![]() ![]() The exchanges have been edited and condensed. Yang recently answered questions about “Dragon Hoops” in a phone interview and in follow-up emails. The charges were later dismissed after a Supreme Court ruling on statutes of limitations. But the coach left in 2003 after being accused of molesting a child in the 1960s. ![]() It shows him wrestling with a decision to include a coach who had the most boys’ basketball coaching wins in the history of the school - and, at one time, in the state. ![]() The book, which Yang wrote and illustrated, features him as a character. “I was shocked emotionally,” he said, “but not mathematically.” suspended its season after a player tested positive for the coronavirus, his reaction was maybe not the expected one. He spent five years researching basketball and the team, and became a fan of both. ![]() Yang, 46, who once taught computer science at the school, Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., interviewed coaches and players there and attended their games. This month did not go as planned for Gene Luen Yang, whose first nonfiction graphic novel, “Dragon Hoops,” was released on March 17.īecause of the coronavirus outbreak, Lang canceled an eight-city tour in support of his book about a high school basketball team’s quest for a state title. ![]()
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