Scallabrine Crushes Amateurs
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Sam Parr shares a story about Brian Scalabrine, former NBA player, proving the massive skill gap between pro athletes and regular people.
"Brian Scalabrine played for the Celtics - he's like a redhead, 6'9", huge guy. After he retired, he starts playing rec leagues and he would score like 60 points a game, just crushing these guys. He doesn't brag about it too much, but then online he mentions 'Yeah, I got 60 points last night in my rec league.'
People online start chirping at him hard saying 'Dude you suck, I could beat you' or 'I don't even know how you made it in the NBA.' He goes 'Wait a minute, maybe I suck compared to Derrick Rose but I don't suck compared to any of you guys.'
So he starts doing this tour where he goes to all these basketball courts - the hoodest of the hood basketball court, the best YMCA - all around the country. He challenges people saying 'Come play me one-on-one.' He destroys them. He would beat them like 10-nothing. He said 'I let them get one just to figure out what they're gonna do.'
He's got this awesome quote that he said to this 18-year-old kid after crushing him: 'Let's get something straight - I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me.' He called it the Scallenge. It just shows you there's levels to greatness."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.