{"id":34590,"date":"2011-05-05T04:27:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34590\/motivate-team\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T04:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:27:27","slug":"motivate-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/34590\/motivate-team\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Motivate Your Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nowadays, I always root against the Los Angeles Lakers, but it wasn’t always that way.\u00a0 For me, they are the NBA equivalent of the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL.\u00a0 From 1988 until 1996, I lived in San Diego, California, where our “home” team, was, for lack of anyone else on TV to root for (The Clippers weren’t broadcast in SD), The Lakers. The Lakers won nothing during those years.
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Despite that,\u00a0 I rooted for them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

See, I’m a homer.\u00a0 I will root for the sports teams of wherever I live, even if that means I have to root against a team I used to support.\u00a0 I lived in Dallas, Texas from 1980 until 1984 (little known fact: during those years, the Cowboys were the only team ever to go to the NFC Championship game and lose three consecutive years).\u00a0\u00a0 Just like the Lakers, their later success was, due to their dominance, annoying.\u00a0 Same kinds of teams with their same kind of annoying success against the teams that I liked. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, for this entire NBA season, pundits have been saying that the Lakers would contend for a third straight NBA championship this season.\u00a0 They just lost their first two games at home against, ironically, the Dallas Mavericks. I couldn’t be more pleased. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What are the Lakers going to do now? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Phil Jackson has a plan that is so epic, I had to capture on video and present it here, one of the best post-game, we-lost comments ever… 15 seconds of genius.\u00a0 No wonder this guy has coached 8 championship teams…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


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Phil Jackson has a plan that is so epic, I had to capture on video and present it here, one of the best post-game, we-lost comments ever… 15 seconds of genius. No wonder this guy has coached 8 championship teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}