{"product_id":"big-game-small-world-a-basketball-adventure-9781478018803","title":"Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eBig Game, Small World\u003c\/i\u003e presents Wolff's dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states, in which he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its King to a pickup game, exploring the women's game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated twentieth-anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka Dončic and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, \u003ci\u003eBig Game, Small World\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478018803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424","brand":"Alexander Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42353140891829,"sku":"9781478018803","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_99d89f77-9f42-4607-8320-05b231061814.jpg?v=1661844172","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/big-game-small-world-a-basketball-adventure-9781478018803","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}