Contents

• Jermaine and Ray
• Becoming a basketball player
• Getting known through networks and exposure
• Playing school ball
• Old heads and young bulls
• A Saturday morning at Espy
• The heart of the playground
• Chuck breaks them down
• Gotta want it "like that"
• Playing uptown
• Some fall off
• Bringing ‘em back and putting it all together
• The chip
• The glow but reality of success
• Ray vs. Green
• Playing everywhere
• Can’t look poor
• Implosion
• Moving north
• Learning other stuff
• A star is born; another is still waiting
• Politics and "pub(licity)"
• Getting in (school) and getting out (of the hood)
• Being used