Thomas Beller

Lost in the Game

A Book about Basketball

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Produktbeschreibung

Capturing the magnificence and mastery of today’s most accomplished NBA players while paying homage to the devotion of the countless congregants in the global church of pickup basketball, Thomas Beller charts the game’s inexorable gravitational hold on those who love it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 145mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016175
• ISBN-10: 1478016175
• Artikelnr.: 63659888

Autorenporträt

Thomas Beller is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and the author of J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, How to Be a Man, Seduction Theory, and other books.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acronyms  xiii
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  xvii
The Court on Horatio Street  1
Spree   10
Damian Lillard's Game-Winning Shot  16
The City Game  19
James Harden's Transcendent Step-Back  30
Homicide at the Playground  36
Coach  43
Anthony Davis and the Plight of the Modern NBA Big Man  62
The Maserati Kid  69
The NBA Kaleidoscope  71
Most Definitely  77
The All-Star Game Diaries  82
The Two-Thousand-Dollar Popsicle  89
Here We Go Again: On the 2018 Cavaliers-Warriors NBA Finals  95
Loitering Backstage at the NBA  101
The Earth Is Round and Kyrie Irving  110
The Nets  115
Lost in the Game  119
The Pleasures of the Old Man Game  132
The Warriors' Torrential Victory  137
French Math at the NBA Draft  142
Zion‘s Burst  147
Pandemic Playgrounds  154
The Joki¿ Files  168
Bol Bol on an Escalator  188
Outscoring My Father  200