The Playbook features dozens of tips for life, framed as tips for the court.
"As an eight-year-old, you're like, 'What in the world are you talking about?!' So I wanted to write a book about some of that stuff that I still remember, but do it in a way that would be cool for kids," he adds. "My father would say, 'You can't know what you don't know." "Exactly! I'd be like, 'What are you talking about?'" Alexander continues. "My grandma used to say things like, 'Dishwater gives back no images,'" he explains. The "rules" are based on the peculiar sayings and proverbs he picked up from his family when he was growing up. The Playbook is a kind of follow-up to The Crossover. The two main characters are basketball champs, and their father gives them "basketball rules for life." Alexander says young people really took to these rules, so he decided to expand on that idea.
He and musician Randy Preston have been touring to schools around the country, performing songs based on Alexander's books. Instead, it’s a collection poems and essays called The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot and Score In This Game Called Life. Alexander’s latest book returns to basketball as a metaphor.
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