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Erik Spoelstra on the Five Core Tenants of Miami "Heat Culture": 1️⃣ Toughest 2️⃣ Nastiest 3️⃣ Best Conditioned 4️⃣ Most Professional 5️⃣ Least Liked 💪 Toughest = You do not need ideal circumstances to compete. You can absorb contact, handle adversity, and keep responding when the game stops being comfortable. 😷 Nastiest = You set the standard with your edge. You do not play entitled, passive, or polite. You compete with force, urgency, and a refusal to be easy to play against. 🍃 Best Conditioned = fatigue cannot become your excuse. When everybody else is negotiating with tired, your habits, preparation, and discipline allow you to keep executing. 👔 Most Professional = your standard does not change with your mood. You show up on time, do your job, accept coaching, tell the truth, and carry yourself like the work matters. 👎 Least Liked = when teams see you on the schedule they feel a wave of frustration, a smidge of anxiety, and that feeling you get before jump into a cold pool that feels like fear mixed with regret. Giannis Antetokounmpo will be indoctrinated into the Miami HEAT identity from day 1. Heat Culture became (in)famous because words showed up in behaviors. Everybody wants the reputation of toughness. Coach Spo and the Heat built it through repetition. ☄️

Erik Spoelstra on the Five Core Tenants of Miami "Heat Culture": 1️⃣ Toughest 2️⃣ Nastiest 3️⃣ Best Conditioned 4️⃣ Most Professional 5️⃣ Least Liked 💪 Toughest = You do not need ideal circumstances to compete. You can absorb contact, handle adversity, and keep responding when the game stops being comfortable. 😷 Nastiest = You set the standard with your edge. You do not play entitled, passive, or polite. You compete with force, urgency, and a refusal to be easy to play against. 🍃 Best Conditioned = fatigue cannot become your excuse. When everybody else is negotiating with tired, your habits, preparation, and discipline allow you to keep executing. 👔 Most Professional = your standard does not change with your mood. You show up on time, do your job, accept coaching, tell the truth, and carry yourself like the work matters. 👎 Least Liked = when teams see you on the schedule they feel a wave of frustration, a smidge of anxiety, and that feeling you get before jump into a cold pool that feels like fear mixed with regret. Giannis Antetokounmpo will be indoctrinated into the Miami HEAT identity from day 1. Heat Culture became (in)famous because words showed up in behaviors. Everybody wants the reputation of toughness. Coach Spo and the Heat built it through repetition. ☄️

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I love this perspective from #NBAFinals bound San Antonio Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson on the tension between potential and experience: Experience is valuable, but it doesn't tell the whole story. 📖 Our brains 🧠 tend to naturally trust what they've already seen. A familiar outcome. A more predictable asset. A long résumé. A player with years of reps. Someone with a collection of war stories and proven results. The bias is so easily formed. But it's important to remember as leaders, experience only tells you where someone HAS been. It doesn't tell you what their habits look like today. It doesn't reveal their hunger, their discipline, their willingness to learn, or the standards they hold themselves to when nobody is watching. Experience isn't correlated to their TRAJECTORY. 📈📉 That's why we sometimes overlook youth and inexperience. It happens in every industry, not just sports. "Bosses" often mistake a lack of history for a lack of ability. Past performance can provide clues, but it doesn't guarantee future success. The future is often built by the person whose habits are stronger than their résumé. Experience tells you where someone's from. Habits tell you where they're going. If you're trying to do something transformational, spend less time obsessing over what's already happened and more time focused on what's happening right now: the reps you can control, the hours of preparation you can invest, the standards you can uphold today with zero grace. Because counter intuitively, experience isn't gained in big moments. It's accumulated in EVERY moment. In every rep. In every habit. In how you approach anything and everything. The game is just where those habits reveal themselves to the public. Old dogs know where the food is, but the hungry dogs will always run further. 🐶

I love this perspective from #NBAFinals bound San Antonio Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson on the tension between potential and experience: Experience is valuable, but it doesn't tell the whole story. 📖 Our brains 🧠 tend to naturally trust what they've already seen. A familiar outcome. A more predictable asset. A long résumé. A player with years of reps. Someone with a collection of war stories and proven results. The bias is so easily formed. But it's important to remember as leaders, experience only tells you where someone HAS been. It doesn't tell you what their habits look like today. It doesn't reveal their hunger, their discipline, their willingness to learn, or the standards they hold themselves to when nobody is watching. Experience isn't correlated to their TRAJECTORY. 📈📉 That's why we sometimes overlook youth and inexperience. It happens in every industry, not just sports. "Bosses" often mistake a lack of history for a lack of ability. Past performance can provide clues, but it doesn't guarantee future success. The future is often built by the person whose habits are stronger than their résumé. Experience tells you where someone's from. Habits tell you where they're going. If you're trying to do something transformational, spend less time obsessing over what's already happened and more time focused on what's happening right now: the reps you can control, the hours of preparation you can invest, the standards you can uphold today with zero grace. Because counter intuitively, experience isn't gained in big moments. It's accumulated in EVERY moment. In every rep. In every habit. In how you approach anything and everything. The game is just where those habits reveal themselves to the public. Old dogs know where the food is, but the hungry dogs will always run further. 🐶

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Charles Barkley says Michael Jordan once called to check on him at 3AM after a devastating playoff loss, and says when he told him he was sulking because his season was over Jordan picked him up on his private jet 4 hours later to go play golf and raise his spirits “You know, Michael was my best friend for a long time, and I said, ‘Michael, I love Michael like a brother.’ I remember the show very, very well. So I’m sitting there, and we were talking about the job he was doing. I said, ‘I love Michael like a brother, but he’s never going to be successful as a general manager as long as he’s hiring only his friends.’” “When you’re famous, the number one thing you’ve got to do is surround yourself with people who hold you accountable. But when you’re Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley or any famous person, most of the people on your payroll, they’re flying around in your private jet, you’re buying all the drinks, you’re buying all the dinners, so nobody’s ever going to tell you no. Ever. So you have to surround yourself with people like, ‘No, man, maybe you shouldn’t do that. Maybe you’ve had too much to drink.’” “So I lost one time, and I’m playing for the Rockets, and Michael calls me about three or four in the morning. He says, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Nothing, sitting here sulking. We lost last night.’ He said, ‘I’ll pick you up in four hours.’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I’m coming to get you. We’re going to go play some golf. The season’s over. You need to get away.’” “And in four hours, he picked me up at the private airport right by my house on his private jet. And I get on there, and Darrell Walker’s on there, and he said something I’ll never forget. He says, ‘We can’t mess this up.’”

Charles Barkley says Michael Jordan once called to check on him at 3AM after a devastating playoff loss, and says when he told him he was sulking because his season was over Jordan picked him up on his private jet 4 hours later to go play golf and raise his spirits “You know, Michael was my best friend for a long time, and I said, ‘Michael, I love Michael like a brother.’ I remember the show very, very well. So I’m sitting there, and we were talking about the job he was doing. I said, ‘I love Michael like a brother, but he’s never going to be successful as a general manager as long as he’s hiring only his friends.’” “When you’re famous, the number one thing you’ve got to do is surround yourself with people who hold you accountable. But when you’re Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley or any famous person, most of the people on your payroll, they’re flying around in your private jet, you’re buying all the drinks, you’re buying all the dinners, so nobody’s ever going to tell you no. Ever. So you have to surround yourself with people like, ‘No, man, maybe you shouldn’t do that. Maybe you’ve had too much to drink.’” “So I lost one time, and I’m playing for the Rockets, and Michael calls me about three or four in the morning. He says, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Nothing, sitting here sulking. We lost last night.’ He said, ‘I’ll pick you up in four hours.’ I said, ‘What?’ He says, ‘I’m coming to get you. We’re going to go play some golf. The season’s over. You need to get away.’” “And in four hours, he picked me up at the private airport right by my house on his private jet. And I get on there, and Darrell Walker’s on there, and he said something I’ll never forget. He says, ‘We can’t mess this up.’”

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John Salley says Shaquille O’Neal once loaned him $70,000 when they were teammates and he needed money, and when he tried to pay him back Shaq refused to accept it, so he secretly wrote him in as an investor in his new business that’s equity he’ll get is worth way more “And when I needed cash, he said, ‘How much?’ Seventy. Seventy thousand. And then this deal, I went back and said, ‘I’m going to...’ He said, ‘No, no, we're good.’” “He didn’t want it back. And I was like, huh. And then somebody was like, ‘Yeah, people owe you, you still pay.’ And I was like, to this day, which I’m going to say on the show, because the cannabis business is becoming very, very good for us, I got him in my brain as an investor. You understand what I’m saying?” “So when I kick back, it’s how many years ago was that? At this percentage, if you would've put it in the bank, it would’ve given you this. Yeah, well, I'm going to give you this and this, and you can do whatever you want with it.” “When he was with Hoopz... Hoopz is one of my favorite people on the planet, she told him, she was like, ‘That’s a real cat.’ And he always knows it.”

John Salley says Shaquille O’Neal once loaned him $70,000 when they were teammates and he needed money, and when he tried to pay him back Shaq refused to accept it, so he secretly wrote him in as an investor in his new business that’s equity he’ll get is worth way more “And when I needed cash, he said, ‘How much?’ Seventy. Seventy thousand. And then this deal, I went back and said, ‘I’m going to...’ He said, ‘No, no, we're good.’” “He didn’t want it back. And I was like, huh. And then somebody was like, ‘Yeah, people owe you, you still pay.’ And I was like, to this day, which I’m going to say on the show, because the cannabis business is becoming very, very good for us, I got him in my brain as an investor. You understand what I’m saying?” “So when I kick back, it’s how many years ago was that? At this percentage, if you would've put it in the bank, it would’ve given you this. Yeah, well, I'm going to give you this and this, and you can do whatever you want with it.” “When he was with Hoopz... Hoopz is one of my favorite people on the planet, she told him, she was like, ‘That’s a real cat.’ And he always knows it.”

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Terry Robiskie says as an NFL head coach he once received a message from his team's owner telling him not to let a player on his team earn his $300,000 contract bonus for total receptions, and says instead of listening to the owner he deliberately called plays to help that player reach the incentive “Larry Centers was our fullback, and your daddy would always feature him. Your daddy made sure Larry Centers caught six, seven balls a game. He was the best at getting balls in the right hands of the right people.” “I'll never forget it. We were playing Arizona, which was Larry's old team. Larry came to my office, sat down at my desk, and said, ‘Coach, you know, I didn't make that much money this year on my salary. But I need six catches in this game.’” “And Norv would always get him seven, nine catches. He said, ‘I need six catches in this game. If I get those six catches, man, I got a $300,000 bonus.’ And I turned and looked at him. I said, ‘Three hundred? Are you crazy? I don't make but $140,000. I'm the head coach!’” “He said, ‘Coach, man, I gotta get these six catches for this $300,000, man. I'll give you a thousand.’ I said, ‘Okay, good. Give me a thousand!’ But right then, that guy wanted to know, ‘Coach, do you really care about me?’ You know what I mean? And I know that I got a little note from the owner of that team saying, ‘Don't let that guy get them six catches.’” “I threw him seven balls in the first quarter. I made sure he got them. I never got my thousand dollars from him. I gotta get my thousand! But I made sure he had his incentive. And I told the owner, ‘If you don't want him to make that incentive, don't put it in his contract, because I'm the wrong guy.’ I'm the wrong guy.”

Terry Robiskie says as an NFL head coach he once received a message from his team's owner telling him not to let a player on his team earn his $300,000 contract bonus for total receptions, and says instead of listening to the owner he deliberately called plays to help that player reach the incentive “Larry Centers was our fullback, and your daddy would always feature him. Your daddy made sure Larry Centers caught six, seven balls a game. He was the best at getting balls in the right hands of the right people.” “I'll never forget it. We were playing Arizona, which was Larry's old team. Larry came to my office, sat down at my desk, and said, ‘Coach, you know, I didn't make that much money this year on my salary. But I need six catches in this game.’” “And Norv would always get him seven, nine catches. He said, ‘I need six catches in this game. If I get those six catches, man, I got a $300,000 bonus.’ And I turned and looked at him. I said, ‘Three hundred? Are you crazy? I don't make but $140,000. I'm the head coach!’” “He said, ‘Coach, man, I gotta get these six catches for this $300,000, man. I'll give you a thousand.’ I said, ‘Okay, good. Give me a thousand!’ But right then, that guy wanted to know, ‘Coach, do you really care about me?’ You know what I mean? And I know that I got a little note from the owner of that team saying, ‘Don't let that guy get them six catches.’” “I threw him seven balls in the first quarter. I made sure he got them. I never got my thousand dollars from him. I gotta get my thousand! But I made sure he had his incentive. And I told the owner, ‘If you don't want him to make that incentive, don't put it in his contract, because I'm the wrong guy.’ I'm the wrong guy.”

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Jim Nantz says Mike Ditka used to pay and tip for everything with $100 bills, and never ask for change “I noticed early on that all he carried were $100 bills. All he did was peel off hundreds all the time. Buy a beer at the bar on the way out to dinner, ‘Yeah, give me a Budweiser.’ $100. Keep the change.” “Coat check, comes into a restaurant, comes out, $100. Man on the street, homeless, there was one guy that kind of understood the routine and he was there every week. Mike, every time, $100 bill.” “I finally got up the nerve to say, ‘Hey coach, why don’t you ever get change? Why just the hundreds?’ He says, ‘Hey, what’s the difference anyway?’” “He said, ‘You know, the way I look at it, when I die and they drop me down into the ground, I hope there’s a little opening in that coffin and my last $100 bill comes flying out and goes up into the sky and drifts away. That would make me happy.’” “So I said, ‘This gets a little pricey, doesn’t it?’ ‘It’s not that bad, Jim.’ He said, ‘Here’s the way I rationalize it in my head. We got 20 weeks. I come every single Friday to New York. I come in with 50 $100 bills, $5,000. And at the end of the season, I’m spending $100,000.’” “He would say, ‘I’ve allocated $100,000 to the football season to go enjoy myself in New York. And that’s the way it is.’ I take $5,000 in cash in hundreds every single week. And that’s what he did.”

Jim Nantz says Mike Ditka used to pay and tip for everything with $100 bills, and never ask for change “I noticed early on that all he carried were $100 bills. All he did was peel off hundreds all the time. Buy a beer at the bar on the way out to dinner, ‘Yeah, give me a Budweiser.’ $100. Keep the change.” “Coat check, comes into a restaurant, comes out, $100. Man on the street, homeless, there was one guy that kind of understood the routine and he was there every week. Mike, every time, $100 bill.” “I finally got up the nerve to say, ‘Hey coach, why don’t you ever get change? Why just the hundreds?’ He says, ‘Hey, what’s the difference anyway?’” “He said, ‘You know, the way I look at it, when I die and they drop me down into the ground, I hope there’s a little opening in that coffin and my last $100 bill comes flying out and goes up into the sky and drifts away. That would make me happy.’” “So I said, ‘This gets a little pricey, doesn’t it?’ ‘It’s not that bad, Jim.’ He said, ‘Here’s the way I rationalize it in my head. We got 20 weeks. I come every single Friday to New York. I come in with 50 $100 bills, $5,000. And at the end of the season, I’m spending $100,000.’” “He would say, ‘I’ve allocated $100,000 to the football season to go enjoy myself in New York. And that’s the way it is.’ I take $5,000 in cash in hundreds every single week. And that’s what he did.”

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Brian Westbrook reveals what Andy Reid said to him while standing beside his own son's casket at his funeral, Westbrook approached his former coach hoping to comfort him during the most heartbreaking moment of his life, and says instead Reid looked at Westbrook and asked how he could help him because he knew he had just transitioned out of football and was looking for what was next “I’ll say Andy Reid. Andy Reid was important and influential in my life because you go into the league from a Division I-AA school, and you don't really know very many people. You're just there to grind. And the one thing Andy Reid said was, ‘Listen, I don't want to hear you talk. I don't want you to do all this other stuff. I just want you to listen to your veterans, follow their lead, and grind every single day. And if you do that, I'm going to give you a chance. I'm going to give you an opportunity.’” “And he was a man of his word. When someone says all you have to do is these things, and you follow those things, and they're going to give you this, that's meaningful to you. And to this day, I'll never forget this. This was one of the most, it was actually weird—but I think it shows the man that Andy Reid is.” “His son had a bad drug problem and ended up passing away at camp. I was a year out of the NFL at this time, and so I'm going to the funeral. And the strength of this man, Andy Reid, he's standing at his son's casket. I mean, there's lines a mile long to see him. And I walk up to him, and I'm broken because I knew these kids since I was in college. I'm broken.” “And I give him a hug, and I'm crying, and I'm like, ‘Coach, you good? What do you need?’ Before he even answered my question, he said, ‘What do you need? How can I help you? You're out of the league now. You're doing different things, TV, radio, all this other stuff. How can I help you get to where you want to?’” “We're literally at his son's funeral, beside his son's casket, and he's asking me this. And I'm confused because I'm like, ‘I'm here to comfort you.’ And through all of this, he is still trying to help former players. Still trying to mentor. Still trying to do those things. And even today, when you hear players talk about Andy Reid, they say he's a father figure. He's a great man. He's the best coach.” “Even the issues that him and T.O. had, they're tight like this today, right? And so, you know, I think about guys like that. I probably could name another 50 guys that certainly had an impact on my Mount Rushmore, but those people have influenced my life in so many different ways. Things would be totally different for me if I didn't have those men in my life, and my mother, of course.”

Brian Westbrook reveals what Andy Reid said to him while standing beside his own son's casket at his funeral, Westbrook approached his former coach hoping to comfort him during the most heartbreaking moment of his life, and says instead Reid looked at Westbrook and asked how he could help him because he knew he had just transitioned out of football and was looking for what was next “I’ll say Andy Reid. Andy Reid was important and influential in my life because you go into the league from a Division I-AA school, and you don't really know very many people. You're just there to grind. And the one thing Andy Reid said was, ‘Listen, I don't want to hear you talk. I don't want you to do all this other stuff. I just want you to listen to your veterans, follow their lead, and grind every single day. And if you do that, I'm going to give you a chance. I'm going to give you an opportunity.’” “And he was a man of his word. When someone says all you have to do is these things, and you follow those things, and they're going to give you this, that's meaningful to you. And to this day, I'll never forget this. This was one of the most, it was actually weird—but I think it shows the man that Andy Reid is.” “His son had a bad drug problem and ended up passing away at camp. I was a year out of the NFL at this time, and so I'm going to the funeral. And the strength of this man, Andy Reid, he's standing at his son's casket. I mean, there's lines a mile long to see him. And I walk up to him, and I'm broken because I knew these kids since I was in college. I'm broken.” “And I give him a hug, and I'm crying, and I'm like, ‘Coach, you good? What do you need?’ Before he even answered my question, he said, ‘What do you need? How can I help you? You're out of the league now. You're doing different things, TV, radio, all this other stuff. How can I help you get to where you want to?’” “We're literally at his son's funeral, beside his son's casket, and he's asking me this. And I'm confused because I'm like, ‘I'm here to comfort you.’ And through all of this, he is still trying to help former players. Still trying to mentor. Still trying to do those things. And even today, when you hear players talk about Andy Reid, they say he's a father figure. He's a great man. He's the best coach.” “Even the issues that him and T.O. had, they're tight like this today, right? And so, you know, I think about guys like that. I probably could name another 50 guys that certainly had an impact on my Mount Rushmore, but those people have influenced my life in so many different ways. Things would be totally different for me if I didn't have those men in my life, and my mother, of course.”

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Marcellus Wiley says Jamal Crawford challenged Michael Jordan to a shooting contest that started with a $1,000 bet and eventually escalated to wagering their cars “Jamal Crawford challenged Michael Jordan to a three-point shootout for $1,000. Yep, I know what y'all thinking. That's it? I was thinking the same thing. I was like, well, maybe Jamal doesn't bet because I know Michael Jordan gambles. So maybe Jamal's not a betting type like me. So he's just like, ‘All right, put a little skin in the game. Let's go.’” “Okay, so Jordan won. And then he was like, ‘Dog, $1,000 is for babies,’ and upped the amount to five G's. Now, you know Jamal. He's not a gambling man, maybe, but he ain't no punk either, right? And the boy can shoot. Oh, he can shoot!” “And this time, Jamal won. Michael Jordan then asked Jamal, ‘What car did you drive up here with? What kind of car did you drive here with?’ Jamal replied, ‘A Mercedes.’ You know, probably back then, what was it? A Benz 190 2.5? Nah, he probably had a 560 SEC with the Alpine kit, whatever the hell that was. That big Transformer-looking Mercedes. But he said, ‘I got a Mercedes. I got a Benz outside.’” “Jordan said, ‘I came with a Ferrari.’ That Modena or something, right? Whoa! I love it, love it, love it. I love your Ferrari, damn it! Let's bet our cars... So now, you know Jamal ain't no punk. You're like, ‘All right, let's do it.’” “Jordan went five for five. Remove Crawford's personalized license plate. Get that off of it! What do you think his license plate said? J-Craw Five or something? Took it off and left with his Benz. Took that dude's Benz off of a three-point shooting contest they had. Crazy, man!”

Marcellus Wiley says Jamal Crawford challenged Michael Jordan to a shooting contest that started with a $1,000 bet and eventually escalated to wagering their cars “Jamal Crawford challenged Michael Jordan to a three-point shootout for $1,000. Yep, I know what y'all thinking. That's it? I was thinking the same thing. I was like, well, maybe Jamal doesn't bet because I know Michael Jordan gambles. So maybe Jamal's not a betting type like me. So he's just like, ‘All right, put a little skin in the game. Let's go.’” “Okay, so Jordan won. And then he was like, ‘Dog, $1,000 is for babies,’ and upped the amount to five G's. Now, you know Jamal. He's not a gambling man, maybe, but he ain't no punk either, right? And the boy can shoot. Oh, he can shoot!” “And this time, Jamal won. Michael Jordan then asked Jamal, ‘What car did you drive up here with? What kind of car did you drive here with?’ Jamal replied, ‘A Mercedes.’ You know, probably back then, what was it? A Benz 190 2.5? Nah, he probably had a 560 SEC with the Alpine kit, whatever the hell that was. That big Transformer-looking Mercedes. But he said, ‘I got a Mercedes. I got a Benz outside.’” “Jordan said, ‘I came with a Ferrari.’ That Modena or something, right? Whoa! I love it, love it, love it. I love your Ferrari, damn it! Let's bet our cars... So now, you know Jamal ain't no punk. You're like, ‘All right, let's do it.’” “Jordan went five for five. Remove Crawford's personalized license plate. Get that off of it! What do you think his license plate said? J-Craw Five or something? Took it off and left with his Benz. Took that dude's Benz off of a three-point shooting contest they had. Crazy, man!”

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Chandler Parsons says Kobe Bryant once covered a $22,000 nightclub bill for him and his Houston Rockets teammates when he was a rookie playing in Los Angeles “So I got a good Kobe story. My rookie year, we’re playing here in Staples Center, and McHale tells us before, he pulls me aside, ‘Look, you’re going to see crazy people. You’re going to see celebrities there. Lock in. And Kobe, he’s going to try and bust your ass. He’s going to be offended you’re guarding him.’” “And I’m like, ‘Cool. I love it. I’m flattered to guard him.’ So I go there, and first of all, I’m just looking courtside. My head’s on a swivel. I’ve never seen this before. I’m like, ‘Goddamn, this is crazy.’ Denzel’s there, and this chick’s there. I’m like, ‘Wow.’ So I’m already distracted. And of course, I’m starting on Kobe. Jordan Hill that year had gotten traded from Houston to L.A., so I had known him, just as a little side note.” “Fourth quarter comes around, and Kobe looks at me and he’s like, ‘Are you guys staying the night tonight?’ And I’m looking at McHale, making sure he’s not looking at me. I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, he’s doing it. He’s Mr. Miyagi-ing me right now.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up? We’re staying.’ He goes, ‘I’ll set you up. I’ll get your number from J. Hill, and if you want to go out tonight…’ I’m like, ‘Stop. I know what you’re doing. Come on.’ McHale’s over there grilling me, like, ‘Stop talking this shit.’” “So the game ends. He ends up just going off. He had like 40 that game. We lose. After the game, right there in L.A. Live, we go to Katsuya. We’re with all the OGs. We’re with Marcus Camby, and they’re all taking me out. I get a text, and it goes, ‘You’re all set at Supperclub., Mamba.’ And I’m looking around like, ‘All right, who’s fucking with me? No way.’ Courtney Lee was my guy, right? I’m showing him, like, ‘Is this real? You got his number?’ And I write him back. I said something like, ‘Are you coming?’ He’s like, ‘Nah, I can’t make it, but my guy will hit you up.’ Next text: ‘Hey, you’re set up. Let me know what you need at Supperclub,’ whatever.” “So at this point, I’m telling the table, ‘Guys, I got it. My guy set it up. Let’s go.’ J.B. Bickerstaff is there. I’m bringing coaches, I’m bringing trainers. I got it. And we have a blast. We have the craziest night ever. Supperclub was the club where the tables were beds. It was awesome. It was nuts. And 2 a.m. rolls around. Granted, I’m with these guys that made hundreds of millions of dollars, and this waitress beelines right to me with the check.” “And I’m like, ‘Oh, shit.’ My dad’s my financial advisor at the time. He would be on my ass if I value-sized my combo meal at Chick-fil-A. And she’s bringing me this bill for God knows how much. I’m like, ‘Oh, man.’ I open it, and it’s like $22,000. And now, at this point, I’m sick. I’m physically like, ‘No, no, I can’t do this. My card’s going to bounce.’” “And I’ll never forget this. This chick looks at me, hands me a pen, and says, ‘Sign for Mr. Bryant.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ I’m like, ‘Video the whole thing!’ I’m signing Kobe Bryant. I signed Kobe Bryant on a $22,000 club bill. And everyone, by the way, they say he’s tough, he’s going to go at you. I’m like, ‘This dude was cool as fuck.’”

Chandler Parsons says Kobe Bryant once covered a $22,000 nightclub bill for him and his Houston Rockets teammates when he was a rookie playing in Los Angeles “So I got a good Kobe story. My rookie year, we’re playing here in Staples Center, and McHale tells us before, he pulls me aside, ‘Look, you’re going to see crazy people. You’re going to see celebrities there. Lock in. And Kobe, he’s going to try and bust your ass. He’s going to be offended you’re guarding him.’” “And I’m like, ‘Cool. I love it. I’m flattered to guard him.’ So I go there, and first of all, I’m just looking courtside. My head’s on a swivel. I’ve never seen this before. I’m like, ‘Goddamn, this is crazy.’ Denzel’s there, and this chick’s there. I’m like, ‘Wow.’ So I’m already distracted. And of course, I’m starting on Kobe. Jordan Hill that year had gotten traded from Houston to L.A., so I had known him, just as a little side note.” “Fourth quarter comes around, and Kobe looks at me and he’s like, ‘Are you guys staying the night tonight?’ And I’m looking at McHale, making sure he’s not looking at me. I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, he’s doing it. He’s Mr. Miyagi-ing me right now.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, what’s up? We’re staying.’ He goes, ‘I’ll set you up. I’ll get your number from J. Hill, and if you want to go out tonight…’ I’m like, ‘Stop. I know what you’re doing. Come on.’ McHale’s over there grilling me, like, ‘Stop talking this shit.’” “So the game ends. He ends up just going off. He had like 40 that game. We lose. After the game, right there in L.A. Live, we go to Katsuya. We’re with all the OGs. We’re with Marcus Camby, and they’re all taking me out. I get a text, and it goes, ‘You’re all set at Supperclub., Mamba.’ And I’m looking around like, ‘All right, who’s fucking with me? No way.’ Courtney Lee was my guy, right? I’m showing him, like, ‘Is this real? You got his number?’ And I write him back. I said something like, ‘Are you coming?’ He’s like, ‘Nah, I can’t make it, but my guy will hit you up.’ Next text: ‘Hey, you’re set up. Let me know what you need at Supperclub,’ whatever.” “So at this point, I’m telling the table, ‘Guys, I got it. My guy set it up. Let’s go.’ J.B. Bickerstaff is there. I’m bringing coaches, I’m bringing trainers. I got it. And we have a blast. We have the craziest night ever. Supperclub was the club where the tables were beds. It was awesome. It was nuts. And 2 a.m. rolls around. Granted, I’m with these guys that made hundreds of millions of dollars, and this waitress beelines right to me with the check.” “And I’m like, ‘Oh, shit.’ My dad’s my financial advisor at the time. He would be on my ass if I value-sized my combo meal at Chick-fil-A. And she’s bringing me this bill for God knows how much. I’m like, ‘Oh, man.’ I open it, and it’s like $22,000. And now, at this point, I’m sick. I’m physically like, ‘No, no, I can’t do this. My card’s going to bounce.’” “And I’ll never forget this. This chick looks at me, hands me a pen, and says, ‘Sign for Mr. Bryant.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ I’m like, ‘Video the whole thing!’ I’m signing Kobe Bryant. I signed Kobe Bryant on a $22,000 club bill. And everyone, by the way, they say he’s tough, he’s going to go at you. I’m like, ‘This dude was cool as fuck.’”

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Edgerrin James says that he used his first NFL signing bonus to buy two rundown buildings in a drug-affected neighborhood in his hometown and turn them into a recreational center for local kids “I mean, it’s appropriate. You know, them things you’re supposed to do. That’s your way of really giving back and helping and showing. You can help a lot of people by making one move. One move can change the structure of so many other kids. Like right now, from Immokalee, we got four guys that’s in the NFL right now, and those same four guys used to come to that same building that we opened up and that we had around. And it was actually pretty cool to actually see that, you know, they were a part of it.” “Exactly. And that’s what it’s about. You’re showing them that it’s possible, and that’s part of my whole MO, man. Like, look, I’m going to come across as normal, and I’m going to do all the same things y’all do. So I’m showing you that it’s possible. Right now, you got to dig into it a little bit more to say, ‘Okay, what separated me from them?’ And that’s when that discipline and that hard work and really knowing what it’s going to take, or doing what it’s going to take, to get there.” “Yeah, you got D.J. Swearinger, you got Mackensie Alexander, you got D’Ernest Johnson that played for the Cleveland Browns, and then you got the Pro Bowler, J.C., that played for the New England Patriots. You know, all four of those kids, they used to be around. They’re all out of Immokalee, and that’s what it’s about. To have kids that’s in the community that actually see you do what you do, and they follow in those footsteps.” “I got a million names from them. They actually make you feel old. Like, they really the ones that make you feel old. And then you go back, you go through some of the pictures, and you see the kids out there doing what they were doing. Like, dang, I’ve really been around a long time. And to see J.C. go to the Pro Bowl, you’re like, man, I watched this kid from birth. But it’s a good feeling to know that you got people coming from your area that you inspired.”

Edgerrin James says that he used his first NFL signing bonus to buy two rundown buildings in a drug-affected neighborhood in his hometown and turn them into a recreational center for local kids “I mean, it’s appropriate. You know, them things you’re supposed to do. That’s your way of really giving back and helping and showing. You can help a lot of people by making one move. One move can change the structure of so many other kids. Like right now, from Immokalee, we got four guys that’s in the NFL right now, and those same four guys used to come to that same building that we opened up and that we had around. And it was actually pretty cool to actually see that, you know, they were a part of it.” “Exactly. And that’s what it’s about. You’re showing them that it’s possible, and that’s part of my whole MO, man. Like, look, I’m going to come across as normal, and I’m going to do all the same things y’all do. So I’m showing you that it’s possible. Right now, you got to dig into it a little bit more to say, ‘Okay, what separated me from them?’ And that’s when that discipline and that hard work and really knowing what it’s going to take, or doing what it’s going to take, to get there.” “Yeah, you got D.J. Swearinger, you got Mackensie Alexander, you got D’Ernest Johnson that played for the Cleveland Browns, and then you got the Pro Bowler, J.C., that played for the New England Patriots. You know, all four of those kids, they used to be around. They’re all out of Immokalee, and that’s what it’s about. To have kids that’s in the community that actually see you do what you do, and they follow in those footsteps.” “I got a million names from them. They actually make you feel old. Like, they really the ones that make you feel old. And then you go back, you go through some of the pictures, and you see the kids out there doing what they were doing. Like, dang, I’ve really been around a long time. And to see J.C. go to the Pro Bowl, you’re like, man, I watched this kid from birth. But it’s a good feeling to know that you got people coming from your area that you inspired.”

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Kevin Garnett says after a loss to the Lakers early in the season Doc Rivers once demanded $100 from every player, coach, and staff member on the Boston Celtics, and says Rivers then climbed onto a chair and hid the money above the ceiling tiles in the Lakers’ visiting locker room, and told his team they would only get their money back if they got back there for the NBA finals “It was ’09–’10. We went into ’08, we go home, Conference Finals. ’09, the Lakers win it, and then we match up with the Lakers in ’10. But when we started off the year, we didn’t start off with the greatest start. We play the Lakers in L.A., and Doc comes in and says, ‘I want everybody to give me a hundred dollars.’” “Why? I’m looking around at people like, ‘Goddamn it.’ I pull out a hundred dollars. Everybody’s pulling out money. Johnny Joe, who’s the equipment manager, goes around, and he’s grabbing all of it.” “As he’s grabbing it, you see that it’s starting to accumulate. It’s like maybe 30 people in this room, with coaches and players. You got 15 players, then you got seven, eight coaches, then you got your video guys, everybody around, trainers. So all together, it’s like 30 people, and he gets a hundred dollars from every person in here.” “Long story short, he gets it, and we see it. So he takes a chair, takes the ceiling and removes the ceiling. I’m like, we’re all looking at this before a game, by the way, too. ‘Doc, what are you doing?’” “He puts the money up there, and then he puts the ceiling back. Comes down, gets out of the chair, and says, ‘We’re coming back to get that money.’ He says, ‘We’re coming back to get that money.’ I said, ‘Hold on.’ Like, we’re in L.A., right? We’re in the Staples Center. I’m like, ‘What?’ So I was thinking, ‘Man, I need to start pushing this ceiling back and seeing what’s up here. He’s putting money up here thinking that it’s going to be here.’” “So I was up on him, like, ‘Man, stop tripping.’ And he was like, ‘If you don’t believe, get out. Because we’re coming back here. We’re going to be back here, and we’re going to beat this team for the championship. We’re going to get our second ring in here.’”

Kevin Garnett says after a loss to the Lakers early in the season Doc Rivers once demanded $100 from every player, coach, and staff member on the Boston Celtics, and says Rivers then climbed onto a chair and hid the money above the ceiling tiles in the Lakers’ visiting locker room, and told his team they would only get their money back if they got back there for the NBA finals “It was ’09–’10. We went into ’08, we go home, Conference Finals. ’09, the Lakers win it, and then we match up with the Lakers in ’10. But when we started off the year, we didn’t start off with the greatest start. We play the Lakers in L.A., and Doc comes in and says, ‘I want everybody to give me a hundred dollars.’” “Why? I’m looking around at people like, ‘Goddamn it.’ I pull out a hundred dollars. Everybody’s pulling out money. Johnny Joe, who’s the equipment manager, goes around, and he’s grabbing all of it.” “As he’s grabbing it, you see that it’s starting to accumulate. It’s like maybe 30 people in this room, with coaches and players. You got 15 players, then you got seven, eight coaches, then you got your video guys, everybody around, trainers. So all together, it’s like 30 people, and he gets a hundred dollars from every person in here.” “Long story short, he gets it, and we see it. So he takes a chair, takes the ceiling and removes the ceiling. I’m like, we’re all looking at this before a game, by the way, too. ‘Doc, what are you doing?’” “He puts the money up there, and then he puts the ceiling back. Comes down, gets out of the chair, and says, ‘We’re coming back to get that money.’ He says, ‘We’re coming back to get that money.’ I said, ‘Hold on.’ Like, we’re in L.A., right? We’re in the Staples Center. I’m like, ‘What?’ So I was thinking, ‘Man, I need to start pushing this ceiling back and seeing what’s up here. He’s putting money up here thinking that it’s going to be here.’” “So I was up on him, like, ‘Man, stop tripping.’ And he was like, ‘If you don’t believe, get out. Because we’re coming back here. We’re going to be back here, and we’re going to beat this team for the championship. We’re going to get our second ring in here.’”

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Tim Thomas says that when California wildfires forced his family out of their home, Kobe Bryant quietly arranged to cover his living expenses throughout Los Angeles for nearly two weeks, and says when he tried to pay for a $700 dinner bill the waitress let him know Kobe already had it covered “Man, it’s crazy. When I got in the league, I bought a house in Bryn Mawr, right? Which is five minutes from Villanova. So Lower Merion is right there. I used to see his moms and stuff at the grocery store. Obviously, we played AAU basketball together. We had our fun times with that. Got a chance to compete against each other in the league, in playoff series, all of that.” “Obviously, I lived in Calabasas. The accident happened right there. So I just felt like our connection has always been there. You know what I mean? ’96 class, all of that. But in California, they get those fires all the time. So it was one of those real bad ones. We go down to Newport Beach with the family to get out of the house. Might lose the house, whatever.” “So we pull up the first night. We’re thinking about our house, the whole shebang. We go to a restaurant to get some dinner. Kobe knows the owner. He calls, ‘Take care of my guy.’ Bill’s probably $600, $700. I’m getting ready to pull a card out. Oh, it was taken care of Who took care of it? ‘Oh, Mr. Bryant.’” “I’m like, ‘Mr. Bryant? That man don’t know I’m here. How he know I’m here?’ He was somewhere doing something. And then the rest of the time we had to be there, which was probably two weeks or so, everywhere I went in the city, I had to pay for nothing.” “Really, he took care of everything. It was so crazy. To the point where he’s got a bunch of homes down there, so he was like, ‘Yo, just go stay at the house.’ But my wife wanted to stay at the beach. We had a beachfront, so she’s like, ‘Let’s just stay here.’ But he was like, ‘You just go to the house.’”

Tim Thomas says that when California wildfires forced his family out of their home, Kobe Bryant quietly arranged to cover his living expenses throughout Los Angeles for nearly two weeks, and says when he tried to pay for a $700 dinner bill the waitress let him know Kobe already had it covered “Man, it’s crazy. When I got in the league, I bought a house in Bryn Mawr, right? Which is five minutes from Villanova. So Lower Merion is right there. I used to see his moms and stuff at the grocery store. Obviously, we played AAU basketball together. We had our fun times with that. Got a chance to compete against each other in the league, in playoff series, all of that.” “Obviously, I lived in Calabasas. The accident happened right there. So I just felt like our connection has always been there. You know what I mean? ’96 class, all of that. But in California, they get those fires all the time. So it was one of those real bad ones. We go down to Newport Beach with the family to get out of the house. Might lose the house, whatever.” “So we pull up the first night. We’re thinking about our house, the whole shebang. We go to a restaurant to get some dinner. Kobe knows the owner. He calls, ‘Take care of my guy.’ Bill’s probably $600, $700. I’m getting ready to pull a card out. Oh, it was taken care of Who took care of it? ‘Oh, Mr. Bryant.’” “I’m like, ‘Mr. Bryant? That man don’t know I’m here. How he know I’m here?’ He was somewhere doing something. And then the rest of the time we had to be there, which was probably two weeks or so, everywhere I went in the city, I had to pay for nothing.” “Really, he took care of everything. It was so crazy. To the point where he’s got a bunch of homes down there, so he was like, ‘Yo, just go stay at the house.’ But my wife wanted to stay at the beach. We had a beachfront, so she’s like, ‘Let’s just stay here.’ But he was like, ‘You just go to the house.’”

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Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm "My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are." "He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters." "And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing." "Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."

Brock Purdy says NFL quarterbacks can’t actually see where they’re throwing nearly 40% of the time, and explains why processing information is more important than having a strong arm "My quarterback coach, Brian Griese, the last couple years, he and I talked about that. He played 11 years, his dad’s Bob Griese. But we got talking about how really it’s 60/40. You can see about 60% of the time, and the other 40% you really can’t. I mean, it doesn’t matter how big you are." "He goes, that’s why it’s so important when it comes down to knowing coverages, knowing scheme, where our players are supposed to be, how many steps they’re breaking, and where the ball should be over a certain backer. All those things, man, it matters." "And that’s why guys, you know, if you go to a combine and all those things, you’re just throwing on air, and yeah, you look all good with a strong arm and fast, jumping, all that stuff. But when it comes down to 11-on-11 and you got guys that are a foot taller and you can’t see, it comes down to the processing." "Like before the play, I know that this safety is probably going to rotate down. It’s going to be one high, and I got one hitch, no more than that, to rip it where Deebo’s supposed to be, like just inside the hash. And there’s a backer that’s also got a 40-inch vert that I got to put it over. That’s what’s crazy, all those things when you’re fitting it in over the backer and underneath the deep safety."

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Phil Jackson says he told Michael Jordan he needed to score less if he wanted to win a championship because scoring titles and championships don’t go together “When I was given the job as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, I brought Michael Jordan in to speak with me, and I said, ‘You know, you’ve averaged 37, 38, 36 points a game the last three years. You know, you’ve been the scoring champion, but if you look back at the history of the NBA, there hasn’t been a scoring champion for almost 15 years who’s won the championship. They don’t go together.’” “‘And we need to take the focus off you, which is what teams now tilt their whole defense towards, stopping Michael Jordan, and open it up for the rest of our team. And it means you taking less shots a game. That’s important.’ And he stopped me and he said, ‘Are you going to run an equal-opportunity offense like Tex Winter’s been talking about?’” “I said, ‘Yeah, I guess you could call it an equal-opportunity offense, but I’m not going to be calling the plays from the sideline. You guys are going to be reading it on the floor. So if the 24-second clock is running down and it becomes red, which is the call everybody makes when it’s under five seconds, we’ll teach the team how to get the ball to you at the end of that clock because then you can score.’” “He said, ‘Well, I don’t think that I have to give up a scoring championship. I could score 32 points a game and still win a scoring championship. That’s only eight points a quarter.’ I said, ‘Michael, I had trouble scoring eight points a game when I was a player.’” “‘But rather than scoring eight points a quarter, why don’t you save that for the fourth quarter and score 14 points in the fourth quarter and take us home? And you can do what you want to do during the early part of the game and then put the onus and the nail in the coffin in the fourth quarter to seal the deal.’ He kind of liked that idea.” “And, you know, I think we lost two or three of our first games that we played in my first year coaching, and everybody had to kind of figure out how to do it, how to play together when the ball was dictating the action, when the passes were dictating what people would do, rather than a specific number for a player being called from the sideline. And I gave the team a little bit of authority, which is exactly what a coach wants to happen.”

Phil Jackson says he told Michael Jordan he needed to score less if he wanted to win a championship because scoring titles and championships don’t go together “When I was given the job as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls, I brought Michael Jordan in to speak with me, and I said, ‘You know, you’ve averaged 37, 38, 36 points a game the last three years. You know, you’ve been the scoring champion, but if you look back at the history of the NBA, there hasn’t been a scoring champion for almost 15 years who’s won the championship. They don’t go together.’” “‘And we need to take the focus off you, which is what teams now tilt their whole defense towards, stopping Michael Jordan, and open it up for the rest of our team. And it means you taking less shots a game. That’s important.’ And he stopped me and he said, ‘Are you going to run an equal-opportunity offense like Tex Winter’s been talking about?’” “I said, ‘Yeah, I guess you could call it an equal-opportunity offense, but I’m not going to be calling the plays from the sideline. You guys are going to be reading it on the floor. So if the 24-second clock is running down and it becomes red, which is the call everybody makes when it’s under five seconds, we’ll teach the team how to get the ball to you at the end of that clock because then you can score.’” “He said, ‘Well, I don’t think that I have to give up a scoring championship. I could score 32 points a game and still win a scoring championship. That’s only eight points a quarter.’ I said, ‘Michael, I had trouble scoring eight points a game when I was a player.’” “‘But rather than scoring eight points a quarter, why don’t you save that for the fourth quarter and score 14 points in the fourth quarter and take us home? And you can do what you want to do during the early part of the game and then put the onus and the nail in the coffin in the fourth quarter to seal the deal.’ He kind of liked that idea.” “And, you know, I think we lost two or three of our first games that we played in my first year coaching, and everybody had to kind of figure out how to do it, how to play together when the ball was dictating the action, when the passes were dictating what people would do, rather than a specific number for a player being called from the sideline. And I gave the team a little bit of authority, which is exactly what a coach wants to happen.”

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Drake Maye says he drinks alcohol fewer than 5 times a year, even though teammates and friends have flamed him and told him he was missing out, says he sees drinking as voluntarily making goals harder to reach “It started from my dad, really. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him take a sip of alcohol. My brother Luke didn’t drink growing up. My brother Bo doesn’t drink. It’s something where I just followed people that I really admired. That’s my dad, my oldest brother Luke.” “I’ll get on the beach and have a piña colada, but I’m not one to drink. I probably drink less than five times a year, 10 times a year. I’ve been used to people I admire putting away something that I feel like can prohibit you from reaching your goals.” “It’s always hard for me because people joke about, ‘Man, you’re not one of the boys, having a drink. You’re missing out on a great time.’ But it’s become my ritual. Unless I’m on the beach and maybe get a piña colada, it’s not really something I enjoy.” “Even in college, I didn’t really have that itch to get out there and enjoy those things. Sure, I may have missed some of those nights with teammates or some college buddies, but at the end of the day, I don’t think it was worth it for me.”

Drake Maye says he drinks alcohol fewer than 5 times a year, even though teammates and friends have flamed him and told him he was missing out, says he sees drinking as voluntarily making goals harder to reach “It started from my dad, really. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him take a sip of alcohol. My brother Luke didn’t drink growing up. My brother Bo doesn’t drink. It’s something where I just followed people that I really admired. That’s my dad, my oldest brother Luke.” “I’ll get on the beach and have a piña colada, but I’m not one to drink. I probably drink less than five times a year, 10 times a year. I’ve been used to people I admire putting away something that I feel like can prohibit you from reaching your goals.” “It’s always hard for me because people joke about, ‘Man, you’re not one of the boys, having a drink. You’re missing out on a great time.’ But it’s become my ritual. Unless I’m on the beach and maybe get a piña colada, it’s not really something I enjoy.” “Even in college, I didn’t really have that itch to get out there and enjoy those things. Sure, I may have missed some of those nights with teammates or some college buddies, but at the end of the day, I don’t think it was worth it for me.”

7,104,307 views • 1 month ago

Carmelo Anthony says LeBron James saved his life when he jumped into the ocean to rescue him after a powerful current began pulling him away from their boat during a vacation in the Bahamas “It’s truth, man. We was in the little grotto in the Bahamas, you know, you can swim underneath. I can swim, but I’m going to tell you some real shit. I can survive. That’s what you need. So we in there, and we trying to get back. Everybody swimming back to the boat, but I’m snorkeling too.” “We snorkeling on the way back, and my head is in the water, and I’m snorkeling. And I look up, and every time I look up out the water, the boat is further and further away, and I’m getting pushed by the current, by the undertow and current. I’m like, ‘Yo, yo!’ Motherfuckers looking at me like I’m joking. I’m like, ‘Yo, I need help!’ I’m swimming, I’m trying to hold on to a rock.” “I was exhausted. I’m like, ‘I ain’t going to fight that current like that.’ So one guy was like, ‘Just don’t fight it. Let it just go with it, go with the flow.’ And I see Bron jump in the water. He just, you know, Aquaman. Aquaman jump in the water.” “Because D-Wade was right in front of me. He got on right before me, so I’m thinking D going to come back. But I know D ain’t rocking with the water like that. D there like, ‘Yo, yo, go get him! Go get him!’ And I just see Bron coming like, ‘I got you, champ. I got you.’ Grab me. We went back. We went back to the boat.” “Man, all-purpose. LeBron is all-purpose, all kinds of shit. But it’s crazy because he can really, he’s very good at a lot of shit. Like, I don’t give a fuck what it is, he’s going to be successful at that. He’s going to figure it out. He one of them people. He’s just one of them natural freaks, man. I call him a lab baby, man. He was built in the lab.”

Carmelo Anthony says LeBron James saved his life when he jumped into the ocean to rescue him after a powerful current began pulling him away from their boat during a vacation in the Bahamas “It’s truth, man. We was in the little grotto in the Bahamas, you know, you can swim underneath. I can swim, but I’m going to tell you some real shit. I can survive. That’s what you need. So we in there, and we trying to get back. Everybody swimming back to the boat, but I’m snorkeling too.” “We snorkeling on the way back, and my head is in the water, and I’m snorkeling. And I look up, and every time I look up out the water, the boat is further and further away, and I’m getting pushed by the current, by the undertow and current. I’m like, ‘Yo, yo!’ Motherfuckers looking at me like I’m joking. I’m like, ‘Yo, I need help!’ I’m swimming, I’m trying to hold on to a rock.” “I was exhausted. I’m like, ‘I ain’t going to fight that current like that.’ So one guy was like, ‘Just don’t fight it. Let it just go with it, go with the flow.’ And I see Bron jump in the water. He just, you know, Aquaman. Aquaman jump in the water.” “Because D-Wade was right in front of me. He got on right before me, so I’m thinking D going to come back. But I know D ain’t rocking with the water like that. D there like, ‘Yo, yo, go get him! Go get him!’ And I just see Bron coming like, ‘I got you, champ. I got you.’ Grab me. We went back. We went back to the boat.” “Man, all-purpose. LeBron is all-purpose, all kinds of shit. But it’s crazy because he can really, he’s very good at a lot of shit. Like, I don’t give a fuck what it is, he’s going to be successful at that. He’s going to figure it out. He one of them people. He’s just one of them natural freaks, man. I call him a lab baby, man. He was built in the lab.”

279,052 views • 3 days ago

Nick Saban says he had lived his entire life like he was in a hurry and didn’t even realize it “When I retired, and I don’t know if I ever shared this with anybody, I spent 50 years of my life being in a hurry and didn’t know it.” “I retired and the cars are backed up on the bridge and it goes down to one lane. In the old days, I would be the guy that passed all the cars up and cut in at the last minute in front of somebody.” “I sat there with Miss Terry in the car. She says, ‘You mean you’re not going to pass everybody illegally and cut in?’ I said, ‘We’re not in a hurry.’” “But it’s the first time when I retired that I realized that I wasn’t in a hurry. And I was in a hurry for 50 years and didn’t know it.” “I was always hurrying up to the next thing. Solve the next problem, go to the next thing. And you talk about relieving stress, that relieves stress better than anything. I just noticed it in that circumstance. Not cutting into traffic and waiting my turn.”

Nick Saban says he had lived his entire life like he was in a hurry and didn’t even realize it “When I retired, and I don’t know if I ever shared this with anybody, I spent 50 years of my life being in a hurry and didn’t know it.” “I retired and the cars are backed up on the bridge and it goes down to one lane. In the old days, I would be the guy that passed all the cars up and cut in at the last minute in front of somebody.” “I sat there with Miss Terry in the car. She says, ‘You mean you’re not going to pass everybody illegally and cut in?’ I said, ‘We’re not in a hurry.’” “But it’s the first time when I retired that I realized that I wasn’t in a hurry. And I was in a hurry for 50 years and didn’t know it.” “I was always hurrying up to the next thing. Solve the next problem, go to the next thing. And you talk about relieving stress, that relieves stress better than anything. I just noticed it in that circumstance. Not cutting into traffic and waiting my turn.”

1,295,725 views • 14 days ago

Sean Payton reveals the late night text exchange he had with Alvin Kamara after watching him coast through a practice, and explains how he challenged him to raise his standards if he really wanted to make the Hall of Fame “I text Alvin one night, Kamara, and he’s one of my favorite players, right? And it was a Wednesday. He had a tendency, he was so gifted, he could get bored. And then if he got bored, he might drop an easy pass.” “And he had one of those Wednesdays. In season, Wednesday is the first day of practice. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And it was just a nonchalant day, and yet for someone who was so elite.” “I text him that night and I said, ‘Hey, I want to ask you a question. Can I coach you hard?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, why are you tripping?’ And I said, ‘Well, look, we’ll talk about it tomorrow.’” “And then, you know, it bothered him a little because he had to go to sleep. And then the next day he sees me in pre-practice, and I said, ‘Just let me explain this. Do you see yourself being in the Hall of Fame someday?’ And he said, ‘Yeah.’” “And I said, ‘All right. Well, I don’t think your trajectory right now is steep enough to make that goal happen. I think your trajectory is five Pro Bowls, a couple All-Pro teams, phenomenal career, all-time leading rusher, but I think your trajectory, and I think your practices have to be.. And then he starts complaining to me, and I said, ‘I thought you told me I could coach you hard.’ And then, you know, it hit him.”

Sean Payton reveals the late night text exchange he had with Alvin Kamara after watching him coast through a practice, and explains how he challenged him to raise his standards if he really wanted to make the Hall of Fame “I text Alvin one night, Kamara, and he’s one of my favorite players, right? And it was a Wednesday. He had a tendency, he was so gifted, he could get bored. And then if he got bored, he might drop an easy pass.” “And he had one of those Wednesdays. In season, Wednesday is the first day of practice. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And it was just a nonchalant day, and yet for someone who was so elite.” “I text him that night and I said, ‘Hey, I want to ask you a question. Can I coach you hard?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, why are you tripping?’ And I said, ‘Well, look, we’ll talk about it tomorrow.’” “And then, you know, it bothered him a little because he had to go to sleep. And then the next day he sees me in pre-practice, and I said, ‘Just let me explain this. Do you see yourself being in the Hall of Fame someday?’ And he said, ‘Yeah.’” “And I said, ‘All right. Well, I don’t think your trajectory right now is steep enough to make that goal happen. I think your trajectory is five Pro Bowls, a couple All-Pro teams, phenomenal career, all-time leading rusher, but I think your trajectory, and I think your practices have to be.. And then he starts complaining to me, and I said, ‘I thought you told me I could coach you hard.’ And then, you know, it hit him.”

3,047,241 views • 29 days ago

Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way “Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’” “‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.” “I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.” “I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’” “Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.” “You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.” “I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”

Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way “Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’” “‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.” “I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.” “I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’” “Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.” “You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.” “I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”

4,071,989 views • 1 month ago

Ryan French reveals Aaron Rodgers often sends money to support struggling professional golfers, and says when Rodgers learns about an aspiring golfer who can't afford to continue competing for whatever reason, he'll privately reach out to ask whether the person is deserving of help, and if so he'll send money through Venmo or donate anonymously through GoFundMe “Yeah, probably Aaron Rodgers. Aaron has been super good behind the scenes to me. We were just talking about it before we started, but I had streamed the Scottsdale Open, which I think was the only sporting event going on in the world at the time. And you could see who came in to watch your stream, and it said Aaron Rodgers. And I was just like, ‘Oh, it’s a fake account.’” “And then maybe a couple weeks later, he messaged me, and I was like, ‘What the hell is happening?’ And so he’s been super nice. He wants to keep this on the down low, so now I’m going to tell it on the podcast. But I would put out, I’ve tried my best to help players if they get their car stolen or they need money, whatever.” “And he’d just message me and be like, ‘Hey, is this a good dude or a good player?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ And he would either Venmo me money, and then I would Venmo the player, or he would do it anonymously on GoFundMe.” “And yeah, he’s been amazingly awesome. He’s helped my foundation a few times. He’s just, again, public persona and private, think what you want about Aaron, but my experience with him has been nothing but amazing.”

Ryan French reveals Aaron Rodgers often sends money to support struggling professional golfers, and says when Rodgers learns about an aspiring golfer who can't afford to continue competing for whatever reason, he'll privately reach out to ask whether the person is deserving of help, and if so he'll send money through Venmo or donate anonymously through GoFundMe “Yeah, probably Aaron Rodgers. Aaron has been super good behind the scenes to me. We were just talking about it before we started, but I had streamed the Scottsdale Open, which I think was the only sporting event going on in the world at the time. And you could see who came in to watch your stream, and it said Aaron Rodgers. And I was just like, ‘Oh, it’s a fake account.’” “And then maybe a couple weeks later, he messaged me, and I was like, ‘What the hell is happening?’ And so he’s been super nice. He wants to keep this on the down low, so now I’m going to tell it on the podcast. But I would put out, I’ve tried my best to help players if they get their car stolen or they need money, whatever.” “And he’d just message me and be like, ‘Hey, is this a good dude or a good player?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ And he would either Venmo me money, and then I would Venmo the player, or he would do it anonymously on GoFundMe.” “And yeah, he’s been amazingly awesome. He’s helped my foundation a few times. He’s just, again, public persona and private, think what you want about Aaron, but my experience with him has been nothing but amazing.”

268,291 views • 4 days ago

Ryan Shazier says Mike Tomlin and members of the Steelers organization would show up to his rehab sessions to support him after his spinal injury left him paralyzed, and says his teammates would come to his hospital room every friday night to eat pizza and play cards “Yeah, and so that's the one thing I do like about my time in Pittsburgh, and even at Ohio State. We really build friendships, and we build a chemistry. Guys really want to support each other, and we all just wanted to win.” “As I was getting better, I would go to the facility. But when I had rehab, I'd tell Coach Tomlin, Kevin, and Mr. Rooney, ‘Hey, I'm having therapy today. If you guys have time, I just want to let you know.’ And sometimes they'd show up. It was awesome. It would be cool just to see that, as I was going through the toughest time in my life, those people were there for me.” “They had my back. And when we had the linebackers, when you're in the hospital so long, it can be very depressing. So they'd come in there, and we'd just have a Friday night where we'd all chop it up, play cards, have pizza, and just hang out.” “I think it really built our friendship with a lot of those guys. But then I think it also made it a little easier for them to play together and understand responsibilities and family bonds. Because they're great people over there, and not a lot of people do that.” “Some of my friends that played on other teams tell me all the time, ‘Man, a lot of teams would not have done what the Steelers have done.’ And to me, I always say, because people always tell me, ‘Ryan, I don't know what I would've done if I was in your situation.’ And I'm like, most people, when they're in that type of situation, they try to step up. Most people just don't think they will. But I'm just really happy to see that the Steelers did in that situation.”

Ryan Shazier says Mike Tomlin and members of the Steelers organization would show up to his rehab sessions to support him after his spinal injury left him paralyzed, and says his teammates would come to his hospital room every friday night to eat pizza and play cards “Yeah, and so that's the one thing I do like about my time in Pittsburgh, and even at Ohio State. We really build friendships, and we build a chemistry. Guys really want to support each other, and we all just wanted to win.” “As I was getting better, I would go to the facility. But when I had rehab, I'd tell Coach Tomlin, Kevin, and Mr. Rooney, ‘Hey, I'm having therapy today. If you guys have time, I just want to let you know.’ And sometimes they'd show up. It was awesome. It would be cool just to see that, as I was going through the toughest time in my life, those people were there for me.” “They had my back. And when we had the linebackers, when you're in the hospital so long, it can be very depressing. So they'd come in there, and we'd just have a Friday night where we'd all chop it up, play cards, have pizza, and just hang out.” “I think it really built our friendship with a lot of those guys. But then I think it also made it a little easier for them to play together and understand responsibilities and family bonds. Because they're great people over there, and not a lot of people do that.” “Some of my friends that played on other teams tell me all the time, ‘Man, a lot of teams would not have done what the Steelers have done.’ And to me, I always say, because people always tell me, ‘Ryan, I don't know what I would've done if I was in your situation.’ And I'm like, most people, when they're in that type of situation, they try to step up. Most people just don't think they will. But I'm just really happy to see that the Steelers did in that situation.”

280,812 views • 6 days ago

Ed Orgeron reveals he told Joe Burrow in a restaurant parking lot on his recruiting visit that LSU would fire him if he didn’t get him to commit, and says he told him if he did come he would win a National Championship “Joe comes on a visit. Now Joe was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s girlfriend was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s daddy coached about an hour away from there. So Joe comes on a visit with his mom and daddy. Great people.” “The first thing he tells me, ‘Coach, I don’t want to talk to you.’ He goes, ‘Coach, I know you’re a great recruiter. All I want to do is talk football and eat crawfish.’ Next day, we had a football meeting. There’s about 12 of us there.” “It took me five minutes to figure out, remember what Jimmy Johnson taught me? Smart quarterback. Joe was the smartest guy in the room, including me, including all the coaches. So anyway, in any good sales, there’s always a crack in the door. But you got to sense that crack. You got to seize it. If the crack’s not there, wait.” “I went up to him and I said, ‘Joe, I want to talk to you.’ He went, ‘Yes, sir.’ I knew it. So I took him outside. This might have been the most important talk I ever had in all my life. I said, ‘Joe, if you tell anybody about this conversation, it never happened.’” “‘Joe, I don’t get you, they’re going to fire me. I get you, we’re going to win the national championship. That’s how important you are to me.’ They’re going to fire me if you don't come here but if you do, we're going to win it all.”

Ed Orgeron reveals he told Joe Burrow in a restaurant parking lot on his recruiting visit that LSU would fire him if he didn’t get him to commit, and says he told him if he did come he would win a National Championship “Joe comes on a visit. Now Joe was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s girlfriend was going to Cincinnati. Joe’s daddy coached about an hour away from there. So Joe comes on a visit with his mom and daddy. Great people.” “The first thing he tells me, ‘Coach, I don’t want to talk to you.’ He goes, ‘Coach, I know you’re a great recruiter. All I want to do is talk football and eat crawfish.’ Next day, we had a football meeting. There’s about 12 of us there.” “It took me five minutes to figure out, remember what Jimmy Johnson taught me? Smart quarterback. Joe was the smartest guy in the room, including me, including all the coaches. So anyway, in any good sales, there’s always a crack in the door. But you got to sense that crack. You got to seize it. If the crack’s not there, wait.” “I went up to him and I said, ‘Joe, I want to talk to you.’ He went, ‘Yes, sir.’ I knew it. So I took him outside. This might have been the most important talk I ever had in all my life. I said, ‘Joe, if you tell anybody about this conversation, it never happened.’” “‘Joe, I don’t get you, they’re going to fire me. I get you, we’re going to win the national championship. That’s how important you are to me.’ They’re going to fire me if you don't come here but if you do, we're going to win it all.”

1,800,671 views • 27 days ago