I know this was the case because I lived through his prime - whether I have developed enough credibility in your eyes as a basketball thinker is up to you 1 - but I’m telling you, that’s how Boston fans felt in the spring of 1987. After a while, we started expecting him to come through, and when he still came through, that’s when we were hooked for good. At the same time, he possessed heroic qualities because everyone in New England bought into his invincibility. You can’t call him a superhero because he wasn’t saving lives or making the world a better place. In the big scheme of things, number 33 was an extremely tall and well-coordinated guy who did his job exceptionally well. In honor of the 25th anniversary of Game 4 of the 1987 NBA Finals, here is an excerpt from Bill Simmons’s The Book of Basketball breaking down the final moments from the Boston Garden. Reprinted with permission of ESPN Books, an imprint of ESPN, Inc., New York, and Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Ĭomprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Bill Simmons’s The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy, copyright 2010 by Bill Simmons. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball.
From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate. it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”- The Atlanticīill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. The NBA according to The Sports Guy-now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more!įoreword by Malcom Gladwell.
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