Always start with kids. None of that ‘I just picked up a ball last year’ stuff. No one wants to see the Hakeem Olajuwon story repeated, the one where he plays soccer one day, picks up a basketball the next, then goes into the National Basketball Hall of Fame. That’s career shorthand for ‘don’t make […]
HOW NATIONAL CHAMPIONS HAPPEN
June 16, 2014 by David Gillaspie
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