Full Court Pressure
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ISBN: 0385476329 / Publisher: Doubleday, April 1995
A portrait of the 1994 season of the Seattle Sonics basketball team profiles their coach, George Karl, their roster of players, and their battles on and off the court
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In the brave new world of the NBA, players are marketed like cartoon characters and image is all: pro basketball has become the most hyped product on the planet. Amid the relentless selling of the NBA, it's become increasingly hard to get close to the game, and more importantly, to the human beings who live and breathe hoops: the coaches and players.That's what Full Court Pressure - a detailed, hilarious, poignant look at the Seattle Sonics - accomplishes. Curt Sampson spent the 1993-94 season with the Sonics on and off the court. He casts a jaded and very funny eye at the NBA promotion machine, and he gives the true fan all the X's and O's they want.
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