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Going Pro Following a 13-year professional career in Europe, Bailey and his brother Mo created a basketball training company near Philadelphia. Bailey found he loved developing young talent. “Getting to coach players and be immersed in the sport — I just love it,” he says. “It never feels like work.”

Inside the Job Each NBA assistant coach has a specific role — plays to watch, athletes to develop (one of Bailey’s is All-Star Trae Young) and teams to scout. When analyzing an upcoming opponent, Bailey watches that team’s five most recent games, scrutinizing 240 minutes of footage and blending his subjective impressions with the objective stats that quantify every action on the court.

Going Pro Frazier leveraged his Bucknell network and contacted NBA coach Charles Lee ’06, who helped him land an internship as an NBA video assistant with the Milwaukee Bucks. It was a foot in the door. An assistant coach took the interns out to dinner and shared a nugget of wisdom: “He told us, ‘You guys are here to serve.’ ” Frazier took it to heart. “At my next job, I said, ‘I’m here to serve — whatever anybody needs.’ When you have that mentality, people start asking you for help.”

Inside the Job Before long, Frazier found himself sitting with the head coach chatting about technical aspects of the game. “That only happens if the coach trusts you,” he says. “And he only trusts you because you have a spirit of service.” Now with the New Orleans Pelicans, Frazier is the one taking interns to dinner. “I want to help them like coaches have helped me.”