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Podcast Mentions

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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How I Built This with Guy Raz

It was considered one of the greatest sports books ever written and was instrumental in Bill's teenage years, inspiring his desire to become a sports writer and reminding him why he enjoyed writing and reading.

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You've written about this book a lot and referenced it in your books and writing and your columns.

— Episode: The Ringer: Bill Simmons

Episode: The Ringer: Bill Simmons

It was considered one of the greatest sports books ever written and was instrumental in Bill's teenage years, inspiring his desire to become a sports writer and reminding him why he enjoyed writing and reading.

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You've written about this book a lot and referenced it in your books and writing and your columns.

You consider it to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest sports book ever written, The Breaks of the Game.

I think though, I read it every year to just kind of remember why I like writing and reading.

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