The Cultural Revolution in Basketball

Join me and my good friend, NYC-based author Jeffrey Lane for a conversation about image and race in the NBA, the emergence of a powerful culture of basketball in the last thirty years and Lane’s new book, Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball. Open Q & A and book signing to follow. Books available for sale at the event.

The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its gritty and colorful detail in Under the Boards. From the birth of the Larry Bird legend to the ascendancy of a hip-hop-infused NBA to the backlash against bling and the contemporary American game, Jeffrey Lane traces the emergence of a new culture of basketball, complete with competing values, attitudes, aesthetics, and racial and economic tensions.