Spike Lee on the Knicks, Highest 2 Lowest, Denzel, A$AP Rocky, & His Legendary Film Career

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Few icons represent New York City like Spike Lee — award-winning director, cultural force, Knicks superfan, and the visionary behind Do The Right Thing. In this exclusive Boardroom May Cover Story, Spike sits down with Co-Founder Rich Kleiman for a powerful conversation covering: The meaning behind May 19th — Malcolm X’s 100th birthday, the anniversary of Do The Right Thing, and the Cannes premiere of his latest film Highest 2 Lowest starring Denzel Washington & A$AP Rocky.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to our boardroom made cover shoot.
0:04.0	Today we are in Brooklyn, New York.
0:07.0	The People's Republic of Brooklyn, New York.
0:09.0	The People's Republic of Brooklyn, New York.
0:12.0	Fort Green.
0:13.0	Fort Green with the prodigal son and New York's biggest sports fan, my friend, Spike Lee.
0:19.0	Well, thank you very much.
0:21.6	Glad to be here to the World Headquarters of Four Eagos and a Mule.
0:25.6	And as you see, we have this banner behind us.
0:29.6	This banner, this original banner that hung from Man's Wear Guard is very special to me because may 8th 1970 i was at game 7
0:41.1	i was 13 years old my father's building my father his lawyer peter icobury had season tickets
0:50.7	to the nicks and back then the different sections had colors, so he had yellow seats.
0:57.4	And during the season, he would give me tickets.
1:03.2	Sometimes one ticket to sit with him or two, and he made it promise me that if that series went to game seven, the LA Lakers versus New
1:15.6	New York Knicks, he would give me that seat.
1:18.6	So I was there.
1:20.6	And so the one hanging in the garden.
1:25.6	That ain't this one.
1:26.6	It ain't this one it ain't this one
1:27.6	so when I pulled up here
1:30.9	you you've told me for a while
1:33.1	you wanted me to come here and I now feel like
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