Dance and Sport: One Man’s Journey shares Dr. Kilbourne’s personal journey to understand the relationship between dance and sport. The journey includes his creative and pioneering efforts in dance conditioning with U.C.L.A.’s men’s basketball team under head coach Larry Brown, his tenure as the first full-time conditioning coach in the National Basketball Association for the 1982-84 Philadelphia Seventy Sixers (1983 World Champions), his work with Olympic level figure skaters in the United States and Canada, and his discoveries in the academic arena about play, games, sport, and dance.