Autor: Josh Barr

A Washington-area native, perhaps no one is better positioned to write about the region“s best basketball players than Josh Barr. After all, he spent much of the past 20 years listening to the debate about who belongs — or doesn“t — on the list. Barr covered local basketball for The Washington Post for nearly 17 years, including a stint on the University of Maryland beat that produced his first book, Good Enough to Be Great, which chronicled the Terrapins“ run to the 2002 NCAA men“s basketball championship. He watched and wrote about the area“s recent top prospects, a list that starts with 2006 Montrose Christian graduate Kevin Durant. And for those Capital Kings who predated Barr“s arrival on the local scene, he knew where to turn for expert insight, from the area“s top high school coaches, former teammates and college coaches such as Maryland“s Lefty Driesell and Gary Williams and Georgetown“s John Thompson Jr. Barr lives in Bethesda, with his wife, Jodi, their daughters Sasha and Chelsey, and their dog, Jeffy.