{"product_id":"big-game-small-world-a-basketball-adventure-9781478016151","title":"Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Wolff\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Basketball - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46440500330647,"sku":"9781478016151","price":11868.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781478016151.webp?v=1769115132","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/big-game-small-world-a-basketball-adventure-9781478016151","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}