The Rebound Podcast with Coach Matt Doherty

This week Coach Doherty interviews Hall Of Fame basketball pioneer Nancy Lieberman. "Lady Magic" is a former player and WNBA Coach who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA and the Coach of the "Power" a team in the Big3 summer league she took to a Championship in 2018. Nancy is considered one of the greatest figures in basketball history. She was a dominant player representing America internationally ...

Steve Phelps has served as President of Nascar since 2018. Phelps oversees all operations, competition and partnerships for the sanctioning body, including the management of 15 racetrack facilities and the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) sports car series. Under Phelps’ leadership, NASCAR has transformed its business and strengthened the sport’s position for long-te...

In this episode, Coach Doherty reconnects with his former UNC college teammate, James Worthy. James played his entire professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. Worthy was a seven-time NBA All-Star, a two-time All-NBA Team member who won three NBA championships and was voted the NBA Finals MVP in 1988. He was named to both the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams. As a small forward in college, James was a consens...

Michale Kidd Gilchrist was born in Philadelphia and was recognized as one of the best players in America attending St Patrick High School in 2010 with Kyrie Irving in New Jersey. He attended Kentucky and in his first season led the team to a national championship, then declared for the NBA draft. He was drafted #2 and played 10 years in Charlotte. He has a stutter and has embarked on a national stuttering awareness tour.

The NBA ve...

In this episode, Coach Doherty talks with American patriot, Pedro Israel Orta. Pedro is a Miami-born son of Cuban immigrants who fled the tyranny of Fidel Castro’s communism. He is a CIA and Intelligence whistle blower, an ordained minister and an award winning photographer. After receiving Summa Cum Laude from Florida International, Pedro received his Masters from George Washington University and then spent several years in confli...

This week Matt talks with famous all-pro lineman Harris Barton from the San Francisco 49ers. Harris is a 3x Super Bowl champion. He graduated UNC with a BA in Finance and became a fund manager after a distinguished career in San Francisco with the 49ers. Harris experienced some extraordinary setbacks with the collapse of the stack market in 2009 which required him to make many changes to overcome some peril for him and his family. ...

Coach Doherty has lots to be proud of in a basketball career that includes a national championship as a player and an AP Coach of the Year award as head coach at North Carolina. But even so many years later, Coach traces some of his motivation to a small interaction he had with a teammate when deciding where to go to college. Coach's path from this moment proved to be both a smart one, and one with a poetic ending.

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The path to success is much like any other path in life - it’s non-linear. We take steps forward, but then stumble backwards. However, it’s how we recover from those stumbles that reveals who we truly are.

Before founding Girls on the Run, a non-profit organization that serves young women through physical activity, and receiving the Point of Light award from President Barack Obama, Molly Barker faced a reb...

You can have as much talent as you want. All the All-Stars with the biggest names and the most credentials. Every bit of talent in the world won’t help you, however, if you don’t have a strong culture.

In today’s solo episode of The Rebound Podcast, host Matt Doherty talks about how to build the foundations of a winning culture. Drawing from his years of experience coaching basketball at a high level and b...

No matter what level of success you reach in your leadership journey, you can always get knocked down. Oftentimes for leaders, the bigger the title, the greater potential for a much harder fall. As a leader, however, it’s your mandate to show grace, humility and dignity in your lowest moments.

From 2009 through 2013, Tim Pernetti was the Athletic Director at his alma mater Rutgers University, and shepherde...

Every basketball player who’s stepped on the court in an open gym or the hot unforgiving blacktop knows how important it is to win games and hold court. If your team won, you’d get to stay on the court and challenge the next group.

But if you lost, that meant you had to sit out for at least one game, and maybe more depending on how many other teams were waiting. And the feeling of losing sat deep in your stomach until ...

Athletes, especially those at the top of their game, are generally regarded as physically gifted people that can perform feats that most of us only dream about. Running, jumping, catching and more are all common traits of the best athletes, and it’s how many of them define themselves and their lives.

So what happens when an athlete is stripped of their ability to walk?

In 1981, Joe Reto wa...

When Michael Jordan reinvested in North Carolina by buying a majority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats (as they were known at the time), he knew he had to have a leadership team around him that he could trust. That's why he brought in one of his good friends and business partners, Fred Whitfield.

In his 17 years as the leader of the Hornets, Fred oversaw the return of the Hornets brand and imagery, the hosting of an NBA All-Star game...

Rarely in professional sports does a player, coach or even executive get to go out on their own terms. Few people know that as well as Coach Doherty, except for today’s guest.

From 2001-’09, JP Ricciardi was the General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. After several uninspired years and questionable personnel decisions, Ricciardi was released from Toronto just two days before the end of the 2009 season. I...

No matter who you are, addiction and substance abuse can be an unfortunately common force in either your own life or the life of someone close to you. Being in the spotlight, or places of intense scrutiny can only worsen these circumstances. 

Today’s guest  on the The Rebound Podcast is Robbie Shaw, a former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player who shares something much deeper than having worn the pow...

ESPN College Basketball Analyst Jay Bilas stands out amongst his peers as one of the most respected voices in college basketball. A star center on Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s earliest Duke teams in the 1980’s, Jay went on to become a lawyer after his playing days were over. However, his love of college basketball quickly drew him back into the sport as an analyst for ESPN. 

Jay sat down with Coach Matt Doherty f...

Danny Morrison is the Executive Director of the Charlotte Sports Foundation and a long-tenured leader in a variety of positions in the sports world, including Athletic Director of Wofford College (his alma mater), commissioner of the Southern Conference, and President of the Carolina Panthers.

Throughout his career, Danny has worked with large and diverse organizations, as well as other high level executives. During this time, he’s...