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Chocolate Thunder

The Uncensored Life and Times of Darryl Dawkins
By Darryl Dawkins and Charley Rosen
Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as a "shocking, and shockingly entertaining, memoir of a life in basketball," Chocolate Thunder: The Uncensored Life and Times of Darryl Dawkins, is a tell-all account of life in the NBA during the 1970s and 80s. Dawkins, the first player to go directly from high school to the NBA, received instant fame when he became the first player to smash a backboard. But he is better remembered today as one of basketball's true characters. His book is full of spicy anecdotes, ribald humor and frank discussions of sex, drugs and racism. He has revived his swashbuckling persona in a book that Library Journal calls "a fun look at the wilder side of the NBA."
About the authors
Darryl Dawkins played 14 NBA seasons -- in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Detroit and Utah -- aas well as two pro seasons in Italy and a stint with the Harlem Globetrotters before turning to coaching in the USBL. He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Charley Rosen, the best selling author of eight books, including More Than a Game with Phil Jackson and The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed The Game of Basketball, lives in Kingston, New York.
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256 pages
Paperback
6 x 9
15 b&w photographs, 13 color photographs
1-894963-48-2
$13.95 US

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Praise
"Raw, provocative and as unsubtle as a shattering backboard, this is a look at how it used to be-from a man who was most definitely there."
- Publisher's Weekly

"A fun look at the wilder side of the NBA, as well as a revealing view of a player and his contemporaries."
- Library Journal

"The tell-all book is ribald, racy and as subtle as one of Dawkins' backboard-shattering dunks. ... It is uniquely Dawkins: not mean-spirited, but merely one of sports' all-time characters -- and not a contrived outrageous personality like Dennis Rodman -- telling it like he lived it and saw it."
- Florida Today

"[Dawkins] is naming names and telling his reasons why. He is talking about drugs, sex, and the so-called thugs of the NBA. And since he's 6-11 and still imposing at age 46, it appears unlikely anybody is going to tell him to shut up." - Allentown Morning Call

"And, boy, is it ever a doozy -- brutally candid, often quite crude and replete with numerous references to the Jazz, a couple of them much too obscene for print in most daily newspapers."
- The [Utah] Deseret News
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