Reddit reviews A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Finally "A Sense of Where you Are". https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Where-You-Are-Princeton/dp/0374526893

Edit: I found the New Yorker Article that the books expands on.

Neither of these are about the NBA, but basketball (specifically college ball) is the main focus:

A Sense of Where You Are.

John McPhee is the GOAT non-fiction writer and this is one of his first books about Bill Bradley's senior year at Princeton. Bradley was a big baller back in the day before he became a politician and McPhee is so good at capturing his essence.

My second underthe radar pick: My Losing Season

Pat Conroy played ball at the Citadel and writes beautifully about his shitty basketball team that he loved so much

Thanks! I just wish I could say there were more good things on the list.

And thanks for the Patton recommendation, I'll check that out.

I do recommend anything by John McPhee in the strongest possible terms. It's all non-fiction, and always interesting and often very funny, and about a tremendous range of topics.

Like fishing? Read The Founding Fish, which is all about the American Shad, and I mentioned before.

Like boats? Looking For a Ship is about the merchant marine.

Planes, trains, and automobiles (and more boats)? Uncommon Carriers deals with all of them, and why almost all lobster eaten in the US comes from Kentucky.

Care for tales about why New Orleans is doomed, pissing on lava , and debris flows in LA? The Control of Nature covers those.

Fruit? How about Oranges?

Geology? The Annals of the Former World is a compilation of several shorter books more or less following I-80 across the US.

Sports? Tennis (and basketball to a lesser extent). He's also written about lacrosse in various magazines.

...And a ton of other stuff, ranging from bears to farmers markets to nuclear energy to lifting body airplanes to Switzerland.