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Airball: The Complete and Unvarnished Account of Louisville's 30-Year Odyssey to Acquire an NBA Franchise

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After reading J. Bruce Miller's "Airball," many things stuck out. First, you can tell immediately that Miller has a big ego. He name drops everyone who he has ever dealt with or even talked to involving the NBA push in Louisville. He was involved with the old KY Colonel ABA team in the 70's(he was some of the players' agents) and has never let it go after John Y. took the buyout. He clearly has a bias against some city leaders and includes personal insults which make him sound like a 12 year old. He has gone on record disparaging the Univ. of Louisville in order to boost the NBA effort. Most of his accounts are purely hearsay. He blames the lack of an NBA team on EVERYBODY but himself. The entire book is a bunch of rambling, it could have been cut in half and had the same information.

In addition, Miller lost a significant amount of money during the NBA attempts in the early 2000's and I suppose this book was only written to recoup some of that, as well as trying to get people to think that he is important. Ask Louisvillians over 30 and most will tell you that Miller is a "know-it-all" in his own mind. He goes on TV to try and gain public support for an NBA team while giving zero details about the possible owner("a foreign billionaire") and expecting people to believe him. I was interested in the Louisville NBA effort, so I bought this book, and I seriously regret the 4 dollars I spent on it.

Also, the commenter below me, Albrecht, is a friend of Miller's who has done some low-level work for the Louisville NBA cause, so that why I suppose he gave a positive review.

J. Bruce Miller's book `Air Ball', a self-described "complete and unvarnished account of Louisville's 30-year odyssey to acquire an NBA franchise", will leave you simultaneously amazed, angry and exasperated at the incompetence of local political leadership in the city's quest to replace the ABA's Kentucky Colonels. If shooting oneself in the foot were an Olympic sport, Louisville would have limped away with a dynastic collection of gold medals.