Dunks, Threes and Palm Trees: How the City of Palms Classic became high school basketball's best tournament - Softcover

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"David Dorsey took his encyclopedia-like knowledge of perhaps the best high school basketball tournament and wrote a pretty doggone good basketball book. I went out of my way to watch the City of Palms Classic when I was coaching. Which was why I couldn't wait to read Dunks, Threes and Palm Trees." -- Roy Williams, retired North Carolina and Kansas basketball coach

"David Dorsey has seen a lot of great basketball while covering the City of Palms Classic, and now, thanks to his persistence, diligence and talent, the rest of us get to see it as well. In this richly reported, well-written chronicle, Dorsey traces the ghosts of hoops past who came through Fort Myers on their way to stardom." -- Seth Davis, CBS Sports college basketball studio analyst

From Chauncey Billups and Kevin Love to Aaron Wiggins and John Wall, almost 200 McDonald’s All-Americans and future NBA players have competed over the past half century at the City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Florida.
But back in 1973, Edison Community College coach Hugh Thimlar established a mid-December tournament without such visions of grandeur. He simply wanted to gauge the area’s talent and help him build future junior college teams. He did so more than a decade before the three-point shot existed and even longer before the NBA’s prep-to-pros renaissance, the one-and-done college basketball trend and the proliferation of high-powered high school basketball academies and multi-million-dollar shoe deals.
No one could have foreseen that in 1985, Bill Pollock and Donnie Wilkie would save the tournament and its floundering finances from extinction, then shepherd it into becoming the world’s most interesting basketball tournament – if not the best in the world.
Author David A. Dorsey has sat courtside at more than half of the tournament’s title games. With intimate detail in Dunks, Threes & Palm Trees, Dorsey transports readers through every era of the tournament’s vast history, bringing them forward to present times and looking ahead to future challenges in preserving the tournament's national caliber format while balancing its local character. It’s a must-read for basketball fans at all levels.

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