Cover Story

For every kid who turned SLAM magazine covers into posters, this book is for you. Well-researched, nostalgic, and a necessary modern collection of basketball's most iconic magazine covers for a glorious trip down memory lane. DRAKECEREAL, artist I vividly remember spending hours at the bookstore or supermarket, looking at the covers of Sports Illustrated , SLAM , and all the other classic magazines of that era, hoping to find the next big thing. Cover Story instantly transports you back to the magazine aisle, where a sick glossy photo and some bold text could change the world. Or at least have you believing in the New Jersey Nets. TREY KERBY, No Dunks podcast co-host Along the way, the covers of magazines like Sports Illustrated and SLAM became not only announcements of stars' arrivals, but also invitations to form more intimate bonds with theman open door to a new kind of relationship with sports. Cover Story is Alex Wong's love letter to that door: to the covers he taped on his walls, to the images and words emblazoned on his brain and heart, to the people who created them, and to the journey they led him on. It's worth your attention. Dan Devine, The Ringer With this elegiac portrait of the Golden Age of sports magazines, Cover Story ingeniously wrings new life out of the athletic heroes of our past. Delving deeply into the construction of the symbols, narratives, and images long seared into our collective memory, Alex Wong allows us to see beyond the Gods themselves and understand how the myths were actually created. JEFF WEISS, music journalist and founder of Passion of the Weiss For every kid who turned SLAM magazine covers into posters, this book is for you. Well-researched, nostalgic, and a necessary modern collection of basketball's most iconic magazine covers for a glorious trip down memory lane. DRAKECEREAL, artist