Why Tom Brady’s retirement is also a crypto story

Dan Roberts, Decrypt Editor-in-Chief, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the collision of sports and crypto as Tom Brady announces his retirement from the NFL.

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We're sticking with this topic with our next guest and friend of the program. Dan Roberts is editor in chief at Decrypt.

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And Dan, I feel like this is the perfect topic for you since you've been covering both sports business, of course, and crypto for quite some time now

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And Tom Brady does have a stake in the crypto exchange platform FTX

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They are really colliding. That Venn diagram has huge overlap. And Brady is a terrific example,

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although there is now a story just out today about Drew Brees doing something similar. A lot of these current and former NFL players have really flocked to crypto.

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