Kyler McLaughlin

𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧. Tim Grover was Michael Jordan's personal trainer for most of his career. He saw everything up close, the workouts, the obsession, the daily routine that never changed regardless of what was happening outside the gym. He described what Jordan's offseason actually looked like: "𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒚: 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉, 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌, 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓, 𝒃𝒆𝒅. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑵𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔, 𝒏𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔, 𝒏𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔. 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏. 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌." Three workouts a day. Golf break. Repeat. Then Jordan's father was murdered in 1993. Jordan retired. Came back. Won three more championships. Grover described what he admired most about all of it: "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉; 𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐, 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔." Michael Jordan made over $100 million from Nike. Tim Grover the man who was there every single day, says that had nothing to do with it. The shoe deal was the result. The three workouts a day were the reason. 🐐 (HoopersParadise FB)

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." -Anthony Bourdain

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus gave commencement speech at Penn Engineering School in 2024. He does version of Steve Jobs “paint both sides of the fence even if other people don’t know” attention-to-detail story…about screws for the Cinema Dislay monitor: “Here’s my first [advice]: the care that you put into your work really matters. My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. These screws were made of stainless steel, and the head of every screw was machined to have a pattern of concentric grooves that shimmered like a CD when light moved across it. I should probably say, if some of you have never seen a CD before, you can ask your parents afterward. At some point in my first year, I found myself at a supplier facility. I was far away from home, it was well past midnight. I was using a magnifying glass to count the number of grooves on the head of this screw, which, remember, lives on the back of the display. And I was arguing with the supplier because these parts had 35 grooves, they were supposed to have 25. I distinctly remember stepping back for a minute and thinking to myself, “What the hell am I doing? Is this normal?” And I thought about it, and I realized it might not be normal, but it’s right. It’s right because I’d already spent months working on that product, and if you’re going to spend that much time on something, you should put in your very best effort. Maybe a customer notices, maybe they don’t, but either way, whenever I saw one of those displays on someone’s desk, it mattered to me to know that my teammates and I had considered everything about it and done the very best job we could.” *** H/T to @kevg1412 for flagging this: aletteraday.substack.com/p/letter-327-j…

@PGATOUR @wingoz @RBC_Heritage Pay the man

Matt Fitzpatrick this week ... • 2nd win in 3 starts • 3rd top-2 in 4 starts • $3,600,000 earned • moves to 2nd in the #FedExCup

Good morning from Sunday at the Masters. #themasters

@readswithravi Let Them by @melrobbins

What's a book that changed your life?

Having reffed both sports at a very high level, I can tell you that the atmosphere in basketball and dealing with coaches is very different. It’s all game long, a constant back and forth, and there is a mutual understanding between basketball refs and coaches. It’s part of what makes reffing it so much fun. I’m happy that Roger Ayers (who always referees games at a Final Four level) handled the end of the game the way that he did. This was not a confrontational situation. Uconn hit a buzzer beater a few seconds before the viral moment between Ayers and Hurley. Ayers is telling Hurley that the game isn’t over yet (there was a clock adjustment from 0.02 to 0.04 - which is notable for catch and shoot). Hurley isn’t physically contacting him, he’s just between Ayers and the scorer’s table. I’ve been in some wild environments/end of game scenarios both in basketball and football. They feel surreal and you are in a state of shock to an extent. This is how great officials handle these situations, so kudos to Roger Ayers and congrats to UConn.

@BrodyT_Bohannon @KStateFB @stantonweber @AndrewFowler_ @HKA_Tanalski @HKA_Baltar @moorepete18 @shanee_mc @KStateRecruits @kt_recruiting @ARPrepSports @tctabler Winner !

Had a great visit with @KStateFB today. The staff and facilities were outstanding. Thank you @stantonweber for the invite, I can’t wait to be back! @AndrewFowler_ @HKA_Tanalski @HKA_Baltar @moorepete18 @shanee_mc @KStateRecruits @kt_recruiting @ARPrepSports @tctabler @CoachSvarczkopf

@Espngreeny I forgot you’ve won a bunch of games, Greeny

Terrific game, like a prize fight. #Duke found a way. But I will never understand why Pitino went away from the hottest hand he had. His players played better than he coached tonight. #marchmadness

@MarcHsu21 Winner

She gets it

Thanks @Garmin 🔥

John Calipari. The Last Corleone.

Razorbacks win SEC tourney. Criticize John Calipari all you want, but Arkansas in year two with him is better than Kentucky is in year two without him. All he does is win everywhere he coaches.

Just do the work and “Let Them”. Great book

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