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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Knopf, Sue (book design); Hahn, Jonathan (jacket design); Valdez, Jaime (front jacket photograph); Hauck, Darren (rear jacket photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition yellow boards, black spine and yellow spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Jeff Van Gundy; Contributors and Acknowledgments. "Basketball's true history, as only the award-winning writers of The Times could tell it." - from the rear outer jacket. "There are few authors and subjects as perfectly matched as Harvey Araton and Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A. Araton is the most influential and gifted writer ever on the N.B.A. and his ability to trace the story lines of the seismic shifts in the game's landscape are without peer. If you care about the game and those who've most impacted its meteoric rise, Elevated is a must-read." - Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN senior N.B.A. insider and author. "A wonderful, delicate, insightful book, and an exactly perfect gift for anyone who is just now beginning to love basketball or who has loved basketball for decades. There were so many times during it where, at the midpoint of a chapter, I'd remember some other bygone N.B.A. moment from my youth and then begin to hope that there'd be a section in Elevated about it later, and sure enough, more times than not, there it'd be, waiting for me, as though it knew I'd eventually come looking for it. Buy this book." - Shea Serrano, author of Basketball (and Other Things) and The Rap Yearbook. "I loved this book. It reminded me of why I fell in love with the N.B.A." - Mike Breen, N.B.A. broadcaster for ABC/ESPN and announcer for the New York Knicks. "Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Selena Roberts. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to LeBron. Elevated provides a courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All Star Game, to Stein declaring the "unspeakable greatness" of the game's most intriguing new star, Giannis Antetokounmpo. Rather than simply preserving the past, Elevated reexamines and further illuminates hoops history. Curated and with "back story" revelations and commentary from Araton and engaging personal recollections from some of the country's finest sportswriters, this book chronicles the rise of a worldwide phenomenon from a contemporary vantage point." - from the inner front jacket flap.