Black Ball - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA
Author(s): Theresa Runstedtler
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA
Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything.
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- : Perseus Books Group
- : Perseus Books Group
- : 0.56699
- : 07 March 2023
- : 1.55 Inches X 6.35 Inches X 9.55 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : 368
- : Hardback
- : Theresa Runstedtler