Basketball & Business with Chet Holmgren | Boardroom Cover Story

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After a devastating injury mere months after being drafted No. 2 to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chet Holmgren missed his entire first season with a foot injury. Nearly a year later, Holmgren, alongside his teammates Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams, took the one-seed in the Western Conference, with Holmgren playing a full 82-game season. In this Boardroom Cover Story, Holmgren sits with Boardroom Co-Founder Rich Kleiman to talk about how he processed, reassessed and reinvented his approach to the game after injury, how he's found himself in a tight race to Rookie Of The Year with San Antonio Spurs Victor Wembanyama and what it's like playing across from legends like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry. Holmgren also shares stories about how 76ers Joel Embiid gave him a humble welcome to the league, why he doesn't feel pressure to put on more weight and how he plans to capitalize on the business side that comes with being an NBA player.

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0:00.0	I was out hooping in LA. I was telling you to work out with Drew, and he works out with
0:03.5	Joel, too, and we're playing pickup. He comes in the gym right before we're starting. He's like, kids probably not that good, so he's, like, kind of bullshit. And then first game, I had, like, a turnaround to, like, win the game. And then Drew went up to him who's, like, basically talking shit. Drew's thing is he's talking to you like 24-7. So he's talking shit to Joel and I wasn't talking to him. I knew better. And he was like, okay, I'm going to turn it on. And then it's like skill and physical ability. And, you know, I think he's probably at the peak of both, especially when it comes to just like one-on-one basketball.
0:39.1	And he turned it into a one-on-one game. We're playing pickup. And he's like, you're not
0:42.8	allowed to double. And he put eight people on the other side of the court and we play one-on-one.
0:47.0	Not a whole lot you can do in that scenario. You know, fadeaways, bumps. He's got all the
0:52.5	footwork too. So that's kind of where I like,
0:56.0	realize like this is where the bar is.
0:58.0	You know, this is what you gotta compete with
1:00.0	every night in the NBA.
1:01.0	And I think that was huge for me having that experience
1:03.0	before I got hurt, kind of figuring out
1:05.0	where I needed to get myself to.
1:06.0	And here we are now.
1:07.0	We get a picture, yeah, let's get a picture.
1:09.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rookie sensation from the Oklahoma
1:24.3	City Thunder, Chet Holmgren. What's up, my man? What I? What up? Appreciate you having me.
1:28.7	Appreciate you coming on.
1:30.1	It's that time of year.
1:31.7	It's that exciting time of year, and you guys are at the very top of the standings.
1:36.2	Coming into this season, could you have even imagined this level of success from your team?
1:42.0	Personally, I don't like to come into things with huge expectations, good or bad,
1:46.7	just because it can kind of distract you from where you are and where you're trying to get to.
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