Pippen told Business Insider that it was the latest in a series of voiceovers that he’d done (he’d just completed a voiceover for Michelob beers), and he wanted to expand his repertoire.

“Calm came to me and put the offer to me to tell a story about the history of basketball,” he said to the outlet. “So I thought it was pretty neat, very fitting, being that I played in the game. It was something that I felt would have longevity, whether I was dead or alive. So, as I said, it was something that I felt was a great fit. And it gives me, a basketball player, the opportunity to tell the history of the game in a calming way, to kind of lull my listeners to sleep, if I could say that.”

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