Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

Author: Dan ShaughnessyEdition: UnabridgedBinding: Audio CDFormat: CDNumber Of Pages: 1Release Date: 16-11-2021Details: For fans of the hit basketball documentary The Last Dance<\/i>, and from award\-winning Boston Globe<\/i> columnist Dan Shaughnessy, a nostalgia\-filled retelling of the Boston Celtics\x26rsquo; 1980s dominance, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird.<\/b> Today the NBA is a vast global franchise\x26#8212;a billion\-dollar industry viewed by millions of fans in the United States and abroad. But it wasn\x26rsquo;t always this successful. Before primetime ESPN coverage, lucrative branding deals like Air Jordans, and $40 million annual player salaries, there was the NBA of the 1970s and 1980s\x26#8212;when basketball was still an up\-and\-coming sport featuring old school beat reporters and players wore Converse All\-Stars. Enter Dan Shaughnessy, then the beat reporter for The<\/i> Boston Globe <\/i>who covered the Boston