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A Thinking Person's Guide to Pro Basketball
A THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO PRO BASKETBALL
There is more to pro basketball than simply two teams running up and down a court trading baskets. There is artistry. There is grace. There are complex strategies. And, between the players and fans, there is a unique bond. As author Dave Klein explains...
"I am hopelessly out of shape. I probably weigh more than Alan Page, though I won't admit it. In my heart, however, I'm a basketball player. I watch a game and find my body moving with a shot, or I find myself twisting in my chair when the ball hangs in the air while towering rebounders tense and stretch for it.
"I'd like to say I was a great basketball player, but I wasn't. Most of the basketball fans in this country weren't, either, which is why they're fans. They appreciate - deep inside, they envy - that which they wished to be able to do."
This is a book of love about pro basketball. After reading it, you too will appreciate the subtleties, the suspense, the ballet of the sport. You will share Dave Klein's love for The Pro Game.
There is more to pro basketball than simply two teams running up and down a court trading baskets. There is artistry. There is grace. There are complex strategies. And, between the players and fans, there is a unique bond. As author Dave Klein explains...
"I am hopelessly out of shape. I probably weigh more than Alan Page, though I won't admit it. In my heart, however, I'm a basketball player. I watch a game and find my body moving with a shot, or I find myself twisting in my chair when the ball hangs in the air while towering rebounders tense and stretch for it.
"I'd like to say I was a great basketball player, but I wasn't. Most of the basketball fans in this country weren't, either, which is why they're fans. They appreciate - deep inside, they envy - that which they wished to be able to do."
This is a book of love about pro basketball. After reading it, you too will appreciate the subtleties, the suspense, the ballet of the sport. You will share Dave Klein's love for The Pro Game.
199 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
About the author
Dave Klein
38 books1 followerDave Klein is one of only eight reporters to have covered the Super Bowl. He is the author of THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES, a non-fiction book about the 1958 Giants Colts game that established pro football as a weekend television staple. For more than three decades, Klein was a sports reporter for THE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER, and for fifteen years he was editor and publisher of THE GIANTS NEWSWEEKLY. His novels include the bestseller BLINDSIDE.
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