Table of Contents

ForewordPhil Jackson
Preface
Chapter 1The First Basket and the First Basketeer
Chapter 2The First Game
Chapter 3Genesis
Chapter 4The Penguin, the Mogul and the Constitution
Chapter 5The Boston Celtics and the Clown-Prince of the BAA
Chapter 6The Providence Steamrollers Hit a Road Block
Chapter 7Paul Birch Fires up the Pittsburgh Ironmen
Chapter 8Of Money, Time, and Justice
Chapter 9There’s No “D” in Chicago Stags
Chapter 10Big Ed Drives the Toronto Huskies to Ruin
Chapter 11The Evolution and Extinction of the Cleveland Rebels
Chapter 12The Professor and the St. Louis Bombers
Chapter 13The Short Flight of the Detroit Falcolns
Chapter 14The Ethnic Knicks
Chapter 15Gotty, Jumping Joe, and the Philadelphia Warriors
Chapter 16The Washington Capitols and The Apprenticeship of Red Auerbach
Chapter 17The Playoffs
Chapter 18The First Champions
Chapter 19Barely Alive
Sources
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Charley Rosen is the author of fourteen books and a columnist for FoxSports.com. He is also a former player and was a head coach for nine years in the minor-league Continental Basketball Association. He lives in upstate New York.