Travis Tarr

Husband • Father • Believer 🟢⚪️ WHS 🏀 Final 4 Coach • Physical Therapist • Generations Physical Therapy • Snap Fitness • UK Alum • Car Guy • Guitar Man • LT🕊

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

We are coming up on what would be my dads 71st birthday here in a couple days. On November 16, 2020 this was his last Facebook post prior to passing unexpectedly just 12 days later. He’s heavily on my heart today. He always had simple answers for me when I had complex questions.

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

🟢⚪️ 👩🏼‍🎓

[Jacob @Jacobtheclipper]

Wemby crying and hugging his teammates with so much joy.

Bro might save this heartless league with his passion.

Havn’t seen someone be so obsessive to winning and love for the game since Kobe.

He made a fan out of me this year 🤝

[Kayler Smith - WDTN @KaylerSmithTV]

I've obtained Travis Steele's new contract.

Steele will earn a minimum $850,000 per year with $150,000 retention bonuses for each year he returns. That makes him one of the highest-paid coaches in the MAC.

His incentives are worth one month's salary each (~$70,833). @WDTN

[NBA @NBA]

The Spurs had some pregame fun ahead of Game 5 🏈

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Your captain sets your ceiling.

8 things great captains do that average ones don’t.

Which one is hardest to find? 👇

1. They hold teammates accountable so the coach doesn’t have to.

2. They lead harder in practice than in games.

3. They check on the player who’s struggling before the coach notices.

4. They own losses without pointing fingers.

5. They make the bench feel as important as the starters.

6. They know when to pump the team up and when to settle it down.

7. They protect the culture when no one is watching.

8. They make their teammates better just by being in the room.

Your captain is either raising or lowering your ceiling.

Choose them carefully.
Develop them intentionally. 🏆

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

Dr. Lavender has established some of the finest knee care in the country right here in the tri-state area. Blessed to have him.

[Spencer Adkins @SpencerWeather]

These guys can thank WV’s Dr. @ChadLavenderMD who authored research and helped start the Nanoscope! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

@spurs take game 1 ��🦾

[Dirt Bro Diamond Training @DirtBroUSA]

Every player on the planet needs to hear this — over and over again:

Remove all the “stuff” — results, expectations, distractions — and just compete.

Compete. Compete. Compete.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to becoming the ultimate competitor. Breathe. Center your thoughts. Lay it on the line and compete.

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

I’m fortunate to be surrounded by some of the best and most devoted in high school basketball.

[CoachLync | Tools & Playbooks @CoachLync]

Read this twice . . .

via @kevineastman

[Amelia Knisely @ameliaknisely]

Gov. Morrisey's biggest target in Senate, Sen. Vince Deeds, has won with 66%, according to AP race call.

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

Real Talk!!!

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.

Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.

[Bryce Butler @bball_brainiac1]

Rajon Rondo closed his AAU timeout by preaching one thing — play off two feet.

Not a play. Not a trick. Just jump stops.

And watching his son Pierre and his teammates execute it is all the proof you need that this concept works at every single level of the game.

The jump stop puts you in control. Not the defense.

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

Been reflecting a lot on the past decade of coaching and all I can think of is there is so much more to accomplish.

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 NEW: Fox’s Bret Baier just gave an uplifting history lesson on healing America’s divides: “You think campaigns are bad now? This was the ugliest of ugly campaigns: Vice President Thomas Jefferson challenged the sitting President John Adams in 1800. They didn’t talk to each other for 11 years after that.”

“But in 1812 they started writing letters to each other and by the time they died - both on July 4th - they became really close friends. My point is this: the common ground we have as Americans is something we need to rekindle. We need to remember to talk to each other before we do crazy things and make stupid statements. Listen to each other.”

“As we get towards the 250th, take a breath and realize how great we have it,” adds @BretBaier

[Mydan oglesby @MydanOglesby]

My first live period averages. Having fun. Still love the game. Still working everyday. #2028guard #answer
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[Dennis Marshall @mar5hallhoops]

If you are a good HS player, a great piece of advice I can give you is allow yourself to be coached. If you're alreeady good, let your self to be pushed, to be held accountable, and made to feel uncomfortable at times. That's how you become a college player and some level of pro.

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

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[Boo Williams @BooWilliamsAAU]

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[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

Great lesson here for young players.

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Keldon Johnson on embracing his role as the sixth man: “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

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

This team 🥹🖤

Squad pulled up in KJ fashion to celebrate our Sixth Man 🤠

[Travis Tarr @tarrt]

Congratulations KJ!!!!

[Tristan Pharis @TristanUda]

Former Kentucky Wildcat Keldon Johnson gets emotional after being named NBA Sixth Man of the Year.

Pretty cool moment.