Fab Five

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They were too young. They were too outrageous. And you couldn't
keep your eyes off them. FAB FIVE is the story of the most popular^-
and controversial—college basketball team ever.
Talking trash and wearing long, flapping shorts, the Fab Five of
Michigan shocked the world by reaching the NCAA championship
game as freshmen, then repeating that feat as sophomores. They
were hailed like NBA pros, cheered like rock stars. But their spot-
light life was filled with demons and challenges. FAB FIVE is the
inside account of the making of a legendary team, one kid at a time:
Pauline Lübens/Detroit Free Press
Daniel Lippitt/Detroit Free Press
Chris Webber, the superstar, whose infamous time-out in the 1993
championship marked the end of one dream, but the start of another.
Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard, the Boyz in the Hoop, two city
kids who learned to cope with an alien college life.
Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, the Texas heroes, far from home,
quietly staking their claims on... Tovább

Fülszöveg

They were too young. They were too outrageous. And you couldn't
keep your eyes off them. FAB FIVE is the story of the most popular^-
and controversial—college basketball team ever.
Talking trash and wearing long, flapping shorts, the Fab Five of
Michigan shocked the world by reaching the NCAA championship
game as freshmen, then repeating that feat as sophomores. They
were hailed like NBA pros, cheered like rock stars. But their spot-
light life was filled with demons and challenges. FAB FIVE is the
inside account of the making of a legendary team, one kid at a time:
Pauline Lübens/Detroit Free Press
Daniel Lippitt/Detroit Free Press
Chris Webber, the superstar, whose infamous time-out in the 1993
championship marked the end of one dream, but the start of another.
Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard, the Boyz in the Hoop, two city
kids who learned to cope with an alien college life.
Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, the Texas heroes, far from home,
quietly staking their claims on the nation's most celebrated roster.
Steve Fisher, the gentle coach who pulled in this mother lode of
talent—and never knew what he was in for.
FAB FIVE is a riveting story of fame,
youth, dreams, and heartbreak.
| i Expertly reported and written with
I | grace and a dab of humor, FAB FIVE
| j is more than a sports story. It's an
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This is the tale of the greatest class ever
recruited in college basketball—the Fab Five of
Michigan—and how they shocked the sports
world from the day they arrived on campus.
Five of the nation's most phenomenal high
school basketball players, thrown together on a
single college roster, did the untf|inkable-|-went
to the NCAA Championship as freshmen.
One year later, they did it as sophomores.
And then they broke apart;
Along the way they changed the attitude—
and the look—of college basketball, with their
extra-long shorts, bald heads, and controver-
sial "trash talk." They were kids, they were
wild, people loved them or hated them. The
Fab Five quickly became, as one observer
noted, "The Beatles of Basketball."
Chronicled by the man acclaimed repeat-
edly as the nation's top sportswriter, featuring
sixteen pages of photos, FAB FIVE is more than
a sports book. It's a book about fame and
youth in America. It's about race. Money. Bro-
ken promises. And friendship.
It tells the inside story of how Steve Fisher,
the unlikely coach of the Michigan Wolver-
ines, reeled in this mother lode of talent, but
paid a heavy price. And how the older play-
ers handled egos and tension in making room
for this quintet of brash newcomers who could
carry them to glory. Vissza