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Broken dreams

ID 297416
Slug broken-dreams-fred-roggen
Contributors
Author : Fred Roggen
Annotation
Description Broken Dreams isn't just a book about basketball, It tells the stories of young talented players blessed by the basketball gods with immense gifts whose missteps and poor choices derailed what could have been a long, lucrative and accomplished NBA career. The book provides portraits of the players hopes and aspirations, their home lives, and the difficulties they face in living - namely, the temptations of drugs and alcohol. They had gone through a downward spiral brought on by drugs, alcohol and self-doubt. Their stories, and the double-edged sword of hoop dreams, is at the heart of these compelling stories about young talented players struggle to find their way in an often grim world. Fred Roggen is a independent basketball journalist/publicist. His sport writing has been featured at Eurobasket.com, the Spanish site Basketme.com, the Dutch sites Basketballplus.nl, and Ibaskeball.nl. He is the author of the Dutch basketball book 'Vervlogen Tijden'.
Bestseller 60
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Subjects
491 Sportbiografieën NUR
NSTC
Publisher Piramidions
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 132
Duration
Publication date first 2015-03-19
Publication date latest 2015-03-20
Cover URL
Editions
  • ISBN: 9789491439988 (BC)

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