Basketball and Faith tells the stories of the players and gets to the heart of religious expression in basketball.

Author Fred Roggen features high-profile athletes who are sharing their Christian and Muslim faith: men and women.

„Without God I wouldn't be able to lace my shoes up and go out and play the game that I love so much. So I love God much more than basketball, because he allows me to play this game. He wakes me up every day and has blessed me for 31 years. My faith in Him definit...

Broken Dreams isn't just a book about basketball, It tells the stories of young talented players blessed by the basketball gods with immense gifts whose missteps and poor choices derailed what could have been a long, lucrative and accomplished NBA career.

The book provides portraits of the players hopes and aspirations, their home lives, and the difficulties they face in living - namely, the temptations of drugs and alcohol.

They had gone through a downward spiral brought on by drugs, alcohol...