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45/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Thomas Beller
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Date:
November 8, 2022
For players, coaches, writers, and fans, basketball is a science and an art, a religious sacrament, a source of entertainment, and a way of interacting with the world. Thomas Beller entwines these threads with his lifetime's experience as a player and journalist, roaming NBA locker rooms and city parks as a basketball flaneur in search of the meaning of the modern game.
What The Reviewers Say
Because the essays appear together after being written separately, some cameo themes and people inevitably repeat.
[Beller] evokes the hold basketball has on roundball obsessives with the kind of affection, enthusiasm, and inside knowledge that gym rats of all ages should find impossible to resist.
NBA fanatics, along with casual fans, will find much to learn and appreciate about hoops in Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game.
Beller demonstrates in clear, effective prose that basketball is just as capable of inspiring great writing as golf and baseball.
