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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 Sept 2020 Acquired The NBA
“I think the important thing to note here—this is really where Stern stayed too long—is this was part of his strategy of empowering the players, making them the stars.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 Sept 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The NBA
Transcript context
…Right. What number did you find on the Lebron social media following? I think the important thing to note here—this is really where Stern stayed too long—is this was part of his strategy of empowering the players, making them the stars. But then during the whole dress code and the thug era, he missed the boat. What was happening was this was just the next generation of even more empowerment of the players and with the coming of the social media. Despite the dress code, Lebron is the NBA player with (by far) the most social media followers. He has 119 million followers across Twitter and Instagram. Instagram alone, something like 75 million, right?…
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