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Excerpt Ageless Athletic Assassin: Page 122
NBA KILLER MINDSET
Martial arts helps basketball players with the mentality to dominate against one-on-one matchups.
The most famous basketball player to benefit from martial arts is Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul Jabbar who studied Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee and even starred in Bruce Lee’s final film “Game of Death.” Kareem credits martial arts in providing him the discipline needed to win six championships with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Young Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant took notice and also practiced Jeet Kune Do - crediting Bruce Lee for his “Mamba Mentality” of winning five NBA championships with the Lakers.
Los Angeles Lakers great Shaquille O'Neal also benefited from martial arts - practicing boxing, Jiu-Jitsu, and Muay Thai that helped him win four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat.
Carmelo Anthony hopes his martial arts will help him win an elusive first NBA championship saying “As athletes, and as basketball players, you have to find different things that can help you on the basketball court. For me, that’s boxing. When I’m in the gym, it’s me versus you and I don’t want to leave that gym with a loss. So that goes into my mindset, and it puts me in that tenacious focus on the basketball court that you just don’t want to lose.”
Miami Heat James Johnson has the nickname “Blood Sport” as both his parents and 8 siblings are all karate black belts. When James played for the Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose chose James Johnson as his roommate knowing his qualifications as a bodyguard and enforcer. Chris Paul challenged James saying “I keep hearing about your fighting, but you're way too big to be a fighter” so James did a roundhouse kick within inches of Chris’ face causing Chris to step back and say “O.K. I believe you James.” In 2018 against the Philadelphia 76ers, Ben Simmons and James Johnson tussled so Ben’s teammates immediately pulled Ben aside knowing James’ martial arts background. Twitter laughed at Ben’s stupidity in challenging a karate black belt saying “In the span of an NBA quarter, James Johnson somehow managed to expose the entire Sixers team as fake tough guys - Incredible.”
NBA KILLER MINDSET
Martial arts helps basketball players with the mentality to dominate against one-on-one matchups.
The most famous basketball player to benefit from martial arts is Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul Jabbar who studied Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee and even starred in Bruce Lee’s final film “Game of Death.” Kareem credits martial arts in providing him the discipline needed to win six championships with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Young Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant took notice and also practiced Jeet Kune Do - crediting Bruce Lee for his “Mamba Mentality” of winning five NBA championships with the Lakers.
Los Angeles Lakers great Shaquille O'Neal also benefited from martial arts - practicing boxing, Jiu-Jitsu, and Muay Thai that helped him win four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat.
Carmelo Anthony hopes his martial arts will help him win an elusive first NBA championship saying “As athletes, and as basketball players, you have to find different things that can help you on the basketball court. For me, that’s boxing. When I’m in the gym, it’s me versus you and I don’t want to leave that gym with a loss. So that goes into my mindset, and it puts me in that tenacious focus on the basketball court that you just don’t want to lose.”
Miami Heat James Johnson has the nickname “Blood Sport” as both his parents and 8 siblings are all karate black belts. When James played for the Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose chose James Johnson as his roommate knowing his qualifications as a bodyguard and enforcer. Chris Paul challenged James saying “I keep hearing about your fighting, but you're way too big to be a fighter” so James did a roundhouse kick within inches of Chris’ face causing Chris to step back and say “O.K. I believe you James.” In 2018 against the Philadelphia 76ers, Ben Simmons and James Johnson tussled so Ben’s teammates immediately pulled Ben aside knowing James’ martial arts background. Twitter laughed at Ben’s stupidity in challenging a karate black belt saying “In the span of an NBA quarter, James Johnson somehow managed to expose the entire Sixers team as fake tough guys - Incredible.”
