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The Breaks of the Game

David Halberstam

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 467 pages

Rating: 4.19 | 10259 Users | 271 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Breaks of the Game
ISBN:	0345296257 (ISBN13: 9780345296252)
Edition Language:	English

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"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Halberstam, best-selling author of THE FIFTIES and THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, turns his keen reporter's eye on the sport of basketball -- the players and the coaches, the long road trips, what happens on court, in front of television cameras, and off-court, where no eyes have followed -- until now.

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Title	:	The Breaks of the Game
Author	:	David Halberstam
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 467 pages
Published	:	February 12th 1983 by Ballantine Books (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Sports. Nonfiction. Basketball. History

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This book is a masterpiece. It's the best sports lit/sports history book I've ever read. So much was changing in the NBA in 1979; it was the birth of the modern league. Young David Stern. Magic and Bird were rookies. Incorporation of the four ABA teams and its players. Transition to a more "black" sport, or at least a less white sport. Crazy salaries for the younger players, while older players and coaches miss out on the money. Television contracts. Expansion teams. Everything was changing and

I told my dad I was reading this book because its reputation precedes it as one of the best sports books ever written. His matter-of-fact answer: "well, that's because Halberstam is one of the best writers ever." 362 pages later, I can't help but agree. He may not be a hoity-toity modernist prose stylist like those names more often thrown around as candidates for that prestigious title, but he does possess a unique gift to seamlessly interweave logistics and information (about everything

The late, great David Halberstam followed the Trail Blazers during the 1979-1980 season, two years after their acclaimed victory over the Sixers. The Breaks of The Game, the book that resulted, remains one of the best sports books I have ever read and a work that has easily stood the test of time.The author of more than 20 books on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War, the modern civil rights struggle, the decline of the American auto industry, and the history of American media , Halberstam

Fascinating book! It's a conversational history of the NBA until 1981, told through the lense of the 1979-80 season of the Portland Trailblazers. As the team's season touches on various characters and issues, Halberstam pauses to explore them. Great character sketches/bios of most of the great players up until that point, the most interesting discussions I've read of the defining issues of the NBAs early years (race, TV rights, team ownership etc), as well as plenty of basketball content -- team

GO TRAIL BLAZERS!(Were all becoming Trail Blazers fans next season. Were all going to watch the games and then find some random book to talk about it on.((Hell, more I watch the WNBA, the more I realize its where its at)) K? When you get down to it, basketball, like politics, is all about aesthetics.) Great book. It was perfect for me. The Blazers are so good, they have the best sports book written about them. This is less a story and more a hundred stories. Portraiture. Its a group portrait by



an essential basketball readPerhaps the most interesting thing about this book is that by looking at a regional team, at an odd juncture in the history of the NBA, it nonetheless manages to encompass the whole of the sport and its relevance in America. Absolutely essential.