I WAS A LAKER SLAVE
The strangeness of sports fanaticism went undetected but I think I caught it in time.
Category: Bigger than Me
THE HARVEST OF CAPABLE
There’s a day when you go from incapable to capable. Today was the first day of the first 6ixth Man Basketball Fundamentals Clinic and this was the theme of my subconscious. I knew today wasn’t the day six athletes between the ages of 13-16 go from incapable to capable. But I wondered when that day …
MAN MADE
A great man named Pastor Chuck Reeve once told me his goal on Sunday mornings was to have as many quality conversations as possible, namely with church congregants. It stuck with me and last week at NBC Camp in Maui I tried to revitalize Pastor Chuck’s motto. I dealt mostly with 12-18 year-old boys and …
COME AGAIN
At NBC Camp Maui last week I was ending a session when a kid named Kyson said, “Thank you…” after shaking my hand. Camp wasn’t over. It was just the end of nice hard day of gettin’ after it. Kyson lives on the island and I guess I had heard thank you so often while …
The Genuine
I wasn’t too busy to blog during camp this past week. I was too tired, too overwhelmed and too enamored. I’m all about memoirs and logging the adventures of daily occurrence. But sometimes there is a flood of good, so much to process that it can hardly be done justice in the 30 minutes or …
THE CAMP LIFE
What’s wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing! I hardly went to basketball camps as a kid and it seems like I’m at several every summer. But it’s probably a different feel than if I had gone as a 14-year old. Camp has all the things society has on microcosmic levels. There’s people in the real …
BUT I DIGRESS
Be careful not to change the subject when staying on task is the difference between a win and a loss. Sasha Vujacic changed the subject in the Lakers’ close out win yesterday over the Phoenix Suns when he lost his composure and elbowed Goran Dragic in the mouth. The two have a newfound rivalry despite …