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Despite having coached the Danny Manning–led Kansas Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title, and despite having coached the Allen Iverson–led Philadelphia 76ers to the 2001 NBA Finals, the job Larry Brown was doing with the Pistons was his most remarkable work in a 32-year sideline career. Detroit’s roster featured zero future Hall of Famers, and zero play

Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

A Sense of Where You Are | the New Yorker

John McPhee newyorker.com

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

For anyone who wants to be a leader, here are Ten Commandments of my own:

Bob Knight • The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Most basketball players appropriate fragments of other players’ styles, and thus develop their own. This is what Bradley has done, but one of the things that set him apart from nearly everyone else is that the process has been conscious rather than osmotic. His jump shot, for example, has had two principal influences. One is Jerry West, who has one

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

John Wooden is a legend. The coach of UCLA’s

Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect

If—as I did once in my coaching life—you have one of those years when you do see that you have the makings of an outstanding team, don’t say, “Our goal is to go unbeaten.” Better to say: “The only thing that will satisfy this team to its full extent is to be undefeated. We have to do what we can do within the limitations of our abilities, and we ha

Bob Knight • The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

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