Title

Taking shots : tall tales, bizarre battles, and the incredible truth about the NBA / Keith Glass.

Author

Glass, Keith.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 274 p. [16 p. of plates] : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• National Basketball Association
• Basketball > Humor
• Basketball players > United States
• Sports agents > United States
• Glass, Keith

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: This Glass is Always Half Full / Tony Kornheiser IX -- Introduction: Paging Dr. Naismith: What Have We Done to Your Game? 1 -- 1 Feeding Your Family on Only $14 Million a Year 7 -- 2 I'm Bicoastal-Not That There's Anything Wrong with That 17 -- 3 Thinking Inside the Box 39 -- 4 Eighty-One Feet of White Centers 51 -- 5 Agenting-the Truth, the Half Truth, and Nothing But Baloney 59 -- 6 The Scales of Justice: The Houston Rockets Versus Chuck Nevitt 73 -- 7 Leave the Napkins; Take The Cannoli 85 -- 8 Running for Your Life 109 -- 9 Star-spangled Disaster 131 -- 10 The Squeaky Wheel Goes to Greece 169 -- 11 Putting the Odd in Odyssey 189 -- 12 The $706 Million Bronze Medal 209 -- 13 The Malice at the Palace 225 -- 14 And Here Come the Elephants! 233 -- 15 Through the Looking Glass 245 -- Appendix From 6'11" to the 7-Eleven 261.

ISBN

• 9780061231858
• 0061231851

LCCN

^^2006050447

OCLC

76786868

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library