The cap : how Larry Fleisher and David Stern built the modern NBA / Joshua Mendelsohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendelsohn, Joshua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Basketball Association--Management.

National Basketball Association.

Basketball--Economic aspects--United States.

Basketball.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]

Summary:

The Cap brings the economic history of professional basketball to life by going behind the scenes to tell the story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created the salary cap in 1983, the first in all of sports..

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Persons of Note in the 1982-1983 NBA Collective Bargaining Negotiations

1. No Final Victories

2. Pleasantries and Unpleasantries, July 1982

3. Survivors, August 1982

4. That Brave Group of Guys Who Said "Fuck You," January 1964

5. Larry

6. The Sport of the '70s

7. The Cap, 1979-1980

8. The Right of First Refusal, Summer 1981

9. David

10. The Moses Signing, September 1982

11. The Big Item, October 1982

12. Strike Date, January 1983

13. War, February 1983

14. Unbounded Pessimism and Cautious Optimism, March 1983

15. Peace, April 1983

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-2384-5

1-4962-2386-1

OCLC:

1182855049