The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Chris Mullin reads as The Steward because he treats basketball as an inheritance to be passed on, not a résumé to be polished. He speaks of absorbing lessons from Carnesecca, Don Nelson, and Larry Bird, then deliberately transmitting them through coaching and mentorship.
“There's an element of that, yes. You're quite right. My favourite festival is the one at Mel Rose. It's not one of the biggest, but it's a medium one, I would say. It's wonderful. And they're very glad to see you, and they put you up with all the other authors.”
“So we have got a bit more, but not too much. For a few months. Why I thought it was interesting, but as the invitations flowed in, I realised it was. And I was meeting all sorts of interesting people. So I started again. And I don't think the gaps was actually quite as wide as you might appear from the book because I cut out some stuff.”
“I don't think you can look forward to volunteer, but I still do take the occasional note. People always say some amusing things to me if I make a note. I did a lunch the day before yesterday at the National Liberal Club, the old illiterate lunch. And we were all, myself and Henry Dimbleby and Lady Anne. Glen Connor, yes, that's right.”
“I'm sure you wouldn't. It's half too perceptive. So in the current climate, I think that would have been used against somebody like me. They wouldn't necessarily say he's too left-wing. They'd have said, oh, look, that's terrorists. This won't go down well with the citizens of Sunderland.”
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles: “Chris Mullin”
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