College Basketball Coach John Mosley on Netflix's Last Chance U and using coaching to share the Gospel

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Since 2012, John Mosley has been the head basketball coach at East Los Angeles College. Mosley’s ELAC Huskies are currently featured in the 2021 season of the Netflix Emmy Award-winning sports documentary series: Last Chance U. The team is the first basketball program to be covered in the critically-acclaimed series.

Mosley is a former college basketball player at the JUCO and NAIA level, led the state in assists per game while playing for East LA. After his playing career, he pursued a job in coaching and spent five seasons as an assistant coach with Cal-Bakersfield from 2006-2011.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Mosley about being featured on Last Chance U, the platform that he's been given to share his about Christ, his one big concern with saying yes to Netflix and why he sees coaching as a ministry.

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0:00.0	Guys, today's conversation with John Mosley is really great.
0:03.5	He's the head basketball coach at East Los Angeles College,
0:06.6	but you saw him on Netflix's Last Chance You,
0:10.4	the basketball edition that released back in March of this year.
0:14.3	John Mosley, my goodness, he's got tons of wisdom.
0:18.1	He's our guest today on Sports Spectrum.
0:31.3	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports collide. Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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