you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
Some players put up numbers. Some build programs. Alex Mazzella has done both.
Alex will finish his NJ Beasts career having played about 120 games and winning close to 110 of them.
He joined us as an 8th grader on our first ever 15U team. In our very first game, we took an EYBL PSA Cardinals team to overtime. Two weeks later, Alex helped lead us to our first ever championship game in Pittsburgh, falling by just one point in overtime.
He hasn't looked back since.
• 5 Championship Weekends
• 2024 No. 2 Overall Seed
• 2025 No. 1 Overall Seed
• 2026 No. 2 Overall Seed entering July
The accomplishments speak for themselves. But that's not why Alex is special.
The reason he's become the player he is... he always shows up. That's the standard he set for himself.
Yes, talent matters. But consistency, dependability, and commitment are the separators.
Show up. Every single day. Alex is a WINNER.
And to any college coach who isn't recruiting Alex... you're making a mistake. A VERY BIG MISTAKE
Thank you for helping build what NJ Beasts has become. We're not finished yet 😈
Jalen Brunson was once overlooked, undervalued and called out by pundits.
Everything is different now for the Knicks guard, who gave New York the title it has craved for more than half a century with a sublime Finals performance
Thank you to this version of the New York Knicks for taking me back to that place. A team that carried the hopes of generations and somehow made it all feel possible. The brilliance, toughness, and sacrifice. They understood the mission.
2026 World Champions 🏆
Still can't believe it. Still processing.
Fell in love with the Knicks as a little kid in '92. John Starks was my guy. The underdog. Gritty, fearless, and relentless.
In '94, my hero went 2-18 in Game 7 of the Finals. We lost. But we'd be back, right? Not exactly.
Years of misery, heartbreak, and frustration. Every season convincing myself this was the year. Chasing the feeling I had as a kid, hoping to experience it one more time.
One of the truly disappointing things about beating a competitor is that when you actually win, it's empty. Because by the time you win, they've become irrelevant.
x @bristolstudio — SZN 2
Introducing this season’s custom collection created exclusively for the NJ Beasts family.
Designed to reflect the identity, energy, and pride of our program.
35 lessons from selling three businesses before I turned 35:
1. Your first business will likely fail.
2. All your money gets made after that.
3. Most people give up too fast.
4. You'll outgrow almost everyone.
5. If you get distracted, you'll get beaten.
6. It will not happen between the hours of 9 and 5.
7. Late nights, early mornings, repeat.
8. Emotions can be cancer.
9. If you think you should fire them, do it.
10. Not in writing? Didn't happen.
11. Never be embarrassed for not knowing.
12. Bigger the problem, bigger the $$.
13. No one ever charges enough to start.
14. Your favorite words have 3 letters: CPA, COG, CAC, P&L
15. Be selfish with your f*cks.
16. Protect your energy, it's real.
17. Someone will steal from you.
18. Sales beats everything.
19. If they're not better than you at something, they're not for you.
20. You want it, cross it off the to-do list.
21. Everyone lies and they believe themselves.
22. Be your own motivational speech.
23. It's gonna suck... often.
24. Yet you'll wish you could do it again.
25. You won't win if you're not obsessed.
26. Balance is seasonal.
27. Ignore talk, believe skin in the game.
28. Leave money for a rainy day.
29. You can't eat net worth, cash is king.
30. Don't swerve in too many lanes, you get hit.
31. Work like a lion, not a cow.
32. Who... not how. Always.
33. You're one person away from your win.
34. Dream so big you outdream others.
35. You'll only regret not starting earlier.
Huge thank you to the team at @LukinCenter for spending time with our athletes and families this weekend.
Real education around mindset, pressure, and performance that our players will carry with them on and off the court.
Quite simply the greatest game you will ever see in the Elite 8.
Braylon Mullins with one of the greatest shots in NCAA history. You can't make this stuff up.
UConn had a 1.7% chance of winning this game.