Basketball Reawakening

Names: Claudio Ciceri [Author] Gabriele Sironi, Fabio La Rosa, Riccardo Sironi, Walter Ferraioli [Collaborative-Authors. Their collaboration was achieved by writing their own chapters and sharing their own thoughts]

Translated by: Kevin Patterson, Claudio Ciceri, James Davis

Cover Design by: Kevin Patterson - Adrien Roger

Art Direction by: Stefan Jensen

Layout & Design by: James Davis - Nicholas Akesson

Photography by: Gus Andy - Discover more about Gus Andy

‘The Game of Basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feeling of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, giving me the greatest respect and love for the Game’.

- Michael Jordan, six time NBA champion

THE SILENT LANGUAGE OF THE COVER

This is not a book about basketball. It is a book about the things we whisper on the court when no one is listening. There are silences that teach. The asphalt knows every story. Effort writes them. The heart remembers them. On the cover, a worn pencil rests on the parquet. Not a pen, not something indelible: a pencil. Stories born on outdoor courts are not meant to be carved in stone — they are lived. They are fragile, like marks that can be erased by those who watch without understanding, by those who observe without listening. Yet, for those who have truly inhabited those courts, nothing ever truly disappears: every step leaves an echo, every breath a contour, every attempt a trace. And time, passing by, erases nothing: it sharpens the questions, deepens the memories, and makes the moments we didn’t understand while living them all the more precious.