Valvano: They Gave Me A Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead.

VALVANO, Jim and Curry Kirkpatrick.

Item Number: 92510

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

First edition of American basketball coach Jim Valvano’s riveting biography. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Valvano on the title page, “Best wishes, Jim Valvano.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Stevenson. Jacket photograph by Damian Strohmeyer.

American basketball coach James "Jimmy V" Valvano is most remembered for leading North Carolina State University to victory against improbable odds in the 1983 NCAA Championship and his ecstatic televised celebration following the historic win. The annual Jimmy V Classic tournament was established in Valvano's honor and in support of cancer victims and survivors in 1993 after his death by adenocarcinoma. a type of glandular cancer.