Basketball: A Love Story (Unabridged) Basketball: A Love Story (Unabridged)

Basketball: A Love Story (Unabridged‪)‬

Jackie MacMullan and Others
    • 4.6 • 5 Ratings
    • $19.99

    • $19.99

Publisher Description

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.

In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews with a staggering number of basketball greats. They've talked to hundreds of legendary players, such as Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Magic Johnson, and spoken with renowned coaches, including Phil Jackson and Coach K, as well as numerous executives, commissioners, and journalists. Most impressive was the extraordinary quality of the interviews. Again and again, players spoke candidly about secrets and told stories they'd never before discussed on the record.

The book that grew out of those interviews is an extraordinary project and quite possibly the most ambitious basketball book ever written. At once a definitive oral history and something far more literary and intimate, this is the never-before-told story of how basketball came to be, and about what it means to those who've given their lives to the game.

Read by James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, Pete Larkin, January LaVoy, and Carol Monda

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
NARRATOR
JF
James Fouhey
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:09
hr min
RELEASED
2018
September 18
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
972.5
MB

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