![]() ![]() ![]() And it was a 2014 conversation he had with the Dragons’ head coach, Lou Richie - himself a player on the team 25 years earlier - that sparked the idea for the book. Yang was a computer science teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School for nearly two decades. ![]() On one level, Yang’s latest graphic novel is like a fast-paced documentary, intercutting the Dragons’ thrilling wins and crushing losses with basketball’s own turbulent history, from the invention of the game in 1891 by James Naismith, to the 1948 face-off between the Harlem Globetrotters and the all-white Minneapolis Lakers, to the often controversial, politically charged careers of today’s N.B.A. ![]() debut, and the first graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award - Gene Luen Yang’s DRAGON HOOPS (First Second, 446 pp., $24.99 ages 14 to 18) weaves multiple story lines of American identity and anxiety into a comics format.Įngaging, entertaining and full of insight about race and ethnicity, “Dragon Hoops” follows the real-life Bishop O’Dowd Dragons, an Oakland high school basketball team, in its quest to win the California state championship. Like “American Born Chinese” - his groundbreaking 2006 Y.A. ![]()
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