NBA
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5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2016 by Mark Cuban · said 76 times in 25 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Guy Raz (33), Bill Simmons (8), Larry Liu (7), Cynt Marshall (6), Lisa Baird (4), Will Ahmed (3), Michael Rubin (3), Kevin Hart (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2024 13 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2020 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2016 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about NBA, oldest first
Dec 5, 2016 negative
Mar 18, 2021 neutral
Major sports leagues lacked COVID return-to-play playbooks in March 2020
“The dawning realization that there was no game plan to come back. Like whenever, you know, there has to be a game plan for this, right? I kept, I called everybody. You know, I'm a small league. We're very thinly resourced. So I'm calling the NBA. I'm calling p…”
Mar 18, 2021 neutral
Baird notes soccer's global economy differs from domestic NBA and NFL models
“The fact is that our sport operates within a global economy. We're not, you know, just like the National Football League or even the NBA, where most of the players are playing in one country. Soccer is a global sport unlike no other. So every year there is som…”
Feb 13, 2023 positive
Jan 27, 2025 bullish
Rubin: Major sports leagues now drive one-third of sales direct-to-consumer
“When we started, it might have been one or two percent of business would go through the NFL or Major League Baseball or NBA's direct-to-consumer business. Today, it's about a third would go through their own direct-to-consumer business.”