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When the Game Was Ours

By Earvin Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Jackie MacMullan (Editor)

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| Others | 9780547225470

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Book Description

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged
in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive ...

Critics

Hoop dreams

To be a basketball fan in Boston or Los Angeles in the 1980s was pretty much hoops heaven. Out of the moribund, drug-induced haze that the National Basketball Association had become by the late 1970s came a dazzling, team-oriented game personified by ... (read full critics)

boston published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

Stories, awesome. Writer, clunky.

I thought Magic and Larry's history and stories were, and are, amazing tales. The writer, MacMullan, really gets in the way, and makes the book clunky. This should have been an easy five star book, but it was too disjointed and the tone changed in an odd way.

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Jody Collins said on Jan 20, 2012 | Add your feedback

For people of my generation who love basketball and lived the Magic vs Larry era this is a must-read!

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Matteo said on Sep 26, 2011 | Add your feedback