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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds »

Authors: Pete Axthelm, Rick Telander
ISBN-13: 9780803259348, ISBN-10: 0803259344
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Pete Axthelm was an editor for Newsweek. Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a writer for ESPN Magazine.

Describes basketball played in New York City streets during the sixties and seventies with a focus on the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks.

Rosen's novel is a particularly American form of tragedy, in which the characters do not have to fall from great heights to fall from grace.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Bk. I	The Knick Phenomenon
Ch. 1	Two Games: The Challenge of Basketball	3
Ch. 2	"It Makes It Fun": The Game as It Should Be Played	12
Ch. 3	The Tradition: At Last, a Winner for New York	21
Ch. 4	Winning Streak	37
Bk. II	The Cast of Characters
Ch. 5	A Matter of Respect: Willis Reed	57
Ch. 6	The Backcourts of New York: Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett, and Lesser-Known Stars	67
Ch. 7	In the Glare of the Media: Cazzie Russell and Bill Bradley	84
Ch. 8	The Bit Players: Mike Riordan, Dave Stallworth, Nate Bowman	102
Ch. 9	The Men Who Made It Jell: Dave DeBusschere, the Catalyst, Red Holzman, the Coach	113
Bk. III	Playground Profiles
Ch. 10	"People Wonder Why": The Stars Who Never Made It	125
Ch. 11	The Fallen Idol: The Harlem Tragedy of Earl Manigault	134
Ch. 12	"You Grow Up Quick": The Comeback of Duane Smith	145
Ch. 13	"Searching for Myself": An Athlete Called Funny	149
Bk. IV	The Giant Killers
Ch. 14	Approaching the Playoffs	159
Ch. 15	The Baltimore Scare	163
Ch. 16	The Bucks: Holding Off the Future	178
Ch. 17	Champions	192