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1 Oct 2025 Conversations with Tyler John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
“But I also would’ve had four championships without lifting a finger, which would’ve been great, right? But I think the reality is that, again, if it’s about principle, I had a principled idea in my head that I should stay, and I knew that it would not necessarily be reciprocated.”
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- 1 Oct 2025
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…Looking back, do you feel your mentors were correct? At the Lakers, you would’ve been behind Shaquille O’Neal. Right? To be clear. True. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I also would’ve had four championships without lifting a finger, which would’ve been great, right? But I think the reality is that, again, if it’s about principle, I had a principled idea in my head that I should stay, and I knew that it would not necessarily be reciprocated. And nowadays, I work with very influential people in business and large organizations and they often ask me if I can be trusted. They often ask me how much my word is worth. And there’s very few people in this world who can say about $17 million. If you had taken the Lakers offer, how do you think your current views on management, leadership, psychology would be different? Do you have any sense of that?…
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