What a great leader to watch and learn from during your growth as a reporter. Thanks for sharing. The interviews will come less often now, it hopefully this move means he’ll talk to you sometimes over the next year. If he’s back in person with the team, he must be feeling a little better than when he wasn’t.
A lovely tribute to a man who deserves every kind word sent his way. I hope Pop reads this because it expresses so well what the man has meant to so many people, as he obviously did you. The world would be a better place if there were more like him.
Pop’s announcement came out on the same day that my boss of the last 16 1/2 years also retired. In one day, the two biggest influences on my leadership style were moving on and I have to figure out how to continue to embody those ideals without their continued example in front of me.
I work in sales, which, like basketball, is a very results-driven profession. Also like basketball, the ultimate result is often not up to you. You can do everything right and still lose.
Pop taught me to value process over results. If you have the right process, and you follow it, you can be satisfied if the results aren’t in your favor because you know you did all you could to prepare.
The results would meet you if your preparation came into contact with the opportunity.
He also taught me to constantly revisit that process and make sure you’re incorporating new lessons and learning into refining and evolving the process.
I also find it so fascinating that he was so successful at wielding the hybrid coach and executive roles, balancing the needs of the present without sacrificing the needs of the future, that the entire league and the reporters who cover it seem to have just forgotten that he was still President of Basketball Operations this entire time. That just blows my mind.
Great sentiment. Anyone who is objective about "politics" agrees with you, and I can feel the care you used with your words. Bravo!
Nice one MT. Didn't think I'd catch a stray in a Pop tribute (never got Pop'd = subhuman) but lovely notheless.
Smh you always played it too safe, BP
What a great leader to watch and learn from during your growth as a reporter. Thanks for sharing. The interviews will come less often now, it hopefully this move means he’ll talk to you sometimes over the next year. If he’s back in person with the team, he must be feeling a little better than when he wasn’t.
A lovely tribute to a man who deserves every kind word sent his way. I hope Pop reads this because it expresses so well what the man has meant to so many people, as he obviously did you. The world would be a better place if there were more like him.
Pop’s announcement came out on the same day that my boss of the last 16 1/2 years also retired. In one day, the two biggest influences on my leadership style were moving on and I have to figure out how to continue to embody those ideals without their continued example in front of me.
I work in sales, which, like basketball, is a very results-driven profession. Also like basketball, the ultimate result is often not up to you. You can do everything right and still lose.
Pop taught me to value process over results. If you have the right process, and you follow it, you can be satisfied if the results aren’t in your favor because you know you did all you could to prepare.
The results would meet you if your preparation came into contact with the opportunity.
He also taught me to constantly revisit that process and make sure you’re incorporating new lessons and learning into refining and evolving the process.
I also find it so fascinating that he was so successful at wielding the hybrid coach and executive roles, balancing the needs of the present without sacrificing the needs of the future, that the entire league and the reporters who cover it seem to have just forgotten that he was still President of Basketball Operations this entire time. That just blows my mind.
I love this! Thanks!
Bravo, Tynan. Bravo Pop!