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| BOOK OF THE MONTH |
How to Be Like Mike
Pat Williams, senior vice president of the Orlando Magic, wrote this 2001 book concerning "life lessons" reguarding Michael Jordan. Williams interviewed over 1500 people that know his "Airness" the best. The outcome is a very motivational book that I reccommend to all parents, coaches and aspiring young players to read.
Williams details that Jordan has 11 qualities to his overall character that makes his one of the greatest athletes that ever lived. What makes How to be Like Mike such an enjoyable book is that Williams constantly uses stories and quotes to depict Jordan's greatness.
The Philadephia Daily News wrote about the book, "It's a terrific, well-crafted book, insisting that we could all learn from the characteristics that made Michael Jordan such a great player. It ought to be required reading in every pro clubhouse in America. "
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| VIDEO OF THE MONTH |
Hoop Dreams
Perhaps the most critically acclaimed basketball movie of all time is not a fictional story, but a documentary. Hoop Dreams takes the audience through the lifes of William Gates and Aurthur Agee for five years. Orginally Hoop Dreams was to be a 30 minute documentary, the movie turned out to be a nearly 3 hour roller coaster ride that has as many plots and turns as a Shakespearian play.
The movie begins by focusing on two African American 14 year olds, Agee and Gaines, from Chicago. Gaines is the most heralded of the two as he plays varsity basketball at St Joseph High School (Isiah Thomas' former school). Agee, meanwhile, plays on the freshman team. Over the next four years we see first hand the heart breaks, the buzzer beaters, the politics and the passion of Agee and Gaines.
Roger Ebert wrote about Hoop Dreams, "
Hoop Dreams is not only a documentary. It is also poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic. It is one of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime."
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