Rockets Women's Foundation sets book drive collection record

For his first three years abroad, his books were Mike D'Antoni's only companions. They have remained good friends. As he stood surrounded by the 16,833 books collected by the Rockets Women's Foundation and Reliant for the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation and distributed to local charities on Friday, he recalled the power those books had to change his world.

"When I left the NBA and went to Europe, didn't know the language and was by myself more or less, I didn't speak Italian so I started reading," D'Antoni said. "I read a lot when I was young, but you lose it. There's so many distractions going on and I was reading my first three years in Italy at least one book a day from every…