From award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an "entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) and nostalgia-filled retelling of the 1980s Boston Celtics' glory years, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird.
Today the NBA is a vast global franchise--a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the United States and abroad. But it wasn't always this successful. Before primetime ESPN coverage, lucrative branding deals like Air Jordans, and $40 million annual player salaries, there was the NBA of the 1970s and 1980s--when basketball was still an up-and-coming sport featuring old school beat reporters and players who wore Converse All-Stars.
Enter Dan Shaughnessy, then the beat reporter for The
Product details
Publisher : Scribner Book Company (16 November 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1982169974
ISBN-13 : 978-1982169978
Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.03 x 22.86 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 92,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
42 in Basketball Coaching (Books)
114 in Basketball Biographies
164 in Basketball (Books)
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