Basketball: A Love Story
Written by Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores
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A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.
In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews with a staggering number of basketball greats. They've talked to hundreds of legendary players, such as Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Magic Johnson, and spoken with renowned coaches, including Phil Jackson and Coach K, as well as numerous executives, commissioners, and journalists. Most impressive was the extraordinary quality of the interviews. Again and again, players spoke candidly about secrets and told stories they'd never before discussed on the record.
The book that grew out of those interviews is an extraordinary project and quite possibly the most ambitious basketball book ever written. At once a definitive oral history and something far more literary and intimate, this is the never-before-told story of how basketball came to be, and about what it means to those who've given their lives to the game.
Read by James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, Pete Larkin, January LaVoy, and Carol Monda
Jackie MacMullan
JACKIE MACMULLAN is the author of New York Times bestsellers Basketball: A Love Story and When the Game Was Ours. She has been a writer for the Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and ESPN.com.
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Reviews for Basketball
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great, great, GREAT stories told in this book. If you are any kind of basketball fan or purist, don’t hesitate to give this book a read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5If you want to learn anything about the history or basketball, this is the book that will tell you all about from beginning of basketball to modern day.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The content is great, some of the voice acting is borderline offensive/racist.
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