NBA fanatics, along with casual fans, will find much to learn and appreciate about hoops in Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game ... If there is a weakness in Lost in the Game, it is Beller’s sidestepping (Eurostepping in contemporary hoop parlance) around color, around race ... But in his book he usually keeps silent about the white elephant in the room—his relationships with the mostly Black guys he plays with and against ... Serious fans of the NBA will find Lost in the Game is rich with reportage ... Fans also want emotion, and Lost in the Game has that ... [Beller] mostly avoids the curse of nostalgia ... [Beller's] play, his prose, is consistently skilled, in the moment and moving you on, interesting you in the action to come.
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