Golden Days by Jack Mccallum
The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the twenty-first-century Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. Full of juicy anecdotes and wagging fun . . . Jack] McCallum holds legitimate claim for being the greatest NBA writer of all time.--The Wall Street Journal Featuring vintage photos and contemporary shots of NBA greats including Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Pat Riley, and more. In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum chronicles two teams--the Golden State Warriors of the 2010s and the L.A. Lakers of the early 1970s--to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball Association, which for much of the last half-century has marched memorably through the state of California. Tying together the two strands of McCallum's story is Hall of Famer Jerry West, the ferociously competitive Laker guard who decades later became one of the key architects of the Warriors. With the Logo as his guide, McCallum takes us deep into the locker rooms and front offices of these two era-defining teams, leveraging the access and authority he has amassed over his forty-year career to create a picture of the cultural juggernaut that the NBA has become. Featuring up-close-and-personal portraits of some of the biggest names in basketball history, from Wilt Chamberlain to Steve Kerr to the transcendent duo of Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, as well as an update on the Warriors' run of dominance and West's first season with the L.A. Clippers, Golden Days is a history of not just of a changing sport but a changing America.Since 1981, Jack Mccallum has been the chief NBA reporter for Sports Illustrated. His work has appeared in the Best American Sports Writing Anthology, and he was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award for exceptional writing by the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. He is the coauthor of Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel and the author of Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics. He resides in the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780399179099 |
| ISBN 10 | 0399179097 |
| Title | Golden Days |
| Author | Jack Mccallum |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2018-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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