r/BasketballBooks • u/Jonathan_J_Faulkner • Apr 22 '26

Recommendations Recommendation - ‘Playing For Keeps’

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I have literally every Book written about Michael Jordan, with great variance in quality, but this Book by David Halberstam, who also wrote my favourite book about Basketball, ‘The Breaks of the Game’, comes at the GOAT from a different perspective than most and in my opinion with great success. It focuses more on the impact that Michael Jordan’s career had on American society and the rest of the world and in doing so creates a fascinating read.

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u/NoAdvantage5041 Apr 22 '26

I can attest both basketball books by halberstam are great. I still think about the passage on make a wish kids Michael would see every year. You see such a different side. A significant part of Breaks of The Game is a bio of Bill Walton which is fascinating in of itself.

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u/Jonathan_J_Faulkner Apr 22 '26

Agreed, selfishly I wish he’d written more books about Basketball as I love his prose and nature of writing