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A review by paulogonzalez
Can I Keep My Jersey?: Eleven Teams, Six Years, Five Countries, and My So-called Career as a Professional Basketball Player by Chuck Klosterman, Paul Shirley
2.0
This is a three-year diary in which a basketball player writes about professional sport, his opinions about his teammates and rivals (a surprising bad opinions), coaches and general managers. Shirley tells his struggles to make the NBA, and his experiencies playing in minor leagues and in Europe.
He pretends to write in a very self-deprecating way, but he really is a very conceited person; he makes a lot of racist, homophobic and sexist comments only to seem (supposedly) funny. Everything is written to be funny, at all times, and that way he spoils almost all the amusement. I give him that when he explains the clash of cultures in his trips overseas or when he tells the day-to-day of a profesional player who does not have a guaranteed contract, buy he goes beyond the pale.
He pretends to write in a very self-deprecating way, but he really is a very conceited person; he makes a lot of racist, homophobic and sexist comments only to seem (supposedly) funny. Everything is written to be funny, at all times, and that way he spoils almost all the amusement. I give him that when he explains the clash of cultures in his trips overseas or when he tells the day-to-day of a profesional player who does not have a guaranteed contract, buy he goes beyond the pale.