Shooting Stars
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From the ultimate team? basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August?a poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including James's own.The Shooting Stars were a bunch of kids?LeBron James and his best friends?from Akron, Ohio, who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond that would carry them through thick and thin (a lot of thin) and, at last, to a national championship in their senior year of high school.They were a motley group who faced challenges all too typical of inner-city America. LeBron grew up without a father and had moved with his mother more than a dozen times by the age of ten. Willie McGee, the quiet one, had left both his parents behind in Chicago to be raised... The Barnes & Noble Review A while back, a pair of YouTube videos made it viral in Cleveland, where I live. These "Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism" videos spoof earnest attempts to attract visitors. Featuring a shot of a steel mill and a shot of the sky, for example, they trumpet Cleveland as "the place where there used to be industry" and where you can "see the sun almost three times a year." The clip that cuts deepest is a shot of a giant "We Are All Witnesses" billboard featuring LeBron James, arms outstretched, head back, claiming dominion. The voice-over quips, "Our economy is based on LeBron James."
