SHOWTIME #every1reads

SHOWTIME #every1reads

The latest read. Once upon a time, the household I grew up in was a Laker's household. Out the gate, as a Child of the 80's my first favorite team was the Magic Johnson Lakers. I started getting into trading cards towards the later part of the decade and my collection centered around Magic. Video games started to usher in an imaginative control of personas like Magic, Bird and Jordan, lighting up a Hoop Dream in any kid that fell in love with the game. When Magic retired, so did my connection to L.A. It would later surface once my baby brother Isaiah came of age to accompany his big brothers to city league, high school and collegiate basketball games. Kobe's Lakers became the battery in his back that I'd removed from mine in 91'. Since then, I've always followed a team with an exception to the preliminary years of going to college during the first years of new millennium. Teams like the Seattle Supersonics with Payton & Kemp, the Sprewell Knicks, the Big 3 Celtics, and the Dynasty that was born from Curry, Klay, and Dray at Golden State. My fandom just developed into a love for the stories of the game. I started watching Legacy the True Story of the LA Lakers and to fill in the gaps decided to focus my next Sports read around Jeff Pearlman's Showtime, Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. It's been a great read so far, although it's slowed down how I follow the documentary since the book got so many details I want to picture before seeing them referenced throughout the film.

This book is the beginnings of a Hoop Dream for me. #SHOWTIMEla