Coach Wooden and me our 50-year friendship on and off the court
When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an 18-year-old high school basketball prospect from New York City named Lew Alcindor, he accepted a scholarship from UCLA largely on the strength of Coach John Wooden's reputation as a winner. It turned out to be the right choice, as Alcindor and...
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Why it took fifty years to write this book
- When worlds collide: Midwestern hick meets Harlem hoopster
- The game is afoot: It's never about winning and other courtside lessons
- Color bind: The unbearable darkness of being black
- What would Wooden do: Religion, politics, and keeping the faith
- We've got trouble, right here in Pauley Pavilion: Getting lost on Wooden Way
- "Time can bend your knees": The hours of friendship in the days of grief
- Our long day's journey into night.
