Streetball Is Life
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Beschreibung:
Written by award-winning YA author Paul Volponi, this book is an autobiographical account of Volponi as a 17-year-old intent on becoming a legitimate NYC streetballer. Woven throughout are the important social skills learned on the basketball court, showing readers that their time spent streetballing is meaningful beyond the sport itself.
During the sweltering summer of seventeen-year-old Paul Volponi’s life, he had only one goal—he wanted, no, needed to become a legitimate and respected New York City street basketball player. It was a passion that consumed him night and day, and at times even isolated him from his friends and family. So he entered through the gates of the Proving Ground, the roughest streetball yard in the city. It was a place where the fouls resembled felonies, and the atmosphere mirrored that of the Roman Coliseum more than Madison Square Garden. It was where teens and adults contested pickup games with a ferocity seemingly greater than that of the NBA Finals. The Proving Ground was a difficult place to cultivate friendships and an easy environment to make enemies.
This is the story of Paul’s summer-long initiation at the Proving Ground. It is truly a streetball testament of a teenager who wanted more than anything else to earn his stripes in streetball society. Only what he didn’t understand at the time was that this experience would deliver to him, as it does today for so many young adults, a set of skills that would enhance his life far beyond the boundaries of a basketball court.
Preface
Prologue
1: Leaving the Comfort Zone
2: Into the Fire
3: Staking Our Claim
4: The Battle Within
5: One-on-One War
6: A Sunday with Style
7: Worries at Home
8: Storming the Shrine
9: Christmas in July
10: Setting a Roster
11: The Sheriff
12: Shelter from the Storm
13: Round Two
14: The Letter
15: Ballers versus Badge
16: Thinking Forward
17: Problem Solving
18: No Rating
19: Role Model
20: B-Ball Paradise
21: Hitting the Wall
22: Seeing Double
23: Mending Wounds
24: Lessons Learned
25: The Court Less Traveled
Afterword
References
About the Author