The Breaks Of The Game

[Minstrel]

A (non-Blazers fan) friend of mine was telling me that this is supposed to be the best basketball-related book ever written. Anyone here read it and can comment on how good the book is?

The Breaks of the Game is sports reporting at its finest--basketball's equivalent to Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer. Join David Halberstam on his yearlong journey with the 1979 Portland Trail Blazers and witness professional basketball from the inside, where front-office egos, big-money contracts, and the colorful personalities of coaches and players collide, and winners and losers emerge. This insightful account is evidence of how much basketball has--and hasn't--changed since 1979, before the money really started rolling in.

http://www.amazon.com/Breaks-Game-David-Halberstam/dp/0345296257

 

[Da_O]

I read it and it's a great book. Best basketball related? Hell it might be one of the best sports books ever written.

 

[Furball]

It is a bit overrated, but it it is fun to read because it's about the season after the Championship. The Blazer stuff is really good, but Halberstam really goes hard into the politics of the day and the underlying tensions between Walton and Luke. Luke comes off really bad.

 

[PapaG]

Good book, and Halberstam was an outstanding writer.