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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Danny Parkins coauthored the book and explained that it examined the coaching and management pipeline from Division‑III basketball to the NBA, framing coaching as a form of teaching. The hosts praised it as an insightful resource for basketball fans and noted its broader life‑applicable lessons, even mentioning a charitable donation tied to sales.
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It was described as an intellectual exercise within the sports radio industry, specifically focusing on how D3 basketball players rose to prominence in the NBA, highlighting their unconventional paths and networking.
He's got kids, he's not that young, but he knows my admiration for him and I felt that about Nick Wright before I had heard Danny and the book is Pipeline to the Pros, which we'll get to...
So the book is Pipeline to the Pros, woosh, gives it a great recommendation if you love basketball, you'll devour a Pipeline to the Pros.
How D3 small college nobody's rose to rule in the NBA, Ben Kaplan, Danny Parkins, forward by Jeff Van Gundy.
I'm donating a portion of each book sold to brain cancer research and honor my brother.
It's a basketball book but there's a lot of things that are that are really practically applicable to any walk of life I would say.
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Danny Parkins mentioned that he coauthored *Pipeline to the Pros*, a book about the coaching and management pipeline in the NBA from the DivisionIII level to the professional league, emphasizing that coaching is essentially teaching.
You helped me promote the book that I coauthored, Pipeline to the Pros.
It's about coaching and management pipeline in the NBA from the D3 level to the NBA level.
The recurring theme of the book was coaching is teaching.
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The hosts identified it as a published book belonging to Danny Parkins, implying it covers scouting or player development topics.
Pipeline to the Pros, is his book.