WHOOP Podcast

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

Dec 4, 2018

58:45

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The Wise Guy in Me

01:48

Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

03:12

The Relationship Between Stress and Recovery

01:36

Introduction

2min

The Future of Technology and Sports

3min

The Most Important Rule Change

2min

Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls

3min

The Hardest Constituencies to Negotiate With in the NBA?

3min

The Wise Guy in Me

2min

The NBA Rule Book - Should You Stand for the National Anthem?

2min

The NFL's Kneeling Issue

2min

Is There an Opportunity in Sports With Social Media?

2min

10.

Do You Think Social Media Can Be a Distraction?

2min

11.

The Relevance of Sports in Life

2min

12.

Is Climate Change a Political Issue?

3min

13.

Do You See a Future for United States Sports?

2min

14.

Do You Think Sports Betting Will Be Good for the NBA?

6min

15.

I Think the Players Have a Strong Case on Privacy and What They're Going to Find in the Game Itself.

2min

16.

Shot Tracker With a Sensor in the Ball

3min

17.

Is Woop Telling a Coach to Sit the Player?

2min

18.

Can Cannabis Help Concussions?

3min

19.

Is Cannabis Unfairly Demonized?

1min

20.

E-Sports

2min

21.

The League of Legends Final at Staples

2min

22.

Is the NBA Competing With Netflix?

2min

23.

The Spirale Is Over

2min

24.

The Relationship Between Stress and Recovery

2min

25.

The Woop Podcast - David Stern

2min

WHOOP Founder & CEO Will Ahmed talks to David Stern about his career as NBA Commissioner (7:22), the challenges he faced and how he overcame them (11:47), sports and its overlap with politics (24:22), social media (19:49), gambling (29:50), cannabis (45:17), what data and technology will do to extend players' careers (30:42), and how he suspended a player for kneeling during the national anthem 20 years before Colin Kaepernick (15:27).

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