It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Let me start today with a clip from

maybe the surprise hit speaker at the Democratic Convention last night. Steve Kerr, head coach of the

Golden State Warriors of the NBA and of the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team, which just

won the gold in Paris. A lot of buzz about this speech afterwards for it coming not just from any

celebrity, if you want to call them a celebrity, like someone from Hollywood, say, but from someone who has experience in leadership, interestingly, similar to Tim Walls,

in the realm of sports. And for describing leadership, not in terms of, you know, like bossing people

around or being the big dog in every situation, but in terms of humility, listen to this.

I believe that leaders should be able to laugh at themselves.

I believe leaders must care for and love the people they are leading.

I believe leaders must possess knowledge and expertise, but with the full awareness

that none of us has all the answers.

And in fact, some of the best answers often come from members of the team.

And if you look for those qualities in your friends or your boss or an employee or your child's teacher or your mayor,

and shouldn't you want those same qualities in your president?

And then he went on to say he would be working every day to get people to vote for Harrison Wall, Steve Kerr at the Democratic Convention.

Of course, as they sometimes say critically about basketball coaches, the DNC kind of mismanaged the clock last night.

Things ran late.

They had to cancel James Taylor scheduled musical performance and one or two political speeches to get to the headliner, Joe Biden, very late as it was, around 1130.

Did you stay up and watch it?

When, among other things, he got a second shot at the line he bungled so badly at the June 27th debate that it became a symbol of why he had to drop out of the race.

This time he made the point, and to go back to an Olympic analogy, he stuck the landing.

And yes, we both know we have more to do, but we're moving in the right direction.

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