The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry by John Feinstein, 404 pages.

So this is a book for you if have an interest in Duke basketball, North Carolina (University) basketball, North Carolina State basketball, any of the coaches in the title, any of their legions of famous players over the years, or if you just like reading the works of John Feinstein. And he is a pretty good writer; almost every vignette he relates comes across as very interesting, even if at its core it's not. I found over the course of this book that I don't care all that much about North Carolina (the entire state) and its basketball teams, and would have preferred to read these gems as the individual magazine pieces that they seem they should be; other than the fact that these teams play each other several times each and every year of the thirty-some years this book covers, and that each of these coaches (like their predecessors and those that follow them) would prefer to defeat the other, there's not really a sustaining narrative.And everything and everyone in the book, for those thirty years, with the exception of Valvano when he is on his deathbed, is consumed by college basketball.