1-on-1 | Ariel Helwani on His Beloved Knicks & Why UFC Fighters Can't Shoot Hoops
No Dunks
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4.9 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
| 0:07.8 | workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension, |
| 0:12.8 | we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given |
| 0:17.4 | £100 million back to our members instead. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, you've broken the cat flap again. People's Pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit peoplespension.com.'re joined by a very special guest. He's a Canadian and sorry, Skeetzie, he's more famous than you. He's probably not quite as famous as Justin Bieber yet, but it's a little bit closer. |
| 0:59.2 | He's one of the most accomplished journalists in the UFC and mixed martial arts world, |
| 1:03.3 | but his basketball knowledge runs deep too, and we've seen him work the NBA sidelines for ESPN. |
| 1:08.5 | Yet despite all his success, in his 37 years on earth, he's never |
| 1:12.0 | learned to ride a bike. He is Ariel Hohani. Ariel, thanks for joining us. Wow, what an intro. That |
| 1:17.9 | was amazing. And all very accurate too. I heard you on a radio show last week and someone brought up |
| 1:25.8 | the bike riding and you said, you know what, I've never learned to ride a bike, but you were teaching your sons how to ride a bike. So how do you do that? I, you know, honestly, I just lied to them. They have no idea. It's a big secret. They know that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy don't exist, but they're not quite aware of the fact that I don't know to ride a bike. I don't know. I never figured it |
| 1:44.6 | out. And I remember many of times people were trying to teach me in summer camp. They would go, |
| 1:49.8 | oh, we're going to go on a trip and all this stuff. Couldn't figure it out. So here I am 37 years |
| 1:53.8 | old and I still can't ride a bike. And you know what? I'm proud of it, baby. Wow. I thought |
| 1:59.6 | there must have just been too much snow in Montreal growing up and the conditions weren't great for it, but I guess not. You had your chance in the summer. I did, yes. I wish that was the excuse, but no. That's better than me, Ariel. I've fallen off my bike a billion times and my friends would say to me that I can't ride a bike when actually I can. And so I'd rather be in your boat, I think. Just never get on the bike. Exactly. Never get on the bike. When people say like, oh, it's as easy as riding a bike, I don't know what that feels like. Is it? Who knows? Well, Ariel, let's start in the NBA world because the last dance wrapped up last weekend, and you were a Knicks fan. So was it painful to watch? I mean, what were your thoughts? What were your takeaways from the 10-part documentary? First of all, I loved every second of it, and that has nothing to do with the fact that I work for ESPN. I really enjoyed it, but I feel like I need to throw that out there in case anyone says, you're a shill, you're a corporate chill. |
| 2:53.2 | I had several feelings towards it because, number one, I know the director very well, |
| 2:58.2 | Jason Hare, when I worked at HBO Sports as a junior in college and my first year at a college, |
| 3:04.6 | he was there working on a show called Real Sports with Brian Gumbull, and we |
| 3:08.6 | hit it off, and we stayed very close over the years. In fact, when I first got a deal with ESPN, |
| 3:16.1 | it was March of 2018, and he first found out back then that he was going to get this deal |
| 3:21.4 | to do this documentary, and we went for lunch, and he said, I have news for you, and I said, I have news for you, and we both shared these two pieces of massive news in our lives. So it was cool to see it finally come to fruition. And I really enjoyed it. I thought they did a great job. It was very nostalgic. That's when I grew up being a basketball fan. That's when I fell in love with the NBA. And even though I was a diehard |
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