This affectionate look at life in the basketball minor leagues is enlivened by real-life details from a coach who's been there. "Mr. Rosen skillfully induces the reader to join 'the Brotherhood of the Sacred Hoop'"--"The New York Times".
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Entertaining but very weird:
Phil Jackson groupie and sometime ESPN.com writer Charley Rosen turns in a fun, but sometimes off-putting fictionalized account of minor league basketball life. He develops the characters well and puts forth a decent plot. However, Rosen's personal oddities drag the book down. Rosen is absolutely obsessed with bodily functions and he repeatedly goes into way too much detail about farting, urination, defacation, etc. At times, the book reads like an immature third grader's delight. My roommates and I all... more info
Fun, raucous romp through basketball's minor league.:
The Commercial Basketball Association (wink, wink) may be minor league, but Charley's novel describing a year there certainly isn't.
This is as honest a portrayal as we are likely to see about any sport. Exposing the dark side of the basketball business -- and most of it's participants -- at first left me yearning for a more wholesome, less complicated (and more naive) view of the game. Soon the story hooked me and I was able to look at the ugly, and alongside it the excitement and beauty as well.
