Former American Negro League baseball legend Leroy “Satchel” Paige once warned: “Don’t look back, someone may be gaining on you.”
What Paige meant is: If you’re not careful and don’t go full throttle, eyes ahead, you may be passed before you realise it.
The US men’s basketball team failed to heed Paige’s words of wisdom in Athens in 2004 and didn’t win Olympic gold playing with NBA stars for the first time ever.
The days of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird et al winning by 40 points a game were gone forever.
Since…
