Getting to The Truth | NBA Coach, George Karl
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with George Karl, the 6th winningest coach in NBA basketball history.
George coached the Cavs, Warriors, Sonics, Bucks, Nuggets and Kings over the span of 1,999 NBA games.
He was also an All American player in college at the University of North Carolina and played in the ABA for the San Antonio Spurs.
At UNC, George had the fortune of being mentored by the late Dean Smith and was surrounded by other brilliant basketball minds who helped shape his coaching philosophy.
George has never been one to hold back and the same can be said for this conversation.
He has some amazing stories to share, including his experiences coaching future Hall of Famer’s Ray Allen and Carmelo Anthony and what it was like going up against Michael Jordan in the NBA Finals.
We talk success, we talk failure, and we discuss why finding purpose in his post-coaching life has been challenging.
Beyond basketball, George is a three-time cancer survivor so he’s a fighter, he’s resilient by nature.
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| 0:00.0 | The one thing that the game of basketball is missing, maybe sports is missing now, is joyfulness. |
| 0:09.2 | We don't enjoy winning anymore. |
| 0:11.9 | We don't enjoy 55 wins because if you're losing the |
| 0:16.2 | first or second round of playoffs, we don't have enough celebration of doing it |
| 0:21.9 | the right way and doing it in a proud and a degree of excellence. |
| 0:28.0 | And I don't know if that's our society right now. |
| 0:31.0 | You know there's so much scrutiny and opinion and you know it's it's |
| 0:36.3 | easier to sell the negative than it is to sell the positive and and I think so much of basketball now is the next day and not a celebration of your success of the day before. |
| 0:50.0 | The joyfulness, the mindfulness of a purpose, accomplishing a purpose. |
| 0:57.0 | We don't have that in our game very much. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay, welcome back or, welcome back or, |
| 1:10.0 | okay, welcome back or, welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist, |
| 1:20.0 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 1:23.0 | And I just got to say, |
| 1:25.0 | I love this community. |
| 1:27.0 | I really love this podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | I really enjoy how much I'm learning, |
| 1:32.0 | how joyful it is to share, how challenging and |
| 1:37.2 | insightful and wonderful like being in the conversations with the men and women I get to |
| 1:41.5 | be in the conversations with is. |
| 1:43.8 | And so the whole idea behind these conversations is to understand from people who have dedicated |
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