HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Cohen, Rich, author.
Subjects
Bird, Larry, 1956-
Johnson, Earvin, 1959-
Thomas, Isiah, 1961-
Jordan, Michael, 1963-
National Basketball Association -- History.
Boston Celtics (Basketball team) -- History.
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team) -- History.
Detroit Pistons (Basketball team) -- History.
Chicago Bulls (Basketball team) -- History.
Basketball -- United States -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Cohen, Rich, author.
by title:
When the game was wa...
MARC Display
When the game was war : the NBA's greatest season / Rich Cohen.
by
Cohen, Rich, author.
New York : Random House, [2023]
Subjects
Bird, Larry, 1956-
Johnson, Earvin, 1959-
Thomas, Isiah, 1961-
Jordan, Michael, 1963-
National Basketball Association -- History.
Boston Celtics (Basketball team) -- History.
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team) -- History.
Detroit Pistons (Basketball team) -- History.
Chicago Bulls (Basketball team) -- History.
Basketball -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780593229545 (hardcover) :
0593229541 (hardcover)
Description:
265 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Pre-game -- The players -- The season -- The playoffs -- The finals -- Post-game.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA. Since its founding in 1946, the league had evolved from a bruising, earthbound game of mostly nameless, underpaid players to one in which athletes became household names for their thrilling, physics-defying play. The 1987-88 season was the peak of that golden era, a year of incredible drama that featured a pantheon of superstars in their prime--the most future Hall of Famers competing at one time in any given season--battling for the title, and for their respective legacies. In When the Game Was War, bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of this incredible season through the four teams, and the four players, who dominated it: Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics, Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers, Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons, and a young Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls. From rural Indiana to the South Side of Chicago, suburban North Carolina to rust-belt Michigan, Cohen explores the diverse journeys each of these iconic players took before arriving on the big stage. Drawing from dozens of interviews with NBA insiders, Cohen brings to vivid life some of the most colorful characters of the era--like Bill Laimbeer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Danny Ainge, and Charles Oakley--who fought like hell to help these stars succeed. For anyone who longs to understand how the NBA came to be the cultural juggernaut it is today--and to relive the magic and turmoil of those pivotal years--When the Game Was War brilliantly recasts one unforgettable season and the four transcendent players who were at the center of it all"--Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
796.32364 Co
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.32364 Cohen
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Liliha Public Library
Acquisitions --- On Order
in Processing
Add Copy to MyList
Pearl City Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.32364 Co
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.