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Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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A Sense of Where You Are | the New Yorker

John McPhee newyorker.com

I don’t believe there was better basketball player and human being than the man I called Norman (his middle name). There was no one I competed with harder and had more respect for than him. Just before Wilt died in October 1999, he and I were having one of our marathon telephone calls. Wilt simply loved to talk, and it was impossible to stop him wh

David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner

There's a great quote that Nick Saban said. He said that average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached, and great players want to be told the truth. Michael had a giant ego and a giant drive, but he would run up to the coach and tell me what I need to get better at.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain

At Princeton, Bradley has become such an excellent basketball player that it is necessary to look beyond college basketball to find a standard that will put him in perspective. The standard’s name is Oscar Robertson, of the Cincinnati Royals, who is the finest basketball player yet developed. Robertson, who is known in basketball as The O, stands o

John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Passion & Pain

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The untold story of what fuels Michael Jordan's legendary fire

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John Updike line, “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”

Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Made Monica Aldama a Star. Her Life Has Been Hell Ever Since.

I am frequently asked if I am a basketball player, and I always say no. One time years ago John Havlicek and I were standing in an airport when he asked me why I did that. I told him what I had been telling myself all along: basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.