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Breaks of the Game

David Halberstam

Explores the world of professional basketball and one season with the Portland Trail Blazers, discussing the players, coaches, owners, competition, money, trades, drafts, media, audiences, joys, and sorrows of the sport

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd

The speakers praised it as possibly the greatest sports book ever written, noting it chronicles Bill Walton and the 1970s80s basketball era and said they would buy it on Amazon.

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He might be the main character of what might be the greatest sports book ever written, Breaks of the Game by Tom Halverson.

— Episode: Hour 2 - NBA Finals

Episode: Hour 2 - NBA Finals

The speakers praised it as possibly the greatest sports book ever written, noting it chronicles Bill Walton and the 1970s80s basketball era and said they would buy it on Amazon.

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He might be the main character of what might be the greatest sports book ever written, Breaks of the Game by Tom Halverson.

Give that book one more pop because I'm going to buy it on Amazon. What's it called? Well, Breaks of the Game. Breaks of the Game.

It's definitely worth people's time if they want to know more about that era of basketball and also Bill Walton in that place.

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