Summary Of The Book 'True Legend' By Mike Lupica

True Legend by Mike Lupica
The four main characters in the book are Drue “True” Robinson, Lee Atkins, Urban “Legend” Donald Sellers, and Mr. Gilbert. Drue is a rising basketball star from New York City. He played in an all-star game, where Mr. Gilbert first noticed him. Mr. Gilbert convinced Drue and his mom to come to the east coast where he would find his mom a job and a nice home. Drue became friends with Lee the first day of school and later in the book he becomes friends with Legend.
Drue’s dad left him and his mom when he was born. That leaves a little chip on his shoulder. Legend was from Baltimore where he was a high school super star until he got kicked off the team because he had other people doing his homework. Mr. Gilbert is a very rich man who wants to help Drue and eventually become his agent when he makes it to the NBA. Lee is a year older then Drue and he was the best player at his school until Drue came.

Drue’s goal is to got to a college, do a “one and done” year, and then go to the NBA and make lot’s of money.

Mr. Gilbert helps him in anyway he can so he can become Drue’s agent. Legend is trying to make sure that Drue doesn’t go down the same path he did and become just another playground legend. Legend is also trying to finish high school at an older age because he never finished when he was younger so Drue helps him with that too.
This is in present time in southern California. Drue lives in Woodland Hills and plays basketball at a beat up park named Morrison. That is where Drue found Legend playing basketball at midnight one day. Mr. Gilbert owns a mansion where he has lots of party’s and he even has his own service man. Lee has his own car so he can drive Drue around wherever he wants because Drue doesn’t have his license yet. Legend lives in a beat down hotel but his room is surprisingly

clean.
Drue is trying just to slide by high school but is doesn’t just work like that. His grades are just average and he has his friend lee do it most of the time. He tries to avoid trouble but one night he takes Mr. Gilberts car. While he is driving he starts to speed up while Lee is telling him to slow down. The cop’s start to follow them and Drue crashes. Before the cops get there Lee picks up Drue and puts him in the passenger side and he slides in to the drivers seat to make it look like he was driving. Staying away from injuries is another thing. He got hurt in the car accident and then he didn’t dive for a ball in a game because of it costing his team the game.
I can make a connection with him He got his team back into the game only to miss the game winning shot. I did the same against Waukon. I made a three with about 25 sec left in the game. We fouled the guy and he missed both his free throws. We dribbled down court and called a time out with about 10 sec left. They passed the ball in to me and I was going to try to pass it to Garret but he was tightly covered. So I made some room room for my self and shot it as time went out. It bounced off the rim, then the backboard, and then the rim again but it didn’t go in. We lost the game by two.