Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure

In this glorious globe-trotting adventure of a book, Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff explores how this American-born sport seems to obsess everyone--from school children in China to presidential candidates, from Brazil''s female versions of Magic and Larry to a generation of gifted Yugoslavian players whose lives were shattered by war.

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