![]() But in time all the interesting things Halberstam learned about new-breed-millionaire owner Larry Weinberg, personnel manager Stu Inman ("Are you really telling me"-to Weinberg-"that you know more than us?"), coach Jack Ramsay ("the system came first"-and the blacks craved more freedom), about Blazer superstars and comers and might-have-beens, do add up-intellectually and emotionally. Halberstam has contrived a narrative as seamless and fluid and intermeshed as basketball itself-with the result, in the first half at least, that lines of development don't stand out (and much has to be reiterated). ![]() (In pro basketball, of some of the best and brightest black lives.) The book has a problem with sprawl-not only because the central chapter, "The Season," goes on for 300 pages. ![]() The game is professional basketball, as represented by the Portland Trail Blazers' 1979-80 season-a microcosm, in Halberstam's wide-angle rendering, of the commercialization of all that was once genuine in American life. ![]()
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