num_pages: 384
description: With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 1977 when, as a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, Kermit Washington delivered a punch that nearly killed All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich. The punch-now legendary in the annals of American sports-radically changed the trajectory of both men's lives and reverberates throughout the National Basketball Association to this day. Feinstein's compelling investigation of this single cataclysmic incident and its aftermath casts a light on the NBA's darkest secrets, revealing the true price men pay when they choose a career in sports.
language: English
title: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
titlecomplete: The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
genres: Audiobook, Biography, Basketball, Sports, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 3409
publisher: Back Bay Books