Conversation With NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum

The Domonique Foxworth Show

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Sports, Football

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🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A special Domonique Foxworth Show where Domonique has a conversation with NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum, with topics such as growing the sport globally, concerns about the regular season, and more! 0:00 Welcome to the Domonique Foxworth Show 0:31 Balancing viewing the NBA as art vs. entertainment 3:59 Addressing concerns about the regular season not mattering enough 15:27 Whether the NBA would allow the Saudi wealth fund to invest in franchises 20:25 Potential concerns about the NBA leaning into gambling 25:04 The most exciting thing about the future of the NBA 26:47 Thoughts on the state of college basketball and star American players 32:53 Homegrown stars staying with their teams vs. stars signing elsewhere or demanding trades 36:21 Something about the NBA that the general public doesn't know but should Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, this is a really cool and interesting conversation I have coming up with the deputy commissioner of the NBA Mark Tatum.
0:06.0	So Harvard Business School has a student-run organization that is the business of sports and entertainment club. They hosted us for this panel and I appreciate them for calling me and having me
0:17.3	moderate this keynote conversation. I ask Mark some tough questions. I hopefully he still likes me afterwards but you be the judge.
0:23.7	This is the Dominique Foxworth show.
0:26.3	Thank you all for being here and I think I wanted to start with the concept at least the way that I view it.
0:37.0	We're talking about sports. Sports is art and art becomes entertainment and entertainment has value. And there's always a challenge I think of
0:46.0	balancing the value of entertainment and maintaining the soul of the art and you see that
0:50.9	with music, movies, acting and all that stuff.
0:54.4	How do you think the NBA does that job right now?
0:57.3	Yeah I think it starts with the game, it all starts with the game, it all starts with the
1:00.6	best athletes in the world. Our players are just incredible athletes. They do
1:05.6	superhuman things in a graceful way. And so for us it is about the beauty of the game, the
1:12.1	teamwork that is required to move the ball and to put that round ball and that hoop.
1:18.5	And it's the game that's played all over the world and I think one of the things that over time from the beginning of the NBA and certainly the most recent history is the personality of the players, right?
1:29.0	There's no sport where you actually can have your feet as a spectator on the field of play.
1:36.5	And so that accessibility and that proximity to the players who are playing in shorts and are, you know,
1:42.4	six, seven feet and... who are playing in shorts and are you know six seven
1:43.8	seven feet and being able to be right there on the court with them it's an
1:48.0	incredible experience and so it is about the authenticity it's about the
1:52.4	energy of the game it's about the energy of the game, it's about the
1:54.4	globality of the game. I think today with 125 players in our league, nearly 30% of
2:00.9	our league, there's a different style that's come to our game.
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