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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

Name: Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
ISBN: 0767904443

From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the

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“When David Stern sold the NBA television contract to NBC in 1990 for $600 million, he had his assistant call the owners to give them the good news: A boss who was so secure that he let his deputies make the celebratory calls to the owners.”

— David Halberstam, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“David Stern's innate wisdom that in the long run if you did the right thing and did not try to take credit for too much of what you did, the people would give you not only the right amount of credit, but perhaps even more.”

— David Halberstam, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Wisdom, Credit