Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump's leadership.
Speaker 1: I'm Christy nom the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are at the
Speaker 1: lowest levels ever recorded, and over one hundred thousand illegal
Speaker 1: aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally, your
Speaker 1: next you will be fined nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned,
Speaker 1: and deported.
Speaker 2: You will never return.
Speaker 1: But if you register using our CBP home app and
Speaker 1: leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 2: Do what's right. Leave now.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will be protected.
Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 4: You're representing him, and now you're working on a professional
Speaker 4: career as well. Right at the point where he's about
Speaker 4: to come back.
Speaker 5: Exactly Wow, and the agent you took a test to
Speaker 5: think test right, Okay, so you become an agent. You
Speaker 5: said that he doesn't get an extension, right, So now
Speaker 5: he's a free agent at that point in time.
Speaker 6: So yeah, one more year on this contract, which was
Speaker 6: an option year.
Speaker 7: Yeah he played that.
Speaker 6: Yea, that would have been the twenty two to twenty
Speaker 6: three was his option year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he took the option. He played, and then
Speaker 4: we saw traded traded to Dallas.
Speaker 7: But he got traded mid season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he got traded. But so as that process
Speaker 4: is happening, that's on the court. But Nike, I mean,
Speaker 4: this is a premier athlete. Like we went over, there's
Speaker 4: obviously Jordan and Jordan Brand and then it's Kobe and
Speaker 4: then it's like Lebron Kai kd. What are those conversations
Speaker 4: like because this is one of the premier athletes, his
Speaker 4: uncle Drew, this is the top selling shoe.
Speaker 3: Kids love it.
Speaker 6: His shoes were still selling. At the same time the
Speaker 6: shoes were still selling. We were in conversations, well, we
Speaker 6: hadn't really started at that point about what the next
Speaker 6: steps would be, if he was going to remain a
Speaker 6: signature athlete or not, in what way they wanted to
Speaker 6: continue that. We hadn't even started that yet his shoes were.
Speaker 7: So they're definitely on board, We're.
Speaker 6: Already I wouldn't say they were fully on board. I
Speaker 6: think that internally, like within every company, everybody had issues
Speaker 6: with there were people that were, I'm pro vaccination and
Speaker 6: people that were I'm anti vaccination, and so I think
Speaker 6: that probably within and I don't know this to be true,
Speaker 6: within those Nike walls, there were people that said, Hey,
Speaker 6: you're forcing me to get vaccinated, but you have a
Speaker 6: signature athlete that isn't vaccinated. What kind of messaging is
Speaker 6: that sending. So I'm sure you know everybody, it was
Speaker 6: a full coal time for every company, just having the
Speaker 6: conversation about vaccine versus non vaccination.
Speaker 5: So he makes it through that and now he's playing
Speaker 5: for the nets, and then something else happens. So he
Speaker 5: shares a link to a documentary and that causes another
Speaker 5: firestorm and he gets suspended indefinitely. And okay, so now
Speaker 5: NBA punishing the broken nets, punishing them. But now the
Speaker 5: Nike situation starts to unravel because now Nike at some
Speaker 5: point steps away from him. Right, was he up for
Speaker 5: a new contract or did they just terminate the current contract?
Speaker 5: He was up for a new contract. It just so
Speaker 5: happened out timing was at the same time at the
Speaker 5: same time, So they didn't technically terminate him. They just
Speaker 5: didn't knew They did nothing essentially, Yeah, to extend that
Speaker 5: contract essentially, how was okay? So how was that? That
Speaker 5: was another obviously very high profile news story. How was
Speaker 5: that for you and for him going through that?
Speaker 6: I think what he wanted and perhaps what he would
Speaker 6: have wanted from Nike, I don't know if Nike would
Speaker 6: have been able to give it to him, because he
Speaker 6: wanted a lot more creative control, he wanted a lot
Speaker 6: more equity, he wanted higher commission, like there were there
Speaker 6: were things that he wanted that I honestly think that
Speaker 6: just was not within Nike's ecosystem to provide or to give.
Speaker 4: So, regardless of the situation it was Nike, he still
Speaker 4: not might have been home for you guys anyway exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I think he tweeted and said that he didn't
Speaker 7: like to shoot they had put.
Speaker 4: Out it was a deniging, uh the Eights.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but how but how was the from getting suspended?
Speaker 7: How is that dealing? Once again? Now you gotta deal
Speaker 7: with the Brooklyn nuts, you gotta deal with the NBA.
Speaker 5: He had to go meet with the commissioner and a
Speaker 5: bunch of others, tough community service and different things at HLA.
Speaker 5: How is that because he just went through something previously
Speaker 5: with COVID, now he's going something going through something completely different,
Speaker 5: but another thing less than a year later.
Speaker 7: So how was that for you guys going through that difficult?
Speaker 6: It was. It was a very very difficult moment and
Speaker 6: I think that to really dev into.
Speaker 4: This episode is brought to you by P and C Bank.
Speaker 4: A lot of people think podcasts about work are boring,
Speaker 4: and sure they definitely can be, but understanding a professional's
Speaker 4: routine shows us how they achieve their success little by little,
Speaker 4: day after day. It's like banking with P and C Bank.
Speaker 4: It might seem boring to save, plan and make calculated
Speaker 4: decisions with your bank. Keeping your money boring is what
Speaker 4: helps you live or more happily fulfilled life. P and
Speaker 4: C Bank Brilliantly Boring since eighteen sixty five. Brilliantly Boring
Speaker 4: since eighteen sixty five is a service mark of the
Speaker 4: PNC Financial Service Group, Inc. P and C Bank National
Speaker 4: Association member fdiic.
Speaker 3: Erners what's up.
Speaker 4: You ever walk into a small business and everything just
Speaker 4: works like the checkout is fast, the receipts are digital,
Speaker 4: tipping is a breeze, and you're out the door before
Speaker 4: the line even builds odds are they're using Square. We
Speaker 4: love supporting businesses that run on Square because it just
Speaker 4: feels seamless. Whether it's a local coffee shop, a vendor
Speaker 4: at a pop up market, or even one of our
Speaker 4: merch partners, Square makes it easy for them to take payments,
Speaker 4: manage inventory, and run their business with confidence, all from
Speaker 4: one simple system. If you're a business owner or even
Speaker 4: just thinking about launching something soon, Square is hands down
Speaker 4: one of the best tools out there at to help
Speaker 4: you start, run, and grow. It's not just about payments,
Speaker 4: it's about giving you time back so you can focus
Speaker 4: on what matters most Ready. To see how Square can
Speaker 4: transform your business, visit Square dot com backslash go backslash
Speaker 4: eyl to learn more that Square dot com backslash, go
Speaker 4: backslash eyl. Don't wait, don't hesitate. Let's Square handle the
Speaker 4: back end so you can keep pushing your vision forward.
Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Nohm, the.
Speaker 1: United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted
Speaker 1: illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded,
Speaker 1: or one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If
Speaker 1: you were here illegally, your next you will be fine
Speaker 1: nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported.
Speaker 2: You will never return.
Speaker 1: But if you register using our CBP home app and
Speaker 1: leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 2: Do what's right. Leave now.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will.
Speaker 3: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 6: To that detail, I don't want him to be here
Speaker 6: to really talk it through because there was so many
Speaker 6: nuances there that I think when you really hear the
Speaker 6: real story behind it, it'll make it'll make your jaw drop.
Speaker 4: You have probably one of the most intensifying first years
Speaker 4: on the job very much. Maybe ever right you're talking
Speaker 4: about that the shoe contract negotiation and be a contract negotiation,
Speaker 4: suspensions world, pandemics like all that's happening in your first year.
Speaker 4: So we're at the point where you know, we're looking
Speaker 4: at from a financial standpoint, and some of the things
Speaker 4: that you want from a shoe deal, it's.
Speaker 7: Not going to happen. Perhaps that night.
Speaker 4: Are other shoe companies reaching out and offering because I
Speaker 4: know we land and we'll get to that. Are other
Speaker 4: shoe companies reaching out and saying, this is a prize
Speaker 4: free agent. From an athletic endorsement standpoint, we should go
Speaker 4: ahead and try to sign them.
Speaker 6: Initially, we wanted to go independent, okay, And we had
Speaker 6: a lot of conversations with being a real independent shoe brand,
Speaker 6: and I sort of made the decision collectively with his
Speaker 6: dad that that probably wasn't the best route because building
Speaker 6: a shoe and building a performance shoe on the court
Speaker 6: where his feet are your most valuable asset, was something
Speaker 6: that we were just really worried about from just being
Speaker 6: an dependent brand, just having all of the resources, the
Speaker 6: tools and everything to make sure that his feet were protected.
Speaker 6: We want him to have a very long career, and
Speaker 6: so we didn't want to jump out and say, hey,
Speaker 6: we're going to do this independent and we produce a
Speaker 6: shoe that just couldn't.
Speaker 5: Stand well you did you ever look at the big
Speaker 5: ball of brand and what happened with that as something.
Speaker 4: That was as you said, that study, because I mean
Speaker 4: they said that, I don't know if it's true or not.
Speaker 7: Shout out to Lonzo.
Speaker 5: He came to investments, but they say one of the
Speaker 5: reasons why he's hurt is because of the shoe. I
Speaker 5: don't know if that's true.
Speaker 7: It broke down. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know, and you know, I don't I just
Speaker 6: I think that when you think about performance and the
Speaker 6: way he moves in the angles in which he moves
Speaker 6: on the court. And remember I talked about, you know,
Speaker 6: your research and you study, being independent and just basically
Speaker 6: producing a shoe that can achieve that mechanism was something
Speaker 6: that we all were really concerned about. There's something that
Speaker 6: you can kind of build a plane while flying it.
Speaker 6: This wasn't one of them, and this was one of
Speaker 6: them that we just didn't want to take that that
Speaker 6: that chance on and that's just being honest.
Speaker 4: So you end up with at Edna right, No, Ante,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Answa. And so this is interest it because
Speaker 4: this is now I'm looking at this as a global play,
Speaker 4: right like they have at the time. Well, Dwayne Wade
Speaker 4: was there. Who's who's at Uh Clay Thompson, That's what
Speaker 4: it was. Are you watching how he's structuring his deal
Speaker 4: and and looking at this is completely independent. We want
Speaker 4: to have a global brand. This is a company that
Speaker 4: I think we can partner with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So we took the time to kind of figure
Speaker 6: out what did we really want an a shoe deal.
Speaker 6: So before we even you know, when it was Nike
Speaker 6: was done, it was like, what is what's important? So
Speaker 6: it was creativity, it was price point, quality, products of
Speaker 6: other things. And so when we started to have the
Speaker 6: conversations with Anton a few other companies, it was really
Speaker 6: about us creating our own contract because we didn't want
Speaker 6: something that was really a traditional contract where it was
Speaker 6: like you just get royalties and you get a base
Speaker 6: commission and you walk away. We wanted something that had
Speaker 6: a lot more ownership for us because we knew that
Speaker 6: once we put Kai in the lab, we knew what
Speaker 6: he was going to create. At the end of the day,
Speaker 6: we wanted something that gave us real equity, that gave
Speaker 6: us a real opportunity to control the narrative and do
Speaker 6: something really different. We wanted something that was international, and
Speaker 6: we wanted something that we could also use as a springboard.
Speaker 6: So we knew that in China his shoes were very successful,
Speaker 6: So it just made sense right when we looked at
Speaker 6: if we thought about what part of the world were
Speaker 6: his number one sales, it was China. So we immediately
Speaker 6: kind of stood there and said, what can we build
Speaker 6: here and expand?
Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J.
Speaker 2: Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the.
Speaker 1: United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted
Speaker 1: illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded,
Speaker 1: and over one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested.
Speaker 1: If you are here illegally your next you will be
Speaker 1: fine nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported.
Speaker 2: You will never return.
Speaker 1: But if you register using our CBP home app and
Speaker 1: leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 2: Do what's right. Leave now.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump America's Law Cause border and families will
Speaker 1: be protected.
Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,