Sweat Equity:
From Ball Boy to Builder
I’ll take you through the different worlds I encountered along the way — from locker rooms and control rooms to places far removed from professional sports — and show you what I learned about how they actually work and what they quietly demand from the people inside them.
At fifteen, I wasn’t in the stands at Madison Square Garden — I was under the basket, working as a ball boy for the New York Knicks.
It was supposed to be a one-time thing. Instead, it became the starting point for eight seasons as a Knicks ball boy, a continuing role with the organization and a career I never could have anticipated.
That career never followed a traditional ladder. It looked more like a map, taking me in and out of professional sports and through sports media, television production, entrepreneurship, live events and large-scale operations. Some stops made sense at the time. Others only made sense much later.
Sweat Equity is the story of that journey — the people, mistakes, opportunities and choices that shaped it, and what I learned along the way. There was never a master plan. I learned to recognize what was in front of me, build from what I had learned and find a way to keep moving forward, even when it didn’t always feel like forward at the time.
This isn’t a success story or a formula for building the perfect career. It’s a memoir about widening the perspective — because progress doesn’t always look like progress while you’re living it, and experiences that seem disconnected in the moment can take on an entirely different meaning farther down the road.
This book isn’t about the spotlight. It’s about how things actually work beneath it.
Sweat Equity reached #1 on Amazon's Hot New Releases chart for Basketball Biographies following its August 2026 release.