Night Hoops - Hardcover

Carl Deuker participated in several sports as a boy. He was good enough to make most teams, but not quite good enough to play much. He describes himself as a classic second-stringer. "I was too slow and too short for basketball; I was too small for football, a little too chicken to hang in there against the best fastballs. So, by my senior year the only sport I was still playing was golf." Carl still loves playing golf early on Sunday mornings at Jefferson Park in Seattle, the course on which Fred Couples learned to play. His handicap at present is 13.
Combining his enthusiasm for both writing and athletics, Carl has created many exciting, award-winning novels for young adults. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and daughter.

"In the pale moonlight the basket seemed only half
real, half there. You'd think that the darkness would
make it hard to shoot, but it actually helped to make
me concentrate. There was nothing else to see, nothing
else to hear. O'Leary wasn't shouting instructions at
me; my dad wasn't scrutinizing my every move. There
was just the basket in front of me, the ball in my
hands, and Trent defending."