David Hollander, JD, is an assistant dean and clinical professor with the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at New York University and received NYU's highest faculty honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award. He sits on the advisory boards for espnW, the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School, and the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute. He holds his high school's record for most technical fouls in a season and a career.
You learn very powerful things in basketball: how to be in sync with other people and the pleasure of that; a sense of 'I belong here' and 'I'm an important part of a larger thing' and that we all are in the same boat, we're all human beings. Hollander has hit at the core of something very fundamental. -Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score So much bigger than the game. An achievement bar none by a true scholar, in love. Read, enjoy, learn, absorb, disagree. Needs to be required part of the curriculum at every college nationwide. -Dan Klores, Peabody award-winning filmmaker There's nothing better than actually playing ball, but the next best thing may very well be sharing stories and emotions of how the game affects us all in a deeply nuanced manner. I can't sit still experiencing How Basketball Can Save The World, gets me too riled up not to lace up! -Bobbito Garcia, DJ, author, sneaker designer