drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes of his years on the Nike board. And parting his veil of secrecy, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a D.C. What were the origins of the the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (three Final Fours, four-time national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As A Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.Īfter five decades at the center of race and sports in America, Thompson―the iconic NCAA champion, Black activist, and educator―was ready to make the private public at last, and he completed this autobiography shortly before his death in the historically tumultuous summer of 2020. The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court threw America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief.
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