Dear God,
Thanks for the basketball. Really good. (gm)
Look, it’s your first tumbl post! How apropos! I like The Book of Basketball, but I am not a huge hoops fan. I thought Breaks of the Game was a little boring, for instance. (It could just be me and Halberstam, though.) I’m glad TBoB is pretty good, because I’ve been really, really down on Simmons, lately. I can see that he put in a lot of work and where.
I was going to read Breaks of the Game, probably off of his own recommendation, but it’s tough reading about people whose faces I wouldn’t recognize. Seven Seconds Or Less, on the other hand, was incredible because I had watched a lot of that team and the book filled in the gaps instead of creating the whole narrative… As for Simmons, I feel obligated to buy his book if only as a hat tip for the years of amusement. Glad to hear it’s actually good.
