Expatriate Games by Dave Fromm

I finished reading Dave Fromm’s Expatriate Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketball within hours after I got it in mail. The events of author’s adventure are intertwined with his thoughts about future, reminiscences of past NBA and college games, his struggles to find a basketball team in a country whose language he can’t speak and can barely understand. All this moves quickly, sentences flow smoothly like they should in a well-written book. Read the whole review ->

Values of the Game by Bill Bradley

Bil Bradley’s Values of the Game is a book of basketball wisdom by one of the premier players of the past era, Bill Bradley. This book is important because it was written by a person who pursued basketball excellence relentlessly throughout his youth, yet decided to take Rhodes scholarship and play basketball at Oxford University, England, instead going to the New York Knicks as their draft pick (the Knicks will take him later anyway). Read the whole review ->