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Book SynopsisPerhaps no NBA player today is as exciting and yet enigmatic as Kyrie Irving. Martin Gitlin's biography chronicles Irving's brilliance on the court as a devastating one on one talent, examines the influence of his father, the untimely death of his mother, his growth as a basketball player in high school and college, and his journey in the NBA.
Trade ReviewVeteran sportswriter Marty Gitlin provides an entertaining look at Kyrie Irving, an enigma who is simultaneously a product of one of the nation's top universities and a Flat Earther, a conspiracy theorist and a basketball genius, an all-time Cleveland sports hero and one of its bigger villains."" - Bill Livingston, columnist for the
Plain Dealer Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Prodigy from Down Under
2. Rising Above the Ballers of Jersey
3. Steppingstone to Stardom
4. Rocking and Rolling to Cleveland
5. Stagnation
6. Old Story and New Contract
7. Changing Expectations
8. The Ecstasy and the Agony
9. Spreading His Wings
10. The Run and “The Shot”
11. The Off-Season of Dreams
12. Swan Song in Cleveland
13. Say What?
14. The Great Escape
15. Speaking and Saying Nothing
16. Going Green
17. A Question of Value
18. A Recovery and . . . a Reunion?
Epilogue
Notes
Index
