The undisputed guide to pro basketball history.
"This inimitable collective returns with a bigger scope, deeper research, and renewed passion as [FreeDarko] takes on the whole of pro basketball history. Here we'll see the full evolution of the league: from the Celtics of Red Auerbach (compared by FreeDarko to the filmmaker John Cassavetes) clear...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2010.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 223 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color charts ; 24 cm |
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Pro basketball history.
Basketball history.
FreeDarko presents.
FreeDarko presents the undisputed guide to pro basketball. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Chapter Zero. 1891-1946 Up From The Waters
- Down by Law
- Go Forth and Dribble
- Only the Ball Was Orange
- Chapter One. 1947-1956 A More Perfect Union
- Mikan and Modernity
- Chapter Two. 1957-1969 They Walked This Earth
- Green and Black and Red All Over
- Pride of the Celtics
- The Nuclear Option
- Three on a Match
- Bushels and Baskets
- Missing in Action
- Chapter Three. 1970-1979 The Big Payback
- The Get Along Gang
- Notes from the Underground
- Left of Center
- The Hair Up There
- Punch-Dunk Lovetron
- Legalize It!
- Chapter Four. 1980-1990 The Gold Standard
- Choose Your Weapon
- The Invention of Air
- Loud, Fat, and Gifted
- It Came from Croatia
- Fantasia No. 84
- Chapter Five. 1991-1999 A Tale Of Two Three-Peats
- Jordan and His Discontents
- Dream Team II
- Cult of Personality
- Rotten Island
- A History of Violence
- Ashes Beget Ashes
- Chapter Six. 2000-2009 The New Deuteronomy
- One Shining Moment
- Fast-Break Renaissance
- Big Man Blues
- In Plain Sight
- Arbiters of Amazement.