JAY: Did you see Kevin Durant’s MVP speech earlier this week? It was real and touching and emotional. It should be required viewing for everyone who knows the difference between a basketball and basket-weaving.
And when he started thanking his mom for all the sacrifices she made, it made it real dusty at my desk.
It also made me think: Barry, when you coach or teach kids in youth sports, as you know, you get as much fun as the players. But the moms, who organize snacks and work the concession stands and make sure everything off the field is handled, those are the ones who are making championship-level sacrifices, you know?
BARRY: Yeah, give me a minute. Watching it again and got something in my eye.
Looking back, it was often the moms who brought the kids to practice and picked them up. And when they are little, and sometimes even in middle school and beyond, moms are the ones who make sure the kids are dressed and have their gloves and cleats when they show up. And when my own two were little, email and cell phones weren’t around so the team moms were the ones who did a lot of the phone-tree work and the organizing.