Under-Review: Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews Yaron Weitzman’s Tanking to the Top. Trust The Process of The Philadelphia 76ers?
Category: Books
Under-Review: Steve Kerr: A Life
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews journalist Scott Howard-Cooper’s Steve Kerr: A Life. An outstanding NBA biography on the Warriors coach.
Under-Review: Yearbook
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews celebrity Seth Rogen’s Yearbook: his collection of True Hollywood stories.
Under-Review: Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews rapper Talib Kweli’s origin story Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story.
Under-Review: The Big Three & the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews Michael Holley’s The Big Three & the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics.
Under-Review: From Hang Time to Prime Time
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews an excellent book From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment & the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA by Pete Croatto.
Under-Review: The Victory Machine: The Making & Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan reviews Ethan Sherwood Strauss’ NBA book The Victory Machine: The Making & Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty.
Under-Review: NBA Jam
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan Reyan Ali’s video book NBA Jam which is out now from Boss Fight Books: “He’s on fire!!”
Don’t Lose Your Head In Five Years
Started 2020 writing about Prince and Bowie and…Mystify: Michael Hutchence a solid documentary on the INXS frontman. It’s been making the festival rounds…it was at Tribeca this past April, it screened on the BBC at the end of December…it’s even out on DVD. The 7th, however, was their 1 day catch it if you can American…
Purple Freedom
Prince in Beautiful Ones says: “If I want this book to be about one overarching thing, it’s freedom. And the freedom to create autonomously. Without anyone telling you what to do or how or why. Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age — we’re programmed to keep doing them that…