More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains among this country’s most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and background in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking confirming over the Vietnam Battle, Halberstam wrote a lot more than 20 books, the vast majority of them bestsellers. His work has stood the check of time and is just about the standard where all journalists measure themselves.

The New York Times bestseller, now with a fresh about The Breaks of the overall game introduction! The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a group that only 3 years before had been NBA champions.

The tactile authenticity of Halberstam’s knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. Yet he is writing here about a lot more than just basketball. This is a story in regards to a place in our society where power, cash, and skill collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both nationwide obsessions and nude greed are exposed. It’s about the influence of big mass media, the fans and the buzz they subsist on, the clash of ethics, the terrible physical needs of modern sports activities (from medicines to body size), the unreal wages, the issues of competition and course, and the results of sport changed into mass entertainment and sportsmen transformed into superstars–all offered in a manner that puts the audience in the area and on the court, and The Breaks of the overall game in a group of its.