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Speaker 3: You as a player, knowing that at seventeen you got

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Speaker 6: All right, guys, welcome back.

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Speaker 6: This is a very special episode for us.

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Speaker 7: We're gonna get busy. Yeah, this is this is a

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Speaker 6: If you don't know, I was a stellar basketball player.

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Speaker 3: Because they were count how many times you would say

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Speaker 8: And so this is one before I became a journalist,

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Speaker 6: So over time, elite.

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Speaker 8: When I first heard of this idea, I think my

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Speaker 6: So I'll explain.

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Speaker 8: Where high school kids from all over the country, actually

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Speaker 6: Now, they get paid to play.

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Speaker 8: And where in this facility it looks like an NBA arena,

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Speaker 6: They got Kevin.

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Speaker 8: So all right, this is something that's extremely interesting. Was

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Speaker 8: for years, people have been criticized in NCUBA or making

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Speaker 8: Athletes actually are able to get paid, but you guys

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Speaker 9: He also has opportunities beyond that, so we share in revenue.

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Speaker 9: And Bryce and I just had a conversation about this yesterday.

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Speaker 9: So I waited twenty four years to get a piece

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Speaker 9: You know, we have a customer education here, which is

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Speaker 9: And our learning facilitators and we call them learning facilitators

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Speaker 2: But what it's not.

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Speaker 9: It's self paced learning, which is we will ensure through

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Speaker 9: So things like financial literacy, things like public speaking, things

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Speaker 9: What goes into turning a game, a fun hobby into

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Speaker 8: But by coming here, you're giving up your college eligibility,

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Speaker 9: Well, I can tell you that every employee at Overtime

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Speaker 8: So if this company goes public or something like that,

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Speaker 2: And yeah, well we'll we'll we'll all see the benefits

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Speaker 9: And that's why that's why we're so that's why we're

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Speaker 6: How do you feel about that, Brycon.

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Speaker 4: That's good men, Me and my teammates, my brothers, we

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Speaker 9: Mean, can we just stop right here, right We've talked

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Speaker 2: About giving back.

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Speaker 9: The young man has his own team and he understands partnership,

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Speaker 8: So all right, So it started with an eighty million

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Speaker 8: So all right, when overtime and if wayd anybody that

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's the next generation sports media company. This

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Speaker 9: In fact, we know our first our first weekend, we

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Speaker 8: So all right, so obviously they're all very smart investors,

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Speaker 9: We have a we have a robust and growing apparel business.

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Speaker 9: You wear the hoodie I have on, or the hoodie

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Speaker 9: And so we have all twenty seven jerseys on sale

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Speaker 8: You know, it's so crazy because I was telling Aaron,

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Speaker 7: Yeah you are.

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Speaker 3: So you went from being the player of the year

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Speaker 3: in Arkansas the man, right, and now you've joined twenty

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Speaker 3: five other twenty six other guys who are the man

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Speaker 3: where they're from. So what's that like, right? Because in

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Speaker 3: college it's kind of a similar situation. Everybody is the

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Speaker 3: player of the year where they're from, and then they

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Speaker 3: meet in college and then somebody is going to be

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Speaker 3: the start. So what is it like now with knowing

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Speaker 3: that everybody here the purpose is to be here to

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Speaker 3: make it to the pros?

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Speaker 7: What's it like the competition?

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Speaker 4: Like, I mean, you know, we all got our dreams

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Speaker 4: are going to the pros, and I think that that

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Speaker 4: just what makes us better. I mean practice, you know,

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Speaker 4: like I said, we're alder Man.

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Speaker 7: So you must be killing people practice.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's fun. You know we're going at each other.

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Speaker 4: You know, sometime it gets a little you know, reality,

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Speaker 4: but you know, at the end of the day, we

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Speaker 4: know you're brothers. So just doing that we know in

472
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Speaker 4: the game is just not gonna be as hard as

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Speaker 4: practice's gonna be easier. But we know we go hard

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Speaker 4: in practice. How Coach Ali says, level A VIV hundred

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Speaker 4: twenty percent.

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Speaker 5: That's what we do every day.

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Speaker 8: So Aaron, let me ask you. Is it twenty seven

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Speaker 8: kids total? It's twenty seven, so twenty seven young men.

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Speaker 8: So this is the question that everybody's gonna have, all right,

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Speaker 8: out of twenty seven, everybody has aspirations of making it

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Speaker 8: to the NBA, but.

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Speaker 6: They're all not gonna make it to the NBA.

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Speaker 8: Right, So all right, the people that don't make it

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Speaker 8: to the NBA, there is a college fund set up

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Speaker 8: for them, right, So can you talk about that for it,

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Speaker 8: because like, I know that's gonna be something like, well,

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Speaker 8: what about the kids that don't make it to the

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Speaker 8: NBA that da da da.

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Speaker 9: We have to start with how we define success here, right,

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Speaker 9: Success is about getting you prepared two through and beyond basketball.

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Speaker 9: And what success might look like for some athletes in

492
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Speaker 9: this program is exactly what their dreams have mapped out,

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Speaker 9: which is walking across that stage. Shake in the commission

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Speaker 9: of the NBA's hand and start and really getting past

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Speaker 9: the starting line of a career.

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Speaker 2: In the NBA.

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Speaker 9: Others might find their way overseas, and there's still professional

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Speaker 9: basketball players that make multiple millions of dollars in other

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Speaker 9: parts of the world.

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Speaker 2: There also might.

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Speaker 9: Be a young man or many young men who find

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Speaker 9: that they have a passion for the game but want

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Speaker 9: to redirect it in a way that doesn't necessarily include

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Speaker 9: being on the court as much as it is surrounding

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Speaker 9: the game or surrounding another passion of theirs.

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Speaker 2: And that's where we're here.

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Speaker 9: And prepare because young I don't just like all of

508
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Speaker 9: us like we've changed over time and we've matured, and

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Speaker 9: even our goals have evolved.

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Speaker 2: And so if someone's goals evolve to want to.

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Speaker 9: Go back to college as opposed to be becoming a

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Speaker 9: professional basketball player, we're here to support it with one

513
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Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars in academic scholarship to go to any school,

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Speaker 9: any school you want, in any school you can get into,

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Speaker 9: and so we'll be here to support that. The other

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Speaker 9: thing is is, you know, Dan Porter, one of our founders,

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Speaker 9: was talking to Kevin Durant actually early days of this concept,

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Speaker 9: and he was talking about the academic scholarship concept and

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Speaker 9: the fun and and Katie just asked a very simple question,

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Speaker 9: what if they don't want to go to college?

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Speaker 2: And Dan's like, you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 9: We have we have over one hundred investors in some

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Speaker 9: of the most amazing industries and companies in the world,

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Speaker 9: and they are they are invested not only in this,

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Speaker 9: in this financially, but they're they're also making their resource available.

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Speaker 9: And so if a young man wants to go work

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Speaker 9: in the music industry, we've got a couple of people

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Speaker 9: who've done that before. If you want to get into

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Speaker 9: you know, venture capital or real estate or or technology,

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Speaker 9: we have we have folks all throughout our board that

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Speaker 9: obviously can help us. And so what we're here to

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Speaker 9: do is support not only the realization of your of

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Speaker 9: your perfect dream, but also you're.

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Speaker 2: Imperfect dream, right.

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Speaker 9: And and so that was the conversation that we had

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Speaker 9: with families, eyes wide open. Here are the here are

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Speaker 9: the decisions you're making, and here are the opportunities that

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Speaker 9: we are prepared to support, not only the ones that

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Speaker 9: are perfectly aligned with going to the NBA and crossing

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Speaker 9: that stage, but also those that those that don't and

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Speaker 9: so we have opened up, we have we have open

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Speaker 9: and honest conversations about that.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that overtime has done is it's

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Speaker 3: given us eyes to young talent at a very early

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Speaker 3: stages by providing highlights or clips of them. A couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago, we saw Zion Williamson twist his ankle

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Speaker 3: at a duke game, fell out the shoe right, and

548
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Speaker 3: everybody was like, oh my gosh, his career could be

549
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Speaker 3: over right, what shoe was that?

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Speaker 7: It was a big scandal. They thought he was injured.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm asking this question now because I'm thinking

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Speaker 3: about what if these guys at some point get injured.

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Speaker 3: Is there some type of financial protection or assurance in

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Speaker 3: the event of injury for them?

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Speaker 9: Yes, and and and that's again that was a part

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Speaker 9: of the eyes wide, open conversation with every family, which is,

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Speaker 9: let's talk about what we all hope will happen, but

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Speaker 9: let's also discuss the things that can happen to us.

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Speaker 2: Right, and so we do we have We have.

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Speaker 9: Insurance, disability insurance that would cover that in a way

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Speaker 9: that no other high school in America, in fact, even

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Speaker 9: colleges would address nor cover. And so we are prepared

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Speaker 9: for a number of outcomes here obviously wanting to stay

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Speaker 9: focused on the ones that we believe they're poised to

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Speaker 9: to realize. And so yeah, that's that's that's what success

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Speaker 9: and preparation and and support looks like for us.

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Speaker 8: So as far as the actual basketball competition, who's on

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Speaker 8: the calendar? Like, who do you actually play? Because I'm

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Speaker 8: assuming you're not allowed to play high schools?

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Speaker 6: Right we are?

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Speaker 9: You are?

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Speaker 2: Are? It's you know, there's a lot.

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Speaker 9: If there's one NCAA for college, there's fifty n c

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Speaker 9: a as for high school so you have to navigate

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Speaker 9: the map with those who are are open to it.

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Speaker 9: There's also obviously different prep schools throughout the country, and

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Speaker 9: so we have a we have a pretty robust schedule

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Speaker 9: between the twenty ninth of October through middle of March

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Speaker 9: in factors, thirty seven games that will play, and it's

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Speaker 9: a combination of three different formats of basketball or competition.

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Speaker 9: We'll play in prep series where we'll either bring in

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Speaker 9: three prep schools to play against our three teams, we'll

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Speaker 9: play on the road and the same thing, or we'll

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Speaker 9: play what we call league play, which is Brison's team

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Speaker 9: versus the two other teams in a night. So we'll

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Speaker 9: play a twenty minute game with two of them, a

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Speaker 9: twenty minute game with the other with another combination of them,

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Speaker 9: just to make sure they all three play each other

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Speaker 9: in a given night.

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Speaker 2: So that's called league play.

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Speaker 9: Then the other thing, which you witnessed last night here

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Speaker 9: at ote with something we call pro simulation or pro

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Speaker 9: sim and that is us playing with NBA or pro

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Speaker 9: rules to prepare them. And so when you look on

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Speaker 9: our court, you'll see an orange three point line, you'll

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Speaker 9: see a black three point line. Last night we played

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Speaker 9: twenty four second shot clock and we played with the

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Speaker 9: black line, which is the three point line in the NBA.

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Speaker 8: Oh I was, I was wondering, Okay, So all right,

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Speaker 8: because I'm like, this is a long game because it

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Speaker 8: was twelve minute quarters and you had three refs.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So that you don't do that every single game.

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Speaker 9: No.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we play all three different formats throughout the season.

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Speaker 8: Okay, So the twenty minutes, like after the college type

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Speaker 8: vibe the three point line.

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Speaker 9: So the other other thing is is that that is

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Speaker 9: designed to allow for pro scouts to be able to

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Speaker 9: see these young men and their path towards really being

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Speaker 9: prepared for the next level. And so a couple of

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Speaker 9: things we do. One is we do pro sim games.

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Speaker 9: The other thing we do is we open up practices.

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Speaker 9: In fact, we've had our first of what will be

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Speaker 9: many pro days, and we had our pro day a

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Speaker 9: couple of weeks back, and so it was basically an

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Speaker 9: invitation for all pro scouts, NBA and otherwise to come

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Speaker 9: in and see these young men for the first time,

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Speaker 9: see them train, see them play, see sort of the

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Speaker 9: the habits that we're trying to form. We had sixty

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Speaker 9: scouts here, Twenty nine to thirty NBA teams were in

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Speaker 9: the building.

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Speaker 7: So I mean that sounds pretty intimidating.

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Speaker 3: But for you as a player, knowing that at seventeen,

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Speaker 3: you got that many people watching you and your brothers perform.

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Speaker 7: What's that like?

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Speaker 3: Because I'm thinking about the NFL combine and the NBA combine.

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Speaker 3: These are like juniors and seniors and some freshmen in

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Speaker 3: college and they fold under pressure.

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Speaker 7: What was it like as a seventeen year old going

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Speaker 7: through that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they told us they were going to be there,

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Speaker 4: you know, when we first came, they said, that's you know,

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Speaker 4: they're going to be there, so you know, we've been

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Speaker 4: putting the work in. I mean, you know, you might

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Speaker 4: get a little nerves, but you know, you know what

636
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Speaker 4: you're here for and where your goals are. So just

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Speaker 4: being out there and we all compete, it went hard.

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Speaker 4: You know, just try to put on the show in

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Speaker 4: front of them.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember.

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Speaker 8: So before I went to IMG Academy, briefly, I went

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Speaker 8: to this other school called Winchington Academy in New England

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Speaker 8: and that was one of the top prep schools in

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Speaker 8: the country at the time. And we had a at

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Speaker 8: NBA Prospects. So Rick Patino came and that was like

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Speaker 8: a big deal to have Rick Patino there as a practice.

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Speaker 8: And then we had one NBA scout came because we

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Speaker 8: had a kid from Australia. So I remember when the

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Speaker 8: NBA scout came. It was like every white was like, Yo,

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Speaker 8: the NBA's here right now, Like it was going.

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Speaker 7: Crazy, sock iron in your socks.

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Speaker 8: I have to say, to have twenty nine NBA scouts,

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Speaker 8: that's like crazy, Like you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 8: how Aaron have you had pushed back from the NC

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Speaker 8: double A on this Do you think the NC DOUBLEA

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Speaker 8: feels threatened by this.

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Speaker 2: No, in fact, I'm certain of it.

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Speaker 9: It's it's funny because when we first launched, everybody thought

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Speaker 9: that this was some sort of strategic pursuit which was.

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Speaker 2: To compete with the NCAA.

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Speaker 9: The reality is there's thousands upon thousands of Division one

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Speaker 9: and Division two basketball players who've made the choice to

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Speaker 9: go to college and that experience that I had and

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Speaker 9: many of other athletes have had, it's perfectly It's perfectly

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Speaker 9: right for earners.

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Speaker 9: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland

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Speaker 9: Security for them. We just wanted to make sure there

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Speaker 9: was another option, and so we've had conversations. I've had

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Speaker 9: colleagues at the NCAA for years through my past at

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Speaker 9: the NBA, and what we've recognize is that optionality is

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Speaker 9: good for young people, and this is one option. There's

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Speaker 9: actually only twenty seven spots, so it's it's it's not

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Speaker 9: affecting sort of the broader ecosystem. And we want young

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Speaker 9: people like Bryson to be able to make choices, and

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Speaker 9: so I would say that they generally agree with that,

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Speaker 9: and we just want to make sure that they understand

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Speaker 9: what we're up to, and we want to understand that

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Speaker 9: when we're speaking to families that we can speak with

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Speaker 9: clarity on the choices and the trade offs, if you will.

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Speaker 3: Being that you are here and they are being paid

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Speaker 3: in preparing them for professional life, so they have to

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Speaker 3: sign with agents. Are agents here for them? How does

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Speaker 9: They there's a there's an there's a sort of a

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Speaker 9: diverse set of choices that they've all made. Some of

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Speaker 9: them do have agents, others have had legal representations, some

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Speaker 9: have leveraged their family to get to this point. What

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Speaker 9: what Bryson's starting to experience and a lot of them,

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Speaker 9: is what's the diagnostic to making decisions around who is

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Speaker 9: in your circle? So we don't necessarily we don't recommend

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Speaker 9: anybody or or any particular path. We just provide them

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Speaker 9: with the right questions to ask as they're contemplating it,

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Speaker 9: what are the factors?

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Speaker 2: What are the things you think are important to you?

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Speaker 9: And what are the what are the types of resources

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Speaker 9: and services you're gonna need to support this as you

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Speaker 9: as you move forward?

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Speaker 6: You you saw it with an agent, right, I'm with

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Speaker 6: Derek pa quality Control. Quality Control.

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Speaker 8: See so yeah, shout out to the guys. So how

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Speaker 8: did that come about? How did that talk about? Like,

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Speaker 8: how did they approach you?

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Speaker 9: How?

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Speaker 6: What made you time with them?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I've been knowing DP for like like a year now,

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Speaker 4: I think, so me and him, we've just been getting close.

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Speaker 4: He's just been talking to me about different stuff. He's

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Speaker 4: to represent John Moran, he represents Jared Allen, so you know,

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Speaker 4: just building a relationship with him. And yeah, he decided

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Speaker 4: to go with QC. He's the head of basketball there

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Speaker 4: now too. So I just thought it is you know,

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Speaker 4: they're here in Atlanta over times in Atlanta, So I

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Speaker 4: thought that was the best thing for me and my family.

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Speaker 3: He got a little baby look to him, got a

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Speaker 3: little baby look that is that your favorite artists?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, little baby look to him?

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Speaker 3: But so nil Obviously he's taken over college sports where

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Speaker 3: players are actually able to monetize off their likeness. Do

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Speaker 3: these gentlemen also have the same opportunities to seek endorsements

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Speaker 3: from outside companies?

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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, and in fact that was put in place

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Speaker 9: before the decision Supreme Court. That was always our plan.

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Speaker 9: And now it's great that other athletes in not only

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Speaker 9: basketball but broader across the NCAAA are able to realize

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Speaker 9: that same thing because it aligns with what our belief

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Speaker 9: has been the whole time, is that these young people

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Speaker 9: should be have access and should be empowered to realize

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Speaker 9: their value now and not have to wait.

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Speaker 8: So like in Europe, like Luca, he's been playing prost

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Speaker 8: he was fourteen years old, right, it's pretty common where

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Speaker 8: they have like the Pro League for kids and they

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Speaker 8: and then they grow and then they go to like

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Speaker 8: you know, the pro leagues over there, or if they

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Speaker 8: good enough, they go to the NBA.

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Speaker 6: So is that the idea of this?

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Speaker 8: I know it has three teams right now, but do

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Speaker 8: you see this where it's like twenty teams all across

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Speaker 8: America in different satellite overtime locations. And then this is

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Speaker 8: really like the European how they have it over there,

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Speaker 8: but is here in America is that something that you

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Speaker 8: guys envision.

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Speaker 9: I can't completely play out how the the ecosystem will react,

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Speaker 9: because in fact, Real Madrid only has one of those teams, right,

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Speaker 9: But yes, you're right, all of the others, whether it's

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Speaker 9: Real Madrid or Barcelona, both in soccer and now in basketball,

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Speaker 9: have these academies or these programs that kind of work

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Speaker 9: themselves up. And that's why in some ways what we're

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Speaker 9: doing is revolutionary, but only by way of geography.

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Speaker 2: This is not revolutionary in the world of soccer.

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Speaker 9: This is decades long of a model, not necessarily attached

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Speaker 9: to immedia company, but certainly attached to pretty strong brands,

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Speaker 9: you know, to have you still have to recognize it.

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Speaker 9: Right now, there's a finite pool of elite, you know,

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Speaker 9: hyper elite players and talent, and so I think it's

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Speaker 9: important that we recognize how big the pool of people

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Speaker 9: who should be making this decision is, and we need

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Speaker 9: to be responsible on how we grow, how we grow

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Speaker 9: based on that pool. I can see us having more

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Speaker 9: than three teams, certainly in the coming years, but.

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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily, I don't want to.

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Speaker 6: But also it's so how many kids on the teams international?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: Seven seven, of our twenty seven in our first year,

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Speaker 9: which was pleasant surprise.

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Speaker 8: Basketball is the international huge in Europe, NBA, Africa, Africa,

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Speaker 8: So they might be a limited amount of talent in America,

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Speaker 8: but now when you start going overseas, that changes the

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Speaker 8: whole dynamic. So talk about that, talk about the overseas

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Speaker 8: marketing and bringing players in from overseas.

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Speaker 9: Yes, so we have scouts that cover you know, coast

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Speaker 9: to coast in the United States, and we also have

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Speaker 9: scouts over overseas that cover Europe, Africa and beyond. In fact,

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Speaker 9: one of our players is from the Philippines. And we're

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Speaker 9: going to continue to build out our capabilities and making

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Speaker 9: sure that we're tracking and partnering with folks that can

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Speaker 9: identify talent, and that certainly does open the pool up, right,

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Speaker 9: And so you know what's great about being in our

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Speaker 9: first year and actually thinking into the future is we're

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Speaker 9: gonna start to be all identified. What is an OTE athlete,

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Speaker 9: what is the profile of an OTE athlete, what's the

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Speaker 9: DNA of a young man that we believe has the

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Speaker 9: potential to succeed in this type of program, And that'll

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Speaker 9: help us determine how large the pool is. Right this

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Speaker 9: is an invitation only operation, and so we have to

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Speaker 9: start to set the criteria and the standard for which

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Speaker 9: talent looks looks like.

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Speaker 2: But I agree with you. I think the pool is

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Speaker 2: bigger than we all think.

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Speaker 6: You had.

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Speaker 3: Said earlier about the education system, and so I'm sending

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Speaker 3: him thinking like being like I said, this is very

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Speaker 3: much structure to how school goes. I want to know, Bryson,

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Speaker 3: what a day in the life is like of I

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Speaker 3: guess we could say student athletes slash employee. What is

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Speaker 3: that like? Is there a regimen you guys all have

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Speaker 3: to wake up at the same time? Is there a

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Speaker 3: certain amount of time that's a loted for school? And

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Speaker 3: obviously you got to train. So what's the day in

849
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Speaker 3: the life look like for you guys?

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Speaker 4: So every morning, first we do wake up COVID tests

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Speaker 4: every morning. Okay, So then depending on what trying to

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Speaker 4: bust everybody getting bus at the same time. Like me,

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Speaker 4: I come to the gym every morning.

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Speaker 3: You're being bust from where from apartments apartments, So we'll

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Speaker 3: get a bust from my apartments to come here.

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Speaker 4: But like me and some other guys, I'll come to

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Speaker 4: the gym before everybody gets here.

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Speaker 5: It gets shots.

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Speaker 4: Up and then depending on what day it is, we'll

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Speaker 4: have school from about like every's in the morning, it'll

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Speaker 4: be like ten to one, and then practice from like

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Speaker 4: two to five, and then we'll get some lunch in

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Speaker 4: between that. So after that you'll have recovery wait, and

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Speaker 4: then you get some extra.

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Speaker 5: Work in you.

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Speaker 6: So the males you eat mails here.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it would be his breakfast, lunch, and dinner here.

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Speaker 6: How's the food good? All right?

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Speaker 9: So you know that it's interesting, yeah, because what it's good?

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Speaker 9: But it's all so different, right, And so what we're

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Speaker 9: finding is that we have twenty seven young people have

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Speaker 9: come from all different places in the world and walks

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Speaker 9: of life, and so becoming more conscientious of what you eat,

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Speaker 9: whether it's how well you fuel your body relative to hydration,

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Speaker 9: relative to protein and and and fruits and vegetables.

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Speaker 2: It's an adjustment for some of them. For sure.

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Speaker 3: I'm listening to because I'm like, if I'm the guy,

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Speaker 3: the kid sitting in the nutrition class and now I'm

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Speaker 3: going to eat what I just learned is still in

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Speaker 3: my mind. Like I used to do this project when

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Speaker 3: I was teaching health about SODA's and like this tropical fantasy.

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Speaker 7: It was one. It was like how much sugar is

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Speaker 7: in it? It was like a whole project.

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Speaker 3: And then I walk down the street as I'm going

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Speaker 3: home and I see kids still buying it, and it's

886
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 3: just like, man, they didn't really get that message. But

887
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 3: now you're actually like I can imagine the nutrition instructor.

888
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,479
Speaker 3: It's like in the cafeteria whatever you guys are eating.

889
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 3: Like remember we just spoke about.

890
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 8: Like I said, going to IMG changed my life because

891
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 8: the nutrition was real big for me. I went to

892
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 8: Wasshington before, and it was night and day. Weinhington just

893
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 8: for reference, it's in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts

894
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 8: and there's nothing around it. And it was a McDonald's there,

895
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 8: and I used to eat McDonald's every day to the

896
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 8: point I think I gave myself a stomach also, like

897
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,479
Speaker 8: I really had stomach pains bad.

898
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 6: And we went to IMG.

899
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 8: They had personal chefs and they was making like meals

900
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 8: and it was like and that's the first time I

901
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 8: really started to really think about nutrition, and it's carried

902
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 8: with me my whole life. And that's the best shape

903
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 8: I've ever been in because it was like waking up

904
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 8: you're eating good.

905
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 6: And then you're just working.

906
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 8: Out and it was in Florida, so it's hot, so

907
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 8: you know you're staying in shape. And then it's hard

908
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 8: to really explain if you haven't really been through it,

909
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 8: but you get a greater appreciation for like world class

910
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 8: athletes when you're training like a world class athlete, even

911
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 8: if you're in high school. But to train like a

912
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 8: world class athlete, it's actually bigger than sports because now

913
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 8: mentally you have a way more discipline, your your physical

914
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 8: appearance is better, you know nutrition, So that level of

915
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 8: training a last your whole life, So appreciate it and

916
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 8: b is something that goes way bigger than just sports.

917
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we're simply so far just talking about the

918
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 9: physical piece of it. Well, we're also what we're also

919
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 9: spending a lot of time with these athletes is about

920
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 9: the social emotional side of it, and so mindfulness and

921
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 9: understanding how to be in touch with yourself and how

922
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 9: to make sure you understand where you're at in terms

923
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 9: of your your mental wellness along the way, because they're

924
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 9: going to face adversity, they've decided on a path that's

925
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 9: going to make them uncomfortable at various times, and so

926
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 9: we're trying to We've always said this is about the

927
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 9: whole athlete.

928
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 8: I was gonna ask you have a sports psychologists here.

929
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 7: We do very important you know.

930
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 3: One of the things that it's key is that they're

931
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 3: getting paid right, and so they're that financial literacy piece.

932
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: Are they telling them or advising them on the things

933
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 3: to invest in? And if so, what are some of

934
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 3: those things that they're telling us young men to invest in.

935
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 7: At this point, again, it's.

936
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 9: About the diagnostic. This is not we are not playing

937
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 9: the role of financial advisor, your lawyer or agent. What

938
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 9: we're trying to do is surround them with people who've

939
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 9: been through this. As an example, a week and a

940
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 9: half ago, Tony Parker was here.

941
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 2: We'll spend time with with with with the.

942
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 9: Team talking about his experiences and you know, one of

943
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 9: the one of the big lessons and you should build

944
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 9: on this is he talked about how important it is

945
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 9: to seek out resources while you are still playing. And

946
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 9: Bryce and maybe share a little bit about why that

947
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 9: was so important for Tony.

948
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, he told us, like you said, want to you know,

949
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 4: try to seek your resources out while you're playing, because

950
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 4: that's when they're gonna call you back. It was like,

951
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 4: you know, you want to reach as many people as possible.

952
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 4: Like he was telling us he was getting sit down

953
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 4: with like some of the biggest people in business while

954
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 4: he was playing because they was gonna call him back,

955
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 4: they was gonna be willing to talk to him.

956
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 5: So that was a big thing. You know, we all

957
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 5: got from that.

958
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 3: As soon as he went to the Bobcasts, they stopped

959
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 3: answering shout out to the Hall of fam Let me ask.

960
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 8: You this because this is a unique situation because it's

961
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 8: in Atlanta. It's a lot different from Sarasota, Florida, where

962
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 8: IMG is. There's a lot of temptations out here, there's

963
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 8: a lot of influence. This is hip hop, this is everything, right,

964
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 8: So are there safeguards in place to kind of because

965
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 8: I mean, you look at you like you know what

966
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 8: I'm saying, Like you look at those kinds of documents.

967
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 8: Now you're serious, Like this gets bigger and bigger, and

968
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 8: it's like, you know, you got a lot of things

969
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 8: that's good, but it could be some negative influences as well.

970
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 8: So what it Are there safeguards in place or are

971
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 8: there type of mechanis to make sure that the kids

972
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,720
Speaker 8: stay focused and don't lose sight of their goals because

973
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 8: like I said, I mean, we love Atlanta, but it

974
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 8: can be distracting.

975
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean the key is having it's always eyes

976
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 9: wide open and having an open conversation about our expectations

977
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 9: and also.

978
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 2: The things that get in the way of that, the obstacles.

979
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 9: And while we talk about it a lot, we also

980
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 9: as an organization need to be responsible that we're still

981
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 9: dealing with young men sixteen to nineteen years old and

982
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 9: we owe it to them as individuals, but also to

983
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 9: their families. And so we're structured, you know, like a

984
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 9: like a small college, and that we have we have

985
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 9: Damian Wilkins as our dean of Athlete Experience and Culture

986
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 9: who's been through exactly what we're going through. Obviously, Kevin Ali,

987
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 9: Ryan Domes you referenced earlier, Brandon Williams, who worked in

988
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 9: our Player Programs Division at the NBA and then went

989
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 9: on to be an assistant GM both at the Sixers

990
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 9: and and the sacer Menal Kings has been working with

991
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 9: young athletes in this in this space and these conversations,

992
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 9: UH for for for the last two decades, and so

993
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 9: certainly we have experienced people who have not only been

994
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 9: around guiding athletes but also have lived it.

995
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: And then we also have.

996
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 9: A residence life team, So where Bryson lives, we have

997
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 9: people who live there full time a to just sort

998
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 9: of make sure that they're there to guide them, but

999
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 9: also to make sure that we we avoid trouble and

1000
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 9: avoid trouble finding us.

1001
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, our ends.

1002
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 3: So I mean we use the word employee, and so

1003
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 3: there's a lot of safeguards put in place and make

1004
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 3: sure they stay on tasks and make sure they do

1005
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 3: the right thing. But if you're an employee, same way

1006
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 3: you're hired, you could be fired. And so what are like,

1007
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 3: what is that process like if somebody has to be

1008
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 3: removed from this?

1009
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 2: I mean we we.

1010
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 9: We've established code of conduct, we have a handbook that

1011
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 9: our employees and they're responsible for adhering to. We recognize

1012
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 9: that this is a partnership, is a community, right, it's

1013
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 9: a it's a community and we're partners. So the hope

1014
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 9: is that these young men start to realize that.

1015
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,919
Speaker 7: But we we we know we.

1016
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 9: Know that in life there are going to people that

1017
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 9: that that that find different paths. I mean, the combination

1018
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 9: of making sure that there's accountability, but also a restorative

1019
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 9: element to what we're talking about, and that yes, young,

1020
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 9: young people will make bad decisions, and the question is

1021
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 9: is what's the conversation we have after it and how

1022
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 9: do we get them back on the right path and

1023
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 9: how do we actually use that moment to illuminate the consequences.

1024
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 8: Well, you said people can watch it, like what's the

1025
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 8: streaming options that they watch? Like, if you wanted to

1026
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 8: watch a game, how how can they watch it?

1027
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 9: So there's a couple of different ways you can consume

1028
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 9: this one is just sort of in more real time

1029
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 9: through our I G handles, through TikTok, through Twitter, but

1030
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 9: our game summaries and our game recaps are on YouTube

1031
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 9: and and we what we found about uh, this next

1032
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 9: generation sports fan think about it. We just went through

1033
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 9: a pandemic where plenty of us have pretty sizable televisions

1034
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 9: on our on our on our walls, and I can

1035
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 9: tell you in my house, I have a sixteen and

1036
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 9: a twelve year old and it was never on.

1037
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 2: In fact, they consume most of their media on a small.

1038
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 9: Format and in fact, they don't watch ninety minutes of anything.

1039
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 9: And the statistics will will tell you that well, the

1040
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 9: average age of the viewer for most traditional pro sports

1041
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 9: continues to go up. There is a consumption pattern of

1042
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 9: young people who actually love watching sports in a condensed

1043
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 9: form through digital through digital mediums, and so we overtime

1044
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 9: have really found that our sweet spot is meeting that

1045
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 9: next generation fan online and specifically on YouTube.

1046
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 8: So you don't you don't play the whole game. They

1047
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 8: can't watch the hole. It's just like clips.

1048
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: It's most of the whole game. It's just condensed in

1049
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 2: that it kind of collapses some of the parts.

1050
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 9: And and what's interesting about the YouTube viewer, it continues

1051
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 9: to evolve while many of us think about it on

1052
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 9: the form of a phone or on an iPad. In fact,

1053
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 9: more connected TVs each and every each and every month

1054
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 9: is starting to show longer view times of YouTube content

1055
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 9: because it's actually coming through.

1056
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: A large song.

1057
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 3: So your YouTube viewers, because we're in this, I mean,

1058
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 3: we got to show everybody.

1059
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 7: But this is like state of the art arena.

1060
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 3: This is like arena when you go to a typical

1061
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 3: high school, a prep school, the student body is who

1062
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: fills the stands. You have twenty seven students, even if

1063
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 3: you brought their families. It wouldn't be able to feel

1064
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 3: how do you get people in here? Is YouTube the fact, like,

1065
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 3: what are we doing to get people in these seats?

1066
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1067
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 9: So this is this is Atlanta's this this is going

1068
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 9: to become Atlanta's home. And what we're here to do

1069
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 9: is make sure that we're connecting with the community in

1070
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 9: as many way as possible, whether it's the Atlantic Station

1071
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 9: area directly around us, or it's the broader it's the

1072
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 9: broader community here in Atlanta. We want them to make

1073
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 9: we want to make this their home. And so what

1074
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 9: we've gone out done is we've started to build partnerships,

1075
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 9: partnerships with key influencers in the market, with the high

1076
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 9: school community, with with the city. The city has been

1077
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 9: an incredible partner to us since being here. We have

1078
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 9: we have even had relationships and conversations with our w

1079
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 9: n B A and our NBA neighbors here in the market.

1080
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 9: We're surrounded by an incredible, you know, community of of

1081
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 9: of of universities and colleges that we're starting to reach

1082
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 9: out to. And so the idea is that for Atlanta

1083
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 9: to really take pride in having ot you're in it

1084
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 9: right here in the center of the city.

1085
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 3: Now, Bryson, you had the NBA scouts come here, and

1086
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 3: that was pressure. But what's it like when Quavo and

1087
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 3: two Chains are watching you play and these are guys you're.

1088
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 7: Looking up to.

1089
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 3: What's that like when you have these level celebrities, when

1090
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 3: you got on your leagiers in front row.

1091
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 7: A by the way, Uh, what's that like?

1092
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: Playing in front of some of the guys that you

1093
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 3: watch on YouTube, watching TV and now the here watching

1094
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 3: you play.

1095
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 5: It's definitely exciting.

1096
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 4: I mean we've been going hard, but just to you know,

1097
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 4: he don't like side like you can go buy say

1098
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 4: what's up to them? Stuff like that, Like they're real

1099
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 4: down the earth, So I mean, you know, it's just

1100
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 4: fun seeing them there watch you play. You know, they'll

1101
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 4: even be talking to you at the game, like, wait,

1102
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 4: we were talking to me with QC two.

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00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 5: But you know it's fact two change came.

1104
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 4: I mean, like you know they come in, you hear

1105
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 4: everybody start going crazy. Like I said, the environment just

1106
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 4: gets even better when they're here.

1107
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:26,240
Speaker 8: Ye So there's been another cultural icon that started something

1108
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 8: Team shout out to yeasy the Dondae Academy. Are you

1109
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 8: guys gonna play the don Dae Academy TBD.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 2: You know this space is it's amazing. This space is

1112
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,479
Speaker 2: evolving so fast. We were talking about before.

1113
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 9: It's like, you know, seven weeks ago we set our schedule,

1114
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 9: we announced it, and we've already seen you know, different

1115
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 9: programs pop up, players exchanging. This is this is sort

1116
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,680
Speaker 9: of a a peek into what you know, elite prep

1117
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 9: basketball has been has been going through and it continues

1118
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 9: to evolve. And so you know, we're not we haven't

1119
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 9: been in direct contact with Don it's obviously it's been

1120
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 9: launched in.

1121
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks.

1122
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 9: So we just love that there's more options for young

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00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 9: people and anybody who's investing in the future of young

1124
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 9: athletes and surrounding them with what with what's necessary to

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00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 9: pursue their dreams.

1126
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 2: We're here for and we'll see.

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00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 6: Let me ask you this.

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Speaker 8: So, all right, kids are getting paid, So I'm assuming

1129
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,760
Speaker 8: they have to sign contracts, right, correct?

1130
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 6: How long is it like one year contract or two?

1131
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 2: It varies? It varies obviously because we have sixteen to

1132
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:32,280
Speaker 2: nineteen year.

1133
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 9: Old athletes, they're in various parts of their path to

1134
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 9: be becoming becoming you know, they're pros now but pursuing

1135
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 9: the next level. Obviously with the one and done in place,

1136
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 9: it's really it's one year removed from your graduation year.

1137
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 2: Is sort of the rule as it stands today.

1138
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 9: And so there are athletes that have multiple year contract

1139
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 9: contracts with US that get them to that point.

1140
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 3: And it's annually. So the one hundred thousand is annually.

1141
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 3: So if I'm sixteen, I'm getting a hundred thousand sixteen

1142
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 3: years as my let's say junior year six one hundred

1143
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 3: thousand as my senior year. And with the BOTUS says

1144
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 3: it could be obviously more.

1145
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 2: Correct correct if yeah, if you were getting the minimum, yes.

1146
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 8: So you are you recruiting? Like are you recruiting players?

1147
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 8: Like how a college coach will go to somebody's house

1148
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 8: and sit down with their parents and give them the

1149
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 8: whole rundown and why they should go to this college.

1150
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 8: Is that similar to all you working with AAU coaches,

1151
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 8: Like what's the feeding process to actually get kids in?

1152
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 2: I mean we're.

1153
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 9: Tapped into whoever is the circle or the ecosystem that

1154
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 9: surrounds a particular support network that surrounds an athlete. I

1155
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 9: mean most of this was done virtually given the given

1156
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 9: the pandemic. But now that we have a facility, now

1157
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 9: that obviously the aspects of the of the pandemic are

1158
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 9: allowing us to meet people live and to have a

1159
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 9: place to do it.

1160
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 2: We're starting to even have conversations.

1161
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 6: It's like visits colleges and or folks coming here.

1162
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 8: That's what I'm saying, Like they can have like how

1163
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 8: you do like your college visit when you go to college.

1164
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 6: Yes, kids can come here and visit here.

1165
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 3: Like can you imagine when you leave the woodlands they

1166
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 3: brought you there, I'd be like, I we we're not

1167
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 3: gonna see Sauty anymore.

1168
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 2: Lights up, put your highlights on that thing.

1169
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 7: This big.

1170
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Speaker 2: That's called sold.

1171
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 7: It's called sold. All right, So obviously you said that

1172
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Speaker 7: right now the viewership.

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Speaker 3: Is YouTube, but I'm thinking this could obviously is gonna

1174
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 3: be a lot bigger. Are the big broadcasting networks coming

1175
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 3: to you now already? Because there's a big broadcast network

1176
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 3: that is not too far from here, Atlanta based. Might

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Speaker 3: I've heard of them, Turner Sports, But I can envision

1178
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 3: them coming in and saying like we need to be

1179
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Speaker 3: a part of this.

1180
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Speaker 7: Is that a long term vision? Is that's something you

1181
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 7: guys looking forward.

1182
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 9: To Yeah, global distribution is clearly an important path for

1183
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 9: us to continue to examine and explore. And we've we

1184
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 9: have relationships across the entire ecosystem, as you can imagine,

1185
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 9: and even that space is evolving right from traditional or

1186
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 9: linear television to more digital platforms OTT you know, even

1187
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 9: even sort of pay per view is becoming I think.

1188
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 9: So we're keeping all of our options open. And it's

1189
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 9: not domestic, it's international. So that's certainly that's certainly in

1190
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 9: our vision and our plans going.

1191
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 8: Forward right soon. What is some ideas that you have

1192
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 8: They talked about a trading cards. Do you do you

1193
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,439
Speaker 8: have like business ideas that you want to like put

1194
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 8: in place over the next couple of years.

1195
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Speaker 4: I mean, right now I'm just exploring see what I'll

1196
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 4: see what I like, and I know other people do,

1197
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm just seeing what I like and what

1198
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 4: I want to get into.

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Speaker 8: You know, Just do you have passions outside of basketball,

1200
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 8: like music or anything like that, like art?

1201
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 4: I mean, I just, like I said, just like giving back,

1202
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 4: you know what I mean to my community back in Arkansas,

1203
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 4: just giving them a platform more exposure.

1204
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 5: So That's why I started my.

1205
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 8: Team How is it like? Have you been back to

1206
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Speaker 8: Arkansas since.

1207
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 5: I've been here?

1208
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 4: I've not been back to Arkansas. I'm going back next

1209
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 4: Week'll be fun.

1210
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 7: We don't give them the name, the Prince of Little Rocky.

1211
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 6: But how how is it? How is it like?

1212
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 8: Because I know how that feeling is when you come

1213
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 8: from you know, a smaller town and everybody's looking at

1214
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 8: you as like you know, the person that's gonna make it,

1215
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 8: and it's a lot of hope and aspiration sometimes even pressure.

1216
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 6: Are you Are you feeling that yet?

1217
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, you know, like I get a lot

1218
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 4: of d EM's like yeah, I mean you're your next

1219
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 4: You know, they're looking up to me, you know some

1220
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 4: of the lickuy.

1221
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 5: They tested me, I test them back. You know.

1222
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 4: Just no, just because you know from Arkansas, you know

1223
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 4: you can dream big, just like I am. So I'm

1224
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 4: just you know, trying to give them that hope, enjoy

1225
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 4: you know that they can see through me to help them.

1226
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 3: The league, well, the G League. I'm looking at Gatorade

1227
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 3: G League as an elite team. Obviously you guys are

1228
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 3: over timing leader is there, Lenny? Is there is there

1229
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 3: something that ties you guys together or two separated sas

1230
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 3: man thing that.

1231
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 9: Links us together, well two things. One is from a

1232
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 9: business perspective. We were we we've been partners with the

1233
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 9: g League. In fact, we documented much of Jalen Greens

1234
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 9: your last year. We were we were production partners in that.

1235
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 9: Obviously Jalen was a part of Prolific Prolific Prep, which

1236
00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 9: was a school we covered prior to that. And uh, simultaneously,

1237
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 9: I'm I'm a longtime friend of Sharif Abdul Raheem.

1238
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 2: In fact, we live two times over from each other

1239
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 2: and we go to breakfast once a month, and.

1240
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 7: So last ninety six he is from Atlanta.

1241
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 9: He is from Atlanta, and you know, he also has

1242
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 9: a son that's going through the journey right now in college.

1243
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 2: In fact, Debris is at Georgia now.

1244
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 9: But we would we get together for breakfast, and we

1245
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 9: were talking about this when it was just a concept,

1246
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 9: and now that it's a reality, it's it's made our

1247
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 9: it's made our breakfast interesting.

1248
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 2: But certainly we're we're trying to figure out ways.

1249
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 9: Like you know, we're clearly on a mission to empower

1250
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,760
Speaker 9: and to prepare young people. And so it's great to

1251
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 9: have a friend and appear in the same space.

1252
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,439
Speaker 8: Before we rap question. I know a lot of people

1253
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 8: that's going to head. Is everybody's going to come knocking

1254
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 8: down your door. They want to have them my kids this,

1255
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 8: my kid's gonna be.

1256
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 6: All right.

1257
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 8: I know you're not actually like looking for for talent,

1258
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 8: but if somebody wants to come to over time, what

1259
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 8: would be the path or is there no path other

1260
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 8: than we'll reach out to you if you're good enough.

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00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 9: I mean, if you're if you're in that sort of

1262
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 9: that that top of the pyramid, and you're and you're

1263
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 9: and you're playing on the stages that that are getting

1264
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 9: you noticed, and you know you've shown a an appetite

1265
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 9: for this level of focus this early in your life.

1266
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 2: Uh, we know.

1267
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 9: You know who you are, and we we're we're seeing

1268
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 9: you play already and so and we might even be

1269
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 9: already sort of contemplating when we're gonna talk.

1270
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 2: So I think I feel very confident that.

1271
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 9: We're we're we have an incredible recruiting and scouting group

1272
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 9: that is continuously looking for people who are looking for

1273
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 9: this option and are are showing signs of being prepared

1274
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 9: for it.

1275
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 8: Powerful Well, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it over time, elite,

1276
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 8: What would you like to tell the public before before

1277
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 8: we wrap anything, you wanted to just tell people social

1278
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 8: media handles, anything like that.

1279
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, follow it, follow us on ig, TikTok at overtime,

1280
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,760
Speaker 9: a leader at ote what you're going to see. There

1281
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 9: is an incredible journey that twenty seven young men are

1282
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 9: taking right now, and they're changing, they're changing the trajectory

1283
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 9: of of of basketball as we knew it and as

1284
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 9: I as I told Bryson when he first joined, Uh,

1285
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 9: we're in the business of pioneering a new path. And

1286
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 9: there's not too many times in your life, let alone

1287
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 9: in your career that you get to do it. And so, uh,

1288
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 9: we'd love for as many people to be on that

1289
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 9: journey as possible, whether it's in this building, whether it's social,

1290
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 9: following us on social, or whether it's finding ways for

1291
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 9: us to partner and and and and and build this,

1292
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 9: build this together. We're here for it and we're we're

1293
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 9: incredibly excited about the future.

1294
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,920
Speaker 6: Are you having more fun now or when you was

1295
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 6: with the NBA?

1296
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 2: I mean, it's been a it's been a progressive path.

1297
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 9: I don't think I would have been prepared for this

1298
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 9: had it not been working at NBA Entertainment, you know,

1299
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 9: in the in the late nineties, working on Last Dance,

1300
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 9: helping participate in the launch of the w n b

1301
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 9: A to running USA Basketball.

1302
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 2: From a business perspective, I'm.

1303
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 9: Having this fun because of the work and the things

1304
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 9: that prepared me for this moment.

1305
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 7: For sure.

1306
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, you ain't ahead, man. You got to

1307
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 3: give us the Instagram, give us everything, man, Come on.

1308
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 4: Now, definitely follow us ot on Instagram and TikTok ot

1309
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 4: and definitely follow me at as you found Bryson on Instagram.

1310
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 7: And don't forget that Warre in Jersey. Then you have

1311
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,880
Speaker 7: a point guard. Yes, sir, he's getting busy last night.

1312
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 7: Oh one last thing.

1313
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 8: So this is a huge facility training car I think

1314
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 8: he was talking off camera. Are their ideas to maybe

1315
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 8: have a basketball camp, maybe do stuff outside of just

1316
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 8: the Ote family, and maybe have like a greater community

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Speaker 8: involvement for this facility.

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Speaker 2: Certainly.

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Speaker 9: I mean the first thing was trying to get this

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Speaker 9: one hundred and three thousand square foot building up in

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Speaker 9: five and a half months.

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Speaker 2: And now that now the rocket ship is built.

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Speaker 9: Now it's just trying to figure out where the destination

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Speaker 9: is and part of that is engaging community in Atlanta

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Speaker 9: and just broadly in what we're doing and so finding

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Speaker 9: ways to connect to the basketball community in the Atlanta

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Speaker 9: community at large, UH in.

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Speaker 2: Programs and opportunities.

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Speaker 9: For for for them to be a part of This

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Speaker 9: is clearly is clearly in our sites.

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Speaker 6: Uyo celebrity basketball game.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely I'm looking at I mean even like the G

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Speaker 3: League when when they play it doesn't look anything like this.

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Speaker 7: It's like, so, you guys got something special. This is

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Speaker 7: this is incredible. It was incredible.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you for being interested and thanks for coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no problem, no problem, Choy Bridles. Yeah, I want

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Speaker 3: to shout out the great lou Tucker. Shout Lutucker, shout

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Speaker 3: out great Partnet for you know, helping us out with this.

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Speaker 3: And shout out to all our Patreon members. Obviously y'all

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and Like I said, we're huge basketball enthusiasts, and

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Speaker 8: we definitely shout out to our family and Dykement. We

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Speaker 8: definitely we're actually gonna have our own section Indickement next year.

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Speaker 8: Fact that's gonna be crazy.

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Speaker 7: Fact.

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Speaker 8: I have to say, we definitely have to do something here.

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Speaker 8: I think I got a couple of ideas. So talk

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Speaker 8: to you about you. Are you gonna play? Thank you? Oh?

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Speaker 6: You never know?

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, thank you.

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Speaker 3: I told you. The only thing that guy means you

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Speaker 3: get hurt. At this point, let write some flood.

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Speaker 6: Thank you guys, Rock and West. We'll see you next week.

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