My EF Huttons: Mark Cuban and David Stern.

The next EF Hutton award goes to Mark Cuban. It’s also a 3-Pt Play because three of his last four blogposts have been about business and entrepreneurship.

You may not know this, but Entrepreneurship 101 is out there, it’s free, and you don’t need to pay six figures to get a diploma that says “MBA” on it from a name-brand school.

Just go to Cuban’s blogmaverick.com and do a search on “success & motivation” or “business” or “entrepreneurship”. Try that “sleeping on a friend’s couch” thing. Trust me, that is the ultimate rite of passage for an entrepreneur. I don’t know why, it just is. For whatever reason. Without fail.
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You’re probably too young, but eons ago, there was a financial services firm called EF Hutton. They had these famous commercials where two people would be talking about stocks and stuff, somewhere crowded. Then one of them would say, “Well my brokerage is EF Hutton. And EF Hutton says…”

Then, the crowd around them would stop what they were doing and lean in to listen to the conversation. Brilliant!

Well, in the NBA (and in life), there are certain people whom I like to label as “EF Huttons”. When they talk, I listen. Almost without fail.

For example, Barack Obama. The man has a speech, I listen. Often times, Michael Jordan, since he’s sort of off the radar now. For business and entrepreneurship, Mark Cuban. And more recently, Anthony Kim, soon-to-be golf superstar and therefore, future Asian-American role model.

Now, when David Stern talks, the Poor Man’s Commish definitely listens. He’s the quintessential CEO, in the greatest game ever invented, on the most important platform of the greatest game ever invented.
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