Success requires good habits and good habits are formed by cultivating consistency. My parents, teachers, and coaches taught me that anything can be achieved through consistency, but it doesn’t mean consistency is the easiest thing to maintain. I still have to continue cultivating it in my everyday life. When the alarm goes off, sometimes it…
7 Skills to Cultivate and Become a Better Leader
The greatest lesson I learned about leadership came from someone I once had a conversation with whose father was the chief of a tribe. After inheriting his duties, he explained his newfound responsibilities to his family. His responsibility wasn’t just to himself but to the people around him. I think about this often when I…
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Why Pivoting is Essential to Sustainable Growth
A common question I get asked is how I’ve been able to pivot my career from pro basketball player to nonprofit founder to president of the G League, and my answer is simple. We’re always changing. It only makes sense that our output or career path may change along with those internal changes. That’s the…
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The Power of Community and Giving Back
When people ask me how I’ve gotten to this point in my life and career, all I can say is, “I am a product of everyone who’s helped me.” That is the absolute truth. I believe in the power of community and how doing for others and others doing for you is how we move…
Walking into the New Year on Purpose
As we enter a new year, I find myself in that familiar space of reflection and resolution. The energy of a new year symbolizes not just moving forward in time but moving forward in our journeys. We can use everything we’ve learned from the previous year as a guide for the upcoming one. Everyone seems…
Embracing Success: The Importance of Pausing Before the Next Play
In the world of basketball, every move is calculated and every play is deliberate. This is an ethos I lived and breathed – moving and pushing for the next thing. But it wasn’t without reflection that we pushed forward. I remember being on the court and whether we won or lost, I couldn’t help but…
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