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This big-hearted memoir by the most promising professional basketball player of his generation details his rise to NBA stardom, the terrible accident that ended his career and plunged him into a life-altering depression, and how he ultimately found his way out of the darkness.
Ten years ago, Jay Williams was at the beginning of a brilliant professional basketball career. The Chicago Bulls'
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Provides a biography of professional basketball player Stephen Curry describing his personal life, professional career, and philanthropic efforts. Includes quotes, color photographs, sidebars, statistics, QR codes that link to videos, text-dependent questions, a glossary, further resources, and ideas for research projects.
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Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...
6) LeBron James
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Provides a biography of professional basketball player LeBron James describing his personal life, professional career, and philanthropic efforts. Includes quotes, color photographs, sidebars, statistics, QR codes that link to videos, text-dependent questions, a glossary, further resources, and ideas for research projects.
8) James Harden
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Pictorialized profile of the life and basketball career of NBA player James Harden, showcasing his early life, how he came to be drafted in 2009, his greatest accomplishments in the sport, and details of his personal life as a celebrity. Each chapter is supplemented with sidebars, charts, QR codes that link to videos, review questions, and ideas for research projects. Concludes with an index, glossary, and resources for further exploration.
9) Uncle Drew
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After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival. Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, the myth, the legend Uncle Drew and convinces him to return to the court one more time.
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"The spectacular success of the NBA is based on its stars, their performances and personalities, which have excited fans game after game, championship after championship. Michael Grange has profiled 50 greatest and most electrifying players in the league's history in Basketball's Greatest Stars, which has been newly updated for the 2018-19 season. They're all here: the score-at-will centers, the quick-dishing guards, the take-it-to-the-hoop power...
11) Anthony Davis
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Provides a biography of professional basketball player Anthony Davis describing his personal life, professional career, and philanthropic efforts. Includes quotes, color photographs, sidebars, statistics, QR codes that link to videos, text-dependent questions, a glossary, further resources, and ideas for research projects.
12) Sheryl Swoopes
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A biography of basketball superstar Sheryl Swoopes exploring her early life as well as her path to stardom.
16) Dwyane Wade
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A definitive biography of basketball superstar Dwayne Wade exploring his early life as well as his path to stardom.
17) Here to stay
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When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.