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Cuban: NBA team valuations are driven by streaming subscriptions, not wins
“Is it's not driven by attendance. It's not driven by wins or losses. It's driven by subscriptions to streaming services.”
Calacanis: WNBA players are tougher than NBA stars who flop
“They're tougher in the WNBA, and every time LeBron goes up, and he gets fouled, ah, and he's just, ah, and he's flopping all over the place.”
Emanuel: Traditional media businesses will not disappear anytime soon
“I don't believe that traditional business is going away for a long time, because a lot of us sports guys have, the NFL, the NBA, has still sold stuff there, plus also sold it to the Amazons of the world”
Tsai: High-volume 3-point shooting creates a great NBA product
“I think it's a great product because there are 18 different ways you can throw up 43 in a game.”
Cuban: NBA rules blocked him from keeping Mavericks operational control
“When I did the deal, the presumption was that I would still be running basketball, and we tried to put it in the contract, but the NBA said, the governor is the governor, and they make all final decisions”
F1 has higher digital engagement rates than the NBA and other sports
“Our sport has, like, the highest engagement rates across all sports. Even comparing to NBA and everything”
Baker asserts the NBA has been terribly managed as a professional league
“The NBA has been terribly managed.”
Chamath: Michael Jordan single-handedly created $15B in NBA equity
“Michael Jordan single-handedly has created. Fifteen billion dollars of equity in the NBA.”
Draymond Green: NBA is most powerful league because Adam Silver supports players
“That's why the NBA is the most powerful sports league in the world, because we have a commissioner who's on board and who not only supports what the players think and what we believe in, but he takes it even a step further”
Chamath Palihapitiya says NBA's lifetime ban for Jontay Porter is necessary
“Yeah. It has to be lifetime.”
NBA banned Chamath from contacting bookies after his Warriors investment
“When I bought a piece of the Warriors, the funniest thing was I got a call from the NBA, because you have to submit like this huge application, like, you know, Everything. Open the kimono. And they knew that I was a big fucking sports better, and they were lik…”
Draymond Green: NBA regular season workouts focus on maintenance, not development
“You don't have much time to get better, so you're kind of just getting better on the fly, and when you're in your workouts during the season, you're just trying to maintain because there's such little prep time.”
Calacanis: NBA cancellation was tipping point for US COVID-19 awareness
“They canceled the NBA, and I think that is the definitive tipping point of when it hit public consciousness that this is no joke”