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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NBA comes up
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 57:19 Jonathan Wang I played with two future NBA players and actually played on the fourth ranked team in the country where we got to play against all sorts of people that played in the NBA over the last decade or two. 2 times in the scene
Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
- ▶ 2:09 Ted Seides Before we get going, for the first time since 1999, the Knicks are in the NBA Finals. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Ted Seides So while you're watching the NBA Finals, or for all of next year's NBA season for that matter, why not tell the person next to you to join the bandwagon and become a fan of capital allocators?
Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 3:15 Ted Seides Before we get going, for the first time since 1999, the Knicks are in the NBA Finals. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Ted Seides Before we get going, for the first time since 1999, the Knicks are in the NBA Finals.
Michael Kelly – Democratizing Access to the Middle Market at Future Standard (EP.473)
- ▶ 3:21 Ted Seides I'd put our starting five up against any NBA all-star team, uh, off the court.
Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
- ▶ 2:37 Ted Seides I'd put our starting five up against any NBA all-star team, uh, off the court.
David Lyon – Hybrid Capital Solutions for Private Assets (EP.471)
- ▶ 2:35 Ted Seides I'd put our starting five up against any NBA all-star team, uh, off the court.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 5:08 Dave Thornton We worked for some NBA teams doing basically Moneyball at the beginning of the NBA data revolution. 4 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 6:07 Ted Seides The NBA playoffs are in full swing.
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 6:51 Ted Seides Time for April showers to turn to May flowers, for the NBA and NHL playoffs to kick into high gear, for colleges to head for summer vacation, and for gatherings of investment professionals at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha,…
Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- ▶ 5:53 Ted Seides Caitlin Clark's final collegiate game brought more viewers than not only any women's college basketball game ever, but also more than every twenty-twenty-three NBA Finals game, World Series game, final round of the Masters, Daytona 500,…
- ▶ 42:35 Chris Dixon Let's take Top Shot, which is another project we're involved with, which is an NBA collectible cards.
- ▶ 42:35 Chris Dixon Let's take Top Shot, which is another project we're involved with, which is an NBA collectible cards.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 36:38 Magnus Grimeland I think it was Mark Andreessen who said LeBron James scored more points than anyone else in the NBA, but he also missed more shots than most other players, but he was in a position still to win.
Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- ▶ 41:30 Chad Hutchinson In the midst of that, one of my good friends buys an NBA team, and he asked me to come run their holding company, because he's like, we want to build this into what Fenway Sports Group has done.
- ▶ 46:53 Chad Hutchinson That is first and foremost, NBA, MLB, MLS, NHL, cross my fingers, NFL.
Marc Lasry – Avenues of Opportunity (Capital Allocators, EP.315)
- ▶ 4:34 Ted Seides Including the decision to return half the capital in 2011 and to sell a minority stake to Morgan Stanley and owning a stake in the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise over the last decade.
- ▶ 30:16 Marc Lasry That's, that's the MBA. 2 times in the scene
David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity (Capital Allocators, EP. 303)
- ▶ 37:15 David Abrams So we just closed a deal that we led in a company called Video Sites in partnership with the NBA. 2 times in the scene
Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- ▶ 4:50 Ted Seides Along the way, Annie shares some terrific stories from the book about Everest, Sears, the NBA draft, and the California bullet train.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 49:51 Chris Dixon Dapper Labs is a company that makes this popular product called Top Shot. 2 times in the scene
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 34:38 unnamed speaker Dapper Labs is NBA top shot.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 57:26 Aydin Senkut Well, I mean, the thing that I tried to tell people, imagine you're an NFL or NBA, instead of 32 teams or 36 teams, now there is 200 teams.
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 4:33 Ted Seides And buying stakes in Major League Baseball teams, including the Boston Red Sox, the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings in the NBA, and a complement of other sports assets.
- ▶ 17:16 Ian Charles So those are major league baseball, the national basketball association, national football league, major league soccer, national hockey league, plus the premier global sports platforms in rest of world.
- ▶ 19:12 Doc O'Connor Well, from its earliest days, I think Major League Baseball is probably the oldest league followed, if I'm not mistaken, by the NHL, NFL, and NBA, but I might have my history screwed up there, and going back to the early days of European…
- ▶ 28:28 Ian Charles Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NFL, NHL, I think it's about two billion dollars, 2.2 billion dollars, something like that.
- ▶ 51:45 Doc O'Connor It's less important in the NFL and the NBA, given the high percentage of national revenues that each of those 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:34 Doc O'Connor The NBA is probably leading the way for most US leagues in that regard.
- ▶ 1:00:55 Ian Charles Major League Soccer and the NBA will be doing that soon, so I think that risk has actually come down since we started the firm.
Alex Rodriguez – Business after Baseball (Capital Allocators, EP.198)
- ▶ 23:10 Alex Rodriguez The other thing is I have to be able to think about big ideas and then go out and execute those ideas, whether that's the NBA team we're about to acquire
- ▶ 37:55 Alex Rodriguez Yeah, I mean, I think it fits in beautifully because if you think about who I am, is I'm an athlete that loves business, and when you think about a team in the NBA blends in all those wheelhouses. 5 times in the scene
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 12:45 Steve Moseley A seventeen-year-old high school rookie in the NBA, or actually a little bit like what happens when people win the lottery.
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 4:16 Ted Seides From NBA Top Shots to Beeple's artwork, NFTs are the hottest use case in the crypto ecosystem.
- ▶ 20:58 Sonal Chokshi I still am stunned at this idea with top shots that you can essentially buy and own a moment, a favorite hit moment in a physical sports game.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 18:01 Seth Ginns Flow, a base layer that's associated with one of our investments, Dapper Labs, that's doing MBA Top Shot.
- ▶ 24:57 Seth Ginns You go in and you buy a pack, just like you would buy a pack of basketball cards, and you can then trade the highlight reels that you get on the NBA top shot marketplace.
- ▶ 24:57 Seth Ginns You go in and you buy a pack, just like you would buy a pack of basketball cards, and you can then trade the highlight reels that you get on the NBA top shot marketplace. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:45 Seth Ginns NBA top shot and the excitement there.
Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
- ▶ 1:03:25 Fran Kinniry Being in Philadelphia, so I follow most of Philadelphia teams, but I also love seeing stadiums, so I've actually had the opportunity to travel and see a lot of different stadiums, both NBA, NFL, baseball, so that's also fun, just to see…
Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- ▶ 35:05 Ben Reiter In the NBA, it means it's more run and gun.
Marko Papic – Geopolitical Alpha at Clocktower Group (Capital Allocators, EP.161)
- ▶ 52:12 Marko Papic And my example is this lack of fighting in the NBA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:05 Ted Seides We're going to start right here on the MBA. 4 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin – Consilient Observations in a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.127)
- ▶ 42:20 Michael Mauboussin You say, like, what would Larry Bird have done in today's NBA?
Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
- ▶ 12:27 Michael Schwimer I mean, we got guys from like all sports, like a young guy from the Dodgers, a director of analytics from the Pistons, somebody in the NBA league office, the Charlotte Hornets.
Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)
- ▶ 8:43 Jon Wertheim It's not going to draw the ratings of the NBA or the NFL or college football, but I think tennis is just an extraordinary sport. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Jon Wertheim And in some sports, I mean, the NBA, the analytics are unreal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:03 Jon Wertheim Then it became more about the centers, and now we're back to this era of shooting, and I think this era is driven by analytics, by, yeah, a three-point shot that you shoot at 38% is a better shot than the two-pointer you shot at 44%, and I…
Michael Mauboussin – Who's on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)
- ▶ 54:27 Michael Mauboussin So there are things like at what point, like NBA, at what point does, does it make sense to take a two point shot versus a one point shot?
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 9:30 Paul Rabil And it's okay that a kid is like Zion Williamson, we were just talking about, is competing for an ACC championship and an NCAA championship his freshman year, but he also knows he's going to go to the NBA.
- ▶ 29:42 Paul Rabil Typically, you look at all these leagues, whether it's National Women's Soccer League, the WNBA has gotten a big injection of growth from the NBA owners doing the right thing, which is owning the WNBA teams, and Joe Tsai and his group just…
- ▶ 34:14 Paul Rabil The NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and NHL rights are up in 2021, 2022.
Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- ▶ 6:31 Michael Schwimer You almost never see that in the NBA, and really quickness.
- ▶ 35:44 Michael Schwimer Then, while with the Rockets, met Yao Ming, thought that there was a lot of potential business with the NBA in China.
- ▶ 45:12 Michael Schwimer And two NBA, actually three NBA teams now called us and wanted to fire their entire advanced analytics department and have us be the analytics department for those teams remotely.
Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
- ▶ 31:51 Ben Reiter It's not like the NBA, right, where, I don't know, the Pelicans are, I guess they're pretty good now, the Mavericks this year are not going to beat the Warriors this year in a seven game series.
- ▶ 43:10 Ben Reiter He reached out to me after having read the book, and he was specifically interested in the chapter on Beltran and team chemistry, because he said, you know, you know, for us, like, team chemistry right now is like the holy grail in the…
- ▶ 44:23 Ben Reiter It is a different sort of business from the NFL and the NBA to which it's always compared. 2 times in the scene
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 24:22 Chatri Sityodtong So you go to North America, it's NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, UFC, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:18 Chatri Sityodtong a soap opera on your mobile device, a two hour movie or whatever it is, but you will watch a three minute, you know, fight or, you know, you know, some highlight reel of NBA three minutes on your, in the subway, whatever it is.
Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)
- ▶ 55:51 Tom DeLong Bill Walton was this long-haired center, and the seventy-sixers were up two games to none in the finals for the NBA championship, and for some reason my dad got tickets, and I flew from Purdue back there, and I was there when, um, Maurice…