Название:American Hoops: U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing
Автор: Carson Cunningham
Издательство: University of Nebraska Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 529
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American Hoops.
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