James Young

Host, The Coach's Edge & Her Court w/ JY on @OpeningLineHQ. Lead Basketball Analyst. @sportsgrid. For Inquires, contact Tim Scanlan [email protected]

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🏀🔥 Earlier on Outspoken w/ @DanSileoShow on @SportsGrid, I tackled the conversation many avoid: is the drama surrounding @CaitlinClark22 drama really just about 🏀? Or have politics, race, and perception become the story? I break it all down. Yes or no? 👇 #WNBA #CaitlinClark

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

DON’T COUNT OUT THE PACERS! 👀

With @Hali back,@Pacers can be a playoff threat in the East. 🏀

Am I right, or am I too high on the Pacers?

🎙️ Full Monday Men’s Basketball Show: https://t.co/oIiUECwyMC

#Pacers #NBA #YesCers

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

THIS Is as real at it gets. I train to get to games to not see what we can work on but to SHOW ❤️! And another thing, this whole claiming kids needs to stop. Encourage your players to train with multiple people. It really does take a village and this area has A LOT of great ones!

[Patrick Grady @pmg911]

why do basketball trainers, especially on the girls side, try and claim kids as "my player", use them as live advertisement on social media but never get to a gym to actually show a little in person support for the girls (and parents) who put thousands upon thousands of dollars in their pockets.

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🏀 MEN’S BASKETBALL MONDAY!

The Coach’s Edge with JY drops shortly!

🔥 Pistons’ strong start
🐊 Is Florida the best team?
🚨 NBA injuries + the biggest NBA & college hoops stories

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🎥 Full episode in replies when it drops! #NBA #NCAAMBB #CollegeHoops

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

The talk has to go all the way to the top. NY sports are cursed by terrible ownership groups they either don’t trust their management or meddle in it. Even Dolan has lost credibility with a large portion of the fanbase based on his reluctance on going to 2nd apron!

[Lori Rubinson @LRubinsonWFAN]

Where does this loss rank for @nyjets in the past 10 years? I know there's the Kotite era before that. But if we go back to the Gase era and the Saleh era and now the Glenn era, where does this loss rank? @MFliegelman and I will try to answer this question on the pod tonight.

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🎙️ @woodyjohnson4 you owe the @nyjets fans an explanation. I have been on the give Aaron Glenn a chance train. Defense not ready (cause are too cheap to hire a coordinator), no clock management and the fanbase has spoken. 1, fire Glenn, 2 SELL THE TEAM you 🤡 #JetUp

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

This @nyjets defense is SO DAMN SOFT. Blitzing but playing soft zone behind it. A.G. better get his s**t together or he should be looking for a job in the am #JetUp

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 ANT-MAN FOR MVP! 🐜🏆

Anthony Edwards is my pick. Is this the year he takes home the hardware? 👀

Who’s your MVP?

🎙️ The Coach’s Edge w/JY
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[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 My NBA Rookie of the Year pick: CALEB WILSON! 🏀🔥

Who’s your pick to take home the award? 👀👇

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#NBA #ROTY #SeeRed

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 Don’t sleep on Charlotte! 🐝

The @hornets are my surprise team in the East. Could Charles Lee lead them into the top eight? 👀

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[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨🏀 MY DAILY NBA PICKS ARE LIVE!

🎯 3 plays for tonight, backed by stats, matchups & a coach’s perspective!

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[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 HOT TAKE: The @Lakers are going to FLOP! 🏀

I’m not buying the hype in LA. I explain why the Lakers could be one of the NBA’s biggest disappointments this season.🔌 by @OpeningLineHQ

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🚨 The @Lakers are my pick to FLOP this season in the West.

Could a disappointing year have Luka questioning his future in LA? 👀

Lakers fans: am I wrong?

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#LakeShow #NBA

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 The @Lakers are my pick to FLOP this season in the West.

Could a disappointing year have Luka questioning his future in LA? 👀

Lakers fans: am I wrong?

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Full NBA preview in replies.
#LakeShow #NBA

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Message from @CoachYoungNJ as we start the NBA season

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🚨 NBA PREVIEW DROPS LATER TODAY! 🏀

🐺 Anthony Edwards for MVP?
🗽 Knicks over Thunder for the title?
👀 My surprise teams, biggest flops & division winners!

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Who’s winning it all? 👇

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

Somebody better tell @woodyjohnson4 THIS is the guy that better be a @nyjets for life. A dynamic player on the field AND a difference maker in the community. You only hear great things about @GarrettWilson_V! If yall trade him, WE RIOT! #JetUp

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Garrett Wilson walked out of the stadium in Chicago and apologized to a 17 year old girl.

She had traveled all that way to watch him play, and he was sorry about how the day had gone.

Her mother says that apology is the reason she is back in school.

Here is the whole thing.

Her name is Riley Driskill. She is a senior in high school, and she was not even a Jets fan. She grew up on the Chiefs.

In September she lost her best friend.

After that she stopped sleeping. She stopped going to school. She stopped seeing the people she knew. Her mother, Becky, took time off work to be home with her.

Nobody in that house was looking to a football game to fix anything.

Now here is the part nobody could have arranged.

Becky's boss is a man named Kenny Wilson.

Kenny Wilson is Garrett's father.

He had passes for the game in Chicago against the Bears, and he offered them.

Becky asked her daughter if she wanted to go. Riley said "Of course." Then she asked one question.

"Am I going to see Garrett?"

They had met him one time before, at MetLife. She asked him to make a TikTok and he said yes. That was the entire relationship. One TikTok.

Understand who she was asking about. He came out of Ohio State and went 10th overall. He signed an extension this year worth 130 million dollars, with 90 million of it guaranteed, averaging over 31 million a year. No receiver in the history of the league had ever gotten that after only three seasons.

Men who sign those do not generally come looking for anybody in a tunnel.

So here is what happened when he came out of the players' exit.

He apologized to them.

Sorry you came all that way. Sorry it was that kind of day.

Then he hugged her. He put his arm around her for a picture. He signed her jersey.

All her mother could say was this.

"You are amazing."

Here is how Wilson explains it.

"Treat everyone how you want to be treated."

His own father describes him as "gracious and nice and loving."

Riley has gone to school every day since. She is around her friends again. She has started looking at colleges.

This is what her mother says about that.

"If it wasn't for him, she might still be in a dark room."

"It made her day. It brought life back into her."

Kenny told Garrett later what the whole thing had meant to her. Here is what Garrett said back.

"She made my day as well."

Now the honest part. One hug does not fix what happened to that girl, and her mother has never said it did. Riley had people around her and she is the one who got up every morning and went. And Wilson never told anybody about any of this. A reporter went and found it.

But a kid who had stopped leaving her own house traveled to another city to go watch a stranger play football.

And the stranger came out and told her he was sorry.

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

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🌪️ MORE THREES. A NEW LOOK.

Bill Fennelly explains @CycloneWBB’s offensive shift on Her Court w/JY.

📊 Breaking it down with data from @JustPlaySS.

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#CyclONEnation #NCAAWBB #IowaStateWay

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

🌪️ MORE THREES. A NEW LOOK.

Bill Fennelly explains @CycloneWBB’s offensive shift on Her Court w/JY.

📊 Breaking it down with data from @JustPlaySS.

🔌 @OpeningLineHQ
🎥 Full episode in replies!

#CyclONEnation #NCAAWBB #IowaStateWay

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

Hey @CoachKarenBlair, I think we need you as a guest on Her Court w/ JY! Thoughts? Let’s preview @GTWBB season

[Marsha Frese @CoachFrese]

You’ll be hard pressed to find a more genuine, egoless leader than @CoachKarenBlair.

[James Young @CoachYoungNJ]

This tells you ALL you need to know about Coach Izzo and @MSU_Basketball! It’s ALWAYS been bigger than winning for him. Loyalty matters. Relationships matter. Coach Izzo is one of the last REAL ones we have left in #NCAAMBB! We need to cherish him as we get to see him coach!

[Michigan State Content @msucontent]

Michigan State journalism student Elliott Hammon still has the video Tom Izzo sent him before his brain tumor surgery four and a half years ago.

Hammon brought it up during Izzo’s press conference and asked how it impacts him knowing he means so much to people.

Izzo’s full response:

“It’s better than winning.”

“What people think of you, how you can inspire people. I mean, that’s why I’m here. Some people jump around and go to different jobs. I want to be a part of the fabric of this place, and I want to be a guy that people can come to.

“If that tape, or that video, or phone call helped you… (pounds chest) that’s awesome.”

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