Mike Brown, who has been fired in the NBA twice, defines what a winner looks like “If you get knocked down in life and you’re able to get back up and keep fighting - that’s a fricking win.” Really good stuff

Jalen Brunson is now the first player in NBA history to win Finals MVP, Conference Finals MVP, and NBA Cup MVP. In just one season, he became a Knicks legend.

Success is about how well you handle failure. @nyknicks Head Coach Mike Brown won Coach of the year twice and got fired a year later each time. Just the act of getting back up after you get knocked down is a win in and of itself. 90% of millionaires said the key to their brilliance was just doing the obvious thing for an extraordinary period of time, without convincing themselves they’re smarter than they they are. When it gets hard, take solace in knowing that's when most people quit, and get back up and keep going. 🧗‍♀️ Congrats Champ 🏆

Mike Brown's journey: *Fired from Cleveland on May 24, 2010 *Fired from LA (Lakers) on November 9, 2012 *Fired from Sacramento on December 27, 2024 *Wins an NBA Championship in his inaugural year as head coach with the NY Knicks Moral of the story: Your failures don't define. How you respond to them does.

Jalen Brunson is the first player since Magic Johnson to win a HS state championship, an NCAA championship, and an NBA championship

2016 NCAA Champions. 2026 NBA Champions.

Bringing bully ball to the ‘Sip 😤 Welcome, Roman Siulepa🔥 #HottyToddy x #4TheCulture

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If your players don’t have a stride stop with an inside hand fake “in their bag,” I’d suggest adding it asap. A great solution for a small advantage against aggressive defenders.

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Mike Brown describes one of my favorite concepts here with his take on the @nyknicks being "Antifragile". @nntaleb says "Wind extinguishes a candle 🕯️ but energizes fire.” 🔥 Same composition, but different response to the conditions. Being Antifragile describes a team that doesn’t merely survive stress, chaos, volatility, or pressure... it actually gets stronger because of it. Inversely, when organizations eliminate all discomfort, all mistakes, all conflict, and all pressure, they unintentionally create weakness. #EasternConferenceFinals #ECF

FLIGHT🛫🛫 @SaulsberryJaron @OleMissMBB got them one! #VOTA #BallDawgs #1stPhorm #NIL

Coach K was 38-47 his first 3 years at Duke & 13-29 in the ACC Jay Wright was 52-46 his first 3 years at Villanova & 21-27 in the Big East Great things take time. You need to be process driven, not results driven A proper foundation is much more important than instant success

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Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “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.” playerstribu.ne/KJ

Say what you want… But the COMMUNITY of people makes Oxford, MS special. Take a walk in the Velvet Ditch by yourself like I did coming out of highschool and you’ll see for yourself what makes it special. Shirley Patterson knew and now my kids will know. Home is Home🔴🔵

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