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# Basketball: A Love Story Hardcover – September 18, 2018

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The voices tell the story
  

*by W***B on Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2024*

It's not the usual procedure, but sometimes the movie gets a head start on the book.That's the case with "Basketball: A Love Story," which fans whose memories go back beyond Stephan Curry will thoroughly enjoy.ESPN put together something of an oral history of basketball for this project. It grabbed all sorts of interviews from people involved in the game over the years.At some point, it was decided that there was enough material there for a book, and then some. So Jackie MacMullan and Rafe Bartholomew, two first-rate writers, came on board to help put together a printed version.You may have seen parts of the documentary over the past few months. It has popped up on television at odd times, with a ton of fresh interviews on a variety of subjects. The filmmaker, Dan Klores, obviously was given the time and space to do everything right.The first point to know is that the book doesn't go all the way back to the beginning of the NBA, which dates back to just after the completion of World War II. The book is arranged by topics, and the first areas of discussion are the Celtics dynasty (1957-69) and the UCLA run (1964-75), the civil rights era of the Sixties, and the gambling scandal of the early 1960s.And away we go from there. There are topics that obviously were converted into parts of the documentary and are therefore more complete - Olympic play, North Carolina, New York City ball, the ABA, Michael Jordan, UConn vs. Tennessee, and international play.It's the voices along the way that you'll remember, though. Time has allowed many of the participants in the game to ability to give a very honest account. Here's Elvin Hayes on the time that his Houston team beat UCLA in the Astrodome - a game that really put college basketball on the map:"(Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was all-everything, and I wanted to take his star down and put mine up there. ... Before that, we were friends, but after that Houston game, we never talked again. We could play on the same All-Star team and never talk to each other."Or UConn women's coach Gino Auriemma on Pat Summitt of Tennessee: "What the outside world wanted us to do was compete like that and then go to dinner and have a great time. I'm saying, 'Where does that happen? What part of the world, in any sporting endeavor, when you've got two fierce rivals like this, do they really enjoy each other's company?'"How about Kenny Smith on Shaq and Kobe? "These guys are like Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, but they live in the same house, so they just gotta learn to get along. ... They could have done a better job at it, honestly."The group also interviewed some media types to provide some perspective along the way. Most of the time, this works well. Who wouldn't want to hear what Bob Ryan has to say about a particular area?But it's the players and coaches who really shine here. Their first-person accounts are frequently fascinating, and they make "Basketball: A Love Story" a fascinating read for anyone who loves basketball and its rich history.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Clean Book. Arrived on time
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023*

Good purchase

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting format for a book on the history of basketball
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023*

While there are many books available on the history of basketball, at various points in the very interesting history of the sport, this collaboration by three very good basketball writers takes a different approach to talk about various aspects of the game and it worked.The most notable aspect of this book is that aside from a few paragraphs between each section of interviews, there is no anecdotal approach to basketball history.  Instead, there are quotes from interviews with the appropriate people to talk about that topic.  Those topics range from the early history of both the game itself and professional basketball to international players, the evolution of the women’s game and observations about some of the best to ever play.This approach to use quotes and observations from others instead of from the authors mostly worked well.  I use “mostly” because there is some repetition in a few sections, especially when talking about players.  Some of the superlatives given for Michael Jordan and LeBron James, just to name two, are like that where several people are repeating what others said.  There are also some parts that just seem too short to fully appreciate the topic – that was the case for me when people shared their thoughts on Cheryl Miller.  Yes, she never played professionally as she was injured shortly after her college career ended and could not play in the WNBA as the league did not start until several years later.Something that made this format work well was the transitions from one area to another within the topic.  An example of this would be the chapter on international players.  When Dirk Nowitzki was talking about how he developed his famous fade away jump shot, he also talked about he overcame the language barrier.  From there, that was the next topic as several other international players shared that aspect of their adjustment to American professional basketball.  Segways like that made the book read well and it is one that any basketball fan of any level should read.

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