Valuetainment - June 21, 2025


＂Nike Said I DIDN'T Have A Personality＂ - Dwight Howard REJECTED By Jordan Brand In SHOCKING Snub

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Patrick Bet-David
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Adidas Michael Jordan Armour Will Chamberlain Clyde Drexler Dwight Howard Steph Curry Larry Bird Matt Damon Converse Snapchat LeBron Peak
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Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

181.02

Word count

1,265

Sentence count

120

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

1

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In this episode, I sit down with Kobe Bryant to discuss his career and how he became the greatest basketball player of all time. We talk about how he broke into the NBA, how he got to where he is today, and what it takes to be a champion.

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00:00:00.000 I think that we have had so many great players and greatness come through this league.
00:00:08.440 We start to compare by using rings, and I think it takes away from a lot of the greatness
00:00:14.460 that a lot of these players had because they wasn't as fortunate enough to win championships
00:00:19.720 like a Jordan or LeBron did and have a brand push them to a whole other level.
00:00:30.000 And so Larry Bird or, let's say, Clyde Drexler, even Scottie Pippen,
00:00:37.640 these guys have the engine of Nike behind them or how Steph Curry has Under Armour
00:00:45.980 and stuff like that.
00:00:47.280 So when you don't have that boost behind you, sometimes you may not get the credit from the world
00:00:55.980 because the eyes are not on you as much as it would be if you were with these companies.
00:01:01.780 Who were you with?
00:01:02.640 Who was your shoe? 0.53
00:01:03.320 I was with Adidas.
00:01:04.260 You were with Adidas.
00:01:05.560 Is there in the league a certain – are people frowned upon if you're with Adidas
00:01:10.340 versus Under Armour versus Nike?
00:01:12.060 Is there clicks or not really? 0.99
00:01:14.140 The shoes, nobody gives a shit. 0.94
00:01:15.500 I don't think there's any clicks, but, you know, usually like the Nike players 0.96
00:01:19.620 have been with Nike since they've been young.
00:01:22.100 You know what I'm saying?
00:01:22.760 So it's like I was with Adidas when I was in high school,
00:01:26.560 so I ended up signing with Adidas.
00:01:28.420 Oh, so you had Adidas from high school?
00:01:30.220 Yeah, my AU team was sponsored by Adidas.
00:01:32.240 And that's how usually guys stick with their – whoever they were with, you know,
00:01:36.300 in high school and coming up.
00:01:38.260 That's what I'm saying.
00:01:38.920 They got an engine behind them.
00:01:40.500 Did you ever meet – like have you ever seen a movie Air?
00:01:42.820 Or is that how they explain the whole Nike situation?
00:01:47.040 Nike Jordan situation?
00:01:48.280 Just a little bit.
00:01:49.500 I don't know.
00:01:50.240 You didn't watch the whole thing?
00:01:51.220 Nah.
00:01:51.680 Dude, you would love it. 0.94
00:01:52.900 It's a sick movie.
00:01:54.660 It breaks down the dynamics so well. 0.82
00:01:58.820 It's so – I watched it.
00:02:00.360 There's only three movies I watched three times in the first week.
00:02:03.480 This is one of them.
00:02:04.480 Wow.
00:02:04.840 Three times in the first week.
00:02:05.780 You took our entire company.
00:02:06.760 I took not only my insurance company.
00:02:09.160 I took these guys, myself, three times in the first week.
00:02:12.460 It's that sick of a movie.
00:02:14.060 But there's a scene where Matt Damon is playing Sonny –
00:02:18.680 Sonny Vaccaro.
00:02:19.860 Yeah.
00:02:20.560 And he's telling Michael Jordan's mother on what to ask from Converse,
00:02:26.380 what to ask from –
00:02:27.640 Adidas.
00:02:28.300 Adidas.
00:02:28.960 And then before you do anything, come with us Nike.
00:02:32.020 When you were going through your shoe deals,
00:02:33.640 was there any stories that you met with Nike, you met with everybody else?
00:02:36.540 Or was it straight up you just went to Adidas, didn't meet with anybody else?
00:02:40.200 My dad was talking to Nike with my agent.
00:02:48.540 And at the time, Nike said I didn't have a personality, which was crazy.
00:02:54.100 And I think that's why –
00:02:54.840 Nike didn't say that.
00:02:55.860 That's why I ended up going with Adidas.
00:02:57.800 Nike literally told your dad and your agent you don't have a personality.
00:03:00.600 Yeah.
00:03:01.440 That's what it was.
00:03:03.120 This was at 18 years old, don't you?
00:03:04.640 This was when I – yeah, before I –
00:03:06.020 Coming out of high school.
00:03:06.740 And they made no offers.
00:03:08.860 I don't even think they made an offer at that point.
00:03:11.300 Later on, did they ever try to poach you from Adidas or no?
00:03:15.100 No.
00:03:15.780 Anybody else?
00:03:17.020 I did.
00:03:17.480 I had another shoe company that I was with.
00:03:20.020 It was called Peak.
00:03:21.940 It was a Chinese shoe company.
00:03:23.700 And they actually owe me a lot of money.
00:03:28.060 But it's a Chinese company, so, like, you can't really – like, if something happens in the States and you have to try to fight it in China, you're not going to do that battle.
00:03:39.040 Did you ever play out there or no?
00:03:40.720 Did you ever play in China?
00:03:41.660 I played in Taiwan.
00:03:42.800 How was that?
00:03:43.720 It was amazing.
00:03:44.660 I stayed there for eight months and played in Taiwan.
00:03:48.100 By the time I left Taiwan, we were talking about making my own basketball league.
00:03:56.080 And now I have a league that plays in Taiwan, plays in Thailand, Macau, Hong Kong, a couple places in Philippines.
00:04:05.200 And they have a team in China as well.
00:04:07.780 And so they traveled to these different parts.
00:04:09.360 We called it the Asian Tournament.
00:04:10.660 And I was just so happy that I got a chance to play in Taiwan.
00:04:15.580 It really was very beneficial to my health.
00:04:19.260 Health?
00:04:20.040 Yes.
00:04:20.920 Mental health.
00:04:21.960 Oh, mental health.
00:04:22.660 Yeah.
00:04:23.560 The way they treated you, like gratitude, excitement, enthusiasm, or?
00:04:27.520 That was a big part of it.
00:04:29.560 But I would just say, like, playing in the NBA for a very long time could – you know, you could get mentally –
00:04:39.640 it could be mentally ill for you sometimes.
00:04:42.540 You could kind of feel real, you know, depressed or sad about some things sometimes because in the NBA,
00:04:49.820 it's a highly energetic sport.
00:04:54.980 You spend a lot of energy, a lot of time.
00:04:57.120 You're moving from city to city.
00:04:59.020 Everything is a whirlwind.
00:05:00.940 You know, so a lot of times when players get out of that whirlwind or that fast-paced life and everything starts to slow down,
00:05:07.380 you know, a lot of things look and feel and seem different.
00:05:11.180 You know, a lot of guys go through problems and issues during those stages.
00:05:14.600 And, you know, a lot of players in different sports as well, three to five years after they're done,
00:05:20.440 some of them, you know, have gone bank rub.
00:05:22.680 They don't know what to do when they finish playing.
00:05:25.460 So, you know, from my time in Taiwan, it was like – it was like Red Bull.
00:05:30.120 You know, they gave me so much energy.
00:05:32.760 You know, I feel so much peace, you know, being in the city, you know, just living life
00:05:38.840 and learning so much about the culture, you know, which was amazing.
00:05:42.240 I was like, man, I want my kids to come over here.
00:05:44.700 This is such a great place.
00:05:46.780 I ended up getting my gold card over there for business so my kids can come now.
00:05:51.000 Mom and dad, family can come at any time and start business over there and do things like that.
00:05:55.840 Well, at that point, I was going every summer.
00:05:59.900 And when I was 18, all the way up until about, I would say, 34, 35, I would go to Asia and do a tour every summer.
00:06:10.220 So China was good for your mental health?
00:06:12.700 No, Taiwan.
00:06:13.440 Sorry, Taiwan. 0.99
00:06:14.740 My apologies.
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00:06:52.820 Peace.
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