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1 Oct 2025 Conversations with Tyler John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
“I think so, but he’s not thought of as a player. He’s thought of mainly as a coach.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 1 Oct 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I’m not sure. Wasn’t he an All-Star? I think so, but he’s not thought of as a player. He’s thought of mainly as a coach. See, the scientist to me just says there’s 1,000 confounding factors in that, right? So, if you are so remarkable as a player, then you don’t have to go into coaching. Your life doesn’t have to revolve around sport because you could do any number of things other than that. You could just sit on your laurels and play golf if you wanted to. So there’s part of me that thinks that if you’re an excellent superstar, maybe you have 1,000 other things that you can be interested in because you’re sitting on a pile of gold.…
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