Commissioner the since 2014 and have spent 22 years in the nba office before that, and before that, you graduated from the two best schools, duke and University Chicago law school, right . Adam which you happen to go to as well. David right. You cant do better than that. Lets start with the nba today. Since you have been the commissioner, revenues are up, ticket sales are up, the value of teams is up three times. Theyou adequately paid for job youre doing, do you think . [applause] seems to be at its peak. It is popular all over the world. Why is nba popular around the world, while mlb and nfl is not quite as global as a sport . That part of the reason is it has been an olympic sport since 1930. That has made a big difference. It is a sport that has been played around the world. It was actually invented by christian missionaries. Was ine shortly after springfield, massachusetts, then brought to china, so it has been global since its earliest days. The two most popular global sports, it
Journalist. On the life of being an interviewer even though i am in a state job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014 and you spent 22 years at the nba offices before you were aefore that graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination, Duke University and the university of Chicago Law School. You cant do any better than that. Lets start with the nba today and how it is doing. Since you have been the commissioner, revenues are up, ticket sales are up, the owners value of their team is up by like three times, are you adequately paid for the job you are doing you think . [applause] today the nba seems to be at its peak, it is popular all over the world. Do you think nba basketball is so popular around the world while Major League Baseball and professional football is not as global. It has been an olympic sport since the 1930s, i think that made a big difference. It is a sport that has
Journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014, and you had spent 22 years at the nba offices before that. Before that, you were a graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination Duke University and the university of chicago law school, right . [laughter] adam which you happened to go to as well. David right. So you cannot do any better than that. Lets start with the nba today and how it is doing. Honestly, since you have been commissioner, revenues are up. Ticket sales are up. The owners value of their teams is up by about three times. So are you adequately paid for the job youre doing, do you think . [laughter] today, the nba seems to be at its peak. Right now, it is very popular all over the world. Why do you think it is that nba basketbal
Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And john, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be, but it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk u