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Sugar - Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA (Hardcover)
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Sugar - Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
You Save R114 (18%)
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The 1980s were arguably the NBA's best decade, giving rise to Magic
Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game's
greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk
and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court
the game was changing rapidly too, with the draft lottery, shoe
commercials, and a style driven largely by excess. One player who
personified the eighties excess is Micheal Ray Richardson. During
his eight-year career in the NBA (1978-86), he was a four-time
All-Star, twice named to the All-Defense team, and the first player
to lead the league in both assists and steals. He was also a heavy
cocaine user who went on days-long binges but continued to be
signed by teams that hoped he'd get straight. Eventually he was the
first and only player to be permanently disqualified from the NBA
for repeat drug use. Tracking the rise, fall, and eventual
redemption of Richardson throughout his playing days and subsequent
coaching career, Charley Rosen describes the life-defining pitfalls
Richardson and other players faced and considers key themes such as
off-court and on-court racism, anti-Semitism, womanizing,
allegations of point-shaving within the league, and drug and
alcohol abuse by star players. By constructing his various lines of
narration around the polarizing figure of Richardson-equal parts
basketball savant, drug addict, and pariah-Rosen illuminates some
of the more unseemly aspects of the NBA during this period, going
behind the scenes to provide an account of what the league's darker
side was like during its celebrated golden age.
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