[Music] hello Stephan curry welcome to the GSB thank you very much it's nice to be here have you ever played in front of a house this packed from time to time 82 nights a year plus 60 okay okay so before we get started we have a few special guests Dean Levin call it out I usually a beautiful wife open the front
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room yes she is right here also heard your your mother will be joining us as well she might be here right now or in five minutes we were always late to church - so somebody here eventually walking in like so she might come in during this video she's gonna be on the screen because I'm actually gonna play a
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video we got a video it's a my favorite Steph Curry interview okay yeah that's cute [Laughter] how much do you guys play baseball we played baseball a lot we were in Charlotte um played for about four or five years and never got in the pitching but played everything else and I liked
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it but I was more interested in basketball at the time so I um it was more my sport kind of um I had more kind of better and it wasn't restful and I wanted to thank some more on it you know try to make sure for the final chance we see that shot in action from early days it's you made a pretty bold
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prediction up there I'm curious like can you can you tell me what I'm gonna be when I grew up oh man what you what you're gonna be successful whatever that is I would take this cherry obviously doing something race you don't need me to validate it but not ice crazy my voice has changed a lot more facial hair
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but it's pretty cool I see one Toronto Raptors Jersey right here in the crowd which is kind of crazy I saw it when I came in and back in early 2000s but yeah bold prediction that it came true yeah I'm glad I came to you - it's been wandering watching you but one of my favorite things about that video is who
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you went in that video right it's your family which has been a constant thing in your life the entire time so I'm actually curious like what does family mean to you and why I mean family is everything there's an example from you know the time I can remember obviously growing up with the dad that played in the NBA mom
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who was an educator who started a Montessori School they were too busy or too busy you know individuals that were trying to raise a family and have successful careers and the biggest thing that they taught us was that we always support each other we always show up like they are here today and you like
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that much thank you thank you and a part of that was just you know it was about shared experiences and having each other's back and and it gives you a sense of foundation no matter what life throws at you not everything's you know winning championships and riding on parade buses there's obviously ups and
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downs to life that we all go through and without that foundation I don't know where I would be and even for you know the 11 years that I've been out here on the west coast you know my family has been you know a unit and we've we've always you know support each other and you know that's that's that's the biggest thing
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to to who we are as a family and and I've tried to you know me nyesha are now trying to establish that with our three kids and an understanding that that work-life balance that it's tough at times but it always gives us the sense of purpose and foundation that that we need sure earlier you mentioned that
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your favorite job has been a father so I'm actually curious has fatherhood taught you anything about yourself that you didn't previously know oh I mean patience and really that I don't take myself ever too seriously in my in my in my job because it doesn't matter how I mean points out school or if we
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win or lose when I come home I'm dead and and that's the best thing about about you know life you walk in the door and they're running up to you hugs and kisses and just that energy that you got a match every day and so it's it is the best job is the most rewarding job it's obviously difficult
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you know at times were getting everything that you're balancing but it's a I'll ever take those moments for granted and knowing what that experience and that interaction with my parents growing up how that shaped and formed my life me and my wife had the opportunity with our village around us to do that
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three beautiful young minds that hopefully can grow up into their own so it's a beautiful thing for sure I have no doubt they're gonna grow up to do amazing things you also you said that y'all walked into church late every night which brings me to another topic that I think it's pretty core to who you
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are as a person and it's a religion and in a world where religion can be a hot topic button you lean into it right so you know what is faith mean to you and you know why do you choose to make that a part of your brand I feel like well first and foremost is it is Who I am you say religion it's it's kind of funny
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I think in terms of how I've grown up it's about my relationship you know with God and and what that means to me and how that evolves or has evolved over the course of my life from the time I was in third grade when I made that decision for myself to follow Jesus to know where I had the ability to be on a stage and a
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platform every single day to let that shine through me with how I you know conduct myself and and where I shine you know the glory every chance that I get and so it's always been a part of who I am I never knew that I'd had the opportunity to impact you know people with the skill and the god-given skill
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that I've been given you know on the basketball court and the opportunities and just right up you know Bible verse on my shoe and and people be able to connect with that or you know find that for themselves that's big and you know I'm not a guy that's gonna bash people over head with the Bible but you you
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know who I am you know by the way that playing and where that that inspiration and that that foundation comes from and it's just I don't ever consider it a part of my brand in a sense it's just a part of me just being Who I am and letting that live through me it's amazing so so faith and family are core
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to your support system and I imagine it was pretty critical growing up given that there was so there's constant criticism you know major d1 colleges overlooked you you landed a spot at Davidson College so I'm curious for to everyone in the crowd who and some point in their life will battle rejection
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right like what what advice you have I mean don't ever lose your confidence it's obviously easier said than done we all have have dealt with that in some way shape or form where you set a goal for yourself and for whatever reason there are roadblocks you know along the way the biggest thing that I learned
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through my recruiting process and ended up at Davidson where people were like where the heck is Davidson College like they even have a basketball team why are you going there you're the son of an NBA player you should be going to the ACC to this and that and trying to tell you what your life was supposed to
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be like there are no accidents in life to me and the fact that I got rejected landed me right where I was supposed to be and I wouldn't change that for anything and even though I didn't see it at the time I walked into that opportunity and you know kind of the rest is history with you know the
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college turning into the NBA it was a small liberal arts 1,800 student college that was 30 minutes from my house and felt like I was still in high school and part of it was I got to be around one of the greatest coaches that is in college basketball and Bob McKillip who really in a sense leaned into the person way
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more than the basketball player and created that connection in terms of building what it you know what a man is supposed to be on off the court and I've carried so many lessons from him through my journey that I'm forever grateful for for what he saw in me when I didn't even see it for myself and giving me that
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opportunity to kind of just play basketball and learn on a daily and he challenged me every single day and so when I was in high school so yeah can I play at Virginia Tech can i play it do kind of play North Carolina wasn't my journey it wasn't where I supposed to be and I I was alright with that it's
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amazing well I'm glad you went to Davidson College oh you went there you blew expectations out of the water your sophomore year you led Davidson on that magical run through the NCAA tournament and in that tournament Stefan curry became a household name right so I'm curious how was that transition into the
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spotlight it was weird right so you grew up in Charlotte and my dad again is played in the NBA for he played there for ten years we're 16 year MBA so everywhere we went in Charlotte he was a celebrity and it was all about him right so he was you know there one of the original Hornets we go to dinner
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fans would be running up to him everywhere and I got to see how gracious he was with everybody that came up to him you know talking to the kids that looked up to him and you know spending a moment with him understanding how valuable that interaction was and he was so consistent look there my mama right
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there in church look my mama hold it up mama hold it up yeah it is he hold it up so we never made it in the sanctuary we always in the satellite so growing up I got to see an example of you know what it was like to D up true professional in the spotlight and never knew that I would be at that level or that would be
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an experience that I would have for myself but those lessons really got ingrained subliminally and so the people who talk to me every once in while just out of courtesy but it was never anything you know about me first and foremost so when I like you said going to Davidson playing in the tournament
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going to the Elite Eight again a small mid major school going that far all-american and all that type of stuff like it was pretty much overnight type of sensation and my favorite I had back when Facebook was with a sophomore in high school or my sophomore in college came back after the
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Elite Eight run and had my messenger situation going on and literally I came back to over like 2000 messages and my computer crashed so like I guess what I came back to a little dorm room at Davidson I'm like I don't even know how to handle this like what does that mean like going and living my daily life now
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you know doing interviews doing all this other type of stuff and my foundation was set because of what I got to see and again that's something I told my dad all the time like it could have gone all the way the other way if he had had been a different type of person or said a different example for me and my brother
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and my sister in terms of you know how he handled himself how he carried himself but I had to find what that meant for me so I define you that that patience and that graciousness and that sense of again not taking myself too seriously in the midst of success which you have to make that commitment every
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single day because if people are telling you how great you are all the time and telling you that you know you can do no wrong and that you're perfect and all that but you know you can buy into it if you want to rest it's going to be a recipe for disaster if you don't really check yourself and understand that one and I tried to
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deflect as much as possible to exactly you know my team because I knew that I had power because of who I got to roll with every single day on the court and and that was that was big for me and that's something that's a pretty constant theme and everything that I've been able to do in my career so let's
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actually talk about that team that you I just mentioned in 2009 you were drafted by the Golden State Warriors in the first round apparently that was not the time to be a Warriors fan the wikipedia refers to it as the wilderness years wilderness years the wilderness years where from I have never heard it we
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believe to the wilderness years so there was a period of 12 years in a row where the Golden State didn't make the playoffs yeah and that's what they refer to with the world so lo and behold you come in with your second Bowl prediction and so you tweeted this I'm not gonna read your Twitter promised to all the
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Warriors fans we will figure this thing out if it's the last thing we do we will figure it out if I'm glad that's the tweet they found [Laughter] so if this MBA thing doesn't work out there's a lot of VC firms around here looking for somebody existing sure I'm trying to compete now true we'll talk
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about that a little later so but back to the team what were the key cultural difference between those early Warriors and the Warriors of today how long do you have I think we were I mean like you said it was a it was a season of transition I talked about the we believe team where they had you know a set identity of kind
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of just us there them or us against the world and and that was you know what works for them the nature of NBA took over then you kind of go through a period where you know from from ownership all the way down he talked about you know corporate culture and just the environment you get to go to
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work in a day it was all bad and so that filter do everything that we did you know and so from there you know that's what I'm welcome to into as a bright-eyed 21 year old rookie coming from an 1800 you know student campus to you know the west coast to the Bay Area really just trying to play basketball
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and learn and I think for me like I didn't know it at the time but those first three years was an opportunity for me to kind of leave I didn't really have a voice but I could lead by example because I knew every day that I was showing up to work and get better and whether it was in front of people or my
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teammates or management's or whatever like I would try to be as consistent as possible with that that would set me up for when we figured out who I would our identity was and got you know a solid roster around that that was already in place so that people could kind of just fall in line and follow that that lead
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and and and then great things would happen so it's actually you know my rookie year I played against you know LeBron for the first time and and he pulled me aside after we played after the game was over and he knew he had been in the league for about six years so he kind of known a little bit
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about trying to build an identity in the league and he told me like literally all you have to worry about right now is kind of looking through a keyhole and worrying about you know what are you doing on a daily basis what habits are you building that are going to set you up for success down the road when things
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line up because this industry is hard this business like winning is hard I learned that lesson every single night but are you going to keep this time productive because you're building the right habits and you're understanding exactly what type of player you want to be so that when you know management
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starts to get the roster in place and the identity of ownership that for us having that next year with Joe alaikum and Peter Gulla Peter Guber buying the team and really having a big perspective about what it meant to be a warrior and what it meant to represent the Bay Area in the NBA that I would be ready to lead
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at that point and so valuable obviously advice from him too to kind of set it up and then you know what six years later or playing in the final so pretty crazy pretty crazy journey coming from humble beginnings you know winning 20 games a year to to where we ended up yeah so you
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mentioned LeBron earlier you missed you mentioned your coach from Davidson as two people who mentored you so I'm curious if you were to flip that who are the people that you've mentored or how do you view mentorship from your your lens that's a great question because I feel like that's the best opportunity
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for me that's ever ever developing in terms of me realizing how powerful my voice is in terms of you know how this next generation you know sees me as a basketball player you know the the you call it I using this term but they call it the the curry generation where kids are trying to shoot from 40 feet you
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know right right when they write when they walk in the gym and me trying to kind of level with them like there's a process to this you have to work our way in we're gonna work on our mechanics and then eventually you can get out to that to that range but in terms of like just how the joy that I
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try to bring and I think some of the the wisdom that I have to you know these eleven years that I've been playing that I can pass on I'm an open books of you know people reach out and they have I love to kind of you know hopefully lead them in the right direction I've had some really great teammates and some
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young guys that have been you know through our through our our team that have carried our culture to other you know teams around the league and they talk about how much it meant to play you know during this era with with with me and clay and Raymond and Andre and Sean and Katie and and and those type of
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opportunities so now it's I'm actually taking you know a page out of Kobe's book in terms of just you know he through this tragedy so many different people have kind of spoken about what he meant to them and then just a little like a simple text that he was saying how much confidence that gave them and
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you know I'm example that too one game we were playing the Lakers and my rookie year and I did a little spin move situation headed off the glass and they panned to him on the bench and he mouthed off to one of his teammates it next time like yo he's nice alright so somebody sent me that clip right after
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you don't know how much confidence that gave me in that moment like I can I'm the best player in the world now I just for him saying that and almost validating you know my skill level and things like that so those moments are just unbelievable to kind of be on the other side of it now and I have an
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opportunity to see you see guys you know have similar type gains trade young like that who's coming in with a whole nother level of confidence because you got to watch what I did you know coming up through the through the ranks oh yeah I'm available though but those hopefully opportunities will keep coming I can
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continue to give back to the game like other guys gave me you should lean into tray on you know I'm from the Atlanta area so I'll do it too much trying to stay on top you know so you know let's go to 2011 in that year the Warriors drafted klay Thompson to earned the moniker the splash brothers becoming the best duo to play
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the game Wow you're always in a spotlight looking around clay so I mean clay sometimes will actively dodge the spotlight so I'm curious when you take two people who have such different personalities what how would y'all build that chemistry I think we had similar similar beginnings in the league
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mine was a more of a kind of I got talked about lack of identity or dealing with the lack of identity from an organization and so much kind of transition on the roster I really had to focus on myself and I called the homo beginnings of learning how it takes to win for clay it was a position battle
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like we had a guy on a Monta Ellis or all the warrior fans know and clay was his rookie year he was behind Monta and had to fight to try to just get minutes and so it's all about an appreciation for just being on the floor plan and then be able both come from NBA families and there's a connection point with that
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but understanding how we how we could compete and practice to to make each other better like we both love to shoot the ball we should you know pretty well and we always try to one-up each other so there's a healthy competition when it comes to that too and we're not afraid to kind of lean into it and challenge
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each other from time to time but you know to your point around difference in personalities I think we embrace it because clay is the ultimate teammate he's you know the most selfless guy that's on our on our team that knows you know whether he gets the shine or not or whether people are talking about him or
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not he knows how important he is to what we do and to our winning culture and and I try to do my best job every time I have an opportunity to to let people know like how important you know he is to what we do and having each other's back in that front you know it's it's a mutual respect that will never ever go
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away in terms of what we've been able to Congress together and it's weird talking about it now because I know we still have you know a long runway with this thing together so yeah he's clay is one of the funniest dudes you've ever met - so it's he's always a great guy to be around he shows his
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personality from time to time my favorite you know I saw him drinking a beer during an interview he's just he's just in the moment all the time and I love I love him as a teammate and it's amazing and so you talked about him being selfless but you yourself are also selfless in 2000 after the 2016 you all
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reached out to recruit Katie to join your team it's not often you see someone of your caliber who's willing to share the spotlight with someone like Katie right so I'm curious what what motivated that humility in that moment to say you know it's better for him to be on the team and to share the spotlight rather
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than you without him I mean it started with him being interested Warren got it you got to know that our friend age is going cold knocking on Katie's door they go nice weather out in the bay like you know but once once you kind of get an understanding that he wants to you know
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he can see himself in a word uniform to your to your question like I'd be an idiot not not to you know follow kind of you know my nature in terms of you know understanding the value of and value of the team but also not being afraid to be around other talented people that can push you because I some people might
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think that's threatening and kind of raining on my parade but a lot of it was that I knew that we could together you know push each other to ice that I don't think either one of us imagined and that's what we did every single day was whether it was spoken about or not and practice like I watched what he was
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doing he watched what I was doing and there's just a healthy just daily motivation when it comes to that and you know I wasn't afraid of it and I knew I knew there would be some change I personally going into it we all you always have the strategy of like how you're gonna deal with change and kind
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of trying to get ahead of it so that you prepared I thought that honestly the dream on would have the biggest or the heart had the hardest time dealing with the the amount of talent that we had on a team because we knew meekly and Katie wouldn't get a bunch of shots and lo and behold three months into the season it
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was it was me that had the hardest time kind of figuring it out because of just the different roles that kind of formed and and and how the game was being played that you know I had to kind of reset a little bit and understand like where everybody wasn't a court in my leadership style and being responsible
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for you know how everybody was playing that you know it was okay for everybody to bring our ego our healthy egos and being the best sell our best selves to the to the floor every night and in that it would work and so I think I overcomplicated it at the beginning and and that was that was something I had to
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kind of work through and and eventually to you know a lot of different tough conversations and figuring it out you know two championships and almost three two rest is history so it was an amazing journey amazing run that I'll never that could be one of the greatest teams that it was ever assembling yeah I remember
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that for a long time yeah it's eerily my favorite team ever assembled so thank you all for going out there and doing your thing so to switch and talk about a different team we also have your former Davidson teammate your former Davidson roommate and the GS B's very own [Music] so to launch SC 30 Inc and it so it
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contains your brand endorsements it contains your venture investing arm it contains eat learn play and it also contains unanimous media did I forget anything it's pretty this late right there it's a pretty good site that's good so you know what exactly is the mission of SC 38 it's to inspire I mean
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bringing everything that I I'm about and what I believe in to inspire and enhance opportunities for the next generation so I got to a point and he talked about you know I was being friends from 2005 to meeting in 2005 to now playing Davidson together following his professional
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career after you left Davidson to end up here at the GSB and then you know after that becoming business partners you know we we try to stay patient and understand that you know we were on a two totally different journeys that eventually kind of came together to make sense in terms of his is a perspective on the
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opportunities that I had off the court that I might not have you know taken advantage of otherwise and so when you talk about those four verticals were able to do so much I had the opportunity to impact so many people inspire through you know faith family through obviously sports and through the ability to kind
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of leverage what this is this game is and the doors that it's open for me so a lot of it's been a learning experience and a huge learning curve in terms of for seven years you know I had an agent that kind of was it was amazing for that part of my career but I got to a point where I could take more ownership over
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how I showed up in every brant partnership and the opportunity to reach the into Silicon Valley and network and understand opportunities in the venture space and me and my wife now with the opportunity the Bay Area being our home for the last 11 years when it's where we raise our kids there's a huge
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need and an opportunity to impact kids in Oakland especially throughout and throughout the Bay Area through those three pillars of Veet learn and play and then in the media space storytelling and creating content that can impact you know the world now and for years to come trying to understand how I show up in
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all those different verticals in a very authentic way that I can own my voice through all of that and and you know I don't know you know this the impact now but just in terms of you know thinking long-term what people how people see me on the basketball court there's way more way more to it than that and so it's
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been an exciting journey to be a part of that and so to a crowd that you know some people are considering starting a company with their best friend or not you have any advice oh man I mean you just have to you just have to communicate first and foremost I think that was the the thing that was
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most advantageous for us for two years we had so many different conversations about what it could look like and and what that partnership would look like and and how I think at a time you know first two months it was tough because I felt like for two years all we had was business conversations and we forgot the
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friendship part of it which was made us who we are and then we kind of had to kind of reset and say you know we're doing amazing stuff if we lost that personal you know part of it and that's like that's a constant challenge and you have to remind yourself without you know crazy I mean decisions you have to make
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on a daily basis all the things that you're trying to manage and balance and communication is everything and so I come in Bryant for having that perspective because he's not afraid to challenge me on things where I'm slipping up and and I hope I do the same vice versa so you know that part of it
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is is tough but it's the most rewarding when you get to you know do amazing things and enter amazing opportunities with somebody as you know as it's very similar mindset that you have you know sweat equity with for years and years and years you know what they're about there's a confidence that comes with
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that too so you take the good with the with the decent with it yeah so thinking back on a few things we've touched on it's obvious that you don't let the excellence of an organization define your own excellence you went to Davison underrated and left the household name you went to a shaky Warriors team and
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turn them into a dynasty to remember you are ruining a game by redefining excellence and everything you touch so I want to let you know you know black man a black man I appreciate everything you do I appreciate all the positivity enjoy what you bring into the world it's been a pleasure chatting with you we're gonna
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open it up to the audience for a few questions [Music] [Applause] I said thanks for coming I'm robbers and first-gen ba so you just mentioned you're putting this you know venture we're doing with your friend so I'm just wondering what's your you know overall retirement plan who do you vision
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yourself to be coming you know 23 years that I'm done around thank you thank you I guess I'm at that point where I start thinking about it a little bit you know in terms of like where I'm at my career I've always had a hard time kind of articulating the big picture and the strategy around what we're doing
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with su-30 Inc and kind of what we talked about those four verticals in the media space of our foundation you learn play which I truly believe will be a game-changer in the Bay Area and especially Oakland and changing kids lives and that's something me and my wife err extremely motivated and dedicated to our brand partnerships and
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in our venture investing so I think establishing our processes and the team that you know I'm trying to build now that will hopefully set up successful later just having a perspective and around what that might look like you know when the ball stops bouncing obviously right now I have to balance
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that perspective with continuing to be the best basketball player that I can be and keeping the main thing the main thing for for me because that's what you know keeps the car moving but I have had the opportunity in this last year to really again just adapt to the learnings of what you know we have taken on and be
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okay with saying you know we didn't get that right the first time let's let's go back to the drawing board let's get you know the right getting the right team in place and the right process and I I'm only as good as the people around me and so that's the that's the best thing that we've been
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able to try to figure out and I'm really excited about where we're at right now which continues to or allows me to have the excitement about you know reinvesting my time and the resources behind everything that we're doing that's my best answer to that because in the next three or four years I want to
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win like three more championships and then play for like eight eight ten more years and then you know I keep adding I keep adding a year for my wife because sounds just like the mess with her like that but that's that's the perspective right now continue be the best basketball player I can be for as long
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as I can be but in the meantime form the best team around me that will help set us up for success in the future in terms of you know being truly game changers in those four spaces I step my name is Mary Grace Reeves I'm a fourth year in the dual MD MBA program here at Stanford and
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as a golfer I really appreciate your show holy moly season two is coming soon looking forward to you're always welcome to join us here at the Stanford Golf Course thank you for that anyway so my question for you is now being on the west coast what do you continue to take from your Southern heritage and how does
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that translate into your leadership style on off the court with impact investing in with the Animus media that's a great question I get my joke out the way like coming from the East Coast my momma if I if I wasn't a yes man no ma'am that type of thing just do the the gracious isn't know my manners
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she hit me upside my head so I've always catches people off guard out here on the west coast but beyond that I think just a sense of a sense of appreciation for the the place that I get to live I really like the speed of life here the opportunities the the thought leaders and and game changes that right in this
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area that I have you know access to and you not being from here and kind of understanding what that's like you know in this last ten years has been extremely rewarding I don't take that for granted and that the the people that I get to call up and just have a conversation with her
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he eventually hopefully go to go into business with it just even get advice from like that's that's that's amazing to me just the power of intellect out here just all you all you guys included so that's that's pretty pretty special to meet in this area and something that gets me excited other than that that's about it
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so I think in terms of like again the family aspect of what I bring in and that kind of permeated itself through you talk about unanimous and the content that we create we want to create content that the whole family can kind of get behind and you want to make them laugh make them cry make them smile all the
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different emotions we bring that bond together through it that's that's important too yeah I think the last student that actually a golfing question ended up and getting Howard golf team sponsors right yeah yeah that's right so I did a screener for documentary called Emmanuel last spring and part of that
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was there's a guy that came up to the front afterwards and he mentioned that he was on the gull of the Howard Golf Club team and he was trying to figure out a way to start or bring Division one golf back to Howard University obviously being HBCU and so we had a conversation found out a way to bring resources bring
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some financial and kind of backing and align all the forces to make that a reality and you know what five six months later it happened so crazy just the the rooms that you're in and how those type of ideas can kind of come and then being able to execute it and make you know make it into a reality it's
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pretty dope so sponsoring the Howard the the the return of Howard's the Division one team next fall is pretty pretty pretty cool it's amazing I think we have time for one more question from the crowd and then we'll come back here hi stuff thank you for being here I was curious what the thought process
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and conversation was around you and your team's decision to not go to the White House it personally meant a lot to me to see I'm such prominent figures in the public discourse make a stand like that and I'm curious with that what that process was like for you guys it was kind of talking about that earlier and a
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breakout group there is it's amazing the conversations that I've been thrown into and I say that in a positive way in terms of how powerful your voice can be and speaking for those that can't speak for themselves and developing a point of view that you're okay to stand behind no matter if you're going to be praised for
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it or her or be criticized for it and that was probably the prime example of of that happening in terms of how basketball and the power of sports and how it unifies people think better than any other industry in this world can lead to kind of standing against the way that the presidential offices was being
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represented and to be honest still is so I think it was a powerful moment for our whole team to kind of collectively come together have that conversation amongst ourselves of who was comfortable going who was not obviously was on the side of not going being put into a tweet but for
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president Trump and and and dealing with that backlash of of just that act that at the end of the day I just didn't agree with anything that he was saying or what he stood for how he you know talked about you know inclusivity and the just the hatefulness I was coming out of that office and so from there I
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said I'm not going to the White House and our team kind of came to that collective decision we didn't go instead we went to the National african-american history or history museum and then DC and and created our own experience that was more true and authentic to what we wanted to kind of understand and learn
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about and share with the world and some students from from where Katie's from and Maryland came out and we got to go tour the museum with them and it was an amazing experience that was way better than the alternative so just to your point like athletes have an amazing opportunity to speak and people want to
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want to listen I just try to be the one educated on what I'm talking about and and to again okay with knowing I'm not gonna please everybody with with what you say but you got to stand for it yeah so we had we had a breakout room for you we also had a breakout room for Aisha who is accomplished on our own we
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have New York's Times best-selling book the seasons life we have our own cooking show Aisha is homemade and a cameo on Hannah Montana that's good that's good so we normally had to do my research man so we normally in these with a lightning round and I have one for you and so what I'm gonna do is give you a series of
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options there's many two options in each one and you tell me which one you pick you can't you can't think about it too long all right we're that's just about I'm passing the ball just shoot the three sounds good all right so favorite acting moment denzel washington and training day or
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Viola Davis and how to get away with murder oh a training day okay favorite snack I use just chicken parmesan or Sour Patch Kids that's fair favorite it's an unfair question yeah to two totally different categories I mean I'm married up and I'm gonna make sure you know happy wife happy life so I'm brought to you I
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brought you a little gift yeah that's my reward for answering the question right so your favorite nickname baby-faced assassin or splash bro baby-faced assassin even though I'm trying to run away from it obviously alright so your favorite basketball role model Steve Nash or Reggie Miller Steve
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Nash Steve Nash which is crazy because he's not one of our consultants for for the team so I get to ask my idol questions about how to run a pick-and-roll and he gets the answer I'm like right there and show me the way so that's pretty pretty crazy that's pretty well actually I think I read that he was
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saying he wish he could play in the game after you changed it unbelievable compliment but I was also counter with I play the way that I play because of what he showed me so he's kind of done with dumbing it down a little bit what he was able to do in terms of reimagine or reinventing creativity in a way that
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inspired me to kind of own that for myself so I appreciate his compliment but yeah I learned it from him that Phoenix Sun squad he was always crazy last question this is this is a pretty tough one there's actually three options for this one favorite Chow Reilly okay no kid will in on that one [Applause] [Music]