Go Lean Commentary
Congratulations Tim Duncan. You deserve your champion’s accolades.
This commentary has previously sided with Mr. Duncan’s opponent in the recent NBA Finals. Here below are the previous blogs citing a hope for the Miami Heat’s dominance in the NBA Playoff tournament.
| https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1148 | Sports Bubble – Franchise values in basketball |
| https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=689 | eMerge conference aims to jump-start Miami tech hub |
But talent recognizes talent!
It is also good news, according to this foregoing news article, that Mr. Duncan will be returning for at least one more season.
By: The Caribbean Journal Staff
Tim Duncan isn’t going anywhere.
The St Croix native, who recently won his fifth NBA championship, will be returning to the San Antonio Spurs for his 18th NBA season.
The team announced Monday that the 38-year-old Duncan had exercised his player option for the 2014-2015 season, putting to rest any notion that he would be retiring.
Duncan helped the Spurs to a dominant 4-1 series win over the Miami Heat in this month’s NBA Finals.
The Christiansted native is one of five players in the history of the NBA to win five championships and five MVPs (either NBA Finals or regular season), along with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Duncan leads all active players in career wins, with 898.
Caribbean Journal Online News Source (Posted 06-23-2014; retrieved 06-26-2014) –
http://www.caribjournal.com/2014/06/23/st-croixs-tim-duncan-to-return-to-spurs-for-another-season/
There is something bigger than sports alone at play here. As the foregoing news article depicts, Mr. Duncan is a member of the Caribbean Diaspora. He is recognized as one of the best in his field of endeavor; perhaps one of the best of all time. This is a claim of the book Go Lean … Caribbean, that sports require a genius qualifier and that genius ability can be found in abundance in the Caribbean. Mr. Duncan makes us all proud: Christiansted, St. Croix, the US Virgin Islands and all of the Caribbean.
The Go Lean book serves as a roadmap for the introduction and implementation of the Caribbean Union Trade Federation (CU), a technocratic federal government to administer and optimize the economic/security/ governing engines of the region’s 30 member-states. At the outset, the roadmap recognizes the value of sports with these statements in the Declaration of Interdependence (Page 13 & 14):
xxvi. Whereas the preparation of our labor force can foster opportunities and dictate economic progress for current and future generations, the Federation must ensure that educational and job training opportunities are fully optimized for all residents of all member-states, with no partiality towards any gender or ethnic group. The Federation must recognize and facilitate excellence in many different fields of endeavor, including sciences, languages, arts, music and sports. This responsibility should be executed without incurring the risks of further human flight, as has been the past history.
xxxi. Whereas sports have been a source of great pride for the Caribbean region, the economic returns from these ventures have not been evenly distributed as in other societies. The Federation must therefore facilitate the eco-systems and vertical industries of sports as a business, recreation, national pastime and even sports tourism – modeling the Olympics.
The Go Lean roadmap calls for the market organizations to better explore the economic opportunities for sports. Sports can be big business! But even when money is not involved, other benefits abound. As such the CU will enhance the engines to elevate sports at all levels: amateur, intercollegiate and professional.
The other issue related to Tim Duncan is that of “image”. Mr. Duncan could be a proud ambassador of Caribbean character. Personally, he does not advocate any political or economic agenda, so others must do that for him. As a public figure, his story is free to relate to the listening world of how impactful a Caribbean heritage can be.
The subjects of sports and Caribbean image have been related in many previous Go Lean blogs; highlighted here in the following samples:
| a. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1446 | Caribbean Players in the 2014 World Cup |
| b. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1341 | College World Series Time |
| c. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1214 | The Art & Science of Temporary Stadiums – No White Elephants |
| d. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1148 | Sports Bubble – Franchise values in basketball |
| e. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=1020 | Sports Revolutionary: Advocate Jeffrey Webb |
| f. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=857 | Caribbean Image: Dreadlocks |
| g. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=498 | Book Review: ‘The Sports Gene’ |
| h. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=334 | Bahamians Make Presence Felt In Libyan League |
| i. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=318 | Collegiate Sports in the Caribbean |
| j. | https://goleancaribbean.com/blog/?p=60 | Could the Caribbean Host the Olympic Games? |
The book Go Lean…Caribbean has an economic empowerment agenda, but there are still huge benefits for the region related to sports. The strategy is to consolidate the region’s 30 member-states / 4 languages into a Single Market of 42 million people – leverage for a viable sports landscape. The CU facilitation of applicable venues (stadia, arenas, fields, temporary structures) on CU-owned fairgrounds plus the negotiations for broadcast/streaming rights/licenses will elevate the art, science and genius of sports as an enterprise in the region.
Now is the time for all of the Caribbean to lean-in to the following community ethos, strategies, tactics, implementations and advocacies detailed in the book Go Lean … Caribbean to re-boot the delivery of the regional solutions to elevate the Caribbean region through sports:
| Community Ethos – People Respond to Incentives in Predictable Ways | Page 21 |
| Community Ethos – Return on Investments | Page 24 |
| Community Ethos – Ways to Foster Genius | Page 27 |
| Community Ethos – Ways to Improve Negotiations | Page 32 |
| Community Ethos – Ways to Promote Happiness | Page 36 |
| Strategic – Vision – Integrating Region in to a Single Market | Page 45 |
| Strategic – Staffing – Sporting Events at Fairgrounds | Page 55 |
| Tactical – Fostering a Technocracy | Page 64 |
| Tactical – Separation of Powers – Sports & Culture Administration | Page 81 |
| Tactical – Separation of Powers – Fairgrounds Administration | Page 83 |
| Implementation – Steps to Implement Self-Governing Entities (Fairgrounds) | Page 105 |
| Implementation – Ways to Deliver | Page 109 |
| Planning – Ways to Make the Caribbean Better | Page 131 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Grow the Economy | Page 151 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Improve Local Government – Parks & Recreation | Page 169 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Impact Events | Page 191 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Promote Fairgrounds | Page 192 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Foster Technology Expositions | Page 197 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Improve Sports | Page 229 |
| Advocacy – Ways to Impact Urban Living – Sports Leagues | Page 234 |
The foregoing article celebrates a Caribbean Champion. But there is more to celebrate with Caribbean life, culture and the homeland. With the Go Lean executions, we can all be champions, by making the Caribbean a better place to live, work and play.
Download the book Go Lean…Caribbean now!