Reddit reviews The Fab Five: Basketball Trash Talk the American Dream
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University of Michigan basketball during 1992 and 1993NCAA touirnaments of 1992 and 1993
Fab Five:Basketball, Trash Talk and the American Dream is by far the best basketball book I have read, quite cool details on how the fab 5 got scouted as well as details of games etc as well as a big emphasis on the Coach Fisher and how his tactics on and off the court!
You should have read Mitch Albom writing about the University of Michigan's "Fab Five" back in the early 1990s. Talk about hyperbolic...
> Ed Martin was not necessarily a wealthy man.
Oh?
>He gave the recruits hundred of thousands of dollars
Well then...
>and had previously been investigated by the FBI for running illegal gambling rings.
Right, like I said: made money doing shady shit on the side.
> Ed Martin was a booster with recruit contact long before Fisher was head coach at Michigan.
Yup.
>Do not watch the Fab Five 30 for 30 documentary. ESPN allowed it to be put together by Jalen Rose, who was one of the Fab Five and has an axe to grind with Chris Webber. It is biased in the extreme.
Jalen Rose's side of the story is a fairly accurate side of the story. The only axe to grind against Webber is that Webber wrote off the rest of his teammates and the University of Michigan after the Ed Martin incident. Webber threw Martin under the bus...
"This case is about a man who befriended kids like myself, preying on our naïveté, our innocence, claiming that he loved us and that he wanted to support us, but later wanting to cash in on that love and support that we thought was free," Webber said at the time.
...and turned his back on his teammates. He refused to sit with them at the Natty and refused to participate or comment on their history.
FWIW the Fab Five are the reason I got into college basketball. First games I remember watching as a kid with my dad, a Michigan man. When I moved to Ann Arbor as a teenager, the first gift I received from my new friends at school was a book "The Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream."