Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection Audiobook (Free)
- Danny Campbell
- 8 h 47 min
- HarperAudio
- 2017-01-10
Summary:
One of the most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history-and perhaps one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever-reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court with this no-holds-barred memoir
A guy of deep passion and intensity, George Karl earned his poor boy reputation while playing at the University of NEW YORK, a rap that continued through the five years he spent with the San Antonio Spurs-and lengthy after he about Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection stopped playing.
Karl’s beery evenings, fistfights, and barking followed him right into a thirty-five-year training career. In a game described by big stakes and larger egos, rabid followers and an unforgiving media, Karl was hired and fired a dozen situations. After leading a team beset by injuries and with no superstar to its best season of most time-an accomplishment that gained Karl the name NBA Coach of the Year-he was dumped with the Denver Nuggets in 2013. Significantly less than a yr and a half later, Karl was on the helm of the Sacramento Kings, snarling and bellowing on the sidelines before becoming cut loose in-may 2016.
Intense, obstinate, and loud, Karl has never backed down from a confrontation, whether with management, officials, or superstar players, while NBA legends from Allan Iverson to Gary Payton to Carmelo Anthony to Demarcus Cousins can attest. Telling his story, Karl holds nothing at all back as he speaks out about the overall game that has described his life, including the greed, selfishness, and ass-covering he thinks are characteristic of the present day NBA player, as well as the rampant corruption that leads all the way to any office from the NBA commissioner, David Stern. Karl also reveals how he’s learned to cope with the personalities, the pressure, and the setbacks having a resilience he acquired from his three rounds with cancer.
Organic, hard-hitting, and brutally honest, Furious George is really as thrilling, unstable, and entertaining while the game which has defined Karl’s existence.
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