More Than a Game

by Jackson, Phil; Rosen, Charley

• ISBN13: 9781583220603
• ISBN10: 1583220607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-03
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Basketball's most successful coach and its foremost chronicler chart their common pursuit of the purity at the heart of the game. Illustrations.

Author Biography

A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSEN led the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has become the world’s foremost writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball, chronicling the drama that takes place both on and off the court. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Sammy Wong: All-American. His non-fiction works include The Scandals of ’51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball and More than a Game, with Phil Jackson. Rosen is an analyst for hoopshype.com and a devotee of the Triangle Offense. He lives in Accord, NY.

PHIL JACKSON is a seven-time world champion NBA coach (six times with Chicago, once with Los Angeles). He currently serves as the President of Basketball Operations for the New York Knicks.

Table of Contents

I. GETTING THERE
Phil D. Basket	11	(8)
Learning the Game Country-Style	19	(12)
Learning the Game City-Style	31	(8)
Welcome to the NBA	39	(28)
One on One	67	(4)
Puerto Rican Summer and the Bulls	71	(14)
The Cockroach BB ASS	85	(18)
Triangulation	103	(16)
II. BEING THERE
T For Two (Tex and the Triangle)	119	(18)
The Road to Los Angeles	137	(16)
Point Taken	153	(10)
The Lakers' Season	163	(58)
III. BEYOND WINNING
On the Scene	221	(14)
The ``Second Season''	235	(50)
Who's Got Next?	285	(8)
Glossary	293	(6)
Diagrams	299	(7)
Index	306