Massive NBA and NFL Trades, Plus Legendary Agent Leigh Steinberg On Repping Mahomes and Tua, and How The NFL Has Changed Over The Decades | The Lefkoe Show

The Lefkoe Show

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Leigh Steinberg has repped everyone, from Troy Aikman to Howie Long to Patrick Mahomes. For Pete's sake, they modeled the character of Jerry Maguire after his career! This man knows the ins and outs of the sports business better than almost anyone on Earth, he can provide a fascinating historical perspective to some of the seismic shifts in the way the game has changed over the years, and he graciously opens up about his own personal successes and tribulations along the way. Plus, Lefkoe and Ingber catch up on the flurry of free agent activity currently shaking up the NFL Draft and the absolutely crazy NBA trade deadline. Hope you enjoy this one, 33%!

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0:00.0	Oh, it's going to be a good conversation. I'm excited for this. I got a chance to talk to
0:04.5	him in New York a few years ago and boy how things have changed. Lee Steinberg, one of
0:10.0	the best agents that you have ever heard of in all sports. He's represented eight first
0:16.2	picks overall. He runs Steinberg Sports and Entertainment wrote a book in 2015. There
0:22.8	are multiple books with 2015, the agent. And it is often rumored. And I would say it's
0:27.7	been confirmed that Jerry McGuire was loosely based off of Lee Steinberg. Lee, it's good
0:33.0	to see you. A few years ago, you came in and I felt like you were just getting back
0:38.4	up again. You were very honest about the things that had happened in your life and your own
0:43.4	personal battles. And I remember seeing you at the Super Bowl with this kid at a Texas
0:49.9	Tech and nobody really paid attention. And now Patrick Mahomes just signed for a half a
0:57.1	billion and is the best quarterback we've seen. This journey these last few years Lee, it
1:03.4	had to be what you were hoping when you really got back in the game.
1:07.5	You know, Adam, I didn't really have any doubt that we could succeed in something I've
1:14.6	done for almost 50 years, 47 years. But so my real comeback was maintaining sobriety for
1:24.4	what this last weekend turned into the 12th year. And thank you.
1:30.0	That's a dozen Lee. That's awesome. Congrats, man.
1:33.4	So I'm in my 12th year. I celebrated my 11th birthday. And so and being a good father
1:40.3	of my kids. But since 1975, I've been working with athletes who understood the power of role
1:49.1	modeling and how to retrace their roots to the high school collegiate and professional
1:54.3	community. And I knew there'd be more out there to find. So it's we last year we did
2:01.4	two at angle by Lowa, Jared Judy and it and our SSC agency is thriving.
2:14.1	I'm curious because you had a lot of success in the early 2000s, the 90s and all of that.
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