But when I'm aiming towards working and writing around Charlie and the sound of his harp, it's like All-Star Weekend-- NBA All-Star. It's got to be something else.And again, just like Charlie said, he pushes me to grow as a lyricist in a way that I couldn't otherwise.
And I think our ecosystem is designed to handle both sides of it. But NBA Top Shot is a little more live operated like a game, where there's an economist, a game designer to look at the data. They make choices that are long-term-oriented.
And then I went home, talked to my parents, trying to find something to do. The NBA 's on TV all around for this entertainment for everybody else. But for me, it's like, why am I not there?
I find myself-- I'm talking about me now. The NBA Players Association, the NBPA, is really doing a phenomenal job of trying once again.
don't know about the shopping portals. Virgin NBA have had very outdated products for years, so they're finally, over the next couple of years, investing.
And so I still think a lot of players would look at it as a big risk. The NBA brand, globally-- and I think Rick can probably speak to this more as well, but if you look at what they're doing for youth around the world,
So can you talk a little bit more about how you actually went about confronting that you did have PTSD, especially being an NBA athlete at that time. This is now six years ago, and there-- today luckily there are athletes coming out-- Kevin Love and DeMar DeRozan publicly about their own
Yeah, the game .. The NBA is going to China, so people are naturally becoming more and more exposed to it. But it's a day-by-day, inch-by-inch, brick-by-brick process mentality where it's like, slowly, hopefully,
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." Because NBA players, we have the attention span of a grasshopper.
We saw so many kids. So NBA finals start tomorrow night.
Because when the buying stops, the killing can too. So NBA 's tremendously powerful in China, a very popular sport. And with the elephants, I think, we really look back as to it was the first thing I really kind of worked on back in 1989.
So the NBA players... are not the only talented ones in the arena, as evidenced by this clip that I posted on Twitter a couple days
distinguished itself by being consumer-friendly and has the-- the platform has more than 3.6 million accounts. And the games include NBA Top Shot, which has 1.3 million members and has had over $1 billion in sales, UFC Strike, NFL All Day, Seussibles, and a number of others.
But the whole way, we felt really good, because we're dogfooding our own product. And Flow-- NBA Top Shot alone has more transactions than most other NFT projects combined. So when you first pitched the NBA , it was-- you didn't talk so much about which ecosystem you were going to build on?
We've served a million NBA fans. There's a billion NBA fans. And so there's sort of immense opportunity there.
But very few companies have anything in market that resembles anything that any of those brands would want to be associated with. And in terms of-- NBA Top Shot has on the order of millions of transactions in the last couple months, whereas if you look at something like a Bored Ape, very, very successful economy, but thousands, single-digit thousands, of transactions.
The character, when he's feeling connected to someone, has a compulsion to tap their shoulder in a rhythmic way. And there is an NBA player, named Chris Jackson, who talks about that. You can actually see in the NBA game films.
You know, I think dealing with stress in the NBA , it's not just the NBA . It's the NBA , it's life. Because on the other side of that, like I said, you know, we're dads.
I find myself-- I'm talking about me now. What is the NBA doing to bring mental awareness to the players that are currently active and on the court?
Yeah. We're proud of you. As an NBA fan, as a lefty-- Yeah. Oh, you're left-handed? I'm a left-handed basketball player, so definitely watched your game a lot when I was coming up, so proud that you've made this turn.
So this guy gets panicked. "FIFA," "NFL," "NBA ." And I gotta tell you, we were happy to be there.
Keyon Dooling here at Google to talk about his personal experience with mental health what-- and then what the NBA is doing because he is a former NBA basketball player. So a little bit about Keyon, who we are very lucky to have with us today.
It never happened. Don't tell anybody our business. I think NBA players and professional athletes and not just professional athletes.
of success. You know, we've seen historically great teams, but the Warriors have literally been doing things that we've never seen before in not just the modern NBA , but in the entire NBA 's history. And then the real brainstorm came-- Peter Guber was giving a lecture down at Stanford.
They don't view it as coming into play basketball. And traditionally in the NBA , it's almost seems hubris in some ways to-- you've got the easy layup, or maybe you've got one on one match-up.
And as I've gotten older, I actually built a lot of relationships with people, kind of word of mouth, too. Without meeting every NBA player, I pretty much know at least two or three things about every NBA player, just word of mouth. It's a small community-- 450 of us.
They have one-year deals. You see in the NBA right now people signing for $200 and something million. There's a lot more stability in that, and I hope to see esports develop into the sports industry where players and owners, the whole industry
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." In to the NBA ," everything that we filmed was like five minutes with each player.
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." In the NBA , obviously the athlete lifestyle is the athlete lifestyle.
I saw-- I don't remember if it's the Nets, but a lot of your teammates and you were playing "Clash of Clans." type thing before every NBA game.
But I do ABC, "ESPN Countdown," in particular on weekends, and on Sundays, and obviously we had the NBA finals. Which was a great NBA final with Lebron James delivering a championship to Cleveland. So beyond that, I'm a dad, I'm the founder of a school, I'm a son, I'm a brother.
It was during the NBA All-Star Game.
And then you retired from the Houston Rockets in 2009, and just a few months ago, was elected to the NBA Hall of Fame. So we have an NBA Hall of Famer with us today. And in fact, I think we have a quick clip to show of some of those blocked shots, perhaps.
And in fact, a few years back, the NBA commissioner, David Stern, actually created a new position for Dikembe as the NBA global ambassador. And so in this role, he travels throughout the world, and helping to grow, and celebrate the game of basketball through several events,
And as he watched NBA games, he thought to himself, from his experience as a player, I have places on the court where I'm really comfortable, where
And do NBA players have that same thing?
That's the NBA , Barclays Premier League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the NFL, and then finally the NHL.
time for the NBA .
Baseball uh NFL football NBA MMA
That's what the NBA and Major League Baseball does. The Pro Bowl isn't that because we have a Super Bowl where we know that's gonna be somewhere four years ahead of time. So, if
And Flow-- NBA Top Shot alone has more transactions than most other NFT projects combined. So when you first pitched the NBA , it was-- you didn't talk so much about which ecosystem you were going to build on? No, it wasn't immediately clear.
like Alchemy. And there was a very small subset of companies that were born in that flurry of activity and then sort of survived through the rest of the period. And not only was the NBA forward-thinking in the sense of working with us, but they were-- or sort of being open to working with us-- but they had a full team staff that whole year trying to really understand, hey, what's the regulatory framework that these assets are
But I think it was a necessary process. And I think getting the NBA was a necessary catalyst for just adoption of the whole space in general because it made it safe for a lot of other content owners and creators to participate in and made them realize, hey, this technology actually helps us protect our rights and create alignment
And so it kind of evolved from there. But each IP-- we have NBA , we have NFL, UFC-- has an economist as well as a game designer. The role of-- in a traditional game, the game designer owns the economy.
We spend most of our first-party efforts on sports because we think we've-- there's a 1,000x opportunity right there. We've served a million NBA fans. There's a billion NBA fans.
Because I've got $20 to spend on this ticket. And if I'm an NBA Top Shot collector, I actually get more for my money than if I'm not. Or if I'm a UFC Champions NFT holder, I get access to the Champions Club.
It'll be the first time two NBA players of Filipino descent will meet each other in the league.
No longer are you the NBA .
We're no longer the NBA .
league because you know the nba charters i think a lot of people view chartering as like you've made it in professional sports