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The gritty noholdsbarred account of the 1987 NBA season a thrilling year of fierce battles and offthecourt drama between Magic Johnson Larry Bird Isiah Thomas and Michael Jordanfrom New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen

Plug in to a world where rivalries really matteredBob Ryan sports columnist emeritus The Boston Globe

AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Four historic teams Four legendary players One unforgettable season

The 1980s were a transformative decade for the NBA Since its founding in 1946 the league had evolved from a bruising earthbound game of mostly nameless underpaid players to one in which athletes became household names for their thrilling physicsdefying play The 198788 season was the peak of that golden era a year of incredible drama that featured a pantheon of superstars in their primethe most future Hall of Famers competing at one time in any given seasonbattling for the title and for their respective legacies

In When the Game Was War bestselling author Rich Cohen tells the story of this incredible season through the four teams and the four players who dominated it Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons and a young Michael Jordan and his Chicago Bulls From rural Indiana to the South Side of Chicago suburban North Carolina to rustbelt Michigan Cohen explores the diverse journeys each of these iconic players took before arriving on the big stage Drawing from dozens of interviews with NBA insiders Cohen brings to vivid life some of the most colorful characters of the eralike Bill Laimbeer Kareem AbdulJabbar Danny Ainge and Charles Oakleywho fought like hell to help these stars succeed

For anyone who longs to understand how the NBA came to be the cultural juggernaut it is todayand to relive the magic and turmoil of those pivotal yearsWhen the Game Was War brilliantly recasts one unforgettable season and the four transcendent players who were at the center of it all