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The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Jerry Lorenzo

The ETCs with Kevin Durant

Boardroom Podcast Network & Cadence13

Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, KD and Eddie talk to iconic designer, founder of Fear of God, and newly minted head of Adidas basketball Jerry Lorenzo. Jerry discusses the origins of Fear of God, "style" vs. fashion, his inspirations for the brand, how sports is always at the roots of anything he does, his new partnership with Adidas and the idea of having signature athletes signed to Fear of God athletics. Then, they guys as Jerry if imitation really is a form of flattery, Jerry and KD reminisce on KD's legendary dagger in the 2017 NBA Finals, they talk about the NBA's new runway culture, and having "natural" style vs. trying too hard. Finally, Jerry shares a look into the close relationship he had with Nipsey Hussle and much, much more.

Transcript

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0:30.0

Going back to the et cetera's podcast as always, I'm Eddie Gonzales, I'm joined by my

0:35.9

man Kevin DeVrant, okay, you haven't played in a while so I don't have too many superlatives

0:40.7

or stats or anything to introduce you, you're just Kevin today, what's going on?

0:44.9

Everything is everything, we got a special guest I'd rather talk about him.

0:48.0

Yeah, man, like, I want to get right to our guest, I thought of the best possible way

0:53.1

I could to describe him to introduce him and to make sure I did him justice.

0:57.8

And then I learned that he does not fancy himself a designer, which shocked me, and I would

1:03.9

love him.

1:04.9

Yeah, I think it's part of it, at least didn't a few years ago when he did this interview.

1:08.6

So we have with us the founder of Fear of God, a man who had just entered a very intriguing

1:15.8

partnership with Adidas, they've been very vague about exactly what that is, I'm going

1:19.4

to ask him a lot and one of the best dressed humans on earth.

1:25.5

Jay Lorenzo, Zeri, thank you so much for doing this man, shout out to your brother, shout

1:29.5

out to my man Blue, help put this all together for us.

1:32.6

Happy to have you here, man.

1:33.6

How are you living?

1:34.6

I'm amazing, man, thank you for having me, man, I was the best introduction ever, I appreciate

1:41.2

that, man.

1:42.2

Looks like in your studio now you're working on some super secret things we'll find out

1:45.8

about in years from now or what's going on over there with you.

1:49.8

Right now we're liking this kind of like temporary space, a little makeshift studio, we're building

1:55.2

out our new home around the corner, so I'm surrounded by racks of samples and vintage

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