Like its going to streaming, its going to over the top, that is a huge change from all these local teams depending and getting guaranteed large dollar values for regional sports deals. We stopped operating. Talk about having arguably the greatest player in the world on your team. Because are they getting too sophisticated too early in terms of their value enterprise? I think one of the things Jason of Beverly Hills, who was the designer and the manufacturer did, we just had this awesome element that the top of the ring came off and became a pendant on your, that you could actually wear as a necklace. And you immediately go into, "What does this look like? I understood what a call to action was. These are special socks, so you bring me back a pair of socks. Peter Feigin: Yeah, I think it's part of the culture and kind of down from ownership, like you're going to stand for something or you're going to stand for nothing. "I got to tell you the enthusiasm Peter has brought to the city has been brought right back. Through Jan. 15, his PER of 29.82 was second in the league behind James Harden and just ahead of LeBron James and Stephen Curry. Who negotiated in 2018 for the only NFL player to invest and buy 1% of the Bucks, Aaron Rodgers, being Aaron Rodgers, whose genius was that? Michael Red: I don't know if that's the responsibility of the organization to have that permeate throughout the city, but have you seen a shift in Milwaukee, even when it comes to people coming together from different races and different creeds? He's Peter Feigin, president of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, and in the nearly five years of living in the city he has come to Gee's Clippers so that Gaulien Smith, a black man, can tame his head. Malcolm D. Lee, who is directing Space Jam 2, which stars LeBron James, is one of the regulars in The Run. When Lee was shooting his film The Best Man, he brought the actors Taye Diggs and Morris Chestnut to the gym. Michael Red: I got my sources. You could also see their new uniform styles at Bucks Pro Shop. Defenders are responsible for calling fouls. Michael Red: Were you always a risk taker or was that cultivated in your household or where did that risk taking ability come from? John: Thats literally a reality show that, it could be on Netflix. People will ask me all the time like, "How would you respond these times, Mike, as a player?" Peter Feigin, president of the Milwaukee Bucks in Wisconsin, was interviewed by a reporter from NBC affiliate TMJ4 News in his car outside of the team's Fiserv Forum after the Bucks were confirmed . These guys are human beings. The first kind of fully owned African American sports agency, whose main client was Arthur Ashe. My son was a freshman at San Joaquin Memorial High School when Brook Lopez was there and he played with Brook under coach Pat Giles. We heard it straight from. You end up with a Jew holiday, who is this incredible, understated, all star. Sometimes it goes up for judicial review to make sure the run is harmonious, Lee said. Talk about all the nuances and the dynamics and the pressure was to lead through COVID. We don't have a business, not sure when we will have a business. That was out the door. Very little sympathy or empathy for pro athletes because of what they get paid. We were together in high school. Michael Red: Hey, everybody, this is Michael Red and welcome to the Betting on Yourself Podcast, where I interview successful entrepreneurs, athletes, and other top performers who rose to the top, took success into their own hands and bet on themselves. Wednesday, June 20 7:00 AM I have an identical twin brother who happens to still be in New York and runs a private school called Trevor Day School. And obviously, you have dealt with a little bit of this with Sterling Brown a couple years ago, so you guys happened to prepare for this a little bit. Everythings got to be perfect to do it and dont realize because like, hey, Ive never won a championship before, never run a ring so I just started the process and I didnt realize which I now do and why our owners wanted to be intimately involved with the design of the ring. Peter Feigin: So, I think that the sky is the limit in how we take this unbelievable success and what we think could be a championship and get ready just for exponential growth. Michael Red: If you had to go back to your 16-year-old self, what advice would you give your 16-year-old self? I think engagement and investment in the community and social responsibility is like a big deal. He simplified the housing market for me. And a diverse community gives us diverse thought, gives us better outcomes. "We know the reality is 18 months ago, no one would've said Giannis is one of the top five players in the NBA, so we've had really what we would call the Giannis Effect," Feigin explains. He's not the smartest guy in the world, but he'll certainly know the business and he'll help you out beyond your hedge fund guys and your data guys.". How does that boat go? I would say again, from our owners, from day one, they understood that from how are we stewards of the brand of the Bucks and how are we examples in the community? There's no business." Its hundreds of rings. How do we change the model, and really put new metrics out there, for us to get it? Im sure somehow our paths will cross. I think, listen, you could certainly have success with superpower and great skill and everything, but to have peopleYou mentioned at the beginning of the show, how in a small market, do you keep consistency? I mean, the fact that players had just had it is no surprise. [fusebox_track_player url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/1062616/8173153-peter-feigin-you-can-figure-out-a-way-to-win.mp3?blob_id=36898294&download=true artist=Michael Redd title=Peter Feigin: You can figure out a way to win social=false ], His mentor relationship with Bucks players, The advice hed give his 16-year-old self. Off the court it is best practice. Not everyone is. There was a collective effort on you guys to really, really embrace the city. Peter Feigin: I think nobody could have imagined what that does to you on a personal psychological emotional level. That's kind of a surreal experience in NBA arenas.". One Thursday night he gave me a call and said, Do you think you can go to Milwaukee and talk to Senator Herb Call. Those are simple, its his genius. Its been talked about the whole Giannis effect. How do we build the baselines? As you get older, its just harder to keep up with everybody, he said. I'm so honored, man, to have you on the podcast. So, people talk about business, it wasn't a slow beat. Then I think as we keep exploring and kind of whats happening with online gambling and whats happening with NFTs and whats happening in the ticketing business, that it all evolves with technology, will be really interesting. Peter: NIL has no guardrails, no anything whos getting paid what? Giannis was like, Ill make this simple, its got to be bigger than that Lakers ring it might be, and its got to be cool. We wanted like a really cool clean design. Peter: Im fairly, my mom was immersed in data analytics before data and analytics was business intelligence. Now, he's the chair of the 2017 Greater Milwaukee Heart & Stroke Walk/5K Run, which is Sunday at Veterans Park . But his primary challenge is to build a bridge from that world to the real world that includes a home town that is torn by strife and economic stress and forge a connection with a state that has distanced itself from the . And Giannis knows whether we're talking about a big deal, whether we're talking about marketing, he knows those socks like he's good with, he owns me for a month now, he owns me. Here is your example of everything you read everything you hear, everything he does is true. While previous owner Herb Kohl, the five-term U.S. senator from Wisconsin, stood in high regard in Milwaukee, the franchise had begun to slip. Peter: Hes was in consumer products. The Runs roots date to the early 1980s, when Lee became childhood friends with the Feigin brothers. Thats. But I think, those are the things that like, yes, you can always pay people. Michael Red: It's becoming that and has become that. Talk about your organization, community involvement, and the impacts that you get to make both positive and otherwise. We dont compete against each other in arena revenue and local media revenue. You talk about advantages, just the osmosis at our dinner table was I knew in two seconds like I wanted to be in business. We've got Peter Feigin. John: Yeah. And we thought we were in a place and we're nowhere close to how good we can be or how we can use this NBA platform and our players and our organization to help change the community, to help change our performance as a team, and to be better citizens. But I will tell you that most cathartic incredible, awesome thing, which everybody told me and again, the collaborative is awesome. Talk a bit about how to do that without bruising anyones ego and keeping everybody happy. Peter: Which like, by the way, might evolve to 20%, 30% of an arena at some point. Right? You talk about your operating board committee, youve got these Masters of the Universe, and really you start with the answer. John: Now, you married, what, wife is a native New Yorker? So, then you start thinking about really building a district in a small city within a city. John: Talking about teaching, we have 15 years of this podcast, so we have thousands of young people around the world that actually tune in and listen and when we have someone like you on, Id like to ask you this. This is why you go to Parents' Night, folks. Ive got two kids Im working as, Id say a consultant, helping to put together a business plan. There's got to be ways to get there. I think Wes Edens and Aaron Rodgers had been friends for awhile. I need socks and I know we're not making them. But while it is nice to connect, Kearns described the calls as artificial sweetener. It is not the same. We're not an organization that splits up into silos of business or basketball. And there is no magic wand that kind of changes this in six months. Giannis Antetokounmpo is the gift that keeps on giving for Bucks' management. Franklin & Marshall - Citation Recognizing Honorary Degree Recipient Peter Feigin '92 Franklin & Marshall College Admission About the College Academics Campus Life Athletics Visit Alumni Connections Give Home Academics Commencement Commencement Archive Commencement 2022 2022 Citations and Remarks Citation Recognizing Honorary Degree. Our dinner table conversation. We had Chris Middleton and Giannis involved in it kind of conceptually, and really fun conversations with Giannis brother Costas had just won for the Lakers the year before. The arena is Feigin's baby, and he's almost ready to show it off, as doors will open next season. ", Pass the sticks.We here.https://t.co/XifcyBIjFY pic.twitter.com/NFiiaWCSUb, Bucks Gaming (@BucksGG) December 14, 2017. On June 23, 2021, team president Peter Feigin offered the First Take hosts a personal tour of. We thought we were a progressive, pretty forward thinking organization. His brother and Lee were just as excited. It was important for us for our players, for our organization, for the city to stand up. Let that person speak. Whether it was in sports or somewhere else Id probably look to lead an opportunity for a turnaround or a startup. Talk about that process. John: Right. It's like how do we, between us, like as you know. Peter Feigin: Yeah. I don't know, being able to be a business person and kind of get away from your day job and go into a data room of a pro team seemed just the greatest thing I'd ever experienced. Jan 16th, 2016 by Mayor Tom Barrett. There's no living room, there's no central square, there's no big public park kind of in the middle of the city. Peter: Yeah, it is a combination of both because you really, I had a real rare opportunity to get out of sports and work outside of the sports industry for wealth. I think COVID, like everything, slowed us up for about a year, but we're back on it. With a B? Woodhouse recalled asking him. Thats and like you said, you get to share that with all the hundreds of other rings. "Peter has completely re-imagined the Milwaukee Bucks business operation and grown in sales, ticket revenue, retail and global recognition which is very important," Colbert explained. I got to talk about the journey to the Bucks though. And nobody's going to question how great Milwaukee is." You cant replicate that., https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/sports/pickup-basketball-new-york.html. But for the first time since 1992, the game has been shelved indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Thats a stain on your career, Dan Feigin said. Enjoy the chicken tenders. John: Your mom was part of the George Lois generation and Jerry Della Femina and then Donny Deutschs father David Deutsch. Peter Feigin readily admits that, as president of the Milwaukee Bucks, he lives in the fantasy world of professional sports. Are you allowed to talk about that, Peter? How are we going to attack this?". Ive never seen less arguing in a serious pickup game, said Adam Keefe, a former N.B.A. As you said, because of your mom and dads background, and because you had some of the rock stars of industry, as you say, Masters of the Universe, as your partners, you got to meld your experiences, your parents coaching, and then the rock stars came and they were also, you got a perfect soup of business experience to create this amazing success story. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Michael Red: Peter Feigin. Peter Feigin: I think we have a good structure with Jon Horst, who's really our GM and kind of really runs the basketball day-to-day. Peter is a native New Yorker. The arena was, if the arena didnt happen, nothing happens, and that was a public-private. And I think the balance is really, really tough because you know what an NBA season is. Now you win, you have the championship. So first of all, the bubble was kind of like so exciting, surreal, and awesome. This is all a good launch point for Feigin to introduce a state-of-the-art arena. Im addicted now to the operating side of the challenge of constant improvement, and how would you look at an organization and dive in there and really look to re-engineer tweak, and build for revenue growth? "We have a. And we'll get to social injustice in a bit. Thank you for coming on the show. Now, the lockdown has forced some of The Runs longstanding members to confront their athletic mortality. Because there's a lot of founders and entrepreneurs that listen to this as well and managing that dynamic with their family. God, I love it as a case study. John: Its so amazing you say that. Youve collected all this human capital, both starting and back up. Feigin, 50, calls his game the Saturday Morning Run popularly known among its members as The Run or S.M.R. and he has a massive collection of T-shirts to prove it. Theres no complexity. Peter is a serious businessman and a hilarious friend. Michael Red: The family, I know, that's big for you in that culture and what you try to create as a culture is family. I think if nothing else, it changes the awareness, the sophistication, and the business operations of the way players will position themselves and the way theyll market themselves. Mike, you get it because you lived it. Its gotten through its first iteration to see where it is. And I think the only thing anybody can control is their own effort and kind of their own dreams and where they want to go. Peter Feigin. Don't talk to me, don't text me, don't come back unless you give me a pair of All-Star socks. Peter Feigin: So, it was kind of crazy. We spend a lot of our time really trying to figure out what are the levers to move the revenue. But then theres, in this group weve got 300 full-time people and 250 of them are involved in volunteering. The good news is it's pretty small shop. During a media car wash in NYC in December, Feigin opts for a sweater, not a suit and tie. And really build sports entertainment and residential and commercial around it and really have an urban development company that is fueled by the strength of a brand of an NBA team. And that's tough, too. We pivoted and our kids were able to finish high school in New York and we made it work and now weve been Wisconsin residents from New York City, which is a whole other interesting transition. If you've been that lucky and you've been that blessed then you've got to share. I had this tendency, which I still do, to get so excited and loud. The Bucks are one of the 17 teams that is competing in the new NBA 2K League, a necessary decision in Feigin's mind. Does he pass enough? So, just being a part of that, I mean, I know it sounds crazy. His is a story of grit, will, and great humor. And lo and behold, kind of five, six years later, we've kind of accelerated it. John: Got it. Even though you're at the World of Disney, even Disney after about 10 days, you're ready to get out of Disney no matter where you are. Peter Feigin: And I think it's all how you how you go at it. Here's your Hispanics." And again, it's kind of the relationship. John: Thats so true. So, it's a little bit kind of nuts and delusional to go through thinking like you can kind of accomplish or solve or get anything done, but it's kind of the way I've kind of attacked life in a big way. Founders of the Black Inventors Gallery, Peggy Hardy and Synovia Moss, spearheaded the display - a reminder of the spirit of innovation and vision Peter Feigin needed to champion a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks. Talk about that. Peter Feigin: Yeah, so those are two great questions. Hes very straightforward. 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