Winning the NBA Championship in 2008. Losing in the NBA Finals in 2010. Though they were completely different endings emotionally both were amazing learning opportunities that author Kevin Eastman experienced as a member of the Boston Celtics coaching staff. These events and many others from Kevins fortyplus years in the game have motivated him to write Why the Best Are the Best. Kevin will take you behind the scenes and share an upclose look at how and why the best are the way they are. Why the Best Are the Best examines strategies to help you overcome mistakes and failures as well as ways to turn them into your own personal success plan. More importantly this book will help you see that these same mindsets habits and strategies are not just for elite athletes or the otherwise famous. We can all insert them into our lives and careers to help us become our best. The best are the best in part because of the words they choose to live by. The best individuals and teams define their words respect the power of those words and use those words as a foundation for all they do. This book provides the 25 Power Words that will help you learn from the best to create a framework and mindset to become your best. ... Kevin has a unique way of taking the most important components of success leadership team building and personal developmentand simplifying them to the point that we can immediately insert them into our lives careers and teams. JAY WRIGHT Head Coach Villanova University NCAA Champion 2016 2018 ... He Kevin Eastman has worked with NBA allstars Hall of Fame players and thirteen to fifteenyear olds wanting to make their high school team. In every situation he has worked to make them better and cared equally about the person regardless of stature.... ROY WILLIAMS Head Coach University of North Carolina NCAA Champion 2005 2009 2017 Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee ... Kevin personifies what General Martin Dempsey calls the three most important principles of leadership char