Antwyne DeLonde
Episode 314
3 FEB 2025
He was Varsity Basketball Coach for seven years at The Boys’ Latin School of Maryland. On the business side, he joined forces with NBA legend Walt “The Wizard” Williams to assist former NFL player Wale Ogunleye with the UBS Sports and Entertainment Division. Together, they revolutionized wealth management for elite clients, including the National Basketball Players Association, and brokered historic deals such as connecting Players TV Media Group — a collective powered by icons like Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, and Kyrie Irving — with UBS. He is also a U.S. Army combat veteran, and he demonstrated a true Christian heart by quitting his seven-figure job to create a social impact company that focuses on financial education for the underprivileged.
Notable guest quotes:
“I was raised Baptist, and I decided to convert to Catholicism back in 2017 when it was time for my son to get baptized and we wanted to make sure that he was brought into one faith.”
“When I was in Iraq in 2003 … I had an opportunity to open my mind to religion on a deeper and spiritual level. It was probably the first time that I saw people who were in doubt just based on the circumstances of being in war. And with that, it made me open up my Bible more and get more in tune with my faith.”
“Leaving Iraq and coming back into the States, it made me think about what I wanted to do and who was really guiding me, who actually protected me, to make it out of the circumstances that I was in, who guided me on the path that I am today.”
“Growing up in San Antonio, I would … go to the San Antonio basketball camps, whether it was David Robinson, I was good friends with George Gervin’s son, George Gervin Jr., and so just growing up and seeing basketball played at a very high level within San Antonio made me really interested in playing basketball.”
“I just knew that I wanted to coach because I wanted to give back to the game from a mentorship standpoint. And that’s kind of how I viewed coaching was being in a position to coach up young men.”
“I grew up in the church. My grandmother was a deacon in the church and so we grew up in a small church and so we were the church, right? So just about every day I spent time in the church.”
“The opportunity of potentially playing basketball for Norfolk State University was also really intriguing to me after having several conversations with the coach leading up to me arriving (there).”
“Every trip that we took, we were in imminent danger … it gets very dark in Iraq early and so … it tested my faith, right? I had to believe in the divine power in order to get through every single mission and that’s what got me through is my faith, which is something that I carried through today and I’ve always said that God provides vision with provision.”
“I actually ran and currently still run a mentorship program with the varsity basketball team.”
“Faith teaches discipline. And to me, that’s what the army also represented was discipline. And it goes back to being disciples, right? And so, I felt that my faith allowed me to be a disciple, whether it was in the boardroom, whether it was coaching, or whether it was being a father and a husband.”
“When I received that calling, I started to do a deeper dive into myself through my faith, with my wife and my son. And I realized that while I got great at making wealthy people wealthier, there was a system built for individuals that felt forgotten. And my purpose became led by that call.”
“I had done everything I wanted to do at a young age, and I still felt unfulfilled, and it was God telling me that I hadn’t done enough.”
Related link:
Antwyne’s bio on his company website
