The Breaks of the Game

Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

Author: David Halberstam

A New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam’s The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions.More than six years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country’s most respected journalists and revered authorities on American lif….Read More

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