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The Love In Basketball podcast explores servant-leadership on and off the court. Love is at the heart of servant-leadership. And the Love In Basketball podcast seeks to gain a fuller understanding of this life-giving form of leadership that holds people and results together. Host, Leadership Coach, and former men’s college basketball coach, Adam Gierlach explores the frameworks of servant-leadership in solo episodes and sits down with servant-leadership practitioners from the world of basketball, learning what it looks like to practice servant-leadership out in the world. Together, we’ll learn more about this form of leadership that combines serving others in a way that results in our collective growth as persons, and creates the results you truly desire.

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5. Benjamin Sanders - Long Island Nets

January 07, 2021 • Adam Gierlach

This episode is a conversation with Benjamin Sanders. I found this to be a conversation filled with openness. Coach Sanders’ experience at the collegiate and professional levels have exposed him to many different forms of leadership. Our conversations so far have mostly centered around an individual servant-leader. And in this conversation, we hear Coach Sanders’ perspective of having also received more diminishing forms of leadership, from ego-driven leaders. He highlights that we help others to be servant-leaders by being servant-leaders ourselves, and that his shift from an inward focus and self-preservation to servant-leadership came in part from the empowerment and servant-leadership he received from others. He also highlights the power of humility, genuine communication, and finding joy in the successes of others.

Coach Sanders is the Video Coordinator for the Long Island Nets, the Brooklyn Nets G-League Affiliate. Coach Sanders has extensive G-League experience, having also previously served on the staffs of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, and the Windy City Bulls, including serving as an assistant coach with Windy City last season. Coach Sanders previously served as a Video Coordinator at the collegiate level, and also runs his own basketball analytics service, Benjamin Sanders Hoops Analytics, which you can explore at bshoopsanalytics.com.