Crashing the Borders: How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at

by Harvey Araton

Book Overview

Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season.

The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world's fastest-growing sport. Talented players from Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa are literally crashing the borders as the level of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439101787
• ISBN13: 9781439101780
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fans will find this a hard-hitting account that pulls no punches

Basketball fans will find a vibrant and unusual story in Crashing The Borders: How Basketball Won The World And Lost Its Soul At Home: it tells how talented players from around the world are playing at a level which challenges American pros, and how the sport is simultaneously facing a troubled image on its own home turf. Relations between players and fans are at a low point, TV ratings for NBA games are on the decline, and basketball fan Harvey Araton, sports columnist for the New York Times, here traces the problem to the greed of those who would exploit the game and thus weaken it. Fans will find this a hard-hitting account that pulls no punches.

Araton At His Best

Those who are regular readers of Harvey Araton's columns in the New York Times will recognize the quality and intelligence of the writing in this must-read dissection of the basketball world at large.