"Recounts the life of Tom Gola, the only player to win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the NCAA Tournament, and an NBA championship. The biography includes Gola's playing career at La Salle College and in the NBA, his coaching career at La Salle, and his subsequent c…
"Recounts the life of Tom Gola, the only player to win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the NCAA Tournament, and an NBA championship. The biography includes Gola's playing career at La Salle College and in the NBA, his coaching career at La Salle, and his subsequent c…
"Recounts the life of Tom Gola, the only player to win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the NCAA Tournament, and an NBA championship. The biography includes Gola's playing career at La Salle College and in the NBA, his coaching career at La Salle, and his subsequent c…
"Recounts the life of Tom Gola, the only player to win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the NCAA Tournament, and an NBA championship. The biography includes Gola's playing career at La Salle College and in the NBA, his coaching career at La Salle, and his subsequent c…
"Recounts the life of Tom Gola, the only player to win the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), the NCAA Tournament, and an NBA championship. The biography includes Gola's playing career at La Salle College and in the NBA, his coaching career at La Salle, and his subsequent c…
With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan before him, LeBron has also become a global brand and businessman who has altered the way professional athle…
From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James's incredible transformation from basketball star to sports and business mogul. With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basket…
"Tells the story of James's journey down the path to becoming a billionaire sports icon--his successes, his failures, and the lessons both have taught him along the way"--Publisher marketing.
With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan before him, LeBron has also become a global brand and businessman who has altered the way professional athle…
The NBA's first legally deaf player recounts his childhood on a polygamist compound in Montana, the difficulties he faced playing collegiate basketball, his brief time playing professionally in Europe, and the success that brought him to the NBA.
Finally, the fascinating story of the star athlete who was a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters.
This book is the first biography of Ted Strong Jr., a two-sport athlete of the Negro Leagues and the Harlem Globetrotters. Born Theodore Relighn Strong Jr. in South Bend, Indiana, the eldest of 14 children, Ted was raised in the Black Belt of South Side Chicago. He was one of th…
NBA Hall of Famer Bernard King is one of the most dynamic scorers in basketball history. King was notoriously private as a player, and rarely spoke to the press-not about his career and never about his personal life. And even beyond his prolific scoring, King will forever be rem…
An NBA Hall of Famer presents an account of his personal and professional accomplishments, discussing his matchups with basketball legends, his major knee reconstruction, and how he broke a personal cycle of negativity and self-destructiveness.
Traces the author's journey from a promising high-school basketball star to a recovering drug addict, describing his struggles with addiction throughout his college and NBA years, his overdose, and his work as a mentor for young athletes.
Former NBA basketball player Chris Herren chronicles the rise and fall of his basketball career, his struggle with drugs, his marriage to his high-school sweetheart, and life with his children.
Bijan Majidi is: -Shy around girls -Really into comics -Decent at basketball. Bijan Majidi is not: -A terrorist. What happens when a kid who's flown under the radar for most of high school gets pulled off the bench to make the winning basket in a varsity playoff game? If his nam…
