Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel [Paperback]

From two seniorSports Illustratedwriters comes an explosive, fast-paced satire that will do for today's NBA whatNorth Dallas Fortydid for the NFL a generation ago.

Just months from his Yale graduation, street-smart whiz kid Jamal Kelly leaves school to take a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the front office of the Los Angeles Lasers. Once on the West Coast, Jamal gets a quick introduction to a subculture awash in big egos and fast cars, as well as an introduction to the charms of the team's new hard-charging beat writer, Jilly Forrester.

In the spirit ofPrimary ColorsandThe Devil Wears Prada, Foul Linespeels back the curtain on the trappings of big-time professional basketball. No other sport encapsulates so many cultural hot-button topics, andFoul Linesat once exposes and lampoons this parallel universe.Jack Mccallum began at Sports Illustrated since 1981 and became the chief NBA writer in 1985. His work has appeared in the Best American Sports Writing Anthology, and in 2004 he won the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award for outstanding writing. He is the author of Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990–91 Boston Celtics and coauthor of Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel. He lives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

L. Jon Wertheim is the executive editor ofSports Illustrated, a sports television commentator for various networks, and author of nine previous books includingNew York TimesbestsellersScorecastingandYou Can’t Make This Up. He lives in New York City. In their hilarious novel on pro hoops, Jack and Jon have reallythrown it down!Foul Linesis a funny and dead-on accurate take on the game I love. My only question: When's theFoul Linesmovie coming out? -- Bill Walton, Hall of Fame center and NBA commentator In my twenty-seven years writing spolCÔ