- Miracle at St. Anthony Adrian Wojnarowski
Follows legendary HS coach Bob Hurley and his St. Anthony team from Jersey City through a season, I think it's 03-04. Just goes into his coaching tactics, philosophies, and how he built the program into a national power. Also goes into detail about his family's history(sons Bobby and Danny, now both coaching at Rhode Island) and just the whole socioecomic situation in that area.
- Season on the Brink John Feinstein
Bob Knight is a genius and madman at the same time. That's about the best I can sum it up.
- City Game Pete Axthelm
Follows the 69-70 NY Knicks who won the NBA title that year and also goes deeply into the NYC playground scene. Earl Manigault, The GOAT!
- Pistol: Life of Pete Maravich Mark Kriegel
Documents the life of possibly the most skilled player of all time. At times inspirational, at times haunting. Lessons learned and not learned. Quote on the front of the book says something to the effect "He should have been the best of all time. This book explains why he wasn't". I think that pretty much nails it.
- Drive: Larry Bird bio Bird and Bob Ryan
Just read it, if you like hoops at all, you'll get a lot out of it.
- If you're interested in KSU and KS HS bball history, I'd recommend the work of Steven Farney. He wrote 1 book about Jack Gardner and KSU history that focused on the 50s and 60s, sort of a golden era for KSU hoops. He also wrote a couple books about KS HS history, 1 talking about Class BB champs from the 50s through 70s(REALLY small towns), the other detailing every KS HS player who has ever scored 50 in a game. His work isn't really deep reading but he provides a ton of good facts and stories if you're interested in KS hoops.
- Play Their Hearts Out George Dohrmann
I'm only about half way through this book, but I love it. Documents the grassroots/AAU scene in Socal while following the career path of Demetrius Walker(now a reserve guard at New Mexico) from the time he was around 10 through completing HS. For me, really tough to put down once I get reading, I'll probably knock it out this weekend.
