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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
Bottom of the pile
18
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
18/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Date:
April 14, 2020
Star NBA reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss investigates the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the toll that being a super-team can take. In so doing, he not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but reveals how the Darwinian business of NBA basketball really works.
What The Reviewers Say
...the book isn’t really about the Warriors’ style of play or their place in N.B.A. history. It’s barely about basketball. It’s essentially a workplace drama revolving around thirty or so incredibly wealthy and psychotically competitive people—players, agents, management, ownership—united in professional purpose yet also seeking their own versions of personal fulfillment.
In The Victory Machine, Ethan Sherwood Strauss lauds the Warriors.
Sports dynasties tend to inspire the extremes of love and hate, and more than ever in this era of constant connection. For basketball fans interested in the lesser-known business side of the sport..
