NBA Trainer Reveals LeBron's Secret Weapon: Mindset | David Nurse DSH #993

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Dude, that's legendary. What he's doing on the Nuggets now is awesome.

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Yeah. Did not teach him anything to do with donkey, but yeah.

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Yeah, because he was nice on the Magic, right? Yeah, I'm not sure. But then his transition to the role player, because he was the best person on the Magic, and a lot of people struggle to make that transition as a role player.

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Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, it's kind of transferred from there of training NBA players individually led to coaching with the Brooklyn Nets. Now, it's an interesting dynamic coaching with a team. Most people think, like, that's the ultimate, but... I mean, it is and it isn't. If you're with a good culture and great coaching staff, it is.

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But a lot of the players, you would think, they don't actually really want to work out. I like doing what I do now because the players will come to you. They seek you out instead of you trying to have to go drag them into the gym. Interesting. And it's one of the biggest difference makers, man. I have this thing I call it, literally, it's do I drag you to the gym or do you drag me?

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I think he got second, right? He got second, but he won the ESPY for best player.

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Wow. Yeah, people think he came out of nowhere, but they don't see that behind the scenes.

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And that's the thing. That's what's the cool thing about training NBA players. You see behind the scenes of, you know, who actually loves training. And that, like, Domas Sabonis in 2020 when the world shut down, he came out to L.A. All the gyms were shut down in L.A. We found these, like, old little Jewish community centers and snuck in at 7 a.m. every morning.

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But he's not posting that on social media. It's that type of differentiator that stands out a lot. You ever train Kobe? No, man, I would love, but I've got some great Kobe stories. Oh, you do? I've got some great, all right. Let me give you this one. So first off, I'll give you two. I'll give you two to set the stage. So a buddy of mine was a head Nike marketing guy for 20 years.

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He's a guy who landed Kobe, landed LeBron, landed KD. He said KD, when they were landing KD, I mean, he's out in Baltimore, Under Armour's pitching him hard. They went out to Baltimore, rented this van, picked up chicken and nice tea and went around with all his boys to all his old basketball gyms and just hoot. Was that Katie's the chillest, just a pure hooper, right?

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Traveling too much. You're good, man. I'm very pumped for this. As a huge basketball fan, you've trained some of the best. Over 150 clients now, right? Yeah. That's impressive. Who was the first big client for you?

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You know, the first big client was an interesting one. So he was a high school player. And my friend coached in the Bay Area, Archbishop Mitty. He's like, hey, I've got this stud player. He's going to be a top 10 draft pick when he goes into the NBA. Do you want to come work him out? And I was doing basketball camps at the time. I just got done playing overseas.

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My overseas playing was more like a Will Ferrell semi-pro league than it was an actual like close to the NBA. So I'm like, yeah, of course, I want to get into NBA training. And I go up there and I had this moment of just not feeling like I was able to do this kind of like a confidence. Yeah, just the confidence of the imposter syndrome. But really, man, and I walk out. I don't do it.

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I don't go work this guy out. My friend's like, hey, we're going back there tomorrow. We're going to film this thing. We're going to send it out to agents and NBA teams. The player was Aaron Gordon. So I was doing workouts for Aaron Gordon. He was awesome. We sent this video out to agents and teams. I started working out more players, doing pre-draft.

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So the first guy, you can look back on YouTube and have a laugh. I've got these baggy shorts on, this big oversized polo. Aaron Gordon was the first guy.

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Like, Kobe wanted to know, like, everything that went into the shoe. He wanted, he was studying sharks. They'd fly with helicopters above the water to watch how sharks move. What? He said he was one of the most just absolute genius human beings this guy had been around. LeBron was the most difficult person.

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So they finally got the deal done in Akron at a diner, but they never actually got to talk to LeBron. And LeBron was like 17 or 18. Really? Kind of tells you a little bit right there. But, so, setting the stage in this Kobe story of how just incredibly smart he is. This is a story, by the way, of Chip Kelly, the football coach.

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He was telling me this last year, and when he was out in Philly, he said, Richard Hamilton, who's, you know, had a good career, and Kobe were in high school. They had this AAU tournament coming up where you could be ranked, so... Rip, Richard Hamilton said, hey, Kobe, like if you perform well this weekend, you're going to get ranked. And that's a huge thing for high school.

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And so Richard goes out and plays really well, gets like a top 15 ranking, something like that. And Kobe, 15 years old, shot every shot with his left hand that weekend. What? With his left hand. And Rip was like, Kobe, what are you doing? You just blew this opportunity. And Kobe said, no. Here's the difference between me and you. You want to be the best in this class.

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I mean, think about how it'll hold for them. Like, when he came, that dude couldn't shoot a lick. Bam Adebayo, I saw him in his pre-draft workouts. Like, that dude couldn't shoot at all. Now he can shoot. Oh, my gosh.

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Oh, the beddies are light up. The development, like, it's crazy. And even LeBron's shooting threes now. Yep. Well, he's getting older, so he kind of has to. But they just did a vote on the best player on the USA team yesterday. And he got five votes. He got the most votes.

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He got the vote for the best player.

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So far in the preseason games.

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I guess so. I mean, he's kind of brought him through down the wire, right?