{"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 them, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Wolff is a journalist, editor, and author. Formerly a Senior Writer at \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, he is the author and coauthor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaw Recruits\u003c\/i\u003e (with Armen Keteyian), and \u003ci\u003eEndpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486078406930,"sku":"9781478018803","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_60edb3e5-c595-40c3-bbe8-d774c9eff28e.jpg?v=1730419059","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-game-small-world-a-basketball-adventure-9781478018803","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}