Roland Lazenby, Author . Ballantine/ESPN $26 (422p) ISBN 978-0-345-51083-9
Going beyond the facade of the multifaceted NBA legend, Lazenby, a professor of journalism at Virginia Tech (The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers
), examines West, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1960 to 1974....
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Roland Lazenby, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-09840-7
Lazenby ( The NBA Finals ) opens with Magic Johnson's HIV diagnosis, and leapfrogs to profile general manager Jerry West, who joined the Lakers as a rookie player in 1960. Then Lazenby settles down to a history of this glamour basketball team of the
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Roland Lazenby. Little, Brown, $30 (720p) ISBN 978-0-316-19477-8
Michael Jordan’s role as handsome pitchman/basketball champion belies a complicated life in this hefty, revelatory biography by veteran basketball author Lazenby (Jerry West: The Life and Legend of a Basketball Icon). Nearly branded a lost cause by...
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Roland Lazenby. Little, Brown, $32 (608p) ISBN 978-0-316-38724-8
In this engaging though uneven biography, Lazenby, author of Michael Jordan: The Life, turns his eye to another basketball legend: the recently retired Kobe Bryant. As a kid, Bryant dissected videotaped NBA games and committed himself to practice...
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Roland Lazenby, Author, Tex Winter, Foreword by , foreword by Tex Winter. McGraw-Hill $27.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-07-148323-0
The love-'em-or-hate-'em Los Angeles Lakers and their 14 NBA championships may be the most overreported story in professional basketball, with countless books written about the team's flashy playing style and the notorious off-court...
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Roland Lazenby. Celadon, $40 (832p) ISBN 978-1-250-24803-9
Sportswriter Lazenby (Showboat) disappoints in this bloated biography of the Los Angeles Lakers superstar. Born in Lansing, Mich., in 1959, Johnson earned the nickname “Magic” for his prowess on the basketball court when he was 15. After a...
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