Team USA and Nike // Wyc and Irv Grousbeck // Craig Breslow’s Comments - 7/17 (Hour 3)

Felger & Massarotti

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4 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

(0:00) Felger, McCarthy and Barth hit on the relationship between Nike and Team USA for the Olympics.
(9:04) McCarthy argues that Wyc Grousbeck as a figurehead has been great for Celtics.
(19:38) The guys reset their thoughts on Craig Breslow’s comments.
(33:16) Continuing to hit on Jarren Duran’s All-Star Season.

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0:00.0	Bea Pod Studios.
0:05.0	The Felegr and Mas podcast is presented by Draft King Sportsbook.
0:10.0	Is Felegr and Maaz your favorite afternoon show?
0:14.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
0:17.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes,
0:18.0	Lel-Maz. So Jaylon Brown doubled down on his Nike theory, which is the reason he is not on the Olympic basketball team is because of Nike.
0:36.8	I think he's right.
0:38.4	It should be noted, he's the best player in the league, not the team he's not a Nike guy
0:45.0	Kyrie Irving's the second best player in the league not on the team he got dropped
0:50.6	by Nike in 2022.
0:53.1	I don't think it's a coincidence.
0:55.2	Nike right now has a leadership issue and I was in Beaverton, Oregon this weekend going
0:59.8	to the zoo, not Nike in Portland. They butchered the major league baseball jerseys. It's as bad a
1:06.9	gaff as I've ever seen in my life on jerseys by a sports apparel company and Nike usually gets it right.
1:15.0	Their stock is down 33% in six months.
1:18.0	Phil Knight is now 86, he's a visionary and a brilliant man, but he acknowledges he is all in on Oregon football,
1:25.8	winning them in NADI in the NIL.
1:28.8	And now they have the Olympic mess.
1:31.0	It feels like there's a leadership issue as Phil Knight ages. This happens all the time in corporate America. There has always been this very tricky dance by Nike and sports apparel companies.
1:47.0	You want to use the velvet hammer, not the sledgehammer.
1:50.0	You have massive power in college and professional sports
1:54.4	you don't want to abuse it
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