NBA, every mention
103 scenes, the whole family · ← back to NBA
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Shaan Puri 118Sam Parr 22Dan Porter 8Tony Robbins 5Jack Butcher 5Furqan Rydhan 5James Currier 3Marc Lore 2Hasan Minhaj 2Ryan Smith 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where NBA comes up
Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
- ▶ 12:46 Shaan Puri He made it to the NBA for one year. 3 times in the scene
How to use your "useless” hobby to make money
- ▶ 51:16 Shaan Puri I think, like, you can watch the pendulum swing in culture, and so there was, like, a big swing for a long time, which was, like, flashiness, so, like, a way, like, the cool thing to do was to ball out, whether it's the cars, the houses,…
From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
- ▶ 53:15 Shaan Puri I remember there's one guy who owns an NBA team is billionaire.
if you didn't make progress in 2025, watch the first 10 minutes.
- ▶ 12:59 Shaan Puri And so this guy used to train NBA players before the draft, things like that.
- ▶ 24:25 Shaan Puri Because most of our guys are not going to be in the NBA, right? 2 times in the scene
60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- ▶ 1:08:02 Shaan Puri This happens in the NBA too.
The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
- ▶ 0:51 Shaan Puri What's it like to now own an NBA team?
- ▶ 1:11 Shaan Puri It's like I build a successful company with my family, no less become the super successful guy, billionaire, NBA team owner.
- ▶ 38:20 Shaan Puri And so what's it like to now own an NBA team? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:21 Ryan Smith I would go down to Summer League and sit there with Ainge, and he, like, he was cool enough to let me, like, I mean, he's running the Celtics, and it was like, I could see how it was all.
The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- ▶ 18:17 Shaan Puri There was probably, like, five notable things, not five notable cases of this last year across, like, NBA and NFL, let's say,
He turned a broke team into a billion dollars
- ▶ 39:15 Shaan Puri And like, you're not gonna, you're not, it's not something you're gonna tune into, you know, three nights a week like the NBA.
Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- ▶ 3:51 Shaan Puri Uh, watching, um, an interview with a guy who, the NBA Finals just ended.
How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes)
- ▶ 1:02:30 Shaan Puri The number of teams in the NBA is the same. 4 times in the scene
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 1:04:03 James Currier If I'm, you know, if I'm not good enough to play in the NBA, I shouldn't be in the NBA. 3 times in the scene
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
- ▶ 1:06:39 Austin Rief He's trying to compete with the NCAA and the NBA.
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 35:26 Shaan Puri Um, Shaq is a, is a NBA star at this time.
Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
- ▶ 35:28 Shaan Puri Or it'd be like, like during the NBA draft, like, you know, 45 seconds before every pick, they'd just say, they're taking this guy.
How to Make $1,000,000 After You Graduate (5 steps)
- ▶ 8:56 Shaan Puri He said, going to business school to become an entrepreneur is like reading a book about basketball history because you want to join the NBA.
How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
- ▶ 16:21 Mike Posner Art is not like the NBA, you know.
You Don’t Need A Mentor. Focus On THIS Instead
- ▶ 16:18 Shaan Puri And I, it was, it's like half NBA draft scouting report, like my height, my weight.
Business Brainstorm: SAT Prep Cartoons, The Onion For Millennial Moms & More
- ▶ 32:01 Shaan Puri Like there's a version of this in sports that I, that I follow where they just post like funny sports, like fake sports headlines that make fun of the NBA.
Our buddy sold his app for $200M in just 6 weeks?!
- ▶ 40:38 Dan Porter And in a way, the person he actually reminded me the most of who I worked with later was actually David Stern, the former MBA commissioner.
- ▶ 1:00:24 Dan Porter You know, and by the way, the NBA, the NFL, these are 50, 75 years old, and you can think about all these startup football leagues that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's like, why is OTE, Overtime Elite, a startup…
- ▶ 1:03:52 Dan Porter We have the number two pick in last week's NBA draft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:22 Dan Porter If I could be helpful to you, and then you're successful, and then you buy an NBA team, and then it's the playoffs, and I want my feet on the hardwood, then I'm hoping it pays off.
$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
- ▶ 56:59 Anand Sanwal Like, you know, Sean and I are playing against each other, like, I can literally bet Sean, like, hey, I'm gonna get 10, and you're gonna get less.
- ▶ 59:26 Shaan Puri It went from never discussed to everything is sponsored or integrated in about like, if you're watching the NBA playoffs, it says in the third quarter, it's like the line at the start of the game, the current live action line is this.
This $50M/Yr Side Hustle Is On Track To Make $1 Billion By 2030
- ▶ 36:51 Shaan Puri So for example, in NBA stadiums, they, there's like an enterprise version of this called second spectrum. 2 times in the scene
How Gary Vee Predicts The Next Facebook (Every Time)
- ▶ 16:37 Shaan Puri What if for a weekend, we just rented a house, and in this case, we actually just stay at MrBeast's house now, because he ended up wanting to come, and so we, we go to his house, and then we bring in a trainer from the NBA. 2 times in the scene
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
My Mother-in-Law Started a $1M Side Hustle In Her 50's
- ▶ 42:33 Shaan Puri Being able to sit courtside and watch an NBA game with this thing from home.
What Stock Would Warren Buffett Buy If He Started Over In 2024?
- ▶ 15:44 Shaan Puri Um, just to put this into comparison, uh, if UFC plus WWE, two full like leagues are fourteen billion, the Phoenix Suns, one NBA franchise just sold for five billion, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 Shaan Puri Uh, I don't know if you know, but the NBA does like crazy amount of work to globalize. 2 times in the scene
6 Retro Business Ideas That Could Be As Big As LEGO ($11.8B)
- ▶ 6:14 Shaan Puri So there's a bunch of, like, NBA players that kind of came out of the closet saying, yeah, this is what I do at night. 2 times in the scene
Tony Robbins Changes My Life (48 Minute Coaching Session)
- ▶ 14:05 Tony Robbins His dad was an NBA player, but his dad at one point, he's the best player in the league. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Tony Robbins So it'd be like Pat Riley, you know, it was at the time, you know, the winningest coach in NBA basketball.
- ▶ 40:45 Tony Robbins In the last 10 years, if you take the NBA, the, the Major League Baseball, soccer, and hockey, those four together, they've averaged between them, 18% compounded during that time, versus 11% there in the S&P 500.
The 2023 Milly Awards (#531)
- ▶ 17:15 Shaan Puri Um, they own an NBA team. 2 times in the scene
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- ▶ 41:32 Shaan Puri Like if let's say you're an NBA general manager, you need to be able to spot talent.
4 Profitable Business Ideas That Men Are Sleeping On | ft. Codie Sanchez (#512)
- ▶ 1:09:43 Shaan Puri Instead of just going playing pickup basketball at 24 hour fitness, we do this thing called camp MFM where we rent a house, rent a gym, fly in, you know, a bunch of awesome founders or kind of like celebrity people who love to play… 2 times in the scene
Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504)
- ▶ 55:29 Jesse Itzler So I had the idea, but I also felt like I had the buy side that I could deliver to the airline because, you know, I'm involved with the, with some NBA players and, um, I'm part owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- ▶ 32:17 Shaan Puri And then now he like owns a piece of an NBA team.
How Dave Ramsey Built A $300M/Year Media Empire (#428)
- ▶ 21:26 Shaan Puri Like, you know, about Dolly Parton, you don't know about like, you know, the NBA, uh, you know, so it's like a different, different.
Andrew Tate's 3rd Month in Prison, Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury, & Covid Lab Leak Theory (#426)
- ▶ 9:13 Shaan Puri And I, I, I just replied, I go, all my favorite NBA players are black.
How To Grow A Small Agency Into A Billion Dollar Company (#414)
- ▶ 24:12 Shaan Puri He's huge, but I think it looks like a Will Ferrell, but actually was an NBA player. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Shaan Puri Um, I don't remember this, by the way, we were, when we did our, our camp MFM getaway, um, the, the guy who came to train us, he's, he trains like a bunch of NBA stars. 2 times in the scene
How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
- ▶ 22:18 Sam Parr Yeah, and I knew a bunch of basketball players who ended up going to the NBA because I, I was friends with them in college. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:59 Shaan Puri So like an NBA game might start at 7:30 or eight and they're playing until, until nine or 10 or whatever.
The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- ▶ 44:59 Shaan Puri And we fly in this NBA trainer, so we pay for his, kind of, him and his buddy, like their, their, uh, flights in hotels or whatever.
How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
- ▶ 18:24 Bryan Johnson Uh, I don't know if it's true, the second or third hand, but Larry had a group of good friends that he, uh, went back and saw, and he had just made money, I think, signing it for the NBA.
8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381)
5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374)
- ▶ 14:01 Shaan Puri Guy who's going to be in the NBA in a couple of years, like he's just, he's just playing with us and we paid him.
- ▶ 55:17 Shaan Puri NBA fan.
Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370)
- ▶ 52:04 Ryan Holiday Yes, but, but here's the thing, like, when you look at Manu's story, he did not wake up one day in Argentina and go, I will be a Hall of Fame NBA player, right?
How Roger Federer Became The First Tennis Billionaire (#367)
- ▶ 37:17 Shaan Puri He hasn't played a single game in the NBA yet.
How I Spend $15,000/Year To Get & Stay Ripped (As An Entrepreneur) (#366)
- ▶ 18:39 Shaan Puri And when that first came out, other athletes were like, whoa, uh, you know, like other NBA guys were like, I don't spend anywhere near that.
4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
- ▶ 28:12 Shaan Puri Oh, yeah, you're the NBA GM drafting Kyle Forbert.
The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions
- ▶ 9:06 Shaan Puri There's a woman who makes beds for NBA athletes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:28 Shaan Puri The NBA all-star game just happened. 2 times in the scene
Is The Rock Going to Make $1B+ From Tequila? + Placebo Water, STR Update, and More
- ▶ 40:38 Shaan Puri Um, this, you're not a big sports guy, like a mainstream sports guy, but this became a big deal every year for, uh, NBA free agency.
This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow
- ▶ 58:42 Shaan Puri Um, and he actually, I think he figured out before the NBA uncovered that that ref Tim Donahy was like cheating basically. 4 times in the scene
Hasan Minhaj - Comedy, Netflix, Haters, & Money
- ▶ 2:08 Shaan Puri I was gonna be, I wanted to be a team doctor for an NBA team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:38 Hasan Minhaj But what is he, but is he top 10 in the league? 2 times in the scene
Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped
- ▶ 55:21 Shaan Puri And it's what's going on in the NBA right now.
- ▶ 1:00:16 Shaan Puri A scrub today in the NBA will make more than one million a year.
How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More
- ▶ 13:05 Shaan Puri We're a Dow of basketball fans and we're crazy enough that we're going to try to buy an NBA team. 5 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Metaverse, Gaingels, Companies that Don't Advertise, and More
- ▶ 31:52 Shaan Puri And this clip came up related that, um, like in the NBA, most of the NBA is not like that. 2 times in the scene
Shaan Challenges Sam to Ignore His Limits, Michael Rubin is the Billy of the Week, and More
The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Blockchain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why.
- ▶ 3:53 Shaan Puri And then, like, these apps came out, like, on top of Ethereum that were, like, uh, CryptoKitties and Top Shot, which were basically, like, the first kind of, like, NFT projects that got big, and they immediately, like, overwhelmed the… 3 times in the scene
Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.
- ▶ 11:10 Ariel Helwani Doing NBA sidelines, I checked that off.
How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
- ▶ 2:40 Shaan Puri He's a fan of the NBA.
Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates | My First Million #218
- ▶ 50:26 Shaan Puri And by the way, that same team who built CryptoKitties, they're the ones who built an NBA top shot as well.
How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- ▶ 14:01 Shaan Puri Like if I'm a agent for an NBA basketball player, do you know roughly like how that money shakes out? 4 times in the scene
Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201
- ▶ 22:08 Shaan Puri I love, I love the NBA. 2 times in the scene
The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199
How to Build a Unicorn Around the NCAA Reg Changes | My First Million #198
- ▶ 14:04 Shaan Puri He's the trainer like on Instagram that you always see with every NBA player.
Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- ▶ 17:17 Shaan Puri I can, I can go do these different things that are like kind of like bucket list.
Making Billions in Coworking & the Dark Side of Confidence | My First Million #190
- ▶ 37:19 Shaan Puri I just saw this because, um, uh, random, random story, but like I saw it because in the NBA games now, you always see NBA players all of a sudden for the first time ever, when they go to the bench to rest, they don't just sit there and… 2 times in the scene
Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- ▶ 19:28 Shaan Puri So the NBA playoffs is going on right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Shaan Puri You know, NBA top shot.
- ▶ 22:49 Sam Parr Logan is known for, like, collecting Pokemon cards, and there's this whole trend, if you don't know about this, on, of unwrapping cards, and so I actually love watching unwrapping NBA cards. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Sam Parr A basketball player from the Ball family, and they're kind of like a little obnoxious, so like the Kardashians of like NBA. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:11 Sam Parr Like something like when you're building a fighter or building a sports team or building like an NBA player on video games, and you can like put like, do I make this person like as fast as possible?
What It's Like to Be Rich & How to Respond to Growth Plateaus | My First Million #188
- ▶ 3:32 Shaan Puri Cavs, at Quicken Loans, at whatever, like these companies like, yeah, he owns an NBA team and like a, a 10 to thirty billion dollar company or whatever.
- ▶ 42:27 Shaan Puri Well, half, half were actual like, you know, like good ballers, you know, people who were like, you know, this guy's gonna get drafted this year, this guy trains the NBA players, whatever. 4 times in the scene
Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- ▶ 35:32 Shaan Puri He's a trainer for a bunch of NBA stars.
How Virtual Horses are Making Millions & A Potential 9-Figure Company | My First Million #181
- ▶ 16:59 Shaan Puri And then Top Shot came out, NBA Top Shot, and they went heavy into Top Shot. 6 times in the scene
Furqan Rydhan on What It's Like Co-founding a $20B Company | My First Million #180
- ▶ 1:17:49 Furqan Rydhan But then, you know, with a lot of the work that's been going on in NFTs, a lot of popularity, the top shot is just like taking over like my friends group and, uh, very popular. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:18 Furqan Rydhan I mean, you have to be an NBA player to get one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:30 Furqan Rydhan By the way, you know, if there were only 10 VIP meet and greets, we'll make the third party marketplace like Topshop, where somebody wants to go spend a hundred grand for it.
How the UFC Became a Multi-Billion Dollar Brand | My First Million #179
- ▶ 27:55 Shaan Puri Every other major sport, NFL, NBA, it's a close to a fifty-fifty.
How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- ▶ 9:21 Shaan Puri They don't, they don't own any NBA games.
MFM #167: Answering Your Questions On Investments, Businesses and Life
- ▶ 21:50 Shaan Puri Yeah, uh, if I could do a podcast shooting the shit about basketball or UFC, that'd be awesome, uh, but nobody cares what I think about the NBA or the UFC, really.
- ▶ 28:24 Shaan Puri I stopped watching like, you know, NBA games and stuff like that.
page 1 of 2 · 100 scenes per page · newest episode first next →