LeBron's Dream Team: How Four Friends and I Brought a Championsip Home

Author：LeBron James，Buzz Bissinger

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (2010/4/27)

平裝: 272 pages

Language: 英語

ISBN-13：9780143118220

Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 1.5 x 21.4 cm 

作者簡介

勒布朗·詹姆斯是NBA知名球星。17歲時，他就登上了《體育畫報》的封面；19歲時，他成為了NBA歷史上年輕的新秀，23歲時，他成為了世界上收入第三高的運動員，僅次於泰格·伍茲和大衞·貝克漢姆；他是第三個登上VOGUE雜誌封面的男性(首位黑人男性)。

書籍簡介

在美國中部，曾經的世界輪胎之都俄亥俄州阿克隆市，少年勒布朗。詹姆斯和他的幾個有着出色籃球天賦的小夥伴，組成了一支叫做"流星"的球隊，執著地追求着他們的冠軍夢想。貧窮、動盪和缺少父母的關愛，讓這幫少年早早地就面臨着人生的種種挑戰。他們視彼此為親人，在一位嚴父般的教練帶領下，歷經磨練，並且收穫友誼和榮耀。

在七年級結束後的夏天，"流星"獲得了參加全國錦標賽的資格。但初嘗榮耀讓孩子們飄飄然，失去了在賽場上應有的專注，早早便鎩羽而歸。他們相互承諾，不離不棄，誓奪全國冠軍。但他們不知道實現這一承諾會是何等艱辛。

隨後的幾年裏，隨着詹姆斯聲名日盛，他們不得不忍受嫉妒和敵意，商業的利用，以及黑人社區的憎恨，還要嚥下他們自己驕傲自大的苦果。靠着團結一心和對夢想的專注，他們奪取了高中錦標賽的全國冠軍。曾經的懵懂少年也成長為懂得愛、忠誠與尊重的男人。

The SHOOTING STARS were a bunch of kids from Akron, Ohio-LeBron James and his best friends-who first met on a youth basketball team of the same name when they were ten and eleven years old. United by their love of the game and their yearning for companionship, they quickly forged a bond which would carry them through thick and thin (a lot of thin) and, at last, to the brink of a national championship.

They were a motley group who faced challenges all too typical of inner-city America. LeBron grew up without a father and had moved with his mother more than a dozen times by the age of 10. Willie McGee, the quiet one, had left both his parents behind in Chicago to be raised by his older brother in Akron. Dru Joyce was outspoken, and his dad, who was ever-present, would end up coaching all five of the boys in high school. Sian Cotton, who also played football, was the happy-go-lucky enforcer, while Romeo Travis was unhappy, bitter, even surly, until he finally opened himself up to the bond his team mates offered.

In the summer after seventh grade, the SHOOTING STARS tasted glory when they qualified for a national championship tournament in Memphis. But they lost their focus, and had to go home early. They promised each other they would stay together and do whatever it took to win a national title.

They had no idea how hard it would be to pursue that promise. In the years that followed, they would endure jealousy, hostility, exploitation, resentment from the black community (because they went to a "white" high school), and the consequence of their own over-confidence. Not least, they would all have to wrestle with LeBron's outsize success, which brought too much attention and even a whiff of scandal their way. But together these five boys became men as they sought a national championship.