Chris Herring is a senior writer for
Sports Illustrated. He previously spent five years covering the NBA for ESPN and
FiveThirtyEight, and prior to that spent seven years at
The Wall Street Journal, where he covered the New York Knicks. He lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in his spare time.
Herring's new book is
Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks.
At
Publishers Weekly Herring tagged
ten of his "favorite basketball reads, many of which helped shape the way [he] went about writing [his] own book." One title on the list:
Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader
A revealing, masterful portrait of perhaps the most unlikely superstar the NBA’s ever had: Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo. The story is wrenching in some ways, but lighthearted and joyful in others. Fader threads the needle perfectly in capturing the dualities Antetokounmpo has faced in terms of his Greek nationality, but also in going from poverty to immense wealth in such a short amount of time.
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another entry on the list.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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