Turnpike Team
A History of the New Jersey Nets, 1977-2012
Seiten
2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8940-1 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8940-1 (ISBN)
If the New Jersey Nets were never a stable organisation, it made following them as entertaining as it was painful. Shedding new light on the careers of such figures as Julius Erving, Buck Williams, Sam Bowie, Jason Kidd and Vince Carter, this book celebrates a team of strong-willed individuals whose best efforts always ended in heartbreak.
A sense of impending doom surrounded the New Jersey Nets. No matter how well things were going for the perennial underdogs, something would go wrong sooner or later--injuries, bad trades, inner conflicts. But if the Nets were never a stable organization, it made following them as entertaining as it was painful. The team's 2012 move to Brooklyn was supposed to make a clean break with their past.
That past was in fact rich and eventful, filled with heroes, often unfairly vilified or underappreciated. Shedding new light on the careers of such figures as Julius Erving, Buck Williams, Sam Bowie, Derrick Coleman, Stephon Marbury, Jason Kidd and Vince Carter, this book celebrates a team of strong-willed individuals whose best efforts always ended in heartbreak.
A sense of impending doom surrounded the New Jersey Nets. No matter how well things were going for the perennial underdogs, something would go wrong sooner or later--injuries, bad trades, inner conflicts. But if the Nets were never a stable organization, it made following them as entertaining as it was painful. The team's 2012 move to Brooklyn was supposed to make a clean break with their past.
That past was in fact rich and eventful, filled with heroes, often unfairly vilified or underappreciated. Shedding new light on the careers of such figures as Julius Erving, Buck Williams, Sam Bowie, Derrick Coleman, Stephon Marbury, Jason Kidd and Vince Carter, this book celebrates a team of strong-willed individuals whose best efforts always ended in heartbreak.
Lukasz Muniowski (Ph.D., American literature, University of Warsaw) has written numerous academic articles on various topics, including gentrification, geek culture, American literature, video games and television series. He lives in Poland.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Hello, Brooklyn
1. ABA to NBA, Jersey to New York to Jersey
2. Trading, Leaving, Winning
3. Good Luck, Buck
4. New Logo, New Problems
5. Imagine Swamp Dragons
6. Truth or Dare
7. A New Hope
8. All Alone
9. What the Kidd Did
10. As Close as It Gets
11. The Beginning of the End
12. Two Carters
13. The Fall
14. Goodbye, Jersey
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 295 g |
| Themenwelt | Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8940-7 / 1476689407 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8940-1 / 9781476689401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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