forgotten. After understanding the focus that Ledger put into portraying the Joker, Bryant knows what he has to do – go into what he will later refer to as “guard mode.”

And taking ownership of the mess he created gained more respect than pointing fingers at everyone else.

“They don’t know whether to pass or shoot. But I just go for it… The game happens so fast, the less I can think and the more I can just react to what’s going on, the better it will be for me, and ultimately, my team.”

Jackson’s first autobiography, Sacred Hoops, published in 1995. In that book, Jackson describes how he picked up meditation while playing for the New York Knicks in the 1970s,

In a way, you could say that Gianna taking shots in front of the basket was Basketball Version 1.0 – nothing fancy, but good enough to do something basic on the court that can add value. Version 1.1, shooting a bit farther from the basket, was an upgrade on the initial version’s capabilities. Version 1.2 would build on 1.1, as would 1.3 and 1.4.

The Agile methodology that underpins modern software development has enabled companies like Apple and Amazon to become the biggest in the world. One of the core tenets of Agile is the focus on taking big ideas and breaking them down into incremental milestones that can be achieved in a short time period and deployed in the real world to provide

Other on-court activities important to basketball success are more difficult to evaluate when practicing alone.

the key to Gigi’s growth as a young athlete is the progression ladder: take a big goal (“I want to be better than my dad – who, by the way, is one of the greatest ballers of all time”), break it down into actionable pieces that provide incremental value, and begin climbing, one baby step at a time. A critical nugget of insight is the order in which

At the same time, it woke up something inside of him that had gone dormant with the tedium of daily life in the NFL. “It’s a routine, you get out there, you play 16 games, you play at a high level, you do your best, you go against these guys and you enjoy it,” he explained, “but sometimes throwing a wrench in the plans kind of helps you and it