The Breaks Of The Game

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    A (non-Blazers fan) friend of mine was telling me that this is supposed to be the best basketball-related book ever written. Anyone here read it and can comment on how good the book is?

    http://www.amazon.com/Breaks-Game-David-Halberstam/dp/0345296257
     
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    I read it and it's a great book. Best basketball related? Hell it might be one of the best sports books ever written.
     
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    It is a bit overrated, but it it is fun to read because it's about the season after the Championship. The Blazer stuff is really good, but Halberstam really goes hard into the politics of the day and the underlying tensions between Walton and Luke. Luke comes off really bad.
     
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    Good book, and Halberstam was an outstanding writer.
     
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