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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Nike deal with Kobe Bryant ends; Super League Sorrow Pt. 2; Deshaun Watson lawyer keeps firing back (4/20)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘mamba’ as in Kobe Bryant as in Vanessa Bryant as in Nike. Why is this back in the news? Because Kobe Bryant’s deal with Nike is done after Nike could not come to terms with Vanessa and the Bryant estate. Kobe died in January 2020 with one year remaining on his Nike deal. What happens now? Nike paused all production of Kobe apparel… will a new deal get worked out? (9:50) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me how serious the Super League concept is. Let’s discuss. (25:19) Review: Songbird (29:53) NPPOD. (34:25) Let’s update you on the Deshaun Watson saga. Where are we now? (42:52) The jury has been sequestered in the Derek Chauvin case. Let me explain this for people who don’t understand.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm going to be a mom.

0:16.0

Mom, nothing personal word of the day.

0:18.4

April 20th is mom.

0:21.4

Kobe Bryant passed away in January of 2020 in the helicopter accident.

0:26.3

It seems like yesterday and it seems like 20 years ago, which is a strange pandemic time

0:32.5

warp that we're all in.

0:35.0

But lest you think that when someone dies, there are not fights and arguments over money

0:40.1

going forward, you'd be incorrect.

0:43.4

lest you think that people who benefit from someone don't want to keep benefiting from

0:50.8

that person even after his or her death, then you'd be mistaken.

0:54.7

lest you think that families don't fight over money upon the death of a relative, you'd

1:00.7

be mistaken.

1:02.2

Companies fight over trademarks every day.

1:05.4

There's an entire part of our legal system that is based on these type of fights, copyright

1:11.3

infringements and patents.

1:13.1

And they're all about money.

1:14.9

You know that.

1:16.4

Who's going to get paid for what and where and when?

1:20.4

Vanessa Bryant has had a walk a very tough line since January of 2020.

1:25.8

It's been about a year and a half.

1:28.1

She has surviving children.

1:29.4

She lost a daughter and a husband the same day.

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