so before I start I would like to share
a passage from this book that I really
love it’s a story and it’s called a
battle of the ages okay so it all starts
with the once upon a time there was a
kingdom consisted of knights who wore
the armor of wine and gold this kingdom
lost the war the previous year due to
two prestigious Knights being injured in
battle against the savages called the
gold warriors however this year these
nights came back and helped their King
destroy everyone in their path and
progress to the final battle once again
opposing their arrival the gold warrior
tribe to win the war a kingdom must
defeat the opponents four times out of
this tiresome seven battles the gold
warriors were leading the battles 3
victories 2-1 loss against the Knights
the tribe simply needed a mere victory
to win it all however the leader of the
night kingdom that were the skin of the
lion and who goes by the name of supreme
King James the first carried the Knights
through the next two battles to bring
them one fight away from victory in this
prolonged series there was no stopping
this man like beasts fast-forwarding to
the final battle to win it all there was
only a little over a minute left the
King blocked out everyone in his path
and the key night that was injured last
year called himself killer crossover
took out his dagger and struck it right
into the heart of the golden warrior
tribes most prized possession the one
who is perhaps the greatest marksman in
history all of this was to seal the war
the time winded down and the Knights of
the wine gold finally defeated the gold
warrior tribe to finally capture the
ring and trophy that would bestow them
upon limitless riches golden pride it
had been over 50 years since this
kingdom everyone’s such an immense award
wasn’t that a story so basically what
happened if you didn’t
follow along and if I was too fast
basically there was two kingdoms there’s
a tribe and there was a knight kingdom
and they went to war and the night
kingdom basically one I have a question
for you all does this story remind you
of something something that might have
happened recently anybody any volunteers
no yeah it’s the NBA and specifically
the Cleveland Cavaliers so the night
kingdom as I was talking about is this
team and the gold warrior tribe is the
Golden State Warriors so last year a
Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love both got
injured and resulting in that they lost
in the NBA Finals but this year they
came back they were first in the Eastern
Conference Eastern Conference and they
demolished everybody in the playoffs and
they came to the finals against the
Golden State Warriors once again they
were actually down of 30 victories to
one actually so the Golden State word
just needed one victory just to win it
all however LeBron James Kyrie Irving
Kevin Love and the whole team stuck
together and won the next three games
and the dagger I was talking about that
Kyrie Irving stabbed to the marksman a
step and curry is basically this it’s
what a shot
and the game winded down from here and
they won okay so if you didn’t know over
500 million people watch the NBA and one
of those individuals is me uh that’s
Chris Paul and that and the one on the
right is chris paul jr now it’s just a
really bad photoshop i made cuz i have
no life anyway back to my story so as a
freshman I already started playing
basketball but I never really watched
the basketball I rather like play rather
than watch it cuz why look at other
people be successful rather than myself
but that’s not really exactly right
because all my friends in the school
watch 10 being they were crazy and well
I tried it out as well and i watch the
game and guess what it was it was
amazing and from that day I watched
basketball day and night during school
after school during breakfast tonight
like at nighttime it was crazy I like
watch talk shows live streams live
streams and highlights is really it was
really fun so I thought and I came here
to Tokyo after a few years and I thought
why is that being so popular like I
really sat down and well it’s because of
its a story as I proved to you before
the story has said was it just another
form of what it is it’s all about
entertainment and that’s why the NBA is
so smart and makes a lot of money well
then be also is partnered up with NBA 2k
sports which is the gaming company which
makes games uh and in this game that
what mode I really love is my career
where you can make your own player
whatever position he plays his height
his attributes and whatnot and this me
well it’s pretty cool
because I could dunk on everybody I’m 63
and have a lot of muscle so it’s pretty
cool but anyway that’s another story
within a story furthermore fantasy
basketball it’s another platform it’s
it’s a virtual gaming reality basically
where you could pick your own players
draft them and compete against your
friends so this itself is another
fantasy type game or you can imagine
yourself and as being the general
manager and making your own team with
your favorite players it’s a lot of fun
so coming to the end of my talk the
default mode of human cognition is a
narrative mode so in other words the way
we think feel and perceive you perceive
things around us is basically all in a
story mode so everyone has a book inside
of them so a default mode of human
cognition is a narrative mode and a
narrative is another way of saying is
another way of a story is another term
of saying a story and a story in this
case is the NBA so that’s why the NBA is
so close to our hearts because it’s a
story and we all live may we all have
stories of ourselves and if we might not
well we will definitely have ones in the
future so I recommend you to watch the
NBA and my advertising or anything but
have a look it’s really enjoyable and
it’s just another story that you haven’t
read thank you very much [Applause]