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The upper echelon of teams in the NBA are now poised to make that final push toward the playoffs to assert themselves or at least take their best stab at contention for the championship. There’s somewhere around 23 games remaining for the Los Angeles Lakers and amid criticisms that they’re aging as fast as Bemjamin …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
People say that defense wins basketball games but I disagree. On the real, if you don’t score points you won’t win. In the NBA, the athletes are so athletic, so talented that you have to have a strategy for getting around guys, isolating situations that present an advantage. When the Denver Nuggets play the Lakers, …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills
If you had something important to say, something that would warn others of impending danger would you say it? What if you could be sure your audience would rebuke you? What if you could be certain that your message was true but it was literally the kind of thing that you could be sure would …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
Now that Brett Favre is hurt, Kobe is entering the latter stages of his career and Tiger’s gaze no longer intimidates golfers worldwide it’s appropriate to ask, “What’s next?” What is the next step after you’ve been defined by one thing for so long? How do you move onto equally valuable pursuits that reproduce a …
Category: Character, Play, Skills, Today's Post
Surrender is one of those words that smells of cowardice and utter defeat. It is a word of last resort and one that has the connotation suggesting that you, me, we have been subverted and/or undone. Nothing about surrender is voluntary under the normal trajectory of our maturation from childhood to adulthood. We’re taught not …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Skills
I tweeted yesterday on Thanksgiving “Most pro athletes are thankful for their physical gifts. Why are so many thankful athletes arrogant as if they have no one to thank?” I thought to myself, “Self, does thankfulness count if it doesn’t have an object?And I said to myself that it seems illogical that one could genuinely …
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Today's Post
I have a hypothesis that athletes will perform better if they have the resolve to talk straight. Confrontation is an art that gets more refined when practiced. But confrontation has also become evil and that’s why the tough conversation is a rarity. It’s not really evil but it has the connotation as such and here’s …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, Skills, Team, Today's Post
