LEADERSHIP Examples from Detroit Basketball

Posted on May 30, 2021 by SoSpression

LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE NOT EXCUSES

His mother marched with MLK, and worked with Fred Hampton in Chicago.

I am not in agreement with advocating for homosexuality at all… but people need to know the real reasons that the NBA marketing machine hates Detroit, hates the Pistons and hates Isaiah Thomas.

“In 2012, Isiah didn’t only throw on a hoodie for Trayvon Martin, he was out protesting with Trayvon’s family. Did you know that?

Isiah organizes perennial summer “Peace Basketball Tournaments” with rival gang members in his hometown of Chicago and got Bulls players to participate. Did you know that?

Isiah has been attacking community violence since the 1980s where he led “No Crime Day” in Detroit at the age of 25. Did you know that?

“We were marching in 1985 down Woodward in Detroit,” Thomas said. “At that time, we didn’t have the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter.’ But we were marching.”

Don’t call him “Kaepernick” – Isiah has been here for years.”THE REAL REASON HE WAS LEFT OFF THE DREAM TEAM. (He didn’t just beat Larry, Magic, and Michael ON THE COURT, he also advocated FINANCIALLY for non-star players because he knew the power of the TEAM not just the INDIVIDUAL):”

Mark Heisler writes: “As NBAPA president, Thomas was the last of the stars to run the union for the little guys in the tradition of Oscar Robertson.

Thomas made enemies by the hundred, calling out the biggest he could find, slicing the agents’ cut of contracts from 10 percent to 4 percent, infuriating them all.

Super agent David Falk [JORDAN’s agent] then took over the union with his fancy client list and undid everything Thomas had done.

Just like “The Big O” fighting for NBA free agency in the 1960s, every fellow and current player owes millions to Thomas. And just like Oscar, Isiah has also paid a steep price.”

– So Isaiah stood up for justice while Craig Hodges the best 3 point shooter in the NBA was kicked off the Bulls after winning 2 championships for caring about justice.

– He also stood up for fair contracts for all players while Pippen was severely underpaid by the Bulls while winning 6 championships as a top 4 player in the NBA.

Who’s the real leader?

LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE NOT EXCUSES

Jaylen Brown just won the 2024 NBA ECF MVP, signed the largest contract in NBA history at 5-years, $304M last year & is an academic genius 💰🧠

▪️NBA GMs before 2016 draft thought he was “too smart” & had too many outside interests, so some stayed away
▪️Top of his class in H.S.
▪️Went to University of California, Berkeley
▪️Chess Varsity team at Cal
▪️Can play piano & guitar
▪️Took graduate classes as a freshman
▪️Learned multiple languages
▪️Youngest person to ever lecture at Harvard
▪️MIT media lab fellow
▪️Offered a NASA internship
▪️Youngest (22) NBAPA Vice President ever in 2016
▪️Was teaching a robotics session while $304 Million contract was finalized

Brown is also an advocate for social justice, plans on investing in the Boston community, & said he wants to bring Black Wall Street to Boston ☘️

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Kingdom Team Principles

Posted on May 4, 2017 by SoSpression
Is there a G.O.A.T. IN TEAM?

End the Debate. Defense Wins Championships.


One kingdom principle you can learn from team sports is that the winningest teams always have players that will humble themselves and simply fill their roles no matter how talented they are.

Losing teams always have individuals that are still trying to find and establish themselves, not the team.

1 Corinthians 12
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: 23 and those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: 25 that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

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