FAYETTEVILLE — If there's one thing Eric Musselman learned in his time in the NBA, it's that NBA players are motivated by numbers.
Spending day after day with elite athletes early in his coaching career, which included head coaching stints with the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings, that became more and more evident. So he flipped it into a positive that in turn would benefit his teams.
"It's one of the philosophies I brought from the NBA level," said Musselman, the former Nevada coach who was introduced as Arkansas' 13th men's basketball coach on Monday in Bud Walton Arena.