| Title | : | Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court With the 1990-91 Boston Celtics |
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| ISBN | : | 0671733745 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780671733742 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1992 |
“One of the five best NBA books ever written.”
—Bill Simmons, ESPN
In the 1990-91 basketball season, the Boston Celtics were a team in transition, both on and off the court. Jack McCallum, also the author of the critically-acclaimed SEVEN SECONDS OR LESS, chronicled this crucial year from the back-room planning on draft day to Larry Bird’s unforgettable effort in the postseason.
With aging superstar Bird nearing the end of his career, the season was filled with glorious highs and devastating lows. McCallum gets up close and personal with the players and management from this storied franchise, showing the larger-than-life characters in a rarely-seen light. The day-to-day drama of Bird's aching back plays in concert with the drumbeat of banter from his frontcourt partner, Kevin McHale. The book reveals the deep bonds—and sometimes deeper rivalries—of the locker room, and also provides an inside look at a league that was entering its Golden Age.
Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court With the 1990-91 Boston Celtics Reviews
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As a Celtics fan, I wanted this to end differently. Lie, Jack, lie! Tell me Larry's back healed, Kevin's ankle held up, and the season that started with so much promise didn't whimper out against the hated Pistons! I guess the good in this season was that it produced MJ's first ring, but reading about this season still hurt, and it reminded me that Bird's career ended far too soon, cut down by a creaky back.
Still, it was fun to relive the gradual end of LarryKevinRobert, and remember how great they really were. Also, to learn more about Kleine, Pinckney, Smith, Brown, Shaw, et al. These were the final bright days before some dreary times for the Celtics. McCallum's transcriptions of Bird's accent were kinda fun, too.
Still, Jack, you shoulda lied. -
Standard year-in-the-life account. These are all pretty much the same, and McCallum (who would later write about the D'Antoni-era Phoenix Suns) is an old hand at the genre. Here's something you can take to the bank: never again will so many pages be devoted to the "promising careers" of Dee Brown and Brian Shaw.
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Fali mi sport na televiziji pa čitam sportske knjige. Priča o Boston Celticsima u sezoni 90/91 naizgled je beznačajna no ispričana je sjajno i temeljito. Posebno mi je prijalo uz čitanje gledati te stare utakmice na youtube kanalima. Stojko Vranković je te sezone igrao za Boston, ali bez velikog učinka. Imao je problem sa engleskim: dok je na treningu sve više manje savladavao, na utakmicama uz buku navijača nije razumio većinu komunikacije sa suigračima što ga je vodilo u pogreške i nesigurnost. Zezali su ga da nema kondicije jer sigurno puši što je bila slika europskih igrača u američkim očima. Autor je sportski novinar koji je pratio tim tokom cijele sezone i donosi dnevnički pregled događaja.
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If you like basketball, you will enjoy this book. If you don't, you won't.
In this book, the author follows the Boston Celtics around everywhere during the 1990-1991 season. This was the last good season for the Bird-era Celtics. The book ends with a dud because the season ended with a dud. Hence, the title: the team felt they had unfinished business after a disappointing loss in the second round of the playoffs.
This author also wrote 7 Seconds or Less. I think I may have liked 7 Seconds or Less a little bit more than this book. This book is about the last surge of a dying dynasty. 7 Seconds is about a team that everyone wrote off but still nearly made the NBA Finals. -
Recounts a year over which the tectonic plates of C’s culture creaked and shifted, enlivened by an expansive cast of colorful characters (but mostly Kevin McHale).
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A behind the scenes look at the 1990-91 Boston Celtics as the season unfolds. Including all the twists and turns of injuries, rookies, and personnel changes.
I typically love behind the scenes books like this about the 80s-90s NBA. I've even read McCallum's books before and liked them. For some reason, I just wasn't as engaged with this one. I'm not sure why. It does exactly what it needs to, I just wasn't super involved in the drama. -
Simply stated, if you folllowed the Bird Era Celtics with any kind of engagement , you will love this book.
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A year in the lives of an NBA team that does nothing extraordinary at the end of it is one of the best book genres.
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This is a book about the 1990 – 1991 Boston Celtics basket team. A look at how that season started out with so much promise but ended up with star players being hurt. During the second half of the season McHale, Parrish, and Bird were absent for multiple games and they could not overcome the loss of those players especially during the playoffs when they were looking for experience to help guide the younger players. Plus missing Birds clutch shooting because of a bad back added to the down fall as well. The author takes you behind the scenes of that season with a look at all the players and where they came from. He takes you through Chris Ford being hired as the coach for that year and a look at his life and his playing career. This is a good book sports book and you don’t have to be a Celtic fan to enjoy this story. I enjoyed reading about some of the lesser known players and how they made it to the pros. I also enjoyed the story on Chris Ford and his family, things that I did not know about it. I got this book from net galley.
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Waaaaay better than the two other McCallum's books I've read ("Less than 7 seconds" and the one on the Dream Team), and it was quite a surprise. A funny reading, filled with irony and quirky remarks, showing McCallum was more objective than in the Dream Team book (in which he sounded like a fan). In this "Unfinished Business", the author tells the story of the 90-91 Celtics, a team that seemed to have a shot at the NBA title, but fell short due to a lot of injures, specially for Larry Bird. I believe they wouldn't stand a chance against the Bulls anyway, but even so the way they were defeated in game 6 by the Pistons must have hurt a lot...
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One of the better journalist follows a team for an entire year books. Though I can only remember bits and pieces of that season it was fun to read about how the Celtics got off to such a promising start with the Big Three and some young additions to the team and how it all played out in the end.
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Another McCallum masterpiece
Great commentary on an aging team transitioning to a young core of players. It showed the struggle of a team with current times in a league as dynamic as the NBA. McCallum does it again with an entertaining chronicling of a season. -
Full review to come. McCallum shows us once again why he is the premier writer of NBA books.
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Larry Legend is a god and Dee Brown knows his celtics history.
