Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Chapter 1 My D-Day: A Dark journey Ends, a Bright Future Beckons 1
Chapter 2 My Roots: The Cotton Fields of Mississippi 8
Chapter 3 My Grandma: Breaking Barriers and Dodging Bullets 15
Chapter 4 My Mom: The Woman They Called Overtime 20
Chapter 5 My Drug-Dealing Days: From Crumbs to Kangols 31
Chapter 6 My Life on the Streets: Death at Every Corner 49
Chapter 7 My Uncles: Survivors from the South Side 68
Chapter 8 My Game: Shooting Hoops, Aiming for the Stars 80
Chapter 9 My Arrest: Smoking Gun, Smoking Station Wagon 95
Chapter 10 My Time in the Hole: Just Me, My Bible, and Mandela 103
Chapter 11 After My Release: Shooting Hoops, Shooting Myself 123
Chapter 12 My Second Chance: The Crossroads of My Life 136
Chapter 13 My Time with Mad Max: Gentry, MCI, and a Whole New World 150
Chapter 14 College: UConn and Andrea, the Love of My Life 164
Chapter 15 My Years in the NBA: Riles, Kobe, K.D., and Gunplay in the Locker Room 187
Epilogue 220
Afterword for the 2016 Edition 227
Acknowledgments 233
Index 237
About the Coauthors 245