Table of Contents
1 Delivering Gatorade: My First Contract Offer 1
2 As Long as the Shoes Aren't Wooden: It's Holland 8
3 Cold Gym, Hard Time: Herman's Holland 15
4 'Is Dis Vat Your Nose Look Like Yesterday?': Dutch Hard Knocks 44
5 Best Pizza and Pasta on the Planet: Italy 54
6 Life on a Trapeze: Uruguay, Achilles, and Armen Gilliam 72
7 Homemaking and Homecoming: Uruguay yet Again 104
8 "They Want My Socks": Argentina 128
9 Rick Barry Notices: China Draft Camp 152
10 God, Jerry Sloan, and $412,718: The Utah Jazz 160
11 Going to Disneyland: The NBA D-League 173
12 Bonus? Baby? Holland, Take Two 190
13 Nomo, Todo, Ono, and Aono: Japan 214
14 New Friends, Old Outcomes: Japan Again 241
15 But the Room Kept Shaking: Japan Year Three 257
16 Relocation, Dislocation, and The Price Is Right 282
17 X-Factors: Six Weeks in Uruguay 293
18 No to the Dunk Contest, Yes to the Pee Cup: Japan Year Five 310
19 No One Stormed the Floor, but I Made My Last Shot: Thailand 332
Postgame 355
Acknowledgments 361
About the Author 364