Big Game, Small World - A Basketball Adventure (Paperback, Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded)

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 Don�ić and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Alexander Wolff
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	424
Edition:	Anniversary, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1880-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-1880-1
Barcode:	9781478018803

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