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A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn with the White Mountain Apache by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4 cassettes, abridged. 4 hrs. S. & S. Audio. 2000. ISBN 0-671-78849-3. $25. SPORTS
Abdul-Jabbar, away from basketball for ten years, having recently entered his fifth decade of life and devastated by the loss of his mother, returns to the game in an unusual fashion: a one-year stint as an assistant coach for the Alchesay High School Falcons of the White Mountain Apache reservation in Arizona. This work chronicles Abdul-Jabbar's experience with Alchesay's brand of "Apache basketball" as the team attempts to return to the state high school championship …