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The Lakers: A Basketball Journey

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THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE LAKERS. IT STARTS IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ENDS IN LOS ANGELES. IT COVERS IN DETAIL THE MAGIC JOHNSON CONTROVERSY WITH HIV VIRUS AND MANY OTHER INTERESTING STORIES. I LIKED THIS BOOK FOR SEVERAL REASONS, WELL WRITTEN, DETAILED, RESEARCHED, AND SOME GREAT INTERVIEWS. YOU WILL FIND A LOT OF FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MANY OF THE PLAYERS IN LAKERS HISTORY AND ALOT OF FACTS BEHIND THE SCENES CONCERNING JERRY BUSS, JERRY WEST, AND JACK KENT COOKE. A MUST READ FOR ALL LAKERS AND NBA FANS.

If you're interested in the history of the LA Lakers and the NBA in general, than this is a great book for you. It starts in the very early days of professional basketball in the US and if you're too young to have followed it from back then, it's a great source of compelling stories how it all started. From playing under really bad circumstances whilst travelling by car from game to game, giving your best night after night in smoky halls when the Lakers where still based in Minneapolis (that's where the name comes from BTW). It's the era of one of the first big men in Basketball, George Mikan, who dominated the league back then. It follows nicely this long history of big men for the Lakers, from Mikan to Wilt the Stilt, to Kareem and up to Shaquille O' Neal. It's filled with a lot of insights that even I as a die hard Lakers fan for almost 27 years didn't know.

Great stuff and probably the best book ever written about the Lakers!