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Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:37 Guy Raz I would also think this is just a shot in the dark idea, but I would think about trying to send, identify select players on NBA teams, NFL teams, and send them some of this wine and see if you get a response.

Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:21 Vijen Patel And it was interesting because we were the 2008 class and, you know, everyone was said, Hey, you're going to be able to do these case studies with the NBA or do all these, you know, amazing things.

WHOOP: Will Ahmed Jul 21, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 42:55 Will Ahmed And I remember there was a year where LeBron and his whole team were wearing it, and it came out that they were wearing it in games, and that wasn't yet allowed in the NBA. 3 times in the scene

Fanatics: Michael Rubin Jan 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 36:03 Michael Rubin The NBA, Major League Baseball, and the NHL. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:56 Michael Rubin And that includes, you know, today we have, we run the e-commerce businesses of the NFL, the NBA, Major League Baseball, NHL.

Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal Jan 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:08 Guy Raz Even though that might be the case at an NBA game, or any, any concert they go to.

Therabody: Jason Wersland May 20, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:13 Guy Raz Like, like you got, you got that in the hands of Kyrie Irving, who then used it on the sidelines during the NBA finals, like on the bench or something, right? 4 times in the scene

Achieving greater things with Adam Grant Mar 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:14 Guy Raz Um, one of the things you write about in the book is that, um, and I, I didn't know about this study, but it's fascinating study that you cite where essentially a group of psychologists studied tweets by, by basketball NBA players and…

Weee!: Larry Liu Mar 18, 2024 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:13 Guy Raz In fact, as a kid growing up in Wuhan, China in the eighties and nineties, Larry was obsessed with American culture, in particular basketball and the NBA, which is actually how he got the name Larry.
  • ▶ 4:45 Larry Liu So I chose Larry, because I, I was into MBA at the time, and I, I really like Larry Bird. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:19:51 Larry Liu We, we play NBA. 3 times in the scene

Sun Bum: Tom Rinks Mar 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:48 Guy Raz Some of them would go on to have these amazing NBA careers like Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard and Chris Webber, right?

Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei Feb 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:11:08 Jim VandeHei The NBA, the Basketball Association, JPMorgan Chase, United Health Group, their executives start calling us and say almost identical things, like they were in the same room, and they said, listen, our executives all read Axios, but they…

The Ringer: Bill Simmons Feb 13, 2023 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 4:38 Bill Simmons Yeah, it became the most famous modern NBA game, and it probably still is. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:12 Bill Simmons I remember the third column I ever did was a Running Diary of the NBA draft.
  • ▶ 38:32 Bill Simmons Like a month after, I saw, I was on the website, and they had this, it was like an NBA podcast.
  • ▶ 46:04 Bill Simmons Getting enough of a chance, because I'm competitive, so you look at people like, oh shit, that person's good, watch out for them, and, and so, sketched out this whole sports and pop culture site, because I felt like, everything was like,…
  • ▶ 59:01 Bill Simmons And Skipper saw one of the news clips, and, and he got mad, and then, uh, I got mad that he got mad, and they had been planning to have me on the NBA draft again, because it had done really well, and I emailed them, I was like, hey, you… 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston Nov 24, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:35 Jasmine Crowe-Houston Really creative and bringing on some strategic partners like the NBA, like, you know, State Farm, um, you know, different football players, basketball players that, that wanted to work with us to address food insecurity in this different…

HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust Apr 28, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:31 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, let's sort of go back to that moment in, in sort of February, March, really March of 20, 20, I think of March 11th is the date, because that was the day the NBA shut down the season.

Audible: Don Katz Nov 1, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:27 Don Katz Was playing basketball on a Saturday with people like Ralph Sampson, who was a great NBA star from the past, and others in a New Jersey game, and he died of a brain aneurysm.

Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney Sep 20, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 10:07 Cory Cotton I mean, if you went and looked at my whole childhood, I had, what was the NBA's old slogan? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 49:57 Tyler Toney Uh, NBA Finals commercial, and then they were gonna use another one during the World Cup as a commercial.
  • ▶ 57:37 Guy Raz You were in commercials for the World Cup, for the NBA Finals.
  • ▶ 1:19:50 Guy Raz I mean, I, you know, there are going to be some people who listen to this who haven't heard of you, and, but, but just so they know, you have, like, a bigger YouTube channel than the NBA, than the NFL, than Ariana Grande.

How I Built Resilience: Lisa Baird of National Women's Soccer League Mar 18, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52 Lisa Baird And it was because the NBA had suspended their operations. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:03 Guy Raz Obviously, the NBA got a lot of attention. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:09 Lisa Baird 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.

Boxed: Chieh Huang Feb 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:16 Chieh Huang A lot of the Looney Tunes that was on, uh, some of the X-Men, you know, NBA on NBC back in the day, you know, watching the Knicks versus the Bulls, uh, going out to play basketball.

How I Built Resilience: Cynt Marshall of Dallas Mavericks Oct 10, 2020 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz Sint is actually the first African American woman to be the CEO of any NBA team.
  • ▶ 4:02 Cynt Marshall So the first thing I did was set out a vision, and the vision just basically said the Dallas Mavericks would set the MBA standard for diversity and inclusion by 2019. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:20 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, more from my conversation with Sint Marshall and how NBA team owners often have values that don't align with their players.
  • ▶ 12:49 Guy Raz So the NBA is basically a case study on professional sports leagues that depend on athletes of color, and yet so many team owners often hold values that are at odds with the players' values, and sometimes even their fans. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:49 Guy Raz Can you kind of give us a sense of what it means to be the CEO of an NBA team, you know, versus like, ah, an owner or a general manager? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:09 Cynt Marshall But I will tell you, the NBA is totally focused on safety, which is why we ended up in the bubble.
  • ▶ 22:35 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my conversation with Sint Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, the first African American woman CEO of an NBA team.

How I Built Resilience: Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble Sep 19, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:23 Guy Raz So once COVID really became a reality in March, when, you know, tech companies and the NBA, and then people really started shutting down their businesses and starting remote work, what did you initially see?

How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine Aug 1, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:21 Guy Raz Is there a world, Lauren, where there's like, like how, how the NBA is doing a bubble, right? 2 times in the scene

How I Built Resilience: Live with Kevin Hart Jun 11, 2020 · 3 mentions

WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018) Sep 3, 2018 · 1 mention

Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson Dec 14, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:44 Guy Raz He went on to buy the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and became the first African-American owner of a major American sports franchise. 2 times in the scene

WeWork: Miguel McKelvey Jun 19, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:23 Guy Raz And though he was good, he wasn't NBA good, so he focused on his studies and got a degree in architecture.

Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban Dec 5, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 22:22 Guy Raz I mean, it seems so crazy now, because NBA teams are worth, like, you know, more than a billion dollars. 5 times in the scene
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