John Wooden’s Advice and Love Letters
Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood”, he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period—seven in a row[1]—as head coach at UCLA. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games.
As a player, Wooden was the first to be named basketball All-American three times and he won a national championship at Purdue. Wooden was named a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player (inducted in 1961) and as a coach (in 1973), the first person ever enshrined in both categories. Only Lenny Wilkens and Bill Sharman have since had the same honor.
