Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir - Softcover

Lee, Spike; Wiley, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609801910 ISBN 13: 9780609801918

Publisher: Three Rivers Pr, 1998

Synopsis

The filmmaker and famously vocal basketball fan presents a personal account of the game's past and present filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, reminiscences, and opinions and featuring a new chapter on the New York Knicks' 1997 season. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Spike Lee is an internationally recognised film maker. This is his first book.

From the Inside Flap:

eat in the House, Spike Lee's evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interweaves several journeys over a course of thirty years. The first is professional basketball's metamorphosis from a fringe sport to the big-money spectacle it is today, filled with outrageously inflated salaries and egos. The other journey is that of Shelton Jackson Lee himself, who has gone from a skinny kid playing ball on the streets of Brooklyn, sneaking into Madison Square Garden to watch his beloved Knicks, to a student at Morehouse College and NYU film school, to a world-renowned film director and hoops fan.

Along the way Spike takes readers on entertaining and provocative detours, including a one-on-one with that other Brooklyn-born, film-directing, Garden-inhabiting hoops fan, Woody Allen; reviews of sports movies (Spike has seen them all, and the results aren't pretty); an unusually candid interview with Michael Jordan; and a stark assessment of the role of African-American athletes--both in the

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0609801910
• ISBN 13: 9780609801918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 327