Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antenetti.

This is a first look, which is proven to be very, very popular, where we give you a little bit of a slice of an upcoming long-form interview.

And today's first look is with Jared Stacey.

He is the Vice President of Global Sports Production for Prime Video.

A very, very big job where he makes,

he and his group make the hires on who you see on air

when it comes to Prime Video, whether that's the NFL or the upcoming NBA,

WNBA, NASCAR, etc.

And in this clip, Jared Stacey tells a really, really interesting story about how he first

came to get acquainted with Dirk Nowitzky and Steve Nash and how those two NBA Hall of

Famers are now part of Prime Video's NBA

coverage. Here's our clip with Jared Stacey.

Dirk was always of interest to me, you know, long before I was in this job, you know, I worked with the Lakers

for many years in production. I always found Dirk, A, an incredible player, and B, I thought

he had a sneaky sense of humor. And he was somebody who's, you know, he's such a legend of the

game, but we haven't really heard him talk about basketball.

And so we got connected and just kind of had a lunch.

And Amina Hussein, who's my partner in crime in this and runs talent for us, one of our executive producers.

You know, we just kind of had a very casual lunch.

But then we started to work in, you know, questions where it was like, all right,

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