Justin Ishbia

Basketball operations, like, no.

It's like, no.

It's a zero-sum game.

But people are quite collaborative.

Some of the people you know that are well-known, when we joined the league, like I said, next to one of the guys at lunch, and he said, congratulations, you're brash, you're young.

I was the same thing.

You'll make a bunch of mistakes, talk to me in five years, but have fun on the journey.

So people are very helpful.

At the end of the day, we want to create a great product for the fan, and the NBA is a great opportunity, and the other teams want to help each other.

They want to help each other.

I want your stadium to be full and my stadium to be full.

You know who I want to, quote-unquote, lose is I want the other sports, or I want other entertainment options to lose to the benefit of the NBA.

But I think the camaraderie and the willingness to help each other, I think, has been something not just in the game, not just in sport, but also outside.

If I'm doing something in a different community, and I'm in Oakland for something, I meet somebody, they...

able to open a door to somebody that's been really helpful along the way also.

I've learned from people.

Sequoia Capital, they've been great to me.

If it was over there, they're different.

Sequoia Heritage, more specifically, there's a group, they have a network.

And I've learned from them of the power of a network and introducing really talented people to each other.