ZEKE FROM CABIN CREEK
The Making and Unmaking of Jerry West A BiographyBy Marcus J. Holloway
Length3h 19m
About this audiobook
He is the silhouette on every basketball in the world, and almost no one knows his name.
Since 1969, Jerry West's likeness has appeared on the official NBA logo, an image so ubiquitous it has been stitched onto more jerseys, printed on more basketballs, and painted onto more hardwood courts than any other human outline in the history of American sports. And yet the man behind that silhouette spent his entire life fighting a war no fan in the stands ever saw.
Zeke from Cabin Creek is the story of that war. It begins in Chelyan, West Virginia, in a house so cold and loveless that one of Jerry West's own sisters nicknamed it the ice house, where a father's belt taught a boy to disappear into a dirt court behind a neighbor's shed rather than face what waited for him at home. It follows him through the death of his adored older brother in Korea, a loss that would haunt him for the rest of his life and that he would later compare, without hesitation, to losing Kobe Bryant. It traces his rise from a self-described stray dog with no confidence into Mr. Clutch, the most feared closer in basketball, the only player in NBA history to win a Finals MVP award while playing for the losing team.
But this book does not stop at the box score. It follows West into the Lakers front office, where the same relentless, self-punishing standard that built a legend also nearly broke him, where he orchestrated the trade that brought both Shaquille O'Neal and a teenage Kobe Bryant to Los Angeles in a single unforgettable summer, and where he later admitted his depression was never worse than during the very seasons his teams were winning championships. It follows him into a decade-spanning second act rebuilding the Memphis Grizzlies from nothing, quietly architecting Golden State's dynasty, and fighting, late in life, to correct the record when Hollywood got his story wrong.
Drawing on Jerry West's own unflinching memoir, decades of firsthand reporting, and the tributes of the players and coaches whose lives he changed, from Magic Johnson to Shaquille O'Neal to Stephen Curry, Zeke from Cabin Creek tells the full story the logo never could: a story of genuine greatness built on top of genuine pain, of a man who gave basketball everything he had and never once felt it was enough.
This is not a highlight reel. It is the story of what greatness actually costs, and what one man decided, at the very end of his life, to finally tell the truth about.
For readers of The Last Dance, Boys in the Boat, and Open, a biography that finally steps out from behind the silhouette.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Other
Length3 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Acknowledgements
3Chapter One: Chelyan
4Chapter Two: The Shed and the Shotgun
5Chapter Three: David
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6Chapter Four: Mountaineer
7Chapter Five: Rome and the Rookie Year
8Chapter Six: Mr. Clutch
9Chapter Seven: The Losing MVP
10Chapter Eight: 1972
11Chapter Nine: Becoming the Logo
12Chapter Ten: From Bench to Boardroom
13Chapter Eleven: Showtime
14Chapter Twelve: Memphis and the Bay
15Chapter Thirteen: The Dark Place
16Chapter Fourteen: Legacy
17Chapter Fifteen: Friend
18Chapter Sixteen: Forever a Mountaineer
19Chapter Seventeen: Fighting for the Story
20Chapter Eighteen: Elgin
21Chapter Nineteen: Where He Stands
22Conclusion: What the Logo Means
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