Mike Nicoll is a former hooper turned award-winning filmmaker focused heavily on basketball's business side in his documentaries.

The Spoils penetrates a shadowy financial system: America’s youth basketball industrial complex. With unprecedented access to the money game that dominates the sport, the film unravels the raw capitalism of the American basketball machine.

Mike Nicoll has directed 3 feature films, best known for writing & directing "At All Costs" - a feature documentary acquired by Netflix in 2017.

Chapters:

(01:20) The Spoils

(07:20) Shocking revelations

(10:10) How the AAU system works

(13:05) Why travel basketball exists

(20:20) Reimagining the system

(26:55) Business of basketball

(35:20) Next films

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Mike Nicoll:

Website: https://thespoilsmovie.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-nicoll/

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Andrew Petcash:

🏠 Website: https://profluence.com

🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/

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#143: Mike Nicoll - Director, The Spoils | Exploring America’s Youth Basketball Industrial Complex