Talk of champions: stories of the people who made me: a memoir

Introduction: "I had to join the March"

Michael Jordan: eye of the tiger

Jack Curran: the push to be extraordinary

Dean Smith: white privilege

Bill Russell: good trouble

Michael Jackson (not the singer!): no one does it alone

Charles Barkley: from Malcolm X to Uncle Tom... in the same night

A few words about my mom and dad

Shaquille O'Neal: larger than life

Kobe Bryant: recognition of urgency

Magic Johnson: breaking the mold

Isiah Thomas: the most misunderstood understood person ever

Hakeem Olajuwon: becoming honorable

Mad Max, Big Shot Bob, Clyde, and Sam: more notes on what makes a champion

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