This was such an excellent biography. It's the biography of Kendrick Perkins, a basketball player and media personality. It's about his life growing up poor and black in Texas and his growth as a person in the NBA. It offers a really great critique of racial relations in America, white supremacy, and athletics. Kendrick talks from experience as a black man engaging in the tremendously profitable sports arena. He has a ton of color and nuance to the topic and greatly elucidates the life of a black athlete in America at the present time. I love basketball and that was a huge reason. I read this book but I was super impressed with the focus on racial relations and athletics and black men in American society and the 20th and 21st century.