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Barcode31662001738186
LocationWinamac
TitleWhen the game was war : the NBA's greatest season / Rich Cohen. First edition. Ed
AuthorCohen, Rich, author.
Call No796.323 COH
CollectionAdult 700-799
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593229545 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0593229541 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 796.323/64 23/eng/20220930
Personal Name Cohen, Rich, author.
Title Statement When the game was war : the NBA's greatest season / Rich Cohen.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Random House, [2023]
Physical Description 265 pages ; 25 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Pre-game -- The players -- The season -- The playoffs -- The finals -- Post-game.
Summary, Etc. "The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA. Since its founding in 1946, the league had evolved from a bruising, earthbound game of mostly nameless, underpaid players to one in which athletes became household names for their thrilling, physics-defying play. The 1987 season was the peak of that golden era, a year of incredible drama that featured a pantheon of superstars in their prime-the most Hall of Famers competing at one time in any given season-battling for the title, and for their respective legacies. In When the Game Was War, bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the colorful story of this incredible season through the four teams, and the four players, who dominated it: Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics, Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers, Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons, and a young Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls. Taking the reader from rural Indiana to the southside of Chicago, suburban North Carolina to rust-belt Michigan, Cohen explores the diverse journeys each of these iconic players took before arriving on the big stage. Drawing from dozens of interviews with NBA insiders, Cohen brings to vivid life some of the most colorful characters of the era-like Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley-who fought like hell to help these stars succeed"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Jordan, Michael, 1963-
Subject-Personal Name Bird, Larry, 1956-
Subject-Personal Name Johnson, Earvin, 1959-
Subject-Personal Name Thomas, Isiah, 1961-
Subject Chicago Bulls (Basketball team) History.
Subject Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team) History.
Subject Boston Celtics (Basketball team) History.
Subject National Basketball Association History.
Subject Detroit Pistons (Basketball team) History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Basketball United States History.
Location 796.323 COH 31662001738186

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