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Speaker 1: My next guests is a renaissance man. I say that
Speaker 1: because um, he can do it all. He's He's had
Speaker 1: a thirteen year NBA career, a two time NBA All
Speaker 1: Store and record holder, independent movie mogul. He has several
Speaker 1: companies sports and lifestyle and culture called Slick, their Black
Speaker 1: Santa Company which I love, Business Land Inside the Game,
Speaker 1: Business Inside the Game, called Big and No Label, each
Speaker 1: with the objective of combining creative talent with the original
Speaker 1: publication and production to develop and provide educational and heartwarming
Speaker 1: stories that appeal to global audiences of all age used.
Speaker 1: Please Welcome to Money Making Conversations Byron Davis thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: I was running who you was talking about. I was
Speaker 1: looking for that. You need to really need to stop backing.
Speaker 1: Would I would just go back when we when we
Speaker 1: first met many years ago, used to come up to
Speaker 1: the Steve Hurry Morning Show. I was the producer. We
Speaker 1: just we just we were chopping up back then when
Speaker 1: you were doing those Magic Johns and All Star Games
Speaker 1: back in the day. Man, I've always been a big
Speaker 1: fan of yours. But one thing I wanted to say
Speaker 1: about you is that I said renaissance man, And I
Speaker 1: said that with with with a lot of uh what
Speaker 1: I say, uh, pride, Because man, you've always from the
Speaker 1: jump you kind of like you kind of like started
Speaker 1: this little motion of for these athletes going out there
Speaker 1: into entertainment. So I'm gonna give you credit, man, because
Speaker 1: you jumped out there first, and because you you know
Speaker 1: you you you You've had an amazing career. Because I
Speaker 1: always tell people because I followed your career and unfortunately
Speaker 1: it was filled with injuries, and but every time you
Speaker 1: came back from an injury, you performed at a high level.
Speaker 1: And I want to just out there right quick. Was
Speaker 1: what was that motivation? Because a lot of times when
Speaker 1: you get injured, you can just give up. You can
Speaker 1: just say, hey, man, wow, I'm tired of this, but
Speaker 1: you came back. Every time you came back. Man, you
Speaker 1: was a bad man on that court. Explain to this
Speaker 1: how did that happen? Burn Man? You know, I think
Speaker 1: it's just from my upbringing, you know, uh, going up
Speaker 1: and I'm chilling the sands and she got to survive, right,
Speaker 1: And you know it's like it's now people are calling
Speaker 1: it uh PTSD right. Uh. But I think that when
Speaker 1: you go up in situations like you know, in the
Speaker 1: n City, you just learning how to survive. And when
Speaker 1: you're back against the wall, it's almost like you're so
Speaker 1: used to that, you're so comfortable and familiar with that
Speaker 1: that it just becomes the norm. And so for me,
Speaker 1: you know, every time I got injured, you know, I
Speaker 1: always know I have my mind and you know, my
Speaker 1: imagination and and will and you just don't realize how
Speaker 1: much how much you can benefit from having you know,
Speaker 1: great imagination, because that's really what it's driven you to
Speaker 1: this point, away from basketball, getting into projects. How does
Speaker 1: like say, I used the word independent mogul, you know
Speaker 1: in the movie Game, How does want to bring an
Speaker 1: idea to you because I'm sure you get you get,
Speaker 1: you get addressed with this situation all the time. Somebody
Speaker 1: got an idea, Hey man, all that needs some money
Speaker 1: from you burn, come on mare and hook me up
Speaker 1: a good job. Idea gonna make a millions of dollars?
Speaker 1: What drives you in the creative platform? For me, it's
Speaker 1: being creative. It's being a person who always asked people
Speaker 1: for money. Hey man, let me get them let me
Speaker 1: get some money to make a movie from you know
Speaker 1: what what what drugs needs is? I think that there's
Speaker 1: a an opportunity, sir and um, you know, to tell
Speaker 1: great stories and stories about us, worries about you know,
Speaker 1: how we um, who we are, what we do see
Speaker 1: ourselves in different lives. Um, you know you're starting to
Speaker 1: see a little bit. Black Panther was one. Um, you
Speaker 1: know we got to get out and Moonlights. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's always gonna renaissance of black cinema. And you know,
Speaker 1: for me, just I want to be a historian, you know,
Speaker 1: and be a part of that. And so creatively it's
Speaker 1: just going back and you know, mining our culture. And
Speaker 1: I gotta and I gotta thank you for that, for
Speaker 1: making it happen, because you was out there when reality
Speaker 1: Reality TV was the finding black culture. It really was
Speaker 1: for a period there you know, we were fighting on TV,
Speaker 1: was Argon on TV? We was, but you was out
Speaker 1: there telling the real stories, finding real story stories that
Speaker 1: we could we could hang our hat on, that we
Speaker 1: can learn about ourselves. And to see that turning into
Speaker 1: like you said, the Black Panthers, the Moonlighting, the Blackish,
Speaker 1: you know, the Steve Harvey brands, you know, the Michael
Speaker 1: Michael Strahan's brand. These brands are very as they say,
Speaker 1: general market brands. So it means that that that that
Speaker 1: people are accepting our culture because of the fact that,
Speaker 1: you know, rapp has really played a major role in that.
Speaker 1: We have to say that because because of the fact
Speaker 1: that rap music, Uh, the same young people who grew
Speaker 1: up on rap music were works accepting and so now
Speaker 1: they're carrying that that mantle into the decision making. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure that that plays a major role in your
Speaker 1: success to career. Absolutely, uh, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: that you know what when we when we say us,
Speaker 1: you know, it's really about I supporting us. That's why
Speaker 1: it ain't a lot of movies or TV shows things
Speaker 1: like that. It's like we're always waiting for someone to
Speaker 1: come and say the day for us, are waiting for
Speaker 1: you know, someone the green light of projects. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, kind of enjoying being in this
Speaker 1: renaissance because I know that, you know, just like you know,
Speaker 1: the straight hands and the will packers, Michael B. Jordan's
Speaker 1: all the great stuff. Come on, come on that I
Speaker 1: do then, you know, and Byron David's come on that,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, We're doing it. We're doing it.
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, it's it's about once again,
Speaker 1: just studying history and studying culture to say, okay, how
Speaker 1: can I be the connective tissue two building? Uh you know,
Speaker 1: uh an economy right. So that's why I'm playing all
Speaker 1: over the place and film and TV and investments because
Speaker 1: we need some economic institution. But you're not afraid. But
Speaker 1: you're not afraid to be to be the personality. You
Speaker 1: know when I see you on T and T, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, being being funny, being entertaining, being a person
Speaker 1: knowing that's a role that you're playing because for a
Speaker 1: check and but delivering information, I'm thinking it's a man,
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, this is the first thing we've ever
Speaker 1: sat down to talk. But I've over they always been
Speaker 1: impressed with your your versatility, and not just from an
Speaker 1: athletics standpoint, because I always felt that you was beyond that,
Speaker 1: because you always had an opinion when you were playing.
Speaker 1: You know, you wasn't a guy just going to sit
Speaker 1: over there and just go dribble the ball. You had
Speaker 1: some thoughts, but you know, and you said your thoughts,
Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of people didn't like that.
Speaker 1: But I think that that what drives you today. If
Speaker 1: you if you I want to bring you back. I
Speaker 1: want to finish this interview if you can hold on
Speaker 1: the phone, because I want to talk about some of
Speaker 1: your more your more visionary things that you have planning. Man,
Speaker 1: But thank you for getting on the call. I know
Speaker 1: you had to get your kids off to school, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, brother, because I got a child and
Speaker 1: that's what I would be too. We've been right back,
Speaker 1: more money making conversations. He's still on the line. He's
Speaker 1: a renaissance man. He had a thirteen year NBA career,
Speaker 1: a two time NBA All Star. When the pressure was
Speaker 1: on give him the ball. That's why I would see,
Speaker 1: given the out the way, get out the way, Get
Speaker 1: out the way, universe, here your guard. He come when
Speaker 1: he was a point guard. So he just get away,
Speaker 1: get away. I got this, I got this. He's an
Speaker 1: amazing entrepreneur. In the call a movie a Moving Mogel.
Speaker 1: When I met him, he was still playing back in
Speaker 1: l a um even coming to the morning show booth
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey myself, I was the executive producer of the show,
Speaker 1: and even though he was there for an athletic reason,
Speaker 1: I alway knew it was something different about this guy
Speaker 1: because he had an opinion and he didn't mind telling
Speaker 1: you his opinion. And that's not a bad thing, because
Speaker 1: I think in life you have to define who you are.
Speaker 1: Because I always tell people what you what you do
Speaker 1: in your twenties is what you're gonna be making money
Speaker 1: in your forties and fifties. So he was defining them
Speaker 1: back then and today he's on the car right now
Speaker 1: to talk about a lot of the successes now Vitamin water,
Speaker 1: my man, I've heard a lot of people make a
Speaker 1: lot of money off that, but you were one of
Speaker 1: the original investors. A lot of people followed you into
Speaker 1: that water hunt sir, uh you know I got lucky man.
Speaker 1: Stop stopping. Stop man at talking to people like him,
Speaker 1: because I'm telling you something. See see, I saw him
Speaker 1: when he was young. I saw him when he was young. Okay,
Speaker 1: hoop was his main game, all right, but it was
Speaker 1: something about he had the ability to communicate. He's very
Speaker 1: personable and he is a thinker, you know what. You
Speaker 1: have a look at people and you go they're thinking
Speaker 1: about something that they're talking to me, but they're thinking
Speaker 1: about something else. So he's very observant. And so so
Speaker 1: when he said lucky, I don't buy that. I don't
Speaker 1: buy that because he man, I need you need to
Speaker 1: stop you go down you hey, because because the fact
Speaker 1: that that's why I wanted you. I'm glad you took
Speaker 1: time to be on the show. And I'm glad that
Speaker 1: because it's individuals like you, because people see one side
Speaker 1: of you. They see you know, social media post on you,
Speaker 1: they see you on NBA. But I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: this is not something just train of you've been or
Speaker 1: what you're doing is not something automatic you've been. I
Speaker 1: always tell Peo about magic and magic Johnson didn't drible
Speaker 1: the basketball. He was going to be an entrepreneur. And
Speaker 1: I said the same thing about that about you be
Speaker 1: you were gonna be an entrepreneur. You're gonna be in
Speaker 1: some creative lane of life. It just God gave you
Speaker 1: a unique talent that was driven into basketball. You turned
Speaker 1: it into a scholarship. You turned it into a thirteen
Speaker 1: year NBA career, and you're making money and you enjoying it.
Speaker 1: That's what money making. Conversations about balance lifestyle. You had
Speaker 1: time for your children. That's balance lifestyle. Man, your special dude.
Speaker 1: I will not let you leave this show not knowing
Speaker 1: that from Rouhan McDonald. No, I appreciate that, man, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Sean uh I was saying, you're suggesting not
Speaker 1: being a phrase itself, right right? You know, um the
Speaker 1: vitamin want to deal that can? Because I was out
Speaker 1: of my sprite deer. Uh I wanted to be my
Speaker 1: own agent, and people thought I was crazy, But you
Speaker 1: know I was also like, what is what is spride
Speaker 1: gonna do for me? You know ten years from now? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, I'd rather be with it. I'd rather be
Speaker 1: with a company nobody know about get less and you know,
Speaker 1: work with the marketing team to help time blow it
Speaker 1: up and uh so with vitamin water. It was when
Speaker 1: the deal came and I was just like, hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm making enough money playing basketball. I'll take it in equity.
Speaker 1: Super smart for a dummy kid. But it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, you take chances. Um, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be my own agent at twenty years old. But I
Speaker 1: need to step out of this business of what everything
Speaker 1: is traditional and everything that I've heard and wanted from
Speaker 1: my agent. I need to look. I need to look
Speaker 1: outside his eyes and hang you from a business standpoint
Speaker 1: and figure out how the bastard business around basketball. You know,
Speaker 1: big shout out to Magic Johnson. And you know a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys who were veteran guys in the
Speaker 1: NBA at the time, you know, because they were, they
Speaker 1: were always encouraging young people that, hey man, you don't
Speaker 1: need an agent, you don't need this, you don't need that.
Speaker 1: So it's just like if you learn from people who say,
Speaker 1: especially your eldiness, you can create opportunities. And for me,
Speaker 1: it was all about nobody's doing this, let me try
Speaker 1: this right. As soon as somebody said no, it made
Speaker 1: me work harder, study harder to prove them wrong. And
Speaker 1: that's why you're a vitamin water mogul. Ever and everybody
Speaker 1: following the met be doing that. I'm doing I'm doing
Speaker 1: it too, just writing checks out there. Let me let
Speaker 1: me the match you this now, you know, because you
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about technology and there's a there's a
Speaker 1: huge gap that you that you want to make you're
Speaker 1: trying to close. How are you playing a role in
Speaker 1: closing the racial gap? Because I've always been a proponent
Speaker 1: a person that says that, you know, we buy technology,
Speaker 1: you know, African Americans we buy smartphones, we buy we
Speaker 1: buy Apple phones, you know, but sometimes we don't get
Speaker 1: credit for that. We don't get credit for being technically savvy,
Speaker 1: and we are. So how do you how do you?
Speaker 1: How do you are you using your brand to close
Speaker 1: that gap of information? Uh? For me, it's just about
Speaker 1: you to right. You gotta hire, you gotta invest, you
Speaker 1: gotta find the people who who are doing it. Um.
Speaker 1: I was just visiting with a lady who's been in
Speaker 1: for thirty five years in our last and she's been
Speaker 1: she's been pushing technology for thirty five years, and now
Speaker 1: it's finally out of place where people can well, we
Speaker 1: can actually get some credit, right, But we have all
Speaker 1: these pioneers, is, all these hidden figures throughout our history,
Speaker 1: and we've just never embraced them. And now that everything
Speaker 1: is a buzz word, right, it's almost like we always
Speaker 1: think that we're late. Right, we're not late to technology
Speaker 1: because technology is going to be the baseline of this world.
Speaker 1: We just don't support and rally around our elders and
Speaker 1: rally around the people that have done it and then
Speaker 1: pay it back. And so for me, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, tech is tech is a it's a buzz word,
Speaker 1: but it's something that you know, we should be teaching
Speaker 1: our kids now, said a better on the iPad than
Speaker 1: we are. So we should be teaching them how to code.
Speaker 1: We should be teaching them how to design, right, we
Speaker 1: should be putting them in design camps things like that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, even if much as even when they play sports,
Speaker 1: they got to take art, they gotta take a length
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to do something with that computer, right,
Speaker 1: because the way the world is going and the way
Speaker 1: the opportunity is, you know, you never know, you never
Speaker 1: know what kid is gonna Once they learned how to code,
Speaker 1: out of South Essential may wind up be a five
Speaker 1: time off thing and code. Hey man, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: you professor now, your professor Davis. Professor Davis, because you
Speaker 1: know you've got that little rhythm now right there be
Speaker 1: you got that little rhythm. I win is he is
Speaker 1: her teacher? Year is here, my professor, I felt like,
Speaker 1: because my degree is in mathematics. So so I'm I
Speaker 1: fight for for the for the knowledge that that I've
Speaker 1: been able to obtain. My daughter, you know, she's a
Speaker 1: she's in a freshman year and going to the second
Speaker 1: year of college. But kind of good jineer that she
Speaker 1: came to said, Dad, I don't like that. I want
Speaker 1: to Can I go into gamification? I say, you can
Speaker 1: do what you want to do, Okay, just just stay
Speaker 1: in that lane of education and technology. And and she's
Speaker 1: she's happy now. And when I hear you talk professor
Speaker 1: professor Davis, you know, Professor David, but here talked. Man.
Speaker 1: See what I'm gonna do, a money making conversation tour.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. It's gonna happen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I have to invite you. Man, you gotta go. First
Speaker 1: of all, you're gonna be funny, You're gonna be funny, okay,
Speaker 1: and you and you go and you got money, that's key,
Speaker 1: and you and you and you and you stop. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I got cause I'm looking because
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting thing about it. Women are
Speaker 1: so dominating the world, and especially the African American uh president,
Speaker 1: because African American men are kind of like falling back,
Speaker 1: you know, where the women are the new stars. Afri
Speaker 1: American women are the new stars of the militia time,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. And so so I've been having trouble
Speaker 1: finding that guy, man, Professor Davis Man. I gotta, I
Speaker 1: gotta get you on that man, because because you are
Speaker 1: you are you, you have done that journey and it's
Speaker 1: still doing that journey and the fact that I love
Speaker 1: the fact that you you got in that zone. You
Speaker 1: were just talking about changing lives and a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand that, man and your special dude. And
Speaker 1: I won't say that. I'm not just saying that because
Speaker 1: you're on my show. I've seen you uh way back
Speaker 1: and two thousands played watching college basketball, watching you get drafted,
Speaker 1: watching you play, watching you get back, and because when
Speaker 1: you were playing those All Star games with Magic Johnson.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to be there. That was your own
Speaker 1: time because Magic was doing it for scholarships. So you've
Speaker 1: not changed, my man. You just got a little bit older.
Speaker 1: But you're a good looking older so that's all right
Speaker 1: with me. But the thing is that you're building time
Speaker 1: and you you invest in. But police don't ever say
Speaker 1: you were lucky because you're a planner man. You're a thinker. Dude,
Speaker 1: you are a thinker and you are a warner man.
Speaker 1: So so be thank you for getting on my show. Man,
Speaker 1: I know you said, Man, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if you got with It was just a show, just
Speaker 1: a testimonial show that he just wanted to tell me
Speaker 1: I was great. Heck yeah, heck yeah, d he ya,
Speaker 1: and you keep going. Hey man, stay strong and we
Speaker 1: will talk soon. If you ever need me for anything,
Speaker 1: contact my people. I will I will promote you. Okay,
Speaker 1: be strong. That's big renaissance man, money making conversations. This
Speaker 1: is what we're doing here. I have to bring him
Speaker 1: on the show because I see a lot of people
Speaker 1: I meet young. I want to meet them now to
Speaker 1: let them know that they had the effect on me too,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people give me a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for changing their lives, but guess what, they changed
Speaker 1: my life just like he did. He's changing the lives
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