The City Game
Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
Published on 28. June 2011
210 pages
978-1-4532-2064-1 (ISBN)
Description
"The master prose stylist portrays parallel basketball worlds in New York City: Madison Square Garden . . . and the playgrounds of Harlem" ( Sports Illustrated ). The New York Knickerbockers, one of the NBA's charter franchises, played professionally for twenty-four years before winning their first championship in 1970, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in a thrilling seven-game series. Those Knicks, who won again in 1973, became legends, and captivated a city that has basketball in its blood. But this book is more than a history of the championship Knicks. It is an exploration of what basketball means to New York--not just to the stars who compete nightly in the garden, but to the young men who spend their nights and weekends perfecting their skills on the concrete courts of the city's parks. Basketball is a city game, and New York is the king of cities.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- The City Game
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- Book I: The Knick Phenomenon
- 1 Two Games: The Challenge of Basketball
- 2 "It Makes It Fun": The Game as It Should Be Played
- 3 The Tradition: At Last, a Winner for New York
- 4 Winning Streak
- Book II: The Cast of Characters
- 5 A Matter of Respect: Willis Reed
- 6 The Backcourts of New York: Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett, and Lesser-Known Stars
- 7 In the Glare of the Media: Cazzie Russell and Bill Bradley
- 8 The Bit Players: Mike Riordan, Dave Stallworth, Nate Bowman
- 9 The Men Who Made It jell: Dave DeBusschere, the Catalyst
- Red Holzman, the Coach
- Book III: Playground Profiles
- 10 "People Wonder Why": The Stars Who Never Made It
- 11 The Fallen Idol: The Harlem Tragedy of Earl Manigault
- 12 "You Grow Up Quick": The Comeback of Duane Smith
- 13 "Searching for Myself": An Athlete Called Funny
- Book IV: The Giant Killers
- 14 Approaching the Playoffs
- 15 The Baltimore Scare
- 16 The Bucks: Holding Off the Future
- 17 Champions
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
