00:00the biggest thing is just like educating people on you know what it is and you know where it can
00:05become you know when you look at like a sport like f1 right it was it's been around for a
00:10long time
00:10but you know not really until the netflix series and and more and more of the personalities of the
00:17sports really popped out is where you see this big boom and i think that you know for e1 the
00:23sky's
00:23the limit and you know it's just so fresh like i said it's only three years old and um you
00:28know
00:28there's a lot of people um that are into it and that we don't want to see it to be
00:33successful as
00:34well so how'd you get the idea to actually become an owner uh in an actual team itself i mean
00:39it's
00:39one thing to say i'm a fan of this i like to watch it's another thing to say i want
00:43to actually be
00:43invested in it yeah well i have personal relationships with um you know some of the
00:48people that are involved with uh sierra racing club um you know personal friends and i think that
00:53it's uh something that came across my desk and you know i was i had to jump at it you
00:58know it's
00:59such a uh especially for me being an athlete i think it's uh very important for um me to have
01:05this
01:05platform and be able to show other athletes that you're also you know you're not just an athlete
01:10and you can become you know on that ownership side of things as well i am curious though too i
01:15mean
01:15about sports in general i mean obviously we have at least here in the u.s the big three with
01:20the nfl
01:21baseball uh and uh the nba and then i guess you can throw hockey in there as well but we're
01:26seeing
01:26a lot more of these i guess niche sports now become much bigger than just niche whether uh it's whether
01:32it's road racing whether it's boat racing uh obviously you know you have you know ancillary
01:37sports like lacrosse and volleyball that have gone from being either collegiate or intramural to now
01:42being professional on the level is that sort of a function you think of just there is nothing else
01:47to watch at least in terms of live i mean that's what the public really wants i think so because
01:52we're just in this age of content like this content content content and like we all want something new
01:57you know i think that's just what you know humans kind of you know do and especially in this day
02:03and
02:03age we're in this like highlight world so i think that um i think i think it has very good
02:09potential
02:10truly you know because it's different and it's unique you know and i think that's what we want out of
02:15this world we want unique experiences when you look at the opportunities that that kids the college
02:19kids now have to actually build a brand and more importantly uh build wealth before they even get
02:25to the professionals have we gone in the right direction with that absolutely yeah absolutely when
02:30you think about college sports um you know i'm kind of jealous a little bit of the times that we're
02:36in because when i was just a little bit before when i was in college i was on financial aid
02:40and i got
02:41about 800 bucks a month from our school yeah and um you know for these kids now to just walk
02:47into
02:47millions of dollars before even having the opportunity um to be a pro yeah it does create
02:53you know some set of challenges right um you know probably a little bit of like character building
02:58it's just like to come up right but at the same time like these kids are blessed like they're
03:03they're able to provide for their families and also if you don't have the opportunity to be
03:09uh a professional athlete which is you know the 0.0001 of things you have like a nice foundation now
03:16and i think that's that's important you know and i think that over you know the past 30 40 whatever
03:22how long the nca has been around um they profited a lot so i'm i'm happy for you know the
03:29collegiate
03:30athletes that are able to you know reap those rewards so yeah how do you feel about the direction
03:35of the nba right now in terms of where it's going the fan base you think it's going in the
03:39right
03:39it's massive it's 100 you know viewership is great um you know we're adding you know what they talk
03:45about is adding a couple new teams you talk about nba europe you talk about the global aspect of
03:50everything um i'm very bullish on the nba in the future and i think for me like when i started
03:56in
03:562017 to where it is now you know just how much media coverage we get it's uh you know we
04:01in the
04:01nba we like to call it the best drama in the world uh drama drama tv show in the world
04:05so yeah um
04:07the nba is amazing it's amazing product and you know it's gave me opportunity to even be here so
04:12yeah absolutely and do you any chance that maybe i don't know 10 20 years in the future you might
04:17actually try to become a part owner of an nba team that would be ideal yeah for sure that would
04:22be nice um obviously getting into this venture is uh you know my start within sports ownership
04:27and um i look forward to a lot of more opportunities i'm sure i will have
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