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Allen Iverson – Misunderstood

Allen Iverson Misunderstood review, recensie en informatie memoir van de Amerikaanse NBA basketbalspeler. Op 7 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Gallery Books de memoir van basketballer Allen Iverson die hij samen met Ray Beauchamp schreef. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Allen Iverson Misunderstood review en recensie

  • “A basketball superstar nicknamed “the Answer” ducks no tough questions in this revealing self-portrait …This is a frank, powerful memoir of injustice, loss, and resilience.” (Kirkus)

Allen Iverson Misunderstood

Misunderstood

  • Auteur: Allen Iverson, Ray Beauchamp (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, basketbalboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gallery Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,00 / $ 14,99 / $ 25,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van basketballer Allen Iverson

A compelling and candid memoir from Allen Iverson, the NBA’s most misunderstood Hall of Famer, detailing his tough childhood in Virginia, his entry into the league as the number one overall pick, and his controversial, culture-changing pro basketball career.

In Misunderstood, Allen Iverson shares in searing clarity and touching candor his meteoric rise from impoverished child in the Virginia projects to high school champion to Georgetown University protégé of legendary coach John Thompson, and finally to NBA All-Star and Reebok’s Vice President of Basketball.

Allen Iverson is a household name—Boomers and Gen Xers watched his decades-long run as a scrappy, tenacious basketball player on the Philadelphia 76ers who redefined the sport’s style (both fashion-wise and playing-wise), while millennials and Gen Zers are perhaps more familiar with his Reebok line’s resurgence in popularity, his callout in Post Malone’s viral hit “White Iverson,” and for being the namesake of Kendall Roy’s son on Succession. Part athletic legend, part fashion icon, part hip-hop muse, Iverson was one of the first celebrities to fuse lifestyle, culture, and sports.

But while everyone may know his name, few have seen behind the curtain on Iverson’s tumultuous life. Misunderstood lifts the veil and brings you into the mind of the pugnacious, ultra-talented misfit whose foremost goal, more than fame or fortune, was always to lift his family and friends out of poverty and violence. In his memoir, Iverson explores how he completely shattered the mold dictating what an NBA star could be in the 1990s and 2000s, all while dealing with legal troubles and personal traumas that only contributed to his sense of individualism and star power. This is the unforgettable story of a trailblazer who not only changed the game of basketball but rewrote the rules of what it means to rise, fall, and rise again while staying unapologetically true to himself.

Allen Iverson was born on 7 June 1974 in Hampton, Virginia. He played for fourteen seasons in the NBA, during which he was Rookie of the Year, MVP, and eleven-time All Star. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2021, Iverson was selected to be part of the “NBA 75,” a group of the seventy-five most important players in the league’s first seventy-five years, thus cementing his status as one of the sport’s best players. Know equally for his aggressive, fast play style and groundbreaking integration of fashion and self-expression into sports, Iverson helped to usher in the age of hyper-individualistic sports personalities and shaped American culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Iverson has had a career-long partnership with Reebok, for whom he now serves as Vice President of Basketball.

Ray Beauchamp has been a criminal defense attorney in New York for the last fifteen years, having advocated for the rights of indigent people at the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan and the Bronx. Prior to Legal Aid, he clerked in the Second Circuit and served as managing editor of the Fordham Law Review. And prior to all that, he was a kid in West Philly, developing and nurturing a deep love of the 76ers.

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Keith O’Brien – Heartland

Keith O’Brien Heartland review and information of the book about the rise of the American basketball player Larry Bird. Atria Books will publish the book by Keith O’Brien about a forgotten place, an impossible dream, and the miracle of Larry Bird, on March 3, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Keith O’Brien Heartland review

  • “Keith O’Brien’s Heartland takes us inside the tiny towns and homespun culture that gave the basketball world one of its treasures: Larry Bird. Incredibly researched, Heartland had me feeling like I was on the Springs Valley team bus with Larry and Beezer Carnes. Or maybe having a couple of 25-cent Budweisers with Joey Bird at the Jubil.” (Dan Shaughnessy, author of Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics)
  • “Keith O’Brien’s Heartland is a wonderfully entertaining and meticulously researched look at one of the most intriguing and important basketball stories of the past 50 years: the rise of the great and mysterious Larry Bird. It’s a fascinating portrait of a time and place in which a uniquely small-town Midwestern hero becomes a national phenomenon, riveting the sports world and changing the NBA forever.” (Christine Brennan,  author of On Her Game)
  • “Larry Bird isn’t real. Or is he? Keith O’Brien’s Heartland offers the best exploration yet of this rare and strange hoop legend’s origin. An unforgettable and almost unbelievable story, deeply researched and beautifully written.” (Jonathan Eig, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for King: A Life and author of Ali: A Life)

Keith O'Brien Heartland

Heartland

A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird

  • Author: Keith O’Brien (United States)
  • Book type: basketball book
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • To be released: March 3, 2026
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: $ 30.00 / $ 14.99 / $25.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb book about basketball player Larry Bird by Keith O’Brien

One of America’s greatest sports stories: the improbable rise of Larry Bird and the Indiana State Sycamores.

In the fall 1974, Larry Bird—one of the greatest players to ever pick up a basketball—was lost, and in danger of slipping away.

He had dropped out of Indiana University, spurning legendary Hoosiers head coach Bobby Knight. He returned home to French Lick, a tiny town in the second poorest county in Indiana, and he got a job hauling trash.

It could have ended right there for Bird, were it not for two men: Bob King, an old coach with bad knees, and Bill Hodges, a man who knew what it was like to be poor and overlooked. In the spring of 1975, during one of the darkest chapters of Bird’s life, King and Hodges convinced Bird to leave French Lick and play basketball at Indiana State University, a college that couldn’t even fill its arena, much less compete with Bobby Knight. Then, while no one was watching, King and Hodges built a team of players around Bird who were just like him: they were castoffs and leftovers, ready to work.

Four years later, in March 1979, this unheralded team would put together one of the greatest seasons in American sports history. By the time it was over, more than 50 million people would tune in to watch the Indiana State Sycamores play in the NCAA finals against Magic Johnson and Michigan State.

What happened that night would change college basketball and the NBA. Perhaps more importantly, it would change the members of this hardscrabble team, binding them together forever. In some ways, their one shining moment would never end.

Drawing on exclusive, in-depth interviews with players, coaches, and staffers, New York Times bestselling author and PEN American award–winning biographer Keith O’Brien offers a stirring account of the mighty Indiana State Sycamores. With its unforgettable ensemble cast, Heartland is more than just a sports book. It’s the story of a group of young men who achieved the greatest feat of all: immortality.

Keith O’Brien is the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle, Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, and Outside Shot. He has won the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld award for biography; has been a finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports writing; and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NPR, and This American Life. A native of Ohio, he lives in New Hampshire.

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