Series
Summary
"Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a back... Full description
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"Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to the present. Elevated provides a courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All-Star Game, to Stein declaring Giannis Antetokounmpo's 'unspeakable greatness' to the world in a riveting profile. Rather than simply preserving the past, Elevated reexamines and further illuminates hoops history. This expertly curated collection features exclusive original writing by Araton, revealing candid exchanges with NBA greats that didn't make the original newspaper edit and tracing the rise of a worldwide phenomenon from a contemporary vantage point"-- |
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Physical Description: |
viii, 483 pages ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9781629376509 1629376507 |
Author Notes: |
Araton is the author or co-author of the books: Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gifts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012); When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks (Harper, 2011); Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home (Free Press, 2005); Alive & Kicking (When Soccer Moms Take The Field And Change Their Lives Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2001); Money Players (Inside The New NBA) (Pocket Books, 1997); The Selling of the Green: The Financial Rise and Moral Decline of the Boston Celtics, Harper Collins, 1992. Araton's work has appeared in numerous magazines including the New York Times Magazine, GQ Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Sport Magazine, and Basketball Weekly. (Bowker Author Biography) |