{"product_id":"under-the-boards","title":"Under the Boards","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its gritty and colorful detail in \u003ci\u003eUnder the Boards\u003c\/i\u003e. From the birth of the Larry Bird legend to the ascendancy of a hip-hop-infused NBA to the backlash against bling and the contemporary American game, Jeffrey Lane traces the emergence of a new culture of basketball, complete with competing values, attitudes, aesthetics, and racial and economic tensions.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe revolution Lane describes resonates in the way Latrell Sprewell’s assault on his coach forever changed NBA power relations; in legendary coach Bob Knight’s entanglement in high school basketball history; in the dramatic shift in attitude toward European players; in the impact of the deaths of two rappers on rookie Allen Iverson’s career; and in conflicting cultural models rooted in ideals of black masculinity and white nostalgia. In these moments Lane’s book documents a profound change in basketball and in American culture over the last thirty years.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615387181436,"sku":"9780803280533","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780803280533.jpg?v=1726575688","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/under-the-boards","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}