The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the
hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as
heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its
gritty and colorful detail in Under the Boards. From the birth of
the Larry Bird legend to the ascendancy of a hip-hop-infused NBA to
the backlash against bling and the contemporary American game,
Jeffrey Lane traces the emergence of a new culture of basketball,
complete with competing values, attitudes, aesthetics, and racial
and economic tensions. The revolution Lane describes resonates in
the way Latrell Sprewell's assault on his coach forever changed NBA
power relations; in legendary coach Bob Knight's entanglement in
high school basketball history; in the dramatic shift in attitude
toward European players; in the impact of the deaths of two rappers
on rookie Allen Iverson's career; and in conflicting cultural
models rooted in ideals of black masculinity and white nostalgia.
In these moments Lane's book documents a profound change in
basketball and in American culture over the last thirty years.
Jeffrey Lane is the founder and director of Schoolhouse Tutors, a
mentoring program for middle and high school students in Manhattan
and Brooklyn.
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