(David Stern’s accomplishments are misunderstood and overstated. David Stern’s misdeeds are worse than you think. Some notes on personality cults in general.)
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Devil’s Advocate; understanding 1970s network television; the most braindead “fact” in sports journalism
- The myth of an unpopular NBA; the most important year; how a 1980s pulp novel explains the world
- Basketball as a business; extended quotes from the greatest American sportswriter
- Where do NBA refs come from and why; several forgotten scandals; Dick Bavetta
- The personality cult you’re in; the other one those icky people are in
- Satin jackets; what we can learn from Vincent Price’s cookbook
- Tim Donaghy book club; liquidity as commodity
- The Sonics; the wealth of cities; the wealth of companies