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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NBA comes up
How To Run Down A Dream
- ▶ 5:46 David Senra After he graduated Stanford, Sam had a two-hour conversation with Les Alexander, who owned the Houston Rockets NBA franchise at the time. 3 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 37:03 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, Oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
The Outsiders Who Changed F1 Forever
- ▶ 42:19 David Senra I think it starts with like, you know, it goes back to six years or something.
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 26:21 David Senra He went to a small school and people didn't think that he could make it in the NBA. 3 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- ▶ 54:38 David Senra When, when the first Michael Jordan shoes, the Jordan brand shoes came out, the NBA tried to ban them.
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 1:12 David Senra Uh, this happened with Pat Riley, you know, the legendary coach and, and NBA executive, and I was listening to, uh, an interview with him many years ago,
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 1:53:48 David Senra He owns, like, he owned, like, 93 companies all throughout Utah, car dealerships, movie theaters, all kinds of crazy stuff, but he also owned the, the, the NBA team, Utah Jazz, and what was fascinating is he's trying to recruit Jerry Sloan…
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra On the night that the Chicago Bulls were eliminated from the 1995 NBA playoffs by the Orlando Magic, I sat with Michael in the darkened arena until three a.m. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 David Senra The first time is when he wins, uh, when Michael Jordan wins his first NBA title ever, you know, seven, eight years of struggle, really an entire lifetime of struggle, and he's, you know, like, just, he's got his head, there's this famous… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:27 David Senra You know, the fact that he made, I guess, like a billion or two billion dollars selling his NBA team.
- ▶ 28:42 David Senra Um, you know, even early in his career, you have, I saved, uh, screenshots, and I look at them on my phone, and it's, uh, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had dominated, you know, the NBA in the 19 eighties, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:53 David Senra So Tim Grover observed this when Michael was still playing in the NBA and Tim was training him. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:11 David Senra He says, like, there's a, there's a scene in the book and in the last dance where, you know, he, he, they, they, they, they ask him when he started playing in the NBA, like, do you have a gambling problem? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:22 David Senra So there's this former NBA player named Eddie Johnson, and he tells two hilarious stories.
- ▶ 49:37 David Senra I think he's still in, uh, playing in the NBA when he says this and he says a good competitor always evaluates his opponent and you understand him for what he really is.
- ▶ 1:05:27 David Senra And you'd have people all, you know, some NBA players coming over, some college players, all these other people, and they'd just play pickup.
- ▶ 1:14:35 David Senra When I was listening back to the Jordan and Kobe episode, because I was like, oh, if there was an NBA equivalent of founder's notes, it's obvious that Jordan and Kobe would have signed up for it and use it as a tool in that 600 page… 3 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 33:14 David Senra If you remember on the Michael Jordan episodes and also on the Nike episodes, when the NBA banned, uh, the original Jordan shoe at the very beginning, Nike's like, oh, hopefully we're going to sell. 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 52:08 David Senra He owns like, he owned like 93 companies all throughout Utah, car dealerships, movie theaters, all kinds of crazy stuff, but he also owned the, the, the NBA team, Utah Jazz.
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:28:42 David Senra He owns like, he owned like 93 companies all throughout Utah, car dealerships, movie theaters, all kinds of crazy stuff, but he also owned the, the, the NBA team, Utah Jazz.
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:47:36 David Senra He owns like, he owned like 93 companies all throughout Utah, car dealerships, movie theaters, all kinds of crazy stuff, but he also owned the, the, the NBA team, Utah Jazz.
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:17:04 David Senra He owns like, he owned like 93 companies all throughout Utah, car dealerships, movie theaters, all kinds of crazy stuff, but he also owned the, the, the NBA team, Utah Jazz.
The Biography of Anna Wintour
- ▶ 5:13 David Senra So, uh, Kobe Bryant stuff, he's about to play Michael Jordan for the first time ever in the NBA and his teammate goes and he's like, Hey, do you want some advice?
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 6:01 David Senra There's very few NBA players that were in the tap dance class, and maybe none, and very few, or none, in the ballet, uh, dancing, like getting tutored one-on-one from a ballet dancer.
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 0:39 David Senra At the height of Tiger's career, golf beat the NFL and the NBA in ratings.
- ▶ 16:50 David Senra J, all these other NBA players that came before him, and then Kobe in turn started to watch tapes of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.
What I learned from having lunch with Sam Zell
- ▶ 58:16 David Senra He went to, like, this tiny little school for college, goes into the NBA, and everybody's telling him, like, oh, you, like, you're not gonna, this is a different level, you can't hang with these guys.
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
- ▶ 5:01 David Senra It's mentioned by his high school coach, and it's again mentioned in the NBA as well.
- ▶ 6:02 David Senra Kobe came into the NBA with a desire and talent to become one of the greatest players of all time.
- ▶ 7:25 David Senra By the time I reached the league, I had a short learning curve.
- ▶ 25:33 David Senra At the end of my first season in the NBA, we had made it to the semifinals, up against Utah, but in the deciding fifth game, I let four, I let fly four air balls, and we lost our chance at the title.
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 0:07 David Senra I just want to be the man, he told me, reaffirming his goal of making himself into the NBA's top player.
- ▶ 2:33 David Senra And we see this demonstrated because way before he even gets to the NBA, Kobe believed that he was going to be one of the greatest basketball players to ever live. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:48 David Senra If he wasn't playing the game, then he was watching videotape of NBA stars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:36 David Senra So it says one of the counselors was looking over the applications and noticed that under career plans, Kobe had listed NBA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 David Senra So one of the things that makes Kobe's story unique is the fact he jumped right from high school to the NBA.
- ▶ 17:31 David Senra Okay, so we're still not to the NBA in the story yet. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:14 David Senra Ok, so now we get to the point where Kobe is going to the NBA, he's already made the decision, and this part is really important to understand, is that imitation precedes creation.
- ▶ 27:42 David Senra Like when you look at the NBA logo, that's Jerry West.
- ▶ 29:23 David Senra You either won the NBA championship, or you did not. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:42 David Senra And so it says in making his exit, Bryant never even bothered to phone Sonny and thank him for the experience, which had included money for his parents and guaranteed millions for Bryant before he ever played an NBA game.