And its about the rich history of the game they play.⠀Ī game in which, when I first picked up this book, I had next to no interest in, it having gone away in the aftermath Space Jam and Michael Jordan’s second retirement. It’s about the people that make up the team, and their stories. He’s hesitant at first - the computer science teacher and comic book guy writing about sports of all things? But he feels the hook in his heart and so, tentatively, he takes the first step.⠀ĭragon Hoops is the true story about a basketball team overcoming all manner of odds on their way to becoming champions. Yang does not follow basketball so he has no idea what this means, but the hold it has on other people fascinates him, and he starts to think there might be a story there. Their basketball team, the Dragons, is set to go to State and is causing quite the stir. Until he starts hearing the excitement in the hallways of Bishop O’Dowd High School. He’s felt a hole in his life since his last book was released, and that was over six years ago, but he’s unable to find a story that just grabs his heart and runs away with it.⠀ At the beginning of this book, Gene Luen Yang, high school teacher and acclaimed author of graphic novels, is worried that he has no more stories to tell.
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