DOSA Basketball

Koa the kangaroo animation is a WIP. Is Nickelodeon still airing? Where is Franklin the turtle playing? Is that a different network? It can go on right after that and hey Arthur.

chop wood. carry water.

make sure your kids explore it before they end up shook on the bench.

try it

DOSA LOVES THE KIDS 🌎🏀

Because regret is a muhf*cka.

My post-college career options have always felt clean, clear and linear.

Hoops, on the other hand, was wildly uncertain. I’ll keep it a full stack. Basketball was wayyyyyyyyyy harder for me than Yale. Mentally, emotionally and physically. And I f*ckn loved it.

When the folks from Nike reached out, it felt like an invitation into an extension of academia swapped with sports. The arena I was probably born for. I’d social politic my way in and out of corporate. It’d be too too easy. I was the prototype. And it didn’t sit well with me.

It is what it was. I loved the game too much. I loved the angst it gave me. I loved the merit. The no decision makers. The decisiveness’s of winning or losing. No grey areas to negotiate into or out of. Swish or miss.

Besides, I can’t pen s**t i aint live.

Because regret is a mf

I’d just graduated from Yale and was working out at Temple University with my agency doing college/pro runs to stay ready for whatever.

One pickup I was going kinda crazy and Aaron Mckie happened to be watching.

Thank God I didn’t peep until afterwards but I saw him talking to my agent in the corner when it finished. I got introduced and later that night I got the call, “76ers want to see you for a pre-draft workout. Be ready”

I was beyond geeked.

So boom, the whole workout was a blur. I was so stressed out I still can’t recall a single drill.

Finally, it’s over and the last step is the exit interview.

Yes, my first job interview out of college was for an NBA team.

I walk in thinking, s**t, if anybody can talk their way into the NBA… it’s me.

I shake hands with the GM and front office and sit. They slide a piece of paper to me with 5 skills on it: shooting, rebounding, defense, ball handling, passing and ask me to rank myself 1-5.

It felt like I took an hour overthinking everything, tryna think what they might think about me based on how I performed that day or if it’s a measure on my stats or game film? I’m coming in as a shooter but I didn’t shoot that well, should I still say that? I am had a dime today, should that go over defense?

Yale kid failing a test about himself. Jokes.

I thought I finished and slid it back to them and the GM flipped it around quick and said, “you ranked a skill the same number twice.”

Then as if it came from the basketball gods themselves, he said,

“You have to know who you are before we tell you who you are”

I understood it then but haven’t lived it till now.

I made this book for my son. Maybe it’s for your daughter too.