Speaker
Alex
Appearances over time
2 episodes
Episodes
2
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
The 3-point line was only added to the NBA in the 1979–80 season; before that every made shot was worth exactly 2 points.
Shooting 40% from 3-point range yields the same 1.2 points per possession as shooting 60% on 2-point attempts, which triggered a league-wide strategic shift.
Around 2014–15, Steph Curry's rise with the Warriors and Steve Kerr's coaching crystallised the analytical case for 3-point shooting and changed the entire NBA.
LeBron James has been playing elite-level NBA basketball four years longer than the iPhone has existed, drafted first overall in 2003.
Each NBA team can carry up to 18 players (15 standard roster spots plus two-way contract players), though only 5 play at a time.
Alex's standout analogy: Apple committed a 24-second shot-clock violation with Apple Intelligence by taking too long to release it, effectively handing the ball to Google Gemini.
Caller Alex went from 207 lbs at 30% body fat to 183 lbs while increasing daily caloric intake from ~1,900–2,000 to ~2,400–2,500 calories, demonstrating successful metabolic recovery.
The NBA is planning to expand from 30 to 32 teams, with Seattle and Las Vegas as the likely new franchise cities.
Nobody calls the Tesla Model S the greatest car ever made, but most would call it the most influential. Steph Curry is exactly that to basketball. His mastery of 3-point shooting didn't just win games — it rewired how every single NBA team thinks about offense.
For decades teams ignored the 3-point line even though 3 is greater than 2. Around 2014–15, shooting 40% from 3-point range finally became achievable at scale — yielding the same 1.2 points per possession as 60% on 2-pointers. The entire sport reorganised overnight.
Apple committed a 24-second shot-clock violation with Apple Intelligence. They announced it, took way too long to release it, and the ball went to Google Gemini. In basketball, you can't just hold possession indefinitely — eventually the clock runs out.
The Knicks' starting five maps cleanly onto Apple's executive bench. Brunson is Tim Cook — ruthlessly consistent, slightly underrated. Karl-Anthony Towns is Craig Federighi. Josh Hart is Phil Schiller. OG Anunoby is Johny Srouji. Mikal Bridges is COO Sabeer Khan.
Some NBA teams deliberately lose games to finish last and win the draft lottery — exactly like a Mario Kart player hitting the brakes to reach last place and pick up the bullet power-up. The NBA has tried to stop it, but a $50K fine to a billionaire owner doesn't sting.
Wembanyama commits flagrant fouls almost every possession and rarely gets called. OpenAI trains models on copyrighted material and faces little regulatory consequence. Both operate in a space where regulators and referees look the other way, giving them an unfair competitive edge.
In 2020, the Knicks hired Leon Rose to rebuild from scratch, prioritising teamwork and cohesion over star power. Three Villanova college teammates — Brunson, Hart, Bridges — became the core. The result was the 2026 NBA championship. Apple's M1 launch in 2020 followed the same blueprint.
NBA players make virtually every free throw in an empty gym. Put them in front of 20,000 screaming fans with the game on the line and suddenly the same shot misses. It's identical to shipping software that works perfectly in dev but ships with bugs in production.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single 1960s game — with no video evidence, against the Knicks, with conspiracy theories about fudged scorekeeping. Most of the top-50 single-game scoring records are his. This year Bam Adebayo got to 83, the closest anyone has come.
In the NBA, the worst team picks first from the incoming crop of talent and the best team picks last. It's the exact opposite of how tech hiring works. This forced redistribution is the only reason smaller-market teams can ever compete with dynasties.
Seattle's SuperSonics were controversially moved to Oklahoma City in the late 2000s after an ownership dispute. Returning an NBA franchise to Seattle is like Nokia licensing its name to make phones again — the history isn't quite the same, but fans recognise the brand.
LeBron James was drafted first overall in 2003 — four years before the iPhone launched. He's still top-20 in the league at 41. Every player active when he was drafted has retired. The iPhone is his only true peer for decade-spanning dominance.
Every basketball action maps to a stage of software development. Dribbling is your IDE and core coding, passing is alpha/beta testing, and scoring a basket is shipping the final product. Teams that execute this pipeline fastest win the most games — just like tech companies.
Michael Jordan famously invented slights against himself to fuel his motivation, made teammates miserable, and was impossible to work with — yet won six championships. His teammates hated him then, worship him now. That's exactly Steve Jobs.
Defending your team when they're bad, hating rival fans, calling your team the best even when they're mid — this is identical in sports and tech. Android subreddits behave exactly like sports team subreddits. The tribalism is the product.
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