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Bill Duffy and the $3 million promise
A missed deadline cost Anthony Carter millions. Bill Duffy spent 17 years making it right - one revealing chapter in a basketball career built on relationships that outlast the deal.
Deven Hurt
Deven Hurt is the co-founder and CEO of PredictionStrike, a New York based platform he calls a stock market for sports fans, where users buy and sell virtual shares of NBA and NFL players whose prices move on real on-field performance. A Harvard College bioengineer turned Harvard Law graduate, he ran cybersecurity work touching Nike and the NBA before building the company with best friend Brad Chabra in 2018. He raised a $10M Series A led by Bullpen Capital, grew the platform past 200,000 users and $100M in transactions, and reached per-user profitability in late 2024.
Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant is a 14-time NBA All-Star, 2x champion, 4x Olympic gold medalist, and one of the greatest scorers in basketball history. Standing 6'11" with guard-like skills, he redefined the power forward position. Off the court, he co-founded 35 Ventures with manager Rich Kleiman, building a 100+ company investment portfolio spanning AI, fintech, media, and sports. One of only three NBA players to hold a lifetime Nike deal, Durant is as formidable a business operator as he is a basketball player.
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and media personality who turned a $6 million software company sale into a dot-com-era $5.7 billion windfall, bought the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million and won an NBA championship, became a household name on Shark Tank, and now wages a one-man war on America's pharmaceutical industrial complex through his Cost Plus Drugs company.
Josh Waitzkin
Josh Waitzkin is a chess International Master, two-time Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands World Champion, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, bestselling author of 'The Art of Learning,' performance coach to elite athletes and executives, and founder of The Art of Learning Project. A prodigy who drew with Garry Kasparov at age 11, starred in a Hollywood film about his own chess career, won a martial arts world title on his birthday, became Marcelo Garcia's first-ever black belt, and now consults for the Boston Celtics from a jungle compound in Costa Rica where he trains big-wave foil surfing with Laird Hamilton.