By Jonathan Abrams
ISBN-10: 0804139253
ISBN-13: 9780804139250
ISBN-10: 080413927X
ISBN-13: 9780804139274
while Kevin Garnett surprised the realm by way of asserting that he wouldn't be attending college—as younger basketball prodigies have been anticipated to do—but in its place input the 1995 NBA draft without delay from highschool, he blazed a path for a new release of minor basketball gamers to move instantly for the professionals. That development could proceed till the NBA instituted an age restrict in 2005, requiring all avid gamers to wait university or one other developmental application for a minimum of one year.
Over that decade-plus interval, the checklist of avid gamers who made that tricky jump contains the most celebrated avid gamers of the fashionable era—Garnett, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Tracy McGrady, and various different stars. it's also impressive “busts” who both bodily or mentally proved not able to address the transition. yet for higher or for worse, the face of the NBA was once ceaselessly replaced through the prep-to-pro generation.
In compelling, masterfully crafted prose, Boys between Men goes backstage and attracts on thousands of firsthand interviews to color insightful and fascinating pics of the main pivotal figures and occasions in this time. Award-winning basketball author Jonathan Abrams has acquired impressive entry to the major avid gamers, coaches, and different movers and shakers from that point, and the result's a booklet jam-packed with infrequent insights and never-before-published information about this bankruptcy in NBA history. Boys between Men is an exciting, informative, must-read for any basketball fan.
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