Those Who Love the Game: Glenn "Doc" Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere

Glenn "Doc" Rivers

ISBN 10: 0064461742 / ISBN 13: 9780064461740

Published by Trophy Pr, 1995

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Abnutzung / Risse - leicht; Gebrochener Buchrücken / Seiten oder Softcover umgeknickt; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Talking with two-time Newbery Honor author Bruce Brooks, Glenn "Doc" Rivers, point guard for the New York Knicks, tells readers about the game he loves--basketball. From the schoolyard games he played against Isaiah Thomas to the NBA playoffs, Rivers gives us the inside story of someone who started in the neighborhood and made it out.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Those Who Love the Game: Glenn "Doc" Rivers on Life in the NBA and Elsewhere
• Publisher: Trophy Pr
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064461742
• ISBN 13: 9780064461740
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Personal Growth

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Synopsis

An NBA veteran chronicles the story of his life, from his Chicago neighborhood to college and competition on and off the court

From Booklist

Gr. 7-12. Sports autobiographies, whether for adults or young people, are a much-maligned genre: too self-serving, too much play-by-play, and way too smarmy. This collaboration between New York Knick guard Glenn ("Doc") Rivers and award-winning YA author Bruce Brooks avoids those and other pitfalls, but early on it appears as if it's not going to avoid an even worse trap: metaphors. When Brooks, the author of The Moves Make the Man and other meaning-laden sports novels, launches into an elaborate analogy comparing Rivers' teammate John Starks to jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins (whom most teens won't know from Sonny Bono), we immediately want to take cover, fearing that metaphors as large as hailstones will soon be littering the pages. Fortunately, Brooks quickly backs off, turning the proceedings largely over to Rivers, out of whose mouth pour not metaphors but insights: about the game and the players, about competition, about race, about maturity, and about what it feels like on the court. Listen: "The pressure's on, you've got maybe eighteen seconds, you look around and catch a couple of quick glances, you see a defensive guy's feet stutter a little, you sense his man move, you spin and pass, and skoosh! Two!" When Brooks confines his role to amanuensis, which is most of the time, this book works as well as any basketball autobiography since Bill Bradley's Life on the Run. Forget basketball-as-a-metaphor-for-life; Rivers gives us "the game itself." Bill Ott