You don't know whether you're going to make the crowd cheer or boo." You don't know whether you're going to win or lose. When you step out on a basketball court, no matter how well prepared you are, you really don't know how things are going to go. "As I was following the team, I was struck by the courage of the coaches and especially the players," Yang tells me in an email interview. Gene Luen Yang is known as a cartoonist - the author of American Born Chinese and the New Super-Man comics, he's received a MacArthur genius grant for his work, and the Library of Congress named him as its Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2016.īut for years, Yang was a computer science teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., and his new book Dragon Hoops, chronicles a year he spent observing the school's incredibly talented basketball team as they strove for the state championship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dragon Hoops Author Gene Luen Yang
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