Its Kenny Smith. If you watch Inside the NBA, you’ll understand what I mean when I say Smith captures the same tone in these pages as he does on the show. If you don’t, its sort of a combination of sanctimonious, facilitative and insightful. Smith holds himself out as being both a social justice warrior and basketball savant, and maybe he’s both. But his greatest strengths lie in being the consummate point guard - always the set up man, both on the set of the award winning studio show and in the pages of this memoir, which does justice to basketball giants like Dean Smith, Bill Russell and Michael Jordan. Some anecdotes are ones I’ve never before read and heard (and I’m a basketball history junkie), some are well trodden. Some of the figures he highlights he seems to only have tenuous connections to (Kobe), but considering Smith is one of the most influential/well connected NBA media members of all time, its not a stretch for him to at least opine on everyone included. I wish there was more content on Ernie Johnson in the book.