Ep 1102 | ESPN Idiot Protects Adam Silver, Blames Fans for Globalization | Luka & LeBron Don't Mix
Fearless with Jason Whitlock
Blaze Media
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It originates for why we wanted to globalize the brand to begin with. |
| 0:19.7 | No doubt you, the NBA, who has obviously supported these players and always has, |
| 0:26.0 | from Commissioner David Stern to Russ Granich, the former deputy commissioner, to Adam Silver, |
| 0:32.5 | to Mark Tatum, these brothers, and these men have supported these brothers. |
| 0:38.0 | But America hasn't always done so. |
| 0:41.0 | America, when you talk about globalizing the sport, |
| 0:44.9 | certainly money has everything to do with it, okay? |
| 0:48.2 | Well, a lot to do with it. |
| 0:49.3 | But the other part in globalizing your brand is whitening the sport too. |
| 0:55.8 | Because when you've got the Luca Dantius of the world, the Dirk Novitsky's before him, |
| 1:01.2 | the Manu Janoblies and others, because you didn't have enough white American players to excel on a level that could make the sport more profitable and what have you. |
| 1:15.5 | And you had to rely on the brothers. |
| 1:18.5 | It's why Magic Johnson was so important because of that magnetic smile that invited you into the living room. |
| 1:24.3 | But even still, you still paired him with Larry Bird to promote the sport. |
| 1:28.5 | Michael Jordan came along and took it to another level. |
| 1:32.0 | Kobe and his undeniable brilliance and speaking four languages fluently and working on a fifth |
| 1:38.1 | at the time of his passing, Mandarin for Christ, I mean, but it's a rarity. |
| 1:42.5 | And so to globalize the sport to have guys who were white European superstars is something |
| 1:51.3 | that the NBA itself might have capitalized off of lovingly so because of profitability |
| 1:57.2 | issues. |
| 1:58.0 | But America and the world as a whole ingratiated itself with the |
| 2:03.5 | American, with the NBA product, because you saw folks who were white, even though they |
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