Lost in the Game

A Book About Basketball

Thomas Beller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

277 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478016175 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

For players, coaches, writers, and fans, basketball is a science and an art, a religious sacrament, a source of entertainment, and a way of interacting with the world. In Lost in the Game Thomas Beller entwines these threads with his lifetime's experience as a player and journalist, roaming NBA locker rooms and city parks as a basketball flaneur in search of the meaning of the modern game. He captures the magnificence and mastery of today’s most accomplished NBA players while paying homage to the devotion of countless congregants in the global church of pickup basketball. He shares his own stories from the courts, meditating on basketball’s role in city life and its impact on the athlete’s psyche as he moves from youth to middle age. Part journalistic account, part memoir of a slightly talented player whose main gift is being tall, Lost in the Game charts the game’s inexorable gravitational hold on those who love it.

Thomas Beller is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University, a regular contributor to the New Yorker, and the author of J. D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, How to Be a Man, Seduction Theory, and other books.

Acronyms xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
The Court on Horatio Street 1
Spree 10
Damian Lillard's Game-Winning Shot 16
The City Game 19
James Harden's Transcendent Step-Back 30
Homicide at the Playground 36
Coach 43
Anthony Davis and the Plight of the Modern NBA Big Man 62
The Maserati Kid 69
The NBA Kaleidoscope 71
Most Definitely 77
The All-Star Game Diaries 82
The Two-Thousand-Dollar Popsicle 89
Here We Go Again: On the 2018 Cavaliers-Warriors NBA Finals 95
Loitering Backstage at the NBA 101
The Earth Is Round and Kyrie Irving 110
The Nets 115
Lost in the Game 119
The Pleasures of the Old Man Game 132
The Warriors' Torrential Victory 137
French Math at the NBA Draft 142
Zion‘s Burst 147
Pandemic Playgrounds 154
The Jokić Files 168
Bol Bol on an Escalator 188
Outscoring My Father 200

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-13	9781478016175 / 9781478016175
Zustand	Neuware