Reddit reviews Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
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Read Play Their Hearts Out but George Dohrmann, it is one of my favorite books and does an amazing job detailing the underworld of AAU. It is a little dated (about a decade) at this point but many of the flaws have only become worse.
'Play Their Hearts Out' is a great read
Play Their Hearts Out Incredible story and fascinating investigation of the youth basketball machine
Pacific Rims Basketball is humongous in the Philippines. This book examines the history of the phenomenon as well as a fly-on-the-wall account of a season in the country's top league.
Heaven is a Playground Rick Telander (who went on to write for SI and ESPN among others) spent a summer in New York City shortly after graduating college in the seventies to immerse himself in the playground game of the city. Telander spent virtually all his time playing and hanging out with playground stars including future NBA-er Albert King (brother of Bernard). An engaging mix of sociology and sports.
Three wrongs don't make a right, either. The AAU is also a swamp of vultures looking to prey on children who don't know any better. This book is a great, albeit completely infuriating, look at some of the shenanigans that go on at that level:
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