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Game Within the Game, The | 
 enlarge | Author: Walt Frazier
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 603034
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1401309097
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323
EAN: 9781401309091
ASIN: 1401309097
Publication Date: October 2, 2007
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Ranked among the NBA's fifty all-time greatest players and beloved by millions of fans as one of the best and most colorful personalities ever to grace the game, Walt "Clyde" Frazier is the ultimate basketball insider and a devoted student of the game. In The Game Within the Game, Frazier offers an original and incisive look at where the NBA is today. Part analysis, part expert instructional, part personal narrative, Frazier's book reveals in each chapter a new component of "The Game Within the Game" -- his keys to success in basketball and in life. He also shares with readers his vivid memories, anecdotes, and of course, his often controversial opinions. Most of us will never get to sit courtside next to Walt Frazier while he breaks down the game for us, play by play and player by player. Reading The Game Within the Game is the next best thing.
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 Dishin' & swishin' March 29, 2007
Clyde gives it to you straight and he's right on the money - about the game itself and today's NBA.
 Great Book for coaches to share January 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Walt Frazier hits the nail on the head with his insights into the game as it is played today compared to the way it should be played.
Can Clyde Save the NBA? December 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Everyone involved with the NBA should read this book. From my viewpoint, as a 40 year old fan and as someone who loved and played basketball through my freshman year of college, Clyde cogently points out the attraction of the game and most importantly where today's professional game has gone dangerously awry.
I'm old enough to remember Clyde's championship Knick teams and still take inspiration from the way those incredible individuals all focused on teamwork.
As the NBA stumbles and bumbles (a nod to Clyde) and becomes more and more irrelevant to a formerly passionate fan base, David Stern and company should take Clyde's analysis to heart. If things don't improve the NBA could soon stand for Nothing But an Afterthought in the world of professional sports.
Ira Berkow, the co-author of the first Clyde book, Rockin' Steady, says about The Game... December 16, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"It's an excellent and provocative book." I don't think there's a former great with more cogent things to say about the game of basketball than Walt Frazier. I enjoyed this book immensely and I think it's great for old-timers who remember watching the grace and skill Clyde played the game with and "newbies," who want to learn how to play winning basketball. The chapters on Money, Race and The Players' League are particularly insightful and honest. If you like basketball and care about its evolution, then pick up this book and read it.
lighthearted fun October 19, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Game Within the Game by Walt "Clyde" Frazier with Dan Markowitz is an entertaining, if lighthearted meditation on the game of basketball. Clyde takes modern ballplayers to task for the way they approach the game, but the book is at its best whenever he casually mentions his own youthful indiscretions, like the time he invited two women to the same game and was so worried they'd find out about each other that it wrecked his concentration on the court.
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