The Engineers: A Western New York Basketball Story Part One: Innocent Basketball Dreams Hardcover – August 8, 2024

The Engineers: A Western New York Basketball Story Part One is a creative non-fiction story about what sports can teach a young person about life, success and failure. The story chronicles the early basketball journeys of Dr. Anwar Dunbar, his coaches, teammates and players from Western New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Like the great game of basketball, this story is a teaching tool about life and how to navigate an ever-changing world where the outcomes are as uncertain as the game itself.Part one of this two-part story, Innocent Basketball Dreams, follows a young man’s aspirations to play basketball after seeing Michael Jordan, of the Chicago Bulls, hit the magical shot in April of 1989 against the Cleveland Cavaliers. A life changing basketball journey starts where lessons are learned that propel the author into the adult world. Though the story takes place in the de-industrialized City of Buffalo, New York and the surrounding areas, it applies to all walks of life, the rest of the country and even the world. Read more