The 10-time NBA All-Star sat down with Rich Kleiman to reflect on his time in Denver and why the team’s success opened the avenue for mid-market organizations to attract more attention from fans around the world.
Video Transcript
My love for Denver is high.
Like I hold Denver damn near where I hold New York at because it was the beginning, like we built that, we, we built that culture in Denver.
We changed the colors and, you know, we, we changed the culture of the NBA in a sense, you know, them powder blue uniforms, like, we changed that to where everybody’s like, oh we gotta switch our uniforms up.
NBA started changing a lot of things after that.
So when you talk about Like, culturally?
Denver gotta be there, because we, we took a city that wasn’t getting no eyeballs and wasn’t getting no attention outside of the Broncos and, and, and John Elway, right?
So now we, you see 15 jerseys all over the country, all over the world now.
So now you, Denver is not just in Colorado no more.
Denver is in Baltimore, Denver is in China, Denver is in You know, Philippines, like there was across the world now, so I don’t take that none of that for granted, um, which, which allows me to be at peace and hold ever.
It was almost like you guys were like a fab five like type of we had that energy impact, yeah, and that energy.
