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Oh snap fam! You did it! You balled hard enough
to get paid! 

Now what?

It's time to start living the dream, son! Everything
you've been waiting for is just around the corner. Take 
that ball and you dribble. You score. You get that girl
and you drink that shot because you're the man 
now. Nah, you're the man for life!

Don't worry about the rest of it. We promise
if you just keep working, like so hard, you'll be
famous! Or at least famous enough! 

Are you ready for a better life?

Are you ready to become a Different Dude?

NBA 📚 Club (NBA Book Club) ep 28 : Different Dude by Rod Benson

Open Forum - Open Stage 
Sacramento Kings Fan


Publisher Description
A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball—and the values rooted in the game—can solve today’s most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University course


NBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and leading cultural figures have all dropped by New York University Professor David Hollander’s course “How Basketball Can Save the World” course to debate and give insights on how the underlying principles of the game can provide a new blueprint for addressing our diverse challenges and showing what’s possible beyond the court.


Now, in How Basketball Can Save the World, Hollander takes us out of the classroom to present a beautiful new philosophy with contributions by many of his past guests and based on values inherent to basketball, such as inclusion and the balancing of individual success with the needs of the collective. These principles move us beyond conflict and confusion toward a more harmonious and meaningful future:


Positionless-ness: In basketball, players aren’t siloed into just one position or responsibility. In life, we can learn to be more adaptive to the challenges we face by embracing a positionless mindset.Human Alchemy: We talk a lot about team chemistry, but team alchemy means the creation of something totally new—a team far greater than the sum of its parts.Sanctuary: Basketball offers players a critical space to feel safe, free, and expressive. Fostering similar spaces in the real world can encourage people to be their best, happiest, and most productive selves.Transcendence: Basketball is about defying gravity, becoming weightless, and flying higher than anyone ever has before. By seeking out this principle, we can elevate ourselves and those around us to a new plane of experience.

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran of the game or have never set foot on a court, How Basketball Can Save the World will empower you to become more resilient, tolerant, and wise in your relationship with yourself, others, and the world around you.

NBA 📚 Club (NBA Book Club)  Live : How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible (Unabridged) How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible (Unabridged)   How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible By David Hollander

NBA 📚 Club (NBA Book Club) 

Part 1 , halfway check in 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.