Book excerpt: How would you like to practice with Michael Jordan? Or attend a coaching clinic led by Larry Brown? Now you can, as the great players and coaches of the NBA share their secrets here. Practice these dribbling and passing drills to become so comfortable with the basketball that it feels like an extension of your own hand. Then try shooting exercises for jump shots, hook shots, layups and much more. Watch the stars in action, with lots of hard-driving, slam-dunking, coast-to-coast scoring photos. Then listen to their advice on how to achieve the basic skills needed to make those moves. See how to run the most successful, hardest-to-defend offensive plays, with diagrams off NBA coaches' clipboards. Photos of kids in NBA-run training sessions doing each exercise.