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Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home

The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world's fastest-growing sport. Talented players from Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa are literally crashing the borders as the level of their game now often equals that of the American pros, who no longer are sure winners in international competition and who must compete with foreign players for coveted spots on NBA rosters. Yet that refreshing world outlook stands in stark contrast to the game's troubled image here at home. The concept of team play in the NBA has declined as, in the aftermath of the Michael Jordan phenomenon, the league's marketers and television promoters have placed a premium on hyping individual stars instead of teams, and the players have come to see that big-buck contracts and endorsements come to those who selfishly demand the spotlight for themselves.

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Title of ebook: Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home
ISBN: 9781416589822
parent-ISBN: 9780743280693
Publisher: Free Press
Internet download file size: 402 kb
Published: 11-2007
Released online for download: 11-01-2007
Author of eBook: Araton, Harvey

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How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home

Introduction

If you have ever loved basketball, then you had to hate November 19, 2004. If you have relished the sounds and smells of the gymnasium -- the sweet squeaking of sneaker soles, the rustling of nets, and, yes, even the chatter less euphemistically known as trash talk -- then your senses came under assault by what you saw that night at The Palace of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit. And the more times you watched the most frightening eruption of sustained violence ever in the American sports arena, the more you saw the replaying of a troubled young man named Ron Artest bolt from his reclining press-table position, across your television screen, and into everlasting infamy, the more angry you were and the more you hurt for the game that had brought so much joy into your life.

Since I was a young boy peering out my bedroom window at the netless rims of the basketball courts between Henderson Avenue buildings in the West Brighton Houses, a city project squeezed into a working-class neighborhood on Staten ... read full excerpt from Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home ebook

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