, you know again
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  Speaker 5: like I never, you know, got so tied to the
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  Speaker 5: idea of you know, like all like that was nice.
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  Speaker 5: But when I was young, I read a thing that
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  Speaker 5: said that you know, if if all I did in
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  Speaker 5: life was you know, like this thing, and that's all
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  Speaker 5: people knew me for that I did a poor job
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  Speaker 5: of living. So I never wanted that to just be
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  Speaker 5: you know, you know what I was known for the
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  Speaker 5: only thing that I could do. So I never you know,
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  Speaker 5: I try not to, you know, just be labeled as,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a basketball player.
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  Speaker 3: So all right, so let's let's get into this G
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  Speaker 3: League conversation. So everybody knows about the NBA, right and
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  Speaker 3: they know kind of heard about the G League Development League.
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  Speaker 3: Can you explain exactly what the G League is, how
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  Speaker 3: it works, the teams, all that to kind of get
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  Speaker 3: people a greater you know, idea of the G League.
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  Speaker 5: So so the G League and you know, in this
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  Speaker 5: you know, first iteration, the NBA Development League, you know,
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  Speaker 5: now G League, Gatoray League, and we're in our twenty
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  Speaker 5: second year of you know existence. We are the official
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  Speaker 5: development league, affiliate league of the NBA. So if you
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  Speaker 5: you know, if somebody's a baseball fan, you think of
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  Speaker 5: minor league based, minor league baseball, Triple A baseball, and
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  Speaker 5: we are you know, if you are a player and
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  Speaker 5: and you know, maybe it didn't you know, it didn't
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  Speaker 5: happen for you out of college, you know, in the
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  Speaker 5: year in years past, you know, the G League, D
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  Speaker 5: League then is where you would come to hone. Your
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  Speaker 5: skills continue to grow, just continue to you know, in
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  Speaker 5: some cases you're there, you ready, you know, just wait
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  Speaker 5: for for for opportunities. So you know Seth Curry, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Steph's younger brother spent you know, four or five years
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  Speaker 5: with us. Jordan Poole before he really you know, took off.
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  Speaker 5: He you know, spent some time with us. Jeremy Lynn,
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  Speaker 5: you know countless you know players, I think now the status.
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  Speaker 5: You know, somewhere over fifty percent of current NBA players
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  Speaker 5: have G League experience, so you know, everything from you know,
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  Speaker 5: players that were passed up in the NBA draft, young
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  Speaker 5: NBA players last year, half of the lottery picks spend
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  Speaker 5: time in the G League. Half of the first round
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  Speaker 5: spent time in the G League. So you know, you know,
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  Speaker 5: players that were passed up in the draft, young NBA
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  Speaker 5: players trying to you know, the way developed their game.
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  Speaker 5: They's so, you know, eighteen nineteen, twenty years old, still
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  Speaker 5: trying to find a role for themselves with NBA team
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  Speaker 5: uh And now we have our team mc knight, which
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  Speaker 5: is primarily made up of younger guys that are draft
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  Speaker 5: that will be draft eligible. So the Jalen Greens, you
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  Speaker 5: know in the past, Jonathan cominga school Henderson.
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  Speaker 3: This past draft, I wasn't the team m knight. Can't
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  Speaker 3: explain that.
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  Speaker 5: So Team mckknight is is a league NBA G League
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  Speaker 5: owned and operated team. They're based in Henderson, the bottom
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  Speaker 5: right outside of Las Vegas, and that team plays in
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  Speaker 5: the G League. They play the same you know, schedule,
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  Speaker 5: the same teams as everyone else. But it's primarily made
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  Speaker 5: up of young players that come from high school. You know,
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  Speaker 5: some come from a broad come international and that will
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  Speaker 5: you know, one two years enter the NBA draft. So
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  Speaker 5: you know again you know Jalen Green now you know
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  Speaker 5: everyone knows him. He was started with us with Team
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  Speaker 5: m knight school school school Henderson, this past draft started
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  Speaker 5: with us. So that that's our league made up. We're
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  Speaker 5: thirty you know, it's thirty NBA teams with thirty one
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  Speaker 5: G League teams will have will be thirty two. Phoenix
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  Speaker 5: is the only NBA team that doesn't have a connection
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  Speaker 5: to the G League. They'll be they'll be in I
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  Speaker 5: feel really good in the real near future. And then
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  Speaker 5: we have a team in Mexico City, independent team not
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  Speaker 5: connected to an NBA team and then again team McKnight.
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  Speaker 5: So that that's our league. That's that's our purpose, that's
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  Speaker 5: what we do. We also a place where young coaches
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  Speaker 5: grow up. You know, if you follow Nick Nurse seventy
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  Speaker 5: six ers chair coach started started with.
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  Speaker 4: US Champion leagues. Yeah, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: You for all of our officials, if your NBA officials,
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  Speaker 5: you started in the in the G League, you developed
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  Speaker 5: and grew through the G League. We test rules. So
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  Speaker 5: if you watch coaches challenge a new rule in the NBA,
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  Speaker 5: we did Coaches Challenge in the GLE four or five
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  Speaker 5: years before it reached the NBA. We tested, we analyze it.
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  Speaker 5: We can kind of show success rates going back, you know,
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  Speaker 5: four or five years. You know, so all of this,
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  Speaker 5: we did the shot clock. If you see the shot clock,
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  Speaker 5: you know it used to be always that like there
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  Speaker 5: was a file in between the play. It go from
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  Speaker 5: you know, the reset at twenty four. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: started the fourteen. Yeah, you know, we so that you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're a league of innovation as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so ignite. It's interesting because not only does it
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  Speaker 4: give an alternative for the kid who wants to come
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  Speaker 4: out of high school and may not be eligible, right,
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  Speaker 4: I think that you have to be one year postgrad.
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  Speaker 4: They don't have to go overseas. I know that was
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  Speaker 4: a route that Mellow took and then prior to him,
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Jennings took. But they can get compensated differently, right, So,
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  Speaker 4: Like I know, the average salary for the G League
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  Speaker 4: might be I don't know, anywhere between fifty hundred. But
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  Speaker 4: the guys who are looking like they're going to be
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  Speaker 4: a first round pick or lottery plic really top five,
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  Speaker 4: they can take on the largest salary. The guys like
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  Speaker 4: Scoot Henderson and we were talking about Tea talk about
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  Speaker 4: that process of them knowing that their lottery picks and
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  Speaker 4: being able to take on salaries that are different from
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  Speaker 4: the average player.
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  Speaker 5: So it came from, you know, like the impetus of
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  Speaker 5: it came from just this idea of young like guys
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  Speaker 5: like looking for like different paths. You know, my in
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  Speaker 5: my day, like it was no question. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: high school college. You know, I was up the era
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  Speaker 5: of like Kevin Garnett and when he told us he
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  Speaker 5: was going to them out, may you crazy like to
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  Speaker 5: kill your right? So, but you saw more and more
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  Speaker 5: young guys looking for different opportunities. We think we're a
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  Speaker 5: perfect place for gods to grow and develop. And with that,
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  Speaker 5: obviously you want to be able to pay them their
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  Speaker 5: like market rate, and so I think we've we've been
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  Speaker 5: able to do that with the schools and and Kamenas
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  Speaker 5: and Jalen's. But in addition to that, like we've also
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  Speaker 5: opened up it's no restrictions on them what they can
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  Speaker 5: go and do beyond just you know, the salary they
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  Speaker 5: make playing in the G League. So like School for example,
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  Speaker 5: you know, while he was with us, he you know,
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  Speaker 5: he signed you know, we're a Nike league. He went
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  Speaker 5: and you know, signed a deal with with Puma. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Jalen had his suite of marketing partnerships and things. So
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  Speaker 5: it we even you know, this is you know pre
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  Speaker 5: n I L. You know, they were able to go
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  Speaker 5: and you know kind of be professionals, truly be professionals
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  Speaker 5: with no restrictions. So it's worked well in that regard.
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  Speaker 5: I think they, you know, are more than talented enough
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  Speaker 5: to play in our league, and then just the opportunities
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  Speaker 5: for them to kind of start their professional careers beyond
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  Speaker 5: and then beyond the SATURD we still pay you know,
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  Speaker 5: their tuitions, you know, whether they want to start you know,
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  Speaker 5: college now they wanted to start in the future. We
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  Speaker 5: pay for them to go to school. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: have you know what I kind of think of as
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  Speaker 5: a whole suite of you know, like practical education, financial literacy.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we start teaching them about the c b A.
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  Speaker 5: You know, now we start they have other you know interests.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we try to explore it and help them
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of start exploring those interests. So we
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  Speaker 5: try to you know, just comprehensive help them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: on the court and off the court, develop and grow
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  Speaker 5: and prepare for the NBA.
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  Speaker 4: So okay, so what's.
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  Speaker 3: The revenue model for the G League because obviously the NBA,
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  Speaker 3: you know, television deals and a lot of money is generated,
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  Speaker 3: but people don't really see the G League on television
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  Speaker 3: and they're playing in much smaller arenas. Corporate sponsorships, I'm
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  Speaker 3: assuming it's a lot lower than what it is in NBA.
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  Speaker 5: So the model, the model is the same model. So
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  Speaker 5: you know, still it's still saying you know, media sponsorship, tickets,
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  Speaker 5: you know, same model is just you know smaller, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you know, obviously and then you know as a league too,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: you know, as we want to grow like all of
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: those areas of what we have to grow and so
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: we and and we have the benefit of being connected
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: and including a lot of what the NBA does. So
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: we we have a you know, we have national.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: So it's the idea to be I think the w
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: n B A wasn't. I don't know if that even
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: profitable now, but I know that obviously that it's under
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the NBA. Unbrother, right, So does the NBA care about
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: the G League being profitable?
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, definitely, definitely, no doubt. That's That's what I
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: spend a lot of my time on is so you
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: you you find new ways to make it more profitable, finding,
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: you know, new ways to make to help our teams
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: be profitable, to grow the league to where it's profitable,
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: you know, in some ways looking at our league and say, okay,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: like what is the what's the next model.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: For the G League?
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Like we meaning the league pays the players, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: and the typical model you know, say n B, A,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: m l B, the the teams pay the players. Right,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: so you know, we're again you know, this was like
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: the early days of the G league, it was like
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: eight teams. They were primarily in the Southeast. They were
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: in places like Columbus, Georgia and Roanoke, Virginia. You know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: we're now again, like you know, evolved. We're almost you know,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: one to one with our NBA teams and you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: so you know, sometimes the question is do we still
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: have the you know, should it be you know, a
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: different model now or you know, you know, how do
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: we grow you know, maybe even beyond just the thirty
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: NBA teams to help us grow, you know, what's the future.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: So that's you know, that's what we spend a lot
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: of our time on. So that's interesting. So like let's
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: take the Next We're here in New York. James Down's
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: the owner of the Next, the west Chester Next or affiliate.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: But James Down doesn't pay the salary of the west
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Chester Next. That's up to the NBA or Gillie.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Right, So then the revenue that's taken from those type
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: of games that goes back to the league as well,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the westest Nick Okay, get it. So when we talk
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: about the teams, because.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: They all let me be clear, the n b A
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: and the NBA team they support this league in that
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: so that they have that's how a player, any player
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: get you know, the Knicks can pull any player from
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: any team that's a G League. You know, that's how
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: so they have that ability because they you know, they support,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: they contribute to the G League. But you know it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: still you know, areas and ways where we have to
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: as a league.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: You know, so when the let's we'll stay with the
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: next if in that event, if they have a player
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: that is on Westchester and they get called up, I
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: guess if we're looking at farm system or developmental leagues,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: when they get the call up, they can sign something
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: that's called like a two way contract.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: They can do that, you can you know, so you
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: can have on in our rosters. You can have again,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: they could be you know, young NBA players that are signed,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: so they be contracted NBA players. So we hear it's
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: the Knicks manual quickly probably wouldn't be. But let's just say,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: you know, he comes to my young player, he could
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: be assigned to our league, west Chester Knicks.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: You know, you could have.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: You know, player that was undrafted that's just a G
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: League contracted player that again the league is paying, the
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: league is paying and you can have. Then you know
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: this third contract that you mentioned in a two way contract,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: those players are still for the most part contracted two
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: way players so or contracted NBA players.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: So this Ignite conversations. So there's always been issues with
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: players that want to come straight to the NBA right
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: ever since they stopped. But now it's a lot of
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: different things have happened over the course of the last
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: twenty years. But at one point it looked like players
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: were going to start going overseas. We saw Brandon Jennings
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: went overseas and LaMelo ball, but that never really went
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: anywhere other than a couple cases. Then ot starts to
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: the thing that's still kind of figuring out how that's
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: going to work out. Do you think that Ignite at
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: some point will be like a primary choice for for
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the top high school players to go to instead of
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: going to college.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I think it can be. I think we're we are
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: in a position to be able to facilitated. I think
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the what you have now and I think is a
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: good thing, is them having the option to like make
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: decisions themselves. So and you always had like you always
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: had it. I don't think it has to be you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: honestly to that, I don't think it has to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: you know, G League or Ignite or you know, college
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: or anything else over you know, one choice. Like you
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: know again, like at my time, you know, Tim Duncan
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: stayed three extra years of college. He probably could have
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: been the number one pick, you know, two or three
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: years in a row and came so like you've always
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: had that, you know, option of you know, but at
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: that time, it was just college or the NBA, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I think now it's yeah, well they stopped.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: So Jalen Jalen Rolls. We entered Jaylen roll shout to
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Jailer Rose. He had an interesting perspective on his His
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: take was that the only sports that don't let players
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: come through out of high school are sports that are
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: dominated by black people. He was like, when you have tennis,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: it's normal, Soccer people are playing at fifteen years old,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and every other sport pretty much. But he was like,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: basketball and football, it's interesting that those sports don't allow
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you to come straight out of high school. And by
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: not allowing you to come out of high school, there's
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of other people that's making a lot of money,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: millions and billions of dollars whether it's colleges, whether it's whatever.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: So what's your thoughts on specifically basketball players not being
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: able to come because there was a point some of
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the best players of all time have come out of
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: high school. The greatest player of all time, right Lebronly.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: So what's your thoughts with you pot coming out of
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: high school and and how does that impact.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I think it's looking and in this era again, like
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: the idea that you have the option I think with
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: n I l now, with what we're doing with the
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: G League, if it's over time, if it's abroad, the
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: fact that a young person can go and make money
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: and take care of themselves that and in the way
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: that they choose to. So if I can, if I
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: can go to school, and you know, if I could
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: have went to school and made you know, X amount
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: of money like that would in my in my situation,
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: that would have been like a world of difference. So
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: it was it was less about like the control of
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: entering to me entering the NBA or wherever, And it
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: was you know, the ability to be able to like
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: take care of yourself and earn a salary and earn
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: money you know, based on you know, other people profiting
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: on you. I think that to me, I think that's
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: really important. Like when you get into the you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the age and the you know, at what point all
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: those things are like, you know, collectively collectively agreed upon
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: between like leagues and players, right, Like, so you know
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: that part, I don't, you know. I think it's I
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: think the part that is really important is that the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: players have the options and the abilities to be able
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: to go and you know, start making money monetized take
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: care of themselves.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: But do you think that players should be able to
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: go to the NBA shot high school.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I think that I think they are. I think it's
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: something that's good enough.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Hm.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I think it's something that's good enough. I think, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: obviously it's something that's good enough. But you know, to
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: say all of them, you know, again, like it has
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: to work for like both sides have to work. For
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: the leagues, it has to work for like for the
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: players and the players. The players have to agree that's
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: the right thing. The leagues have to agree, I have
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: to get together to agree that, you know, this group
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: of players should be able to be a part of
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: the league. I think, for for us from a G
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: League standpoint, having that option, you know, I think it
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: helps some of that conversation.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I feel like every time we hear that conversation, it's
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: like just as of Lebron James is a Kobe Bryant
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Trace McGrady, but there's also a Collie on Young from
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: your age, from your day where it's like or Lenny
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Cook who doesn't make it. I want to stay with
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Ignite because I feel like the spreading and the growth
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: of the brand, it's kind of not reliant, but it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: it has a big purpose in having a Knight as
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: a showcase team in a sense where I remember last
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: year when it was like we all heard about Victor
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Wynbiama when we be able to see in the play
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: and it was like, okay, he's going to play for
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: a scoop and Ignite and it was like, okay, now
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: the focus is now on the league, right, we get
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: to see the kids from mgnite and now we get
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: to see vic. How is scheduling for that right, because
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: that's not a regular team that's playing. They're playing an
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: international team. And I know, now we have another showcase,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: we have another start that's coming from France, and now
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: you have Ron Holland on Ignite, who we all thought
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: was going to Texas is now only. How does that
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: work in terms of scheduling and making it a showcase game?
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I means the coordination of it. You're trying to
• 26:18
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, connect with you know, we're a league. You're trying
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: to connect with the league in this case, you know
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: International league, and you know kind of tie in there
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: the timing of their season with the timing of our season,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: and you know, take one team and you know, bring
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: them here. So I mean it gets it's not it's
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: not you know, seamless, like there's a lot of moving
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: parts to it. And you know, their victor, their team
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: played in the l NB Pro a league in France,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: so like you know, the timing, like the timing of
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: their schedule of their league games to be able to
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: come here and play those games against Ignite. Again, they
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: had to do some things on their end to make
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: it work. We had to do some things to make
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: sure it made it work. You know this. You know
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: this season we brought in the team from Australia, Perth,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and they matched up against Ron and Mantus Briselles.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: The idea is, you know, again like it started, and
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: you know, say with School and Victor and you take, okay,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: the two most highly talented players in that draft. Again
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: this year, you know, with Ron and Alex Saar, same
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: thing to lead you know, two of the top highly
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: talent like when you know again like bringing this talent
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: from around the world and allowing people to be able
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: to you know, see them, witness them before they you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: get to the NBA. I think we all remember, you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: seeing say Lebron and Carmelo play in there like high
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: school game at the time, and you know how legendary
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: that that was. You know. You know My thought is
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: like some years later, people will remember seeing School in Victor,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: you know, and that will be in a you know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: that's in G League game essentially, So you know, part
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: of what we want to be able to do as
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: a league is you know, you know, introduce you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: the best young players around the world to people, you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: ahead of the ahead of the NBA.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Do you is there a process, right if a kid
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: is super talented, Let's say, you know, he's top ten
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: in his high school class, is this a process for
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: them to become a member of the Night or like,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: how do you do that you sit down with twenty
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: guys and say, all right, these five or these three
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: are the ones that we're going to allow to be
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: on the team or or is there a try out process?
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: It's a you know, I think it's probably more of
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: an education process. And like it doesn't it doesn't fit
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: for for everyone, like everyone won't you know, I think
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: it's the right decision for them. You know, like this year,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: the Nite team this year had more draft ledgeble got
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: I think eight, Like that's the most like we've had,
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: you know, in the league at one time. And then
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, throughout the league we probably have
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: another eight or ten. That's you know, some a lot
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: of people don't know, like there are other guys that
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: can go in and draft. They just play on our
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: you know, you know other you know, standard G League teams.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: So like the opportunity is there. You know, we explained
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: you know, like you know, coach Jason Hard is the coach.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: He explains it to you know everyone. You know, Andre
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Barrett Is is like our program director. You know. They
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: they explained that you remember.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Dre you saying Jason Hard remember him playing at Syracuse.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they explained, you know, like the families and
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: educate them and this what is this is what it's about.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: And for the most part so far, I think we're
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: you know, kind of growing to a point some you
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: know where you know, you know, one team to you know,
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: for that demographic of players is tough, but you know
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: we've been able to, you know, take care of the
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: guys and get them opportunity.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: So okay, so for the star player there, they're obviously
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: gonna make a lot more money in Europe, right. But
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I guess the advantage of the G League is that
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: it's easier call up.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: It's the proximity. It's easier call up, you know, if
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: you again, like I played last night in Westchester or
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Long Island, and you know, Brooklyn needs a player or
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: is looking at a player. I mean you have you know,
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: NBA executives, NBA scouts personnel every G League game, you know,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: so you know, and in some cases, you know they
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: probably they're talking and have players as a part of
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: their development system, you know, even though they're not quite
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: yet at the NBA level. You know, they they're checking
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: the interest in seeing them grow and developed.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: So is this a conversation that gms or coaches have
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: or players agents to try to convince them, like, look,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: you're going to make more money in Greece, but this
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: is why you should play in the G League or.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: If you really you know, I think the ideas like
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: if you really believe you're an NBA player, Like there's
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: no you know, I let you know, the team basketball
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: people say this, but like you know, they say, like
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: the G League is the second best.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: League in the world, right, so do you think it's
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: the second best league in the world.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I don't, you know, I don't like fully, like if
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: you take our league with yes, and I say that
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: because if you take our league with young NBA players,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: G League players in its strongest form, like it's like
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: the level of basketball. I think quality of basketball is
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: is only second to the NBA. And you know, again,
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: if you truly believe you're an NBA player and you're
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: a young player and that's what you're going for, is no.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe you can make a little more money
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: somewhere else, but it's nowhere that you're gonna get an
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: opportunity to show that. Then, you know, playing in the
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: G League, what is the call up process? Simply you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: if if you you know you know again, we use
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: the Knicks because we're here, right I'm the Knicks, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: you know I have an open roster spot or I
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: need a particular player, you know, players injured, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I call you know that players agent. You know, hey,
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: we're you know, we're interested. We're gonna you know, sign them.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: We want to sign you know, ex player. You know,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: sometimes it's what we have like ten day contracts, where
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: it's a ten day contract where you get paid you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: a certain rate over you know ten days, or sometimes
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: you know it's two ways. You know, it's you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: sign them to a two way contract or you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: at times just a standard you know contract for for
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: that season or or beyond.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: And you know, then you.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: You alert the player and the team and you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: usually twenty four to forty eight hours they in market.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: They call their parents like I got the call up. Yeah.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: So in terms of the salaries for the team, is
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: there a cap that the league ha sept for each team?
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: And like what's the average salary per player?
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: They these are good questions. So are are all of
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: our players make the same? I mean the G League
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: pay all of our players the same salary? Forty one
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: five hundred is a G League salary for everybody, every
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: for every player. Now, there was a time again like
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: earlier iterations you had, we had these things. You know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: some people they don't they won't even like Mark, you
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: guys won't even remember this. But we had like a contract,
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: B contract C contracts and you know kind of tier
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: and you know we got rid of that. So but
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: that's the standard G League.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Salary, right.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: But then you you also, you know, you have players
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: that go to NBA training camp and they get paid
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: a certain amount of money for you know, they may
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: go to training camp and it gets third amount of
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: money they get, you know, a ten day contract. We talked,
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: you know, talked about it, or they're on a two
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: way contract they move, So the average salary for a
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: G League player is closer to you know, probably one
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: hundred thousand than that. You know that that salary they
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: get paid from playing in the G League.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was looking at that and I was trying
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to figure it. I'm like, I saw the forty one,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: but it said the average person is making anywhere between
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: one hundred and hundred and twenty five. But because you
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: add those things into it, are there specific teams that
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: players are more advantageous to go to because of the
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: winning culture? Right? Like for example, like the LA team
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: obviously doesn't it's an affiliate of the Lakers, but they
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: haven't won at the same clip, whereas the Toronto affiliate
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: right has won some chips and do players look at
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: it like that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: Like, look, we all are like I can't sell, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: I'm speaking of our teams now as relates to like players,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: you can't sell and you can't sell, you're not selling
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: can pay you more money because everybody makes the same salary.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: What you're selling is the opportunity to grow and develop.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: And like some teams have a track record for Higo,
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: all the guys that came through here and started here
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: and you know, this is what's you know, their future,
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: this is what happened for them when they left here.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: So yeah, one hundred one hundred percent. But I think
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: it's more based on because inn Ar League, like you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: guys are interested in how I, how I can grow,
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: how I can develop. I mean, they're betting on themselves
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: and they want, you know, a team that's going to
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: help them, you know, reach their goals.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: So what's some of the marketing initiatives that you guys
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: have put in place over the last couple of years
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: to help grow visibility for the G League.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: We have really, we have really you know, I think
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: strong partnership with the general with you know, marketing and
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: you know content insurance company. Yes, so that's been that's
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: been a you know, we do a what's what's the
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: name the break where we've done content with them, and
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: you know, Shack is a Shack is a big is
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: a big sponsor, so Shack, you know, obviously it's kind
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: of the voice over Nike is you know obviously we're
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Nike League. So that's the connection and benefit that we
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: get from being connected to Nike is always huge. And
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: then with the Gatory, you know, I think a lot
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: of times what people miss is as the G League,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: like we're the We're the Gatorade League, and you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: that connection is huge. And then you know, I think
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: one that's new that's coming up is our partnership with
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: the Hyatt And you know what that did. That that
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: allowed us to take our G League Winter Showcase, which
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: the last four years have been in Las Vegas. That's
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: allowed us to take it. And now we'll be in
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Orlando and that's all of our teams and you just
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: think of like a bad basketball convention. That's you know,
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: all of our teams there, all of the NBA general managers.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: You know what was it like combine?
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: It's like combines on steroids because they're actually playing. You know,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: we're playing competitive games, you're playing real games. We've bad
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: you know, a couple of years ago, you have players
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: leaving from there, a getting signed, going to NBA teams.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: You know, we have our we have our competition. Like
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: the sort of first fourteen games of our NBA season.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: We talked about n season tournament before the first fourteen
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: games of our season are essentially a tournament, and the
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: top eight teams from this part of our season when
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: we go to showcase, they're competing for one hundred thousand
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: dollars and you know, so then you break that up
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: ten gly players ten thousand a piece like our guys
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: are you know, you add that to the forty one
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: five that you know again that takes that up, but
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: that they're going for that, you know hard. But so
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: all of all of you know, all of those parts
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: of you know, our season that that's included in that,
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: but those are you know, say to the question, you know, obviously,
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: what we've done, you know with the General that's a
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: like a G League standalone partnership, is not you know
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: n b A and G League, that's a G League partnership.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Nike is huge, Gatorated is huge. And then what we're
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: doing now with the Hyatt taking this event there the
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Showcase is you know, really excited. But you know other things,
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: you know J Lab, you know money Line, that's uh,
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: that's an ignite partnership. You know O v O was
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: a you know, an ignited partnership. So a lot you
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: know a lot of them, but you know, i'd say
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: those are the ones that are doing, you know, kind
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: of the most exciting things with us right now.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about probably one of the biggest marketing moments
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: and league the biggest. I mean Matt Leclom prior to
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Georgetown when's the Dunk Contest, But he's a part of
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: the G League, right, he's not on the NBA roster
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: at the time. Talk about what that moment meant to
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: the lead.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, you say, like partnerships and marketing.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: I think you know all these things that we do,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: like with the NBA, like you can't you know, like
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: All Star probably second to the Finals is the biggest
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: platform the NBA has, so for us to be able
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: to come and find ways to be included, uh in
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: All Star last year, we were included in you know,
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: every day of All Stars. So we were you know,
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: we were a part of the Rookie Game. Now we
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: we're you know, we're one of the teams. There's a
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: G League team in the Rookie in the Rising Stars,
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Rookie Sophomore Game, Dunk contests with Mac and then we
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: had our you know, our up next game on Sunday,
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: and you know with Mac to be you know, to
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: be a G League player and to go you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: not like not only you know one, but like this
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: stuff like we hadn't seen that stuff, right, and uh,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: you just really like put on the show and you
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: see all the you know, Gianni's and you know everybody
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: else celebrating them for you know, for our guys, that's like,
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: that's that's everything. And the ability you know, for us
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: to then go and amplify that those those moments, you
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: can you gotta be ready for them, you know, it's
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: like you gotta be you know, you gotta be ready
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: for those moments because you know you don't get them,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: you know, every day.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: And Julie, I can, I can imagine the the Sixers
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: affiliate jerseys being sold out.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well let's talk about since you're talking about All
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Star and partnerships and other extremely intelligent decision on you guys,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: behalf rightly man right future.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Very innovative for sure. So Alesia will be a part
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: of this year's All Star festivities with you guys collaboration.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: So we're gonna be we're gonna be picking the All
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Star team, gonna be drafting and it's actually gonna be
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: the Eyo team, that's a fact. And then we're gonna
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: be live stream in the game.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: That's gonna be good. You know you played basketball your
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: whole life for sure. I don't think they know that.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: So this is gonna be fun to sit down and
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: do a game. Man, it's gonna be done.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: So yeah, let's talk about that.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: You know, who's whose bright ideas that?
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: So the idea of the game is, you know, up next,
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: that's you know, our best, you know, our brightest G
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: League players and you know, not All Star because it's
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: only one All Star game, right, like they all want
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: to be in the big All Star Game. So that
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: you know that the concept of that is to be
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: able to celebrate our G League players during the All
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Star weekend. Bring them there and then you know we
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: did that last year. Now say, you know our group,
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: you know, how can we make it even you know,
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: something different? Innovative, creative, And the idea there was okay,
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: let's let's you know, kind of partner with someone to say, okay,
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: you know you you have your own team, you know,
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: pick the team. So we break the teams up into
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: three three teams, four teams. Mark with yeah, so we
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: will break the teams up into four teams. One of
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: the teams will be the uy L team. You guys
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: will be able to pick your own team, and we're
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: going to you know, the way the game will go.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: We'll try to you know, kind of make it too cash,
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: you know, where it's you know, faster pace, and kind
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: of gamify you know, you'll be able to stream it
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: on your platform, so strengths you know, you know, distributed
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: in different ways, and just make it a different you
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: know again, like a different experience of a game and
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: get really get really creative. And you know, you guys,
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: you know, being willing to be a part of that
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: is obviously huge. Uh, I'm telling us, and it's going
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: to be I think, you know again, empowering and a great,
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: great opportunity for our guys general manage.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I told, I told the guys. I
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: mean I've been watching. I'm already watching the g D,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: but now I'm even more intently watching because I got
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: a scout to see who's gonna be on our team.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Because we don't come to just be a part of things.
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: We only participate because we're coming to win everything. So
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: we appreciate the opportunity to come and win.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but now I definitely appreciate it for sure. And
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: is it something that you know, you guys, I want
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: to do more of as far as you know, untraditional
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: type marketing reaching. We're in a different world now right
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: where people are consuming content different It's not just a
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: matter of watching television, right. It's a matter of social media.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: It's a matter of YouTube, it's a matter of podcasts,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: a variety of different things. So yeah, is that something
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: that you know, you guys are embracing more on that
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: online social media marketing type of platforms, no doubt.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: And and we we have to you know, one just
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: like the younger fans that we want to reach and
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: you know that we weren't connected to the G League
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: and to be able to introduce again like new fans,
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: younger fans that you know, we can even be the
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: first stop to them becoming NBA fans. And then that's
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: just again as a league, like when I talk about
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: testing rules and you know, introducing you know, new new
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: concepts to the game. That's you know, like League of Innovation,
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: that's what we want to be known as. So I
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: think this is even you know, a further stuff in
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: that direction.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: And so again this has taking place during All Star weeks.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: So it's gonna be in Indiana this year. Talk about
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: things that the time and that has happened and get
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: the details. Everybody who wants to support can can be there.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: To we'll be we'll hold the game Sunday, so it's
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: Sunday afternoon before NBA All Star Game. It'll be in
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: the footprint. It's what you called crossover, so like in
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: the footprint of the NBA activations going on. So if
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: you're at the NBA All Star like the All Star
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: NBA All Star Game, tickets are really really hard to
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: get a lot of people can't get those tickets. You
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: can get a ticket to the up next game. So
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: come to the up next game and cheer four you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: the future stars of the NBA. How would they get
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: a ticket? Just the NBA dot Com, NBA dot Com.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: That's part of the package of just not the All
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Star Game, but like they have a package where you
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: could come to like the type thing. Yes, and that's
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: included in that. Yes, okay, and yeah, this is exciting.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Definitely looking forward to it for sure. Before we leave,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: any other initiatives that you guys are working on or
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: what's what's your vision for you know, making this league
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: as you know big as possible.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Well you know, obviously we like I said, I think
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: that for a long time our goal was getting having
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: thirty G League teams the NBA team, so we're really
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: close to that. And then continue to create platforms and
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: opportunities for our guys to grow and grow on the
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: court and off the court. So you know, we again
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: we you know, we talked about Ignite. But for all
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: of our our players, we offer them a continuing education program,
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: We offer them job shadow programs, we offer you know,
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: entrepreneur programs where they continue to learn. So just continue
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: to put the league in a place, put our players
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: in a place where they can continue to grow and learn.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: How do you feel about the state of basketball right now?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: A lot of people, you know, the Europeans taken over.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: It's an international game, and even how the game is
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: played it is more of a European style. The euro
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: step right, and people are playing the game more different.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: Step on steph has changed the game as far as
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: shooting threes. Now everybody shoot threes at twelve years old,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: people come down from half court shoot threes.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: You're a big man.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: But the big man is not really relevant in today's
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: game anymore. Seven foot is when beyond the seven four
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: and he's a guard much so the game has changed
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: a lot since the nineties and early two thousands and
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: the golden age of the NBA. How people like to say,
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: but I think it's I think it's in a good space.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts as far as somebody that's actually
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: played the game and you've you've seen different stages of
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: the game where we are now, how you feel.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: I think, I think the game is is great. And
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: I mean I even say that like with a critical
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying like I like every you know, I
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: would like a couple of more post touches. But I
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: think the game is I think the game is great.
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: I think the game is a global game, you know.
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: I think the idea that it has to be you know,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: how many you know, Europeans or international players, you know
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: taking over the game. I just think, like good players,
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: you know, find their way to the best league in
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: the world, Like the NBA is the best league in
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: the world. I think styles, I think that evolves, Like
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: you know, I think right now it is a style
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: of kind of five man out and you know, pace
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: and you know, shooting a lot of perimeter shots. That
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: that's the you know, that's the style that teams are
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: seeing successful now. I think that'll that will evolve. I
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: don't know if we'll ever go back to you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: when I had to come play the Nicks in the
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: garden and like it was like Oakley and Mason and
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: charl Smith. I don't know we won't to ever go
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: back to that.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: But you know, I think I think your game would
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: have translated. I think so I knowing your game, like
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: I feel like, yeah, there's a Tim Duncan, but your
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: game wasn't really Tim Duncan. You were almost like a
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: face up for in a sense where if you had
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: to step back, I feel like Brook Lopez was a
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: post up man that now shoots more threes than anybody
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: on outside of the days you work.
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: On those, like you're gonna like I didn't shoot a
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: lot through but I would have worked you know, in
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  Speaker 5: this era, I would have worked on more, would have
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: been more empowered to shoot them, you know, the coaches
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  Speaker 5: would increase it. I would have felt better about Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, but I think like all of that comes
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  Speaker 5: in and you know, kind of waves and I think
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  Speaker 5: we'll see, you know, at some point, based on like
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: the talent and the players.
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  Speaker 4: You see, you're gonna see a different way the game
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: is played. I think there's another evolution that's happening, and
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: maybe most people are n't aware of his players that
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: are now in the exact position when we talk about
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: you know, we just sat down with Andre Goodala and
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: now at the NBA, NBA PA, Joe Dumars is here
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: at the league. You're here talk about that evolution of
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: guys now stepping in exact roles. You know, Adam Silver
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: probably you know, he won't be running the NBA forever, right,
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: So now we've got guys and training that elite that's
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: dominated by people looking like us can now be run
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: by people that look.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'll go even like beyond like beyond that.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a nice thing where you see, you know,
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: I came up where you know, it was a Joe
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Dumars running the team and a Billy Knight running the
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: team and Stuve Jackson. So like, you know what we've
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: seen that Like what we see now with guys, I
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: think that's really exciting is like they're like business prowess,
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: you know, like Lebron the things that he's done, you know,
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: off the court, like he's you know, arguably the best
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: player ever, right, you know I say that the respect
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: you know, you don't think you don't think he's the best. Way,
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: I just always you know, like we didn't really get
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: to see Oscar. We didn't really get to see you know,
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: I saw Korean, but we didn't really get to see career.
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: So I always think of it like I don't want to. Uh,
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: my father, he taught me that. He's like you know,
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: for the fathers of So I don't.
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: Came into this league there was a man dominating. He
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: wants to be respectful of the people who think that
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: that man.
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's I mean. But the things that they're doing, Uh,
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: you know what magic is done in ownership. You know,
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: Michael Jordan has done ownership that we haven't. You know,
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: we hadn't witnessed that before. And I think seeing that,
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: in addition to you know, you have Andre leading the
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: Players Union now and you know guys you know, doing
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: things in different executive role, I think the combination of
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: those two is really powerful.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thank you for your time, Thank you appreciate it,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: and definitely excited about the power of the partnership for
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: eyre coming coming for the chip.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm thinking even bigger. I'm thinking, you know, there's
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: a Phoenix team that's coming potentially. There you go. You're
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: talking about ownership. I know, I know some guys. There
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: you go.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: You connect you with the sun, and that's something to it.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: I'll go up to the eighteenth floor. We can talk
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: about the Vegas team. We can talk about the Seattle
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: team too.
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: All right, Seattle, Seattle, if we come, so will come?
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: All right, Thank you, appreciate it, thank you, thank you.
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