Question: The sports book The Breaks of the Game details the life of basketball player Kermit Washington after he was suspended for punching and nearly killing who?

Context articles: Loose Balls
Ian Hummer
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
Sportsbook
The Breaks of the Game
A Lot of Hard Yakka
Tony Price (basketball)
Bird at the Buzzer
Kermit Washington
Pete Tillotson

Loose Balls: The Short Wild Life of the American Basketball Association is a sports book originally published in 1990 by Simon & Schuster.
 The book, a history of the original American Basketball Association, was written by sportswriter Terry Pluto, although much of his writing is limited to introductions and summaries of each season.
 Most of the dialogue is from former players, league executives, and journalists, among others.
Ian MacDonald Hummer (born August 23, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for TED Ankara Kolejliler of the Turkish Basketball Super League.
 He previously played professionally with the ratiopharm Ulm, the BG Göttingen and the Nilan Bisons Loimaa.
 He is from Vienna, Virginia and completed his senior season of college basketball for the 2012–13 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team.
 He was the 2009 "The Washington Post" Boys basketball Player of the Year for Gonzaga College High School as a senior in high school and the 2013 Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year as a senior in college for Princeton.
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is an award-winning biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali, written in 1991 by Thomas Hauser.
 It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in that year.
In the United States a sportsbook or a race and sports book (sometimes abbreviated as book) is a place where a gambler can wager on various sports competitions, including golf, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, horse racing, boxing, and mixed martial arts.
 The method of betting varies with the sport and the type of game.
 In the US, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 allows only Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Delaware to legally wager on sports.
The Breaks of the Game is a 1981 sports book written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Halberstam about the Portland Trail Blazers' 1979–1980 season.
 The Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team which plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Aside from a recap of the Blazers' season, the book attempts to give a detailed history of the NBA, the 1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers championship team, the injuries faced by departed star Bill Walton, and the life of Kermit Washington after his two-month suspension for punching Rudy Tomjanovich.
 The book also puts basketball into a social context and contains extensive discussion on race in the NBA.
A Lot of Hard Yakka, subtitled "Triumph and torment: a county cricketer's life," is the first volume of autobiography by the cricketer-journalist Simon Hughes, and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 1997, making it the first volume on cricket thus to be fêted.
 Its success, as surmised by Leslie Thomas in a review for "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", "came more than a little to the author's surprise":
Anthony Price (born January 5, 1957) is a former professional basketball player who played in the NBA.
 Price attended the University of Pennsylvania where he was a standout basketball player.
 In his senior season, Price won the Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year award after averaging 19.8 points per game and 8.7 rebounds per game.
 Price was then drafted with the seventh pick in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons.
 He was waived by the Pistons before playing a single game for them.
 Price did end up being signed by the San Diego Clippers who he played five games for in the 1980-81 NBA season.
 In those five games, Price averaged 0.8 points per game and 0.6 assists per game.
Bird at the Buzzer is a 2011 sports book written by Jeff Goldberg (foreword by Doris Burke) about the 2001 Big East Championship women's basketball game between the University of Connecticut and Notre Dame.
Kermit Alan Washington (born September 17, 1951) is an American former professional basketball player.
 Washington is best remembered for punching opposing player Rudy Tomjanovich during an on-court fight in 1977.
 His punch nearly killed Tomjanovich, and resulted in severe medical problems that ultimately ended Tomjanovich's playing career.
Peter S. Tillotson (born March 23, 1936) is an American former basketball player.
 He grew up in Ludington, Michigan, and played basketball for Ludington High School from 1951 to 1954.
 In three years at Ludington High, he scored 1,176 points -- 179 points as a sophomore, 433 points as a junior and 564 points as a senior.
 During the 1953–54 season, he averaged 25.6 points per game.
 He led Ludington to a 21–2 record and the state finals in 1952 and an 18–4 record in 1953.
 As a student at the University of Michigan, he played center for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team from 1955 to 1958.
 He was the captain, most valuable player, and leading scorer on the 1957–58 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
 He scored 415 points during the 1957–58 season (an average of 18.8 points per game), the second highest point total in Michigan's history to that point.
 Tillotson was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals in the fifth round (53rd overall pick) of the 1958 NBA draft.
 He was injured during the pre-season training camp for Syracuse and spent the 1958–59 season playing for the Milan Simmenthal in the Italian Amateur League.
 He led Milan to a second-place finish for the European championship while averaging 18 points and 11 rebounds.
 He played for Syracuse in 1960, but his playing career ended after he sustained a knee injury.
 After retiring from basketball, Tillotson worked for nearly 40 years for Ford Motor Company, Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
 He retired in 2001.
 He was included in the inaugural class of seven athletes inducted into the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.