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02726aam a22003978i 4500 001 7B3B89E6B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230221010051 008 220818s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022039369 020 $a 1250280346 020 $a 9781250280343 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a GV884.P437 $b A3 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220825 100 1 $a Perkins, Kendrick, $d 1984- $e author. 245 14 $a THE EDUCATION OF KENDRICK PERKINS / $b A MEMOIR $c Kendrick Perkins with Seth Rogoff. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2302 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 505 0 $a The pear orchard -- Perk's guide to NBA survival -- Big man -- The run -- Fatherhood -- Empty center -- Protest -- Young guns -- The age of Lebron -- Twilight, purgatory, dawn -- Just a country boy from the 409: the making of a media career. 520 $a "The Education of Kendrick Perkins is an intimate memoir about race, fatherhood, and basketball, from former NBA player and outspoken cultural critic, Kendrick "Perk" Perkins. At age eighteen, Kendrick Perkins left his grandparents' run-down yellow housein Beaumont, Texas for the last time. Sure, he'd traveled the country for camps and tournaments. He'd banged and bruised with the biggest and most skilled players the amateur basketball world had to offer. But he'd always come back home. In this powerfuland intimate memoir, readers follow Perkins on his journey from small-town Texas athlete to the NBA. Both on and off the court, Perk gained a reputation for his candor and conviction--his unabiding sense of right and wrong. Now he tells all, offering thesports insights for which he has become a stellar ESPN commentator, and for the first time ever, sharing frank opinions about racial justice, political consciousness, and fatherhood. Years spent playing against and alongside giants like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James helped shape Perk's athleticism, but this is a story all his own, the story of an education"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Perkins, Kendrick, $d 1984-. 650 0 $a African American basketball player $v Biography. 650 0 $a Basketball players $z United States $v Biography. $9 80767 650 0 $a African American athletes $x Political activity. 700 1 $a Rogoff, Seth, $d 1976- $e author. 941 $a 6 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013827.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024822.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032944.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010742.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404015955.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230221010259.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B3B89E6B1B511EDA9C6D5341FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search