For 16 years as an NBA assistant, John Welch sends players into every offseason with a list of things to work on.
It was an itinerary created by Clippers forward Tobias Harris with the addresses, times and details of each workout Harris planned during Welch’s summertime check-in on Long Island, where Harris grew up and still trains during the offseason in Garden City, N.Y.
Upon Welch’s arrival, he encountered something else he hadn’t seen before. One of six siblings in a family where basketball is taken very seriously, Harris was not only working out three or more times a day but doing so alongside his brothers and sister.