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    Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA
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    Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA
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    Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA
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    Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA

    By Jayson Williams

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    About this ebook

    The first candid report from a land of fragile egos, available women, unexpected tenderness, intramural fistfights, colossal partying, bizarre humor, inconceivable riches, and desperate competition, Loose Balls does for roundball what Ball Four did for hardball. From revelations about the meanest, softest, and smelliest players in the league, to Williams’s early days as a “young man with a lot of money and not a lot of sense,” to his strong and powerful views on race, privilege, and giving back, Loose Balls is a basketball book unlike any other.

    No inspirational pieties or chest-thumping boasting here—instead, Jayson Williams gives us the real insider tales of refs, groupies, coaches, entourages, and all the superstars, bench warmers, journeymen, clowns, and other performers in the rarefied circus that is professional basketball.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 8, 2002
    ISBN9780767909389
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    Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA

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    • 4/5
      This book is just like Jayson Williams. Easily accessible and full of quips and stories. In the book, Williams tells many humorous tales of NBA hi-jinks. However, he contrasts these by telling stories of the racism and prejudice he encountered as a young child in South Carolina. The book thus achieves a good balance between humor and poignancy. I would recommend this to everyone, not just sports fans.