Seven seconds or less
Subtitle: my season on the bench with the runnin' and gunnin' Phoenix Suns
By: Jack McCallum
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780743298117
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Phoenix Suns (Basketball team); Basketball; National Basketball Association
Other titles: :07 seconds or less
Description: For years, NBA basketball was marked by a plodding, dull style of play-- until the high-flying Phoenix Suns set the league on fire with their old-school, run-and-gun approach to offense. Along the way they won back legions of disillusioned fans and demonstrated the virtues of team play to a league preoccupied with one-on-one theatrics. This book began as a Sports Illustrated story idea, when writer McCallum proposed to spend the preseason with the team--but he stayed on through their 2005-2006 season. McCallum was looking for real inside access and he got it. He spent the season in the locker room and in the coaches' meetings, learning what makes this wildly popular, innovative, and international assemblage of talented players and brilliant coaches tick. He takes readers inside the heads of Nash, the team's mercurial floor general; the maverick coach D'Antoni; and dozens of others who make up the close-knit Suns family.--From publisher description.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."