Ronnie Fields
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Ronnie Fields reads as The Guardian because his leadership was forged in loss and remade as protection. A near-fatal car accident at seventeen ended his NBA future, and instead of retreating he turned that rupture into a disciplined covenant with Chicago youth. Coaching a high school team to the state final four in his first season was no accident. It was the work of someone who knows how fragile a young athlete's path is.
“It's easy to be down and give up in life in situations where it didn't go how most people thought. It's how you bounce back from it.”
“I had three choices that could have came out of there and looked really bad. Only one was good. The other two was awful. I ended up getting the best one.”
“Getting these kids to know I care about them first — that's the first thing. Then they know when I get on them hard, I still care about them and I want the best for them.”
All The Smoke: “Ronnie Fields Reflects On Career-Changing Car Accident, Playing w/ KG, MJ Runs | ALL THE SMOKE”
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