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CHOCOLATE THUNDER
Darryl Dawkins & Charley Rosen
NEW Hardcover
$40
In this shocking, and shockingly entertaining, memoir of a life in basketball, Dawkins, a former NBA star with the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets in the 1970s and ’80s, takes readers from his earliest days in a poor Florida backwater through his first games as an 18-year-old NBA rookie to later years of hard playing and harder partying. Dawkins had many professional claims to fame-he was generally credited with elevating the dunk to an art form and being the first to jump from high school to the NBA. But the best reason to read this book has nothing to do with who Dawkins was and everything to do with what he said. Dawkins was a throwback, a tell-it-like-it-is chatterbox, whether he was comparing the merits of pot and cocaine, recounting his childhood pastime of shooting at roosters, giving his estranged wife a broken nose (it was self-defense, he says) or describing the things that affected his play. But he redeemed himself with straight talk about serious issues, too, like the double standards of race in basketball. Raw, provocative and as unsubtle as a shattering backboard, this is a look at how it used to be-from a man who was most definitely there.
238 pages, ISBN 9780973144321
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