Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A. - Hardcover

Araton, Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1629376507 ISBN 13: 9781629376509

Verlag: Triumph Books, 2019

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"Bird. Dr. J. Magic. Michael. LeBron. Durant. Curry. They're all here, and many more who may be less famous but are no less a part of the N.B.A. developmental fabric. These in-depth features and incisive commentary--enhanced by Araton's chapter introductions and multiple reporter postscripts telling the story behind the stories--are playfully and passionately chronicled by the staff of a truly global newspaper that has covered the sport across all borders crossed by the N.B.A."
-- Jeff Van Gundy, from his foreword
"A wonderful, delicate, insightful book, and an exactly perfect gift for anyone who is just now beginning to love basketball or who has loved basketball for decades. There were so many times during it where, at the midpoint of a chapter, I'd remember some other bygone N.B.A. moment from my youth and then begin to hope that there'd be a section in Elevated about it later, and sure enough, more times than not, there it'd be, a handful of pages later, waiting for me, as though it knew I'd eventually come looking for it. Buy this book."
-- Shea Serrano, author of Basketball (and Other Things) and The Rap Yearbook

"I loved this book. It reminded me of why I fell in love with the N.B.A. The great Harvey Araton and his wonderfully talented NY Times friends bring back a lifetime of basketball memories. But they also reveal many new fascinating anecdotes about the evolution of the league, and its greatest players. If you love the N.B.A., this book is a must read."
-- Mike Breen, N.B.A. broadcaster for ABC/ESPN and announcer for the New York Knicks

"There are few authors and subjects as perfectly matched as Harvey Araton and Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A. Araton is the most influential and gifted writer ever on the N.B.A. and his ability to trace the storylines of the seismic shifts in the game's landscape are without peer. If you care about the game and those who've most impacted its meteoric rise, Elevated is a must-read."
-- Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN Senior N.B.A. Insider and New York Times Best-Selling Author

Reseña del editor

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 new writing by Araton and postscripts from the original journalists, 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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• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1629376507
• ISBN 13: 9781629376509
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496