Installing Resilience
How Rick Pitino Installs Organizational Resilience into the St. John's Basketball Program and the City of New York
Love Keeps Score | Fifty-Three Years of Knicks Hope, Fathers, Sons and Jalen Brunson
by: Jason SaffordPublished on: 18/06/2026For fifty-three years, New Yorkers carried hope through heartbreak, missed opportunities, and generations of disappointment. Through the eyes of lifelong fan Jason Safford, "Love Keeps Score" explores how basketball became a language between fathers
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Terraforming the NCAA: How Rick Pitino Turned St. John’s Into an Institutional Blueprint for the Post-Amateur Era
by: Jason SaffordPublished on: 14/05/2026Rick Pitino’s St. John’s Rebuild Is Changing College Basketball Forever Rick Pitino, Mike Repole, and Ed Kull transformed St. John’s into a modern NIL powerhouse through leadership, resilience architecture, donor alignment, and institutional strategy
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The Rebound That Crossed a River | Zuby Ejiofor Story
by: Jason SaffordPublished on: 20/03/2026A powerful story of resilience connecting a refugee journey, mentorship, and Rick Pitino’s system through Zuby Ejiofor’s rise in college basketball.
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Rick Pitino’s $500 Million Impact: The Economic Engine Behind St. John's University Basketball
by: Jason SaffordPublished on: 12/03/2026Rick Pitino’s revival of St. John’s basketball may generate $500M for New York’s sports economy. What happens if the architect of that system suddenly leaves?
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