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6 Reddit comments about The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams:

u/Emperor_Tamarin · 5 pointsr/booksuggestions

I'm mostly a basketball guy so...


You don't need to have ever seen a basketball game to appreciate these first two books.

Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam which it probably the best NBA book. It follows the 1978 Portland Trail Blazers and gets way more access than anyone could get now. Plus Halberstam was a great writer so he gets the most out of excellent material.

The Last Shot by Darcy Frey this is probably my favorite basketball book. It follows high school basketball players and it works as biography as well as an exploration of sports culture, race, class, and youth. The Hoop Dreams of books. Great journalism on a great subject.

Freedarko's The Undisputed Guide to Basketball History Captures the visceral and intellectual thrill of watching basketball better than any other book. Manages to capture big picture and little picture.

Seven Seconds or Less Lifelong basketball writer follows one of the funnest teams in NBA history for a year


Pistol Biography of Pistol Pete and his insanely driven father. Manages the rare feat for a sports biography of not slipping into hagiography.


Baseball

Moneyball How baseball teams were run a decade ago. Really well written and somehow manages to make baseball and business really entertaining. Great for fans and non-fans.

u/RegMackworthy · 2 pointsr/TheWire

The Last Shot by Darcy Frey reminded me a lot of Season 4. It's a true story that follows 4 NYC high school basketball players in the mid 1990s, trying to make it out of the neighborhood. Very well-written and thought-provoking, especially with the epilogue that came 10 years later.

u/TheUnderpaid · 2 pointsr/nba

If you want a great read that will really open your eyes and bum you out about the lives that some people grow up with, read The Last Shot by Darcy Frey


Stephon Marbury makes a few appearances in it to-- appearances that help the reader to understand his personality.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/books

Two books about kids and street basketball, both of which are classics.

Heaven is a Playground

and The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams.

u/RoundaboutCircle · 1 pointr/sports
u/BKMD44 · 1 pointr/AskReddit

From what I can tell from here, that book is about Stephon Marbury and his brothers who lived in the Coney Island projects and played ball at Lincoln High. CI Projects are fucking murderous places too, but that ain't Bed Stuy.