Lake Park High School Summer Reading 2023: The Sixth Man

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Check the catalog at East or West campus to see if a physical copy is available. Log in with your Lake Park Google credentials to put a book on hold and pick up in the library. 

...you enjoy reading about play-by-play basketball and teamwork and/or you are a fan of the Golden State Warriors. 
...you are a fan of nonfiction/memoirs. 
...you like to read about local stories set in Illinois (Andre's hometown is Springfield, IL).

Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors' third NBA championship in the last four years, his game has never been stronger.

The Sixth Man traces Andre's journey from childhood in his Illinois hometown to his Bay Area home court today. Basketball has always been there. But this is the story, too, of his experience of the conflict and racial tension always at hand in a professional league made up largely of African American men; of whether and why the athlete owes the total sacrifice of his body; of the relationship between competition and brotherhood among the players of one of history's most glorious championship teams. And of what motivates an athlete to keep striving for more once they've already achieved the highest level of play they could have dreamed.

On drive, on leadership, on pain, on accomplishment, on the shame of being given a role, and the glory of taking a role on: This is a powerful memoir of life and basketball that reveals new depths to the superstar athlete, and offers tremendous insight into most urgent stories being told in American society today.