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Welcome to the G League—the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Zeroing in on the Birmingham Squadron and four of its players—Jared Harper, Joe Young, Zylan Cheatham, and Malcolm Hill—Alex Squadron details the pursuit of a dream in what turned out to be the most remarkable season in the history of minor league sports.
Life in the G League is far from glamorous. Players make enormous sacrifices in the hope that someone in the NBA will give them a chance. To this day, very few fans—even the most passionate followers of the NBA—know much about the G League. In the fall of 2021, the Birmingham Squadron granted author Alex Squadron complete access to the team to capture the experience of playing in the league.
Alex Squadron is a writer from New York. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied writing and American culture. While in college, he held editorial internships at Sports Illustrated, SLAM and the NBA, developing his skills as a journalist. Upon graduating, Alex was hired as a sports reporter for the New York Post. He covered all the major New York sports teams and eventually initiated his own weekly NBA column “Court Awareness,” which ran in print and online. For three years, he then served as an associate editor for SLAM.