JR Smith tells a story when Tyronn Lue went off on LeBron James at halftime of game 7 in the finals:
“That sh*t was so crazy. He’s so chill. He came right in there at halftime like, Bron you got to be better. You got to be better. Bron was like what you want to do? He said I don’t know but you need to be better. You need to figure it out. Get the ball. Dunk the motherfu*ker. Do whatever you got to do. Bron was hot. He was on fire. I’ve never seen him that hot. Especially not in the finals. Like he stays pretty levelheaded. It can get hot in the moment, but like he was on fire.”
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Richard Jefferson says LeBron James got him waived off the team to get Dwyane Wade:
“Look, it was between one of his favorite teammates and one of his best friends. It was like when D-Wade got bought out and he came, I’m looking around. I’m like, there’s a roster problem here. And they’re like, “Yeah, Richard, we know.”
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Daymond John reveals the exact words that make him instantly lose interest in a Shark Tank pitch
"The number one thing that you can say that I immediately check out or I give you some kind of royalty offer like a Kevin O'Leary, I go, this person's almost out of business, is this is a $50 billion market. And if I only get 1%..."
"The greatest pitches that I have seen, they're always a story. They're always very infomercial feeling because what they're doing is they're introducing that a problem either exists that you know or exists that you don't know. They're talking about why who they are and why they're qualifying that they're the person to solve the problem. They're giving you some kind of proof of concept."
"Hey Codie, I'm Daymond John. And you know what? For years, the hip hop community has had to buy their clothing from other designers that didn't care about them that said, give me your money. I don't like you. But I've been a fan of hip hop for 10, 20 years, and I know everything about hip hop. And I'm going to create a clothing line called..."
You’re not broke because you don’t earn enough.
You’re broke because you stopped living like a student the second you could afford not to.
Mark Cuban didn’t.
$1M saved at 5% = $50K/year.
Spend $30K . Reinvest $20K .
Now you’re growing to $2M without working.
He figured this out sleeping on a floor with 6 roommates in Dallas.
Jeff Teague and the 520 cast talk about how crazy it is that they were all in high school watching LeBron James play on tv wearing his shoes and bron is still in the nba today
Mark Cuban says there are four rules anyone must follow if they want to become a millionaire
"If you want to be a millionaire, you can do it. But there's a couple of things you have to be able to accomplish. Rule number one, find something you can be good at and then be great at it."
"Second, you have to know how to sell. Whatever it is you're good at, somebody's going to need that service. Someone's going to need that, whatever it is that you're creating. But you have to be able to sell because you don't want to be in a position where you're dependent on other people."
"Number three, be curious and always be learning. Because the one thing that's certain about business is that it changes every single day."
"And then the fourth thing, when you have that knowledge, when you have that ability to sell,"
Will Smith reveals how he landed The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air at a party in Beverly Hills
“Benny Medina is actually the real life Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Benny had gone from Watts to Beverly Hills. He pitched me the show and I was like, yeah okay, that's cool”
“He invited me to Quincy's house. It was Quincy's birthday. I was in town and I was just going to meet Quincy. So we go and Quincy said, 'Hey, did Benny tell you about the show?' I said yeah, Benny told me, it's really cool”
“Quincy had been drinking a little bit that night and he was like, 'Alright, we're gonna do an audition.' I was like, what? There were a bunch of people in the room and Quincy wanted me to do an audition in the middle of his living room at a party”
“I was like, 'Yo Q, I can't do an audition. I haven't studied anything.' He took me in the other room and he was like, 'Okay, tell me what you need.' I was like, 'Q, I need a couple weeks. I'm not even really an actor. Let me get a script and then I can get something to work on’”
“He said, 'Oh, so you need two weeks?' I said yeah. He said, 'Well what's gonna happen in two weeks is Brandon Tartikoff, who's the head of NBC, something's gonna come up and he's not gonna be able to do it, so he's gonna postpone’”
“But right now everybody that needs to say yes to this show is sitting in my living room waiting for you to audition’”
“I was like, fuck it, give me 10 minutes”
“It was such a valuable lesson. There's very few things more powerful than just leaping. Just go. You have the dream, the opportunity is there, just go”
“I have no recollection of what I said and what I did. It was a total blank spot in my memory. It was just a standing ovation. Everybody stood up and clapped”
“Quincy pointed to the head of NBC and said, 'Did you like it?' He said yeah. Quincy had everybody's lawyers come to the house that night. He said, 'I need a deal memo tonight.' He understands magic”