Can I Keep My Jeresey?

Can I Keep My Jersey? by Paul Shirely is an interesting look at the life of a professional basketball player and is notable in the fact that most players aren't very reflective or pay much attention to detail. I guess it is informative about how the teams operate when injuries hit and how they acquire low level players to fill out rosters. I was disappointed in the lack of inside dirt on specific players-there are a few tidbits here and there, but he says very little about Steve Nash and Amare Stoudmire, even though he played most of the year with the 2005 Suns. I guess since these people are very much alive and active he had to be careful about what he says about them-so he focuses on general statements about how he doesn't really like pro basketball players and their hypocritical obsessions with religion. I would have liked to have heard more about the players he played with in Greece, Spain, and Russia, not to mention the cultures of those coutnries. I guess the book was mostly about his journey to realize his childhood dream of being an NBA player. But it seems as though he might not have and the most of his experiences living abroad when he dismisses all of Spanish cuisine due to some dodgy seafood-it seems suspect that he couldn't find anything good to say about Spanish cuisine. It was entertaining at times, but I felt the book could have been much more interesting had he wrote less about things that annoyed him and more about the amazing things he saw and did on his journey.