Summary Of SLAM ! By Walter Dean Myers

The book, “SLAM!”, by Walter Dean Myers is based on a seventeen year old boy and his everyday life as well as narrating his basketball career. The book starts off with him explaining how good he is as basketball, to how he moved schools, from one where everybody knows him, also more povert than his current, magnet school, where the basketball team isn’t as good and where he has to make new friends. Everybody calls him Slam, a nickname because of his basketball dunking prowess but his real name is Greg Harris. He has trouble in his classes in the beginning of the year, as well as trouble with his new team, trouble making new friends, and trouble throughout. His mom is a caring, sweet mother like any other and his dad is having trouble finding

Slam has a girl that goes to his old school, Carver, and her name is Mtisha. She is an unspoken girlfriend, a no-labels type of relationship. Slam’s best friend, Ice, Mtisha, and himself have been close for the longest time. Ice was also on Carver’s team, and they are practically brothers, they know each other so well. But as time goes on, and as Slam is spending less and less time with Ice, he suspects he is getting caught up with selling crack, because he is being overly surreptitious about everything lately. Also as time is going on, he develops problems with Mtisha, with his new coach, with his teachers, his teammates, and his anger. Latimer’s, Slam’s new school, assistant coach, Goldy, looks after Slam, gives him helpful advuce, and keeps him out of trouble. When Mtisha and Slam are fighting, Slam has a mindset that he is just going to get over her but he is madly in love with her, so it doesn’t really work. When the author is narrating, he makes it so that whenever he writes about Slam’s basketball career, it is always practice or a game. And during the game between his old school and old team, and himself with his new team, things start to get