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The NBA in black and white : the memoir of a trailblazing NBA player and coach / Ray Scott with Charley Rosen ; and with an introduction by Earl Monroe.
Van Pelt Library GV884.S373 A3 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Ray, 1938- author.
- Rosen, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American basketball players--Biography.
- African American basketball players.
- Basketball players--United States--Biography.
- Basketball players.
- African American basketball coaches--Biography.
- African American basketball coaches.
- Basketball coaches--United States--Biography.
- Basketball coaches.
- United States.
- Scott, Ray, 1938-.
- Scott, Ray.
- Detroit Pistons (Basketball team)--History.
- Detroit Pistons (Basketball team).
- National Basketball Association--History.
- National Basketball Association.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Seven Stories Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Ray Scott was part of the early wave of Black NBA players like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who literally changed how the game of professional basketball is played-leading to the tremendously popular financial blockbuster the NBA is today. Scott was a celebrated 6'9" forward/center after being chosen by the Detroit Pistons as the #4 pick of the 1961 NBA draft, and then again after he was named head coach of the Pistons in October 1972, winning Coach of the Year in the spring of 1974-the first black man ever to capture that honor. His story is a story of quiet persistence, hard work, and, most of all, respect. He credits the mentorship of NBA player and coach Earl Lloyd, and talks about fellow Philly native Wilt Chamberlain and friends Muhammad Ali and Aretha Franklin, among many others. Ray has lived through one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history, especially the time of assassinations of so many Black leaders at the end of the 1960s. Through it all, his voice remains quiet and measured, transcending all the sorrows with his steadiness and positive attitude. This is his story, told in collaboration with the great basketball writer, former college player and CBA coach Charley Rosen"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
- ch. One My Beginnings
- ch. Two Learning the Hamotzi, Playing in the Baker, and UP
- ch. Three Not Such a Big Man on Campus, Then Far East of the NBA
- ch. Four Anointed by the Dipper
- ch. Five A Stranger in Paradise
- ch. Six Black Man Out
- ch. Seven In These Changing Times
- PART TWO
- ch. Eight Looking Back
- ch. Nine Civil Rights and Un-Civil Wrongs
- ch. Ten The Brothers Change the Games and Their Names
- ch. Eleven Forever Didn't Last Long
- PART THREE
- ch. Twelve That's What I Like About the South
- ch. Thirteen Detroit Redux with a Few Major Surprises
- ch. Fourteen "Bennie and the Jets"
- ch. Fifteen The Not-So-Fortunate Fall
- ch. Sixteen How Bob Ferry Showed Me the Way to Build a Championship Team
- ch. Seventeen The Beginning of the End, and the Blood on My Back
- PART FOUR
- ch. Eighteen Abracadabra, and the NBA Flies High
- ch. Nineteen Same Game, New Rules
- ch. Twenty Against the Wind
- ch. Twenty-One The NBA Then and Now
- ch. Twenty-Two Welcome to My America.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Scott, Ray, 1938- author. NBA in black and white
- ISBN:
- 9781644211984
- 164421198X
- OCLC:
- 1268205838
- Publisher Number:
- 99991327191
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