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Books Review: July 2009 eBA Best Seller

The Breaks of the Game
By David Halberstam

The Breaks of the Game is sports reporting at its finest--basketball's equivalent to Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer.
Join David Halberstam on his yearlong journey with the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers and witness professional basketball from the inside, where front-office egos, big-money contracts, and the colorful personalities of coaches and players collide, and winners and losers emerge.

This insightful account is evidence of how much basketball has--and hasn't--changed since 1979, before the money really started rolling in.

Available for the first time in years, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been National Basketball Association champions.

As Halberstam follows this collection of men through the months, through the losing streaks and occasional victories, the endless trips and the brutal schedules, we come to know them and their world--the other players, coaches, and owners; the competition, drafts, trades, and traditions; the wives, the fans, the media connections--a world of grand dreams, impossible expectations, and bracing realities.

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 • Author: David Halberstam
 • Paperback: 416 pages
 • Publisher: Hyperion (February 17, 2009)
 • Language: English

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Canastas sagradas ~ Lecciones espirituales de un guerrero de los tableros
By Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty ~ click here !

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