Theres a lot of people that look up to you and want to be either the next Peter Feigin, or be an entrepreneur and do a startup. That's actually a step up from the orange vests and hard hats he's been wearing in Milwaukee, constantly checking on the construction of the Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center, the non-branded name of the arena. Bucks championship parade will be this Thursday, Bucks President Peter Feigin says - YouTube Breaking news: The Bucks Championship parade will be this Thursday! And I know how much you love your brother and your family, your wife, your kids. Anyone can read what you share. There is an honor system. How do we build the plumbing? The whole world is on that balance, so part of what we haven't really talked about much is our culture here. 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. He was a truly taught consumer products, marketing, and operations guy, was okay. Be sure and try our new SNOWCAST APP! We built an infrastructure, to our owners' credit on, they made it really simple. Okay. This is the most, this is fun of life. "We have a. Listen, for the rest of my life, having a boycott for the game in the bubble where we put a pause in the world. And it was a fantasy. We screw around a hell of a lot, but let me tell you, if one of our guys was in trouble, if we need to circle the wagons, if they need advice on evaluating something they're doing, they know that it's extremely objective, it's immediate, and that's what we do here. In the middle of New York and your, John: You knew you wanted to be a business person when you went to. Talk about it, you transition now from the Knicks and your consulting gig to the president of the Bucks. So, this had been a surreal year and tough as a leader because it's exhausting. And a diverse community gives us diverse thought, gives us better outcomes. I think if nothing else, it changes the awareness, the sophistication, and the business operations of the way players will position themselves and the way theyll market themselves. His brother and Lee were just as excited. They have been through a system, if nothing else, highly competitive basketball for the last 12, 14 years, including kind of being shelled up in college, and what the pros are. How do we make this more than equal?" Then it would move the franchise to Las Vegas or Seattle. Peter Feigin: And for a year of that, I kind of dropped everything and just kind of toured the country with an organized schedule, kind of understood the revenue part of it, kind of do. Id like to do that ring ceremony for hourly staff every day and the world would be a good place. Now, Ive been extremely lucky. Last Wednesday, Milwaukee Bucks president Peter Feigin told the Rotary Club of Madison that Milwaukee is "the most segregated, racist place I've ever experienced in my life." The full quote,. Its kind of like the unwritten rule: Dont argue about anything. Like the Kees, you're going to hopefully be doing something you love with people you love and working your butt off, but there are expectations. We are going to put in the notes Peters email address because he was kind enough to give us that. God, I love it as a case study. His own social presence is so valuable, is so great. Hey, its a job. Peter: Which like, by the way, might evolve to 20%, 30% of an arena at some point. And my brother said, "Oh, my God. We closed our restaurants down. And I don't know how many people know this, towards the end of his life, he really kind of did exhibitions, talks, and meetings literally until the day he almost died and traveled the country and the world as really kind of an incredible role model with an incredible story. And you do it, for us, kind of my job was to be that rock and support and think about if you told me that 50% of my time would be spent on making sure everybody is okay. Were one of those cities that it was just so powerful. And 24 hours later, I think I called them from the Pfister Hotel and said like, "Oh, yeah. It's truly like a restart. White House Chair of My Brother's Keeper Joined to Applaud Nationwide Progress. We've gotten through conversations. John Shegerian: This edition of the Impact podcast is brought to you by ERI. Antetokounmpo, now in his fifth NBA season, has become a basketball and cultural phenomenon. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. John: Welcome to another edition of the impact podcast. I encourage it, and selfishly, its a fun way to network and deal with people. But I will tell you that most cathartic incredible, awesome thing, which everybody told me and again, the collaborative is awesome. He's Peter Feigin, president of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, and in the nearly five years of living in the city he has come to Gee's Clippers so that Gaulien Smith, a black man, can tame his head. She's a teacher. 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Michael Red: In this episode, we talk about Peter's incredible career accomplishments at major brands. always network, and in my chance, it really happened with my identical twin brother who was running a private school in New York, which all of Marc Lasry's and Wes Edens's kids went to. Let them know they're part of the family. Weve got Peter Feigin. How did you put the stadium deal together? And I think what happened in this year, in so many ways, was a great splash of ice water thinking like, "Boy, we got a long way to go." Now, he's the chair of the 2017 Greater Milwaukee Heart & Stroke Walk/5K Run, which is Sunday at Veterans Park . In a 10 year phase, I started with a startup with Marquis Jet, with Kenny Dichter and Jesse Itzler who started the business and came from sports. Michael Red: The family, I know, that's big for you in that culture and what you try to create as a culture is family. Where is your ring? Which is a huge opportunity. I know you love gear more than anybody. By the way, I've got access to the Team President, the GM, everybody is all around just to resource and help. Its really important and youve got to take a real responsibility. And I think the only thing anybody can control is their own effort and kind of their own dreams and where they want to go. The way it works is they closed in April. It is so important that kind of at least in our infrastructure. And I think he's going to sell the team. Theres some other attributes, but just take those three is like your best, which, whether youre on basketball or the business side, you die for. Peter: Yeah, it was incredible. But it was one of these kind of diversion life lessons that you don't know where life takes you and just take total opportunity for it. I have an identical twin brother who happens to still be in New York and runs a private school called Trevor Day School. How do we build the baselines? Everybody knows you are going to work your butt off if you work here. The first kind of fully owned African American sports agency, whose main client was Arthur Ashe. 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. The ring features plenty of subtle and not so subtle Bucks symbolism. A decades-long Manhattan pickup basketball game is on hold because of the pandemic, creating an emotional void for its rotating cast of actors, executives and regular joes. People will ask me all the time like, "How would you respond these times, Mike, as a player?" Defenders are responsible for calling fouls. Number one, growth is so exponentially outside the us, which is like really interesting for NBA basketball, for participation, for media, for social consumption. So, thank you for being on the cast today. Peter Feigin: So, it was kind of crazy. In many ways, you were doing a startup when you came to Milwaukee with your partners. Ill tell you how it I got the offer, the conversation and we play a pickup game of basketball every Saturday for 20 years with the same guys. Peter: Oh, my goodness. Antetokounmpo signed a four-year, $100 million extension in September 2016 (right before his first All-Star season) that will keep him under contract in Milwaukee through 2020-21. And I believe in my heart that the Bucks were real leaders in that moment. And I love your brother. Even though you think youre such a great brand, there are a hundred things that happen in New York a day that youre one of the elements. You got into really like, "How do we create resources for people to just talk about how they're feeling, about how they vent, about how do they get support for their lives?" Peter: We took the lumps and then, yeah, I had my dream job when I was in my mid-20s as in Madison Square Garden like running marketing for the New York Knicks and I thought I could have died and gone to heaven and thats, I lived breathed in the Knicks basketball and Ranger hockey, it was the greatest. There's no right equation. Peter: professionalized on a revenue basis, so yeah. Feigin is in charge of divvying up the five-man teams at the start of the session and typically includes himself on the strongest squad. Peter: Then I think youre, listen, viewer consumption, what youre talking about is whether you put on an Oculus or whether youve got five screens going up, people are now watching short form video in five to 20 second increments to absorb a game. Youve got Jamie Dimon, who is this incredible long-term equity holder who is done it and then youve got Mike Fascitelli whos really was the chairman and CEO of Vornado Real Estate in New York on the commercial real estate side. How could we reduce our costs immediately knowing that we weren't operating? Hey, so talk a little bit about impact. Heading into his ninth year as President of the Milwaukee Bucks, and fifth year as President of the world-class Fiserv Forum, Peter Feigin brings more than two decades of dynamic corporate leadership to Milwaukees sports and entertainment scene. Maria Natalia Mendez, a daughter of Dr. Nena Mendez and Dr. Hermann Mendez of Manhattan, was married Friday to Peter Feigin, a son of Barbara and James Feigin of Manhattan. And that's what we try to do. In his senior season, he was named the team captain, along with his twin brother Daniel, and was named the team's most improved player. 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. That was out the door. How do you end up managing the importance of numbers and capital. You cant replicate that., https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/sports/pickup-basketball-new-york.html. The future for the Bucks, championship, championship, championship, and obviously getting fans back at the games. Thats. Peter Feigin didn't go looking for his job as president of the Milwaukee Bucks. So, we continue to want to make this a place where players are like, "Shit, I've never been treated like this.". This kind of like, "Why are we looking at other people's metrics? So, that was my one get back to kind of surprise him because I think there were a few spies that were taking pictures of every time I parked in that spot for a second. I think probably one of the last public-private partnerships that thatll happen, when Troy brought together the city, the county and the state to put together a partnership for a new arena in downtown Milwaukee. . I better go home and talk to Natalia to do it. Talk about that as far as the league and the individual teams. Feigin got the funding approved in the next couple months, and the Bucks signed a 30-year lease to stay in Milwaukee. Im sure somehow our paths will cross. Do we want this guy to keep playing? Michael Red: The facilities, everything that you guys have done so far is remarkable. Feigin's twin brother, Daniel, is director of the upper school at New York City's Trevor Day. More recently, Tom Kearns, a mental health counselor and one of The Runs longtime staples, has been bringing his 12-year-old daughter, Sophia, so she can shoot hoops on the side with Dan Feigins 12-year-old daughter, Dylan. Today I'm talking with Peter Feigin, President of the MBA's Milwaukee Bucks and formerly Vice-President of Marketing for the New York Knicks, and Director of Marketing at Six Flags. "You will be in a business meeting on Monday with one of the 300-500 business executives in the town and you will see them some place later that week or the week after, unlike in New York City," he says. Twin brothers Peter and David Paul are best known for their role in The Barbarians (1987). We got to like we want to use our platform to affect change and change the world. Peter Feigin: I think building the relationship with Mark, probably through looking at other purchase opportunities and kind of talking through it. Peter: got to do what youre going to say and say what youre going to do and really be substantial. 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. 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. Theyre the worst. My son was a freshman at San Joaquin Memorial High School when Brook Lopez was there and he played with Brook under coach Pat Giles. Hes the president of the Milwaukee Bucks and hes a native New Yorker. Talk a little bit about where you even grew up, how you even got here. We discussed his incredible career accomplishments at major brands, his rise from recruiter to President, handing out parking tickets in the Bucks lot, working for social justice in the epicenter of the global movement, and his unique leadership style. Well, you got to be beyond on top of your game. I got to talk about the journey to the Bucks though. If you're going to go look at teams, grab my brother. Michael Red: Peter Feigin. These are special socks, so you bring me back a pair of socks. We always tell people, listen, if you want to work here, youre going to have to collaborate with people. His sabbatical included a lengthy stint in Los Angeles on the set of Space Jam 2. After he finally made his return to The Run in January, his comeback was cut short by the pandemic. The Paul's, who acted in several other films including Double Trouble (1992), and The Road Raiders (1989), quickly became well known in the bodybuilding community for their great strength and power, as well as their rebellious barbarian attitude. And that's what we try to do. Ive had some of my employees have been there and they say, its just amazing, just a wonderful place to watch a sporting event and Im just talking to one this morning and he just said, Great place, just a great arena.Were not going to go through this interview without talking, of course, about Giannis. Peter: Well, my dad was at Brooklynite so we were Mets and Jets. Thats and like you said, you get to share that with all the hundreds of other rings. "Why would we wait till tomorrow when we can get it done today?" 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