Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the Nba [Paperback]

Bob Ryan (Author), Terry Pluto (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Two writers covering the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Boston Celtics join in a close look at the teams' 1987 Boston Garden game. Like Daniel Okrent in his Nine Innings ( LJ 4/1/85), the authors give a detailed play-by-play account. They blend quotes from players, coaches, and others with their own appraisals in background, play critique, etc. Not until the tense final seconds of regulation and an overtime is there a winner between the underdog Cavs and the proud Celts. Educational for developing players and fun for fans, this may be welcome in public and school libraries. Morey Berger, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 372 pages
• Publisher: Collier Books; 1st Collier Books ed edition (April 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020360509
• ISBN-13: 978-0020360506
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,431 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Basketball > Professional

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but net..., June 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the N.B.A. (Hardcover)

A basketball game in the NBA is 48 minutes long, right? Wrong. There is so much more drama behind the scenes and so much more at stake than another victory in every NBA game that the average fan is never entitled to witness and experience but this book does the best job I've ever seen in taking you there. It doesn't hurt that a classic confrontation between the then-mighty Celtics and the upstart Cavaliers is the matchup taken into focus by this great literary effort of showing what life in the NBA is like (at least during the 1980s). No personal fouls here... just a sure shot for all basketball fans who are also bookworms at heart and are not limited to enjoying the game of basketball on the television or on the court. Like I said, nothing but net..

4.0 out of 5 stars Ode to 'Mr.' Craig Ehlo...Pluto's best and Bob Ryan FINALLY did something right!, June 28, 2006

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Ricahrd A. Salzer (Chesapeake, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forty-Eight Minutes: A Night in the Life of the Nba (Paperback)

Great synopsis encompassing some of the best
of alltime: Bird, Ehlo, Jones, McHale, Parish,
Johnson, Wilkens et, al. Not just a game between
the Celtics and Cavaliers back in Nineteen Eighty
Seven. Jerry Sichting comes off well in here as
well, his comments. Sichting from Indiana is to-
day Kevin McHale's top Sgt. in Minnesota.