Officially selected to the 17U ADEMEBA-USA National Select Team. Grateful for this opportunity. Thank you to everyone has helped along the way. @paristhetrainer@coachRianWTP@ElDoHoops
yesterday, i hosted a free one day, NBA Combine-style, Pro Day for any and every high school basketball player that wanted to join. and our beautiful young people came out to dance! i wanted to do something that first, glorified God, and second, allowed our young people to freely display their art.
first of all the numbers were crazy— to all developers; samantha stukes, bob jones, jermaine jefferson, anthony white, jenzel nash, rian narra, randy clark, rob godinez, ronny weihmann, matt flores, and many more, you guys are geniuses! the athletes you all work with are incredible, never stop impacting lives!
i am eternally grateful to every family & every athlete. thank you for coming out, showing out, and supporting these young people. i can’t put in words how thankful i am to every hand that helped in anyway. young stars, have fun, be free, & have a YEAR! i can’t wait for the next one. 🫂
LeBron James says he doesn’t know when the most important person in the summertime was the trainer and not the player:
“Like the basketball trainer is the most important guy in the summer. I don’t know when that dynamic shifted because you know we used to play and a lot of my friends can attest to this like even when I got in the NBA you know, I built a little basketball court in my backyard in Akron at my house. I would get nine other guys and we would play in the summertime on a black court like we would play, like two or three times a week. You know, just get up and run and feel like the demands of being outside and also demands of another body like bumping and grinding and things of that nature. And this was like in July. I think it’s very important though. I think guys if you’re listening, you got to play more. If it’s not five on five, at least, twos on twos, three on threes, you got to get physical contact.”
(Via @mindthegamepod)