Patty Mills: Beyond Basketball - Updated, Upgraded, Out Now
TweetUPDATED, UPGRADED - "PATTY MILLS: BEYOND BASKETBALL" * The story of Australia’s most recognisable and inspiring Indigenous sportsman Patrick ‘Patty’ Mills and his Cathy Freeman-inspired journey in basketball that lifted the Australian men’s team to their historic first Olympic medal at the 2021 Tokyo Games.
* This is Patty’s amazing journey that could easily have taken a different path had he followed up the interest of the Sydney Swans AFL club.
* Aussie Rules AFL football and Patty Mills – Australia’s first Indigenous basketball player in the NBA
– run hand-in-hand with his connections to Collingwood dual-premiership legend Scott Pendlebury,
Geelong premiership duo Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield and the Adelaide Crows, all of which
played roles in his sporting evolution.
* Watching the Australian men’s team finish so close so often but without a medal, Patty’s mission in Tokyo – where in 1964 Australia first competed at an Olympic Games on merit – was to stand with
his Boomers mates on the medal dais.
* He succeeded and carried the nation with him. Now in Paris, can the Boomers finish even better?
* This is Patty Mills’ amazing story and journey through a US college basketball career at St Mary’s in California, through to the NBA and an instrumental role in the San Antonio Spurs winning the 2014 NBA Championship.
* A must-read for general sports fans, basketball lovers and anyone with a keen interest in our
Indigenous culture, award-winning sports writer Boti Nagy, a five-time nominee for Basketball
Australia’s Hall of Fame for his contribution to the sport, a Basketball South Australia Hall of Famer and a record 12-time winner of Australia’s Basketball Writer of the Year accolade, it presents a unique and close insight into the sport and its Boomers' history as well as Patty’s achievements to date.
• The first book to focus on Patty Mills with an overview of his career and leadership position in the
Indigenous community—from the Shadows Basketball Club in Canberra to college basketball, the NBA and the Boomers’ historic Tokyo Olympics bronze medal.
*Revamped and right uptodate with an additional chapter, PATTY MILLS: BEYOND BASKETBALL is available now at all good bookstores or via https://www.wilkinsonpublishing.com.au/product/patty-mills-beyond-basketball-2024/ref/28/