{"id":12816,"date":"2020-01-27T10:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12816"},"modified":"2020-01-27T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:21:33","slug":"mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Michael Jordan fan boy, I was confused when the Jordan 7 shoe was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rereleased\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Kobe Bryant laker colours. I paid full boat thinking the shoes were a mistake that I could capitalize on by selling them at a premium via Craig Newmark<\/p>\n<p>Lakers and Jordan!? Sacrilege for a young brash kid who got voted into an ASG with vets wayyyy more deserving were passed over. So, I kept my natural LA hate at bay and tried to keep an open mind at the douchie events I attend to watch Alpha Makes in Flux. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hobby where I count MMPPI. Mentor Mentions Per Press Interview<\/p>\n<p>Truth is stranger than any fiction:<\/p>\n<p>Jordan was mentoring him even after Rolling Stone cited Kobe Bryant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s declaration as a 17 yo:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to be better than Jordan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of what I gathered can be learned by watching Gotham Chopra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s movie, The Muse<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0826.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12815\" width=\"748\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0826.jpg 748w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0826-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_0826-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Michael Jordan fan boy, I was confused when the Jordan 7 shoe was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rereleased\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Kobe Bryant laker colours. I paid full boat thinking the shoes were a mistake that I could capitalize on by selling them at a premium via Craig Newmark Lakers and Jordan!? Sacrilege for a young brash kid who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-athletics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}