The World of Basketball Books
The Jordan biography “Playing for Keeps” is the second NBA book by author David Halberstam, which I present on this blog. The first one was The Breaks of the Game. And Playing for Keeps is as good as Breaks of the Game. Halberstam wrote Playing for Keeps after the 1997-98 season – Jordan’s last for … Read more
.Anyone who has read The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons has already become aware of The Breaks of the Game there. Simmons, who wrote the foreword in this edition of Halberstam’s book, called it the best basketball book of all time. The book is about the 1979/80 season of the Portland Trail Blazers. That … Read more