Playing in the NBA while LEGALLY DEAF (Passion + Perseverance) | Lance Allred

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5 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Lance Allred is the first Deaf player in NBA History - playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers alongside Lebron James in 2008. Even without the hearing loss - Lance's journey to the NBA was NOT a typical one. He was born and raised in a Polygamist Commune in Montana and escaped at age 13 with his family to start a new life. Standing at 6'11 and needing a new way to socialize in "the normal world" Lance turned to basketball at his new school - and the rest is history. Lance is now a wildly ...

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0:00.0	What's up? What's up? Thank you for tuning into another episode of The Action Academy
0:05.4	podcast. I'm your host, Brian Lubin, bringing you the mindsets, methodologies, and actionable
0:10.4	tips from top performers, business owners, and people that have achieved financial independence
0:15.5	in their life, which means that they no longer trade their time for money and they have
0:20.0	their freedom people.
0:21.8	Freedom.
0:22.6	Braveheart voice.
0:24.2	Today's episode, we have a very, very special guest, Mr. Lance Allred.
0:28.3	Lance is one of my good friends and he was the first legally deaf player, legally deaf player in the NBA.
0:37.1	2008, he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers with LeBron James. Some of y'all
0:40.9	may have heard of that guy. But Lance has a very interesting backstory, and it's very, very
0:46.9	powerful, and we go into it in detail today. He was actually born and raised in a polygamous
0:51.6	commune that was headed by his grandfather, and he escaped that
0:55.5	when he was 13 years old with his family, and that's actually where his basketball career began.
1:00.2	So Lance has a lot more to offer than just talking about basketball, and me and him get really
1:05.2	intense and really deep right out the gate. So please, please pay attention, listen to this a couple
1:10.2	of the times and bring out a
1:11.4	notepad to take notes on what he has to say. He dropped some bombs about life, philosophy,
1:17.3	communication, and karma in general. So I think this is going to be a very, very impactful
1:22.7	episode for a lot of you. And all I would ask is that if you like the episode, leave a rating and a review.
1:29.8	Shout me out on social. Shout Lance out on social. Give us a follow. Follow the podcast. And that's all I have to
1:37.9	ask of you, my friends. I hope that you enjoy the episode and take it away as much as I did.
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