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How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball
William Morrow
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0062136151
EAN: 9780062136152
Kindle: B007HBY0XI
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Dwyane Wade, the eight-time All-Star for the Miami Heat,
has miraculously defied the odds throughout his career and
his life. In 2006, in just his third season in the NBA,
Dwyane was named the Finals' MVP, after leading the Miami
Heat to the Championship title, basketball's ultimate prize.
Two years later, after possible career-ending injuries, he
again rose from the ashes of doubt to help win a gold medal
for the United States at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As
co-captain, he helped lead the Heat to triumph in the 2012
NBA Championship. Little wonder that legendary coach Pat
Riley has called Dwyane "B.I.W."—Best In the World.
As incredible as those achievements have been, it's off the
court where Dwyane has sought his most cherished goal: being
a good dad to his sons, Zaire and Zion, by playing a
meaningful role in their lives. Recounting his fatherhood
journey, Dwyane begins his story in March 2011 with the news
that after a long, bitter custody battle, he has been
awarded sole custody of his sons in a virtually
unprecedented court decision. A Father First
chronicles the lessons Dwyane has learned as a single dad
from the moment of the judge's ruling that instantly changed
his life and the lives of his boys, and then back to the
events in the past that shaped his dreams, prayers, and
promises. As the son of divorced parents determined
to get along so that he and his sister Tragil could have
loving relationships with both of them, Dwyane's early years
were spent on Chicago's South Side. With poverty, violence,
and drugs consuming the streets and their mom descending
into addiction, Tragil made the heroic decision to take her
younger brother to live with their father. After moving his
household to suburban Robbins, Illinois, Dwyane Wade Sr.
became Dwyane's first basketball coach. While this period
laid the groundwork for Dwyane's later mission for fathers
to take greater responsibility for their kids, he was also
inspired by his mother's miraculous victory over addiction
and her gift for healing others. Both his mother and his
father showed him that the unconditional love between
parents and children is a powerful guiding force.
In A Father First, we meet the coaches, mentors, and
teammates who played pivotal roles in Dwyane's stunning
basketball career—from his early days shooting hoops on the
neighborhood courts in Chicago, to his rising stardom at
Marquette University in Milwaukee, to his emergence as an
unheralded draft pick by the Miami Heat. This book is a
revealing, personal story of one of America's top athletes,
but it is also a call to action—from a man who had to fight
to be in his children's lives—that will show mothers and
fathers how to step up and be parents themselves.
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