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Crashing the Borders
The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world's fastest-growing sport. Talented players from Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa are literally crashing the borders as the level of their game now often equals that of the American pros, who no longer are sure winners in international competition and who must compete with foreign players for coveted spots on NBA rosters. Yet that refreshing world outlook stands in stark contrast to the game's troubled image here at home. The concept of team play in the NBA has declined as, in the aftermath of the Michael Jordan phenomenon, the league's marketers and television promoters have placed a premium on hyping individual stars instead of teams, and the players have come to see that big-buck contracts and endorsements come to those who selfishly demand the spotlight for themselves. Even worse, relations between players and fans are at a low ebb. Players are perceived to be overpaid, ill-behaved, and arrogant. Fans, paying hundreds of dollars for tickets, often act boorishly and tauntingly. This tension boiled over on the night of November 19, 2004, at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, during a Detroit Pistons-Indiana Pacers game, when players brawled with fans as much as each other in what was, in fact, a racial skirmish. When the Pacer players entered the stands throwing punches, they had truly smashed an altogether different kind of border. In the aftermath of that sorry spectacle, regular-season television ratings declined for NBA games. Playoff-game ratings plummeted. Sales in NBA-licensing products sagged by a reported 30 percent. For the millions of Americans who cherish basketball, the love affair has reached a state of crisis. Few people care as deeply and know as much about basketball as Harvey Araton, the highly literate and well-traveled sports columnist for The New York Times. For many a season, Araton has observed "the ballers," as the players call themselves, at college tournaments, the NBA, and the Olympics. He has enjoyed a pressbox seat while watching the great 1980s rivalries of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, the transcendent career of Michael Jordan, and the slow unraveling of the game through the 1990s until the present season, as newly arrived players and league officials misunderstood and misapplied the mixed lessons of Jordan's legacy. Calling on his many years of watching games, of locker-room interviews, of world-hopping reportage, Araton takes us to scenes of vivid play on the court and to off-camera dramas as well. In this taut, simmering book, the author points his finger at the greed and exploitation that has weakened the American game. And with uncommon journalistic courage, he opens a discussion on the volatile, undiscussed subject that lies at the heart of basketball's crisis: race. It begins, he argues, at the college level, where, too often, undereducated, inner-city talents are expected to perform for the benefit of affluent white crowds and to fill the coffers of their respective schools in what Araton calls a kind of "modern-day minstrel show." It continues at the pro level, where marketers have determined that "gangsta" imagery provides for a livelier entertainment package, never mind the effect it has on the quality of team play. And where, moreover, players themselves, often both street smart and immature, decide to live up to the thuggish stereotypes.- Shop: buecher
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Boy Next Door (Young Ballers #1)
Boy Next Door (Young Ballers #1): ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Ballers
In Staffel 4 der erfolgreichen HBO-Comedy-Serie von Executive Producer Stephen Levinson (Entourage) haben sich Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) und sein Partner Joe Krutel (Rob Corddry) zum Ziel gesetzt, die Position ihres Unternehmens im Client-Management-Geschäft auszubauen und wägen die Option ab, eine Extremsport-Agentur, die von der streng autonomen Lance Klians (Russell Brand)...- Shop: odax
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Ballers
DWAYNE JOHNSON ist der Star dieser neuen HBO-Komödienserie über eine Gruppe ehemaliger und aktiver Football-Spieler, die lernen müssen, wo das Spiel endet und das Leben beginnt. Dabei versuchen sie immer cool zu bleiben und nebenbei auf ihre Mannschaftskameraden aufzupassen. Die Serie spielt im sonnendurchfluteten Miami - im Mittelpunkt stehen der ehemalige Football-Superstar/Finanzmanager...- Shop: odax
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Midway NBA Ballers: Chosen One, Xbox 360 Englisch
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Ballers: The Complete Fourth Season
Dwayne Johnson stars in this HBO dramedy series that focuses on the lives of a group of former and current NFL players. After a successful career, retired Miami Dolphins star Spencer Strasmore (Johnson) attempts to secure his own future by becoming a financial advisor to his younger counterparts, trying to help them prepare for the harsh realities that can come with a life after football. With John David Washington, Omar Benson Miller, Donovan W. Carter, Troy Garity, Jazmyn Simon, and Rob Corddry. 9 episodes on 1 disc. Widescreen, Soundtrack: English.- Shop: odax
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Barbershop
From the producers of Soul Food and director Tim Story (Ride Along) comes this "warm, generous" (The New York Times) tale about a Chicago barbershop where razor-sharp comedy never goes out of style! Starring Ice Cube (Ride Along), Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Sean Patrick Thomas (Save The Last Dance), Eve (xXx), Cedric the Entertainer (Larry Crowne), Troy Garity (Ballers), Michael Ealy (The Perfect Guy) and Keith David (They Live), Barbershop is both a "sweet, life-affirming movie" (N.Y. Daily News) and outrageous, bust-a-gut fun! Calvin (Ice Cube) is a would-be entrepreneur with big plans and running his family's barbershop isn't one of them. But when he impulsively sells the shop to a shady loan shark, he soon realizes just how important the neighborhood parlor is to him and just how far he'll go to get it back!- Shop: odax
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Ballers
Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) und seine bunt zusammengewürfelten Kollegen, Rivalen und Profi-Football-Klienten sind auch in der dritten Staffel von Stephen Levinsons (Entourage) erfolgreicher HBO-Komödienserie weiter im Spiel. Spencer spricht auf der Konferenz der Nachwuchsspieler seine Probleme offen an und macht eine Entziehungskur, um dann zusammen mit seinem langjährigen...- Shop: odax
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