About Ben

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Ben Guest is a best-selling author, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and a championship-winning basketball coach.

His memoir, Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: Memoir of a Namibian Odyssey, chronicles his time coaching professional basketball and the lessons he learned along the way.

Zen was a #1 bestseller in overall Amazon category of "Basketball," ahead of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan's trainer Tim Grover.

Ben has co-written a second book, with 3x NBA champion Scott Williams, and has coached three other authors through the self-publishing process.

Ben has a BA in English from Amherst College and a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Mississippi. He has taught and trained teachers for two decades.

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You can buy Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: Memoir of a Namibian Odyssey exclusively on Amazon here.

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