The definitive New York Times bestselling story of the oprep to proso generation of basketball players who made the jump directly from high school to the NBA.
JONATHAN ABRAMS is an award-winning journalist who has covered the NBA for ESPN's Grantland,The New York TimesandLos Angeles Times.Heis a graduate of the University of Southern California.
"“Mr. Abrams is such an excellent reporter and has been such a keen
observer of the NBA over more than two decades that he makes an
unerring tour guide. It’s a blast just to let him lead us through
the tumultuous era between Mr. Jordan and Mr. James.” - The Wall
Street Journal
“Riveting….an exhaustive work of research and reporting that reads
with the propulsive energy of a magazine feature that makes you
late for something important.” - Slate
"Masterful." - The Atlantic
“A must-read about the game, an incisive and exhaustively reported
exploration of the price that young men pay for a chance to make it
in the extraordinarily competitive world of pro hoops. Jonathan
Abrams asks smart questions and has a gift for portraiture…an
important contribution to the discussion about the way we consume
sports in America.” - The Daily Beast
"Expertly weaves stories and anecdotes from these players to create
a fascinating retrospective on the culture, success and the
continuing impact of those players in the league..Abrams’ book does
an excellent job telling stories of these players, unearthing
details that add depth to even the most-known stars including
aspects of Kobe’s legendary pre-draft workouts and the “luckiest”
shot that accelerated LeBron’s star rising in high school. It is
worth reading for every basketball fan as a piece of entertainment
as well as for deeper insight into an era now past and the players
who still shape our present and future." - The Sporting News
"Abrams weaves a compelling tale about a transformational era in
the NBA that also speaks to the sometimes-desperate pursuit of
sporting stardom." - Kirkus (Starred Review)
"This essential, well-researched book will appeal to readers
interested in basketball’s business side as well as the factors
that have helped shape the modern NBA." -
“In this excellent effort, Abrams, the gifted hoops writer late of
Grantland, examines this controversial phenomenon from every
angle. –Publishers Weekly
"A riveting read that cements Jonathan Abrams' reputation as one of
the world's best basketball writers." – Bill Simmons,
#1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Book of
Basketball
“A fascinating and unsettling account of what happened to
professional basketball when teenagers made their way into a man's
game."—Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Outliers and David and Goliath
“Will stand as the definitive dissection of an oddly brief,
perpetually influential period in the history of NBA labor
relations."—Chuck Klosterman, New York Times bestselling author of
I Wear the Black Hat and Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
“There was much I learned from this book, which covers not only the
superstar “kids" like Bryant and Garnett, but also the compelling
cautionary tales.” —Jack McCallum, New York
Times bestselling author of Dream
Team and Seven Seconds or Less
"Boys Among Men is as inside as an account can be of the paths
of those players, both the famous and the forgotten. It's not
merely a compelling book for any hoops fan, it's an important
one."—David Epstein, New York Times bestselling
author of The Sports Gene
“An indispensable book for anyone who cares about basketball.”
—George Dohrmann, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Play Their
Hearts Out
“Jonathan Abrams has transcended one of the NBA's great business
and moral debates to deftly tell the inside story of the
prep-to-pros phenomenon…A marvelous book that will stand the
test of time." –Adrian Wojnarowski, New York
Times best-author of the selling The Miracle of St.
Anthony
“Jonathan Abrams expertly captures this crucial era in
basketball history. Yet what makes Boys Among Men so
compelling isn’t the high school players who turned out to be
future hall of famers, but the stories of all the tragic would-be
heroes that basketball has long forgotten.’ —Dave McMenamin, NBA
writer for ESPN
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