And kudos to you guys for being cognizant of that. Peter Feigin: And then, one of the more proud moments in pro sports, we lead a boycott to a game, that becomes really a pause for the entire world. (There are perks to being commissioner.) And I believe in my heart that the Bucks were real leaders in that moment. So, these guys are thrown into a world where they're responsible for everything, they assume they know everything, and what their experience is. Peter: which I cant even believe it, Id probably have some fun teaching. In September 2013, then-deputy commissioner Adam Silver announced that Bradley Center, the team's home since 1988, was unfit for an NBA team. Peter: Which like, by the way, might evolve to 20%, 30% of an arena at some point. Peter: Wow. But was like loved and I think Im addicted. That was one of these monumental, incredible, awesome times to get it done. I thought Id hit the jackpot, Feigin said. Because I don't think we're really worried about kind of like we would think half a million people are going to die, that what would happen to hospitals and ICUs and things like that. I dont know if thats a word, but I would attach myself. Peter Feigin: Yeah. That's like, that's today's kind of like, "What are we focused on?". John: Just for a fun look, for our listeners sake. They were trying to think of something that would be like. Michael Red: Wow. And as Marc kind of ventured out over a decade ago . Now you win, you have the championship. Number one, obviously, because like you said, its rare air, but youre learning on the job. Michael Red: The facilities, everything that you guys have done so far is remarkable. Revolutionizing the talent booking industry with thousands of athletes, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. Thats just my view, Lasry said. John: That is a big deal. Donations to the school can be turned into compensation. In a perfect world, how do we mesh them together to have one and one equal three? Peter: Yeah, I will just tell you that was one of the most fun dreamlike things for us ever. You sound super excited about the future. For Feigin, Lasry, Edens, Dinan, head coach Jason Kidd and the entire organization, Antetokounmpo, born and raised in Greece to Nigerian immigrants, is a business unicorn. Peter Feigin: Yeah. I got to talk about the journey to the Bucks though. "I did kind of the 'Dick Cheney.' It's like how it affected the players because that almost helped accelerate the importance of it. It's definitely not brain surgery. We built an infrastructure, to our owners' credit on, they made it really simple. Peter: Which people gave. Hey, so talk a little bit about impact. Ive got two kids Im working as, Id say a consultant, helping to put together a business plan. Thats for every aspect of it. Where is your ring? A lot of storytelling and symbolic, and its been 50 years between championships. Michael Red: The mental health and wellness of the players, right? I talk about it all the time with my wife, with my brother, with everything. I think weve gravitated again with a lot of people weve brought in to engage and get it done. 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. Got it. Thats a good run. How can we do fun special things, what matters to people? Within 45 minutes, we had this unbelievable excitement of, were nuts, why dont we do like take home its big ordering out. 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. Because I know a lot of coaches, lot of presidents, lot of GMs, I run into them and I ask them, can I look at your ring? To learn more about the world championship, Milwaukee Bucks, you can find Peter and all of his colleagues and the players and all their stats @bucks.com, bucks.com. Malcolm D. Lee, who is directing Space Jam 2, which stars LeBron James, is one of the regulars in The Run. 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. Again, under the umbrella of collecting people and really having experience in a big way. Players, for 50 nights a year, land at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning to get home and kind of do what the time balance is. I have an identical twin brother who happens to still be in New York and runs a private school called Trevor Day School. How does that, and then, with that also because this harkens back, Im old enough, youre old enough even, we remember the Michael Jordan era, he was the greatest player in the world back in his Again, you not only have one of the greatest players ever to play on the planet, but youve also created this culture of retention. Peter: The same he is, everywhere else. I wanted to be in marketing in sales. But then theres, in this group weve got 300 full-time people and 250 of them are involved in volunteering. I heard or to make the statement, are you the employee of the month? "We were, time-wise, kind of lucky," Feigin says with a laugh. John: Its so amazing you say that. I encourage it, and selfishly, its a fun way to network and deal with people. You didnt study sports. At Bucks Pro Shop, you can find them. In business it takes a real challenging of like where your growth is going to come from I in a big way. Peter holds a bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College and completed the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business' Financial Executive Program. You miss falling on the ground, Dan Feigin said. You're exactly right. Peter Feigin, president of the Milwaukee Bucks. Peter: Yeah. Team president Peter Feigin and his wife each contributed $2,900, while Feigin's brother Daniel contributed $600. Mike, you get it because you lived it. On the team, it takes extreme like investment to keep it. Peter: to anybody I thought was of great skill and value for selfish reasons to feel good. We're going to develop some residential and we'll hopefully have a great commercial tenant and we continue to build. And we're going to be the No. We've got Peter Feigin. 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. And Peter, now is the President of the Milwaukee Bucks and has done an incredible job over the years with the Bucks since he's landed in Milwaukee. ", Pass the sticks.We here.https://t.co/XifcyBIjFY pic.twitter.com/NFiiaWCSUb, Bucks Gaming (@BucksGG) December 14, 2017. Its rotating cast includes bankers, lawyers and high-powered television executives. So, I can't be too vocal, because if the owners knew how valuable it was that, I conceptually run a retail operation with thousands of pieces of apparel. I think if you took me at this point in my life and where I am and. Peter Feigin: I mean, I'll tell you an interesting story. Giannis Antetokounmpo is the gift that keeps on giving for Bucks' management. Hey, its a job. Peter Feigin, the president of the Milwaukee Bucks, playing defense. She's terrific and just the whole organization and I'm honored to be a part of the family, man. He's the president of the Milwaukee Bucks and he's a native New Yorker. This is a super special edition. Peter Feigin: And how do you rethink your strategies for retail? And that's tough, too. 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 Feigin: And you've got to put with everything going on in the world, there's got to be that balance of like, "Hey, there are priorities." And Dan Feigin still has keys to Trevors gym, which he has been putting to use by himself. He notes that with the Bucks also opening a G League team calledthe Wisconsin Herdthis past fall, there was internal debate about making the investment, but Edens was a notable force moving the decision forward. The arena is Feigin's baby, and he's almost ready to show it off, as doors will open next season. And from your perspective, how was the bubble? Peter Feigin: I think nobody could have imagined what that does to you on a personal psychological emotional level. Before we get talking about all the amazing things you've done in basketball, and just coming off amazing championship. I know youve said your pops passed. It all matters what state youre in and whats going on with the legislation. We spend a lot of our time really trying to figure out what are the levers to move the revenue. Michael Red: If you had to go back to your 16-year-old self, what advice would you give your 16-year-old self? That sounds like a little piece, but that's a big piece in the world. Talk about that nuance because like you were saying, from the outside in, you could say all the players have it made. Now, he's the chair of the 2017 Greater Milwaukee Heart & Stroke Walk/5K Run, which is Sunday at Veterans Park . The building will also be the focal point of a 30-acre development in downtown Milwaukee, an urban revitalization project that Feigin believes in. But online gambling, in state by state is massive and how you can center that do you want to become part of a casino? Peter: Yeah, what really worked for me is I think I was just insatiably curious. Peter: But one of the incredible things, alignment we have with myself, John Horst, whos our GM and coach Bud is like, weve got this undercurrent of constant improvement and kind of like never, pleased but never satisfied. That was, Peter: That was it. And the family went into the most unique times that we've ever seen in our lifetime a year ago. People can find it at, I saw the website, it was Cluckery, cluckery.com, right? Peter Feigin: I think building the relationship with Mark, probably through looking at other purchase opportunities and kind of talking through it. With your owners and partners and this great group of people you put together, whats the future look like for the Bucks and what can some of the fans expect in the upcoming season? So, you take away every form of a 20- to 30-year-old's life outside of basketball, you take away their family in a big way and by the way, then you isolate them, in basically like a stay at home kind of mode in the middle of a pandemic and really like social justice, kind of uprising while they're locked into a bubble. Theyre going to look at that ring forever and remember that. If you need a shot at good inspiration and a good laugh, listen to this episode. I need socks and I know we're not making them. So, that part of it was awesome. I asked every good question, every dumb question you could possibly imagine to really learn. But it's also, listen like I wish, I have patience for nothing, and I think what I'm learning and trying to get a grip of is like how do we chip away over every issue of social justice. We hired a great human capital person to build up the structure, but it was really best practice. "Scott Walker was just at the beginning of a presidential campaign. Michael Red: So, the league, obviously, is halted with COVID and then in the middle of all of that, you have the George Floyd issue. Talk a little bit about where you even grew up, how you even got here. "He plays with the Bucks 95 percent of the time. John: Talk about and want you to share a couple of thoughts about Warren Buffett and that whole deal. financial capital with human capital to end up with the right result, how is that math done in Peter Feigins head? Peter: did active, to get in. John: Right. Peter: professionalized on a revenue basis, so yeah. Everybody knows everybody. 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: This is where I want to be. So, we see this great opportunity to lead by example and then to almost market and promote it as this should be more the norm than not the norm in a big way. So, he's at the All-Star game and I literally said, "It's too bad we're not on Zoom," because I'm holding these. In July 2015, Feigin basically introduced himself to Wisconsin lawmakers with a stark proposal: If $250 million in public funding was not approved -- Edens, Lasry, third owner Jamie Dinan and Kohl had already combined to put up $250 million) -- the NBA would exercise its right to buy back the Bucks from the new ownership group for $25 million more than it had paid Kohl. I became the president of the company for a number of years, and then we got absorbed by NetJets and took on that role at NetJets for a couple of years, and really learned incredibly, had this opportunity to learn P&L and operational. John: You talked about your Masters of the Universe being your partners and owners and really some of the brightest people on this planet which of course, thats true. My mother was one of the preeminent ad executives from Grey Advertising for 40 years. The people part is always tough. We had weekly calls. When Carter Pewterschmidt stops by in "Fresh Heir" to announce that he has made Chris Griffin the sole heir to the Pewterschmidt fortune, the family hears a crash. None could have anticipated how it would grow over the years, or the motley crew of characters who would be drawn to it. Talk about that process. I can't even imagine what these guys are going through.". Peter Feigin didn't go looking for his job as president of the Milwaukee Bucks. Whether youre building an arena, whether youre building infrastructure or a team, whether youre dealing with the same problems, it is really powerful to end up with, when you come up with conflict and problems or you need solutions, or you need smart brains to be able to pick up the phone with 5, 10 like-minded people who are dealing with the same stuff. Peter: You got it running the 70s, 80s and 90s, yep. And I knew who Arthur Ashe was, but I wasn't a big tennis guy and my job was basically being Arthur Ashe's right hand person through. I think COVID, like everything, slowed us up for about a year, but we're back on it. Post-acquisition were in an interesting time in life where my dad had been ill for a while and there was no way I was going to move to Milwaukee or take, even have the prospect of taking a job because I wanted to stay in New York and be with my father. Some people dont like to hear that anymore. And even as the N.B.A. Then Chris Middleton next to him, which is almost the same, who are these high quality character folks who happen to be all stars in skill level. Defenders are responsible for calling fouls. "I got to tell you the enthusiasm Peter has brought to the city has been brought right back. Peter, before I let you go, I have to ask you. I always think it comes back. And have you seen that shift a little bit in the city since Milwaukee is kind of spearheading that, the Bucks? Michael Red: Well, I love you back. Crazy story of how things happened. Marc Lasry, the co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, has scaled back his play in recent years. So, I might have caught myself parking in that situation a couple of times as well and he's starting to document it, that I was a hypocrite. John Shegerian: This edition of the Impact podcast is brought to you by ERI. 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? We heard it straight from. And they all live kind of the job we all live kind of each other's lives. He was a truly taught consumer products, marketing, and operations guy, was okay. 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. And Khris parks in a handicap space, because five minutes he's in. How do we work together? Feigin distributed the shirts in February to The Runs regulars during a weekend retreat to Milwaukee, where his twin brother, Peter, works as the president of the Bucks. Well, you know about the ice cream truck. And claimed, so before I did it again, I changed the two spots by the testing place to instead of handicap, they now say "Employee of the Month" right on the floor. 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