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Thursday, April 9, 2020

A Letter from our Executive Director


Jim "Make Every" Schatz
NBSA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NBSA MEMBERS, FREE THROW MASTERS, COACHES, PLAYERS, SHOOTERS, SPONSORS AND FRIENDS

Part 1 - April 15, 2020

We launched our new NBSA website on to the Internet today, April 15, 2020. Our old NBSA website has not been on the Internet for several years. I recently decided to move forward with our free-throw mastery projects, initially using my funds. My bank, Bank of America, and a few others have given me a small business loan and credit lines to get things started.

I plan to pay these loans back as soon as possible and stay on schedule. To be able to do that, I need your help. I need your immediate help. I need your donations today.

Please donate today by purchasing an NBSA Membership. There are four NBSA Memberships to choose from, and they all give you full NBSA privileges. Those privileges are; NBSA tournament event entry, state, and national ranking in your age and ability level, Elite Free Throw Mastery Instruction, NBSA store discounts, and entire NBSA website access.

NBSA Memberships
1) Youth Membership, 8 to 14, $15 a year.
2) Young Adults Membership, 15 to 24, $25 a year.
3) Adults Membership, 25 to 90 and over, $50 a year.
4) NBSA Lifetime Family Membership, all ages, $500, which is tax-deductible.

PURCHASE YOUR NBSA MEMBERSHIP TODAY!


If you don't have an NBSA Membership, we also provide a website access fee called the NBSA Ambassador Site Fee. The price is necessary as it will help cover the costs of our daily record-keeping, operations, technology, and administrative services. We are always in an NBSA membership drive to keep up with expenses. The price is only $5, and it gives you lifetime access to the entire website. Without paying this NBSA content fee, you will not have access to our Records section or our Elite Free Throw Mastery Team Instructional section.

You won't want to be left behind without access to these two new and improved NBSA sections. In our Records section, we will keep daily free throw percentages from the NBA, WNBA, NCAA, High School, leagues, and youth programs. We also keep NBSA tournament, NBSA Individual basketball shooting, and Guinness basketball shooting records there.

In our Free Throw Mastery section, we offer our elite free-throw mastery instructional program with our Elite NBSA Team. Our NBSA Elite team is composed of our best shooters/teachers. In this FTM section, we are offering; instructional articles, video, game film, and virtual free-throw mastery instruction. We are offering the best free-throw mastery instruction from who we feel are the most qualified shooters and teachers in the world.

The NBSA Elite Free Throw Mastery Instructional Team, with our best shooters/teachers are composed of our six top experts. Those experts are; Jim "Make Every" Schatz (Head Coach), Adam Filippi (Acclaimed Author and from the NBA), James Pauley (NBSA ranked #1 in Free Throw), Bob Owen (NBSA ranked #5 in Free Throw / NBSA Elite Team Captain), Ronn Wyckoff (NBSA ranked #6 in Free Throw), and Al Callejas (NBSA ranked #1 3-point). Our team, as a whole, shoots over 98% in practice, competition, and exhibitions.

The NBSA defines Free Throw Mastery as being able to demonstrate making (24-25) 96% or better from the free-throw line. We feel that to be able to teach free throw mastery, you must be able to demonstrate it. We will be adding three more elite NBSA shooters/teachers to our free-throw mastery instructional program over the next 90 days. These master teachers will be from our NBSA Coaches section on our website. If you think you are qualified to join our elite NBSA free-throw mastery instructional team or enter our NBSA Coaches section in your state, please notify me.

If you are unable to make an NBSA one year membership donation today, please make a $5 donation and become an NBSA Ambassador Site Fee Associate. We have sweetened the deal by not only giving away website lifetime access, but we are giving our NBSA Ambassadors back $5 for recruiting Youth and Young Adult members and $10 back per NBSA Adult Member they have enlisted. In our Membership section, there is an NBSA Ambassador's link to sign up for that program. If you are interested in becoming one of our 50 NBSA State Representative, Only 47 still available, we would like you to start by becoming an NBSA Ambassador.

PURCHASE NBSA AMBASSADOR ASSOCIATE (CLICK HERE)

I will begin to bring in income through our NBSA website. Revenue will come from memberships, from our Annual National Masters Invitational held in October in Las Vegas, our National sanctioned tournament Programs, the products and services we sell from our store, and from our new Virtual Internet Instructional Programming.

I have been working on all the website details for the last 30 days with our new website designer and technician, Jamie Angeli. Many of you in the basketball industry, and our founders, know of Jamie from when we started our NBSA association in 2009. I invited him to join our organization as one of our original NBSA basketball consultants and join our founder's group.

Jamie is a great innovator, administrator, and coach. He has been working in basketball, from the west coast to the east coast, for practically all his life, holding many titles and wearing many hats. Please read his bio on our founder's page. You can find his contact information and websites in our NBSA store. Jamie still coaches, he hosts and makes websites, and he makes and sells coaches practice and game time information.

For back up and additional funding, we are looking for grants, we will be on funding websites, and I am actively seeking donations, sponsorships, and advertising. I have projected our 2020 operating expenses and budget at $250,000 and, in 2021, approximately $500,000.

PHASE #1 - $15,000

Phase one is 50% completed. We have rebuilt the NBSA website with additional sections and started working on the new video instructional technology. The cost has been approximately $3,500 thus far.

There is still a ton of information to be added and organized on the website. The strategy and plan is very detail - intensive. I've rented a small office, on the top of a mountain, in Los Angeles to conduct the NBSA business. The rent is $315 a month, and we have Wifi and are getting a business land phone, which is another small monthly expense. I am using my Post Office PO box in Verdugo City for our mailing and shipping address. As we go, we will be expanding our office, electing volunteer officers, hiring employees, and leasing or purchasing necessary office equipment and technology.

I no longer have much of an income coming from my window tinting businesses due to the Pandemic. I decided to put them up for sale. I plan on working full time for the NBSA on our National Program, Free Throw Mastery instruction, and for our charity organization, Free Throw Nation. I plan to pay myself a salary eventually as a temporary NBSA National Executive Director. I am also going to need a company van for transportation. My goal is to be organized in all 50 states before I can think of retiring. I want to accomplish that in the next three years, four years, if we are unable to hold our October 2020 events due to the Coronavirus or whatever it is?

I am interviewing attorneys and am open to referrals and suggestions. We need an attorney familiar with incorporating as a tax-exempt non-profit, and familiar with sports, entertainment, and national sports associations. I am also looking for the right accountant for help in keeping our books and for corporate, non-profit tax consultation. I am applying for our non-profit status and looking into purchasing the proper liability insurance to ensure our brand, and funds are safe and protected.

Phase #1 will take another 30 to 60 days to complete, and as time marches on, keep coming back to our NBSA website to view our progress, projects and development.

When we complete Phase #1, we will have our NBSA website sections and projected programs up and running. Our income will have begun. We will have picked our legal consul, have set up our books, have liability insurance, and we will have spent approximately $15,000.

We should be ready then with additional funding, which is necessary to continuously allow us to implement the next three Phases in strategy.

Phase #2 - $30,000

Phase #3 - $60,000

Phase #4 - $120,000

COMING SOON - MAY 1, 2020

PART TWO - THE NEW NBSA SECTIONS

PART THREE - OUR STEP BY STEP STRATEGY

PART FOUR - SHORT AND LONG TERM GOALS

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