Our mission
At SCORE, we're focused on developing great people and great basketball players - in that order. We work tirelessly to mentor players on how to improve their skills and their abilities on and off the court. So much of the game is mental, and we train players for both the physical and the mental demands of it.
Where the coaching comes from
SCORE was founded by Don Calvert, and the coaching philosophy that still runs the gym today traces back through some of the most respected teachers in the sport. Calvert learned the game directly from Coach Iba - the coach credited with shaping many of the modern coaching theories still used on courts today, and the man Oklahoma State University's basketball arena is named after. He was also coached by Coach Bliss, who himself played and coached under Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight.
That's not a marketing line - it's the actual chain of teaching that shows up in every SCORE session: structure, accountability, and a refusal to let a player coast on natural ability. Talent shows up on its own. Skill doesn't. It gets built, rep by rep, by coaches who were taught the fundamentals the hard way and pass them on the same way.
From player to coach
That lineage is still active in the gym. Head Trainer Jaeland Jordan first walked through SCORE's doors in 2010 as a player under Don Calvert, and that's where his love for the game grew into something bigger. He went on to play AAU ball and suit up for Union RedHawks' middle and high school teams before eventually playing at the Division 1 level. In 2022, he came back through those same doors - this time as a coach, working to help the next generation of players reach their full potential the way SCORE once helped him reach his.
What thirty years looks like
Three decades of coaching in Tulsa adds up to a long list of players who came through SCORE and kept playing - at the Division 1 level and beyond. It shows up in the numbers: 50+ Division 1 players developed, a 4.9★ Google rating built one family at a time, and a curriculum that still runs group classes, 1-on-1 training, and specialty camps - offense and defense, shooting, point guard play, post play - for every level from first dribble to college recruit.
We don't run a program built around one all-star. We run a gym built around a method: put in the work, get taught the truth about your game, and keep showing up. The players' names change every season. The standard doesn't.