Where Are They Now? Here's What Former NBA Players Are Up To

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nieman said:
http://allball.blogs.nba.com/2013/06/25/kevin-willis-talks-fashion-and-his-willis-and-walker-line/

NBA.com: That’s very true about lingo. How were you able to learn the fashion industry from the inside out?

KW: The NBA offers its players internships in the summer. When we had our annual meetings every year, every basketball season, two or three seasons go by, and I listened to the guys. One year, I broke my foot and I didn’t have to go to the meetings, but I never forgot in those meetings that we would talk about if you want to further your education, if you want to go back and do what you did in college, or if you have a desire to get to dabble into corporate America — any field, we can provide that service for you. We can get that done for you during the offseason. It was my offseason all year because my foot was broken. I remember contacting the league, and telling them ‘I want to do an internship in fashion, can you guys help me?’ They set everything up. They actually flew me to New York. I had to report to the NBA office, every morning at nine o’clock, fully suited. They would give me my schedule for the day. I would take that schedule, jump in a cab, and go to each one of those appointments, an hour, two hours, and learn everything I could. For four summers straight I did that.

NBA.com: That sounds like a unique situation because you didn’t have to just intern with one company, you got exposed to many different brands.

KW: They were setting me up with appointments with say a company like Perry Ellis. I would go into the Perry Ellis office, meet who I needed to meet, they would give me the everyday process from administrative, to back office, warehousing, distribution, fabrics, how the garment was constructed. Even going to the actual manufacturing plants, where they do all the sewing, and you see tons of stuff. So I had to go through all these different processes and channels and learn this. And they’d go from nine o’clock until five every day. And every day it would be a new company. One of the ones I really remember is called the Doneger Group, and they’re a forecasting group for the entire world. Anything that you need to know, what’s coming out for 2018, 2017, that’s their business. They have all these relationships with people all over the world. Retailers, anybody. They taught me a lot of valuable information that I carry along to this day. I’m still today in contact with those principals who helped me back in 1989.

I wonder if these young'uns know about these type of programs. Also, keep in mind that Kevin Willis played over 2 decades in the NBA, more than 1/2 of it at a high level, so it's not like he was BSing in the offseason with his NBA training.
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Kevin Willis was a fukking beast for the Hawks. That said, no excuse for these dudes to be broke. That intern shyt is better than 99.9% of all other companies offer.
 
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I guess we'll never see that money back from Kelvin Cato.

And (Tito Maddox- Still nothing. One update every 11 years.)
 
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Lucky_Lefty said:
They didn't have to do Stevie Franchise like that
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lol, Steve's is easy.

- Hit up the Beer & Wine on Sligo Ave, buy some rollups
- Ride back down to Maple Ave
- Park in the cut
- Break down the dutch, break down the pack
- Pearl the tree, light it, get smacked

Pretty much. :ld:
 
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one of the most random things about that "Destination Planet Negro" movie is that the dude who who plays George Washington Carver looks like Steve Francis
 
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nieman said:
http://allball.blogs.nba.com/2013/06/25/kevin-willis-talks-fashion-and-his-willis-and-walker-line/

NBA.com: That’s very true about lingo. How were you able to learn the fashion industry from the inside out?

KW: The NBA offers its players internships in the summer. When we had our annual meetings every year, every basketball season, two or three seasons go by, and I listened to the guys. One year, I broke my foot and I didn’t have to go to the meetings, but I never forgot in those meetings that we would talk about if you want to further your education, if you want to go back and do what you did in college, or if you have a desire to get to dabble into corporate America — any field, we can provide that service for you. We can get that done for you during the offseason. It was my offseason all year because my foot was broken. I remember contacting the league, and telling them ‘I want to do an internship in fashion, can you guys help me?’ They set everything up. They actually flew me to New York. I had to report to the NBA office, every morning at nine o’clock, fully suited. They would give me my schedule for the day. I would take that schedule, jump in a cab, and go to each one of those appointments, an hour, two hours, and learn everything I could. For four summers straight I did that.

NBA.com: That sounds like a unique situation because you didn’t have to just intern with one company, you got exposed to many different brands.

KW: They were setting me up with appointments with say a company like Perry Ellis. I would go into the Perry Ellis office, meet who I needed to meet, they would give me the everyday process from administrative, to back office, warehousing, distribution, fabrics, how the garment was constructed. Even going to the actual manufacturing plants, where they do all the sewing, and you see tons of stuff. So I had to go through all these different processes and channels and learn this. And they’d go from nine o’clock until five every day. And every day it would be a new company. One of the ones I really remember is called the Doneger Group, and they’re a forecasting group for the entire world. Anything that you need to know, what’s coming out for 2018, 2017, that’s their business. They have all these relationships with people all over the world. Retailers, anybody. They taught me a lot of valuable information that I carry along to this day. I’m still today in contact with those principals who helped me back in 1989.

I wonder if these young'uns know about these type of programs. Also, keep in mind that Kevin Willis played over 2 decades in the NBA, more than 1/2 of it at a high level, so it's not like he was BSing in the offseason with his NBA training.
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Whoa. Didnt know the NBA did this stuff for the players. Thats pretty cool. I wonder if the other leagues do anything similar.
 
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