LeBron James and Kobe Bryant are two of the greatest basketball players to ever live, Los Angeles Lakers superstars whose achievements will never be touched by the majority of people to ever dribble a basketball, but at one point they were just kids falling as in love with the game as the rest of us.
That relatable sentiment is at the soul of “Basketball: A Love Story,” a new book from legendary hoops writer Jackie Macmullan along with Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores, in which the three writers present an oral history not just of the game, but what the game means to those most attached to it.