Dragon Hoops
Dragon Hoops is a nonfiction graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, illustrated by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien, and published by March 17, 2020, by First Second. Background TBA Plot Gene Luen Yang says he was not interested in sports when he was a child. He was interested in comic books, and he created comic stories after graduation. In 2013, Yang publishes the graphic novel Boxers & Saints. His family celebrates the book, but Yang quickly starts running out of ideas for the next graphic novel. Yang is inspired by the basketball team at Bishop O'Dowd High School from Oakland, where he is a teacher. Yang discovers a basketball coach named Lou Ritchie, and they begin to discuss the sport. Ritchie reveals his full name, Llewellyn Blackman Ritchie, that Yang discovers a yearbook when he was in high school. It flashbacks to Ritchie as a freshman in fall 1985 that at this time, the varsity men's basketball team made it to the California State Championship. He wanted to join the basketball team by doing training and exercise skills. At his junior year, he's grown tall and strong enough by, placing him as backup point guard. At the time, he,