 how is it that you have come to rub shoulders with some of the greatest basketball players the world has ever known? Well, basketball was my first identifiable passion and I fell in love with the game at five years old and I'm so grateful that here, 40 years later, basketball's still a major pillar of my life and I've spent my entire life around the game and incredibly thankful that I've seen it from three very distinctly different vantage points. The first third of my life was as a player myself. I was able to play all the way up through college. The next third I spent as a basketball performance coach which was when I actually got to work with these elite players and now on this back third, I'm the father of three children that all play youth basketball. So I've seen the game from every angle and I got into basketball performance training at a very opportune time when there weren't very many people doing it and some doors were open for me that allowed me to do work at Nike and Jordan Brand and USA Basketball and I got an opportunity to work events for the likes of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant some pretty amazing players. But I also had an opportunity to work at two different high schools here in the Washington DC area that ended up producing future pros like Kevin Durant and Victor Oladipo. So I've had a unique journey that I've gotten to see both sides of the curtain. I've gotten to see what it takes for a young player to rise to the mountaintop but then I got to work with these established pros and see what it takes to actually stay there and sustain that level of excellence. So very thankful basketball's been a major part of my journey.