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050	0	0	_aGV885.515.N37 _bR86 2023
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100	1		_aRunstedtler, Theresa, _eauthor. _9133302
245	1	0	_aBlack ball : _bKareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the generation that saved the soul of the NBA /
246	3	0	_aKareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the generation that saved the soul of the NBA
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bBold Type Books, _c2023.
300			_avii, 355 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-339) and index.
505	0		_aPart 1: battling monopoly -- Exile: Connie Hawkins's long journey to the NBA -- Hardship: Spencer Haywood vs. the white basketball establishment -- Bondage: overthrowing the option clause -- Part 2: the black tide -- Troubled: Black Players flood the league -- Professional: Simon Gourdine and the NBA's white ceiling -- Part 3: backlash -- Criminal: Kermit Washington's infamous punch -- Undisciplined: The NBA's "cocaine crisis" -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
520			_a"Against the backdrop of ongoing massive resistance to racial desegregation and increasingly strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. The press and the public blamed young Black players for the chaos in the NBA, citing drugs, violence, greed, and criminality. The supposed decline of pro basketball became a metaphor for the first decades of integration in America: the rules of the game had changed, allowing more Black people onto a formerly white playing field, and now they were ruining everything. But Black Ball argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the NBA as the star-laden powerhouse we know today, thanks largely to the efforts of Black players in challenging the white basketball establishment of owners, coaches, and spectators. Spotlighting legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bernard King, and Connie Hawkins, scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages," weaving together her deep knowledge of the game's key icons and institutions with incisive social and political analysis of the era. Black ballers created an aerial, improvisational, and creative style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods, laying the foundation for the explosive popularity and profitability of the league in subsequent decades. They also transformed labor in the pro-basketball world, filing lawsuits and organizing unions to demand better salaries and greater autonomy. Without their skills, style, and savvy, there would be no Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, or LeBron James today"--
600		0	_aAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem, _d1947- _9133303
600	1	0	_aHaywood, Spencer, _d1949- _9133304
610	2	0	_aNational Basketball Association _xHistory _y20th century. _9133305
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast _9133306
650		0	_aAfrican American basketball players _xHistory _y20th century. _9133307
650		0	_aBasketball _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9133308
650		0	_aDiscrimination in sports _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9133309
650		0	_aRace relations _xHistory _y20th century. _9133310
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _9133311
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aRunstedtler, Theresa _tBlack ball _dNew York, N.Y. : Bold Type Books, 2023 _z9781645036951 _w(DLC) 2022029152
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