About this title: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam writes of one year with the Portland Trail Blazers, profiling coaches and players on and off the court, and providing a view of the business side of basketball.
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Edition: F First Edition
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780394513096ISBN:0394513096
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Good in cloth and boards (general wear). read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 10/12/1981
ISBN-13:9780394513096ISBN:0394513096
Description: Good. 0394513096 Ex-library book with usual markings. Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Sorry, no APO deliveries. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 17, 437. read more
"I gave this to my son for his birthday, he enjoyed it so much he had me read it. It was amazing! The insights into the game and the pressures on players was astounding."
"Fascinating account of Halberstam's year with the Portland Trail Blazers after the breakup of one of the greatest teams of all time. Halberstam's accounts of some of the individuals involved, particularly Kermit Washington, are fascinating. Probably the best basketball book I have ever read."
"This book is a masterpiece. It's the best sports lit/sports history book I've ever read. So much was changing in the NBA in 1979; it was the birth of the modern league. Young David Stern. Magic and Bird were rookies. Incorporation of the four ABA teams and its players. Transition to a more "black" sport, or at least a less white sport. Crazy salaries for the younger players, while older players and coaches miss out on the money. Television contracts. Expansion teams. Everything was changing and it was a time of rich cultural fermentation in the sport.
Also, being a relatively new Oregonian, this book follows the "local" sports team here in Oregon, and currently the only pro hoops team in the Northwest. In my Oregon indoctrination this book follows the Bill Bauerman book and precedes Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion"."
"What I thought would be a thrilling chronicle of a basketball season turned out to be long vingettes of anyone even tangentially connected to the Blazers, with terse scoring recaps interspersed at random intervals. Probably better suited to the hardcore basketball fan generally, if not a Blazers fan specifically."
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