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Speaker 9: Black people are the ones that criticizing black community support Kyrie.

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Speaker 9: Are prominent black journalists television publicly denouncing him.

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Speaker 9: We are in New York and we have a very

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Speaker 9: very very special episode. We have some conversation off air, yes,

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Speaker 9: that could have turned into a whole hour conversation within itself.

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Speaker 4: So I said, we got to save something for us.

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Speaker 7: We've had a lot of conversations about these topics.

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Speaker 9: For sure, so should tell you Riley Irving is actually

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Speaker 9: made history by and correct me if I'm wrong. But

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Speaker 9: you are the first black woman to negotiate an NBA contract. Yes, ever,

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Speaker 9: I believe so, yeah, gradually, And I also believe I

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Speaker 9: think that you're the only black woman right now with

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Speaker 4: Agent, active player, active player currently.

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Speaker 2: Unless somebody signed somebody in the least.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, okay, blazing, so you know, but it didn't start.

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Speaker 9: We didn't start their x VP at Black Enterprise, a

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Speaker 9: And now is the CEO of all even all even

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Speaker 9: Okay, And your client is none other than one of

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Speaker 9: the greatest of all time.

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Speaker 5: And we're going to say that very comfortably. One of

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Speaker 5: be on the list Kyrie to make our own list

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Speaker 9: Kyrie Irving, So you represent one of the greatest athletes

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Speaker 9: of switching gears from corporate America to becoming a sports

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Speaker 10: And so they were gracious enough to teach me, and

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Speaker 10: We had the largest repository of consumer insights about black

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Speaker 10: when they did, BET was that place to learn about it.

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Speaker 10: yeah they can. Black people aren't interested in this. They're

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Speaker 10: not interested in investment.

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Speaker 10: They're raising their hand right now and saying teach me,

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Speaker 9: So how did you convince the corporate that it was

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Speaker 4: He's your bonus son.

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Speaker 7: That's interesting, but I'll do it. So when he proposes

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Speaker 4: So what all right?

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Speaker 9: So at first you say that he can't afford you,

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Speaker 9: So you saw things that was happening in his business

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Speaker 10: I felt like he needed, at that moment in time,

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Speaker 7: Yes, a summer twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 5: This is post COVID, well in the midst of COVID,

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Speaker 10: When Yeah, this is when I not his because I

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Speaker 4: Take the vaccine which unless you.

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Speaker 7: And then some other things transpired. But what what are.

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Speaker 10: They didn't want a part time player, right, so their

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Speaker 10: Day by day? And that's and I'm not going to

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Speaker 10: But I think that as a family, we really came

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Speaker 10: I'm a person that it is your body. You only

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Speaker 2: Or like I mean, the ultimatum was he didn't get

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Speaker 2: his extension. So that was the once.

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Speaker 9: That was off the table even before, cause I think

449
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Speaker 9: at some point in time they knew that I is

450
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Speaker 9: not going to work out. But I would assume in

451
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Speaker 9: the early stages that you still were trying to make

452
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Speaker 9: it work.

453
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Speaker 4: I would assume, right, yeah.

454
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Speaker 10: I mean what I will say is we conversed, and

455
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Speaker 10: we talked. I think that when it was very clear

456
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Speaker 10: that he wasn't gonna get vaccinated, it was just.

457
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Speaker 2: Hey, we're just checking in how's he doing?

458
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Speaker 4: So it was Cord, was it? It wasr Yeah.

459
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Speaker 5: I can kind of just go backwards for two seconds

460
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Speaker 5: because the fact that you became an agent, I mean,

461
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Speaker 5: how what was that there?

462
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Speaker 10: There's test because we spoke to a few I wasn't

463
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Speaker 10: even an agent at that point.

464
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Speaker 5: This is what I'm saying, like, at what point did

465
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Speaker 5: you the NBA say that you're a registered now to

466
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Speaker 5: be agent.

467
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Speaker 10: That didn't happen until maybe March or twenty twenty two,

468
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Speaker 10: February March or twenty twenty two.

469
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Speaker 5: So this is during the time he's almost coming back,

470
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Speaker 5: and now you're a registered agent, so you're dealing with

471
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Speaker 5: family issue, you're representing him, and now you're working on

472
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Speaker 5: a professional career as well. Right at the point where

473
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Speaker 5: he's about to come back.

474
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Speaker 4: Exactly, Wow, and the agent we just took a test

475
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,959
Speaker 4: to think test right, Okay, so you become an agent.

476
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Speaker 4: You said that he doesn't get an extension, right, So

477
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 4: now he's a free agent at that point in time.

478
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Speaker 2: So yeah, one more year on this contract, which was

479
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Speaker 2: an option year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah he played that yea.

481
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Speaker 2: That would have been the twenty two to twenty three

482
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Speaker 2: was his option year.

483
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so he took the option. He played, and then

484
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 5: we traded traded to Dallas. But he got traded mid season. Yeah, yeah,

485
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 5: they got traded. But so as that process is happening,

486
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 5: that's on the court. But Nike, I mean, this is

487
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 5: a premier athlete. Like we went over, there's obviously Jordan

488
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 5: and Jordan Brand and then it's Kobe and then it's

489
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Speaker 5: like Lebronchi KD. What are those conversations like because this

490
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 5: is one of the premier athletes his uncle Drew, this

491
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Speaker 5: is the top selling shoe.

492
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Speaker 7: Kids love it.

493
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Speaker 2: His shoes were still selling at the same time, still selling.

494
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Speaker 10: We were in conversations, well, we hadn't really started at

495
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 10: that point about what the next steps would be, if

496
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Speaker 10: he was going to remain a signature athlete or not,

497
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Speaker 10: in what way they wanted to continue that.

498
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: We hadn't even started that yet.

499
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Speaker 7: Issues were so they're definitely on board, were already.

500
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say they were fully on board.

501
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Speaker 10: I think that internally, like within every company, everybody had

502
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 10: issues with there were people that were I'm pro vaccination

503
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 10: and people that were I'm anti vaccination, and so I

504
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 10: think that probably within and I don't know this to

505
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 10: be true, within those Nike walls, there were people that said, hey,

506
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 10: you're forcing me to get vaccinated, but you have a

507
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 10: signature athlete that isn't vaccinated. But what kind of messaging

508
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 10: is that sending. So I'm sure you know everybody it

509
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 10: was a difficult time for every company, just having the

510
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Speaker 10: conversation about vaccine versus non vaccination.

511
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Speaker 9: So he makes it through that and now he's playing

512
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 9: for the Nets, and then something else happens. So he

513
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 9: shares a link to a documentary and that causes another

514
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 9: firestorm and he gets suspended indefinitely.

515
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 4: And okay, so now NBA punishing on broken nets, punishing

516
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 4: on But now the Nike situation starts to unravel because

517
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 4: now Nike at some point steps away from him. Right

518
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 4: was he up for a new contract or did they

519
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 4: just terminate the current contract. He was up for a

520
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 4: new contract. It just so happened out timing was at

521
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 4: the same time, was at the same time, so they

522
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Speaker 4: didn't technically terminate him. They just didn't renew. They did

523
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Speaker 4: nothing essential to extend that contract. Essentially, How was okay?

524
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Speaker 9: So how was that that was another obviously very high

525
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 9: profile news story. How was that for you and for him?

526
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 10: Going through that, I think what he wanted and perhaps

527
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 10: what he would have wanted from Nike, I don't know

528
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 10: if Nike would have been able to give it to him,

529
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 10: because he wanted a lot more creative control, he wanted

530
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 10: a lot more equity, he wanted higher commission like there

531
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Speaker 10: were there were things that he wanted that I honestly

532
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Speaker 10: think that just was not within Nike's ecosystem to provide

533
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Speaker 10: or to give.

534
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Speaker 5: So regardless of the situation it was Nike, he still

535
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 5: might have been home for you guys anyway, exactly.

536
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he tweeted and said that he didn't

537
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 4: like to shoot that they had put out.

538
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 7: It was it denying.

539
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: Uh the eights. Yeah?

540
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Speaker 9: But how but how was the from getting suspended? How

541
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 9: was that dealing once again? Now you got to deal

542
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 9: with the Brooklyn nuts, you got to deal with the NBA.

543
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 9: He had to go meet with the commissioner and a

544
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 9: bunch of other tough community service and different things that nature. Like,

545
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 9: how was that because he just went through something previously

546
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 9: with COVID, now he's going something going through something completely different,

547
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 9: but another thing less than a year later.

548
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Speaker 4: So how was that for you guys going through that difficult.

549
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: It was. It was a very very.

550
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 10: Difficult moment, and I think that to really dive into

551
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 10: that detail, I don't want him to be here to

552
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,640
Speaker 10: really talk it through because there were so many nuances

553
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 10: there that I think when you really hear the real

554
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 10: story behind it, it'll make it'll make your jaw drop.

555
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 5: You have probably one of the most intensifying first years

556
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 5: on the job very much.

557
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 7: I've heard right you talk about that through.

558
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Speaker 5: Contract negotiation and be a contract negotiation suspensions world pandemic

559
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 5: like all that's happening in your first year. So we're

560
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 5: at the point where you know, we're looking at from

561
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 5: a financial standpoint and some of the things that you

562
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 5: want from a shoe deal, it's.

563
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Speaker 7: Not going to happen. Perhaps that night.

564
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 5: Are other shoe companies reaching out and offering because I

565
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 5: know we land and we'll get to that. Are other

566
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 5: shoe companies reaching out and saying, this is a prize

567
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 5: free agent from an athletic endorsement standpoint, we should go

568
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 5: ahead and try to sign them.

569
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Speaker 10: Initially, we wanted to go independent, okay, and we had

570
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 10: a lot of conversations with being a real independent shoe brand,

571
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 10: and I sort of made the decision collectively with his

572
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 10: dad that that probably wasn't the best route because building

573
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 10: a shoe and building a performance shoe on the court

574
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 10: where his feet are your most valuable asset, was something

575
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 10: we were just really worried about from just being an

576
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 10: independent brand, just having all of the resources, the tools

577
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 10: and everything to make sure that his feet were protected.

578
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: We want him to have a.

579
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Speaker 10: Very long career, and so we didn't want to jump

580
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 10: out and say, hey, we're going to do this independent

581
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 10: and we produce a shoe that just couldn't stand.

582
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 9: Well you did you ever look at the big ball

583
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 9: of brand and what happened with that as something.

584
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 7: That was as you said, that's what I.

585
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 9: Think study because I mean they said that, I don't

586
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 9: know if it's true or not. Shout out to Lonzo.

587
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 9: He came to invest best, but they say one of

588
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 9: the reasons why he's hurt is because of the shoe.

589
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's true. It broke down.

590
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, and you know, I don't.

591
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 10: I just I think that when you think about performance

592
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 10: and the way he moves in the angles in which

593
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 10: he moves on the court, and remember I talked about

594
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 10: you know your research and you study being independent and

595
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 10: just basically producing a shoe that can achieve that mechanism

596
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 10: was something that we all were really concerned about. There's

597
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 10: some things that you can kind of build a plane

598
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 10: while flying it. This wasn't one of them, and this

599
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 10: was one of them that we just didn't want to

600
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 10: take that that that chance on and that's just being honest.

601
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 7: So you end up with answer.

602
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 5: And so this is interesting because this is now I'm

603
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 5: looking at this as a global play, right like they

604
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: have at the time. Well, Dwayne Wade was there, who's at.

605
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 7: Lay Clay Thompson. That's what it was.

606
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 5: Are you watching how he's structuring his deal and looking

607
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 5: at away this is completely independent. We want to have

608
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 5: a global brand. This is a company that I think

609
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 5: we can partner with.

610
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, So we took the time to kind of figure

611
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 10: out what did we really want an a shoe deal.

612
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 10: So before we even you know, when it was Nike

613
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 10: was done, it was like, what is what's important? So

614
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 10: it was creativity, it was price point, quality, products, a

615
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 10: host of other things. And so when we started to

616
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 10: have the conversations with Anton a few other companies, it

617
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 10: was really about us creating our own contract because we

618
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 10: didn't want something that was really a traditional contract where

619
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 10: it was like you just get royalties and you get

620
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 10: a base commission and you walk away. We wanted something

621
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 10: that had a lot more ownership for us because we

622
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 10: knew that once we put Kai in the lab, we

623
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 10: knew what he was going to create at the end

624
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 10: of the day. We wanted something that gave us real equity,

625
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 10: that gave us a real opportunity to control the narrative

626
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 10: and do something really different. We wanted something that was international,

627
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 10: and we wanted something that we could also use as

628
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 10: a springboard. So we knew that in China his shoes

629
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 10: were very successful, so it just made sense right when

630
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 10: we looked at if we thought about what part of

631
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 10: the world were his number one sales, it was China.

632
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 10: So we immediately kind of stood there and said, what

633
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 10: can we built here and Expand.

634
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 5: I heard him talk about the impact that Kobe had

635
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 5: right when Kobe when they when they played in Beijing,

636
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 5: and they saw the impact that we're stars, But this

637
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 5: guy is at a different level because of the Chinese market,

638
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 5: and I know he's close with Jimmy Butler, who signed

639
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 5: with Leni and so you can kind of see this

640
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 5: this global impact. At you talked about the creative process

641
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 5: at you said he wanted more.

642
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 7: What is that like now in it?

643
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've learned more about shoes and I am a

644
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 10: woman who loves shoes than I ever knew before, from

645
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 10: start to finish. When I was in China, I kind

646
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 10: of looked at his dad and I said, we couldn't.

647
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: Have done this bar This is a process.

648
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 10: It's really this, this process to build a performance shoe

649
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 10: and all of the testing that goes into it. So

650
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 10: the product that the consumers are going to get, I

651
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 10: think they're going to be really really happy because he

652
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 10: has his finger on everything.

653
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 9: So you spoke about what you didn't get a Nike

654
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 9: that he wanted as far as some equity and creative

655
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 9: design and or can you give us some details perhaps

656
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 9: on like what he's actually had.

657
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 10: Let me give you the secret sauce. He's very he's

658
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 10: very modest about is. He doesn't like to talk about money.

659
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 10: Right for him, it's because he wants to be seen

660
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 10: as Kyrie the individual, Kyrie the person, Kyrie the humanitarian,

661
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 10: not Kyrie.

662
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 2: This is how much money. So he has equity, Yeah, he's.

663
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 10: Not interested in, Like that's a secret sauce. That's a

664
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 10: secret sauce.

665
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 5: So let's talk about this because you know the season

666
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 5: that it did start, But you guys had an amazing

667
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 5: summer and one of the things coming into the summer

668
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Speaker 5: was free agency.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, he.

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Speaker 5: Got traded to Dallas, but now's he's a free agent. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: the most he can get is staying with Dallas or

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Speaker 5: he can go somewhere else.

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Speaker 7: I know, my brother's a diehard Lakers fan.

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Speaker 5: Everybody thinks he's going to the Lakers because he's showing

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Speaker 5: up at the playoff games. At any point, I mean,

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Speaker 5: in my mind he's a max player. At any point,

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Speaker 5: did you guys say, you know what because of all

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Speaker 5: of you know, the news and headlines and where we

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Speaker 5: not going to get max money, where we're going to

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Speaker 5: have to take less money to go somewhere else, or

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Speaker 5: what was the game plan going into the summer.

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Speaker 10: The game plan was being at a place that you

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Speaker 10: can consider home, that you were comfortable that you saw

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Speaker 10: yourself being a main contributor.

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Speaker 2: So was never about.

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Speaker 10: Max money as much as it was really about making

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Speaker 10: sure that this was a place that you felt comfortable

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Speaker 10: that you felt like you could be really a contributor

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Speaker 10: at the end of the day, that you like the

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Speaker 10: people that you were going to, that you were going

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Speaker 10: to have to work with eighty two games out of

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Speaker 10: the year, and that was that was the top at

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Speaker 10: the beginning. That was the most important thing. I think

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Speaker 10: the money was probably third or fourth. It was always

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Speaker 10: number one for me because I come from this money

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Speaker 10: background and this exchange of of of of services and

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Speaker 10: what that value is. But for him it was really

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Speaker 10: about money aside, because like I said, he doesn't He

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Speaker 10: wants to be seen very differently and not from a

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Speaker 10: monetary a monetary standpoint. For him, it was where do

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Speaker 10: I feel like I can be at home. One of

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Speaker 10: the things he did he's never got a chance to

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Speaker 10: really experience was free agency, and so we wanted to

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Speaker 10: try to give him that that that ability to be

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Speaker 10: courted a little bit and told that you're the prettiest

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Speaker 10: girl at the prom or really prettiest guy at the

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Speaker 10: at the prom a little bit.

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Speaker 2: So, uh, that was important.

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Speaker 10: But I think that when we when we talked about Dallas,

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Speaker 10: it just checked all the boxes, even though you know,

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Speaker 10: we kind of looked to the side and said, you

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Speaker 10: know what else is out there, because you're supposed to

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Speaker 10: do it.

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Speaker 2: But Dallas just checked all the boxes that he wanted.

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Speaker 9: So I mean, can I just go back to this

716
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 9: nigga thing for that? So it's a Chinese company, right,

717
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Speaker 9: So we don't really see a lot of these sneakers

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Speaker 9: people in America.

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Speaker 4: Where in these sneakers?

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Speaker 9: So is the idea to make these sneakers popular in

721
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Speaker 9: America or it's like global this Stefan Marbury thing where

722
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Speaker 9: it's just like just China's enough to actually it's global.

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Speaker 10: We're working And not to give away a lot of

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Speaker 10: the secret sauce, but that was a real big part

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Speaker 10: of our negotiation and our deal was where is this

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Speaker 10: going to be globally, US Philippines in those areas of

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Speaker 10: the world where we know that basketball is really big.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Took a trip to China this summer.

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Speaker 4: It was crazy, It looked crazy.

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Speaker 2: It was insane.

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Speaker 10: It was one of the probably best trips that that

732
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Speaker 10: I've been on in a long time.

733
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Speaker 5: Could could not walk the street, couldn't walk anywhere, really

734
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Speaker 5: couldn't walk in the air.

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Speaker 10: I snuck out a little bit because I wanted to

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Speaker 10: understand we're kind of given this these images of what

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Speaker 10: China is and what the Chinese marketplace is.

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Speaker 4: How how was you experienced?

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Speaker 2: It was amazing.

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Speaker 10: It was nothing that I thought it would be when

741
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Speaker 10: I got on the plane, because you kind of go

742
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Speaker 10: in with these stereotypes, and I was a little embarrassed

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Speaker 10: myself because I'm like, I've always sold black media and

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Speaker 10: I've always like countered these stereotypes right that people have

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Speaker 10: of black people, And here it is, I'm walking into

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Speaker 10: China with certain stereotypes and getting off of that plane

747
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Speaker 10: and just saying, just seeing just the energy and the

748
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Speaker 10: just love that not only they have for Kai, but

749
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Speaker 10: his family and basketball just meant so much and just

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Speaker 10: Probably not supposed to say this, and I'm sure you

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Speaker 10: stood out that I was like, let me sneak out

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Speaker 10: and really see this, not from this curated lens that.

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Speaker 4: Celebrity.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I wanted to see it for myself and embraced.

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00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 10: I would try to speak and and I know I

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Speaker 10: know none of the language, but they would try to

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Speaker 10: find somebody to help me to have a conversation. You

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Speaker 10: saw moms standing there with their sons and their daughters,

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Speaker 10: and they just have the same They just.

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Speaker 2: Wanted to see their kids happy.

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Speaker 10: And that's a universal theme and you just recognize that

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Speaker 10: all over the world people want the same.

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Speaker 2: They just want to see their kids happy.

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Speaker 9: That's an amazing experience because I went to Hong Kong

816
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Speaker 9: and my experience is completely different.

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Speaker 2: Really, I just it was.

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Speaker 10: It was really a good experience, really a good experience.

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Speaker 5: So during the summer, this is the first time he's

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Speaker 5: really going to be a free agent, like you said,

821
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Speaker 5: but this is maybe this is the first time, like

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Speaker 5: you're negotiating the contract, you're a trailblazer. I started by

823
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Speaker 5: saying that talk about the pressure or the intensity that

824
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Speaker 5: you had to feel to make to make sure that

825
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Speaker 5: you get this right, because if you don't, especially for

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Speaker 5: ourmun if you don't get this right.

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Speaker 4: I'm done.

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Speaker 5: You're done, But there might be an there may not

829
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Speaker 5: be another chance for a black woman to step in

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Speaker 5: this place, to show that this is something that's capable

831
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Speaker 5: or capable of doing well.

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Speaker 7: Take us through it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't sleep for a few days.

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Speaker 10: I'm thankful that I had a few godfathers, and I

835
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 10: think everybody needs that in any industry that held my

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Speaker 10: hand ex Players, agents, today, business managers, even some people

837
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Speaker 10: in the press that really were instrumental and helpful in

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Speaker 10: just keeping me sane and giving me advice and talking

839
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Speaker 10: to me about what I needed to do and the

840
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Speaker 10: thing is that I should consider and all of those things.

841
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Speaker 2: So I was really really fortunate. I did not sleep.

842
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Speaker 10: There was a lot of pressure because I said, every

843
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 10: everybody in the world is looking and not everybody is

844
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 10: hoping that I'm successful. But most importantly, there was a

845
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Speaker 10: coworker that I worked with and she she ran up

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Speaker 10: to me when I was announced as an agent, and

847
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Speaker 10: she said, you know, you give my daughter something to

848
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Speaker 10: believe in. And so every day that statement kind of

849
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Speaker 10: rung through in my head, where she was like, you

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Speaker 10: give my daughter something to believe in. And so I

851
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Speaker 10: was like, I can't. I can't disappoint this woman's daughters.

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Speaker 10: I got to make sure that I do this well.

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Speaker 10: So I was very happy with it with the outcohol.

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Speaker 7: What were some of the people that you called on

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Speaker 7: in the.

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Speaker 10: Space, So I did not confirm if I could use

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Speaker 10: their name, yeah, because I don't want to.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to put them out there.

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Speaker 5: There's a nat that we can say you sat down

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Speaker 5: with Mark Cuban at some point.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love them.

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Speaker 5: Contracts there, now you're going to once you sign this,

863
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Speaker 5: you're on the other side of it. You've actually executed

864
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Speaker 5: and you've done it with the world watching.

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Speaker 7: So how's this conversation going.

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Speaker 2: Mark is.

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Speaker 10: Very different than what I expected because I saw Mark

868
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Speaker 10: through the lens of Shark Tank and so like that

869
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 10: was what I imagined him being, and not that he

870
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Speaker 10: was difficult or anything from that perspective on Shark Tank.

871
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 10: I just expected him to be just very much I

872
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 10: know it all, and this is it and this it's

873
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 10: my way or the highway. And so Mark was very

874
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 10: much inquisitive. He wanted to know all things. He wanted

875
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 10: to know our thoughts. He didn't come across as very

876
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 10: selsy at all. He was really interested. There was more

877
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 10: questions about what do we think where we were we're

878
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 10: worrying the process. He wanted my opinion on some things

879
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Speaker 10: that he was working on. So it felt like not

880
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 10: like a transaction. It really felt like you were building

881
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 10: this partnership. And so that's what made it a lot different.

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Speaker 4: So you got a max contract.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, slightly under?

884
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Speaker 4: Slightly under? Was it?

885
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Speaker 7: Was?

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Speaker 9: There a lot of work and negotiation because I feel

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Speaker 9: like a lot the contract is pretty much set at

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Speaker 9: that point, right.

889
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 2: Not necessarily.

890
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 10: So when you have when you look at this CBA

891
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 10: and the salary caps, you have to think about do

892
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 10: you want to be a well in a pond, right

893
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 10: or do you want to be the will in the ocean?

894
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 4: Right?

895
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 10: So you don't want to suck up all of the

896
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 10: money where you're not in a position to kind of

897
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 10: help the team to get the help that they needed

898
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 10: to get to the next level. So those are all

899
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 10: of the things you thought about, was like, how do we.

900
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 2: For us?

901
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 10: Like I said, it was like, how do you become

902
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 10: that benefit? How is the team going to get better?

903
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 10: How are all of those things coming into play?

904
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 9: So what are some things things that just in general

905
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 9: people might not be familiar with, like an NBA contract.

906
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 9: I know some people I think bron has like a

907
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 9: no trade clause, or there's different things that you can

908
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 9: kind of put in games play.

909
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 10: There's no trade clauses, there's there's a there's just a plethora.

910
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 2: Of things that you can include in the contract.

911
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 10: I think that one of the conversations you want to

912
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 10: have is where's where does the team see itself this year,

913
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 10: next year, and the year after, especially during your contract,

914
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 10: because if the team.

915
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 2: Is consistently losing, you know you're gonna get blamed for it.

916
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 4: Said games played, like you have to play a certain

917
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 4: amount of games, play.

918
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 10: A certain amount of games. People have all sorts of contracts,

919
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 10: minutes played.

920
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 2: You just have to kind of figure out what's in

921
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: the best, what's big?

922
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 4: What's big now? Is that.

923
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 9: Like if you make an All NBA team, you get

924
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 9: a bonus on your contract?

925
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: All Star games, all Star Games.

926
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 4: All Star games? Is that stuff that that part of

927
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 4: Kyrie's deal? Why not?

928
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 2: All NBA is subjective? Yeah, and you don't want to

929
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: tie your your money to anything.

930
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 9: That is Uh, well, we saw we saw somebody that

931
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 9: lost a lot of money.

932
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's a great player in Memphis who didn't

933
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 5: make any All NBA teams.

934
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, and how much did he lose.

935
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 5: Between the door Spence with Nike and tigning bonus. I

936
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 5: think it was forty two. Yeah, right, because he would

937
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 5: have been able to sign a super max because he

938
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 5: would have made one of the first teams. He probably

939
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 5: would have been first Team NBA, but he at least would

940
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 5: have been second team. He doesn't make any of them.

941
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 5: But who does benefit is a guy like Jaylen Brown

942
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 5: who actually made an All NBA team and then signs

943
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 5: of richest contract in the history of NBA.

944
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 9: Yeah, So because he didn't make All NBA team, he

945
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 9: lost his ability to sign a super max.

946
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 7: Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Yeah, I mean that that goes back to it, like.

947
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 10: Those those things that you think about right away.

948
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 5: Obviously, suspended for the first twenty five games I think

949
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 5: this season, so that will affect even if he had

950
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 5: a game's played, But he definitely should have made an

951
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 5: All NBA team. And that's no slight to anybody that

952
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 5: was on those teams.

953
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just obvious. It's obvious.

954
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 9: So yeah, but no, because also when we heard lou

955
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 9: Will speak and lou Will said that it was one

956
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 9: year when he was playing that he felt he should

957
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 9: have been an All Star absolutely, and his coach, I

958
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 9: think Doug Collins was the coach's time, and he sat

959
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 9: down with him and he said, look, you deserve to

960
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 9: be an All Star. He's like, the reserves give the

961
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 9: coach has to nominate the reserves. So he's like, look,

962
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 9: you're the best player on the team. You deserve to

963
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 9: be an All Star. But for the morality scorer on

964
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 9: the team, for the morale of the team, I'm going

965
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 9: to nominate somebody else.

966
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 4: It was.

967
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 7: It was crazy. It was Andrea Godallas.

968
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 9: So but what lou Will said is that that not

969
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 9: only it lost a lot of money because he wasn't

970
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 9: an All Star, but it negatively impacted his career to

971
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 9: the point where he could never start ever again. And

972
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 9: he kind of he said, he lost a lot of

973
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 9: money because of that one decision of him not being

974
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 9: on an All Star team. So politics that go in

975
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 9: to play here that people might not always see.

976
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 10: I just always think that contracts should be one hundred

977
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 10: percent of what you can control, especially when you put

978
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 10: those types of things in a contry.

979
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 4: You don't like the bonus structures.

980
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 10: I just think that if you're going to use a

981
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 10: bonus structure, should be something that you can control, that

982
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:48,399
Speaker 10: you one hundred percent control, versus something that somebody else

983
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 10: has can be manipulated.

984
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, So you gotta talked about being a

985
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,760
Speaker 5: well in the ocean. Right as the agent, you're looking

986
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 5: at everybody's contract on the team because or because I

987
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 5: would imagine if I'm looking at let's I'll use the

988
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 5: Mavericks for example, if I'm looking at Luca and I'm thinking,

989
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 5: all right, he's going to be super MAXI. If we're

990
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:11,359
Speaker 5: looking at the future of the team, how we're going

991
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 5: to build to south, I might have to fall out

992
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 5: this number so that we can help still build people

993
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 5: around this core to win the championship.

994
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 7: So like, you're not looking at those.

995
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 10: Or I mean, I'm not looking at anybody's contracts on

996
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 10: the on the team per se. You're just looking at

997
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,959
Speaker 10: how how is the team going to look?

998
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 2: Right?

999
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 10: It starts first with do you feel like you want

1000
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 10: to be in Dallas? Is this the place you want

1001
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 10: to be? And when that was said, yes, this is

1002
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 10: this is where I want to be. Okay, what do

1003
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 10: you think that you need to feel comfortable there and

1004
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 10: then you go from there.

1005
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 9: So you have one client who was a good client

1006
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 9: to have because he's one of the best athletes started

1007
00:51:58,719 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 9: the top.

1008
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 4: But you say your goal is to expand and to

1009
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 4: get other clients.

1010
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 9: Right, So have you actively started to recruit other players

1011
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 9: or not? And what is your sales pitch or your

1012
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 9: pitch to somebody for you to represent them.

1013
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: We passively.

1014
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 10: Have started to have a conversation with players and potential.

1015
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 2: Picks for the NBA.

1016
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 10: For us, it's we don't want everybody, and I know

1017
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 10: that that sounds because we're really about how can we help.

1018
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 10: We want to be the the agent. That's not like

1019
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 10: we're just signing you know I'm gonna sign you, and

1020
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 10: I'm gonna sign you and I just showed when there's

1021
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 10: the contract.

1022
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 2: We want to really.

1023
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 10: Be a active and an engine in your career. And

1024
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 10: so for that, it's as much as we're talking to people,

1025
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 10: we want them to interview us. We want to interview

1026
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 10: them and really figure out how we can help. Because

1027
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 10: there's some people that we can help in some people

1028
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 10: that we we we can't and we don't want to

1029
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 10: waste anybody's time.

1030
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 2: So That's why I it's very passive. I've had people.

1031
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 10: That's like, hey, you know, I'm ready to sign, and

1032
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 10: you're like, I don't know if I can help you,

1033
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 10: and I don't want to waste your time.

1034
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 4: So who would be a ideal person?

1035
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 9: Like who would you what's the prototype of a person

1036
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 9: that you say I want to work with this guy?

1037
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 10: A person who understands what they really want and it's

1038
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 10: and it's bigger than just I want a lot of money,

1039
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 10: Like what are the accomplishments, what are the goals, what's

1040
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 10: the family?

1041
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 2: Like how important are they?

1042
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 10: It's somebody that is in some ways like cod they

1043
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 10: want to be humanitarian, in a lot of ways, they

1044
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 10: want to do a good job.

1045
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 2: We're not into a lot of egos.

1046
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 10: We want to figure out how we can like like

1047
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 10: it really goes to how you can. We're not trying

1048
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 10: to be the biggest, We're not trying to be the celebrity.

1049
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 10: Like we're not trying to sign, you know, deals for

1050
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 10: ourselves or do it?

1051
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 2: Like we want to sign.

1052
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 10: Deals for the people that we work with, and what

1053
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 10: does that look like and how do we help? And

1054
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 10: so in some cases we've been consultants for people and

1055
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 10: kind of giving them some advice and how to move

1056
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 10: forward and what we think and what we see. So

1057
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 10: for us, it's what is that person that really makes

1058
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 10: sense for all even because it's how do we create

1059
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 10: family offices?

1060
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 2: How do we.

1061
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 10: Teach you and instruct you and help your family to

1062
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 10: do the same thing that we're doing.

1063
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 5: Is it relegated to basketball specifically the NBA or are

1064
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 5: we open to women's professional sports?

1065
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 7: Nil?

1066
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 2: With nil? Yeah, right, the proper between.

1067
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, because the WNBA, I think that the highest rated

1068
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 5: game was during the finals this year.

1069
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 7: The popularities increase and it's so it's a good game.

1070
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 10: Easy to me when you think about women and our

1071
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 10: economic powers that WNBA players don't.

1072
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 2: Make the money that they should be making. It's just

1073
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:23,360
Speaker 2: so crazy to me.

1074
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:27,919
Speaker 10: And I understand the economics in in that part of it, but.

1075
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 2: It's just it just is so great. They should be

1076
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:30,879
Speaker 2: making so much more.

1077
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1078
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 5: I think Kelsey Plump said it, Champion Kelsey Plumb, by

1079
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 5: the way, well saying it, we're still a baby, like

1080
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 5: we just celebrated twenty five years. If we compare, I mean,

1081
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 5: the times are different, but the trajectory of where it's

1082
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 5: headed is definitely on the upward and so having representation,

1083
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 5: I would just from that standpoint, have a representation of

1084
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 5: like I don't have to have a male agia, you don't,

1085
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 5: I can have you could be representing it. So like

1086
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 5: is that on the vision board for Okay?

1087
00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 10: So we want to make sure we're being an ass

1088
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 10: it and we're really helping because we're a baby ourselves.

1089
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 7: Right.

1090
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 4: So you see who's who's on your team?

1091
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 2: Kyrie's dad. Uh, he is the chief financial officer.

1092
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, and and that's just really based on his expertise

1093
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 10: in that financial business world.

1094
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 7: We met in the elevator in Utah. Yeah, the man,

1095
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 7: solid guy. He said he loves what we're doing. Yeah, uh,

1096
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 7: and it's proud of us. And I was like, yo,

1097
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 7: that was that.

1098
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, he's brilliant. He's brilliant in that financial does

1099
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 10: space does ky?

1100
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 4: All Right?

1101
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 9: So you you guys family business. Is Kai interested in

1102
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 9: the business? Is he involved in the business?

1103
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 10: Ultimately, once he's done, the goal would be to just

1104
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 10: kind of pass it on to him.

1105
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: So once he's done playing, pass.

1106
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 10: It on and I can retire and his dad retire,

1107
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 10: we can run around and act like we're twenty some years.

1108
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,439
Speaker 7: So that's that is that the goal for all even yeah,

1109
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 7: is to we're gonna.

1110
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Speaker 4: Build it up, build it.

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00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 10: Up ultimately at some at some point, because I think

1112
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 10: at that point Kyle would have enough experience to really

1113
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 10: really uh be a real agent of change for for

1114
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 10: players come into the industry.

1115
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 9: How do you look at his role as like he's

1116
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 9: the closest thing probably to like Muhammad Ali for generation

1117
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 9: as far as he's he's taking stances, he's become a controversial,

1118
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 9: polarizing figure. He's become a he's become like adored by

1119
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 9: the public in a way that even outweighs his his

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00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 9: talent level, right, Like, it's not a lot of athletes

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00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 9: that have that level of you know, respect from the

1122
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 9: population or can be polarizing to population, depending on what side,

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00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 9: what side you're on. But yeah, how does he even

1124
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 9: think about that aspect of it? Not yet if you

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00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 9: think about it, he's the only one. Colin Kaepernick played

1126
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 9: a part, but he's not even he's not an athlete anymore,

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00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 9: and so he's not even like really in the mix.

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Speaker 9: But as far as athletes now, there's no athlete that

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00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 9: really has ever pushed the line in the last like

1130
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 9: Jalen Brown is doing it in a non traditional way

1131
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 9: for sure, and.

1132
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 5: Like Lebron and those guys, they've they've they've done it

1133
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 5: in their way, like Lebron.

1134
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 9: I'm saying as far as some of the controversy right

1135
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 9: because Muhammad Ali was a very controversy.

1136
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 10: I'm saying controversy because I think it has such a.

1137
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 2: Negative connotation to it.

1138
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 10: And I think that the more we say, oh, it's

1139
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 10: it's a controversial thing or a controversial moment, I think

1140
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 10: we're reinforcing that this is something that's negatively right.

1141
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 2: And so I think that we have to figure out,

1142
00:58:59,240 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 2: and I don't know what.

1143
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 10: That word it is today, how not to when athletes

1144
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 10: are standing up for what they believe in, whether we

1145
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 10: whether we think it's right or wrong or indifferent, figure

1146
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 10: out what that word is to describe that. Because I

1147
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,919
Speaker 10: think that we all are given, you know, we all

1148
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 10: or afforded this idea of choice, especially in this country.

1149
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 10: So I think we got to figure out for sure.

1150
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 9: I don't really look at it as like a negative

1151
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 9: thing per se. I just look at it as like

1152
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 9: America is a very divisive country. Yeah, just is what

1153
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 9: it is right and it's split, it's split between black

1154
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 9: and white, it's split between rich and poor, split a

1155
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 9: lot of different ways. So I feel like sometimes some

1156
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 9: people make stances, and if you make a stance, if

1157
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 9: you have enough courage to make a stance, you have

1158
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 9: to deal with the consequences of that correct And no

1159
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 9: matter what that stance is, it's almost always going to

1160
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 9: be controversial.

1161
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 2: Right, There's always a consequence.

1162
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 4: There's always a consequence.

1163
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 9: There's always a consequence, and there's always going to be

1164
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 9: a lot of people that don't agree with it correct. Right,

1165
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 9: So for the most part, most people, you can't take

1166
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 9: the Michael Jordan approach where you just play it safe.

1167
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 9: Nothing wrong with that. I'm just saying that that's what

1168
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 9: most athletes have done for the last thirty years. You

1169
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 9: don't really get into political stuff. You don't really make

1170
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 9: too many social stances. You know, you just kind of

1171
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 9: like just stay out of that because it's not beneficial

1172
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 9: to your brand. Right, You're gonna lose a lot of money,

1173
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 9: You're gonna lose support. I mean, it's just a real conversation.

1174
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 9: But there's some athletes that didn't care about that. Muhammad

1175
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 9: Ali is somebody that comes to mind who lost a

1176
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 9: lot of money by not wanting to go to war.

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01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 9: He could have just went to Vietnam. He wasn't gonna

1178
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 9: fight as a soldier, could have just you know, did

1179
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 9: some tours and detained the soldiers. But his belief, his

1180
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 9: religious belief, and just his moral belief said he didn't

1181
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 9: want to do that. And he took a court case

1182
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:54,680
Speaker 9: all the way to Supreme Court so he didn't have

1183
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 9: to go to jail. Lost two years, three years of

1184
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:58,880
Speaker 9: his career in the prime of his career, lost a

1185
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 9: lot of money. But ultimately he's known for something more

1186
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 9: than just boxing.

1187
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: Correct.

1188
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 9: So that's what I mean by that, right, Like I

1189
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 9: look at Kyrie, like, you know, he didn't have to

1190
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 9: He could have just took the vaccine they're gonna just

1191
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 9: nobody would have Nobody would have thought anything of it

1192
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 9: because everybody else did. But it's like you made a stance,

1193
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,959
Speaker 9: and then he probably didn't do it to become a public.

1194
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,640
Speaker 10: If it's making a stance as much as if he

1195
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 10: was in anywhere else in the world where there was

1196
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 10: not a man day, would it have been him making

1197
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 10: a stance?

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01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 4: Oh?

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01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 2: Sometimes I think it would have been a choice.

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01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 9: Sometimes you get highlighted without even like Marshall Lynch said,

1201
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 9: he never stood for the national anthem. It's just the

1202
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 9: public highlighted Colan Kaepernick. Right, Sometimes you do things and

1203
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 9: it's like he's not the only player that didn't take

1204
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 9: the vaccine, but for whatever reason, he's the one that

1205
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 9: became the face of it, right, they needed to face right.

1206
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 9: And sometimes that's not up to you. You can't control it.

1207
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 9: But sometimes people just put things on you and if

1208
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 9: you make that decision, now you have no choice but

1209
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 9: to live with it.

1210
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: Correct.

1211
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Speaker 10: And I think so here's the thing I'll always say

1212
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 10: about we all make choices, right. I think that I

1213
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 10: don't ever want to say that that a choice is

1214
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 10: a controversial choice, especially when if you weren't anywhere else

1215
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 10: that didn't have the same mandate, it would not have

1216
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 10: been considered a controversy.

1217
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 2: It would just be like, oh, it just made a

1218
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 2: choice not to get it done. That's fine.

1219
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 10: And so that's just that's why I sit on this

1220
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 10: this place of how do we because when we say

1221
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 10: taking a stand, it still has a negative kind of connotation.

1222
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 10: And I would love to figure out what is a

1223
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 10: better word the political content, Yeah, like whether or not

1224
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 10: you know, and I think moral has a I think

1225
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 10: we got to figure out a word. And I think

1226
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 10: like the next time I come to sit with you, like,

1227
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 10: let's figure out what that word is for.

1228
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 2: People that.

1229
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 10: Are standing up for you know, the food desert so

1230
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 10: food scarcity or education and all in health and all

1231
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 10: of these things, because I don't want those are very

1232
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 10: important issues that are impact in our community, and I

1233
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 10: don't want there to be well, this is controversial because

1234
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 10: you said it is not right that kids go, you know,

1235
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 10: have are concerned about food in their homes, are that

1236
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,439
Speaker 10: there are food deserts in their communities. Right, I don't

1237
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 10: want that word controversy to stand. And if we can

1238
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 10: use what Kyrie went through through through through the vaccine

1239
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 10: and say hey, we're going to change that and we're

1240
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 10: going to create this new word and basically make that

1241
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 10: a word of positivity. When you're saying this is not

1242
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 10: right and this is a choice that I'm not aligned with.

1243
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 9: Well, it all comes down to media. Yeah, that's why

1244
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 9: the media is really the most important thing in society

1245
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 9: because they can shape the minds of the people. So

1246
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 9: we can't control as a regular people, we can't control it.

1247
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 4: But media can, so he didn't. The controversy comes from.

1248
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 9: The media saying that he's irresponsible and da da da da.

1249
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 4: So when that narrative is pushed now it becomes controversial.

1250
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 10: But I think coming from media, and I used to

1251
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,000
Speaker 10: go through all of the emails and read the comments,

1252
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 10: when people stand up and say it's not right, you

1253
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 10: shut a lot of that down. And so there are

1254
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 10: communities that you cannot say anything.

1255
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 2: You can't like no, no, no, no, no, you're not going to

1256
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 2: say this, You're not going to do this. I'm gonna

1257
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 2: shut that down.

1258
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 10: And I think we have to be just as vocal

1259
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 10: and I'm not going to allow you to sugarcoat this.

1260
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:55,000
Speaker 10: I'm gonna shut this down and make you enforce you

1261
01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 10: not to make this a negative.

1262
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 4: But I think it also is harder when it's coming

1263
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 4: from people.

1264
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 10: No, no, it's not I think that I think and

1265
01:05:03,960 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 10: not to to to debate.

1266
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 2: I think that if we stand together.

1267
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:13,680
Speaker 9: Well that's what I'm saying, there's no standing together. It's divided.

1268
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 9: Black people are the ones that's criticizing. So it's like

1269
01:05:17,320 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 9: it's harder to say, like you know what I mean,

1270
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 9: like you have disagree, I have to disagree you have

1271
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 9: no black community support, Carrie. Yeah, you have prominent black

1272
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 9: journalists television.

1273
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's different or.

1274
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:36,520
Speaker 4: Publicly like these are these are not just regular people.

1275
01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 9: These are the highest people of their craft, highly respected

1276
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 9: in journalism that's publicly denouncing him.

1277
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 10: I've had those conversations, and I've you know, and I'll

1278
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 10: leave that private. But I have gone back and sort

1279
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 10: of had those conversations. And there is a certain power

1280
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 10: that media does have, and there are certain forces at

1281
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 10: some of these media companies that demand certain responses to

1282
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 10: certain things.

1283
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 2: So I get it, I understand it.

1284
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 10: What I wanted to just make sure that I clarify

1285
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 10: was that the black community, the Hispanic community, the black

1286
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 10: and brown community was really supportive of Hot They were like,

1287
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 10: hands down.

1288
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 9: That's why I compare it to yeah, Lean, I don't

1289
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:32,320
Speaker 9: want to compare people, but it's like he always had

1290
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 9: a support it to people. Yeah, but the people that

1291
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 9: are in position of power or in the media, that's

1292
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 9: that's not the people.

1293
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1294
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 5: It there's a disconnect. So, I mean, that's interesting. I'm

1295
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 5: hearing from what I'm hearing that was great back and forth.

1296
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 5: The media has a job to do and sometimes we

1297
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 5: don't understand what the person who's saying it, the pressure

1298
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 5: that's been put on them to have a stance correct

1299
01:06:56,440 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 5: and make sort of a spectacle of their response of it,

1300
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 5: because they need people to watch and they need viewership,

1301
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 5: and what comes with viewership comes.

1302
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 7: With they need a job or they need to sponsorships.

1303
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 5: They need the job is the money that's going to

1304
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 5: be paying most times for the salaries of the people

1305
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 5: that are on the air. Which is interesting, right, because

1306
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 5: that's a deeper perspective for people to look at, especially

1307
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 5: from the audience standpoint. But a lot of times you

1308
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 5: hear them say I spoke to his dad or I

1309
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 5: spoke to his agent, and so that's what I'm going, right,

1310
01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking, like, really, did you really? How often

1311
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:31,880
Speaker 5: does that happen?

1312
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 10: And when it's mischieved, it happens all the time. And

1313
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 10: there are times that I like came in and said

1314
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 10: stuff and said no, that that that that that was

1315
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 10: not what was.

1316
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 4: Said, spoke to a source close to the family.

1317
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, And those those are like because I said, I've

1318
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 10: just said to people and uh and I stand by this,

1319
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 10: you can use my name not like that, And they're like, wait,

1320
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 10: what I said, yeah, you can use my name, and

1321
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 10: you don't have to say sources. Say, you don't have

1322
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 10: to say friend of the family. You can use my name,

1323
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 10: and when I give you the authority to use my name,

1324
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:12,080
Speaker 10: you can run with it. And so therefore there's never

1325
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:17,720
Speaker 10: any confusion about sources close to the family, because a

1326
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 10: lot of that went on because that was people's way

1327
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 10: of saying, Hey, I talked to the neighbor who lived

1328
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 10: five houses down across the street, the cousin who said

1329
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:33,599
Speaker 10: and it's not accurate because and in some cases people

1330
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 10: may have presented themselves as in the know. And I'm

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01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 10: not saying that journalism is faulty or but I think

1332
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 10: that in some cases people are presented themselves as being

1333
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 10: an insider and did not understand the impact of what

1334
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:51,759
Speaker 10: they were saying.

1335
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: Or yeah, I'm leave that there.

1336
01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 5: Yeah you can leave it right there, because I'm now

1337
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:02,439
Speaker 5: I'm looking at it from both standpoints, right like there's

1338
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:06,759
Speaker 5: a parent standpoint and then there's an agent standpoint. Both

1339
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 5: try to curate an environment. People who look that person

1340
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 5: shouldn't be, like, I don't think they should be around.

1341
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 5: Do you need to make that circle a lot tighter

1342
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 5: during that whole process. He said that very public, like

1343
01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 5: there's a lot of people that I thought I tried.

1344
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:24,680
Speaker 5: Now my circle is super tight. Are those separate conversations?

1345
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 5: Are they in one right? As an agent as a

1346
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,120
Speaker 5: parent from protective of somebody that you've known since eight

1347
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 5: years old, two separate conversations.

1348
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a conversation of agent where it's what is

1349
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 10: good for the brand, and then there's the conversation as

1350
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 10: parent where that person.

1351
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 2: Will get you in trouble.

1352
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 10: Two different conversations, two different tones, two different everything. So

1353
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 10: the agent conversation is that's not good for your brand,

1354
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:56,480
Speaker 10: and here's why, and here's all the proof. The parent conversation,

1355
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 10: and you've had this with your kids. That person right there,

1356
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 10: you right now, don't call me because that person is

1357
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 10: going to get you in a lot of trouble.

1358
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 9: So how is your experience being a black woman in

1359
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 9: a male dominated industry.

1360
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 10: I there are times that it pops up. So I

1361
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:20,600
Speaker 10: remember I was in a meeting and this is a

1362
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 10: higher up meeting and I was the only woman in

1363
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:30,640
Speaker 10: the room, and it was I was not seen. And

1364
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 10: then there are other times that it's celebrated where guys

1365
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 10: are like, hey, I want to make sure that I

1366
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 10: help you, that I support you because I love what

1367
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 10: it is that you're doing. So it's just it just

1368
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 10: depends on the moment, it depends on the culture, it

1369
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:51,720
Speaker 10: depends on where people are, where it pops up, and

1370
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 10: sometimes it doesn't and people are just like, hey, it's

1371
01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 10: there's an emphasis on making sure that you're successful.

1372
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:00,800
Speaker 7: From an age of stamp point of MAXI and as

1373
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 7: an agent.

1374
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 5: Uh.

1375
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 7: Athletes have other interests. Are investing.

1376
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:11,040
Speaker 5: Obviously dad's a CFO, so it's finance, investing in real

1377
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 5: estate style. Are those things that we're having conversations about

1378
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 5: angel invest investing? Are we having conversations about that?

1379
01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1380
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:21,480
Speaker 2: His dad is tough in that. I bring the opportunity

1381
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 2: because I'm a girl.

1382
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 10: I like the shop, so I look at everything and

1383
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:26,839
Speaker 10: I'm like yep, yep, yep, and his dad's like nope,

1384
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 10: what were you thinking?

1385
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no.

1386
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 4: So he handles all the finance. Yeah, he really before you.

1387
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 2: Invest, Yeah, he does a lot of that.

1388
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 10: And then Kai has you know, another team as well,

1389
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 10: so he's like, there, we have what we created because

1390
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 10: I'm the shopper was levels of.

1391
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: Investment levels.

1392
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 10: So we run it through all of these levels to

1393
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 10: make sure that none of us are missing anything. So

1394
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 10: we have our legal team, we have our tax and

1395
01:11:56,800 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 10: accounting team to make sure that this makes sense. We

1396
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 10: have another team that sort of looks at it and

1397
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 10: if everybody kind of signs off on it and says

1398
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,600
Speaker 10: this is good, then we present it to Kai and

1399
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 10: kind of get his feedback on it. Now, some people

1400
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 10: are like, I hate that that you have to talk

1401
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 10: to so many different people, but it just works for

1402
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 10: us in terms of because there's things that you know,

1403
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:21,600
Speaker 10: I may miss, his dad may miss, and if you

1404
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 10: have so many people looking at it, it just kind

1405
01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 10: of keeps everybody solid.

1406
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 7: It's tough to miss when everybody's looking.

1407
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

1408
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:31,879
Speaker 9: I feel like the agent's responsibility is also to protect

1409
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 9: their client. So is that part of your your job

1410
01:12:38,320 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 9: title as well? Like do you look at okay before

1411
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 9: he speaks here, let me look at it.

1412
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 4: Do I do this?

1413
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 9: Do I look at the photo shoot to make sure

1414
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 9: the picture is like is that?

1415
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, every every which way. Sometimes he does this. All

1416
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 10: of my kids do this, and that's the that's their

1417
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 10: way of pushing me back to say, you're becoming a

1418
01:12:59,200 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 10: little too much.

1419
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 2: But yeah, every every everything.

1420
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 9: So what is what's on the vision board for you

1421
01:13:05,160 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 9: and your company over the next couple of years. I

1422
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:09,640
Speaker 9: know obviously you said that you know you're looking to

1423
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 9: expand and get more clients. But what yeah, how how

1424
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 9: was you like, Yeah, your enterprise to being So.

1425
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:17,640
Speaker 10: We want to do probably in the next two to

1426
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 10: three years, like a billion dollars in deals in deals. Yeah,

1427
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 10: So that's that's on our most immediate The other side

1428
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 10: of it is obviously bringing in clients. And so we

1429
01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 10: have that magic number of where we want to be

1430
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,160
Speaker 10: by way of clients over the next two to three years.

1431
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 4: And is there new clients from college or a client

1432
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 4: in college or a like mixture, mixture of veterans.

1433
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, veterans, uh, college, just that that whole mixture we

1434
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 10: want to We've talked a lot about creating a collective

1435
01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 10: of independent agents that that we can use.

1436
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:01,639
Speaker 2: As a resource.

1437
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:06,680
Speaker 10: I've had a lot of conversations with Jalen's brother Q

1438
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 10: about how can we because there's a lot of this

1439
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:13,879
Speaker 10: thought of independence that a lot of players and athletes

1440
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,839
Speaker 10: are thinking about, and so how do we be this resource,

1441
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 10: this collective resource? And I'm excellent at this, You're excellent

1442
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 10: at that. How do we bring it together and really

1443
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 10: create this agent collective that we can all pull and

1444
01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:32,440
Speaker 10: grow and create from. So we're just having those conversations

1445
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 10: and that's that's pretty much it.

1446
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want the media is important, and I

1447
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 5: think as our platform, I want to highlight the philanthropy

1448
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 5: that happens from your side and your team. And obviously

1449
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 5: every time there's been an issue or because we've always

1450
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 5: seen Kyrie do need, does.

1451
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 7: It get highlighted? Probably should more so I would I

1452
01:14:57,680 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 7: want to give you the floyd to talk about all

1453
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,920
Speaker 7: the planthropy that you've been doing over the past three

1454
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 7: to five years, because it's a lot.

1455
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,080
Speaker 2: It is a lot, it's a lot.

1456
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 10: A lot of it is we want to be angels

1457
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:15,080
Speaker 10: in this because the minute that it becomes public, you

1458
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 10: get flooded with everybody.

1459
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 2: Has a need. Some of those needs are authentic, some

1460
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 2: of them are not.

1461
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 10: But I know that Kay's focus is on entrepreneurship, women, maternity,

1462
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:35,599
Speaker 10: and health for women that are having babies and look

1463
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 10: to expand their families. And that's something very different from

1464
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 10: an athlete that you would say, why would an athlete

1465
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 10: be interested in it? We know the mortality rates that

1466
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 10: exist for black women and given birth. So that's something

1467
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 10: that he really wants to kind of get behind and.

1468
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 2: Figure out pathways for. It is.

1469
01:15:57,280 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 10: The Native American community. How do we create opportunity there?

1470
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 10: And we're working on something that we hope to announce

1471
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:09,440
Speaker 10: relatively soon where that would create a pipeline of opportunity

1472
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 10: and monetary gain for within that community. It is food scarcity,

1473
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 10: food deserts. How do we help out there? It is education.

1474
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 10: It is financial literacy because, like I said, we as

1475
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 10: people of color, we're raising our hands left and right

1476
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 10: and saying, help me invest, Teach me about money, because

1477
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 10: there's so much that we don't understand and know.

1478
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 2: Mental health is another one that is.

1479
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 10: A big focus for us in recognizing that we all

1480
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,720
Speaker 10: have needs. It's not you know, and you should not

1481
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 10: be ashamed to say that. There are days that I

1482
01:16:51,479 --> 01:16:52,040
Speaker 10: wake up and.

1483
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 4: I'm just.

1484
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,720
Speaker 10: And there are things that are going on that I

1485
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 10: need to talk to somebody about. And so we're just

1486
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 10: trying to figure out pathways to create opportunities for people

1487
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,840
Speaker 10: to have real, honest conversations about mental health and those

1488
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 10: issues that a lot of people are battling in silence.

1489
01:17:10,840 --> 01:17:12,519
Speaker 2: So that's that's the name.

1490
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 7: A few yes, and we thank you.

1491
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:14,679
Speaker 4: That's a lot.

1492
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 7: We thank you because we see it for sure.

1493
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 4: So yeah, thank you for joining us. Met the whole family.

1494
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 9: Now your husband, like you said, we met him in Utah,

1495
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,759
Speaker 9: had a great conversation and Kyle, we got to spend

1496
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 9: some time with him, so I know he's actually watches

1497
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 9: the program, so shout out to him. Definitely the best

1498
01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 9: ball hands I love of all the time we have.

1499
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 7: That's a fact. That's a fact. We're not arguing that. Yeah,

1500
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 7: that's a fact.

1501
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 9: Well, just just a good dude, like I said, and

1502
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 9: you know, we spent a couple of hours with him.

1503
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 9: You just kind of get a feel for somebody. So

1504
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,559
Speaker 9: he was very low key, reserved, like person were talking

1505
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 9: about rap, Yeah, were talking about rap, you know, just

1506
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 9: a variety of different things.

1507
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:55,080
Speaker 7: We was right. Just for the record, we was right,

1508
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:56,400
Speaker 7: me and you We was right.

1509
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,000
Speaker 9: So yeah, we had a lot, We had a lot

1510
01:17:58,040 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 9: of We had a great conversation. So shout out to Kyrie.

1511
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 9: But keep up the great work. You know, it's definitely

1512
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 9: needed to highlight people like yourself because there's a lot

1513
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 9: of young ladies that I'm sure probably want to get

1514
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 9: into the world of sports, but don't know how, right,

1515
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 9: and then it's like if you don't have a road

1516
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 9: map to follow up, even if you just have somebody

1517
01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 9: look at like I'm sure you know a lot of

1518
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 9: people have looked at Rich Paul as somebody that's breaking

1519
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 9: the mold.

1520
01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:24,520
Speaker 2: I'll say, he's he's about godfathers.

1521
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 4: Rich. Shout out to Rich.

1522
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 9: A friend of the friend of the rich investments godfather

1523
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 9: go invest fest too. So you know, but people like

1524
01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:37,839
Speaker 9: that is important, right because they're not coming from traditional paths.

1525
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 9: So you know, it gives hope and inspiration to people.

1526
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 9: So that's definitely important. So keep up the great work. Yeah,

1527
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 9: let's continue to stay in dialogue, Let's continue to work

1528
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 9: together and anything that we can do to be of help.

1529
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 4: Just let us know.

1530
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you, guys. I had a good time.

1531
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:57,680
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you for coming.

1532
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 9: Appreciate it. Appreciate it all right, guys, thank you for

1533
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 9: rocking us. To see you next week.

1534
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:02,639
Speaker 4: Peace. Peace.

1535
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:06,840
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Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States

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Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border

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Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you

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Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly

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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will

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Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home

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Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.

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Speaker 1: Do what's right.

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Speaker 2: Leave now.

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Speaker 1: Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.