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Make sure you kill it

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Man of the people. 🫡

(via @NBA)

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

USC Trojans football team might have the toughest hype video of all time 🤯🔥

(via @uscfb)

[Coachella @coachella]

Just like that @Tinashe

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

The reason why coaches right now are fed up with coaching. We want to help your kids grow.

[🏁 Jamal Crawford @JCrossover]

Message!! 🗣️🗣️

[🏁 Jamal Crawford @JCrossover]

Message!! 🗣️🗣️

[Jaycob Ammerman @Jammer2233]

Kobe Bryant on Leadership 🎯

"Leadership is Lonely — If you are going to be a leader, you are not going to please everybody. You have to hold people accountable. Even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable."

[Crescenta Valley HS Athletics @CVFalconAD]

We had a very special guest in The Nest to help us celebrate our 2 new CIF Championship banners going up!

Thank you so much to @MagicJohnson for coming out!

@latsondheimer @Tarek_Fattal

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Wow!!

Look at this effort by Villanova from last night

THAT is a hungry group

This is a coach’s dream 🤩

[FrameChasers @ChasersFrame]

What goes around comes around.

[Matt Hackenberg @CoachHackGO]

Quotes to hang in your locker room:

-Body language never whispers, it screams

-Success is not owned, it's rented. And the rent is due every day

-Never be the player whose body language is louder than their voice

-TGHT - The Game Honors Toughness

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

11 Things Great Teammates DON’T Do:

1. Quit
2. Blame
3. Complain
4. Bring Drama
5. Point Fingers
6. Show Up Late
7. Make Excuses
8. Make Poor Choices
9. Run From a Challenge
10. Bring Negative Energy
11. Badmouth Teammates

Be a Great Teammate.

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

@KIRNEILL had a PC optimization scheduled @ 12pm EST. Still a no show to the zoom call what are the next steps?

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

LA->Idaho->LA->Dubai->Maldives
Month of travel here we go

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

Playoff Himmy is him

[Phil Beckner @PhilBeckner]

FIND A TRUTH TELLER!

Bad Players = Avoid the truth
Good Players = Accept the truth
Great Players = Crave the truth

[Todd Wolfson @CoachWolfson]

Parents:

Find a coach who will hold your son/daughter accountable and will actually coach them. You want a coach who has standards, rules, discipline and also knows how to be a mentor.

The always fun-easy coach isn’t the answer.

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

Big Rex deserves this opportunity baby!!!!

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

The Pistons are interviewing assistant Rex Kalamian for franchise's head coaching job this week, sources tell ESPN. Kalamian, who arrived on Pistons' staff in 2021, has spent nearly three decades on front of NBA benches. He's also the head coach of the Armenian national team.

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

@CoachDougNicol You are the man!

[@FaithWorks @FaithworksX]

Julius Randle shared a letter to Knicks fans in “The Players Tribune.” Here’s a segment of it about Kobe. It’s long but it’s a must read (grab a tissue):

Gotta tell y’all a quick story.

Alright, so everyone knows how I had to sit out my rookie year with an injury. But one of the consequences of missing that year is how it delayed all these NBA “firsts.” All these different little dreams you had since you were a kid, about making it to the league — that all gets put on pause for a season. And meanwhile you’re sitting there courtside, in street clothes, watching it happen. It’s like you’re so close to it but so far away. It’s tough, man.

And then what happens that next season, is you’re almost making up for lost time. It’s like it’s all that stuff you’ve been dreaming about.... but now with a whole other year of having built it up in your head.

One of the biggest things for me that I was looking forward to, I think it’s one of the things a lot of guys look forward to when they get to the league. It’s playing that first game on the road in the city where you came up. It’s like a whole homecoming vibe: I went to grade school here — now I’m coming back and I’m an NBA player?! That’s a wild feeling.

I grew up in Dallas, so I had this early-season road game against the Mavericks circled on my calendar. I was excited. Excited to feel that sense of accomplishment, of being that kid from your neighborhood growing up who made it to the league.

We flew in after a Wednesday night game, and the Mavs game wasn’t until Friday late, which meant we had an off day in Dallas. So guys were definitely going out that night. Me, I’ve got family, I’ve got a bunch of friends texting and whatnot, with this plan and that plan. Y’all have to keep in mind I’m 20 years old at this time. You can imagine where my head is at.

So then we get off the plane, we ride to the hotel, and — ha. Wow. I will never forget this. We’re coming up on the hotel in Dallas, and Kobe turns to me and he goes, “Julius, what you bout to do.” I’m like, “I’m about to see my family, chill with some friends, you know. Have a night.” And Kobe, he just cuts me off. He’s like, “Nah. We’re going to the gym.”

Bro....

I mean, that right there, it’s just the power of Kobe. If anyone else in the world had said that to me, in that moment, I might have hit ’em with an eye roll and went on with my business. But when Mamba is telling you that it’s a change of plans, and you’re coming with him to the gym tonight? You don’t ask questions. You just do as you’re told.

And of course Kobe knew we were in my hometown. Of course he knew. But that wasn’t him being a bad dude or anything. It was more like — it was him trying to use the situation to teach me a lesson. The lesson being: To get to the next level in this league, you can’t be putting in that next level of work only some of the time. Has to be all of the time. No such thing as sacrifice without sacrifice.

That was November 2015, Kobe’s last season. And from then on, everything he showed me that night, straight up: it’s become my routine. If we’re on a road trip, as soon as we get off the plane, there you go, that’s my night — before I do anything else. I’m heading to the gym, I’m getting my shots up, I’m putting in my work.

And what’s crazy is.... O.K., here’s the end of the story. So we’re in Detroit last season, on a road trip. And we fly in, I grab my bags, and like I said: it’s been my routine ever since that night in Dallas. Get off the plane, head to the gym. Get off the plane, head to the gym. Get off the plane, head to the gym. Like clockwork. Every city, though, it’s a new situation — there’s different places available. So what I’ll do is, I’ll have the team set up a spot in advance. And that way I can go straight there, however late it is, and get my workout in...

[kringle @KrisJabourian]

I promise you that was the wrong choice.