Complex sentence: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award, was named one of 1999's ten best books of non-fiction by "Esquire", "Newsday", "LA Weekly", and Amazon.com.
Split into simpler sentences: Facing Race During an NBA Season was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award. It was also named one of 1999's ten best books of non-fiction by "Esquire", "Newsday", "LA Weekly", and Amazon.com.