I was in college at the time this book was written working as an intern for the athletic dept. of a major division I college, and I remember Tchaka Shipp. It has been 20 years since this book was first published, but besides the player's names, I don't know if much has changed. This is the second or third book I have read about the high-stakes of basketball in the boroughs of New York. Darcy Frey does a masterful job of weaving in the individual stories of each player that he followed for almost a year as well as the tumultuous world around them and the people desperate to save the lives of any boy who has enough talent to get out of Coney Island.
