Shooting Stars Audiobook (Free)

From the ultimate team-basketball superstar LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August-a poignant, thrilling tale of the energy of teamwork to transform young lives, including James’s own

The Shooting Celebrities were a bunch of kids-LeBron Wayne and his best friends-from Akron, Ohio, who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name if they were ten and eleven years old. United by their like of the overall game and their about Shooting Stars yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a connection that would carry them through dense and thin (a lot of thin) and, at last, to a nationwide championship within their older year of high school.

These were a motley group who faced challenges all too typical of inner-city America. LeBron was raised without a dad and had shifted with his mom more than a dozen moments by age ten. Willie McGee, the peaceful one, had still left both his parents behind in Chicago to be raised by his older brother in Akron. Dru Joyce was outspoken, and his dad was ever present; he’d finish up training all five of the boys in senior high school. Sian Cotton, who also played football, was the happy-go-lucky enforcer, while Romeo Travis was disappointed, bitter, even surly, until he finally opened up himself up to the bond his teammates provided him.

In the summer after seventh grade, the Shooting Stars tasted glory if they qualified to get a national championship tournament in Memphis. But they dropped their concentrate and experienced to go back home early. They guaranteed one another they would stay collectively and perform whatever it got to earn a national title.

That they had no idea how hard it would be to fulfill that promise. In the years that implemented, they would withstand jealousy, hostility, exploitation, resentment in the black community (because they went to a “white” high school), and the consequences of their very own overconfidence. Not really least, they would all have to wrestle with LeBron’s outsize achievement, which brought an excessive amount of attention and a good whiff of scandal their way. But jointly these five boys became males, and jointly they stated the prize they had fought for all those years-a national championship.

Shooting Stars is definitely a stirring depiction of the issues that encounter America’s youngsters today and a gorgeous evocation from the transcendent effect of teamwork.