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Foundation Basketball Academy A european pro-style player development program designed to maximize every athlete’s potential.

5-foot-10. 27 offers.His scouting report opens with the knock every small guard hears: undersized. Then 247Sports’ Direc...
10/24/2026

5-foot-10. 27 offers.

His scouting report opens with the knock every small guard hears: undersized. Then 247Sports’ Director of Scouting called him “one of the most exciting players in the country.”

Micah Gordon is a point guard out of Plainfield, New Jersey. He ran the PSA Cardinals on the Nike EYBL, climbed to No. 28 in the 2027 class on the 247Sports Composite, and committed to Creighton on Sept. 19.

Here’s the part for your kid: nobody can make him taller. Everything else on the list is trainable.

→ Get strong. Win the contact before the shot.
→ Live in the paint — get downhill and finish with either hand.
→ See it first. Vision beats size.
→ Pressure the ball for 94 feet.
→ Make your free throws. He shoots 81%.

You can’t train height. So train everything else.

Built, not born.

Save this for your small guard — and follow so you don’t miss the next one.

— Foundation Basketball Academy

10/23/2026

Undrafted in 2021.

Austin Reaves grew up in Newark, Arkansas, a town of about a thousand people. His older brother kept telling him the same thing: you’re from a small town, so you have to do more than everybody else.

In college he could have stopped there. His brother told him he could go play overseas right now and make good money, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But if he wanted the NBA, he had to do more.

“And so I did more.”

Your kid doesn’t need a bigger town. He needs somebody in his corner who tells him the truth.

Built, not born.

Send this to a small-town hooper who thinks nobody’s watching.

Follow Foundation Basketball Academy for mentality, money and life lessons from the players who lived them.

**Source:** Mind the Game (LeBron James & Steve Nash), “The Austin Reaves Interview | LeBron James and Steve Nash | MIND THE GAME” (2026).

10/23/2026

Two days before Team USA camp, Kobe knocked on Coach K’s door.

He was the best scorer on the planet. And he had one request: let him guard the other team’s best perimeter player every night. “I promise you I’ll destroy him.”

At the first practice he didn’t take a single shot. He just played defense. Coach K had to pull him aside and ask him to shoot the ball.

Coach K says he was the only coach who ever had to ask Kobe to shoot.

Your kid’s best player might be the one who asks for the hardest job, not the most shots.

Built, not born.

Send this to a scorer who’s never asked to guard the best player.

Follow Foundation Basketball Academy for mentality, money and life lessons from the players who lived them.

**Source:** The Old Man and The Three (JJ Redick), “Why Kobe Bryant Refused to Shoot on Team USA | Coach K’s Amazing Kobe Story” (2020).

10/22/2026

10 national championships in 12 years.

John Wooden won more than any coach in college basketball history, and he didn’t define success by winning. His dad, a farmer in southern Indiana, gave his boys one rule: never try to be better than someone else. Learn from everybody. Never stop trying to be the best you can be. That part is under your control.

Wooden’s definition of success: peace of mind, from knowing you made the effort to do the best you’re capable of.

Your kid can’t control the playing time, the ref or the coach’s son. He can control the effort. Judge that.

Built, not born.

Send this to a parent who measures every game by the scoreboard.

Follow Foundation Basketball Academy for mentality, money and life lessons from the players who lived them.

**Source:** TED, “The difference between winning and succeeding | John Wooden”

10/22/2026

Second all-time in assists. Only John Stockton has more.

Chris Paul says experience is the best teacher. Film is how he studies. When the games come on at night and he’s home, he’s learning people’s tendencies and what plays teams like to run.

He doesn’t just watch. He studies.

Tonight, sit down with your kid for one quarter of a game. Pause before every play and ask him: what’s the defense about to do?

Built, not born.

Send this to a hooper who watches games on his phone but never studies them.

Follow Foundation Basketball Academy for mentality, money and life lessons from the players who lived them.

**Source:** Oklahoma City Thunder, “In the Film Room with Chris Paul, one of the all time great passers in the history of the NBA.” (2019).

10/22/2026

$304 million.

In 2023 Jaylen Brown signed the richest contract in NBA history at the time. When he came into the league as the No. 3 pick, he had no car and no chef. He took Ubers and ate the same food he ate in college. For his first three years he lived like he was still a college student.

He says most young players get big money before they know what to do with it. He gave himself time to learn first.

Your kid’s first paycheck might be $80 from reffing a rec game. The habit is the same either way: live below it until you understand it.

Built, not born.

Send this to a parent teaching a teenager about his first job money.

Follow Foundation Basketball Academy for mentality, money and life lessons from the players who lived them.

**Source:** Boardroom, “Jaylen Brown Opens Up on How NBA Wealth Changed His Life & Relationships” (2026)

May 2025. One offer.Texas A&M was the first school on his board. Seventeen months later, Josiah Rose is the No. 1 point ...
10/21/2026

May 2025. One offer.

Texas A&M was the first school on his board. Seventeen months later, Josiah Rose is the No. 1 point guard in the 2028 class, No. 3 in the country on 247Sports, and Duke just offered.

Here’s the part for your kid: nobody offers a point guard for his highlights. They offer the guard they trust with the ball.

→ Take care of the ball.
→ Make the simple pass.
→ Get downhill — pressure the rim, then find the open man.
→ Be the loudest voice on defense.
→ Win the ball screen. Every offense runs it.

None of that needs a five-star ranking to start. It needs reps.

The offers follow the work.

Built, not born.

Save this for your point guard — and follow so you don’t miss the next one.

— Foundation Basketball Academy

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