Playing for Keeps : Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Halberstam, David

9780679415626

ISBN 10: 0679415629 / 0-679-41562-9
ISBN 13: 9780679415626

Publication Date: 1999

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The author of the number one bestseller The Summer of '49 and other seminal books about American sports, politics, and culture now turns his attention to a modern American legend -- Michael Jordan -- whose name alone evokes excellence. Halberstam explores Jordan's character and achievements not only as a professional champion but as a teenager and student athlete. He chronicles Jordan's years at UNC under the tutelage of Coach Dean Smith. He recreates with passion and precision Jordan's early NBA career and his development under Phil Jackson, the cerebral and eccentric coach of the Chicago Bulls. There are portraits of the championship games and the players and teams Jordan and the Bulls beat to reach the NBA pinnacle -- Larry Bird and the Celtics, Magic Johnson and the Lakers, and Isiah Thomas and the Pistons -- and an analysis of what makes Jordan the transcendent player and champion he is.Halberstam also chronicles the commercial forces that have changed the game during Jordan's career and the people behind those forces: David Stern, architect of the modern NBA; David Falk, the agent who changed the nature of sports representati


 

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