The Boston Globe, February 3rd, 2000
Talented writers have followed a big-time basketball team through a single season before - David Halberstam and John Feinstein come to mind - but surely none has produced a more bizarre eyewitness account than David Shields has, in his often tortured, occasionally hilarious chronicle of the Seattle Supersonics during the 1994-95 NBA season. It is a book that purports to say profound things about professional sports and racial consciousness in America, and sometimes succeeds in doing so. Shields, however, ends up saying a good deal more - perhaps more than anyone wants to know - about his own t...
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