Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball

Best-selling "New York Times" writer Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America's premier sport and its fans through interviews with a remarkable cross section of widely known and extraordinarily accomplished individuals in a variety of fields, who explain what the lure of basketball is for them. Berkow talked with Chris Rock, Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Saul Bellow, Johnnie Cochran Jr., Walter Matthau, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Trump, Julia Child, Frank Stella, Erica Jong, Grover Washington Jr., Seiji Ozawa, and Sharon Stone, among others, to uncover fresh, funny, controversial, and often surprising opinions about the teams and players who make the game intriguing."

Author: Ira Berkow
Publisher: Bison
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.34w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780803262294

About the Author
Ira Berkow is a sports columnist and feature writer for the New York Times and has won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. He has written numerous books, including The Minority Quarterback, and Other Lives in Sports and most recently a memoir, To the Hoop: The Seasons of a Basketball Life.