The Secret GameWinner of the 2016 PEN ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened and of a nation on the brink of monumental change. In the fall of 1943 at the little known North Carolina College for Negroes Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protg of James Naismith the game's inventor McLendon taught his team to play the full court press and run a fast break that no one could

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