Nate Philippe

Mortgage Professional | Former NCAA D1 & U Sports Coach | #TheMortgageCoach 📈🏀

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@passionball1 Agree 100%, every player is fully bought into being a star in their role.

A lot of high level 2-way players also in OG Annunobe, Mikail Bridges, & Josh Hart.

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

Respect to the New York Knicks…definitely didn’t see this coming. #Salute #NBAFinals 🔥🔥

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

What a Win for the Knicks!

If they go on to Win the Championship, this will go down as one of the greatest Playoff runs in NBA history without a doubt! #NBAFinals #Respect

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

CMB = ALL-ROOKIE SECOND TEAM🔥

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@GolfDigest Yeah, from reading in between the lines it sounds like the Caddie quit.

Can’t blame him, must’ve been a brutal weekend, & must be a better player out there for him to work for.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

43 years ago, Michael Jackson did the moonwalk on television for the first time while performing ‘Billie Jean’ at Motown 25.

[𝐎𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 @opolot_ronnie]

Kobe Bryant’s daughter Natalia Bryant graduated from USC with honors and wore a Kobe Logo on her graduation stole!!! 🎓

Congratulations to her 🥳❤️

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “I remember a couple years ago, I had a hard conversation with Pop. One morning, we were getting ready to play Dallas, and he pulled me to the side and told me that he thought it would be best for the team if I started coming off the bench. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Whatever’s best for the team, I’ll do it.’ And I truly meant that, too.

But I’m also just human, man. And I was like 24 years old. If I said that I fully bought into this role from the jump, I’d be lying. I had averaged 22 points in the NBA. I’d won a gold medal with Team USA at the Olympics. So I just didn’t understand. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And ultimately, I didn’t take it well. I sulked. I let the outside noise affect my play. I didn’t present the best version of myself as I was coming off the bench for the rest of that season. And I knew that I was much better than that.

I’ve been reflecting on that part of my journey a lot lately, with the position we’re in right now.

To backtrack a little bit…. When I was drafted in 2019, that was probably one of the most stressful nights of my life. I’d had a great year at Kentucky, and I thought I was going 9 or 10. In my mind, my floor was 15 to Detroit. The crazy thing is, I didn’t even work out for San Antonio. We talked a little bit on FaceTime, but I honestly didn’t think I’d still be on the board at 19 when the Spurs picked. Definitely not at 29, where I ended up going. I don’t know why I slipped so much, but thank God I did, because I landed at a proven organization with vets who could mold me.

That situation could have gone one of two ways. Thankfully, it went the good way.

Dejounte was young, too, but he knew the ropes better than me, and he made sure that I did everything the right way. I can’t thank him enough to this day for how much he’s helped my career. Same thing with DeMar DeRozan. Those guys really embraced me and took me under their wing as a young guy, and showed me how it was done. I feel like I had such a great group of vets, whether it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills, Rudy Gay — all those guys went out their way to make sure I was solid. I feel like they knew how good I could be before I even knew how good I could be. They didn’t let me skip any steps, which was huge for my career early on.

And yeah, fast-forward to summer 2024, and I got to thinking back on my first couple years here in San Antonio, and how I could get that spark back, get back to being me. That’s when I started to see the bigger picture. We had picks. There were all these signs that we were building something that was gonna be special, all these bright green flags.

But there was this one red flag.

Me.

In that moment, I had to take a hard look in the mirror. And man, I just got embarrassed. I hated that feeling — the feeling that I had let my vets down, and especially let my younger teammates down.

This organization believed in me since day one, when Pop and our GM at the time R.C. Buford took a leap of faith on a player who was sliding in the draft and didn’t even have a workout at their facility. They had a plan, and I was a big piece of that plan. I just needed to get out of my own way. Period.

I knew that I could either be the person who tries to fight the change, who makes it about them and their ego, and tries to do everything their way (which never really works). Or, I could trust the process. And the Spurs never gave me a reason not to trust it. So I bought into my role, and I put my best foot forward each and every night. Whatever I had to do to be the best version of myself, I did it. And I feel like this season has been a testament to that.

I’m just really at home here. I think that’s probably obvious, right? The cowboy hat isn’t a gimmick. San Antonio is all me. Being a country boy, that’s just a part of who I am. From Huntington Prep to Oak Hill Academy to Kentucky, I feel like I just carried that country boy vibe with me everywhere I went.” https://t.co/WnVP4cXPll

[NBA @NBA]

Remembering Brandon Clarke (1996-2026)

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time”

―Kobe Bryant

[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

May the fourth be with you

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

What a game last night for Scottie Barnes, & what a series!

Showing all the growth in his game & the full repertoire! Best player comp I’ve heard is a mix of Giannis & Magic…looked like a future league MVP last night, incredible!! #NBAPlayoffs #GoRaptors 🦖🔥

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

RJ GAME WINNING BUCKET ‼️

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@jonathanrwall To be fair, Srixon has probably gotten way more return on investment from Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley, & Sepp Straka over the last 5yrs than they did w/ Brooks unfortunately. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@MyGolfSpy @grok What happened between Brooks Koepka and Srixon?

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@MyGolfSpy @MCLF1SimRacing @MizunoGolfNA @Titleist @SrixonGolf 1) Titleist
2) Srixon
3) Mizuno
4) McLeran

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

@chasingscratch0 Great to hear you guys back for Season 9!

Very different listening to you guys in real time being all caught up. I’ve played 4 rounds so far this season & am on the same journey as you guys! #ChasingScratch #TheJourney ⛳️🙌🏽

[Nate Philippe @NatePhilippe]

Jaylen Brown has made significant improvements in his Offensive skill package.

Doesn’t get enough credit for his development as a player…one of the truly Elite players in the NBA this season! #NBAPlayoffs #Growth 📈

[ESPN @espn]

THE RAPTORS TAKE BOTH GAMES IN THE 6IX 🔥

Toronto evens up the series as it heads back to Cleveland 👀

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Toronto native, Nickeil Alexander-Walker has been named the NBA’s Most Improved Player for the 2025–26 season! 🇨🇦