Reddit reviews Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
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The amount of time, energy, and money that goes into finding these guys is insane. Most of these elite basketball prospects have been scouted since they were in middle school. If you're a 15 year old that is really good at basketball, many people are trying to find you. Not only that, but your coaches in middle school and high school are trying their hardest to promote you and put your name out there, so that their school gets recognized as an elite team (and thus can recruit other super talented kids to come play for their school). These youth prospects are ranked from a very young age. There's a great book out there called Play Their Hearts Out about Tyson Chandler, and the AAU coach who found him, promoted him, etc. It's a whole (super shady) industry, and a lot of money goes into it.
Play their hearts out by George Dohrmann was absolutely outstanding.
http://www.amazon.com/Play-Their-Hearts-Out-Basketball/dp/0345508602
I suggest reading the description, it isn't NBA or NCAA, but the view on this AAU team/conglomerate as a whole is nuts. I have read TBOB twice, and it really wasn't as entertaining as this. I could not put this down.