Rivals Turned Idols: How The NBA '96 Draft Class Changed the Game

For fans of The Last Dance and Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year, the must-read story of the 1996 NBA Draft class-Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Steve Nash- that turned the NBA into a global force and changed culture forever.

In Rivals Turned Idols, a legendary class of players-Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Ray Allen, and Stephon Marbury-emerged not just as stars, but as architects of the modern game and the global phenomenon it would become.

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