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Vin Baker’s skills and abilities defined a generation of big men. While he was fighting incredible basketball players on the court, privately he was struggling with a far greater opponent in addiction. His honest and moving story will inspire change!” — Adonal Foyle, author of Winning the Money Game
“A wonderful book about God’s power to give do-overs while illuminating what is possible in our hour of darkness. Vin Baker’s engrossing story is a towering example of how salvation is found through faith and hard work.” — Quinton Dixie, author of This Far by Faith
Adonal Foyle
Vin Baker’s skills and abilities defined a generation of big men. While he was fighting incredible basketball players on the court, privately he was struggling with a far greater opponent in addiction. His honest and moving story will inspire change!
Quinton Dixie
A wonderful book about God’s power to give do-overs while illuminating what is possible in our hour of darkness. Vin Baker’s engrossing story is a towering example of how salvation is found through faith and hard work.
D. Watkins
Many think famous athletes have it all, as if their talent makes them exempt from pain and suffering. Vin Baker knows different, as he details in God and Starbucks, a brilliant memoir of redemption. Baker’s personal story is powerful and raw—an amazingly relevant book for a time when so many people struggle with addiction and anxiety. I admire this book tremendously.
Jack McCallum
Vin Baker was an ascendant NBA talent in the early1990s, a dependable double-double machine who also possessed that ineffable characteristic called likability. Then, suddenly, he lost it all to addiction. Vin’s battle back, skillfully told, is not just a sports story—it’s one of the best tales of redemption you’ll ever read.
Howard Schultz
I have known Vin Baker for a very long time, going back to his days as an enormously likable and talented professional basketball player whose struggles with addiction and anxiety derailed what may have been a magnificent NBA career. I have also had the pleasure of watching Vin humbly and heroically rebuild his life from the ground up. That journey of redemption—of finding salvation through family, faith, and the simple pleasure of doing an honest day’s work—is at once heartbreaking and hopeful, and is captured brilliantly in Vin’s memoir. God and Starbucks is a powerful and moving story written with fearless candor by a man whom I am proud to call my friend.
