Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics

by Jack McCallum

Book Overview

On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics. For the Boston Celtics, the 1990-91 season started perfectly: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish could do no wrong; the younger players,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671733745
• ISBN13: 9780671733742
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

It was an excellent read back then and it's still that way today.

I read this back in the day. Basketball books have been a whole lot of miss and very little hit over the years. This wasn't a hugely successful commercial project because the Celtics weren't winning big by the time Jack wrote this. That's the only reason it wasn't a hit. Otherwise, it's a fun read. Every bit as perceptive about the early 90s as 007 is about fun and gun in the Suns. And the characters are larger. Those old Celtics will light up the horizon in basketball lit for years to come. Bird, McHale, Chief, and the rest fighting against the dying of the light. Sweet words about a sweet team and a sweet game. Roland Lazenby author of The Show

Just about the best behind the scenes look at an NBA team I've read..

Right up there with Halberstam's "The Breaks of the Game". A terrific read by a writer whom I wish would have produced more work in the following years. McCallum does a terrific job for SI today, but it's books like this that leave me wanting more from him. For any Celtics fan of the Bird Era, this book opens doors that would have otherwise have stayed closed: we get to see the biting yet inclusive humor of the aging C's, especially McHale, as well as the overall intelligence of the team that produced a slew of future NBA coaches and GM's. This was a team to be admired and maybe even loved, despite their lack of a championship.