Chapter 1 Available now. Clothbound, about 280pp.
Basketball is a culture.
If you don't grow up with it or come to understand it completely, you can never really appreciate it, but if you do, no one can ever say anything that will change the way you feel about it. I've grown up with basketball and believe I have come to understand and appreciate it. My relationship with the sport began with the childhood experience of shoveling snow off frozen ground and then shooting baskets until the dirt had turned to mud. I remember the feeling of bitter cold December weekends in Ohio when Saturday morning high school practices in an unheated gym made the term warmups all too literal. I have learned that it is possible to experience a kinship with an activity that transcends any rational explanation of its influence on your life.