True Legend by Mike Lupica is a novel about a promising basketball star named Drew Robinson. He is uprooted from his home in New York City by a man named Mr. Gilbert who is a millionaire that just whats to be in his inner circle when he makes the NBA. Then one day when he is at the park hooping up, he sees a man who is playing like he is Lebron James. Then all the sudden he is gone like the wind. As Drew struggles on the court being a ballhog he wonders if he will end like the man in the park who he found out was a man named Urban "Legend" Sellers a man who went as far as to fake his own death. So Drew talks to Legend and found out that the reason he is struggling is he is to worried about himself as opposed to his team, and helps Legend graduate high school. Then he goes on to win the City championship playing like he's supposed to unselfishly.