#143: Mike Nicoll - Director, The Spoils | Exploring America’s Youth Basketball Industrial Complex

Mike Nicoll is a former hooper turned award-winning filmmaker focused heavily on basketball's business side in his documentaries.  The Spoils penetrates a shadowy financial system: America’s youth basketball industrial complex. With unprecedented access to the money game that dominates the sport, the film unravels the raw capitalism of the American basketball machine. Mike Nicoll has directed 3 feature films, best known for writing & directing "At All Costs" - a feature documentary acquired by Netflix in 2017. Chapters: (01:20) The Spoils (07:20) Shocking revelations (10:10) How the AAU system works  (13:05) Why travel basketball exists (20:20) Reimagining the system (26:55) Business of basketball (35:20) Next films . Mike Nicoll: Website: https://thespoilsmovie.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-nicoll/ . Andrew Petcash: 🏠 Website: https://profluence.com 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewpetcash 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewpetcash/ Thanks for listening! Hit the “follow” button to stay updated on new podcasts.