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The Punch: The Fight That Changed Basketball Forever - Hardcover

Feinstein, John

 
9780316279727: The Punch: The Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316279722 ISBN 13: 9780316279727
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, 2002

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Christmas, 1977 and an on-court fight breaks out between the Houston Rockets and the LA Lakers. Rudy Tomjanovitch races to break it up and is met by Kermit Washington's fist, delivering one of the worst punches ever seen in sport. Basketball was changed for ever. Tomjanovitch was a Rockets all-star, 6'7" and white. The punch dislodged his skull from his head, leaving him needing years of surgery and therapy. Washington was an average player for the Lakers, 6'8" and one of six athletes in the history of the NCAA to be both an academic all-American and a basketball all-American. By all accounts an exemplary man - until the split-second in which he threw his arm forward and devastated his reputation. The fact that Washington is black hasn't helped his treatment in the press or public opinion and no team in the NBA will hire him as a coach. Meanwhile, Tomjanovitch is head coach of the Rockets and the US Olympic team. Feinstein chronicles the untold story of what went wrong that night, the drastic response by the NBA, the conspiracy theories about the fight's origins and a story of how one man's mistake has haunted two good men for their entire adult lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Feinstein is the bestselling author of THE LAST AMATEURS, THE MAJORS and A GOOD WALK SPOILED. He writes regularly for numerous sports magazines and is a regular commentator on US sports radio.

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Verlag
Little, Brown & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316279722
ISBN 13 
9780316279727
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
388
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