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'Battle tested' Kevin Young joins Phoenix Suns coaching staff after four seasons with Philadelphia 76ers

Do the best where you’re at.

Kevin Young took heed to that advice early in his coaching career and still lives by it.

“That sounds like a simple direction, but when you think about, coaching, or any industry that you’re in, everybody is trying to move up,” he said back in April in a Philadelphia 76ers’ YouTube video.

“I feel like in the coaching world, it’s even heightened in terms of advancement and things like that. You get caught up in what your next job might be, but again, for me, the best advice I ever got was you know what, sink your teeth into what you’re doing where you’re at and try to be the best version in that particular role.