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Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexander WolffPublish date:2022-10-25Pages:424
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478018803ISBN-10:1478018801UPC:9781478018803Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Basketball, Ethnic Studies, Cultural & Social AspectsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCKPK9VX4F

During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff's dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states. In them, he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its king to a pickup game, exploring the women's game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country.

This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka Dončic and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478018803ISBN-10:1478018801UPC:9781478018803Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Basketball, Ethnic Studies, Cultural & Social AspectsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCKPK9VX4F
Alexander Wolff is a journalist, editor, and author. Formerly a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, he is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama, Raw Recruits (with Armen Keteyian), and Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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Anniversary, Tw Edition

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Alexander Wolff

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