ISBN:

• 9781524761783
• 1524761788

Edition: First edition.

Description: 436 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Contents:

• First loves
• Celtics versus Lakers : Russell's dominance, West's heartbreak and those balloons
• Wilt's century mark
• Wilt vs Russell : friends, rivals, and champions
• Basketball's battle for racial equality
• The Big O's quest for justice
• Breaking barriers : Title IX and the growth of the women's game
• The Mighty Macs
• Gamblers ensnare the game
• The Wizard of Westwood
• Relief or joy? NCAA championship coaches on the feeling of winning a title
• From unbeatable to the unthinkable : Team USA and the Olympics, 1956-1972
• In the beginning, there was a hoop
• The renegade league
• UNC : the family that Frank and Dean built
• Coach K : from Bob Knight's protégé to the one-and-done era
• Larry and Magic : NBA renaissance men
• Bird steals the ball, and Detroit's trip to the finals
• The city game
• Pat vs Geno : icons divided
• The agitator
• Your heroes' heroes
• The greatest of all time
• The NBA's reluctant revolutionary
• The greatest team ever assembled
• We got next
• Have game, will travel
• The basketball world becomes flat
• The Laker alpha males
• The Spurs way
• The new NBA : Lebron and small ball
• Ball is life.

LCCN: 2018023541

Control Number: 2540586

Subjects:

• Basketball -- United States -- History.
• Basketball players -- United States -- Interviews.

Genre:

• Interviews.
• Oral histories.

Other Authors:

• Bartholomew, Rafe, author.
• Klores, Dan, author.