Mike Francesa with David Levy
WFAN Daily
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3.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The CEO of the Nets and Barclays Center chats with Mike at Barclays before the Nets take on the Rockets.
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| 0:00.0 | Their new CEO, as you know, the ownership changed. |
| 0:03.3 | You know that Joe Zai, who is the Alibaba guy, now owns the team. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm sure you're aware of that now. |
| 0:08.8 | If you didn't, I don't know where you were during the whole China thing. |
| 0:11.5 | I mean, so I'm sure you've realized that. |
| 0:13.9 | So you had a big change here at the Barclay Center. |
| 0:16.4 | Now the guy running it is David Levy, who is also connected to the fan because he sits on the board |
| 0:23.3 | for Intercom, which owns the fan. So, David, welcome. How are you? So he's a guy, nice to see you. How's |
| 0:28.5 | everything? Thanks for having me. All right. So a big turn over here. How many months has it been |
| 0:36.6 | since you took over? |
| 0:39.2 | It's only been four weeks, believe it or not. |
| 0:40.5 | It's only been four weeks? |
| 0:42.2 | Four weeks, and one week we were in China. |
| 0:44.3 | So it's been three weeks here and one week in China. Well, that was like a lifetime dealing with that because, I mean, that in itself, you know, having the, I guess, was Josai the first person from that part of the world to have any NBA ties at all? |
| 0:59.5 | Has it been an owner? |
| 1:00.8 | He's the first Chinese owner. |
| 1:02.5 | I mean, obviously. |
| 1:03.1 | I know he's from Taiwan, but I mean, he's the first Chinese owner of any note, right? |
| 1:07.8 | I don't know if there was a minority owner or anything. |
| 1:09.6 | No, so he's the first guy, took over for Pro prokhov who was like the secret agent when he was the you know and i and i and i |
| 1:16.3 | there were other reasons why i never came to the parkley center it's my first time here but prokeroff |
| 1:21.4 | the day he took over the team i interviewed him oh really yes he did an interview with me sat for an |
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