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Game face : a lifetime of hard-earned lessons on and off the basketball court
- Title
- Game face : a lifetime of hard-earned lessons on and off the basketball court / Bernard King with Jerome Preisler.
- Author
- King, Bernard, 1956-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GV884.K565 A3 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Preisler, Jerome
- Description
- xxi, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- An NBA Hall of Famer presents an account of his personal and professional accomplishments, discussing his matchups with basketball legends, his major knee reconstruction, and how he broke a personal cycle of negativity and self-destructiveness.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- First Quarter Fort Greene, Brooklyn -- 1 Birth of My Game Face 3 -- 2 "Little Spal" 16 -- 3 Walking in Rhythm 22 -- 4 Restoration Eagles 32 -- 5 Brooklyn to Tennessee 47 -- Second Quarter Big Orange -- 6 Ernie and Bernie Show 69 -- 7 Outside the Lines 102 -- 8 Game On 110 -- Third Quarter NBA Years -- 9 Drafted 123 -- 10 New Jersey Nets 138 -- 11 Rookie Mistakes 153 -- 12 Fast Break 161 -- 13 Hard Falls and Second Chances 170 -- 14 Golden State Warriors 184 -- 15 Knick Time 195 -- 16 In Transition 205 -- 17 Season of Ascension 225 -- 18 "Who Cares? We Won!" 235 -- 19 Battling Boston 248 -- 20 Injury 261 -- 21 Journey Back 267 -- 22 Back to the NBA 280 -- Fourth Quarter Moving Forward -- 23 Life After the NBA 291 -- 24 A New Life 296.
- ISBN
- 9780306825705
- 0306825708
- 9780306825712
- 0306825716
- LCCN
- 2017953587
- OCLC
- on1008568997
- 1008568997
- SCSB-8970827
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library