Kobe Bryant saw two things as most important for maximizing player development: empathy and compassion. Basketball has changed a lot since its inception. Analytics and load management were not introduced by Dr. Naismith. Seven-foot centers are now expected to shoot three-pointers. Positionless basketball is the new...
What coaches need to know that Kobe Bryant understood. Poem by Michael Tyler, Sow the Seeds: A Composition in Verse I recently had a long dinner conversation with two NBA players. They had been referred to me because they were struggling with the same challenge: the psychological deflation and...
Steps to create a more equitable workplace. President Biden indicated that he plans to support Vice President Harris for a presidential bid in 2024. This signal represents a dramatic step forward from the patriarchal retreat Biden made when the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas...
This is Part III in an NBA culture series. Read Parts I and II. The NBA Bubble proved to be a well conceived, carefully organized and meticulously executed model for pandemic control. The NBA presented a how-to model that other sports and organizations now seek to...
Our bipartisan group of experts in economics, public health, technology, and ethics from across the country, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, has released Pandemic Resilience: Getting it Done, a supplement to the Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience. The report offers different TTSI program recommendations for locales that have low prevalence...
On the morning of December 5th, I found myself at the HSS Training Center on 39th Street in Brooklyn, home of the Brooklyn Nets training facility. The Basketball Africa League, BAL, was holding its first combine. Unlike the jam-packed, media swarmed, agent laden, coach stocked,...
Mark your calendar. In October, exactly two years after their game changing article was published in the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Meghan Touhy’s book, She Said, will make its debut. Many people are hoping it will fuel another phase of the #MeToo movement, launching it towards fundamentally...
The Los Angeles Lakers selected Lonzo Ball as the second player picked overall in the NBA Draft on June 22, 2017. Ball was touted as a redeemer of a Lakers franchise that had fallen from the glory of its past. That same day, the Lakers...
Gender equity in professional sports and all workplaces is within reach. The NBA’s February 2019 All-Star Weekend bash in Charlotte staged events on and off the court. Most were designed to be entertaining, others enlightening. Of course, there was the celebrity game, the three-point shooting contest,...
A few months ago, while flying across the country, I decided to binge on my favorite basketball podcast, The Woj Pod, hosted by Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski from ESPN. The season’s end retirement of the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade was on my mind, so I selected his February...