I had a brief conversation with Henry Abbott last Friday. The gist of that conversation is below. 

I have a file where I’ve got everybody I want to invite, all I have to do –
is send out the invite.

I’m going to start by trying to have a weekly, or bi-weekly, conversation where we weigh in via GTalk or conference calls.

I’m going to invite and write some key sources. And if people can’t come in at that time, I’ll let them weight in by email.

It will start with me organizing everything, but I’d like to have it in a manner where they can contribute without me having to oversee every second of it eventually.

At first I imagine I’m going to have to explain what this is, that will get us started, but once they see it’s part of a group, I hope that it will flow just like a conversation between important people in basketball and then hopefully some people will step up who are ready to take on bigger roles.

I want to start with 14 or so people. I’m trying to get good people involved and in a week and a half I’m going to the All Star game so I talk to some people there. I also have a lesser known NBA player who might be involved and a player in Europe. I can’t make promises now, but I’d like to have an NBA player as part of my network, along with coaches and managers.

Once this is going, I imagine it’ll move fast. It’s just a good way to really get people to talk to me and feel like they are in full control. Nothing will be off the record – but  they can be in full control over what they say. If they don’t want to talk about it, don’t type. But I hope that because it’ll be a conversation, things will get spelled out more.