- Want to know who was 85th best player in the history of the NBA (Robert Horry - played on 7 NBA champs - bet you didn't know that)
- Why Larry Bird and Dr J trying to strangle each other during the 1981 playoffs was "like Santa Claus throwing down with the Easter Bunny"
- Like a lot of footnotes(1)
- Want to know why Teen Wolf is the movie that best captures the secret of basketball
- Want to know The Secret (as told by Isiah Thomas to Bill Simmons next to a topless pool and outdoor blackjack table in Vegas). Simmons takes 15 pages to tell the story (that's why it ended up a 700 page book) and it's worth it.
- Wonder what would have happened if the 1984 NBA draft turned out differently (you know, Olajuwon picked #1 by Houston, Sam Bowie(!) picked #2 by Portland and Michael Jordan picked #3 by the Bulls).
- Want to find out why "of all the injuries that determined the 96 spots of my Pyramid, I can tell you this much: Oscar Robertson's broken heart resonates the most".
(1) These are the most entertaining footnotes you will ever see. A few examples:
"Extending this analogy, Duncan was like Eric Clapton - great in a band and really good by himself, although there's no way Duncan ever would have done something as sleazy as stealing George Harrison's wife." [From the section on Tim Duncan]
"Let's hope that's the first and last time anyone writes that sentence" [You'll need to read the book to find out the reference]
After a sentence in the main text "For instance, let's say the 2008 players considered Kobe [Bryant] to be a world-class bully, egomaniac and phony", we have the footnote "This is a hypothetical example. As far as you know."And my footnote is that this book is an adult-rated version of NBA history.
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