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David Stern, NBA Commissioner Emeritus, talks sports, technology, data, gambling, social media, & much more.

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The Relevance of Sports in Life

I saw it in the first hand with Magic Johnson when he announced that he was HIV positive. In 93, I had the good fortune of visiting with Nelson Mandela in South Africa. And what he said to us then was that sports can be used to keep people together and bring them together. He lived it in the movie known as Invictus when he supported the essentially mostly white HIV team over the objections of some who thought he shouldn't do that. So everywhere we went, we saw the relevance of sports in life. It's creating very well-known characters.

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