1.     Impactful youth coaches.

2.     Having an identical twin – a constant teammate.

3.     Being named captain of his high school soccer team.

4.     Values: Transparency. Directness. Hard work. Collaboration. Two-way engagement. Constructive growth.

5.     Knowing people’s wants and needs. “What’s important to you?” 

6.     “It’s not a brain surgery industry.” There have to be solutions.

7.     “People are the number 1, 2, & 3 challenge.”

8.     The accountability of leadership: “How do you grow your people?”

9.     “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter.”

10.  Helping Milwaukee thrive: “It’s magnified in a small market.” 

11.  “We have this incredible platform.”

12.  “Thinking like a big market.”

13.  Disadvantage of small market: smaller media revenue.

14.  Technology and innovation.

15.  Bucks advantages: Best facilities. Best resources. Midwest value set. 

16.  The internationalization of the Bucks and the NBA.

17.  The international impact of Giannis.

18.  30% of NBA players are international.

19.  His everyday interactions with owners, GM, and head coach.

20.  “Jon (the GM) and I text dozens of times a day.”

21.  “We have urgency to solve things quickly…we don’t like to let things fester.”

22.  Empathy. Communication.

23.  Advice for aspiring leaders: “Research…Try to learn as much as you possibly can. And part of that is exposing yourself to people…”

24.  “There’s no finish line when managing people.”

25.  Meeting 100 people in his first 90 days as Bucks President. “Even the meanest people have a hard time saying, ‘no, I’m not going to help you’…Be curious!”