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👉🏽 🏀 Isa Kilic - Colleague - Friendship - ISKAY - Team/Club Identity - Image - Support 🏀

👉🏽There is no one word that could be used to describe the relationship with Isa Kilic. Our paths crossed by circumstance in 1986, after I completed the training and was awarded an "A-License" as a Basketball Official. Yes, I am proud of that! 👍🏽 If you read the book, you will find that becoming a professional Referee had also been one of my goals.

👉🏽 Early in my officiating career, I became popular with the men in a number of regions who were responsible for handing out assignments. Maybe I wasn't good 🤔 but, I was always available and distance to, or day of the game made absolutely no difference to me. When they called I was there. That also meant that I worked with many different partners. Isa Kilic was one of them. As it turned out, we worked together many times and we became friends.

👉🏽 Unfortunately for me, I also eventually earned an "A-License" ... Excuse me if that "Pride is showing through again!" 😈 ... I say "unfortunately" because I was not allowed to coach in the Pros and Ref in the Pros. I was given a choice. I chose to Coach! 🤷🏽‍♂️ So, Isa and I lost track of each other for a while. Unbeknownst to me, Isa was also the man behind ISKAY, a "full service" Basketball Sports Shop. Balls, Uniforms, Shoes ... if it was basketball related, ISKAY had it.

👉🏽 From my earliest days on the court as a player and, then as a coach, I believed that appearance was important. I felt that the impression your appearance made, made a difference in how people saw you and that it went deeper than "just the surface." No, I agree that "Clothes don't make the man" but... sometimes it gets you in the door!.

👉🏽 I have always tried to treat my players, my teams, my clubs special. I wanted them to have a "Team Identity". I wanted them to feel like they were a part of something special. That was true for teams, camps and individual players... It became a post of something inherent to "RitzBBall". It was designed to help players understand that they represented a concept when they wore "our stuff" .. on or off the court. ... 😏 Yes, I was kinda proud of that too! 😈 .. and I hope that former players had those same feelings.

👉🏽 Anyway ... Whatever success I had with that venture, was due largely in part to Isa and his ISKAY enterprise. The support he gave me and my programs , wherever I was, with whatever we needed is something that I could never repay. From design to finished product he was there. If I needed something next season, next month or the next day... I could count on ISKAY to get it to me. We're not even going to talk about quality. I know for a fact that there are players who still have articles from RitzBBall Teams and Camps from many, many years in the past. It means that it meant something to them then and it still does.

👉🏽 I am extremely proud to call Isa Kilic a friend and the relationship validates a theme that radiates through my book and that has been a part of my life since I began playing... "There's more to basketball than "just basketball!" So, I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story. Scroll through them and then ask me again if I thought it was special.

👉🏽 There are lots more examples ... but I think you get the picture. Isa gave our programs an identity that players wanted to be a part of.

👉🏽 Thanks Isa ... Coach

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