It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and, of course, luck. Clearly the beating we’d received at the hands of Kevin Garnett and company—not to mention the torturous ride to our hotel afterward through mobs of Celtics fans—had been a brutal experience, especially for the younger players who hadn’t tasted Boston venom before. “On a good team there are no superstars,” Red insisted. He had two simple rules, which he shouted from the sidelines during every game: See the ball. There seemed to be no logic to the Knicks game we were watching. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. Most of the players weren’t that familiar with Native American psychology, but they understood intuitively the deeper meaning of the ring.
You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. In college, my nickname was “the Mop” because I was always falling on the floor, chasing after loose balls. Bradley, who was nicknamed “Dollar Bill” because of his impressive (for that time) four-year, $500,000 contract, had averaged more than 30 points a game three years in a row at Princeton and led the Tigers to the NCAA Final Four, where he was named the tournament’s most valuable player. For once, there was someone on my team who had more nicknames than I did. Once I put him through a particularly frustrating series of exercises, and I could tell by his reaction that I’d pushed him too far. Then there was a pause in the film, and when it started up again, Willis was shrugging several Lakers players off his back, before leveling center Darrall Imhoff and slugging LaRusso twice in the face. What he believed in was playing the game the right way, which to him meant moving the ball on offense and playing intense team defense.
The key was getting a critical mass of players to buy into a more selfless approach to the game. At the University of North Dakota, we prided ourselves on playing the game in a systematic way. Once when the team was flying out for a road trip, a player’s boom box started blaring some heavy rock. “Don’t you realize,” he’d say, “that these newspapers are going to be lining somebody’s birdcage tomorrow?”. I’ve seen dozens of players flame out and disappear not because they lacked talent but because they couldn’t figure out how to fit into the cookie-cutter model of basketball that pervades the NBA. “There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.
After the players had taken their places on the stage—the Lakers’ portable basketball court from the Staples Center—I stood and addressed the crowd. This scheme used to drive Michael nuts because he couldn’t stand losing, even though he knew the game was rigged.
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